FRAMED #92 / SUMMER SPECIAL music: Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai / art: Lars Teichman

FRAMED #92 THE SUMMER SPECIAL

MUSIC:  Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai

Trumpet player Avishai Cohen started his jazz career playing - amongst others - with his siblings Yuval and Anat in the early 2000s. In addition to uncountable appearances as a Bandleader, Co-Leader and Sideman, he finally makes his applauded ECM-debut in 2016 with Into The Silence. After three more releases on the legendary Munich Label - Cross My Palm With Silver, the duo recording Playing the Room and the first album of his ‘Electric’ project Big Vicious - he released his latest quartet effort Naked Truth in 2022.

Photo by Daniella Feijoo

Pianist Yonathan Avishai, born in Israel and raised partly in France, developed a strong foundation in both classical music and jazz from an early age. He has become known for his long-standing collaboration with trumpeter Avishai Cohen, performing worldwide as part of his ensembles.

Alongside his work as a sought-after sideman, Avishai has built a distinctive voice as a bandleader and composer. His recordings Joys and Solitudes (2019) and Shifting Sands (2023) highlight his lyrical, introspective style and refined sense of interplay.

ART: Lars Teichmann

Lars Teichmann is a Berlin-based visual artist and photographer whose work moves between documentary and fine art. His practice often explores themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time, combining staged and found elements with a strong narrative sensitivity.

Working across photography and installation, Teichmann creates atmospheric images that blur the line between reality and fiction. His series has been shown in exhibitions and publications internationally, establishing him as a distinctive voice within the contemporary art scene.

Photo by Annette Apel

Exhibition: THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS

In The Most Important Things, painter Lars Teichmann reflects on key moments in art history, particularly within painting itself. Presented as part of the Framed Berlin series, the exhibition draws from this rich visual tradition, with works that echo major pictorial genres of past centuries.

Guided by the idea that “there is no apolitical art,” Teichmann approaches painting as an open process. His subjects, still lifes, portraits, and monumental birds, act as subtle witnesses of our time. Without directly depicting contemporary events, they evoke themes of change, transience, conflict, and coexistence.

Through layered historical references, from classical portraiture to gestures of Neo-Expressionism, Teichmann’s works become mirrors of the present. Meaning emerges not only from what is shown, but from how it is read - through tone, context, and association.

Ultimately, the paintings speak in quiet, nuanced ways about what matters most: peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Selected works by Lars Teichmann from left to right: Pink Princess 200x160cm; Vases and fruits 4 200x270cm; Pollock birds 1 200x350cm; Classic Stillife-003 180x200cm; Pope after Raffaell I 200x160cm; Master Chief Fade series 200x165cm.

This event is supported by JEF, not a foundation, Aroundtown S.A., and AMANO Group