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zurich / Berlin

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CRUSH STUDIO PRESENTS
THE LAUNCH AND READING OF ‘GHOST WRITER: AN ANTHOLOGY’ AND MORE!

friday, 30 October 2026
18:00-22:00
Sint Annendwarsstraat 13, Amsterdam

A spooky tale may shiver your bones in many ways. Gory body horror, an empty train platform, mirages, a yoga class from hell, horny mummies, the total collapse of the cultural field, a living room full of the undead, a supermarket jail…

EVENING PROGRAMME:

18:00 Print Your Own Tights
19:00 Booklaunch/Readings
21:00 DJs and Red Drinks

Contributions by:

Jonathan Blaschke @jony.bl
Anastasija Diukova @anastasijadiukova
Manon Fraser @manon_fraser_
Bruno Jacoby @bruno_jacoby_official
Miglė Lukoševičiūtė @miglelukoseviciute  Niam Madlani @niamsyard
Mae Smith @maesmithy
Noah van de Wetering @noahvandewetering
Pepi Schikowski @valentingiuseppe

Introduced and collected by:

Lizzy Jongedijk @leezzeee
Clara Rojas @clararojassss

Designed by:

Lizzy Jongedijk @leezzeee
Miglė Lukoševičiūtė @miglelukoseviciute

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Pückler Tapes V.3

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Berlin

[Autophagy]

20th August - 18th September 2026

Open by appointment

@valentingiuseppe
@__galerie__gesamtkunstwerk__

“Schikowski’s semi-abstract figures appear as remnants of a humanity in the process of disappearing: anonymous bodies interrupted by wires, masks, mechanical structures, and only showing fragments of human skin. Some still look back at us, with a last spark in their eyes. Others seem to have already disappeared from themselves.

How much humanity is left when everything that makes us human can be copied and replaced? What remains of us when our bodies can be extended by machines, our memories can be stored outside of us, and our thoughts, identities, and experiences are increasingly distributed across technologies?

These questions extend into our technological present. Our memories and cognitions already exist beyond the biological body, in phones, cloud storage, archives, calendars, databases. We are, as Donna Haraway suggests in her Cyborg Manifesto (1985), already hybrid beings. But becoming cyborgs is not an immaterial process, as Jennifer Gabrys challenges in Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (2013). Every extension of ourselves into technology depends upon extraction and labour. What appears weightless and invisible is sustained by a deeply material chain of
resources, infrastructures, and has an environmental and human cost.

This contradiction sits at the heart of [AUTOPHAGY]. The biological process through which a cell consumes and recycles its own components becomes a metaphor for technological transformation: to become something else, something must be broken first.”

-Excerpt from text by Louise des Places

#pepischikowski
#galeriegesamtkunstwerk

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It’s been a while since I’ve shared what I’ve been up to, and I think Sundays are a good day for it. I’ve been working on two new paintings simultaneously; one is already finished, the other is still in progress. At first, it was just a few lines from a @honeymoon song, but I’ve been rereading Arthur Yap, and the magic of his poems, that kind of green light and simplicity that emanates from his lines, has permeated everything. Also, before I start painting, I’m creating a map of associations that give the work its mood, but which also act as a mental filter. When you pay attention, you start to see those associations, colors, and shapes everywhere.
A few days ago, I was talking to @valentingiuseppe and he asked me why I sign my paintings on the front. I realized it was a remnant from when I used to paint in the street, but now it’s not adding anything to the work, so I’ve started signing on the back. It’s been Berlin Art Week, and the activity and meetings with artists, curators, and gallery owners have been constant. I’m very grateful for all the interesting and creative people I’ve met these past few days. I visited @cousinteun studio, saw an exhibition by Karol Bethke at @lempertz_1845_art with @alessandro.lupi.art , the “Spectral” exhibition at @029berlin and on Friday, an incredible and very powerful performance by @vwvwvw.2 at @__galerie__gesamtkunstwerk__
Yesterday I still had enough energy to visit an exhibition in @neurotitangallery of Venezuelan artists selling their work to help the victims of the recent earthquake. I wasn’t able to take any photos, but I highly recommend a visit. I think that after so much visual information, a break in another format is necessary, and that’s a book. I’m enjoying “Design” by Alan Moore, where every page is a gem. I wish you a good start to the week.

