Prayer for Beauty
BENYAMIN REICH
SOLO & FRIENDS
13.04.2024 - 05.05.2024
Vernissage: 13. April 2024,
4-7 pm
Unheroic Conduct: the gay male body is designed to solicitate desire, it deliberately flaunts the visual norms of straight masculinity. (Daniel Boyarin) MKM Gallery presents an intimate and effeminized portrait of a chassidic figure whose delicate homoerotic attire has long withdrawn from Jewish tradition. BENYAMIN REICH (*1976 in Bnei Brak) graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been shown in various solo- and group exhibitions in Europe, such as by Axel Schlesinger Zürich (2023), Photo Basel (2022), Podbielski Contemporary Mailand (2022), Alexander Ochs Private (2020), Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (2019), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin (2015), Jüdisches Museum Berlin (2012), and others. The artist lives an works in Berlin. Solo & Friends exhibitions are dedicated to one single position, accompanied by the entire current ensemble of MKM arists. Benyamin Reich's Prayer for Beauty is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Elisabeth Masé, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Katharina Karrrenberg, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Nouri Almashhour, Anita Kapraljevic, Chaza Charafeddine, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Patricia Lambertus, Furkan Akhan, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Mohamad Al Roumi, Maliheh Afnan, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Elza Javakhishvili, Eva Beierheimer & Miriam Laussegger, Antonia Baehr
Benyamin Reich (2022)
Kittel
archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
edition of 5 + AP