Panic Room Gallery
Panic Room was born from the idea of starting a gallery in tiny room in a Berlin subway station. The more people told me how ridiculous this was the more interesting it seemed. Here (to start with) is the online version of this idea.
In a world where everyone is screaming for attention, and mostly producing memes, swimming against the tide feels like a relief. Because, oddly enough, social fragmentation has produced the spectre of depressing uniformity. Stuck in an algorithmic straitjacket, current commercial art seems like an endless repetition.
Panic Room aims to provide a space to shake off the paralysis and confront it – also, by featuring newer and younger artists seeking a platform free of the angst and marketing formulas of more established galleries.
Artists
Beppo
BEPPO is the the artist name for Ben Posener also known as a voiceover artist, formerly known as a journalist, a cook, a diver, singer-songwriter, sociologist, translator. All these experiences led me here: the Panic Room Gallery I founded in 2025. I came late to art or it came late to me, yet it’s become my passion, a way of better seeing the world. Maybe I’ve landed here because I’ve realized: we only know the world through narratives, and painting is a brilliant way to engage with them on various levels. The results can be joyful or dark, but the process is always therapeutic.
Beppo’s Paintings
Mathilda Augart
MATHILDA AUGART (b. 1993 in Dresden) lives in Berlin, completed her Masters degree in sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee as student of Albrecht Schäfer.
Aware of the commercial focus of an academic training in this speciality, painting has become her medium for spontaneous expression and experimentation, incorporating surreal, dream-like elements, creating unique atmospheres that tell a story. Important themes are the transience of life and the veracity of narrative.
Besides painting and sculpture Mathilda Augart has also created installations. In her Masters project she used videos from different eras to project the experiences of her family across generations within the setting of an old doll’s house modelled on her home. The juxtaposition of the static setting and changing biographies creates a time-warp effect linking past present.
Exhibitions (selection):
2025 Young Fresh Different, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin
2025 Shades of Red, Henry-Ford-Bau, Berlin
2025 SKM Gallery, Leipzig
2024 two sides of a coin, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
2024 here, there, KUNSTRAUM, Berlin
2023 TUMULT, Berlin
2023 EVEN STILTE, European Month of Photography, Berlin
2022 5000 Seiten, Residency Edvard Munch Haus, Warnemünde
2021 Pandora Kreuzberg, Berlin – solo show
Gallery
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