In February 2008, after more than twelve years spent working in different European cities and four years of running a silkscreen workshop in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Meeloo Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård inaugurated their new gallery showroom. Over the years, Bongout has produced a significant number of concert posters, record sleeves and limited-edition artists’ books. Gfeller and Hellsgård are also the editors of Mollusk magazine (5 issues so far) and regularly collaborate with contemporary artists on silkscreen prints and publications (Damien Deroubaix, Antoine Bernhart, Costes, Reinhard Scheibner, Claudia Aldering a.o.).

They navigate between genres, expectations, techniques, and media, always emphasizing graphic power and ideological impact. Accordingly, their showroom in Berlin-Mitte is a place where contemporary art will meet graphic, chance and underground art as well as numerous forms of sound and visual cultures. In short, a showcase for both Bongout’s productions and the artists with whom Gfeller and Hellsgard have been collaborating in their studio or whom they have published in Mollusk (Blanquet, Charles Krafft, Les Krims etc.), as well as for their future discoveries. Extending far beyond the confines of contemporary art, the joint influences of Meeloo Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård should account for a space that sets out to build bridges but also to surprise and provoke audiences!