Readers of Die Zeit and Tagesspiegel know her primarily as a literary critic and columnist. Gabriele Helen Killert always showed a special sense for the cheerful, the ironic and the comic in her texts. In her pictorial works, often with references to literature, he gains his own qualities on the traces of Dadaism and Surrealism. Killert’s drawings, collages and assemblages are currently on view at Galerie Feuerfarben (Südwestkorso 10, 12161 Berlin, Wed + Fri 2pm – 6pm, weidling-roehse.de) under the title “Touché”.
According to the artist, “there is still a great deal of persuasion in the smallest material remains. Billets, buttons, broken-off eyeglass temples, scraps of fabric or cardboard, nuts and bolts in their rusty, faded grace – all the faded signs of a former vitality: don’t throw them away!” At the finissage on Friday, April 21, at 7 p.m., Frank Arnold, one of the best-known German audio book voices, will be reading from Killert’s glosses and satires. (tsp)
