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About MOUNTAINS
MOUNTAINS (@mountains_berlin) is an Art Gallery creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 6,865 followers and 476 published posts. Recent posts average 195 likes and 7 comments, an engagement rate of 2.78%.
MOUNTAINS belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. MOUNTAINS follows 6,010 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 6,865 followers. MOUNTAINS is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files MOUNTAINS under Art Gallery, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for MOUNTAINS runs to 21 words across 3 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for MOUNTAINS dates from April 2026.
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476 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for MOUNTAINS, 8 are carousels and 2 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. 476 published posts give MOUNTAINS a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 14 followers for each post published. MOUNTAINS also keeps 16 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 187 words each. Words that recur across them include artist, exhibition, through, medalla and david. The captions tag #davidmedalla, #parisinternationalemilano, #mountains, #shinohnam and #soloexhibition.
This presentation celebrated the pioneering Filipino artist David Medalla, whose kinetic and participatory works continue to resonate strongly within today’s contemporary art discourse. Bringing together works from different moments of his practice, the presentation highlighted the enduring relevance and radical openness of his artistic vision.
Courtesy of the artist and Mountains, Berlin
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#parisinternationalemilano #artfair #mountains #davidmedalla
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Is what we all actually want, in fact, to know each other deeply?
2026
Vintage door (1900s), polished cast aluminum, door viewer, steel, brass
225(h) × 34 × 26 cm
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The urge to spy on, watch, and observe others is often understood as arising from anxiety and mistrust. Yet it may not be merely a desire to control or monitor them. Rather, it can be read as a sign of vulnerability(weakness); an inability to accept that we can never fully understand another person.
Although we cannot truly reach one another, we continue to believe that others can be grasped through indirect forms of looking. But this gaze never leads to genuine understanding; It only circles the surface, repeating itself without arrival. In this process, the gaze may function as a form of power, yet at the same time it remains an empty, repetitive desire that never arrives at its object.
In the end, observation and voyeurism are not simply ways of reducing others to objects. They are closer to defense mechanisms that conceal the impossibility of genuine connection. We do not look at others in order to understand them, but in order to avoid confronting the fact that we never fully can.
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Shinoh Nam
‚Sang-ryang-mun (Topping-out ritual): For those who support my selfishness, I flare up and pray‘
2026
Wall sculpture | Burnt wood, steel, brass, Korean paper (hanji)
122 × 98 × 24 cm
48 × 38.6 × 9.4 in
Unique
Photos by Julie Becquart
As part of ‚A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds‘ — Shinoh Nam’s solo exhibition that opened for GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN and is currently on view at Galerie Mountains at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin.
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Visit Mountains Wednesday – Saturday 12–6 pm and by appointment. We would be happy to see you!
Brilliant new works, great install, and this must be the best exhibition title ever!
DE, Potsdam (exhibition)
Osmar Osten * Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam
Nie wieder Urknall! [Never again the Big Bang]
Curated by Jens Milde
March 22 – May 10, 2026
Finissage
Sunday, May 10, 4 pm
with a reading by Matthias Zwarg
Osmar Osten is regarded by many as a language artist and a virtuoso verbal trickster. First and foremost, however, Osten is a painter who draws language into his painting, examining it both in terms of meaning and for its visual force.
Born in 1959 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (GDR), Osten’s artistic development received decisive impulses during the 1980s through his association with the artist group Clara Mosch and the Galerie Oben.
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And it is not only language that recurs throughout Osten’s works, but also his motifs: alongside the aforementioned hares, birds, fish, and snowmen, motifs drawn from the folk art traditions of the Ore Mountains – such as nutcrackers, incense smokers, and miners‘ figures – populate his paintings. Rooted in precise observations of everyday life, this world of imagery and language forms a self-contained and coherent structure from which questions concerning contemporary political, social, and economic realities continually emerge.
