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until 25.04. | #4983ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Contemporary shows from Friday, 13. March 2026 (Opening: 12.03.) the group exhibition La Vie en Rose by the artists Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Clara Tournay and Mana Urakami. Curated by Luisa Catucci and Mario Bermel.
Curated by Luisa Catucci in collaboration with Mario Bermel, the exhibition is the first to be presented under the new name “Luisa Catucci Contemporary” and marks the transition of the former “Luisa Catucci Gallery” into an expanded platform for contemporary art.
Mana Urakami, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary
The exhibition brings together works by Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Clara Tournay and Mana Urakami, and unfolds around the presence of the colour pink – not as a decorative motif, but as a quiet, persistent pulse. Historically, pink has been layered with shifting meanings, ranging from spiritual embodiment and Rococo excess to its later gendered domestication; here it is reclaimed as a symbol of resilience and lived strength. It appears in drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and embroideries as a stain, a reflection, an interruption or a subtle trace, uniting tenderness and strength in a single breath.
Maike Freess, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary
The title alludes to Édith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose”, evoking not a romantic idealisation but a resilience shaped by hardship and survival. This undertone of change resonates on both an institutional and a personal level, reflecting the gallery’s development as well as Bermel’s move from Berlin to Paris.
Clara Tournay, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary
Throughout the exhibition, bodies dissolve and reassemble; figuration emerges from abstraction; materials shift between the organic and the industrial; and photographs are gently brought back to life by threads. Pink appears as a presence rather than a proclamation – a quiet space in which strength exists without spectacle. Ultimately, the exhibition speaks of a resilience that does not put itself on display, but simply endures.
Opening: Thursday, 12. March 2026, 6–9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. March until Saturday, 25. April 2026
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Titel image caption: Barbara Boekelman, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary
Exhibition La Vie en Rose – Luisa Catucci Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
