BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present the first exhibition by Astrid Klein in their Berlin gallery. The title of the exhibition Broken Heart, Arbeiten von 1980-1995 (Broken Heart, works from 1980 -1995) references a body of work from the year 1980. A selection of works from this series, two sculptures (1990/1995) and four works from the series weiβe Bilder (white paintings), achieved between 1988 and 1993, are exhibited. In addition, the monumental collage Ich denke die Welt weg (1980/94) is being displayed. The painter and sculptor Astrid Klein has been working at integrating text into her paintings for over three decades. In 1972, before she had even started her degree in Cologne (1973-77), she began to write several texts which she later printed onto handmade paper. The topics of her own texts, as well as her later use of other textual sources, bear witness to her thoughts on literary, aesthetic, philosophical and scientific writings. In a fragmented and co