DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM

Premiering with a solo show for Julian Charrière (b. Morges, Switzerland, 1987), Dittrich & Schlechtriem was founded in 2011 by Lars Dittrich and André Schlechtriem in Mitte, Berlin. This highly lauded German gallery emphasizes multidisciplinary conceptual contemporary art, offering a brave platform for ambitious projects to emerging artists. For their maiden Dallas Art Fair booth, expect impressive work from Charrière and Jonas Wendelin (b. Düsseldorf, Germany, 1985), who lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles.

“We are pleased to have Dittrich & Schlechtriem join the Dallas Art Fair for our 15th edition. The addition of this conceptual art gallery demonstrates the demand from our audience to consider provocative work that is stimulating, intellectual, and addresses climate change,” says Kelly Cornell, Dallas Art Fair Executive Director.

Audiences will remember Charrière, an engaging French-Swiss artist, and his melancholy video project Towards No Earthly Pole on view at the Dallas Museum of Art in the summer of 2021. It was the Berlin-based artist’s first solo US museum exhibition Conceived while aboard a Russian research ship for the inaugural Antarctic Biennale, the film explores the mysterious, indefatigable Arctic glaciers and unpacks the interconnected narratives of colonialism, environmentalism, and geography through a large-scale cinematic environment. Mining innovative technology and scientific research, Charrière investigates the bearing of humans on the environment within his multidisciplinary practice (performance, sculpture, and photography) through dogged nomadic fieldwork in forbidden locations, examining and working within volcanoes, icefields, and radioactive sites.

He joined forces with the artist Julius von Bismarck on the sitespecific performance piece Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others for the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale. Aside from his own practice he is part of the Berlin-based art collective Das Numen. He is the recipient of the GASAG Art Prize awarded to a promising young artist every two years for art at the interface of science and technology. In 2013 and 2015, Charrière was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel Award | Göhner Art Prize.

Jonas Wendelin is a cofounder and director of FRAGILE, a multidisciplinary nonprofit project for contemporary artistic practices located in Berlin, as well as a cofounder of NAVEL, a communitydriven nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. Performative works, sculptures, installations, studies in traditional ceramics, as well as facilitating cultural spaces and directing a social vision that queries cultural abetments, are all part of his practice. Multidisciplinary and sweeping, Wendelin’s practice often draws on technological innovation, social organization, and communication’s expansiveness. His organic pursuit is a futurist narrative of idealism. Wendelin is currently an artist-in-residence at the American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA in Pomona, California.

He graduated as Meisterschüler from the University of Arts Berlin under Hito Steyerl, and he was a student of Olafur Eliasson, who founded the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), in which he participated. –Terri Provencal