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Contemporary art gallery in Berlin

09/10/2026

A plastic pink flamingo in the middle of the Arctic — absurd and beautiful! The meme flamingo drifting among the ice — is it amusing or unsettling?

Boris Schaarschmidt’s photo series «NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE» is an ironic look at climate change, tourism, and the intrusion of the foreign into fragile ecosystems. The title comes from the words the manufacturer printed right on the toy, and it works as a metaphor for naive attempts to save the world.

Although the images look AI-generated, this is not AI and not even digital manipulation. Boris took these photos during his boat journey through the Arctic.

Boris Schaarschmidt is a German-born filmmaker and artist. Since 2005 he has lived in Los Angeles, where he earned his MFA at the American Film Institute (AFI) and now teaches film and television. He has directed, produced, and written more than 30 award-winning short films. His work has screened at nearly 300 film festivals around the world, including the Berlinale, LA Shorts, Raindance, and the SOHO International Film Festival. As an artist, he works in places that promise no comfort, with residencies in Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Lapland, and the Arctic.

Photographs from the series are available at Serpen Gallery in 50×70(680 euro), and 20×30 cm(350 euro).

08/10/2026

Out of Place is on view now: an exhibition that blurs the boundaries between seasons, and between what belongs and what doesn’t.
Three artists play with what’s real and what only seems to be.
Boris Schaarschmidt’s photographs from his Arctic Circle residency look staged, yet nothing is manipulated. Gildas Coudrais does the opposite: his works feel photographic and real, but are entirely constructed. Ksenia Hnylytska’s Open Air series turns nature into an almost psychedelic space, a search for a reality we may have already lost.
Three artists, three realities, one story with a twist.
📍 Serpen Gallery, Auguststraße 83, Berlin 🗓 On view until [дата]
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29/09/2026

A private opening of „Meine Sommerferien“, an exhibition featuring Ukrainian artists, took place as a collaboration between Hotel Continental – Art Space in Exile and Serpen Gallery. The opening on September 3rd included a charity dinner with German collectors and patrons who actively support Ukrainian artists and Ukrainian culture.

Photos by Lisa Vlasenko Lisa Vlasenko

19/09/2026

Veronika Cherednychenko (b. 1994, Kherson) is a Ukrainian artist working across drawing, painting, video, and virtual
reality. She studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, earning a B.A. in 2018 and an M.F.A. in 2020, completed an
exchange program at the Warsaw Academy of Arts (2017–2018), and has taught at the Lviv Academy of Fine Arts since 2022.
Her practice explores the unconscious — nature, organic form, the dynamics of growth and transformation, alongside decay
and dying — combining colored pencil and oil on canvas with fabric, video, sound, and immersive VR environments.
Recurring bodies of work such as Metaforest, Tectumque, and ХБК move between ecological anxiety, wartime memory, and
Soviet industrial and family history. Her work has been shown across Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Austria, Croatia,
Taiwan, Sweden, and the United States, and recognized with the VIA Carpatia Art Biennale Main Prize (2022), among other
awards. Cherednychenko lives and works in Lviv.

08/09/2026

Rhythms of Presence

Veronika Cherednichenko and Petro Gronsky

In what moments do we feel most alive?

Perhaps when we are overwhelmed by an incredible sense of joy. Or when we experience deep sadness, love, passion, or even despair. It is precisely at these extremes, across the entire spectrum of our emotions, that we feel our own presence in life most intensely.

The exhibition “Rhythms of Presence” brings together the work of two artists — Veronika Cherednichenko, who works with colored pencils, and sculptor Petro Gronsky, who creates his forms in concrete and metal.

Their artistic languages are very different. Veronika’s works are filled with an explosion of color, fantasies, dreams, and images that emerge somewhere on the boundary between the real and the imagined. Petro’s sculptures speak through the weight of the material, its texture, its solidity, and at the same time its ability to transform in unexpected ways. Yet these different practices meet within a shared space — the space of human experience.

