This November, Peres Projects will open London-based artist Mark Titchner’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, together with a show in a separate space by American-born, Berlin-based John Kleckner. Both of these young artists’ work is lushly visual with a conceptual bent.

Titchner’s world is that of a later-day Babylon: this 2006 Turner Prize nominee and contributor to the Ukranian pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale pushes ideas of language and communication in our media-saturated society past their limits. Words become empty signifiers in his textual messages, somewhat like if Karl Marx got together with the Sex Pistols to write posters for the home office—all set against a dizzying digital background. Kleckner explores post-apocalyptic forests where carnivorous plants and angry, animistic trees awash in fields of watercolor collapse shamanism, environmentalism, and neo-Classical artwork. Both artists operate in the far corners of late capitalism, where the forever-hungry system begins to eat itself.