We are delighted to announce the exhibition “Tell Me Why” with Carmen D’Apollonio and Margarete Jakschik which brings together a new group of six lamps and a series of ten new photographic works. The exhibition is based on a long-standing friendship, shared travels and a deep interest in each other’s work, they proposed this show, conceived it together and selected the final works in consultation with each other.

Carmen D’Apollonio began her career in the mid-1990s as an art director for short films and commercials, quickly establishing herself as a significant figure in the art world through her decade-long collaboration with renowned artist Urs Fischer. In 2006, she launched the fashion brand Ikou Tschüss. In 2014, D’Apollonio moved to Los Angeles, shifting her focus to ceramics. A self-taught ceramicist, she is known for her sculptural lighting and vessels that merge art and functionality, often with a whimsical touch. Her creations are recognized for their organic forms and spontaneous nature, as she explains: „My work is simple; it often gives way to humor, as if clay had its own personality.“
D’Apollonio’s creative process begins with sketching, which she then translates into clay, allowing the material to evolve naturally. Her pieces are not only visually striking but also rich with narrative and emotional depth, inviting viewers into a playful dialogue between form and function.

Margarete Jakschik’s images were made with an analogue medium-format camera. The photographs are personal, at times of an intimate closeness, and yet give little away about themselves.
This is also what lends them their quality of not merely depicting this place or that experience. These are images that we will inevitably fill with our own memories – just as we end up associating more of what is our own, rather than what is someone else’s, with a song that has long accompanied us.

Both artists are represented by the gallery.

Carmen D’Apollonio (b. 1973, Switzerland) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has been featured in solo & group exhibitions at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, Friedman Benda, New York & Los Angeles, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich, Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg and has collaborated with Céline, Paris

Margarete Jakschik (b. 1974 Poland) lives and works in Los Angeles and Munich and studied at the Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf (Thomas Ruff). She has been featured in group exhibitions at Neues Museum, Nürnberg (2021), Leopold-Hoesch- Museum, Düren (2021), Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2020), Marta, Herford and Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’ art contemporain, Bignan, France. Jakschik had recent solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg. The artist is represented in the institutional collections of the Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles and Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.