For over two years, Sassa Trülzsch ran a small independent project space in the backyard of Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch. Now, after 20 exhibitions, her program has come of age. On the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, she opened her own gallery, literally with a bang.

Josef Strau is an artist who writes and a writer who makes art. The printed and handwritten texts that cover his paintings and posters take the tone of intimate personal revelation, but, of course, we are not reading someone’s diary—the self that is revealed is a fiction framed by the art object into which it is incorporated.

In “Cassandra,” her first solo show in France, Nalini Malani has returned to her artistic roots: drawing and painting.

Parroting speech, like aping action, is no one’s idea of a noble achievement. And like apes, parrots have long been pressed into the service of racist metaphor—or so Sergio Vega suggested in the exhibition “Parrot Theory,” where he also examined their complicated roles as figures of myth, metaphysics and scientific study.

Da Cunha’s preoccupations include a given genre’s cultural significance. The category “portrait bust” immediately brings to mind royal statuary; created with a cleaning implement, da Cunha’s “Bust” series is a biting critique of Brazil’s rampant social disparities.