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2026-06-02 · berlin

Henrike Brandt-Klausen — Charlottenburg-Fasanenstraße, two-room gallery since 2016

Henrike Brandt-Klausen in the front room of her gallery at Fasanenstraße, charcoal cashmere turtleneck, a single string of small pearls, ash-blonde Bob a hair too short for the West-Berlin Salon-Standard, a Salomé canvas on the wall behind her, Tuesday-afternoon Charlottenburg light from the southern window

Charlottenburg-Fasanenstraße, Tuesday two-forty. The gallery is two rooms — front and back, both south-facing — between a bookshop and an antiquarian bookbinder.

I had been put onto Henrike by a Kunstforum-editor at the Eröffnung in Mitte the previous Saturday. Wenn Sie 1980er-West-Berlin-Neoexpressionismus suchen, gibt es genau drei Adressen, die das noch ernst machen. Brandt-Klausen ist eine davon.

Henrike was in the front room, arranging two new Fetting canvases on the longest wall. Charcoal cashmere turtleneck, a single string of pearls — the size that says nothing — ash-blonde Bob, the cut a hair too short for the West-Berlin Salon-Standard, which means she chose it.

Bitte. Was möchten Sie sehen.

Born 1983 in Charlottenburg. Grandfather: Wessi-Old-Money Industrieller-Linie, Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1948. Father: Notar, mother: Kunstgeschichte at the FU. Henrike grew up between the Charlottenburg-Familienhaus on Kantstraße and the Sommer-Haus on Sylt. She studied Kunstgeschichte at the FU, then two years at the Sotheby's-Institute in London, then back to Berlin.

The gallery opened 2016. Program: 1980s-West-Berlin-Neoexpressionismus — Salomé, Fetting, Middendorf, Castelli, Bömmels. Three to four exhibitions a year, no Art Cologne, no Art Basel-Pose. The collector-base is small and old-Berlin.

Mein Programm ist nicht für jeden. Das ist die Bedingung.

Henrike at her desk in the back-room, a stack of catalogues beside her and a small Fetting watercolour above the desk, the kind of room that opens to the front gallery through a single doorframe, Charlottenburg afternoon light

A collector-couple came in at three. Henrike turned, gave them the West-Berlin half-second pause-then-step-forward — that's the move that signals: I'll see you when I'm ready. Donnerstag elf, dann sprechen wir.

Field-Book BER-2026-Q2-043. Berlin-Charlottenburg-Third-Generation-West-Berlin-Wessi-Old-Money-Galerie-1980er-Neoexpressionismus-Cohort-Anchor.