In anderen Händen

Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Yeşim Akdeniz, Nevin Aladağ, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Rebekka Benzenberg, Huma Bhabha, Juliette Blightman, Shannon Bool, Leda Bourgogne, Andrea Bowers, Ulla von Brandenburg, Taína Cruz, Natalie Czech, Hanne Darboven, Thea Djordjadze, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Magdalena Frauenberg, Sabrina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Melissa Gordon, George Grosz, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Anthea Hamilton, Anton Henning, Katie Holten, Dorothy Iannone, Chris Johanson, Markus Karstieß, Christoph Knecht, Terence Koh, Robert Lucander, Christian Marclay, Ana Mazzei, Florian Meisenberg, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Oscar Murillo, Donja Nasseri, Marcel Odenbach, Phung-Tien Phan, Anys Reimann, Daniel Richter, Megan Rooney, Leunora Salihu, Karin Sander, Hedda Schattanik, Berit Schneidereit, Marie Schubert, Ana Segovia, Philip Seibel, Amy Sillman, Mikołaj Sobczak, Alec Soth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cornelius Völker, Alex Wissel a.o.

The Philara Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of a selection of its works at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin. This is part of a friendly dialogue that encompasses a reciprocal presentation by the Miettinen Collection in Philara’s exhibition space in Düsseldorf, as well as other collaborations in Potsdam and Helsinki. 

The exhibition In anderen Händen focuses on improvisation, humour, joy, desire, and resilience in dealing with contemporaneity. The works on show express impulsive feelings, physical presence, immediacy or are devoted to the stream of becoming. Using improvisation and humour – or different perspectives on the everyday – they help us to abandon our position as consumers. In addition, they often bring us humorous relief, unrestrained joy, or new sensitivities, or convey the uncanniness of everyday life, thereby reaching ‘the edge of language’.[1]

[1] In ‘Stages of Laughter 2’, Amy Sillman compares painting with improvisational theatre: ‘And painting, like improv, is about getting on the edge of language.’ https://www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201501_StagesofLaughter.pdf

Where Are We Now

Highlights from the Miettinen Collection in the Philara Collection, Düsseldorf

29.6.–21.9.2025 

Opening: 29.6.2025, 4–8pm

For the first time, the collection of Finnish entrepreneur Timo Miettinen will be shown as part of a transnational exhibition project in Germany and Finland. Therefore, his Berlin salon and the Philara Collection are cooperating with a museum in Helsinki.