Showroom:

Hans Bellmer, Adam Cruces, François Durel, Thomas Hirschhorn, Kaito Itsuki, Marie Matusz, Mónica Mays, Sibylle Ruppert, Marius Steiger, Anne de Vries

We are happy to complement our booth presentation with an intimate showroom displaying new as well as historical works by artists of the program such as Adam Cruces, Marie Matusz, Monica Mays, Sibylle Ruppert (estate), Marius Steiger and Kaito Itsuki. We are also excited to present works by Hans Bellmer, Thomas Hirschhorn and François Durel that have been part of our latest exhibitions.

In his most recent works, Adam Cruces examines how objects shift meaning through subtle and ironic acts of displacement, exploring tensions between function, perception, and the habits of contemporary life. Contrasting Cruces’ wistful gestures, Marie Matusz expands the presentation with minimalist poetic works that investigate the interplay of form, abstraction, and language. Her largest institutional solo exhibition to date opened at Kunsthalle Basel this January. Sibylle Ruppert contributes to our program an unsettling dimension, with sexually charged and violent imagery that delves into the subconscious, exploring vulnerability, desire, and the human psyche. The excessiveness of Ruppert’s works is paired with works by Monica Mays, whose practice involves autobiography, material process and archive through assemblages of domestic and industrial fragments that are bred, distorted and composed to convey notions of reproduction and decay. Mays upcoming exhibitions include a large-scale commission by the Henry Moore Institute and a solo show at the gallery in August. Kaito Itsuki’s oil paintings on canvas depict the creation of new mythological figures and fictional organisms. Her works are characterized by vivid colors and an arrangement of fantastical motifs set within a disquieting atmosphere, featuring men without faces, cups with expressions, and objects associated with violence, such as tools with sharp, pointed claws. In contrast to Itsuki’s surreal narratives, Marius Steiger, a London-based Swiss artist, blends reality with fiction to develop an austere yet romantic visual language. His paintings revive the traditional still-life genre, incorporating modern elements into cut-out trompe-l’oeil compositions. His work has been acquired by public collections, including the Art Collection of the City of Zurich and the Swiss National Library. Similarly engaging with materiality and reinterpretation, François Durel strips found objects of their original function to reveal layers of time and lived history embedded within them. His repeated use of materials like leather and metal underscores an ongoing fascination with their implications in sexual, architectural, and psychoanalytical contexts. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show with Superdakota and a solo booth at Liste Art Fair with Blue Velvet, both scheduled for 2025.