Exhibition
April 18–July 26, 2026
Regular Opening hours
Wednesday–Friday, 2–6 p.m.
From April 23–26, 2026 closed for family reasons
The artist Max Kersting, grand master of absurd speech bubbles and captions, breathes new life into old, lost, and rediscovered photographs with Tipp-Ex and felt-tip pens. The images, torn from their original context, are given a surprising new interpretation through his additions – and thus appear sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful, and often seemingly meaningless or absurd. Since he adds his texts by hand directly onto the analog images, each picture is unique. Max Kersting has already published several books, and his work is also known from ZEIT Magazine, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reihe 5 – the magazine of the Staatstheater Stuttgart, and is also very popular on social media. A comprehensive selection of originals, which he created especially for the exhibition, will be on display in the gallery from April. Curated by Anja Haas (Pudel Unlimited)
About the artist
Max Kersting (born in 1983 in Lippstadt) grew up with TKKG, inline skating, and making beats. He studied design at the University of Düsseldorf and then worked more or less successfully as a copywriter in Berlin. Since the early 2010s, he has been working as a freelance designer and also as an artist. He lives in Munich.