GAD
Contact
Inna Artemova
Freienwalder Straße 30
13359 Berlin
info@inna-artemova.de
About us
The project space sees itself as an exhibition platform for both established and young artists. We offer an opportunity to present works to the general public in order to initiate discussion and creative exchange between artists, art connoisseurs and art lovers.
GAD is dedicated to the broad and international spectrum in visual arts, video and performance and is open to collaboration with guest curators and galleries.
GAD was founded in 2003 by Moscow artist and curator Marina Gertsovskaya (died 2009). She remains eternally in our memory.
Event for the Koloniewedding
27.02. - 08.03.2026 Fading Myths by Henri Cash-Finlay
Opening Friday 27 Feb, 7 – 11pm
Viewing by appointment from 28 Feb – 8 March
Contact: henri_cash-finlay@hotmail.com
In a new body of work that explores photographic erasure as a painterly strategy, Australian artist Henri Cash-Finlay presents works developed during his Artist Residency at MOMENTUM. Drawing from his photographic practice, Cash-Finlay subjects painted surfaces to an intensive process of photo-degradation, using bespoke machinery he has meticulously designed to denature pigment through controlled exposure to ultraviolet light. The resulting works undergo a transformation akin to material sunburn: images bleach, fracture, and fade, leaving behind surfaces marked by time, exposure, and vulnerability.
This process-driven methodology positions light not as a tool of illumination but as an agent of erosion. Rather than preserving the image, Cash-Finlay allows it to deteriorate, foregrounding degradation as an aesthetic and conceptual force. The works resist fixity, embracing entropy, erosion, and instability as generative conditions within the act of making. In doing so, the artist challenges dominant cultural values that privilege permanence, control, and archival longevity, proposing instead an understanding of art as contingent, temporal, and materially alive.
Cash-Finlay’s practice is informed by his experience as an Australian artist, where the intensity of sunlight, landscape, and climate are inseparable from broader histories of colonial occupation and cultural inscription. Through acts of erasure and material stress, the works invite reflection on how images, identities, and histories are imposed, altered, and undone over time. The exhibition opens a space to consider degradation not as loss, but as a productive site of meaning—where exposure becomes a form of knowledge, and disappearance a mode of resistance.
More info on the MOMENTUM Artist Residency here
27.02. - 08.03.2026 Fading Myths by Henri Cash-Finlay
Opening Friday 27 Feb, 7 – 11pm
Viewing by appointment from 28 Feb – 8 March
Contact: henri_cash-finlay@hotmail.com
In a new body of work that explores photographic erasure as a painterly strategy, Australian artist Henri Cash-Finlay presents works developed during his Artist Residency at MOMENTUM. Drawing from his photographic practice, Cash-Finlay subjects painted surfaces to an intensive process of photo-degradation, using bespoke machinery he has meticulously designed to denature pigment through controlled exposure to ultraviolet light. The resulting works undergo a transformation akin to material sunburn: images bleach, fracture, and fade, leaving behind surfaces marked by time, exposure, and vulnerability.
This process-driven methodology positions light not as a tool of illumination but as an agent of erosion. Rather than preserving the image, Cash-Finlay allows it to deteriorate, foregrounding degradation as an aesthetic and conceptual force. The works resist fixity, embracing entropy, erosion, and instability as generative conditions within the act of making. In doing so, the artist challenges dominant cultural values that privilege permanence, control, and archival longevity, proposing instead an understanding of art as contingent, temporal, and materially alive.
Cash-Finlay’s practice is informed by his experience as an Australian artist, where the intensity of sunlight, landscape, and climate are inseparable from broader histories of colonial occupation and cultural inscription. Through acts of erasure and material stress, the works invite reflection on how images, identities, and histories are imposed, altered, and undone over time. The exhibition opens a space to consider degradation not as loss, but as a productive site of meaning—where exposure becomes a form of knowledge, and disappearance a mode of resistance.
More info on the MOMENTUM Artist Residency here
