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Aleph Art-Gallery is founded by Salomea Rathmann, a German entrepreneur,

in 2022 in Darmstadt, founded.


Salomea Rathmann is convinced: "Art, especially in times of upheaval like these, plays an indispensable role in modern society. It gives people confidence and courage, allows them to remember and gives them hope."


The gallery's passion is to serve as a bridge between different cultures and to focus on representational, international art. Aleph Art Gallery places great importance on the artists represented expressing their free creativity through great skill in artistic techniques. Their art, emphasized by creativity, is unique and encourages the viewer to stand out from everyday life and to develop the creativity that lies within every person.


A successful participation in the Discovery Art Fair 2023

After last year's success, the Aleph Art Gallery was once again represented at the Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt with the theme "The Dream of Flying" - and the enthusiasm was palpable. Our stand, centrally located, served as a meeting point for artists, art lovers and gallery owners at the beginning of November.


The fair proved to be a huge success for the gallery. Seeing familiar faces and exchanging ideas with visitors created a unique atmosphere. The personal connections made at the fair helped showcase art not just as a medium, but as a living community.


The positive response to our five artists strengthens our commitment to enriching the contemporary art scene. We look back with gratitude on a successful Discovery Art Fair and are optimistic about the future.


The program of the Aleph Art Gallery at the Discovery Art Fair 2023

WORKS THAT MAKE US FORGET THE HARDNESS OF THE EARTH

It goes back to the oldest religions and mythologies in the world - the dream of flying. How to turn it into reality was something that people were pondering about long before Leonardo da Vinci. However, wonderful drawings by him of seemingly plausible yet impractical flying machines have been preserved. Parallel to the development of aviation in the 20th century, the theme of flying also enjoyed a new boom in modern art. The Aleph Art Gallery – founded in 2022 by the entrepreneur Salomea Rathmann, Darmstadt – follows on from this with five international, contemporary positions.


Against an informal, abstract background, historical Montgolfers and bulbous zeppelins float, and old-fashioned multi-deckers whiz through the picture. Everything is done with the same playful fine painting precision and garnished with surreal pieces such as flowers and cherries, enigmatic gears and Corinthian capitals. (Alexander Osipov)


Movement is the trump card in color and black and white photographs, whose models are the dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet. But what a movement! The camera technology dissolves the boundaries of human anatomy into vibration and light, conjuring up transitions into butterfly-like taking off or fluttering bird flight using simultaneous phases of movement. (Stuart Lawson)


The transformation of digital source material into painting creates new, astonishingly unreal spaces. So when landscapes, blurred as if in a frantic flight, come across a city or landscape map bathed in blue on the horizon instead of the sky. Or when a plucked, white cumulus cloud floats idyllically in front of the latter. (Elke Emmy Laubner)

The exception in the gallery program, which actually focuses on representational art: a painting that is purely committed to color, applied in a very physical, impasto manner with pustules and grooves, which conveys sensations to the eye, which in the end point to a meta-physical reality that is no longer physically tangible aim. This is not contradicted by the occasional reference to atmospheric landscapes populated by delicate plants. (Gerd Winter)


An old master's glaze painting makes the things depicted so believable that the viewer also finds the breaking of the laws of physics completely "normal". For example, when solid parasols become independent and sail out to sea. This time, of course, the ominous shadow of an airplane, placed in rapport with a laughing child crawling after it, is enough to open up the entire spectrum of possibilities between napalm and raisin bombers. (Karen Shahverdyan)

The selection made by gallery owner Salomea Rathmann proves that the white horse Pegasus, flying through the air on wings, symbolizes not only the weightless imagination of writers, but also of visual artists.

The report about our event

in the Top Mmagazine Frankfurt

The Top Magazine from Frankfurt published a report about our event at the Stangenberg Merck Museum in the summer edition. Please feel free to read the issue at the following link: www.top-magazin-frankfurt.de


The exhibition at the Stangenberg Merck Museum in Seeheim Jugenheim runs until the beginning of November. This offers an outstanding opportunity to visit our unique art exhibition and be inspired by the fascinating works. We warmly invite you to enjoy this exhibition before the finissage at the beginning of November and to experience the diversity of the works of art on display.

