Catharina KulliK

Aníbal Ferreira lives and works in the Alentejo. For his sculptures, he works primarily with marble from the quarries around Vila Viçosa and Estremoz. His work ranges from small sculptures to monumental pieces several metres in height.
Taking geometric forms as his starting point, Ferreira develops his sculptures through an interplay of solid form and open space. He plays with contrasting surface finishes, giving each individual plane a distinct, consistent texture. Rough or almost velvety planes sit alongside smooth, polished ones, revealing the stone’s different tactile qualities through their contrast. Finely carved openings are a distinctive feature of his work, offering unexpected views and drawing the eye through the sculpture. Narrow apertures and slender bridges of stone reveal considerable craftsmanship and precision. They lend the solid material an unexpected lightness, inviting wonder at the delicacy with which the stone has been worked.

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António Oliveira Tavares lives and works in Borba, in the Alentejo, after years spent in Brazil, Brussels, and Paris. At the heart of his work lies colour, bound with movement. Mixing colour on the palette and spreading it across the canvas is, for him, an almost childlike, inexplicable pleasure, and remains his true motivation. Tavares began with landscape painting, working outdoors in the naturalistic tradition. The human figure later entered his largely abstract compositions, until he arrived at pure abstraction. Today he returns to nature in a predominantly abstract visual language. He imposes no thematic or formal constraints on himself, following instead an inner movement, at times stepping backward or forward to show that the path is not yet fully discovered. He does not consciously aim to convey a message; if one emerges, it is a sign that he was truly present within the painting.

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Irmgard Merkens lived and worked in Berlin until 2025; she now resides in North Rhine-Westphalia. After a ten-year career in chemical technology, she studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (1979–1984). Alongside her artistic practice, she taught painting and served on prestigious artists’ committees, including as chairwoman of the Association of Berlin Women Artists (*Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen*).

Merkens focuses intensely on the depiction of the human figure. Her works—executed in acrylic, chalk, pigment, and graphite—depict everyday scenes, encounters, and impressions from her travels. Her pieces from the 1980s and 1990s, in particular, are distinguished by their immediate presence and precise observation. She developed a unique visual language that combines observation with artistic distillation. In her portraits and scenes of daily life—often set in urban or public spaces—she achieves a poetic balance between distance and intimacy.

The images from this period presented here reflect journeys to Canada, Hungary, and Japan, blending external impressions with internal resonances. The figures appear both close and remote, captured in moments of quiet presence. Her use of color and line is restrained yet highly expressive; the works become poetic notations that capture the fleeting while simultaneously revealing a universal human experience.

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Stefano Bosis, born in Milan, lives and works in Berlin. He studied Digital Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and gained diverse experience in theater, street art, film, and digital media before dedicating himself to painting as his primary discipline.

Bosis’s work operates at the intersection of Expressionism, Surrealism, and abstraction; his large-scale, luminous oil paintings resemble landscapes of the soul where dreams, emotions, and reality merge. He creates scenes that oscillate between childhood memories and metaphysical visions—flying carpets, stars, and embraces that expand into the cosmic realm.

His technique is rooted in a powerful, almost visceral application of paint. Oil paint spreads across the canvas like living energy, forming glowing lava or dripping, tangible forms—intense, impulsive, and emotionally charged. He is increasingly moving toward abstraction, prioritizing pure color, rhythm, and the transmission of emotion.

His paintings offer a visual experience that combines intuitive empathy with expressive density, inviting a deep emotional resonance.

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Karol Broniatowski lives and works in Berlin. Born in Łódź, he first gained recognition for his “newspaper figures,” with which he represented Poland at the 1972 Venice Biennale. At the heart of his work lies an exploration of the human being in their physical presence—constantly in motion and fragmented, yet driven by an enduring inner dynamism. The exhibition presents impressive bronze sculptures alongside three recent plaster works, allowing viewers to experience his powerful figurative language across different materials.

Broniatowski’s process-oriented approach is evident in his figures: form emerges through cutting, subtracting, and altering—the more the outer shape dissolves, the more clearly the inner message reveals itself. His bronze sculptures distill this approach, appearing as snapshots of an ongoing creative process.

The three plaster sculptures are new additions to his body of work. For Broniatowski, plaster is not merely a traditional material for models; it offers a more immediate, raw tactile quality than bronze, creating a unique bridge between the discovery of form and artistic expression. The combination of bronze and plaster establishes a compelling dialogue between materials: the plaster sculptures simultaneously evoke the creative moment and the rational process of shaping—where transparency, fragility, and raw directness meet enduring presence and permanent form.

Broniatowski’s work is defined by the interplay between positive and negative space, figure and the loss of form, as well as the transition from the inner to the outer. His pieces invite the viewer to trace this transition not only visually but also through touch—tangible in bronze, visible in plaster.

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Fabiana Gabaskallás lives and works in São Paulo. A physician who has always been an artist, she has developed a practice that fuses scientific precision with artistic imagination. She says of herself: “Perhaps one day I will stop working as a doctor. But I will never stop painting. I might even die while painting…”

Gabaskallás works on a large scale using vibrant acrylic and oil paints. Her paintings possess a presence that extends beyond the purely visual experience. They depict gardens, rainforests, and flowers. Alongside these subjects, Gabaskallás also explores historical events.

With the portraits of children shown here, she addresses a forgotten chapter of Portuguese-Brazilian colonial history. She developed a unique technique for these works, applying paint and then removing it; this process achieves a sense of both complexity and lightness. The images almost resemble ancestral portraits.

Fabiana Gabaskallás’s work is represented in numerous international collections.

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