An art quarter
between Museum Island
and the trendy district
2024, Jingge Dong, Enraptured | KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT
Photo: Roman Maerz
Kunst im Forum an der Museumsinsel
The Forum on Museum Island, located between the traditional Bode Museum and the creative gallery district around Auguststrasse and Linienstrasse, is increasingly establishing itself as a new art location – not least due to the presence of KÖNIG GALERIE, which is making a striking statement here.
The KÖNIG GALERIE has developed into a dynamic platform for contemporary art in Berlin and beyond. Founded in 2002 by Johann König as “Johann König, Berlin,” the gallery specializes in presenting the works of emerging and established international artists, with a particular focus on younger generations. The program is characterized by interdisciplinary, conceptual approaches and encompasses a broad spectrum of artistic media, from sculpture and painting to video and installation, printmaking, photography, and performance.
MONBIJOUSTRASSE 13, 10117 BERLIN
ROSALIE WERTHEFRONGEL
KOMM MIT
18 OCTOBER – 22 NOVEMBER 2025
OPENING
17 OCTOBER 2025 | 6 – 8 PM
KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT presents KOMM MIT by Rosalie Werthefrongel, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.
Rosalie Werthefrongel is a modern pirate: she confidently and effortlessly hijacks classical art history—Renaissance and New Objectivity, Romanticism and Surrealism. Yet these references are transformed, updated, and reinterpreted: Caspar David Friedrich’s ABBEY IN THE OAK WOOD from the early 19th century is suddenly overrun and occupied by a Playmobil knight from the 21st century. With impressive mastery reminiscent of the old masters in terms of technical quality, the artist creates autonomous visual worlds situated in the grey zone between dream and reality, world and counterworld, past and present, reality and virtuality.
Opening Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM
Contact: info@koeniggalerie.com
Images: Roman März © Courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE
KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT
ZIEGELSTRASSE 16, 10117 BERLIN
Group Show
DEAR WORLD,
23 OCTOBER 2025 – 31 JANUARY 2026
OPENING
19 OCTOBER 2025, 4 – 6 PM
DEAR WORLD,—Is this the beginning of a love letter to the world? Or rather a gentle reminder? In the KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT exhibition at Ziegelstraße 16-17 , “World” refers to the planet Earth—the habitat of plants, animals, and also humans, with a focus on the natural world. The title hints at a letter addressed to the Earth; yet what follows the salutation remains open.
The exhibition brings together works by international artists from the gallery program and beyond who turn their gaze outward—toward this shared living space. Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital” (2023) tells the story of a group of astronauts and cosmonauts orbiting the Earth aboard a space station. “The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful color. When we’re on that planet, we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful, lonely light shows could well be it.” Throughout the novel, there are moments when the astronauts pause to admire the beauty of planet Earth.
Opening Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM
Contact: info@koeniggalerie.com
Images: Roman März © Courtesy of the artists and KÖNIG GALERIE
