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The human head is a mirror, stage and projection surface all in one. It is the place where the inner world and outer appearance interpenetrate.

faces of mind (January 17 to April 11, 2026) brings together over 200 works on the theme from 50 years: Painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. The focus is not on portraits, but on a field of experimentation between form, emotion and identity. Reduction, fragmentation and alienation open up new perspectives on the human. Views are questioned, masks become symbols of vulnerability, role and self-determination. The exhibition illustrates how artists express their inner selves and how viewers react to them. It also combines artistic expressiveness with findings from neuroscience and asks how emotion, memory and perception arise in the brain and why faces move us so directly.

Many artists transform inner processes into visible forms and make feelings tangible that can often hardly be put into words. In this way, art becomes a resonance space between inner reality and outer form.

With works (complete list of artists) by: Heinz Ackermans, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Gerhard Altenbourg, Kensise Anders, Alexander Basil, Radu Belcin, Amoako Boafo, El Bocho, Emmanuel Bornstein, Elisa Breyer, Roberto Fabelo, Rainer Fetting, Moisés Finalé, Karsten Fuge, Jose Girl, Max Grote, Maxim Gunga, Margo Guttmann, Roxana Halls, Martin Heinig, Anton Henning, Benedikt Hipp, Veronika Holcová, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Shunxiang Hu, Horst Hussel, Leiko Ikemura, Beza von Jacobs, Weston Jandacka, Aneta Kajzer, Max Kaus, Nam Kim, Dietrich Klinge, Georg Kolbe, Uwe Kowski, Clemens Krauss, Katinka Lampe, Brandon Lipchik, Stefan Ludes, Markus Lüpertz, Victor Man, Niels Shoe Meulman, Nanne Meyer, Christoph Niemann, Sarah Neumann, Idowu Oluwaseun, Mari Otberg, Justine Otto, Wolfgang Petrick, Pablo Picasso, Dario Riccardo Puggioni, Barbara Quandt, Janne Räisänen, Neo Rauch, Shanee Roe, Juno Rothaug, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Heike Ruschmeyer, Nicola Samori, Serkan Sarier, Torsten Schlüter, Michael Schmeichel, Thomas Schütte, Tamim Sibai, Tabitha Wa Thuku, Rosemarie Trockel, Max Uhlig, Ivana de Vivanco, Vincent Wenzel, Lars Wild, ZhaYang6

Opening: January 16, 2026, from 6 p.m.
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The cabinet exhibition “Pherepherien” ends.
We cordially invite you to a city walk to the Gondwana Gallery in Berlin-Schöneberg.
Opening hours here

GALERIE GONDWANA invites you to talk to the artist

Saturday, 13.12.2025, 14-16 h
Torsten Schlüter will be present. The opportunity to look, ask questions, talk.

Peripheries 4.12.2025 – 11.1.2026 in the Gondwana Gallery

The show “Peripheries” presents a selection of drawings and pastels created in India between 2010 and 2025. The Indian subcontinent has fascinated and inspired Torsten Schlüter for over 30 years and exerts a special influence on his artistic work.

“When asked why he was always drawn to India, he once replied, programmatically as it were: “India is a time tunnel full of contrasts and cultural diversity, with a different understanding of space and time and everyday encounters with archaic figures and processes in a sea of color. …
His chalk drawings on tinted paper are a particular treasure, the rich variety of motifs from the actual theme of “women at the well”, drawing water, carrying jugs, all of them memorable, lively signs of natural balance”

Hans M. Schmidt, art historian, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn

Invitation to the exhibition opening on December 3, 2025, 19:00
Music: Rolf von Nordenskjöld (baritone and soprano saxophone, bass flute)
Galerie Gondwana

September 13 marks the end of the art garden period for this year

Opportunities to enjoy and browse
on September 9, 11, 12 and 13 from 17:30-19:30.
At the studio house, 18565 Kloster, Siedlung 10

Group exhibition“Man and Wolf” at the JRGALLERY and Raab Galerie Berlin

“Torsten Schlüter’s wolf is called Wölfi – he captures the wolf in his movement so beautifully that we like to give him a pet name.” (Ingrid Raab, gallery owner)

Even the announcement of the themed exhibition Man and Wolf inspired many artists to spontaneously participate with a work. After all, everyone thinks about the subject. The wolf is already mentioned in five thousand year old Sumerian cuneiform writings, probably to teach young people mathematics and logic in an entertaining way. We know of fables, novels, comics, films and even an opera on the subject. It is as old as the special relationship between humans and dogs.

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The 39th Hiddensee Art Garden opens on June 8

Episode 17 of the “Tea in the Studio” podcast is the last India episode for this year. One in which there is a wonderful chirping this time.

You can listen to the podcast on spotify, applepodcasts or here in the webplayer

Episode 16 of the podcast
“Tea in the studio”

This time from the Indian state of Karnataka. With monkey theater at the Melukote temple and a village for the artist’s eye. Torsten coins a new word: alleyway silence.

Listen on spotify, applepodcasts or here in the webplayer

New podcast episodes from India

The working stay comes to an end. In addition to inspiration and a full sketchbook, the results also include three new podcast episodes. The first one is “a little different” this time. Good headphones are recommended. It goes back to the 90s, when Goa was the center of psytrance. The illustrator is also the dancer.

The podcast is available on the usual podcast platforms,
on spotify, applepodcasts or here in the webplayer