The pupil the Art

On February 12, 2023, two entrepreneurs Nina Gurk and Salomea Rathmann sponsored a special art event for Frankfurt art connoisseurs and lovers at the Stangenberg Merck Museum. During the champagne reception, guests were able to gain deep insights into the painting and creativity of Heidi Stangenberg Merck and Karen Shahverdyan during the art tour led by Dr. Roland Held.

The Stangenberg Merck Museum, which opened in Seeheim-Jugenheim in 2010 and is charmingly housed in an Art Nouveau villa above the Bergstrasse town, hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Throughout 2023, paintings by the German-Armenian painter Karen Shahverdyan will be on display there, using the meticulous technique of the old masters to create astonishing scenes where reality and unreality merge seamlessly into one another. Pictorial ideas that tempt you to look, marvel and interpret are explored over several stations. The panorama "Samsara", for example, creates a magical pull, as if you were looking directly into the pupil of an oversized eye.

Project "Splash" - Successful participation in the

Discovery Art Fair 2022 with a television appearance

As part of this year's Discovery Art Fair 2022 in Frankfurt (November 3rd - 6th), the Aleph-Art Gallery presented the works of art by three well-known artists to the audience: Elke Emmy Laubner, Karen Shahverdyan and Gerd Winter.


Elke Emmy Laubner is a painter and photographer who lives and works in Germany. After her academic training in painting, she pursued cross-media image creation. Photographs and screenshots are translated into paintings. Unnerving, sometimes surreal new image spaces emerge that challenge our viewing habits in the digital age. Overall, it is a kind of back translation of media-generated image inventions - painting as a post-digital artifact.


Laubner is a member of the Darmstadt Secession. Her work is presented in numerous exhibitions and art fairs and placed in private collections.


An immersive artwork by Karen Shahverdyan and an associated art performance (Splash) was presented as the highlight of the multi-day exhibition.


In this project, the viewer was introduced to a symbiosis between contemporary painting and an individually redesigned Triumph classic car. In the painting, a female person can be seen viewed from the back in the middle of an unreal environment: a motif that has already appeared in several of Shahverdyan's paintings

shows up. The stylish red knee-length dress, covered with a striking white rose pattern, forms an unmistakable correspondence with the red car parked next to it. The whole thing is a kind of homage to the 60s and 70s, an era of social tension between persistence and departure.

Of course, it also refers to Shahverdyan's birth year, 1969 - a year filled with events worldwide that had an impact until at least the end of the last century. The way the pattern extends across the car's body appears highly ambivalent: on the one hand, attractively ornamental, on the other hand, provocative, as it abruptly ends in a chaotic splash. As if it already points ahead to our time, which is driven by pandemics, economic crises and war. The contrast of order and disorder that we all feel seems pre-formulated as the pattern progresses.


With his paintings that bring together reality and fiction, tradition and modernity and at the same time question them, Karen Shahverdyan fascinates and inspires the art audience.


The Armenian-German artist lives and works in Germany and Greece.

Thanks to his solid academic training, Shahverdyan has mastered the styles and techniques of classical painting. What makes his artistic approach so undeniably contemporary is that he uses perfectly applied old master techniques to address very current topics.

In an experimental, yet always meaningful way, he combines realistic depictions - landscape, architecture, figures - with seemingly surreal visual ideas. His works have already appeared at international art fairs: ART Karlsruhe, Miami Scope, Asia Contemporary Art Show

Hong Kong, Seoul International Art Fair; They also found their way into many private collections.


In the context of the Discovery Art Fair, the Aleph Art Gallery also presented a series of recent works by the painter Gerd Winter for the first time. The artist, born in 1951, has earned an excellent reputation over decades as a representative of painting that grows purely from color, which uses nuanced, layered fields and stripes to take the viewer's eye into zones of perception beyond the everyday. Winter, who has won several awards, is a member of the Darmstadt Secession artists' association.


The television team from Hr- Fernsehen was equally enthusiastic about the Splash project and its artist. From minute 5.27 we are at hello Hesse, hr:

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/hallo-hessen/hallo-hessen-teil-2/hr- Fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL2hyLW9ubGluZS8xODYwMzU


The magic of art

Quote of the week:

“Talent is revealed in the design, art is revealed in the execution.”

–Marie von Eber-Eschenbach


Discover until the beginning of November Karen Shahverdyan's pictures in the Stangenberg Merck Museum

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