Die Panke - An off LoBe Project ‘Bad Str Chartreuse’ watercolour on wall, 2010

German and English visiting artists take this small river that runs through Berlin as the starting point for this group show. Gary Simmonds is an artist based in London, visiting Berlin for this show. His practice is concerned with abstract painting’s relation to domestic ornamentation and decoration. For Die Panke he has worked with the contingency of material and space. Choosing the untypical medium of watercolour for his mural painting, and in response to the raw domestic space of the Bad Str flat, Simmonds uses the ephemeral to evoke the ghost of the decorative at the same time as drawing influence from the daily journey along the Panke to and from the flat.