Tim Berresheim

TIM BERRESHEIM | Suermont-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen

Ort. Zeit. Kontinuum: Opening June 24 @ Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen. Since the end of 2023, Tim Berresheim has been involved in a large-scale digital art and participation project “Aus alter Wurzel neue Kraft” on behalf of the city of Aachen, in which Aachen pupils of different ages and school types have been significantly involved. This participatory project in the best sense of the word is based on a process of appropriation by the participants under the guidance of the artist, which consists of numerous workshops in schools and at selected locations in the city and thus makes a concrete contribution to cultural education.

Right from the initial phase of this project, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum sought a dialog with the artist in order to integrate the museum into the process and to open up the collection to the participants as a further component of the museum's work, which is currently strongly oriented towards cultural participation. After a comprehensive introduction by the museum's own curators, the participants of the vhs College curiously explored exhibits from the permanent collection in workshops and then - in a way that is indicative of the diversity of the group - chose a large-format mythological sculpture ‘Apollo and Daphne’ by the Italian sculptor Filippo Parodi (1630-1702) as the starting point for their creative experiments and thought processes.

The project will occupy an entire cabinet room on the 1st floor and, in addition to concrete realizations, will also open up the dimension of augmented reality to visitors to the museum via an app designed by the artist. Berresheim will also be showing a new site-specific wall piece created especially for the museum.

TIM BERRESHEIM | Ort. Zeit. Kontinuum.
June 25, 2025 – February 1, 2025

TIM BERRESHEIM | Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Double Cheese Platter: Centenary of the Collection. Twenty Years of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
March 8, 2025 – October 12, 2025

In 1925, works from the City of Stuttgart art collection were shown to the public for the first time in the Villa Berg. As the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart (Stuttgart City Gallery), the collection was on display for many years in the Kunstgebäude, before finally moving in 2005 to a new building constructed especially for it at the Schlossplatz. To mark this double anniversary, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is presenting an exhibition featuring solely works from its own collection—including numerous acquisitions and donations from recent years.

Structured into seven thematic rooms that bear the individual signatures of the Kunstmuseum’s curators, the exhibition highlights both the historical context of the collection and its relevance to today’s real-life issues—such as consumerism and racism. The juxtaposition of works that have not been on view for a long time, if ever, with recent donations and new acquisitions, creates a fascinating display.

Admission is free of charge for the entire duration of the exhibition.

Do not miss the artist tour with Tim Berresheim (in conversation with curator Stefanie Utrecht) on September 19, at 6 pm.

TIM BERRESHEIM | Paris Photo Digital Sector

Tim Berresheim (*1975) is a pioneering figure in computer-based art, seamlessly blending art history, technology, science, and nature. He views the computer as a transformative tool, akin to the hand axe that once liberated humanity from caves. Focusing on the essence of images in the digital age, Berresheim explores the creative potential within contemporary visual culture. His work analyzes the often-overlooked elements that shape our humanity in a rapidly changing world. By harnessing advanced digital technologies, he meticulously crafts artworks that reflect our present. Distancing himself from dominant narratives of AI and social media, Berresheim defines the computer purely as a tool. His creations bridge the analogue and digital realms, questioning the boundaries of evolution.

Recently, he has drawn inspiration from old masters like Pierre Bonnard, reimagining their colors and textures into innovative digital compositions. Berresheim's art invites viewers to navigate new processes, expanding language and acknowledging personal interpretations. His works represent a reimagined world that organizes chaos into narratives of human existence. Tim Berresheim studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and HBK Braunschweig. He is represented in numerous national and international collections and institutions. In 2024, the NRW Forum Düsseldorf presented the comprehensive retrospective “Neue Alte Welt”.

Paris Photo @ Grand Palais, November 7 -10, 2024.

TIM BERRESHEIM | Kunsthalle Bielefeld & Museum Marta Herford

Zwischen Pixel und Pigment - Hybride Malerei in postdigitalen Zeiten,

The exhibition, developed jointly by the Museum Marta Herford and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and taking place simultaneously at both venues, is dedicated to post-digital hybrid painting and thus reflects our hybrid post-digital present, anchored between the digital and the analog. In this large-scale collaboration, the focus is on a painterly way of thinking that has expanded considerably, especially in the last ten years, through the equal interweaving of content and technology of the hybrid. The international artists fundamentally question the traditional medium of painting. To what extent do the changes influence materialities, image-media structures and aesthetics? How do hybrid spaces, bodies that have become fluid and a feeling of being in-between find pictorial correspondences? With the Kunstakademie Münster as the third project partner, museum practice, academic teaching and research are combined in an experimental way.

With works by Sónia Almeida, Tim Berresheim, Salomé Chatriot, Vivian Greven, Wade Guyton, Tishan Hsu, Jacqueline Humphries, Charlotte Johannesson, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch/Debo Eilers), Peter Kogler, Vera Molnar, Mukenge/Schellhammer, Laura Owens, Seth Price, Rafael Rozendaal, Pieter Schoolwerth, Amy Sillman, Avery Singer, Cheyney Thompson, Philipp Timischl, Corinne Wasmuht, Anicka Yi and others.

TIM BERRESHEIM & JOHANNES BRUS | Museum für Photografie Braunschweig