Work

About the artist

In Berthold Reiß’s work there is the pictogram as pictorial form and some narratives as content. The linguistic as well as the visual signs appear transparent and at the same time “opaque”, i.e. the light does not pass through them and therefore they are dark. Despite all legibility they also stand for themselves. Pictures on paper and on canvas, which were shown in our exhibitions, were created over a period of several years. They all have titles and often refer to narratives. But their visible qualities are sometimes still to be read differently from these linguistic references of the artist. Some look like stained glass windows, others show horizon and depth. There are views from above, but also looks upwards. What one discovers is often organised in a contradictory way or makes one think of a context that is large enough for contradictions. The arabesque appears in many of the more recent works. This tendril ornament was created in late antiquity. But this past only comes into effect beyond what we can name, even beyond the abstraction we know.
Berthold Reiß – Ausstellungsansicht ‘Sphinx’

Solo Shows

2020
Diagonal (with Andrea Hanak), GiG München
2019
Everything lost is meant to be found, Galerie Christine Mayer, München
Neue Hieroglyphen (with Lilian Robl), Milchstrasse, München
Sphinx, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
Exemplar, Kunstverein Freiburg
2017
/nur zwei/, Loggia, München
2016
und du wirst nichts vergessen, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
2015
PROTOKOL, Kunstraum, München
Die Auguren, RSTR4, München
2013
SVPERFLAX, Galerie Christine Mayer, München
2012
Antinomia, Galerie Matthias Jahn, München
2011
Das Traumbuch, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
The Klingsohr Märchen, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
2010
Tanagra, Galerie Matthias Jahn, München
2009
Der leere Raum, Weltraum München (Vortrag)
2008
Der Beweis, Weltraum München (Vortrag)
2007
Sage der Zukunft, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
2005
Galerie Ben Kaufmann, München
Kant und die Gotik, Galerie Royal, München (Vortrag und Publikation)
2002
Tell me, Galerie Huber Goueffon, München
1999
Der dritte Weg, Galerie Huber Goueffon, München

Scholarship

2014
Stipendiat der Tarabya Kulturakademie in Istanbul

Collections

Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München

Biography

born 1962 in Salzburg
lives and works in Munich

Group Shows

2023
Jahresgaben 2023, Kunstverein München
2020
Wenn die Kastanien blühen, Galerie Christine Mayer, München
2016
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
CMYK, Cavuspace, Berlin
2015
Die Kunst der Türken, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2014
SINOPALE, 5. Internationale Sinop-Biennale, Sinop, Türkei
Instrument Erinnerung. Der Mnemosyne-Bilderatlas von Aby Warburg, Kunstraum München
2013
Das Allerletzte Prof. Winkler Stipendium, Kunstverein Weiden
Nicht jetzt, Schatz! Couple Triple, Kunstverein Augsburg
New Western Art, Temeswara, Ungarn
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses, Galerie Christine Mayer, München
2012
Jahresgaben 2012, Kunstraum München
Agnieszka Szostek and Berthold Reiß, European Fine Art, Berlin
2011
MIND THE GAP, KAI10 – Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (mit Andy Hope 1930, Berthold Reiß, Alexander Wolff, Barbara Wüllenweber), kuratiert von Ben Kaufmann
2010
The Beauty of Distance. Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australien
Lycée Montaigne, Raum 58, München
2009
Apokalypse mit Figuren, Galerie Andreas Grimm, München
Access All Areas, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008
Meisterwerke des 21. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Hier ist Amerika oder Nirgends, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Favoriten 2008, Lenbachhaus München
Kommando Tilman Riemenschneider. Europa 2008, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
2007
La Bomba IV, Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago, USA
La Boum III, Breslau und Warschau, Polen
All Hands on Deck, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, München
2006
La Boum II, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
2004
Und im Winde klirren die Fahnen, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, München
owe muoter, waz ist got?, Galerie Royal, München
2000
Die Gefahr im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
1999
nur zeigen, was ist, Lothringer Straße 13, München