London-based artist Jack O'Brien opens a major new installation at Bonner Kunstverein on 31 October, with a companion solo exhibition following at Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne less than a week later. The two presentations, announced by Capitain Petzel this week, give the artist a double platform in Germany this autumn.

Yield, which opens at the Kunstverein on Saturday evening, is built entirely from loaned or borrowed material. O'Brien grounds the show in the aesthetics of global logistics, bringing together works by Horst Egon Kalinowski, Edgar Knoop, Elisabeth Marx, Herbert Press and Eva-Maria Schön, drawn from the estates cared for by the Künstler:innenarchiv der Stiftung Kunstfonds. Structures made to carry or organise other things take on a sculptural presence of their own, while the borrowed artworks become components inside larger configurations. The exhibition is curated by Viktor Neumann and runs until 14 February 2027. It is made in cooperation with the Künstler:innenarchiv der Stiftung Kunstfonds, and with support from the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland and the Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung.

Testimonies, O'Brien's solo show at Galerie Gisela Capitain's Albertusstrasse space in Cologne, opens on 5 November from 6 to 8.30pm. It is staged to coincide with the Kunstverein installation, extending the artist's investigation of borrowed forms and institutional frameworks into the gallery's rooms.

For O'Brien, the pairing is a significant moment: a large-scale institutional installation and a gallery solo opening within days of each other, both turning on the question of what materials can withstand, and what it means to yield — to give way under pressure, or to produce a return.