Bernhard Holaschke

This Is All I Could Do

On Equivalence and Simultaneity

Bernhard Holaschke’s (b. Heilbronn, 1986; lives and works in Berlin and Prien am Chiemsee) works are informed by his probing reflections on human existence, its place in the world, and cultural history. Holaschke questions the equivalence and simultaneity of emotions, things, and their values, using media including drawing, painting, object art, and video. He makes works for presentation in conventional exhibition settings, creates music videos, and stages visual shows that have gone live at techno festivals, the Berlin Philharmonic, and in churches, among other venues.

This Is All I Could Do combines the documentation of I Do Many Things, Holaschke’s first exhibition in his native Heilbronn, which puts the focus on his paintings in large formats, with an introduction to his oeuvre that surveys his works, exhibitions, and projects of the past decade. With notes by the artist and essays by Tobias Kämpf, Eric Keil, and Lena Malich.