Angela Bulloch, Ann Veronica Janssens, & Philippe Parreno
January 20 – February 28, 2026 | Esther Schipper, Berlin
Philippe Parreno
The Crawler, 2024
Concrete tiles and base, steel track, glass shell, sensors, motors, lights, cables, computer
Steel pole: 300 x 91 x 103 cm
Glass shell: 68 x 37 x 28 cm
Over four decades ago, Gil Scott-Heron observed that – “politically, and philosophically, and psychologically” – there was only one prevailing season, “the season of ice”; words that, without doubt, mirror the current atmosphere. While the winter solstice promises the gradual return of light, days remain swayed in darkness for weeks on end. Though tiresome, this long night opens a space for introspection, even spurs the fire in one’s belly. Winter, for Scott-Heron, signified a state of frozen aspiration and inspiration. Yet this bitter condition provoked a moody, by now iconic, song that he liked to perform seasoned with a grain of salt. In this vein, and uncovering the creative underbelly of such chilled times, the works on view navigate the uncanny and the cosmic across decades, centuries, even millennials. They draw on a fossilized, charred, or blurred past and envision smart, weird, or weirdly rosy nurseries of the future; their aesthetics converge at a dense point of thick materiality and precise formal execution. Light fractures the exhibition space, transforming it into a chiaroscuro landscape suffused by shadow and spotlight.
Winter 2026 brings together works by Saâdane Afif, Rosa Barba, Angela Bulloch, Julius von Bismarck, Martin Boyce, Etienne Chambaud, Thomas Demand, Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Lee Bae, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, and Anicka Yi.