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ROOM BY ROOM | CABINET James Johnston’s painting

ROOM BY ROOM | CABINET

James Johnston’s painting began on a small scale. During a tour with PJ Harvey, he started making drawings and small paintings in hotel rooms. After returning home, this developed into a continuous studio practice.

In the cabinet, figures and animals come together in concentrated pictorial worlds between everyday life, nature and mythic intensity. Johnston often begins with chance and develops the image from there. He uses animals and nature to express human states, while humour offers a point of entry into the layered scenes.

For Johnston, music and painting are not separate fields, but different sides of the same immersion in another world. He particularly values the completeness of smaller paintings and their distinctive power. Within the intimate setting of the cabinet, this immediate presence becomes especially tangible.

The Space Between
July 3 to August 15, 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin @jamesfjohnston #janinebeangallery #berlin

ROOM BY ROOM | RAUM 2 Zwischen Verwandlung und Er

ROOM BY ROOM | RAUM 2

Zwischen Verwandlung und Erinnerung.

Marie Louise Elshouts hybride Figuren widersetzen sich eindeutigen Kategorien. Menschliches und Tierisches, Vertrautes und Fremdes bleiben gleichzeitig sichtbar. Ihre außergewöhnliche zeichnerische und malerische Präzision verleiht diesen Wesen eine beinahe körperliche Präsenz. Feinste Linien, subtile Farbübergänge und sorgfältig gesetzte Details lassen ihre Bildwelten zugleich fragil, lebendig und geheimnisvoll erscheinen.

Maxwell Dunlops Interieurs führen in
Räume, die real erscheinen, obwohl sie aus
Fragmenten der Kunstgeschichte,
Beobachtung und Imagination konstruiert
sind.
In diesen Räumen begegnen sich zwei Formen
des Dazwischen: die offene Identität einer
Figur und die unsichere Erinnerung an einen
Ort.

The Space Between
3. Juli bis 15. August 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin

ROOM BY ROOM | ROOM 2

Between transformation and memory.

Marie Louise Elshout’s hybrid figures resist clear categorisation. Human and animal, familiar and unfamiliar, remain visible at the same time. Her exceptional precision in drawing and painting gives these beings an almost physical presence. The finest lines, subtle transitions of colour and carefully placed details make her visual worlds appear fragile, vivid and mysterious all at once. @marielouiseelshoutart

Maxwell Dunlop’s interiors lead us into
spaces that feel real, although they are
constructed from fragments of art history,
observation and imagination.
Here, two forms of in betweenness meet: the
unresolved identity of a figure and the
uncertain memory of a place.

The Space Between
July 3 to August 15, 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin

#janinebeangallery #exhibition

ROOM BY ROOM | Raum 1 Großes Format trifft auf in

ROOM BY ROOM | Raum 1

Großes Format trifft auf intime
Zeichnung.

Armando Mariños großformatiges Interieur
öffnet einen Raum zwischen Architektur,
Erinnerung und Vorstellung.
Die kleinen Buntstiftzeichnungen von MASCH antworten darauf mit einer anderen Form der
Konzentration: leicht im Format, dicht in
ihrer Präsenz.
Gemeinsam zeigen beide Positionen, wie
unterschiedlich ein Bildraum entstehen kann:
aus Weite oder Verdichtung, aus malerischer
Bühne oder zeichnerischem Rhythmus.

The Space Between
3. Juli bis 15. August 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin

ROOM BY ROOM | ROOM 1

Armando Mariño’s large interior opens a
space between architecture, memory and
imagination. MASCH’s small coloured pencil
drawings respond with a different kind of
concentration: modest in scale, yet dense in
presence.
Together, the two positions reveal how
differently a pictorial space can emerge:
through expansiveness or condensation,
through a painted stage or the rhythm of
drawing.

The Space Between
July 3 to August 15, 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin #berlin #janinebeangallery

Every room remembers something. Even those that ne

Every room remembers something. Even those that never existed.

Maxwell Dunlop’s interiors exist somewhere between memory and imagination. Grand halls, silent rooms and fading light evoke places that feel strangely familiar, yet they cannot be found anywhere.

Constructed from fragments of art history, human history, memory and direct observation, these paintings are not depictions of existing spaces. Instead, they invite us into worlds where time becomes fluid and reality quietly dissolves.

The absence of people is never an absence of presence. Every doorway, every reflection and every beam of light suggests that something has happened, or perhaps is still about to happen. Rather than telling a story, Dunlop leaves space for the viewer to enter one.

As Maxwell Dunlop wrote:

“They are real and imagined; they exist in the past and the present.”

His paintings remind us that memory is never static. Like painting itself, it is layered, reconstructed and continually reimagined.

Maxwell Dunlop

Fragment, 2022
Oil on canvas
70 × 50 cm

Reflections, 2021
Oil on canvas
80 × 100 cm

The Space Between
through August 15, 2026

Featuring works by Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, James Johnston, MASCH and Armando Mariño.

janinebeangallery
Torstraße 154
10115 Berlin

#maxwelldunlop #maxdunlop #janinebeangallery #berlin #contemporaryart

For centuries, the interior has been one of the mo

For centuries, the interior has been one of the most enduring subjects in the history of painting.

