MOUNTAINS

 
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.

Mountains is featured in German daily Handelsblatt, in the art market section.

Thank you Christiane Meixner!

Bei 1300 Euro beginnt das Angebot der Galerie Mountains aus Berlin, der auf kleinem Raum ein Querschnitt durch ihr Programm gelingt - von den surrealen Fantasien der 1942 geborenen Monika Maurer-Morgenstern (2800 Euro) bis zur Arbeit von David Medalla (31.000 Euro), dessen Nachlass die Galerie betreut.

[The Berlin-based gallery Mountains successfully manages to present a concise yet representative cross-section of its program within a small space — with prices starting at €1,300, ranging from the surreal fantasies of Monika Maurer-Morgenstern (born 1942), priced at €2,800, to a work by David Medalla (€31,000), whose estate is represented by the gallery.]

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Visit us at ART COLOGNE PALMA MALLORCA 2026
April 9–12

Palau de Congressos
Mountains - Level 1, Stand P 211

Installation views by Joanna Wilk