Encounter is pleased to present Whitney McVeigh – 'Paths Converge: Infinite Strange Shapes', opening on Saturday 23rd May 2026, from 4 to 7pm. The exhibition, which coincides with a recent publication by the artist of the same title (published by Sylph Editions), marks McVeigh's first solo exhibition in Portugal and weaves together a diverse collection of works from 2000-2026.
Concerned with contemplative spaces and sites of accumulated trace and memory, McVeigh brings together for this exhibition found objects drawn from her personal collection, alongside ink-on-paper paintings and drawings that dialogue with sculptures, photographs, and texts created during residencies in China, South Africa, India, Brazil, and Kyrgyzstan over the last 25 years. Fundamentally engaged with ‘the archaeology of memory’, McVeigh sensitively intervenes into resonant objects and ‘maps’ temporal figures and archaic landscapes, continuously exploring the unfolding of history as a channel for our personal and collective experience.
Pictured above:
Creatures of Another World, 2023
Ink on xuan paper
125 x 190 cm
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We are pleased to announce the recent opening of Alexi Tsioris 'BOLD' at Kunstparterre, featuring drawings and new sculptures by the artist. The exhibition will run until August 2026.
'Tsioris’s works often feature motifs of heads or head-like compositions, and sometimes entire figures. What is depicted is not a reality as the eye perceives it in the outside world. This pictorial world possesses its own absolute reality, situated between reality and illusion—or, if you will, a ‘surreality’.'
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Last days to see James Collins 'Deltas' at Encounter.
In this body of work Collins investigates the relationship between alchemy and objecthood in painting through his unique manipulation and moulding of surface and edge. Through interplays with oil, oil bar and raw pigment — alongside the use of unconventional tools for mark making — Collins pushes paint into foreign terrains. It becomes an unknowable substance. The paintings appear formed from living matter. Enigmatic deltas, operating within their own logic, both inside and outside of time.
Pictured above:
James Collins
Lithic Root 54, 2025-2026
Acrylic, oil, raw pigment and oil bar on canvas
100 x 130cm
Photo credit: Photodocumenta @photodocumenta and Geoff Perry @geoffperry57
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Cairns’ cities, visually evoke the imagined worlds of an unsettling, uncanny future sometimes evident in science fiction. Often, the architectural structures the artist focuses on are still in construction, representing little more than skeletons of the office buildings and apartments that they are destined to become. Cairns’ practice is continually engaged in a process of construction and deconstruction, as he seeks to capture technologies and urban landscapes in a continuous state of flux. This temporal unease gestures towards framing both the modern city and its dark subconscious.
Pictured above:
Antony Cairns
LDN4_059, 2024
E-ink screen encapsulated in Perspex box. Negative Date 2018
22cm x 18cm
32 x 33 x 4.2cm (framed)
Unique
For more information please contact:
[email protected]
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Last day to visit our presentation at Art Brussels with a dual exhibition of James Collins and Manuela Falcao. All welcome at Stand 5A-09 Discovery. For enquiries contact: [email protected] #jamescollins #manuelafalcao #artbrussels #contemporarybritishpainting #ceramics
Encounter is pleased to present a dialogue between the paintings of James Collins (b.1992, UK) and sculptures of Manuela Falcão (b.1991, Brazil). Reflecting on diverse histories of abstraction through distinctive contemporary voice, both artists’ works negotiate a radical rawness combined with an impression that they have been formed through long periods of accumulation and erosion.
Pictured above:
James Collins
Lithic Root 54, 2025-2026
Acrylic, oil, raw pigment and oil bar on canvas
100 x 130cm
Manuela Falcão
S/ Título, 2026
Ceramic
68 x 17 x 12cm
For more information please contact [email protected]
Photo credit: Gabriele Abbruzzese @studio.abbruzzese
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Currently on view at CAM Gulbenkian is 'Transient Force of Things' by Diogo Pimentão.
'Seeing the exhibition space as a pre-existing drawing – a structure that already contains a lot of information – Pimentão understands that each gesture that takes place there leaves a mark on the space and on the person who crosses it.
As the artist is drawn to the instant of tension when something is ready to transform, two of the works arise from performative actions carried out by him in collaboration with the French dancer and choreographer Emmanuel Eggermont.'
For more information about Pimentão's work please contact [email protected]
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We are delighted to announce our participation at Art Düsseldorf 2026.
Come and visit us at Stand D12 with a joint presentation of works Johnny Abrahams, Antony Cairns and Diogo Pimentão.
For more information please contact [email protected]
Photo credit: Kai Werner Schmidt
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On view: James Collins 'Deltas' until the 16th May.
Deltas form where rivers begin to slow and reshape as they evolve into different bodies of water. Under the right conditions, layers of fertile sediment build up until ground visibly breaks the surface, introducing alternate spaces and routes in these changeable sites. Collins' abstract paintings echo this process — carving foundations and reforming pathways, they deposit a rich array of references as they journey through their painterly landscapes.
For more information please contact the gallery at [email protected]
Photo credit: @photodocumenta
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On view: James Collins 'Deltas' until the 16th May.
The exhibition marks Collins' second solo show with the gallery and brings together a body of recent paintings produced between 2024–26.
In this body of work Collins investigates the relationship between alchemy and objecthood in painting through his unique manipulation and moulding of surface and edge. Through interplays with oil, oil bar and raw pigment — alongside the use of unconventional tools for mark making — Collins pushes paint into foreign terrains. It becomes an unknowable substance. The paintings appear formed from living matter. Enigmatic deltas, operating within their own logic, both inside and outside of time.
Pictured above:
James Collins
Lithic Root 46, 2025-2026
Acrylic, oil, raw pigment and oil bar on canvas
24 x 40cm
For more information please contact the gallery at [email protected]
Photo credit: @photodocumenta
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We are delighted to announce the opening of ‘Diogo Pimentão. Transient Force of Things’ at CAM Gulbenkian @camgulbekian . The exhibition opens to the public on the 28th of March.
'Seeing the exhibition space as a pre-existing drawing – a structure that already contains a lot of information – Pimentão understands that each gesture that takes place there leaves a mark on the space and on the person who crosses it.
As the artist is drawn to the instant of tension when something is ready to transform, two of the works arise from performative actions carried out by him in collaboration with the French dancer and choreographer Emmanuel Eggermont.'
For more information about Pimentão's work please contact [email protected]
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On view: James Collins 'Deltas' until the 16th May.
The exhibition marks Collins' second solo show with the gallery and brings together a body of recent paintings produced between 2024–26.
Each work is rooted in a syntax of recurring structures, forms particular to Collins. His compositions are constructed, excavated and dispersed repeatedly until an image starts to take shape. Built from latent traces and established over large passages of time, the paintings hold the history of their making in the dense ground from which they emerge. The works operate like a covered archaeological site, but one in which new forms grow over the scars of the land. Accumulated weight, arrangement of space and encrusted surfaces suggest underlying matter. Foundational lines and directional planes are left poised on the edge of tidal movement.
For more information please contact the gallery at [email protected]
Photo credit: @photodocumenta and @geoffperry57
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