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until 27.06. | #4695 ARTatBerlin | DUVE BERLIN currently shows the exhibition „An egg in the pocket“ by the artist Lula Broglio.
Lula Broglio (1993 in Imperia, Italy) lives and works in Biella. She studied Painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 2015 and later obtained a Master’s degree in finer arts in 2018.. In 2015, she co-founded Spaziobuonasera (an artist-run space in Turin); in 2017, Club Pineta (an artist residency).
Over the past five years, Lula Broglio has exhibited her work in numerous national and international galleries and institutions, including: Post fair with Tureen Dallas (Los Angeles, 2025), Nevven (Göteborg, 2024) Museo della Sapienza (Rome, 2024), Salotto Studio (Milan, 2023), GOBEN X GU11 (Cologne, 2023), Castello di Rivoli (Turin, 2023), Fondazione Pino Pascali (Polignano a Mare, 2022), Amanita (S’chanf, 2022), Palazzina (Basel, 2021), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, 2021), Fondazione Smart (Rome, 2021), and Basis (Frankfurt, 2018).
One day, a bird laid a paintbrush on a pair of knees. The brush was slipped into a pocket and turned into an egg. Nothing extraordinary — the pocket became a nest, and the step an ancient rhythm, lulling it. The egg doesn’t speak, but it knows: it holds the entire mystery of painting. The egg is a poem, a round secret. To carry an egg in your pocket means to bear a subtle, delicate sensitivity — a tension that could turn into an omelette at any moment. It is an offering, or perhaps a sacrifice, that no one ever asked for.
On the cart, there’s a ladder that climbs toward the moon. The oil pastels, neatly lined up, await their turn to ascend. It’s a rare occasion: who can say they’ve ever looked at the moon from so close up? Perhaps they can — the pastels — before anyone else.
Silent insects rest on faces, as if they wished to preserve memory. Profiles suspended between sleep and wakefulness, their gaze fixed on something unknown. Are they lucid dreaming?
In their pockets there are no eggs now, but seeds. They scatter them on the ground with a natural ease, like a ritual long forgotten. In that silent motion lies the same gentleness with which the bird laid the brush upon those very knees.
It’s all there, look:
in rummaging through deep darkness and the crumbs in one’s pockets,
in sowing without wondering whether anything will grow,
in playing music with no hands,
in going to see the moon up close,
in holding an expression between the thighs and a sky between the hands.
— Lula Broglio
Opening: Friday, 2nd May 2025, 1 – 6 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 2nd May until Friday, 27th June 2025
To the Gallery
Title image caption: Lula Broglio,*The girl and the ants*, 2025, 60cm x 80cm, Oil on canvas Courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin
Exhibition Lula Broglio – DUVE BERLIN | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
