Emliy Ludwig Shaffer @emmerglemmer currently on view at the gallery in ‘Zig Zag’ alongside Amalie Jakobsen @amalie.jakobsen
“In works where architectural fragments, furnishings, or everyday elements appear, color heightens their ambiguity. A blue structure reads as both object and outline; a wall dissolves into a field; a figure becomes almost sculptural through tonal reduction. Rather than reinforcing a coherent space, Shaffer’s color decisions introduce a subtle but persistent dissonance—edges sharpen perception even as they destabilize it.”
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Image:
Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Outside In, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 59 inches (180 x 150 cm)
#zigzag, #emilyludwigshaffer
Zig Zag, featuring Amalie Jakobsen @amalie.jakobsen and Emily Ludwig Shaffer @emmerglemmer , is open during Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Gallery Weekend Hours: Friday, May 1, 11am–9pm Saturday, May 2, 11am–6pm Sunday, May 3, 11am–6pm
Photos: Andrea Rossetti
#ZigZag #AmalieJakobsen #EmilyLudwigShaffer #GalleryWeekendBerlin #GalleryWeekend
Future Gallery is pleased to present Zig Zag, a duo exhibition featuring Amalie Jakobsen @amalie.jakobsen and Emily Ludwig Shaffer @emmerglemmer .
Zig Zag brings together the work of Amalie Jakobsen and Emily Ludwig Shaffer, two artists whose practices are grounded in a rigorous engagement with color, space, and constructed environments.
Working across sculpture and painting, Jakobsen and Shaffer engage color as a precise and intentional force—one that structures space, guides perception, and introduces subtle instability. With sharply defined forms that recall the legacy of Hard Edge abstraction, both artists extend this language into new territory: Jakobsen through spatial, immersive constructions, and Shaffer through paintings that oscillate between clarity and spatial ambiguity.
Zig Zag May 1 – June 6 Opening reception: May 1, 6–9 pm
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Images: 1.
Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Dizzy, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 inches (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
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Amalie Jakobsen Untitled, 2026 Mirror-polished stainless steel
160 x 52 x 40 cm
3. Zig Zag announcement
#FutureGallery #ZigZag #AmalieJakobsen #EmilyLudwigShaffer
Last week to experience Kévin Bray’s ‘Now the Stars Are Looking Back at Us’, on view through April 18
”The work distinguishes between two competing modes of reading the world: Ecological Literacy and Algorithmic Literacy. The former, defined as an “Inquisitive Gaze,” is an empirical, sensory-driven mode of tracking rooted in the curiosity to decipher the “neighbor”: animal, plant, or planet, through a direct, tactical intimacy where knowledge is a mutual, if difficult, dialogue between the observer and the observed. In contrast, Algorithmic Literacy operates as a “Predictive Gaze,” a systemic evolution that shifts the focus from presence to abstraction by flattening the unpredictable movements of life into standardized, actionable data points. Within this framework, curiosity is supplanted by optimization; the “neighbor” is no longer a mystery to be wondered at, but a user profile to be managed, policed, and monetized. This represents the final transition of tracking into a one-way extraction, an automated process of observation conducted from the safe, sterile, and increasingly remote distance of the sky.”
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Image:
Kévin Bray The shooting star, 2026
3D printed sculpture (PLA) including glass and second life objects, water and color dye, video mapping
166 x 155 x 68 cm
#KévinBray, #nowthestarsarelookingbackatus, #3dprint, #videomapping
Amalie Jakobsen @amalie.jakobsen on view at CCA Andratx @ccandratx during Art Cologne Palma Mallorca @artcolognefair
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Images:
1.
Amalie Jakobsen
Osculating Orbits I (black), 2026
Aluminum, primer, acrylic paint
120 x 61 x 49 cm
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Osculating Orbits I (black), 2026 Install view
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Amalie Jakobsen
Osculating Orbits (Mirror-polished), 2026
50 x 39.7 x 30 cm
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Osculating Orbits (Mirror-polished), 2026 Install view
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Amalie Jakobsen
Osculating Orbits II (blue), 2026
Aluminum, primer, acrylic paint
150 x 62 x 76 cm
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Osculating Orbits II (blue), 2026 Install view with the artist
César Piette @gosmoothorgohome at Art Cologne Palma Mallorca @artcolognefair
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Image:
César Piette
moscow muhle + schrimp + knife, 2026
Acrylic and UV print on canvas
65 x 47 1/4 in
165 x 120 cm
#césarpiette, #acpm
Kévin Bray’s Now the Stars Are Looking Back at Us is currently on view at the gallery through April 18.
”Where we once tracked the stars to understand our place in the world, we now track humans to manipulate behaviors and emotions. Through sculpture and installation, this exhibition materializes these invisible signals, asking what remains of human agency when the navigator’s intuition is fully replaced by the data-broker’s algorithm.”
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Image:
Kévin Bray Their most intimate spy, 2026
3D printed sculpture (PLA) including glass and second life objects
129 x 114 x 35.3 cm
#KévinBray, #nowthestarsarelookingbackatus, #3dprint
Kévin Bray’s ‘Now the Stars Are Looking Back at Us’ is currently on view at the gallery through April 18.
“The traditional image of surveillance is the Panopticon popularized by Michel Foucault: a dark, central watchtower. Bray argues, however, that the contemporary “vertical gaze” of satellites and screens operates through the logic of a disco ball. It is a central, rotating object that captures the light of our data only to fragment, multiply, and scatter it back at us.
This new Panopticon is seductive: it is shiny, rhythmic, and high-frequency. Yet, like the disco ball, it is also strategically blinding. By breaking reality into thousands of reflected facets, it prevents a cohesive view of the system itself. We are mesmerized by the “sparkle” of real-time connectivity, but this very brightness obscures the underlying machinery of control, leaving us unable to see the void of space or the clarity of the horizon.”
#KévinBray, #NowTheStarsAreLookingBackAtUs
We are excited to invite you to the second solo show by Kévin Bray at @future_gallery Opening, Saturday, March 14th, 6 – 9 pm titled: Now the Stars Are Looking Back at Us
Tracking once meant reading the world, following stars, animals, and seasons to understand our place within it. Today, that relationship has inverted. The sky is no longer a guide for navigation but a dense grid of satellites and sensors observing life on Earth.
In this exhibition, Kévin Bray explores how the ancient human gaze toward the cosmos has been replaced by a technological gaze looking back at us. Like a rotating disco ball, contemporary surveillance fragments and reflects our data endlessly, mesmerizing, blinding, and difficult to grasp as a whole.
Through sculpture and installation, Bray materializes these invisible systems, asking what remains of human agency when curiosity gives way to prediction and the navigator’s intuition is replaced by the algorithm.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Painting: A Galaxy Of Gaze, 2026
#art #contemporyart #installation #sculpture #star
Last days to visit our current exhibition Velocity.
Featuring works by Isabella Amram, Ximena Fuentes, Botond Keresztesi, Zigsen Liu, Jeremy Olson, and Lukáš Šmejkal.
On view through March 7, 2026.
Image: Jeremy Olson emergent care, 2025 Oil on linen over panel 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
#jeremyolson
