Amit Berman. The Bather
Reinsburgstraße 68A
February 13 – March 14, 2026

Opening – Amit Berman is present
Friday, February 13, 2026, 6 pm – 9 pm

“The Bather” is created within the context of impermanence: a period marked by living in temporary interiors and approaching relocation. The exhibition focuses on the body and its intimate routines. Bedrooms and showers recur as environments where privacy becomes unstable and increasingly exposed. Bathing functions as a repeated gesture of orientation – a way for the body to locate itself within spaces that are not fully owned, and whose boundaries between private and public remain uncertain.

The exhibition is anchored in the allegorical figure of the bather and its long history in Western European art. Across the works, the bather is not presented as a neutral or idealized figure, but as a body in relation to a viewer. Themes of bodily offering, purification, exposure, concealment, and gaze are central. References to Christian iconography - particularly moments of washing, surrender, and bodily revelation - appear as inherited visual systems that once promised transcendence, but here are reactivated without resolution. These traditions function as charged frameworks that the body inhabits with caution, aware of both their authority and their limits.

Throughout “The Bather”, figures are positioned on thresholds: between interior and exterior, exposure and concealment, intimacy and visibility, control and vulnerability. These tensions are closely tied to experiences of cultural and spatial displacement, as the body navigates inherited traditions while inhabiting a temporary present. The exhibition does not seek nostalgia. Instead, it examines what remains: the body’s ongoing negotiation with intimacy after exposure, and its capacity to carry physical, emotional, and cultural memory through spaces that are continually in transition.

Amit Berman (born 1994 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a self-taught artist. He is currently living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel and Rome, Italy.