With delicate tones and succinct gestures, Berlin-based Serbian painter Goran Djurovic presents disturbing dream worlds in his figurative canvases, evoking the contradictions and presumptions of contemporary life. Paradoxical reversals, ironic caesuras and the blending of dissimilar realities create a visual philosophy of comedic failure.

In the archives of East Germany's Stasi secret police, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts across the Berlin Wall. Here, German artist Arwed Messmer (born 1964) presents a complex collage of found, retouched and recontextualized visual records and Messmer's own photographs.