Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler

About the Gallery
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler was founded in 2011 by Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany and Nadine Zeidler. The gallery program is informed by an interest in art practices that operate outside linear notions of thinking and engages with more speculative, non-hierarchical, and hybrid approaches. It is characterized by an international alignment of artists from Eurasia, the Arabian Gulf region, China, the USA and Europe. Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler featured the first solo exhibitions by Brett Ginsburg, Katja Novitskova, Avery Singer, Andrea Crespo, GCC, Guan Xiao, Yu Honglei (outside of China). All gallery artists are in major public museum collections and exhibit extensively in international institutions and biennales.

Ongoing intellectual exchanges with the artists about relevant art historical, theoretical and political discourses form the basis for the gallery program and its activities. Besides exhibitions, the gallery realizes publication projects and organizes screenings as well as panels with artists and theorists. The impact of the artists on current debates about syncretism, digitalisation, image economies and post-human tendencies manifests itself in their prominent representation in defining institutional exhibitions.

In September 2017 the gallery opened in a new space in Berlin Kreuzberg, designed by Berlin-based Büro Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge.

About the Presentation
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler will present work by Taína Cruz in a solo presentation at Independent. The New York-born artist is included in the 2026 Whitney Biennial and in the Greater New York survey exhibition at MoMA PS1 this spring. The works merge digitally altered imagery with expressive figuration to explore how technology distorts and redefines perceptions of self, beauty, and Black womanhood. A recent graduate of Yale’s MFA Painting program, Cruz’s increasingly interdisciplinary practice incorporates painting, video, and, most recently, sculpture, which will anchor the presentation at Independent.