Tag: Visual Art

From War to War: Private Collection Spanning Berlin Wall to Ukraine Debuts in Major Exhibition Exploring Trauma and Memory

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Art from War to War: Chasing Butterflies on the Verge of a Cliff, which opened on May 29, 2026 at Beck & Eggeling gallery, marks the first public presentation of selected works from the private collection of Kyiv-born collector Valeria Rodnianski. The exhibition features works by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Irina Nakhova, A.R. Penck and other influential artists whose careers emerged amid the political and cultural upheavals of postwar Europe and the Soviet sphere.

A Map of the Human Voice: Neel Khokhani and the Epochal Collection

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Most collections tell you who matters. The Epochal Collection asks a different question: what remains of us when the systems that rank, categorize, and increasingly imitate human beings have finished their work? By placing canonical figures beside artists whose careers are only beginning, and voices from the cultural center beside those long excluded from it, Neel Khokhani has assembled something stranger than a collection and more ambitious than a survey. It is a record of human expression at a moment when the meaning of being human is itself being renegotiated. Across paintings, sculptures, textiles, and even works made with breath as a material, a pattern emergesโ€”one that turns a private collection into a cultural argument about memory, identity, mortality, and the future now arriving at our doorstep.

From Digital Experimentation to Energetic Expression: The Expanding Practice of Peiyu Lin

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The boundaries between art, technology, and human perception have never been more fluid. In recent years, artists have been working at the intersection of digital media, interactivity, and immersive storytelling. Figures like Refik Anadol and teamLab collective have redefined what visual experience can be. Their work suggests that art is no longer static; it is responsive, data-driven, and often deeply emotional. Within this expanding landscape, a new generation of creators is pushing these ideas further, blending technical experimentation with personal intuition. Among them, Peiyu Lin stands out for her ability to move fluidly between disciplines while maintaining a strong, intentional artistic voice.

FRAGMENTS: The Merchant House / Your House presents New Summer Exhibition featuring Pino Pinelli, Elsa Tomkowiak, Zhu Hong, Sylvie Bonnot, and Andrรฉ Stempfel

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What happens when a painting refuses to stay within its frame? This summer, The Merchant House transforms its historic Amsterdam canal house into a conversation between art, architecture, and domestic space. In Fragments, works by Pino Pinelli, Elsa Tomkowiak, Zhu Hong, Sylvie Bonnot, and Andrรฉ Stempfel spill across walls, challenge traditional materials, and blur the boundaries between gallery and home. From oversized painted zip bags to photographic spiders enlarged to unsettling beauty, the exhibition invites visitors to piece together their own connections across a series of striking visual encounters.

Elizabeth Wilde: an Emerging Actress Finding Her Voice

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There is something quietly unresolved at the center of Elizabethโ€™s workโ€”an assurance that draws you in, paired with a sameness that holds you at armโ€™s length. She understands how to make an audience feel, how to shape vulnerability into something legible and affecting, yet the question lingers: is she revealing a character, or reproducing a method? Across two demanding roles, the promise is unmistakable, but so is the sense of an actress still circling her own potential, hovering just short of transformation.

From Badong to Chongming: Multi-Site Ethnography as Method and the Making of Sonic and Visual Tapestries โ€” A Review of Pepper Indulging (Neo Gao)

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In Pepper Indulging โ€” Alluvial Voice, Neo Jiapu Gao turns a vast geopolitical story into something intimate and quietly unsettling. By spending two days and one night with the Zhang familyโ€”first-generation migrants relocated after the Three Gorges Projectโ€”Gao captures moments that feel almost ordinary: harvesting peppercorns, tending a garden, preparing for sleep. Yet beneath these scenes runs a deeper current of displacement, language barriers, and lingering memory. Through layered imagery, shifting dialects, and the persistent presence of a Sichuan pepper plant carried from their former home, Gao reveals how migration reshapes not only landscapes but the textures of everyday life. What begins as a portrait of a single family slowly unfolds into a meditation on what it means to be uprootedโ€”and what fragments of home can survive the journey.

Shwetlana Mehta Steps Into Uncertainty With Poetic Precision at Flowing Space Gallery

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On a warm July evening, in a quiet stretch of Clinton Street on the Lower East Side, Shwetlana Mehta’s work was presented to a New York audience. It was not marked by noise or spectacle, but rather by silence, shadows, and small details that invited close attention. In “Moving Through Uncertainty,” a group exhibition curated by Luman Jiang at Flowing Space Gallery, Mehta presented six linoleum prints that didnโ€™t attempt to explain the world; they simply sat with its ambiguities. Her contribution stood alongside works by Wujian Wang and Dipa Halder, each artist navigating in their own visual language.

The Glowing Cathedral: Where Bacteria, Invisible Ink and Light Become Scripture

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Said Dokins and Leonardo Luna, Memory Heliographs, Mexico City

Step inside a centuries-old church where the walls glow, breathe, and transform before your eyes. In Inscriptions, Mexican artist Said Dokins turns sacred architecture into a living laboratory, blending invisible ink, bioluminescent pigments, and colonies of bacteria to question how memory, power, and presence are written into the urban landscape. Each pieceโ€”whether a luminous photograph traced in darkness or a petri dish of living microorganismsโ€”invites viewers to witness writing as a biological and political act. In this fusion of art, science, and resistance, the cityโ€™s erased histories pulse back to life beneath the light.

Bruton + CO announces new ZERO and Beyond exhibition

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Bruton + Co is proud to present its upcoming exhibition, ZERO and Beyond, at its Mayfair showroom. The exhibition will bring together works by some of the most influential and innovative international artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, united by their radical exploration of the lightest colour, white, through masterful use of shade, texture, emotion and surface. The show opens on the 9th October 2025 and will be on view until the end of the year.ย 

Global Art Exhibition โ€œStillnessโ€: Echoes of Humanity in a Restless World

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Trauma leaves many traces, but not always in the form of visible pain. More often it lingers as silence: a frozen state of emotional detachment, an absence that resists articulation. The September group exhibition Stillness, presented by 34 Gallery in partnership with SimukaAfrica.org (SAYA), invites artists across continents to interpret this complex aftermath. The exhibition gathers a diverse roster of participating artists whose works span visual art, photography, digital media, and poetry. Together, they render the contours of stillness in its many forms.