#oreystudio#showyourwork#berlinartweek#artprogress#arthuryap知事

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Pools, pools
Pools, so many
Pools and somehow
I’m not drowning in
Any of them, No, theirs
Is the tar I bathe in
Pits, where lovers
Deigned to stand, wholly
Affected, wrought,
Contorted, motioning
Along the vines, in serpentine
Embraces, bending
Sepulchral wrists, asynchronous
Touches, meeting
Their glances, as the
Hills weep
Bereft of
Auspice

Wash me,
Off

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[Autophagy]
Pepi Schikowski

Vernissage 20/8 18-21

Galerie Gesamtkunstwerk,
Glogauer Straße, Berlin

Curated by Saskia Fitzgerald Sandlund
and Michael Laundry

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Schikowski presents a series of painted works primarily in air-brushed acrylics moving the public from the surprised countenance of jesters to the bewilderment of waking up in a declensionist narrative or dystopian sci-fi à la the Matrix.

And so the figure of the jester - perhaps Pepi’s self-portrait - beckons us the viewer to join in on the fun of moving between artistic movements in equal measure going backwards and forwards - no past, no future - just infinite jest.

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Pepi Schikowski’s practice renegotiates questions of power, masculinity, vulnerability and death through painting. Working through humour, intuition and expressive colour, Schikowski’s works move between softness and tension, where familiar visual languages are destabilised, creating spaces in which vulnerability, violence and transformation can coexist.

This is Shikowski’s final presentation in Berlin before relocating to Zurich to pursue an MFA at the ZHdK.

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[Autophagy] is by appointment until the 10th of September. Please contact the gallery to plan your visit.

#pepischikowski
#autophagy

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Look at
Our necks,
It’s there, something
We bury, every
Summer, beneath
Princess bloodlines
Coursing through
Veins and roses,
Roses, in such
A delicate
Row one could
Almost mistake
Them for
Affection but
It’s all just, because,
Somewhere, in those
Silences, our truths
Were almost
Even

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Holiday Season is officially opened ❤️‍🔥 #godIloveSummer

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Meet us at the Junction on Thursday 16.07 Ostbahnhof 6-10pm !

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Culterim Independent Class SS26 Artist Feature: @valentingiuseppe

Pepi Schikowski (b. 1996) is a German/Australian artist based in Berlin. Working with airbrush, Schikowski’s colourful portraits share an insight to his bitter vision of the human condition of our contemporary world.

Come check out our show this coming Thursday, July 16th 6-10pm, Berlin Ostbahnhof, Grundstuffe ✨

Photo Credits: @qasimoves_

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Culterim Independent Class SS26 invites you to Junction, a group exhibition featuring the work of this season’s independent class.

Join us for the opening reception on 16 July, from 6–10 pm. We look forward to celebrating with you ✨

📷: @qasimoves_

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LEONIS WORKS LAUNCH SHOWCASE

Recently I presented my contribution to the @leonis_works launch event.

My installation, “Square Eyes”, consisted of a large constructed day bed, speaker system and reactive projection setup, all housed within its own dedicated room.

The visuals responded in real time to the selected sets from @ccriess “sound of cries” series, featuring:

@bass.from.da.area
@_emma_isabella
@teeerail
@missmess_________

while also reacting to the conversations and other bits of sound created by the audience existing within the space.

The visuals themselves were taken from my ongoing series “Formless”, a three-year exploration into light, distortion and its movement through artificial glass.

Always love being able to share these pieces with everyone, massive love to all who came through.

Looking forward to the next 🖤💫

Digital 📷 @gelisjpgs
Analog 📷 me

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