In 2022, Osten was awarded the Hans-Platschek-Preis für Kunst und Schrift for „his post-Dadaist painting and his ironic short texts.“ In 2025, during the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, Osten was among the defining artistic voices of the region, notably through his participation in the Purple Path. (transl. from the German press release)
At Galerie Mountains, Osmar Osten had solo exhibitions in 2022 and 2024, and will be presented by the gallery in the upcoming 2026 edition of Basel Social Club (alongside Eric Meier) this June.
All photos © Bernd Hiepe
#jensmilde
Please join Mountains and Shinoh Nam during GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN 2026! Shinoh Nam A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds May 1 – June 13, 2026
Architectural concept development with Changki Kim Exhibition text by Olamiju Fajemisin
Special opening hours: Thursday, April 30 11 – 6 pm Preview VIP Friday, May 1 11 – 6 pm Preview VIP 6 – 9 pm Opening Saturday, May 2 11 – 6 pm Sunday, May 3 11 – 6 pm
Shinoh Nam, b. 1993, lives in Berlin and Seoul. — His artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and design, engaging questions of psychoanalysis and cultural displacement. Nam’s sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works oscillate between construction and collapse, between the functional and the personal.
Extending the spatial concerns of his previous exhibitions, Nam conceives the presentation at Mountains as a fragmented ‚house,‘ in which only the floor plan is delineated. The artist, in collaboration with architect Changki Kim, drew inspiration from the film Dogville and applied the structural concept of a house to the exhibition through the use of architectural drawings. Within this open structure, viewers move through loosely defined interior zones that stage encounters between objects, gestures, and psychological states. The exhibition shifts focus from architectural exteriors to interior space, using furniture and domestic elements to examine relationships between humans, objects, and the systems that organize them. References to Victorian, modernist, and postmodern design intersect, unsettling linear narratives of progress and revealing how ideas of ‚good design‘ become institutionalized and absorbed into systems of value and consumption. (Read the full press release online at mountains.gallery/exhibitions)
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Poster design
Fatima Hellberg writes in the exhibition catalogue ‚David Medalla. Parables of Friendship‘ (Bonner Kunstverein and Museion Bolzano, 2021/2022):
Medalla’s use of masks alludes to the paradox of identity, to that of disguise and of performance. Akin to his practice of collaging visas and passports as imagined identity documents, Medalla was acutely aware of the role his identity played in his engagement with the West. His ability to hide behind a mask, often created with a collage-like approach, enabled him to ironically embody the iconography of advertising and Western consumerism. In a 1978 interview with artist Rasheed Araeen, Medalla talks at length about his resistance to himself and his work being assumed within a Western canon, and with the mask this resistance to a fixed identity is clearly met.
(...) The paper mask is a device that has recurred throughout his career, most prolifically in his later years. Here the simple act of cutting or tearing a magazine or newspaper page in a symmetrical pattern to form eye and mouth holes to be worn or simply held in front of the face momentarily creates a quick and effective transformative device. When hung on the wall, these masks evoke the masks of Greek theatre, while examining them up close the subtle humour of the chosen content of the pages that form the masks appear in direct conversation with his collage practice.
His masks are immediate and engaging, alluding to the possibility of performance, and as such, often incorporated into his impromptus. Medalla’s ability to suspend belief in his audiences, while embracing humour in making fun of the discarded and disposable waste of consumption. A profound reflection at times living with limited means. The mask enabled Medalla to take one step further in his ability to shift, adapt and adopt new identities and personas in his constantly shifting world.
Shinoh Nam
A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds
May 2 – June 13, 2026
Opening: May 1, 6-9 pm
Shinoh Nam’s artistic practice unfolds between architecture, psychoanalysis, and cultural displacement. He presents a body of work that reflects on the contradictions of progress and identity formation. His sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works oscillate between construction and collapse, between the functional and the personal. Nam’s practice challenges architecture’s utopian promises and the social ideologies embedded within material form. Each sculpture is both fragment and proposition – a ruin of progress and a model of possibility.
