In the Asphalt City
Duo show with William Lowry
Culterim Spaces, Berlin Backshop, Berlin
02/09/26 - 06/09/26
In the Asphalt City brings together new works by William Lowry (b. 2001) and Yuri Hwang (b. 2001), whose practices approach the contemporary city as an inhabited environment and a structure for organising images and attention. The exhibition takes its title from Bertolt Brecht’s 1921 Poem Of Poor B.B. (Vom armen B.B.), in which the speaker describes himself as carried from the “black forests” into the asphalt city: a landscape of concrete and crowds that feels alienating yet strangely habitable.
Installation View, In the Asphalt City
Between the Sheets, 2026
Drypoint on canvas
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Doesn’t it smell like animal, 2026
Drypoint on canvas
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Fingertips, 2026
Drypoint on canvas
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Intermission, 2026
Drypoint on canvas
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Tripwire, 2026
Drypoint on canvas
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Tenant I, 2026
Drypoint on card
36.5 x 26.5 cm
Tenant II, 2026
Drypoint on card
36.5 x 26.5 cm