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Lust Fog 2026
Egg tempera and oil on paper, oak wood frame, 30 x 39 cm taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @modernanimals__

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10 days ago

Sabine Vernere,
Limb-loosener, 2026
Egg tempera on paper, marble
@sabine.vernere
Show opens Wednesday, October 7, 5pm by @modernanimals__

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15 days ago

We are pleased to invite you to the show „Sweetbitter“ by Latvian artist Sabine Vernere opening on Wednesday, October 7, 5pm.

Curated by Megija Milberga.

Sabīne Vernere (b. 1990, Latvia) is a Latvian artist based in Riga. Working primarily in Indian ink, she creates expressive paintings populated by anthropomorphic, gender-fluid beings. Her practice brings together sensuality with elements of disturbance and violence, exploring the complex and often ambivalent relationships between humans and the natural world.

Vernere holds a doctorate in Visual Art and Design from the Art Academy of Latvia (2025), where she also received her Master’s degree (2018) and Bachelor’s degree (2016) from the Department of Painting. She has furthered her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. by @modernanimals__

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17 days ago

In an almost brutalist gesture, Jodi Biggs forces enormous quantities of oil paint onto his support. Layer upon layer, the paint builds into something close to sculpture, a surface that recalls the work of Frank Auerbach. By deliberately refusing refinement, Biggs sets out, in a sense, not to paint anything beautiful. The motif could hardly be more conventional: two red flowers in a white vase on a table, set against a dark ground. Yet he treats it with near hostility. The vase is a churned mass of white, the table a knotted brown crust, the background a black, blistered skin. The flowers seem less painted than squeezed out, their red coiling like something wet and alive, which is perhaps where the title comes from. And still, beauty happens. It arrives against the painting’s own will, all the more convincing for having been resisted. As if to push the point further, Biggs sets the work in an absurdly deep frame of heavy oak, turning a small still life into an object, almost a reliquary. A disarmingly beautiful work. It’s part of the group show Cosmogram. @jodiworking taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @modernanimals__

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a month ago

Sarah Richani, Nectar, 2026, 140x110 cm
Every area in this painting is on the move. The colors change before your eyes. @sarahrichani @modernanimals__ by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

She masters the small ones and she masters the big ones: The very young Canadian painter Emily Hughes, now on view at Modern Animals. by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

Jemima Moore, Trafalgar Square, 2026, oilstick on panel, 120x90cm by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

Jemima Moore, Mary‘s Nocturne, 2026, oil stick on canvas, 90x120cm
Available through Modern Animals, part of the exhibition COSMOGRAM

„Schönes Blau, in dem die Pfauen spazieren und sich verneigen,
Blau der Fernen, der Zonen des Glücks mit den Wettern für mein Gefühl,
Blauer Zufall am Horizont! Und meine begeisterten Augen
Weiten sich wieder und blinken und brennen sich wund.“
(Ingeborg Bachmann) by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

Meet the artists of our upcoming show COSMOGRAM

Sakurako Shirai
Born in 2001 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Currently based in Kyoto.
Graduated from Vantan Design Institute, Fashion Design Course
BFA in Oil Painting, Kyoto University of the Arts
MFA in Oil Painting, Graduate School of Kyoto University of the Arts
@sakurakoshirai by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

A cosmogram is not a picture of the world but a thing that holds a world together and sets it working. The term belongs to the historian of science John Tresch, who used it for objects — a temple, an atlas, an astronomical clock — that do not merely represent a cosmos but enact one, gathering a whole order of being into a single made thing.
What separates a genuine cosmogram from a picture that merely invites a clever reading is resistance. A real work pushes back. It tells the viewer things they did not put there and refuses to close neatly around any single interpretation. The paintings gathered in this show are the ones that argue — that hold to material specificity and conviction rather than performing the mood of their moment, that construct a world, however small or quiet, rather than reflecting one back.
@jodiworking @jemima_moore_ @maddalenazadra @sarahrichani @alixphilippeartist @sakurakoshirai @emi1ze by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

Two works by the British painter Jemima Moore @jemima_moore_
More works to be seen in the group show “Cosmogram” opening August 20, 5pm. by @modernanimals__

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2 months ago

Meet the artist of the show Cosmogram opening August 20, 5pm
Alix Philippe paints from personal memory — photographs, Posca pen sketches, and plein air oils made while travelling. She works in layers, shifting between techniques within a single canvas, so the landscapes arrive fragmented and lit from somewhere unspecified. The paintings sit between abstraction and figuration. They suggest a place without naming it, and hold to the question of what it means to belong somewhere. @alixphilippeartist by @modernanimals__

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