True Colors – TAKEOVER #3

​TAKEOVER #3, titled "True Colors", will show a time-based installation by Pedro Moraes and Marcel Schwittlick that will run over a period of three weeks.

​Pedro Moraes (1990* São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. He initially studied Industrial Design at HTW Berlin and later Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. The immigration from Brazil to Germany as a child shaped his perception of contrasts and paradoxes significantly. Thus, Moraes’ work is marked by an intense confrontation with the consumption of transformed materials and gestures, and its junction to nature and society, attempting to bridge inherent contradictions by relying on a purely aesthetic, non-anecdotal language and reveal our relation to our close (and abstract) environment. His work encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance and photography, driven by a wish to explore art as a language with a coherent and conscious standing.

​Marcel Schwittlick is a Berlin-based artist who uniquely blends digital and physical art through the use of drawing machines and algorithmic systems. His work spans generative art and plotter art, where he transforms digital cursor-lines into intricate, tangible artworks. Schwittlick draws inspiration from generative aesthetics and computational methods to create geometric patterns that play with the concepts of chance and intention. With a background in computer science and art, he crafts his pieces using vintage plotters and self-developed algorithms, embracing the machines' quirks to explore the symbiosis between artist and machine. His practice not only visualizes the intricate dance between control and randomness but also includes an auditory dimension through the distinctive sounds produced by the plotting machines during the creation process.

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​Coming from a long tradition of squatting (“besetzen”) or taking over spaces during the 80s and 90s, TAKEOVER is an artist-led initiative in the former Bright Moments Gallery in Berlin.