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Liu Wenqi's first solo exhibition in London now on view curated by Sonia Borrell @soniabblondon in Collaboration with Oneart Gallery @oneart_gallery_ @wenqiliu_gigietgigi Works Le soleil de la brume N.96 & N.103 Porcelain 19*27 Cm 2025 To request catalogue please contact [email protected]

Thank you all for coming to the opening of our group exhibition Loop State in collaboration with Cream Athens and curated by Nia Hefe Filiogianni. Artwork: Theo Bargiotas The Crocus Collectors 2025 Oil on canvas 150x230cm @theobargiotas @creamathens @niacurates

A few days to catch up with Loop State in collaboration with @creamathens curated by @niacurates . Works: (right) Nelson Hernandez Ozymandias II 2026 Oil on linen 100x80cm (Left) Tutu Tuğçe Sönmez αI (Alpha I) 2023 Clay, Glaze 62x45x19cm For enquiries please contact [email protected]

✨ OPEN CALL SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted artists for our upcoming exhibition, opening 11 June: Judy Clarkson @judy_clarkson_art Sergei Inkatov @inkatov Alice d’Apolito @dapolitoalice Ava Grauls @avagrauls Faris Nakamura @faris.nakamura Anna Marti Represa @annamarti_am Jakob Limmer @jakoblimmer Rea Silvia Emmanouil @reasilvia.art Shelly Pamensky @shellypamensky Silke Weissbach @si__we__ Carola van Dyke @carolavandyke Andrea Samory @andrea.samory Caitlin Heffernan @caitlinheffernanstudio Anese Cho @anese_art John Davies @john.huw.davies The response to this year’s Open Call was incredibly strong, and we’re grateful to everyone who submitted their work and shared their practice with us. A special thank you to our jury — Sonia Borrell, ARTWOX, and Vanessa Lau Yee Fong — for their time, insight, and thoughtful selection process. @artvoxldn @soniabblondon @vane_fong Congratulations to the shortlisted artists. We can’t wait to present their work at the exhibition opening on 11 June. Save the date — more details soon. #OpenCall #ShortlistAnnouncement #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionOpening

Introducing Caitlin Heffernan — now represented by Cream Athens × D Contemporary Caitlin is an artist working across painting, site-specific installations and soft sculpture. She studied at Falmouth School of Art, Winchester School of Art, MFA at Central St Martin’s School of Art and in 2025 graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA Painting programme. She has exhibited across the UK and Europe. Her awarded commissions include works for Metal Arts, Somerset Art Works, the Jerwood Drawing Prize and ING Discerning Eye Exhibition in 2023. Caitlin has also been commissioned by Hoodwink (Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery) and public art commissions Francis Knight. Residencies have included The Arts Institute in Prague, Brazier’s International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, Triangle Arts Trust, Nigeria and Chard Museum in Somerset. She has worked with the Hallwyl Museum in Stockholm to present new work and in 2022 was selected to take part in the Turps X PADA residency in Lisbon. Hefferan returned to Lisbon in 2023 on a supported residency with Metal Arts and Studio 459, where she discovered a set of caves in central Tomar, influencing her practice significantly. In December 2025 she was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall and in Autumn 2026 will be artist in residence at the Rothko Museum in Latvia. She is co-director, curator and artist of Unravelled, a curatorial and commissioning agency whose feminist curatorial practice reveals untold or unheard narratives and perspectives within historic houses. This includes a major three year project with the National Trust as part of their Trust New Art Programme. Her own site-specific projects for Unravelled explore social histories and collections to reveal the hidden histories of places and objects, taking place 2012–2023. #creamathens #dcontemporary #collectoraccess

Introducing Divya Balivada — now represented by Cream Athens × D Contemporary Divya Balivada is an Indian artist based in Goa and London. She recently graduated with MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, where she was shortlisted for the Jaguar x RCA Prize 2025. She has exhibited internationally and received the Women’s Achiever Art Award 2024 in Goa, India. Divya was a trained dentist before she became a painter. She navigates painting as a necessity, an instinctive way of being in this world. Having lived through PTSD, gender biases, displacement, and generational trauma, she finds painting vast and fluid enough to hold the intensity of being human. Recursive and dynamic gestures are bodily accumulations that hover between compulsive and meditative, becoming records of endurance, healing, and reclamation. #dcontemporary #creamathens #artistrepresentation

Working with liquid porcelain and integrated pigmentation, Liu Wenqi creates pieces that exist in a delicate tension between permanence and impermanence. Her works unfold as meditations on memory, time, sensation, and disappearance—forms that seem to shift even as they settle. As curator Sonia Borrell reflects: “In Liu Wenqi’s ceramics, the image is never fully still; it continues to transform, like memory itself.” Liu Wenqi was born in Shanghai in 1985. After studying animation design at the Shanghai Academy of Film Arts, she moved to Paris to study fashion design at Studio Berçot. In 2012, she began her career as a textile designer at Atelier Marion Chopineau, where she worked for six years with several renowned fashion houses, including Maison Margiela, Balenciaga, and Louis Vuitton. Her work Infection N.01 (2019) was acquired in 2023 by the Joseph Déchelette Museum in Roanne, France. More recently, Le soleil de la brume N.43-2 and Le soleil de la brume N.50 were acquired in 2025 by the Victoria and Albert Museum, where they are now part of the permanent collection. Vernissage 7 May 2026 •DM DContemporary if you would like to be invited or to see the PDF