From Johannes Vermeer and the Dutch Masters of the seventeenth century to Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and contemporary artists, interior scenes have always been about more than architecture or furnishings. They are spaces of memory, identity and human experience.

In Interieur I, Armando Mariño draws on this rich artistic tradition while transforming it into a distinctly contemporary visual language.

Mariño has developed a painterly language that is both deeply rooted in art history and unmistakably his own. His interiors are not depictions of specific places. They emerge from memory, imagination and cultural experience. Colour, light and perspective merge into compositions that feel both familiar and enigmatic.

History and philosophy lie at the heart of Armando Mariño’s artistic practice. From them, he develops a painterly language that brings past and present into dialogue. Interieur I does not offer definitive answers. Instead, the painting opens a visual space where memory, perception and imagination come into dialogue.

Born in Santiago de Cuba and now living and working in the US state of New York, Armando Mariño has developed a visual language that bridges different cultural traditions. His paintings unite the legacy of European art history with the experience of a transnational biography, resulting in a distinctive contemporary position.

Armando Mariño
Interieur I, 2019
Oil on canvas
180 × 170 cm

The Space Between
until August 15, 2026

Featuring works by Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, James Johnston, MASCH and Armando Mariño.

janinebeangallery
Torstraße 154
10115 Berlin

@armando_marino_artist #armandomarino #cubanart #latinamericanart

CURATOR’S VOICE From Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter

CURATOR’S VOICE

From Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Francisco Goya, Odilon Redon and the Surrealists, hybrid figures have long occupied a distinctive place in the history of art.

They are rarely creatures of fantasy alone. Instead, they become metaphors for transformation, ambiguity and the fragile boundary between instinct and reason, civilisation and nature.

Marie Louise Elshout continues this tradition in a language that is unmistakably her own.

Working with hundreds of finely drawn pencil lines, charcoal and transparent layers of oil paint, she creates figures that seem to emerge rather than simply appear. Her paintings draw on folklore, ritual and the subconscious, while remaining deeply rooted in contemporary questions about identity, ecology and what it means to be human.

As Elshout herself says:

“They are about transformation; you never know if you’re watching a human being dressed up with a mask or a primate wearing a dress. It’s the ambivalence that makes it interesting.”

painting: Marie Louise Elshout
Hybrid #11 (Slow Lorices)
Pencil, charcoal and oil on canvas
90 × 90 cm
2024

Currently on view in „The Space Between“
janinebeangallery, Berlin @marielouiseelshoutart #contemporaryfineart #janinebeangallery #berlin #rotterdam

Es gibt Künstler, die ein Leben lang nach neuen Bi

Es gibt Künstler, die ein Leben lang nach neuen Bildern suchen.

MASCH gehört zu ihnen.

Seit mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten lebt und arbeitet er als Künstler und Musiker. Sein Weg führte ihn durch Malerei, Film und Musik. Er hat Erfolge erlebt, Rückschläge erfahren und dabei nie aufgehört, nach neuen Ausdrucksformen zu suchen.

Was mich an ihm besonders beeindruckt, ist nicht nur sein Werk.

Es ist seine Haltung.

Die Bereitschaft, immer weiterzugehen. Sich selbst treu zu bleiben und dennoch offen für Neues zu sein. Nicht stehen zu bleiben, sondern die eigenen Möglichkeiten immer wieder neu auszuloten.

Seine aktuellen Zeichnungen zeigen genau das: einen Künstler, der auch nach einem halben Jahrhundert künstlerischer Arbeit noch experimentiert, entdeckt und sich weiterentwickelt, ohne seine eigene Handschrift zu verlieren.

Solche Lebensgeschichten erzählen nicht nur von Kunst.

Sie erzählen von Beharrlichkeit, Neugier und der Überzeugung, dass künstlerische Arbeit niemals abgeschlossen ist.

Wir finden, genau diese Geschichten verdienen es, erzählt zu werden.

The Space Between
Bis 15. August 2026

Mit Arbeiten von MASCH, Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, James Johnston und Armando Mariño.

janinebeangallery
Torstraße 154
10115 Berlin

The Space Between
Through August 15, 2026
janinebeangallery, Berlin

#janinebeangallery #berlin #contemporaryart @masch.kunstleben

Last night we celebrated the opening of The Space

Last night we celebrated the opening of The Space Between together with our guests.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and shared this special evening. Five distinct artistic voices have come together to create a dialogue between painting, drawing, memory and imagination.

We would like to thank the participating artists Maxwell Dunlop, Marie Louise Elshout, James Johnston, Armando Mariño and MASCH for their remarkable works and for placing their trust in us.

The Space Between
July 3 – August 15, 2026
open Tue-Sat 12-18
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Torstraße 154
Berlin #janinebeangallery #art

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