Holger Niehaus, Untitled, 2007, color photograph, 110x89 cm/130x109 cm. edition of 10. Courtesy of MKgalerie Berlin

BERLIN.-MKgalerie Berlin presents Holger Niehaus, on view through February 23, 2008. Something isn't right with Holger Niehaus' still life. In it, the motives are in no way unusual: dried flowers, an arrangement of fruits, an apple. But at second glance it becomes clear: The dried flower bouquet is in a vase which is overflowing with fresh water, the fruit has been peeled for the photo and the apple is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be a kohlrabi.

Even the still life painters of the 17th century let irregularities flow into their images, sometimes by uniting flowers blooming in different seasons into one bouquet. Niehaus produces a hybrid branch of various blooms with the aid of masking tape, or adds the digitally created clones and the same blooms to a different bouquet. His images - aesthetically perfectly staged - lead viewing habits on to thin ice, when the artist includes unexpected moments of irritation into a seemingly harmless subject.

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