Pictoplasma welcomes all character design pioneers, creatives and enthusiasts for its 19th Berlin edition and 2023’s biggest celebration of the very best in contemporary character design and art!
2 group shows present works by international artists, many of whom are showing their work in Berlin for the first time. Pictoplasma’s home of silent green houses installations, murals and a showcase of games and media art in the underground transmediale studio. Meanwhile, at Verwalterhaus in the St. Marien und St. Nikolai cemetery a rich experience of character manifestations in alternate worlds awaits…
The group show at the cemetery’s former caretaker building features the first showcase in Germany of Canadian artist Beth Frey, who is renowned for her neo-surrealist assemblages, dolls, drawings and paintings, and also incorporates AI generated, dreamlike photographs under the @sentientmuppetfactory moniker.
Eric Althin (US) and Moki (US) both exhibit mixed media works – fossils and sculptures, dioramas and paintings that reflect on transience, survival, cohabitation with nature and animals and the Anthropocene.
Illustrators Keekee Kookoo (CL/DE), Ken Sausage (ES), Lalalimola (ES) and Zeloot (NL) showcase their unique styles in works especially produced for this exhibition – each of them giving specific insights to the human condition of our time. And urban artist Daan Botlek (NL) brings along manifestations of his signature characters, faceless pictograms full of dynamic movement.
