Group Exhibition
14 February – 18 April 2026

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Potsdamer Strasse 65
D-10785 Berlin

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is pleased to present (Working Title) Balance, a group exhibition with Jenny Brockmann, Nuria Fuster, Jenny Magnusson, Martin Mlecko, and Henrik Strömberg. The pull and the push. The rush into the festive season, followed by the lull at the beginning of the year. Is it spring yet, can we come out of hibernation? (Working Title) Balance emerged from a longing, a desire, a subdued call to action. The exhibition brings together works in different media and materials: hanging, leaning, teetering, pressed. How do we begin? With a working title.

JENNY BROCKMANN is an artist and sculptor living in Berlin and New York. Her works combine technology, science, and art, functioning as both objects and models of artistic research, examining spatial and social processes. Through an exploration of the senses, perception, behaviour, and social structures, Brockmannn translates scientific and natural processes into artistic form. The starting point for M_shy room_01 (2010) placed on the floor, were some of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical texts. Arendt emphasises that we acquire information from our surroundings through our senses, however the appearance of phenomena depends on individual perception. The only image of the world accessible to an observer is their own one. The minute sculpture emits a powerful bright light, enticing one to come closer and have a look inside. But try as you might, the inside remains hidden.

Brockmann studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she was a student of Rebecca Horn, and received a diploma in architecture from the Technical University of Berlin. Her work has been exhibited in Germany and internationally, including at Documenta Fifteen, Goethe Institut, London, The Hearth Gallery, Cardiff, and 601 Artspace New York. She recently published ‘BYPASS’ (Distanz Verlag, 2024).

NURIA FUSTER (Alcoi, 1978) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and trained in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Her work explores air, emptiness and corporeality as sculptural materials, establishing connections between physical processes, perception and the social dimension. Photography is a fundamental component of her practice, conceived as an extension of her sculptural language. Fuster sustains an investigation in her praxis of air as a corporeal sculptural material – generating pressure and sustaining unstable equilibriums. Inflated bicycle tires and soap bubbles reveal air as a structural element in Gaseous Planets 5 (2016). Its internal presence allows the form to exist, straining the relationship between fragility and resistance. An inflated tractor tire is pressed against the wall, held in place by two bars, the rubber straining against the metal. In Presionador II (2013), physicality and capacity for opposition are made visible, what normally goes unnoticed becomes dense and sculptural. Hanging from the ceiling is the sculptural work Fliehen ins Unterholz (2026) containing a tube from an old pipe from the former STASI building opposite Fuster’s studio. The tube a channel through which air and gas circulated, a residual structure – heavy with memory. In dialogue with it, a ceramic element takes the form of a hollow, almost floral-esque receptacle – air inside. The voice becomes a container says Fuster, the air a latent presence, the sculpture a system of circulation.

Fuster’s institutional exhibitions include projects at Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid), CA2M, IVAM (Valencia), Sprengel Museum (Hannover), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Bass Museum (Miami), and CICA Museum (South Korea). Her upcoming exhibitions include the Groninger Museum (Netherlands) and the Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid).

JENNY MAGNUSSON lives and works in Gothenburg (SE). Her sculptures explore internalisation of space, place, artefact and materiality. In her practice form follows material, not the other way around. The found materials she works with are neither altered or revised; instead the are allowed to become part of a constellation, creating a surprising or humorous interplay between otherwise ordinary everyday elements that might otherwise have gotten overlooked.

Magnusson received her artistic training at HDK-Valand –Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including at Galerie Jochen Hempel and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (San Antonio, Texas), MIEC Santo Tirso (Portugal), Galleri Rostrum (Malmö), Galleri Fagerstedt, the Academy of Fine Arts (Stockholm), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), WELD (Stockholm), and Ystad Konstmuseum. In 2020 she produced a public artwork, “Luta-Lägga- Stapla” (Lean-Lay-Stack), commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden for Voksenåsen, Oslo. In 2021 she participated in the group exhibition “Towards Another World” at the Gothenburg Museum of Art. She is included in collections like the Gothenburg Museum of Art, The Swedish State Council, Sten A. Olsson’s grant Research and Culture.

MARTIN MLECKO was born in 1951 in Essen and passed away in 2016 in Berlin, Germany. He was an investigative photographer, concept artist, and filmmaker, continually seeking the inherent beauty in objects and his subjects. Among his art forms are large-format arrangements and small-scale documentation, both representational and abstract. His photographs were shown not so much as observations of reality, but rather as expressions of moods. Mlecko looked for joy in the small things, he searched for beauty and found it all around him in everyday objects. In ‘Les Choses de la Vie’, a series of photographs begun in 1993, Mlecko documents a quiet dialogue between him and the objects that surround him at home and in his studio.

Martin Mlecko taught staged photography at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. His work has been shown among others at Sammlung Hoffmann, Galerie Jule Kewenig, DE; Kunsthalle Wien, AT, Bourouina Gallery. Together with Wolfgang Schöddert, he championed the work of other artists in their project space Loge, a former porter’s lodge in Kreuzberg-Berlin.

HENRIK STRÖMBERG (SE, 1970) lives and works in Berlin.
Strömberg works across media investigating his topics of interest by de-constructing and re- constructing the image and narratives in all of its declinations – from analog, to digital, from sculptural to pictorial. Metamorphic changes, transformation, otherness and societal paradigms inform his work allowing photography, sculpture and painting to overlap.
“I work with the idea of metamorphosis, decay and the transformation of materials; sculptural objects and their photographic documentation, as well as the deconstruction and transformation of the photographic image itself” says Strömberg. Sirens outlook (2024), a handblown glass volume perched on top of a repurposed metal tripod, two materials coming together, in dialogue, in balance.

Strömberg holds an M.A. in Fine Art Photography and History of Photography from FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts Prague, Czech Republic and a BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, London, UK. His work has been exhibited mostly institutionally in Sweden, U.K., Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Japan, USA, South Korea and Martinique.