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Feb 05, 2026 · 18:00
City Lovers Ausstellung - Frederik Anhalt
When: Thursday, Feb 05, 2026 · 18:00 — Friday, Feb 06, 2026 · 20:00
Artist: Frederik Anhalt
Exhibition: “City Lovers”
Location: Mittenwalder Str. 6, 10961 Berlin
Layered. A word that not only describes Frederik Anhalt’s way of painting, but also the emotional depth of his work. Raised in Berlin, Anhalt tells personal stories through his art—stories that leave room for individual feelings and interpretation. Instinctive and impulsive, he works daily on his maximalist, expressive, Basquiat-inspired visual language, now presented for the first time in a solo exhibition.
“City Lovers,” Anhalt explains, is inspired by the best storytellers: musicians. Kid Cudi, Paula Hartmann, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd are artists who know how to turn emotion, chaos, and narrative into albums. Their approach has profoundly shaped Anhalt’s practice and ultimately led him to structure this body of work like an album—complete with an intro, an outro, and a special element: interludes. These interludes are brief, associative moments that break the visual and emotional tempo, created in collaboration with artist Niklas Klinck, whose style resonates with Anhalt’s imagery.
At the heart of the exhibition is the unmistakable pulse of Berlin’s big-city life. Ecstasy, love, loneliness—the city as a melting pot generates intoxicating everyday moments, observations, experiences, and encounters that echo throughout the series. Each of the 13 large-scale paintings functions like an emotionally charged track, with the art intended to feel like a song. Together, the carefully composed body of work unfolds as a closed narrative, offering raw, rhythmic, unmistakably Berlin visualizations of love.
The cycle begins with an ordinary day, moves through euphoric club nights, sexual experiences, and the longing for closeness, and leads into a confrontation with true love and loss. It ends where it began.
This narrative loop mirrors the lived reality of many young people in Berlin: losing yourself, finding yourself, falling in love, breaking apart—again and again. In the Berlin context, the story feels especially tangible, as love and sex often oscillate between radical freedom, fleeting intimacy, and constant self-confrontation. Anhalt’s circle experiences the way relationships are lived in Berlin as hedonistic, yet also exhausting and cyclical. The young artist took this to heart and translated it into paint—capturing it on canvas and animating it with a self-created visual vocabulary: vivid colors, graffiti, recurring symbols, and song quotes. Through the deliberate use of layering, the works gain striking depth—each layer holding the image together.
In the end, there is no fixed message—only a feeling. Felt by people, and by the artist, in the present moment. Preserved and sealed in the form of art. An exhibition that doesn’t explain, but makes you feel what it means to live and love in a city like Berlin—right now.
Exhibition: “City Lovers”
Location: Mittenwalder Str. 6, 10961 Berlin
Layered. A word that not only describes Frederik Anhalt’s way of painting, but also the emotional depth of his work. Raised in Berlin, Anhalt tells personal stories through his art—stories that leave room for individual feelings and interpretation. Instinctive and impulsive, he works daily on his maximalist, expressive, Basquiat-inspired visual language, now presented for the first time in a solo exhibition.
“City Lovers,” Anhalt explains, is inspired by the best storytellers: musicians. Kid Cudi, Paula Hartmann, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd are artists who know how to turn emotion, chaos, and narrative into albums. Their approach has profoundly shaped Anhalt’s practice and ultimately led him to structure this body of work like an album—complete with an intro, an outro, and a special element: interludes. These interludes are brief, associative moments that break the visual and emotional tempo, created in collaboration with artist Niklas Klinck, whose style resonates with Anhalt’s imagery.
At the heart of the exhibition is the unmistakable pulse of Berlin’s big-city life. Ecstasy, love, loneliness—the city as a melting pot generates intoxicating everyday moments, observations, experiences, and encounters that echo throughout the series. Each of the 13 large-scale paintings functions like an emotionally charged track, with the art intended to feel like a song. Together, the carefully composed body of work unfolds as a closed narrative, offering raw, rhythmic, unmistakably Berlin visualizations of love.
The cycle begins with an ordinary day, moves through euphoric club nights, sexual experiences, and the longing for closeness, and leads into a confrontation with true love and loss. It ends where it began.
This narrative loop mirrors the lived reality of many young people in Berlin: losing yourself, finding yourself, falling in love, breaking apart—again and again. In the Berlin context, the story feels especially tangible, as love and sex often oscillate between radical freedom, fleeting intimacy, and constant self-confrontation. Anhalt’s circle experiences the way relationships are lived in Berlin as hedonistic, yet also exhausting and cyclical. The young artist took this to heart and translated it into paint—capturing it on canvas and animating it with a self-created visual vocabulary: vivid colors, graffiti, recurring symbols, and song quotes. Through the deliberate use of layering, the works gain striking depth—each layer holding the image together.
In the end, there is no fixed message—only a feeling. Felt by people, and by the artist, in the present moment. Preserved and sealed in the form of art. An exhibition that doesn’t explain, but makes you feel what it means to live and love in a city like Berlin—right now.
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