JORDY KERWICK – THIS TIME TOMORROW

Posted on 2026-08-17

Taking its title from The Kinks’ 1970 song, the exhibition begins with a question: “This time tomorrow, where will we be?” The refrain captures a feeling of uncertainty about a future that seems near at hand yet remains indistinct. Across a group of recent oil and acrylic paintings, Kerwick turns the day-to-day into a site of meditation, where familiar motifs and fleeting impressions are transformed into vivid fables of the future.

These works begin with small details: vivid greens, floral bursts of magenta, vermilion, and mauve, the presence of water, and the passing impressions of lived surroundings. In Kerwick’s paintings, such familiar elements do not remain fixed. They accumulate, shift, and recombine, unfolding into tableaux where the everyday opens onto the mythical and the imagined.

Opposite – This Time Tomorrow

Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2026

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

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GUY YANAI

Posted on 2026-08-17

Yanai’s painting stems from a process of selecting and translating images, isolated from their original contexts and reconstructed through a rigorous formal grammar of sharp lines, compressed depth and saturated colors. In this process, the ceaseless flow of images that characterizes contemporary experience slows into contemplation. Everyday life thus becomes a space of focus and permanence, where the familiar takes on an unexpected andpoetic quality.

In his paintings, domestic interiors, Mediterranean landscapes, film stills, everyday objects and urban views emerge as suspended images, stripped down to their essence yet charged with memory. Through a pictorial approach that prioritizes synthesis and formal clarity, the artist transforms ordinary subjects into near-iconic presences, capable of evoking a sense of quietude and introspection. Rather than depicting specific places, his works convey an experience of space shaped by recollection, observation, and imagination.

Opposite – Women with Blue Hat, 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2026

Monica De Cardenas
Chesa Albertini
Stradun 111
CH-7524 Zuoz
Switzerland

monicadecardenas.com

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WANGECHI MUTU – THE SEASSPIRIT

Posted on 2026-08-17

Wangechi Mutu engages in a distinctive form of mythmaking, often connecting the human body with the natural world. For her forthcoming exhibition, the artist returns to the subject of water, a theme she has explored throughout her practice, not only as a mythical realm but also as a fragile, symbiotic ecosystem.
In a new series of collage-paintings, Mutu conjures a cast of feminine water spirits – figures that are at once powerful, awe-inspiring and unsettling. Imagined as protectors, companions and guides, these aquatic beings can be understood as symbolic inhabitants of both the sea and the subconscious. Created
with Venice in mind, this body of work resonates with the city’s enigmatic character, a place where land and water, history and myth, continually converge.

Opposite – Snakebiter, 2026

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2026

Victoria Miro
San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

www.victoria-miro.com

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CHEN FEI – SOMETIMES

Posted on 2026-08-10

The works brought together in Sometimes, however, move beyond a simple extension of autobiographical narrative. They mark a transitional moment in which Chen renews his painterly vocabulary, testing genre, surface, composition, and narrative structure through a more fluid and materially charged approach.
Working in figuration for more than two decades, Chen has often used acrylic paint for its speed, clarity, and capacity to generate an almost frictionless image. In his recent works, he pushes the medium beyond its familiar flatness, introducing tactile effects that complicate the smooth surface typically associated with his paintings.

Opposite – Blue giant 2, 2026

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2026

Perrotin
1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi
Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan

www.perrotin.com

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DESHAUN PRICE

Posted on 2026-08-10

I have worked with the immediacy of my surroundings for some time now. Each painting is the encounter between two variables: my bodily capacities, and the situation they compose with. I have yet to find a distance between the body painted and the body painting.
The show organized itself around the painting of my partner watching a film. I took the watching-body as the limit point between passivity and activity; the interval, variable itself, between an image received and an image produced. I seem to spend most of my time in this interval; a painting is a way out, giving it a body of its own.

Deshaun Price

Opposite – Spinoza, 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2026

Galerie Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17
50667 Cologne
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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SAM & SARA

Posted on 2026-08-10

STANDARD (OSLO) is proud to present the exhibition “Sam & Sara”, bringing together works by Nina Beier and Torbjørn Rødland. Having been friends and fellow artist of the gallery roster for years, this is the first time that their works are subject to a two-artist exhibition.

Opposite – Nina Beier, Field , 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2026

STANDARD (OSLO)
Eilert Sundts gate 40
N-0355 Oslo
Norway

www.standardoslo.no

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