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📚📚📚📚Next Thursday. The second session of our Reading Group. We’ll discuss reviews of the current Venice Biennale: So, if you’re going to Venice this year, you’ll have a clear idea of what to expect…but above all, discussions about Venice shed light on the current state of art. The texts can be found in the BIO section, where you can download a PDF with the links #venicebiennale

Flashback to ArtVilnius’25 participants booths 👀 WILDPALMS @_wildpalms_ gallery from Düsseldorf 🇩🇪 In „ArtVilnius’25“ presented artists: ▪️Rachel Libeskind @rachellibeskind ▪️Kirstin Burckhardt @kirstinburckhardt ▪️Mario Asef @marioasef ▪️Alexandra Meffert @alexismeffert ▪️Asef Burckhardt 📷 Augustinas Žukovas | ArtVilnius ————- 📣 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN The 17th International Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius’26 DATE: October 1-4 -— - ArtVilnius is financed by Lietuvos kultūros taryba - Under the patronage of Vilnius City Municipality - Maecenas Law Firm COBALT.Legal

“Something in the water” group exhibition with @paul.dd.smith @lucas._kaiser @hanna.j.kstr @haein.chi @andreas_steinbrecher . Co Curated with Andreas Steinbrecher @alexismeffert & Jorge Sanguino The Crane Rehearsal @paul.dd.smith painted silk mounted on wooden panel (steam fixed dyes and ink) 158 x 124 cm 2025

We are launching Drunken Epiphanies, a reading group dedicated to foundational and contemporary texts on contemporary art, curated by Jorge Sanguino. We begin with @joshklinejoshkline Josh Kline, New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art @octobermagazineofficial Part of October’s “Art Communities at Risk” series, the text traces structural problems in the American art world through the lens of class. At its core: the impact of extreme real estate prices on artistic production, institutions, and livelihoods. Drawing on two decades of lived experience—as curator and artist—Kline maps a system shaped by rent, speculation, and access. A starting point for a broader question: what conditions does contemporary art actually depend on? April 30, 7 pm — wildpalms Source: Kline, Josh. “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art.” October. /10.1162/OCTO.a.539 Join the reading group. [email protected] #düsseldorf #reading #theory

“Something in the Water” with @haein.chi @hanna.j.kstr @paul.dd.smith @lucas._kaiser @andreas_steinbrecher Curated in collaboration with Andreas Steinbrecher & @alexismeffert At the heart of the exhibition is a renewed approach to composition—characterized by a return to drawing and an expanded use of imagery (both everyday and iconographic)—which opens up new narrative possibilities for painting. #painting

⚡️⚡️Join us April 15th / 6 pm for the opening of „Something In The Water“ with works by Hanna Kuster, Haein Choi, Paul DD Smith, Lucas Kaiser & Andreas Steinbrecher. @hanna.j.kstr @haein.chi @paul.dd.smith @lucas._kaiser @andreas_steinbrecher Following our exploration on contemporary German Painting; initiated last year, this exhibition explores new young voces. Co Curated with Andreas Steinbrecher, with a short essay by Jorge Sanguino #contemporaryart #painting

QA: Can you tell us about one artwork from your booth? 🙌 During ArtVilnius’25, we asked participating galleries to select one artwork from their booth and present it. ❔ The gallery’s @_wildpalms_ from Düsseldorf 🇩🇪, owner Alexandra Meffert @alexismeffert , is presenting the series of flags by artist Rachel Libeskind @rachellibeskind . In these series called “What is a Flag?” artist decided to remove the images from the flags, leaving only the form, the shape, the outline. 📍All artworks presented at ArtVilnius’25 are available in the e-catalogue: /catalogue ——————— 📣APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN The 17th Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius’26 DATE: October 1-4 -— - ArtVilnius is financed by @kulturostaryba - Under the patronage of Vilnius City Municipality - Maecenas Law Firm @cobaltlegal_

@art_rotterdam 2026 — Review Looking back at this year’s Art Rotterdam, we are grateful for new friends, the many conversations with curators & collectors, encounters, and moments of exchange that shaped our participation. With works going to a beautiful collection in South Germany & Switzerland Our solo booth with @andreas_steinbrecher brought together a new body of work that reflects a renewed approach to contemporary painting in Germany. Thank you to everyone who visited us and shared this experience. Photo credits Matthias Stern.

@andreas_steinbrecher Our booth @art_rotterdam Booth K06 Our presentation contributes to a renewed understanding of contemporary German painting. Steinbrecher’s work shifts from gesture to construction, using controlled lines and staged composition. Through layered imagery—combining drawing, digital processes, and references—his paintings unfold as open scenes that resist fixed narratives, evoking a continuous present. @alexismeffert @wildpalms_store Booth K06 VIP Preview: March 26 Public Days: 27–29 With the kinky support of “Mittelstand Meets Messe” NRW Global Business #artrotterdam #painting #germany

@art_rotterdam 2026 At Art Rotterdam, we present a new body of work by Andreas Steinbrecher — part of a distinctive new direction in Düsseldorf painting. Defined by precise, controlled brushstrokes, the works create an intimate and immediate presence. Subtle, imaginative worlds unfold, where animal forms and human silhouettes emerge and dissolve. Femur. - 2025- 200 x 140 cm- Oil on polyester canvas Figur und Landschaft (II) -2023- 140 x 95 cm - Oil on Cotton 📍 Booth K06 🗓️ March 27–29 (VIP: March 26) With the support of @nrwglobalbusiness “Messe meets Mittelstand“ #kunstakademiedüsseldorf #painting #rotterdam

Figur und Landschaft (III), 2026 Oil on linen, 160x120cm

✨ New publication (2026) Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis (AAAV) LINK IN BIO Sanguino’s Academic article ““Se compran colchones…” Informal Labor and Contemporary Mexican Art” has been published in No. 118 (2025): The Art–Labour Relationship in Contemporary Art, edited by Lina Michelkevičė and Edgaras Gerasimovičius. @lute_song The text examines how informal and precarious labor, a central element of Mexico’s socio-economic reality, has shaped contemporary Mexican art from the 1970s to the present. It traces a trajectory from early art collectives and street-based interventions to later practices by Francis Alÿs, Eduardo Abaroa, and Gabriel Kuri, where informality informs artistic strategies and critiques of institutions. A key focus is the rupture and development introduced by Mauricio Limón de León, @mauriciolimon whose work integrates the logics, temporalities, and perspectives of informal labor as a comprehensive lens for analyzing modern Mexican society. ⸻ Thank you to the editors and the Vilnius Academy of Arts for the incredible care and dedication behind this publication, and the Support of @daad_worldwide @a.r.t.e.s.graduateschool #mexicanart #francisalÿs #mauriciolimón #eduardoabaroa #informalworkers