On the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2026, the Achim Freyer Kunsthaus presents the first institutional solo exhibition by the young Berlin painter Lunita-July Dorn: Like a Bird on a Wire.
In large-format paintings and drawings, Dorn repeatedly makes herself the imaginary protagonist. Whether alone or in multiples, her own portrait is the starting point for an insistent painterly self-interrogation, through which she tests individual and social role models.
Dorn weaves personal memories and feelings together with fantastical motifs and scenarios into graceful, autofictional narratives. Her pictures possess a moving immediacy and preserve traces of their creative process. Preliminary and overdrawings, layerings, strikeouts and re-exposed passages are deliberately left open by Dorn. Her search for identity, both pictorial and psychological, is thus nothing finished, but a state of permanent transformation.
Dorn's exhibition revolves around being at home with oneself as an existential experience and tells of the often hard-to-bear longing for freedom, for love, for happiness.