mowe Festival for Art and Urban Culture (2025 - 27), Keyvisual, credit: Studio Itch
Interdisciplinary Group Exhibition: Iconic Forms | AW23 Studio and Atelier
An interdisciplinary group exhibition exploring everyday objects, artistic gestures, and creative personalities, and how they become iconic forms.
09. – 10. May 2026
11:00h-19:00h
AW23 Studio and Atelier
Adolfstr. 23
13347 Berlin
with Andrea Zoltanetzky, Maria Rapela, John & Alex Gailla, RAUM Italic Studio
At the AW23 collective studio in Berlin-Wedding, an interdisciplinary exhibition space dedicated to the theme ‘Iconic Forms’ is being created for the mowe Festival. Photographers Andrea Zoltanetzky and Maria Rapela will showcase works in food photography and artist portraits, while artists John and Alex Gailla will present experimental paintings. The exhibition is complemented by invited contributions from the fields of performance, design, and other artistic disciplines. Together, the participating artists explore how forms, gestures, materials, and personalities become icons of everyday life, creativity, and visual culture.
About the Artists
Maria Rapela portrays female writers and artists who channel their creativity as a form of resistance and shape Berlin’s cultural landscape. Her photographic work combines a documentary sensibility with a powerful visual language that brings female creativity to the fore and distills it into iconic images.
“Vegan Fest” by food photographer Andrea Zoltanetzky is a tribute to the Dutch still-life tradition—with a modern twist. It features autumnal vegan delicacies, artfully arranged and styled by Anne Sophie Hoffmann. Through careful composition, the viewer’s gaze is drawn into the moment, transforming simple ingredients into a celebration of form, flavor, and seasonality.
The artist brothers John and Alex Gailla present new works in which painting, objects, and experimental forms explore how material, structure, and color become iconic symbols. Their works create visual accents that make the theme of “icon” tangible in an abstract and spatial way.
RAUM Italic: Pinocchio by Sven Völker
On display are several original drawings and risograph prints from the book *Pinocchio – The Marionette Who Wanted to Become a Real Child*, published in Italian by RAUM Italic. Sven Völker invites visitors into the world of Pinocchio—a curious mechanical marionette who embarks on an adventurous journey to become a real child. The Berlin-based author and artist reinterprets this literary classic from a surprisingly fresh perspective by reworking Carlo Collodi’s original text and combining it with his minimalist illustrations.