Kewenig is very pleased to open Ghada Amer’s first solo show in the Berlin Gallery and her first individual exhibition in Berlin in a long while. The artist became internationally known for her works that combine erotic motives and delicate embroidery. In them, she succeeds in her ironic commentary upon institutionalized role models, while self-confidently taking on painting as a medium. Amer combines painting and embroidery, because she considers the former a classically male medium, and the latter a kind of handiwork typically performed by women. “In my art history classes there were no …