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Drei

Emerging out of a former non-for-profit project space, Drei has been established as a gallery in 2015 by Dennis Hochköppeler and Jakob Pürling in Cologne, Germany. The gallery features an international and trans-generational program with a focus on cross-disciplinary practices in their storefront space in the city’s vibrant “Belgian Quarter“ as well as abroad in international exhibition projects and art fairs.

Represented artists

Rosa Aiello
Cédric Eisenring
Matthias Groebel
Tiril Hasselknippe
Mira Mann
Matthias Noggler
Markus Saile
Julia Scher
Anna Virnich
Honza Zamojski

Jülicher Strasse 14
50674 Cologne
Germany

Opening hours:
Wednesdays – Fridays, 2 – 6 pm
Saturdays, 11 am – 4 pm

Rosa Aiello

Rosa Aiello is an Italian–Canadian artist, filmmaker, and writer, born in 1987 in Hamilton / Ontario, Canada, and based in Berlin. She works in a range of styles from animation to documentary collage to cinematic narrative, as well as architectural installation and photographic series. She takes an experimental approach and uses what is at hand, in her domestic space, in her relationships, on her habitually used streets. She is interested in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure.

On view in Paris is a set of five unique works on paper, two clip-like single-channel videos, and a small kinetic sculpture, partly developed in collaboration with the actor Dylan Aiello, the artist’s brother, based on an exchange of their respective professions and experiences, but also on a shared interest in the concept of the family as a contested foundation for thinking together. In Rosa Aiello and Dylan Aiello’s joint work, fundamental ambiguities in socially controlled structures are explored – intimacy and alienation, community and exclusion, threat and protection, proximity and distance. The context of the family, with its relationships and dynamics, is accentuated and staged by the repertoire of gestures through which it circulates, and that demonstrate its transgressions (an oscillating body can be: bowing, catching its breath, attacking, giving head).

HEAD (2024) and Our Relations Too (2024) are part of heir current exhibition LOVE TEST: P.O.V. at Mint, Stockholm (through October 27) which includes material drawn from everyday life combined with fiction, montage and abstraction. The videos in the exhibition depend far more on situations than on plot. Rosa Aiello and Dylan Aiello experiment with the function and control of the gaze through the embodiment of different points of view. This is manifested through the films’ collapses between subjectivity and camera position as well as through physical placements and pending perspectives in the exhibition space. The use of components from film and theatre: camera, light, acting, sound, set, as well as the separation and reassembling of these, are presented through the works such that the method by which they came into being, the form, appears as content in itself.

Rosa Aiello’s works have been shown at numerous international art venues, including Fridericianum, Kassel; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Zurich; Pirelli Hangar, Bicocca; ICA, London; Anorak e.V, Berlin; Kevin Space, Vienna; Cittipunkt, Berlin; and Sculpture Center, New York, a.o. They are included in the collections of Frac Lorraine, Metz; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, a.o. Her solo exhibition LOVE TEST: P.O.V. (with Dylan Aiello) is currently on view at Mint, Stockholm (through October 27, 2024). Aiello’s works have been shown at numerous international art venues, including Fridericianum, Kassel; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Zurich; Pirelli Hangar, Bicocca; ICA, London; Anorak e.V, Berlin; Kevin Space, Vienna; Cittipunkt, Berlin; and Sculpture Center, New York, a.o. They are included in the collections of Frac Lorraine, Metz; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, a.o.

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Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello, Our Relations Too, 2024
Installation view: Mint, Stockholm, 2024
Photo: Johan Österholm; Courtesy the artist and Mint, Stockholm

Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello, Our Relations Too, 2024
Drinking bird toys, led lights, glass of water
Various dimensions
Edition of 3 plus I AP
RDA/S 2695

Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello, HEAD, 2024 (video still)
Single channel HD video
00:01:01
Edition of 3 plus I AP
RDA/V 2698)

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Rosa Aiello, A Pressing Subject, 2023
Single channel HD video, sound
00:00:59
Edition of 3 plus I AP
RA/V 2703

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Rosa Aiello, Latehomecomer (Rat Lunch), 2024
World War II ration card, aluminum frame, museum glass, pencil
35 × 20 cm / 13 ¾ × 7 ⅞ in
RA/WOP 2721

Detail

Rosa Aiello, Latehomecomer (Pork Fat), 2024
World War II ration card, passepartout, aluminum frame, museum glass, pencil
35 × 20 cm / 13 ¾ × 7 ⅞ in
RA/WOP 2719

Rosa Aiello, Latehomecomer (300 000 Food Workers Strike), 2024
World War II ration card, passepartout, aluminum frame, museum glass, pencil
35 × 20 cm / 13 ¾ × 7 ⅞ in
RA/WOP 2718

Rosa Aiello, Latehomecomer (My Father’s Conception), 2024
World War II ration card, passepartout, aluminum frame, museum glass, pencil
35 × 20 cm / 13 ¾ × 7 ⅞ in
RA/WOP 2717

Rosa Aiello, Latehomecomer (the service performed), 2024
World War II ration card, passepartout, aluminum frame, museum glass, pencil
35 × 20 cm / 13 ¾ × 7 ⅞ in
RA/WOP 2720,

Rosa Aiello, Povera Noi, 2024
HD video, stereo sound
00:05:57
Edition of 3 plus I AP
RA/V 2694

Installation view: Mint, Stockholm, 2024
Photo: Johan Österholm; Courtesy the artist and Mint, Stockholm

Rosa Aiello, SKULL, 2024
Black and white paint
Dimensions variable
RA/SA 2700

Installation view: Mint, Stockholm, 2024
Photo: Johan Österholm; Courtesy the artist and Mint, Stockholm

Markus Saile

Markus Saile’s works convene the space of painting, in a subtle interplay between the space where it is situated, the space it represents and the space it constructs in dialogue with architecture. The in between space, in between the paintings, creates a space where we stand and move, as viewers. Pictorial problems thus can be understood as architectural problems, in the sense of a socio-political structure. Beyond the in-situ and context, it is an investigation into painting in volume, the depth of the surface, and the extension of this practice into a performative field of action.

The current paintings are created in a process of overlapping layers of paint and thin veils that reveal their material life. Paint deposits accumulate at the edges of the supports, revealing the temporal structure of the painting process like the annual rings of a tree and lending them an object-like quality. Gestural interventions dramatize the pictorial space in the sense of a stage situation. The conceptual work with the painterly gesture thus can be understood as a kind of performative re-enactment of its historical, temporal and spatial potentials. In the painting process, the artist creates volume in one brush movement, like they do on Blender to create forms. His method can therefore be related to the extrusion process in 3D programs. Instead of putting a series of points together in a line, which is the drawing perspective work, one brush flow creates a plane in one gesture.

Markus Saile is a German painter born in 1981 in Stuttgart, Germany. He lives and works in Cologne. Recent exhibitions and contributions took place at Drei, Cologne; Bel Ami, Los Angeles; A+B Gallery, Brescia, Italy (all 2024); Mai 36, Zurich; Pinacoteca Emilio Notte, Ceglie Messapica, Italy (both 2022); Collezione Ghigi, Museo Licini, Ascoli Piceno, Italy (2021); NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Galerie Crone, Vienna (all 2020); Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Wiesbaden; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - Museum Gunzenhauser; Temporary Gallery, Cologne (all 2019), a.o.

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Markus Saile, Pipe #42, 2024
Oil on wood
200 × 13 cm / 78 ¾ × 5 ⅛ in