MAJ VAN DER LINDEN and Wohnen AM TACHELES present ARC, a solo show by Berlin-based designer Sanghyeok Lee. The exhibition brings together works from his ongoing series ARC in which Lee explores how objects can extend, frame, and subtly transform spatial experience. Conceived in close dialogue with the exhibition space itself, the scenography was developed with Lee's strong personal involvement, allowing the works and their environment to form a unified spatial composition.
Trained across design, art, and architecture, Lee deliberately steps away from rigid design methodologies in this series. Rather than beginning with a fixed concept, the works emerge through a process of observation, imagination, and play. Lines are drawn in the air; connections are envisioned between floor, wall, column, and ceiling. These invisible relationships gradually take physical form. Arches and curves appear not as decorative gestures, but as spatial links — holding tension, framing absence, and guiding movement through space. Negative space becomes an active presence, shaping perception and encouraging slow, attentive engagement.
Spatial experience lies at the core of Lee's practice. He considers both the overall atmosphere of a room and the individual elements that compose it, observing how they influence one another. Within these settings, he imagines small, sometimes poetic or slightly absurd narratives unfolding, allowing intuition and curiosity to shape the work. Handcrafted in Berlin by Lee himself, each piece reflects a journey from prototype to finished object, where form, function, and expression remain fluid and open to reinterpretation.
Beyond presenting a series of objects, ARC proposes a way of thinking spatially. The works are conceived as conceptual starting points, capable of extending into architectural contexts and interior environments. In this sense, the exhibition reflects Lee's openness to collaboration with architects, interior designers, and spatial practitioners, inviting the ideas explored here to continue beyond the gallery walls.
ARC reflects Lee's belief that design can remain rigorous while leaving room for imagination. The exhibited works are available for acquisition, while simultaneously serving as prompts for future spatial applications, collaborations, and evolving design narratives.
On display:
February 26 – April 26, 2026
Opening times:
Fridays 2 – 6 pm
or by appointment
MAJ VAN DER LINDEN
Townhouse AM TACHELES
Johannisstraße 14,
10117 Berlin
CARETAKERS explores repair and care as aesthetic, social, and emotional practices. The format combines an exhibition, workshops, and performative actions, inviting visitors to experience repair and care on multiple levels.
The exhibition presents objects, garments, and works by international artists and designers, all exploring transformation, materiality, and craftsmanship. Through clothing, everyday items, damaged objects, or seemingly useless materials, it becomes evident how careful handling, repair, and creative interventions can give objects new value and form. CARETAKERS demonstrates how attentive care and appreciation for materials create new possibilities and offer a meaningful counterpoint to throwaway culture, rapid consumption, and the arbitrariness of contemporary production.
During the exhibition, creatives from various disciplines will share performative insights into their processes. In workshops, visitors can actively participate under the guidance of artists and craftspeople, experimenting with “care” techniques and learning how objects can be restored, made functional, or imbued with renewed significance through attentive intervention.
CARETAKERS is a curated format, initiated by fashion designer Johanna Perret (formerly Perret Schaad) and co-curated with gallery director Maj van der Linden.
Exhibited Artists
AI MOLIYA / BUZIGAHILL / CELIA PYM / CENGIZ HARTMANN / EDITION GRÄFLING x FELIX KULTAU / JÉRÉMY BELLINA / NIGIN BECK / SASKIA DE BRAUW / SOMETHING FANTASTIC / STUDIO JUMI / STUDIO SCHMITD / URSULA WAGNER / VIER ECKEN BERLIN
Display: FLOW by Paleworks
Workshops & Performances (during the exhibition period)
AI MOLIYA / DAMAJA / HENRIETTE ARTZ / JOHANNA PERRET & EUGENIE SCHMIDT / PHILIPP BREE / STEFAN MARX / TOMO POOK
MAJ VAN DER LINDEN presents 6 Tables, the second exhibition in collaboration with AM TACHELES.
This season, the gallery space at Townhouse 068, Johannisstraße 14, transforms into a quiet landscape of six gathering points — tables by six designers, each hosting a curated constellation of handcrafted objects. Still lifes that invite closeness and reflection, where materials and shapes meet in gentle conversation, bearing traces of touch, weight, and time.
The exhibition features works from Studio Cúze, Jerome Byron, Esther Kiner, Tanja Neubert, Veronika Janovec, Boris Zbikowski, Mack Furniture, Zeynep Boyan, Camille Tan, and more.
On October 9, 2025, Schnitt and MAJ VAN DER LINDEN Gallery invite to an evening that combines publication and exhibition: the launch of Schnitt's third issue, dedicated to the theme of Senses, and the opening of the group exhibition Sensing Space.
“It takes a certain stubbornness to keep on making objects within the strict discipline of my senses,” writes Anne Truitt. In contemporary culture, space is primarily addressed through the visual. Both the magazine and the exhibition seek to expand this perspective by stimulating other modes of perception. Sensing Space brings together works that explore how architecture, design, and art can be experienced through different sensory dimensions – from the tactility of materials to the recollective power of smell, from atmospheric qualities to embodied forms of encounter. Perception is rooted in our own bodies, thresholds, and intimate taproot of selfishness, and in Sensing Space, these solitary perceptions begin to resonate collectively.
The exhibition unfolds as a curated collection of sensory experiences, inviting visitors to reconsider how space can be felt, smelled, and touched, as much as it can be seen. Spread across two floors, the show presents contributions featured in the magazine as well as additional positions, creating a dialogue between print and physical space. Participating artists, designers, and architects include Studio Jumi, Marlies von Soden, Gabi Schillig, 27 87, Tina Bobbe, Iammi, Julika Hartz, Bêka & Lemoine, and Yasmin Bawa.
MAJ VAN DER LINDEN presents
Veronika Janovec — Second Room
Veronika Janovec reinterprets her apartment as a testing ground in Second Room, a full installation that explores how objects occupy space. Her ceramic works – reduced in form yet rich in material presence – are arranged in relation to furniture and collected items.
Her ceramic practice is sensual, concentrated, minimal. Using abstraction and repetition, she documents subtle shifts in form, where each remaking is both process and the subject itself.
The exhibition highlights her interest in spatial relationships, using the gallery as a site to test how objects interact beyond utility. The choices, at once pragmatic, at times poetic, construct a character that resists domestic logic in favor of subtle aesthetics and spatial wit.
Second Room marks the inaugural exhibition in Maj Van den Linden's second location.