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Surface explores how artists continually renegotiate their relationship to the materials they
touch, manipulate, and reinvent. Bringing together practices rooted in repurposing and
transformation, the exhibition highlights works that push both material and perceptual
boundaries, turning the familiar into something unexpected.
 
Within this context, the works complicate the viewer’s sense of depth and material
certainty, transforming industrial and traditional components into fluid, optical
experiences. Through these layered surfaces, they challenge the assumptions embedded
in material hierarchies and expand what an artwork’s “skin” can hold.
 
Beneath these surfaces lie narratives and meanings that draw from art history, philosophy,
music, and contemporary society. The works in Surface operate not only as material
experiments but as invitations to sense the emotional, conceptual, and cultural layers
embedded within.
 
Here, surface is not merely a finishing layer; it becomes a site of investigation, negotiation,
and potential. Surface invites viewers to look again at what is often overlooked and to
witness how artists reimagine the ordinary into something new.
 


Artists

Adam Parker Smith
Christian Holze
Márton Nemes
Peter Cvik

Curator

Thom Oosterhof

VIP Preview: Tuesday, 17 February
Public Opening: From 18 February - 23 April

Installation Images

Selection

Irreversible Paintings 25, 2025

  • MÁRTON NEMES

    Marton Nemes
    Irreversible Paintings 25
    2025
    Mixed Media (porcelain enamel on steel plate, laser-cut and powder-coated stainless steel, mirror, plexiglass, acrylic, canvas, wood, MDF)
    116 x 90 x 8 cm
     

  • Irreversible Paintings 25, 2025

    MÁRTON NEMES

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2026 Resin, steel, urethane, cotton 33 × 33 × 20 cm, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • 2026 Resin, steel, urethane, cotton 33 × 33 × 20 cm, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.3), 2024

  • Christian Holze

    Christian Holze
    Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.3)
    2024
    Mixed media on inkjet print on canvas, 
    printed aluminum plate, plexiglass frame
    190cm x 130cm

  • Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.3), 2024

    Christian Holze

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Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.2), 2024

  • Christian Holze

    Christian Holze
    Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.2)
    2024
    Mixed media on inkjet print on canvas, 
    printed aluminum plate, plexiglass frame
    190cm x 130cm

  • Untitled (The most boring artist I know No.2), 2024

    Christian Holze

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Untitled (The most boring artist I know), 2025

  • Christian Holze

    Christian Holze
    Untitled (The most boring artist I know)
    2025
    Mixed media on inkjet print on canvas, 
    printed aluminum plate, plexiglass frame
    130cm × 100cm

  • Untitled (The most boring artist I know), 2025

    Christian Holze

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Untitled (The most boring artist I know), 2025

  • Christian Holze

    Christian Holze
    Untitled (The most boring artist I know)
    2025
    Mixed media on inkjet print on canvas, 
    printed aluminum plate, plexiglass frame
    130cm × 100cm

  • Untitled (The most boring artist I know), 2025

    Christian Holze

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City Code, 2026

  • Peter Cvik

    Peter Cvik
    City Code
    2026
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    90 x 70 x 4.5 cm

  • City Code, 2026

    Peter Cvik

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Loud Silent Pause, 2026

  • Peter Cvik

    Peter Cvik
    Loud Silent Pause
    2026
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    90 x 70 x 2 cm

  • Loud Silent Pause, 2026

    Peter Cvik

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Architecture of Knowledge (étude), 2025

  • Peter Cvik

    Peter Cvik
    Architecture of Knowledge (étude)
    2025
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    60 x 50 x 2 cm

  • Architecture of Knowledge (étude), 2025

    Peter Cvik

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Pink Harbour, 2026

  • Peter Cvik

    Peter Cik
    Pink Harbour
    2026
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    60 x 50 x 2 cm

  • Pink Harbour, 2026

    Peter Cvik

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Japanese Mornings on Upper Terrace, 2022

  • Peter Cvik

    Peter Cvik
    Japanese Mornings on Upper Terrace
    2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    140 x 170 x 4.5 cm

  • Japanese Mornings on Upper Terrace, 2022

    Peter Cvik

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Irreversible Paintings 24, 2025

  • MÁRTON NEMES

    Marton Nemes
    Irreversible Paintings 24
    2025
    Mixed Media (porcelain enamel on steel plate, laser-cut and powder-coated stainless steel, mirror, plexiglass, acrylic, canvas, wood, MDF)
    116 x 90 x 8 cm
     

  • Irreversible Paintings 24, 2025

    MÁRTON NEMES

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Contrapposto Pool Float, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Contrapposto Pool Float
    2026
    Resin, steel, fiberglass, urethane
    152.4 × 53.3 × 35.6 cm

  • Contrapposto Pool Float, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Roses Tulips and Narcissi in a Glass Vase with a Butterfly, 2026

  • Christian Holze

    Christian Holze
    Roses Tulips and Narcissi in a Glass Vase with a Butterfly
    2026
    Mixed media on inkjet print on canvas, 
    printed aluminum plate, plexiglass frame
    81cm x 63c

  • Roses Tulips and Narcissi in a Glass Vase with a Butterfly, 2026

    Christian Holze

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm 

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart , 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    33 × 33 × 20 cm

  • Shibari Heart , 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart , 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Shibari Heart 
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    17,78 × 17,78 × 11,43 cm

  • Shibari Heart , 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Shibari Heart, 2026

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker
    Smith Shibari Heart
    2026
    Resin, steel, urethane, cotton
    17,78 × 17,78 × 11,43 cm

  • Shibari Heart, 2026

    Adam Parker Smith

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Smith Carolyn (figure 3), 2025

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam Parker Smith
    Carolyn (figure 3)
    2025
    Resin, urethane and aluminum
    114 × 52 × 31 cm

  • Smith Carolyn (figure 3), 2025

    Adam Parker Smith

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, 2025

  • Adam Parker Smith

  • , 2025

    Adam Parker Smith

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Carolyn (figure 1) , 2025

  • Adam Parker Smith

    Adam parker Smith
    Carolyn (figure 1)
    2025
    Resin, urethane and aluminum
    79 × 66 × 54 cm

  • Carolyn (figure 1) , 2025

    Adam Parker Smith

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