Becoming Islanders
In the mid-nineteenth century, Ascension Island became the site of a British imperial experiment in environmental transformation. Through global networks of plant exchange and scientific collaboration—including Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker—the island was reshaped into a constructed ecosystem, formed not through co-evolution but deliberate design. Johanna Binder’s project, including Becoming Islanders, uses this history […]
The Virgin Suicides
‘Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl’ The Virgin Suicides, dir. Sofia Coppola, Paramount Classics, 1999 Fairy tales and fables are one of the first stories we encounter, even before we learn to read. Their language, images, and morals deeply affect us and stay with us for a long time. The works that are […]
Odyssea: Le sel de la terre – a collaboration between Spiaggia Libera and PUNTA Gallery
“Odyssea – The Song of the Sirens and the Salt of the Earth” unfolds in two interrelated parts that trace transformation, identity, and the future of society. The exhibition was created in 2024 and first presented at the Spiaggia Libera gallery in Marseille and in Paris exploring different dimensions of contemporary existence through symbols such […]
Liudvikas Kesminas | Full Metal Shell DLC
Welcome to: Full Metal Shell DLC. B: what is the meaning behind this title? L: DLC means downloadable content. It is additional content created for an already released video game. In the context of this exhibition, DLC is a concept that gave birth to further development of my creative container, a supplement to previously explored […]
Tomas in the Box
Tomas nel Box Luca Tomassini, in arte Tomas, si impone non come semplice artefice di immagini, ma come un costruttore di universi. La sua ricerca artistica si situa in una faglia temporale dove il passato ancestrale collide con un futuro prossimo, elevando l’umanità a una dimensione mitica attraverso una narrazione che trascende la cronaca per […]
Bitter Spring
Spring is the season we load with the most expectation. It is also the season that keeps withdrawing, arriving late, or cold, or briefly, or not quite as imagined.When Plato used the word pharmakon in the Phaedrus, he meant poison. His translators wrote remedy. Both are correct: the ancient Greek word names an inherently ambiguous […]
Warm–Cool
In a time marked by distance and, at the same time, an intense need for intimacy, Anna Zvyagintseva’s show Warm–Cool turns to the bodily experience of contact—both accidental and necessary, fragile yet decisive. What happens at the moment of encounter? How does the body hold its trace, and how does this memory continue to shape […]
Lignes de désir
Lignes de désir 06.02–07.03.2024 PUNTA Gallery, 15 Stefan Stambolov Blvd. (bookstore and café), 31 Stefan Stambolov Blvd. (next to the sewing supplies shop) *In order to visit the shops, please come by PUNTA Gallery from Wednesday to Saturday, 3–7 PM Aaron Roth, Veronika Desova, Yana Abrasheva, Tsvetomira Borisova, Rada Boukova, Valko Chobanov, Lazar Lyutakov, Vikenti […]
Solid Performance
Lisa Großkopf’s solo exhibition, »Solid Performance«, tackles the relentless pressure to achieve in the modern age. The pervasive sense that we must constantly work on ourselves or be “on” at all times permeates every aspect of our lives. Through a mix of humor, critique, and raw vulnerability, her videos, photographs, installations, and performances confront these […]
Birds of Paradise
Solo exhibition in the main wing. A system of elevated wooden frameworks runs through the corridors. These structures operate simultaneously as supports and as passageways: they direct movement, frame sightlines, and produce partial concealments. Visitors move under, around, and alongside them, becoming aware of their own bodies in relation to architecture. The structures function less […]