Wilde Gallery

About:

WILDE Gallery was founded by Canadian-born artist Peter Wilde in September of 2007, as a space for emerging art and curatorial practice.

The gallery program explicitly focuses on the idea of the Painterly in contemporary culture, as manifested in a variety of media. Works exhibited have included video and multi-media art, performance and installation art, photography and works on paper, as well as figurative and abstract painting ranging from traditional representation to contemporary forms of urban art.

The curatorial program has included shows produced by Wayne Baerwaldt, Rita Selvaggio, Heike Fühlbrugge and Doina Popescu, among others. WILDE Gallery has also hosted exhibitions in collaboration with the Berlinale Film Festival’s “Forum Expanded” program, a platform for contemporary cinema encompassing film and art.

Located in Berlin Mitte between the classic gallery neighbourhood of August- and Linenstrasse and the new gallery district of Heidestrasse and Halle am Wasser, the gallery is in close proximity to cultural institutions like the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK).

Notes: This is one of the few artist-founded/run initiatives that is of a hight calibre that I have found and it is actually founded by a Canadian artist. The space is nice, roughly the same size as Les Territoires. I would need to talk with the director a bit to get a better sense of the whole vibe of the place since it was rather busy when I visited but it did seem promising.