Galerie b2_ is an artist-run gallery, supported by 17 artists and a gallery director. Each works independently, with a distinct position and formal language. And yet, since 2005 these singular practices have come together to form a shared context within the Spinnerei—shaping its artistic landscape. A “we” that is not a fixed or homogeneous collective, but one that continually redefines itself.
From this constellation, a group exhibition emerges that understands itself as an installation in space. Found and functional elements—tables, metal frames, wooden slats—become structural supports. They function as both display and architecture: a room within a room.
A curtain traces a subtle line between public and private, between audience and performers. A white cloth rests over forgotten objects, as if in an abandoned house—and yet it seems to breathe. Lifted slightly, it reveals a web of individual meanings. A life has unfolded here, perceptible only in fragments, continuing in the imagination. Some works remain partially concealed, wrapped or obstructed; in fleeting glimpses, a sense of a whole emerges that never fully resolves.
The exhibition space itself becomes part of this movement: composed and structured, at once inviting and withholding. A staging that orders and seduces, that condenses—and in doing so reveals its own fragility. The space becomes an arrangement of delicate elements and quiet objects. The backstage steps forward—and turns into the actual stage.
This approach makes the conditions of display visible. Supports become carriers of meaning in their own right, while also pointing back to the physical space that has accompanied and shaped our artistic practice over the years.
The exhibition moves between density and openness. At times, the conceptual framework sharpens the focus on the individual work; at others, materiality takes precedence, exposing process, transition, and incompletion. Art appears here not as a finished result, but as an ongoing movement between individual, collective, and space.
The collective takes on material form, material gathers into a collection, an assemblage becomes a mirror—reminding us that the fragile construct of “we” is not a fixed state, but a decision made again and again.
Carolina Pérez Pallares, 2026