Architectural concept development with
Credits:
1) Shinoh Nam, I call my frustrating envy Admiration and struggle to console myself. Victory lies before me yet drifts away, amid endless and forgotten purposes, I still pray others’ lives serve my longing yet, 2025. Courtesy of the artist
2) Shinoh Nam, Peephole study(detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Mountains, Berlin
3) Shinoh Nam, Concept drawing, 2025
4) Shinoh Nam, studio portrait, Berlin, 2026. Photo: Chanki
5) Shinoh Nam, Untitled (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Mountains, Berlin
_Mountains is part of the new sector Perspectives, which spotlights the diversity of Berlin’s gallery scene through a rotating, curated selection of galleries invited each year to present distinct artistic positions.
„Während die Kunstwelt weiterhin ihre Kanons hinterfragt und über Inklusion diskutiert, stehen Medallas Leben und Werk als leuchtender Beweis dafür, dass die radikalsten künstlerischen Praktiken oft am Rand entstehen. Sein Erbe war nie verborgen, sondern immer da – versammelnd, aufsteigend, sich auflösend, wiederkehrend – wie der Schaum in den „Cloud Canyons“. Und doch wurde er „entdeckt“: 2017 war Medalla mit „A Stitch in Time“ auf der Biennale von Venedig vertreten. Doch da hatte ihn ein Schlaganfall bereits weitgehend gelähmt. Im überladenen Kontext partizipativer Praktiken jener Biennale trat der Pioniergeist seines visionären Werks zudem in den Hintergrund. Die Ausstellung „David Medalla: Parables of Friendship“ im Bonner Kunstverein (2021) und im Museion Bozen (2022) war ein Meilenstein: kinetische Skulpturen, Zeichnungen und Archivmaterial wurden erstmals zusammengeführt. Eine weitere Einzelausstellung eröffnete 2024 in Los Angeles.
(…) Medallas Weigerung, sich durch Geografie, Medium oder Ideologie einordnen zu lassen, wirkt heute geradezu visionär. Lange, bevor das Modell des „netzwerkenden Künstlers“ zum Standard wurde, verkörperte Medalla es – als Ermöglicher, Provokateur, niemals aber als Egoist. Seine Kunst war leise radikal – getragen von Freude, Intimität und geteilten Erfahrungen. Ob durch eingenähte Botschaften, aufsteigenden Schaum oder Seifenblasen – er schuf Räume der Verbindung und des Staunens. Bei aller intellektueller Tiefe blieb sein Werk zutiefst menschlich – wie eine Probe für eine offenere, großzügigere (Kunst-)Welt.“
Thank you so much Hili Perlson and Welt am Sonntag, Marcus Woeller for this great article.
Our David Medalla presentation ‚Kinetic Poetry in Motion‘ is still on view at HALLEN 06 at Wilhelm Hallen Berlin – Sunday, Sep 14, until 8 pm. Address: Kopenhagener Str. 60-72, 13407 Berlin
A heartfelt thank you to all visitors and writers for joining us during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025 to see David Medalla Luftbrücke at Mountains!
The exhibition is on view through June 21, we’re open Wednesday to Saturday 12-6 pm, and by appointment.
We are looking forward to see you at our gallery!
Installation view from David Medalla Luftbrücke, Mountains, Berlin, 2025.
Photo: Julie Becquart
#galleryweekendberlin
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MOUNTAINS's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.78%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 36 followers. An average post collects 195 likes and 7 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.
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MOUNTAINS (@mountains_berlin) is an Art Gallery creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. MOUNTAINS is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for MOUNTAINS runs to 21 words across 3 lines.
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MOUNTAINS has 6,865 followers on Instagram (6.9K). MOUNTAINS follows 6,010 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 6,865 followers. 476 published posts give MOUNTAINS a moderate archive on Instagram.
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MOUNTAINS's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.78%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 36 followers. An average post collects 195 likes and 7 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.
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