Exhibitions like these often unintentionally bestow special stories on us. Born in 1909 in São Paulo as a descendant of the jewish familiy Marx in Trier Roberto Burle Marx came to Berlin with his parents in 1928/29. He performed in bars and at parties as a pianist and singer. In the botanic greenhouses in Berlin-Dahlem he discovered the ample domestic Brazilian flora. Remigrated to Brazil Marx studied painting and became a painter and landscape architect and worked together among oth…

ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING is delighted to open the second solo exhibition of renowned Brazilian artist Luzia Simons in its gallery space. Numerous exhibitions made Luzia Simons known for her visually powerful orchestration of tulip images. Recently, she realized a site specific installation at the Pinacoteca do Estao de Sao Paulo, Brazil while her work could also be admired in the exhibition Flowers & Mushrooms at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Modern…

Luzia Simons was born in 1953 in Quixadá, Brazil and lives in Berlin. She first studied history until 1978 and then Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris from 1984 to 1986.In Luzia Simons work, the floral still life takes on a multi-layered cultural and socio-political statement. For one, the artist studies the history of the tulip, which became an important symbol of identification in both the Orient and the Occident. Taken from this historical context, the tulip becomes…