About

Galerie Linger – Art, Books & Press is a gallery and bookshop in Berlin. We attend to essence, sense, duration, and use.

After Barthes and Twombly, we could say:

"TW has his own way of saying that the essence of writing is neither a form nor a usage but only a gesture, the gesture which produces it by permitting it to linger: a blur, almost a blotch, a negligence. Let us make a comparison. What is the essence of a pair of pants (if it has such a thing)? Certainly not that crisp and well-pressed object to be found on department-store racks; rather, that clump of fabric on the floor, negligently dropped there when the boy stepped out of them, careless, lazy, indifferent. The essence of an object has some relation with its destruction: not necessarily what remains after it has been used up, but what is thrown away as being of no use. This is the case with TW’s “writings”—they are the scraps of an indolence, hence of an extreme elegance; as if there remained, after writing, which is a powerful erotic action, what Verlaine calls la fatigue amoureuse: that garment dropped in a corner of the... canvas."

[Roland Barthes, “Cy Twombly”]

Galerie Linger is also a lineage of stagings:
from cafés
to other galleries