For the inaugural exhibition at Guilford Street, Galerina is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring works by artists who work across various media including painting, sculpture and sound. Vivian Tétaz’s shipping cardboard, together with the fine threads of McKenzie’s waxed receipts, trails a journey of a successfully completed cycle of consumption. In Phones (brown), Samba recounts an unsuccessful transactional trail of her personal accounts, replaying a real-life conversation with the credit agency on a vintage phone, as they inform her of an identity theft carried out by a close family member. DeSe Escobar has hidden the true identities of HotWheels cars in Bathing Ape clothing, a miniature scene unfolding within the reflection of oneself. The sculpture on top of the stacked plinths awkwardly compresses the space and subtly compromises one’s spatial awareness - a nod to walking down Broadway, Soho, NY. In Fourchy and Reinhold’s works, The Ballade von der unsichtbaren Realität oder what is the emotional Atmosphere? and Crawl Babies, the artists create abstract forms and layers in the same medium - aiming to dissect its technicality and linearity. Reinhold excavates the medium of oil, laying down marble dust only to intricately scrape it back to abstract, warping forms on the canvas. Fourchy enacts a similar perversion of the traditional medium, this time concerned more with media as a whole, flattening pop cultural references into several painted planes, like stencils, into one picture plane. Meanwhile, in Michael’s soldieraircraft A, hyperrealism is confronted in the face of cyclical, preconceived notions of mediatised imagery.
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After three years of intimate exhibitions staged in a bedroom and a series of nomadic curatorial projects, Galerina is thrilled to announce the opening of its inaugural permanent space.
Founded as an experimental, apartment gallery, Galerina began as a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists, many of whom are our close friends. Prioritising close dialogue, risk-taking, and community over convention, what started as a domestic exhibition programme quickly evolved into a mobile curatorial initiative, occupying temporary sites and collaboration across cities.
The opening of Galerina’s first dedicated space marks a significant new chapter with a commitment to fostering long-term relationships with artists and audiences alike.
The inaugural exhibition opened to the public on 19 February with a group exhibition Don’t, featuring artworks by
DeSe Escobar, Andrea Fourchy, Stuart McKenzie, Alan Michael, Sophie Reinhold, Coumba Samba and Vivienne
Tétaz.
The exhibition is an introduction to our programme and the space we hope to become over the next years ahead.
