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.
KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT
MONBIJOUSTRASSE 13, 10117 BERLIN
RASMUS ECKHARDT
NACHTSCHWÄRMEN
28 November 2025 – 17 January 2026
KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is pleased to present NACHTSCHWÄRMEN by Rasmus Eckhardt, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.
In NACHTSCHWÄRMEN, Eckhardt turns to Berlin, his adopted city, as both stage and labyrinth. Across fifteen new works, figures drift through the half-light of streets and rooms, guided by the quiet rhythm of the night. Within this wandering, a presence returns again and again—sometimes near, sometimes lost—sensed in the faces of strangers, in the scent of the city, in the fog that softens its outlines. The search continues through encounters and silences, dreams and fragments of memory, as if love itself were a path with no clear destination. Seen through sleepless eyes, the city becomes a silent confidant, echoing the pulse of longing that moves through its empty streets and shadowed corners, when the world feels both infinite and intimately close.
There is something cinematic yet deeply private in these works, as though each image were captured on the edge of forgetting. The figures linger, neither arriving nor leaving, suspended between a dream that refuses to fade and a day that has not yet begun. Eckhardt paints as if tracing the afterglow of a memory, a world poised between wakefulness and reverie. Through his distinct handling of color and light, he evokes moments that seem both distant and deeply familiar, as though recalled through the soft blur of recollection.
His technique, combining pastel, chalk, and sandpaper, lends the paintings their hazy luminosity. These surfaces hum with a quiet tension, balancing tenderness and unease, reality and the realm of dreams.
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
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: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Contact: info@koeniggalerie.com
Images: Roman März © Courtesy of the artists and KÖNIG GALERIE
