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Current Exhibitions:

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PRAVDOLIUB IVANOV
Vehicles Dream and Other Dreams
November 2025 – January 2026

KIF – Kunst im Fenster, Schaperstr. 11, 10719 Berlin
(Window exhibition, daily illuminated until 11 p.m.)

Presentation of the new edition:
PRAVDOLIUB IVANOV
Vehicles Dream
November 2025 – January 2026

The exhibition at EDITION BLOCK and KIF – KUNST IM FENSTER brings together works by Pravdoliub Ivanov (born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1964) from the past three decades. His installation Vehicles Dream, created in New York in 1998, takes the centre stage. The city that ‘never sleeps’ was the setting for Ivanov's photographs of people sleeping in subway cars, exhausted by the rhythm of the city that they themselves help to maintain. By mounting the images on small wheels scattered throughout the space, he allowed visitors to rearrange them. Moving around in this way, the portraits appear as a symbol of collective exhaustion. The social metaphor of these alienated and isolated figures, created more than 25 years ago, has gained unexpected political relevance today, visible in their silent paralysis and metaphysical helplessness. In addition to the work Vehicles Dream, the artist's objects and drawings explore the interplay between everyday life, perception and imagination. With subtle, often humorous interventions, seemingly familiar things are called into question. As part of a renewed focus on Vehicles Dream a new edition based on the original photographs has been published this year by Edition Block. The images of the sleeping figures are arranged in varying configurations in different sets of five wheels each. The edition of 20 is being shown for the first time at KIF – Kunst im Fenster.