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We are pleased to share that Vasil Berela is part of The Shared Now, a group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, opening April 26, 2026 at 5 pm, and on view through September 6, 2026. In response to the exhibition’s reflection on a fragmented and unstable present, Berela approaches the theme from within, locating this condition in the structures of the self. His works trace how reality is never directly encountered, but mediated through perception, hesitation, and self-imposed limits. In the paintings Holograms of the Inner Self and Zwiespalt, the act of self-perception becomes a site of estrangement: the self appears as an other, unfamiliar within its own reflection. The spherical heads evoke a constructed consciousness, where perception is filtered rather than immediate. This condition unfolds spatially in the installation Unmündig, where a seated figure immerses its feet in a single bowl of water, surrounded by other untouched vessels that mark possible worlds and unrealized paths. The figure remains still, embodying a paradoxical freedom, the ability to choose, yet the decision not to move. Together, the works suggest that the “shared now” is shaped not only by external realities, but by the quiet boundaries we sustain within ourselves. The Shared Now Emma Adler, Vasil Berela, Judith Blum Reddy, Kurt Buchwald, Göran Gnaudschun, Susie Hamilton, Mathilde Tijen Hansen, Susann Maria Hempel, Anna Jermolaewa, Sven Johne, Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Christiane Möbus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulf Puder, Baldur Schönfelder, Igor Simić April 28 – September 06, 2026 Kunstmuseum Magdeburg Regierungsstr. 4–6, 39104 Magdeburg With special thanks to Prof. Dr. Annegret Laabs for the invitation, and to the collector for lending Zwiespalt.

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