Curated by John Silvis

In Natural Inversions, artists Hua Wang and Emanuel Heim present new paintings and sculptural works that explore the evolving interplay between nature, technology, and spiritual transformation. Together, they examine how human perception and material form adapt in an age of rapid change, a moment defined by innovation, yet shadowed by unease about what lies ahead.

History tells us there is nothing new under the sun. Yet human creativity continually resists that dictum, generating new forms that unravel, invert, and reimagine the familiar. In distinct yet resonant ways, Heim and Wang respond to this tension: their works inhabit a space shaped by flux and uncertainty, where established moral and aesthetic orders begin to dissolve. Emanuel Heim’s abstract paintings construct dynamic geometric architectures that evoke both movement and instability. In Die Suche 3 (2024), the largest work in the exhibition, figures traverse a psychologically charged landscape, blending internal and external terrains. Heim’s approach transforms the visual journey into a metaphor for desire, vulnerability, and self-recognition.

Hua Wang’s sculptural practice balances materiality with transcendence. Her new series combines ceramics, glass, and aluminum in an installation orbiting around a central piece, Bodhi, 2009 (2026), a shimmering structure from whose branches hang gold coins that suggest both ritual and reflection. Each smaller sculpture operates as a self-contained cosmology—a quiet, meditative object that opens onto an unseen world. By oscillating between abstraction and presence, the spiritual and the profane, Wang and Heim affirm the beauty of uncertainty. Their works invite viewers to embrace this state of becoming not as a rupture, but as a generative space — one where transformation remains possible.

Opening Hours: daily, 12:00–18:00