Biala in Berlin: ‘From the Sleep Side’
On the occasion of this year’s Berlin Art Week, we are delighted to present a cross-generational and transcontinental survey of three artists, focusing on new works by the US American artist Aubrey Levinthal (b. 1986) whose recent paintings are placed in a direct visual and thematic relationship with works by Biala (Janice Biala, 1903–2000) and Tal R (b. 1967), both of whom serve as significant points of reference and sources of inspiration for Levinthal.
The exhibition not only offers viewers a profound insight into Aubrey Levinthal’s artistic thought process and highlights direct sources of inspiration for a younger generation of painters; it also restores an artistic presence and visibility to an artist like Biala, who was forced to leave Europe in 1939 as a Polish-born Jewish immigrant. Her paintings continue to resonate powerfully within the context of contemporary painting and female subjectivity today.
Biala's work has been exhibited only once before in Berlin in 1966 at the Amerika-Haus in Berlin in the group exhibition '10 Américains de Paris'. Although her 1962 painting Untitled (Three Glasses) was shown in 2022 at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam as part of the exhibition 'The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945', this current exhibition marks a premiere in Berlin itself after exactly 60 years.
“From the Sleep Side”
Haverkampf Liestenschneider
Berlin, Germany
Sep10—Oct 10, 2026