Liu Wenqi was born in Shanghai in 1985. After studying animation design at the Shanghai Academy of Film Arts, she moved to Paris to study fashion design at Studio Berçot. In 2018, she started working as an independent artist and has been represented by La Galerie Capazza since 2019. Her work "Infection N.01 2019" was acquired in 2023 by the Joseph Déchelette Museum in Roanne, France. "Le soleil de la brume N.43-2" and "Le soleil de la brume N.50" were acquired in 2025 by the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, and these works are now part of the museum's permanent collection. In 2012, she began her career as a textile designer at Atelier Marion Chopineau, where she worked for six years for several renowned fashion houses such as Maison Margiela, Balenciaga, and Louis Vuitton. Artwork: Le soleil de la brume N.89 19 x 27 Cm Porcelain 2025 LIU WENQI WHAT REMAINS, WHAT FADES 7-29 MAY Vernissage 7th May 2-6 pm CURATED BY SONIA BORRELL IN COLLABORATION WITH ONEART GALLERY D Contemproary 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ

D Contemporary presents a solo exhibition by Wenqi, an artist whose work bridges material sensitivity, poetic intuition, and cross-cultural dialogue. Developed in collaboration with ONEART Gallery, Beijing, and curated by Sonia Borrell, this exhibition presents an immersive insight into the artist’s evolving ceramic practice. Drawing inspiration from textiles, architecture, and the microscopic world, her forms balance precision with organic fluidity, inviting viewers into a contemplative space shaped by subtle perception and poetic depth. LIU WENQI WHAT REMAINS, WHAT FADES 7-29 May CURATED BY SONIA BORRELL IN COLLABORATION WITH ONEART GALLERY PV 7th May 3-6 pm #dcontemporary #soniaborrell #oneartgallery #liuwenqi

Meet Hannah Thomas, one of the 16 artists of Loop State. Hannah Thomas is a British painter based in Wiltshire, working with acrylics, oil sticks, and pastels to create bold, often large-scale compositions. Her work features recurring motifs within fragmented, abstracted landscapes, exploring themes of mortality, absurdism, and the tension between the beauty and unease of the natural world. Originally trained in photography at UWE Bristol, she spent over a decade working in London’s music industry before transitioning to painting in 2019, seeking greater creative autonomy. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, and she has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize. Thomas continues to develop an experimental, evolving practice and will join the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art in 2026. TOOTH AND CLAW #7 2025 Acrylic, oil stick, pastel and ink on canvas 25 x 20 cm TOOTH AND CLAW #3 2025 Acrylic, oil stick, pastel and ink on canvas 20 x 20 cm On view at D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ Plan your visit • RSVP at [email protected] @hannahthomasstudio curated by @niacurates at @dcontemporary #LoopState #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt ArtExhibition

Meet Kallirroi Kostikoglou, one of the 16 artists of Loop State. Kallirroi Kostikoglou (b. 1993) is an Athens-based artist and director working across video, documentary, and multimedia. Her practice explores the intersections of language, body, and gender, examining structures of power and identity through research-driven and visual approaches. A graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, she has developed an internationally recognised cinematic practice, with her films presented in festivals and institutions across Europe and beyond. Alongside her artistic work, she has collaborated with cultural organisations such as Onassis Stegi and the Benaki Museum, while continuing to engage with research, education, and exhibition-making. From Series The wizards of war 2022 Silk 100%,Dutch 100% velvet cotton, polyester filling 185x60cm On view at D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ until April 16. Plan your visit • RSVP at [email protected] @kallirroikostikoglou curated by @niacurates at @dcontemporary #LoopState #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #ArtExhibition

Meet Johannes Steininger, one of the 16 artists of Loop State. Johannes Steininger (b. 1977, Linz) is a contemporary artist working across sculpture and installation. His practice explores material transformation and post-industrial memory, with a focus on plastics, sealed systems, and industrial components, creating works shaped by tension, containment, and spatial dynamics. He studied at the University of Art and Design Linz and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), developing an interdisciplinary approach that informs his sculptural language. Steininger has exhibited internationally, with works included in the Art Collection of the State of Upper Austria, and lives and works in Linz. 883SRBBL18.07 2022 Soft sculpture / Air-supported wall object (Inflatable structure, mixed materials, framed) 70×55×9cm On view at D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ until April 16. Plan your visit • RSVP at [email protected] @steininger_johannes_m.a._m_a curated by @niacurates at @dcontemporary #LoopState #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #artexhibition