Michael Venezia, Untitled CVA, 1967 | Acryl auf Leinwand, 247,5 x 111,5 x 3 cm | © The artist/galerie Max goelitz/Kienzle Art Foundation | Photo: P. Baracchi
The Kienzle Art Foundation presents in collaboration with max goelitz, the exhibition Michael Venezia. Blankness as a knowing subject.
The exhibition takes place during Berlin Art Week and honors the artistic life’s work of the artist, who passed away this year at the age of 89. It is the first presentation of Michael Venezia’s work since his death—and a remembrance and appreciation of an extraordinary person whose work shines far beyond his lifetime.
Michael Venezia (born in Brooklyn in 1935) was an important representative of abstract painting in the United States. His immediate artistic environment was shaped by artists such as Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, and Sol LeWitt, with whom he had lifelong friendships. In New York, conventional artistic practice changed radically in the 1960s and 1970s, and together with his fellow artists, Venezia was searching for new painterly possibilities. While many of his peers continued to develop primarily sculptural work, Venezia remained committed to painting and developed his own reduced visual language, his own technique, and his own new combination systems. He worked on reducing gesture in painting, moving away from brushstrokes and contour lines.
Michael Venezia. Blankness as a knowing subject
12 September 2025 – 14 February 2026
Opening
11 September 2025
Kienzle Art Foundation
Bleibtreustraße 54
10623 Berlin
