valeurs refuge | natacha donzé

In the exhibition valeurs refuge, Natacha Donzé transforms the gallery into a painterly landscape shaped by sacred symbols and synthetic aesthetics. The space hovers in a state of ambivalence: tracing a line from intimacy to abstraction, from emotional charge to immaculate surface. Luminous, calm and subtly artificial, it lingers like a digital afterimage – a synthetic memory infused with ancient symbolism of love, decay and cycles of life.

At the center of the exhibition is the painting not built, but born – two skulls facing each other like lovers in a silent encounter. Their iconic presence suggests the existence of a portal, a connection beyond time, enveloped in a chromatic world of golds, acid yellows and sunset tones – a sacred and consumerist atmosphere. A series of canvases that refer to architectural facades and fragments of bodily gestures emerge in the exhibition: sweating structures, touched surfaces, bodies that have been worked on, worn out or invested in.

Donzé's practice brings together visual languages from corporate imagery, religious space, and biological systems. Through her signature use of airbrush and modular formats, she explores the tension between what is human-made and what is inherently human – between structures we build and the feelings that persist within them. The exhibition forms a cycle: love and death, capital and desire, bodies and buildings, all held in a fragile, glowing equilibrium.

The exhibition opens parallel to Berlin Art Week.

Opening | Berlin
Friday 12 September 2025
6 – 9 pm
The artist will be present

Special opening hours during the Opening Weekend
Saturday 13 September, 12 – 6 pm
Sunday 14 September, 12 – 6 pm