Industrial art depicts the transformation of nature through heavy industry. Although the factories and plants were visible to everyone, only selected artists were permitted into the factory halls – those caverns of the industrial age with their enormous furnaces, foundries and conveyor belts.
Image gallery
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The figures depicted in industrial art are almost exclusively workers; men in suits are rarely shown. For it is not the elite, nor society, that drive the action, but solely technology interacting with natural elements: fire, wind and steam.
Viewers today also live in a largely uncontrolled, albeit digital, phase of industrialisation. Whilst our era produces a deluge of images, the age of heavy industry, however, gave rise to a brief yet powerful tradition of painting – a fireworks display of colours, light and shadow.
Artists:
Ria Picco-Rückert, Gerd Arntz, Bert Mallad, Vera Singer, Augustin Tschinkel, Lea Grundig, Sigurd Wendland
OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, 27 November 2026
- Venue: Galerie Hentrich & Shrivastava, Fasanenstrasse 29, 10719 Berlin
- Exhibition from 27 November 2026 to 9 January 2027
- Opening hours: Tue–Fri: 2 pm–6 pm, Sat: 11 am–4 pm
