Claudia Kallscheuer – SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY

Opening

on Thursday, August 27, 2026, 7:00–11:00 p.m.

Exhibition

August 28 – October 31, 2026

From 28 August to 31 October 2026, the mianki.Gallery in Berlin is presenting new works by Claudia Kallscheuer in the exhibition ‘SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY’. The artist has consistently replaced the drawn and written line with the sewn and embroidered line. In doing so, she opens up and sensitises the viewer’s gaze to the deeper meaning of everyday life. She guides the motifs and themes of our lives towards artistic reflection in a subtle and multi-layered way.

Writing and drawing on the sewing machine, embroidering and sewing, and sometimes simply letting threads hang. Highlighting the value of small things – values we usually no longer notice. Claudia Kallscheuer elevates the seemingly trivial through a process-oriented, repetitive approach, interwoven with a calculated chaos of threads. Through their embroidered realisation, the works take on a powerful relevance. Messages written in thread, to which the yarn itself lends particular substantive weight.

Threads do not always have to be sewn in; she simply lets them hang, thereby extending the lines. In this way, it is precisely these lines that continually transform the works she creates. She plays with inside and outside, reverses the right and wrong sides, and creates disorder within order. Mistakes are incorporated, thread tension is varied, and overlaps and tangles are tolerated during the sewing process. Knots are tied where no knot fits. And the sorting that is necessary from time to time is all part of it …

The materials she has collected: threads, fabrics, papers, paper bags, envelopes, tea bags, figurines, little boxes. These are all imbued with meaning, and for most of them she knows who they once belonged to or from whom she received them. As a result, her intensive engagement with these materials encompasses not only creative aspects, but also social and biographical ones.

And then there is the weather. For years she has been writing daily – like a diary – the weather report on used silk organza tea bags, on fabrics, on paper. This daily rhythm of writing, the act of typing up weather reports on the sewing machine, increasingly shifts the focus away from the weather itself. And it becomes ever clearer that, when we talk to others about the weather, we are actually talking about something quite different. Our moods, our feelings and states of mind, or perhaps simply the act of striking up a conversation, even if only for a moment.

Claudia Kallscheuer opens the viewer’s eyes and sensitises them to the deeper meaning behind the everyday. She guides these motifs and themes of our lives towards artistic reflection in a subtle and multi-layered way.