There is no single story here, nor one correct way of reading these works. They may speak of love and passion, loneliness and anxiety, joy, dreams, loss, and inner states that are sometimes difficult to put into words.

We invite the viewer not to search for the right answers, but simply to allow themselves to feel. To discover something personal in these forms and colors, something familiar, perhaps even something unexpected. Because each of us has our own rhythm of presence — our own way of being in this world, of experiencing it, and of experiencing ourselves.

“Rhythms of Presence” is an exhibition about life in all its fullness. About the moments when we rejoice, love, grieve, dream, lose our footing — and precisely because of this, feel that we are alive.

Come. Look. Feel.
Perhaps, among these forms and colors, you will recognize something of your own.

06/09/2026

What makes us feel alive? Rhythm of Presence brings together works by Veronika Cherednychenko and Petro Gronsky around the idea of the heartbeat—as both a physical response and a metaphor for experience. Moving between intimacy and vulnerability, desire and uncertainty, the exhibition explores the states that sharpen our sense of being present.

20/08/2026

A beautiful sunrise.

Valeriia Osina
30x40
Acrylic, oil, wood
2026

Available at Serpen Gallery

12/08/2026

We continue our journey through the universe of Stefan Stoykov’s ancient gods.

“Bimbo hunter” — Artemis, or Diana, as she might look today.

A young woman in Adidas — confident, determined, and ready to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.

Artemis was not simply the goddess of hunting. She was also a guardian of the natural world, concerned with maintaining its balance and with making sure that people did not break its rules. So, naturally, the modern Artemis would probably be an animal rights activist.

In the painting, she appears exactly like that: a self-assured young woman standing up for an animal. And the slightly rebellious Adidas adds a contemporary edge to the image — she knows her boundaries and is ready to defend them when necessary.

This work is for those who care about nature, responsibility, and balance. And for those who believe that rules matter, especially when it comes to those who cannot set them for themselves.

Oil on canvas
145x120
2026

04/08/2026

While everyone’s busy discussing Nolan’s “Odyssey,” let’s rewind even further — to a story that happened before Odysseus was even born.

The myth is simple, and more than a little suspicious. Zeus saw a beautiful girl, fell in love, turned himself into a white bull, waited for her to let her guard down, and carried her off to Crete on his back. The Ancient Greeks called it a romance. Modern lawyers would probably call it something else.

Of course, in the classical tradition this myth was never just about love or abduction. It’s a story about transition — from one world to another, from youth to maturity, from safety into the unknown. That’s exactly why it captivated artists for centuries, from antiquity to modernism.

In Odesa-based Ukrainian artist Stefan Stoikov’s interpretation, Europa sits in a beautiful park surrounded by hares, flowers woven into her hair like the stars on the EU flag. Peaceful. Calm. No reason to worry — except that somewhere nearby, a bull with very serious intentions is already on the move.

This Europa isn’t ready for marriage, or a move to Crete, or a starring role in someone else’s divine fantasy. Nobody gets to just pick her up and carry her off — not even Zeus. She has her own plans for today: lace up the rollerblades, pick up some speed, and go get ice cream. She is brave, beautiful, intelligent, and knows how to say No.

02/08/2026

If you’ve been waiting for a sign, this might be it.

We’re living through uncertain times. With the war in Ukraine still ongoing, hope can sometimes feel distant. Yet in Valeriia Osina’s work, the rainbow appears not after the storm, but within it — alongside objects that carry tension, fragility, and risk.

Her paintings remind us that optimism is not about denying reality. It is about continuing forward despite uncertainty. About finding light without looking away from the darkness.

Born in Kerch and now based in Berlin, Valeriia explores themes of displacement, memory, and resilience through a deeply personal visual language. Her work speaks to the present moment while reaching beyond it.

This is more than a work of art. It is a reflection of our time, and a reminder that hope remains possible even in the most complex circumstances.

All artworks are available through Serpent Gallery.

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