a self-taught painter and draftsman based in New York, his work emerges from a deeply felt connection to transience—of places, of moods, of memory. Moving in and out of small, concentrated bodies of work, Mommsen explores the fragile quality of presence, using painting as a meditation on being. There is an old soul in his sensibility, a quiet resistance to the velocity and sensitivities of modern times. To him, art is not a fixed act but a process of becoming—of thought gathering matter, of stillness turning into resonance. It is a pursuit of transcendence, where image and emotion coalesce in their own measured logic.

Felix Murphy, born in Liverpool, is an Anglo-Irish painter and sculptor based in London. Murphy works through painting as both surface and object, where material gathers into relief or thins toward trace. Working with materials drawn from both painting and industry, he combines oil, linen, wax, and raw pigment with shellac, iodine, lead, iron, and enamel. Surfaces are stained, sealed, compressed, split, or oxidised as works move between painting, relief, and constructed form.

Frauke Alina Becker works primarily in painting alongside drawing and sculpture. Her practice is grounded in observation and examines how bodies, forms and environments relate to one another and shift in space. Working with portraits as well as bodily and spatial constellations, her work explores transformation, movement, resonance, growth, decay and touch. These elements unfold in layered pictorial spaces in which boundaries remain unstable and in flux, keeping the works in a continuous state of becoming.

Juan Franco presents a visual essay on appearance and enigma. In his work, painting is not an act or representation, but of invocation. The image is not constructed, it is revealed: like a secret emerging from the depths, like a trick performed before our eyes whose mechanism remains concealed. Franco does not paint what he sees; he paints what he senses. That is why his painting does not declare, it suggests, summons, unsettles.

a Franco-Italian artist who lives and works in Paris. Working primarily in oil painting, she has also explored installation and performance, notably during her residency at the Laurent Moonens Foundation in Brussels. Her work centers on themes of the female body and the couple, approached in their broadest sense. Her compositions—at times layered to evoke movement, at others situated within scenes of everyday life—are infused with personal narratives and a sense of nostalgia. Through accumulations of intertwined bodies and surfaces, she seeks to reveal the complexity of human relationships, balancing tension and harmony within an ordered chaos.

A German-Dutch artist living and working between Berlin and New York City. His artistic practice can be read as resistance to chrononormativity, to the linear structuring of time Joosten works with residual or fragmented materials: industrial prototypes, discarded architectural elements, forms that have become obsolete. These are materials that have fallen out of their temporal grid, not yet waste, no longer functional, but caught in a state of limbo. Instead of imposing a logic of progress or completion on these objects, the artist emphasizes incompleteness, delay, and repetition. Joosten’s works suggest an ongoing becoming, a refusal to settle into past or future, memory, or vision. He thus creates a space for a temporal drag —a reverberation of the past in the present. Joosten collects the unclaimed, the half-forgotten, the speculatively remaining. We find ourselves in the archive of the not-yet.

Robert Nawe lives and works in Kraków. In his artistic practice, he explores the relationship between individual experience and the tensions of contemporary life. His starting points are personal emotions and observations of reality, which he transforms into images of universal scope. He is interested in themes of identity, violence, and the human condition within the context of social and political change. Works balance between figuration and abstraction. The human figure undergoes deformation and transformation, becoming a vessel for psychological states. An essential role is played by expressive gesture and the layered texture of the paint— elements that underscore the process-oriented nature of his creative practice.

Sarah Bechter (* 1989) lives and works in Vienna. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has exhibited at Kunsthaus Glarus (CH), Belvedere 21 (AT), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (CH), Pedro Cera (ESP), Someday Gallery (NYC), Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman (AT), Gallery Ann Mazzotti (CH), Künstlerhaus Bregenz (AT), Angelika Kauffmann Museum (AT), Intersticio Madrid (ESP), Galeria Pelaires (ESP), Dock 20 (AT), Exile Gallery (AT), Galerie Kandlhofer (AT), Kunstverein Schattendorf (AT), Eastcontemporary (IT/FR), Kunstverein Bludenz (AT), among others. Sarah has received numerous awards and grants and her works are represented in several public collections.

Luke Boyer is an American sculptor based in New York City. His practice investigates the liminal moment an object in transition inhabits. To do so he primarily works in steel, ceramic, fabric and gauze. His work calls upon shapes analogous to generative forms. Finding inspiration within organs, cocoons or industrial machinery grants the sculptures to takeon different tonal qualities at once. These generative forms are subtly evoked, which allow them to remain on the periphery of the viewer's reference point, while still informing them. Through exploring material interaction Boyer also conveys the sense of coalescence between the poles (decay and growth, solid and fluid, retain and shed, mend and break, astringent and expansive). Suddenly opposites are functioning simultaneously in a singular form. This