Esther Schipper

Bild 1–5: Exhibition view: David Claerbout, Repose, Esther Schipper, 2026. Photo © Andrea Rossetti. David Claerbout © VG BildKunst, Bonn, 2026
Bild 6: © David Claerbout / VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul.

Esther Schipper Berlin is pleased to present a solo exhibition by David Claerbout, the artist’s second with the gallery. Under the title Repose, the exhibition presents four works shown for the first time in Berlin: The woodcarver and the forest, 2025, Birdcage, 2023, Backwards Growing Tree, 2023, and Eagle Eye, 2026. Alongside the videos, a number of works on paper will be exhibited. All films on view explore our relationship to nature and the way we have learned to see the world around us. In The woodcarver and the forest we watch a woodcarver whittling down wooden blocks to create one…