KORNFELD Galerie Berlin
January 15 – February 28, 2026
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From 15 January to 28 February 2026, KORNFELD Galerie, 68projects by KORNFELD, and 69salon by KORNFELD will present three exhibitions in Berlin, each conceptually and aesthetically intertwined. Together, they form a multifaceted panorama of artistic explorations of rhythm, perception, and cultural identity—set within the dynamic interplay between Brazil and Germany. The program is curated by art historian Tereza de Arruda.
A subtle yet powerful dialogue unfolds between the exhibitions: while Dieter Jung’s “Life of Colors“ creates a universal space of resonance in which light and color become carriers of a timeless rhythm, “Rhythm & Soul“ and “Rhythm & Skin“ reveal the polyphony of contemporary Brazilian art.
Amid the depths of the Berlin winter, these exhibitions open a sensual and conceptual counterpoint to the concurrent Carnival season in Brazil. While rhythm, movement, and collective joy animate the streets there, a different kind of energy takes shape in Berlin: a reflection on the social, cultural, and spiritual forces that shape—and challenge—Brazilian society.
Carnival in Brasil serves as a metaphorical point of departure—an expression of popular culture that gives visibility to those who are often unheard, transforming itself into a socio-political field. The three simultaneous exhibitions together form a curatorial fabric woven from dialogue, memory, and transformation.
They connect the collective with the individual, the material with the immaterial, the Brazilian with the global. The exhibtions are under the patronage of the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin and the Instituto Guimarães Rosa.
Dieter Jung – Life of Colors
The solo exhibition “Life of Colors“ by Dieter Jung at KORNFELD Galerie Berlin opens up spaces in which rhythm becomes tangible as a universal principle—manifested as the vibration of light, color, and perception. On view are works spanning four decades that illuminate the central role of color in Jung’s multifaceted practice.
At the heart of “Life of Colors“ lies color as living light. Jung employs optical interference, spectral refractions, and subtle impulses of motion to create immaterial image spaces that oscillate between surface and depth. The works respond to the presence of viewers, inviting an active, almost meditative mode of seeing. Light is not treated as a means of illumination, but as an energetic continuum that leads to a direct experience of resonance.
Since the 1970s, Dieter Jung has been among the most significant pioneers of artistic holography. His work explores the interplay of light, movement, space, and time. He develops visual systems in which color becomes an immaterial, vibrating energy field. His holokinetic and color-based works make rhythm visible—not as a musical structure, but as a pulsating frequency that unfolds in space and in the gaze of the viewer.
Alongside his holographic investigations, painting forms a vital foundation of his oeuvre. Jung’s color spaces emerge from precise, serial structures in which color acts as an energetic continuum. The canvases follow internal fields of movement, where light and color condense, overlap, and drift apart in vibrating transitions.
Holography, in particular, shapes the exploratory impulse of his practice: the motifs arise from deliberate overlays, refractions, and experiments—the result of an inquiry into perception and visual energies at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Painting and holography, drawing, printmaking, and object-based works do not stand isolated from one another. In Jung’s work, they fuse into an expanded understanding of vision. Together, they explore the invisible within the visible, painting with photons.
Dieter Jung’s art is embedded in a network of diverse international relationships. His works and installations have been shown in more than forty countries, notably in Brazil, where from the 1970s to the 1990s they were exhibited in institutions such as MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM), and various Goethe-Institutes. These presentations led to inspiring encounters with artists of Concrete Art and Concrete Poetry, as well as figures from music, film, and holography—including Moises Baumstein, Israel Pedrosa, Glauber Rocha, Turibio Santos, and Jorge Amado.
Dieter Jung (* 1941), has explored light as a sculptural material within immaterial space since the 1960s. His discovery of holography in the 1970s led to works that shifted the boundaries of pictorial worlds and invited viewers into a dance before the holograms: perceiving and participating; participating and perceiving. From 1985–86, Jung was a CAVS Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where his close friendship with Otto Piene began. Jung’s works have been exhibited in major museums and institutions worldwide; most recently, the ZKM Karlsruhe presented a comprehensive retrospective titled Between and Beyond. He has received numerous grants and awards, among them the CAVS Rockefeller Fellowship at MIT. On the occasion of his 85th birthday in 2026, a major museum exhibition is planned at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, among other venues.
Works by Dieter Jung are held in numerous museums and collections around the globe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; the ZKM Karlsruhe; and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin.
KORNFELD Galerie Berlin
Fasanenstr. 26, D-10719 Berlin
Opening: Thursday, 15 January 2026 | 6–9 pm
Exhibition: 15 January – 28 February 2026 | 11 am–6 pm