PS Projectspace will present a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Rebekka von Zimmermann, opening on March 2, 2025. This exhibition marks a new chapter in von Zimmermann’s ongoing exploration of emotive states within the digital emergence, bringing together new works that expand upon her distinctive pictorial language and conceptual framework.
Von Zimmermann’s practice is rooted in the construction of a sign system for a fictional 'other' culture: The Society of Soon Foundation. Within this self-referential system, she develops clusters of works—so-called subject-citizens—that evolve from specific themes, ideas, and gathered data. By collecting quotes, snippets, and personal experiences on index cards, she generates a visual vocabulary of sign-like shapes and colors, which she continuously reconfigures and reinterprets through painting.
Her work engages with ideas of scaffolding, data capture, and server architectures, seeing each mark on the canvas as a datapoint within an evolving code. Painting, for von Zimmermann, is a performative process—an accumulation of movements and traces, forming a dynamic interplay between materiality and memory. With an acute sensitivity to brushwork and compositional precision, she creates works that navigate the relationship between color, form, and structure, offering the viewer moments of reflection and immersive experience.
Von Zimmermann frequently presents her paintings within carefully arranged installations, drawing parallels to the Gesamtkunstwerk of opera and theater. She constructs hybrid environments where autonomous paintings and theatrical scenography converge, engaging the spectator in a heightened state of self-awareness.
Born in 1988 in Tübingen, Germany, von Zimmermann lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Cooper Union in New York, and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Mondriaan Fonds Werkbijdrage Jong Talent (2016), and was shortlisted for the Kunstpreis Junger Westen (2019) and the Karl Schmidt Rottluff Stipend (2016). Recent exhibitions include KABINET – Works on Paper, m.simons gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Meta Index Neue Digitale Vermittlungsformate, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin (2022); Kunstpreis Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2020); I want to live in this land, Centrum, Berlin (2019); and Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam (2018).
