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until 21.06. | #4659ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 03. May 2025 (Opening: 02.05.) the exhibition Spleen by the artist Roméo Mivekannin.
Galerie Barbara Thumm presents Roméo Mivekannin’s second solo exhibition at the gallery for this year’s Gallery Weekend.
Mivekannin deals with the works of European painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme or Eugène Delacroix, who depicted the ‘Orient’ in staged scenes and often showed women and objects as eroticised representations or symbols of submission. Mivekannin precisely adopts the design elements of the original paintings, including architectural references, geometric patterns, plant ornaments and textile representations.
Mivekannin’s free-hanging canvases are created on old bed sheets, which are part of his artistic practice. The sheets are treated in liquids whose composition is inspired by rituals steeped in the tradition of the Kingdom of Dahomey (present-day Benin).
Galerie Barbara Thumm will present one of Mivekannin’s first sculptural installations in collaboration with Cécile Fakhoury at Art Basel Unlimited this year. The artist is currently represented with two solo exhibitions at the Musée du Louvre-Lens and the Collezione Maramotti.
Opening: Friday, 02 May 2025, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 03 May – Saturday, 21 June 2025
Gallery Weekend Berlin: Saturday, 3 May: 11 am – 7 pm – Sunday, 4 May: 11 am – 6 pm
To the Gallery
Image caption title: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm
Exhibition Roméo Mivekannin – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
