Artist talk with the painter Matthias Gálvez

The talk will take place on Friday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m.

The discussion will be held in German, but questions may also be asked in English or Spanish.

The exhibition runs through April 25.

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Matthias Gálvez is a leading figure in realistic figurative painting in Berlin. His works explore proximity not as a narrative motif, but as a state of being. Figures enter into an immediate relationship with one another—and with the viewer. Group scenes and portraits appear as condensed constellations of psychological and physical presence. The depicted situations seem familiar in their everydayness, yet remain ambivalent and open-ended. Gestures, glances, and postures create tension without resolving themselves unambiguously. Gálvez composes his pictorial spaces from fragmented, partly abstract segments that shift and disrupt the perception of the depicted reality. Proximity arises here not through intimacy in the classical sense, but through confrontation. The figures assert their presence as counterparts—immediate, unprotected, and without distance. The exhibition primarily features recent works created in 2025.