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Impulsion, 2026 Oil, cochineal, turkish rose, soy wax 180 × 160 × 3.5 cm (70.9 × 63 × 1.4 in) by @si__we__
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Liquid Love, 2026 Oil, crocosmia on canvas 180 x 160 x 3,5 cm (70,9 x 63 x 1.4 in) by @si__we__
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An update: earlier this year, I quietly moved away from London to indulge myself in the Cornish landscape and its bodies of water. New works to follow. 🦋🌀 photo by @trinestruwe taken in Cornwall, United Kingdom by @si__we__
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CIRCLE is delighted to present works by Silke Weissbach, whose abstract paintings explore the porous relationship between body, material and environment. On view throughout June #CIRCLE taken in Circle Contemporary Gallery by @si__we__
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CIRCLE presents new works by Silke Weissbach, whose abstract paintings explore the porous relationship between body, material and environment. Weissbach creates abstract paintings that operate as living systems. Her work explores an embodied ecology, understanding transformation as both chemical and emotional, and grounded in the belief that our connection to the natural world is a form of knowledge we are continually relearning. Materials play an active role in Weissbach’s practice. Living close to natural environments enables her to forage and gather biological matter, which she combines with synthetic compounds drawn from consumer and cosmetic industries. This pairing reflects a central concern in her work: the entanglement of natural and manufactured systems. Through layering and environmental control, Weissbach guides processes of crystallisation, absorption and sedimentation, creating paintings that function as records of material transformation. Liquids pool and recede, pigments disperse and concentrate, while surfaces fracture, contract and evolve over time. In Focus is a monthly curated series in the Upper Gallery, presenting new works, new artists and focused exhibitions alongside the main programme. On view throughout June Enquiries: lucy@circlecontemporary.co.uk #CIRCLE by @si__we__
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taken in Cornwall, United Kingdom by @si__we__
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Inhaler, 2026 Oil, pine needles, wax, resin on canvas, mounted on custom aluminium stretcher bars 50 x 35 cm x 2cm taken in London, United Kingdom by @si__we__
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Rivers We Cannot See, 2026 @artemara.gallery by @si__we__
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Rivers We Cannot See 6 February – 5 April 2026 For Rivers We Cannot See, Silke Weißbach brings together a series of abstract, colour field paintings produced over the last two years. The works unfold through sustained engagement with painting as a material, bodily, and sensory system. Over recent years, she has spent extended periods near coastlines and tidal terrains—by the Baltic Sea of her childhood, and later along the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. These journeys began as acts of departure from the studio, yet gradually revealed themselves as a form of return. What emerged was a coming home to modes of sensing and understanding. Travel operates here as a condition of thought. Immersion in humidity, salt air, shifting light, and vegetation reactivates bodily memories that precede language. Walking through pine forests with resin warming in the sun; moving through mangroves and palms dense with moisture; sensing how different environments hold water and how the body adjusts almost instinctively. These encounters produced material knowledge that later entered the work. Weißbach does not abandon the studio but reconfigures its function. It becomes a permeable threshold: What is gathered outside—matter, scent, rhythm, sensation—returns and continues to transform within it. Materials closely connected to the body and practices of care form the basis of the paintings: collagen, hyaluronic acid, wax, aloe vera, spirulina, cochineal, soap, and plant residues. These substances remain active. They bind, absorb, seep, and settle, allowing time to register physically within the surface. Water functions as a structuring force throughout the work. It shapes landscapes and circulates through bodies, linking interior and exterior systems. Blood plasma carries a salinity close to that of the primordial sea. Within the paintings, these relations appear through viscosity, opacity, staining, and sedimentation. Layers accumulate slowly, forming topologies that hold moisture differently and retain traces of pressure, touch, and duration. Like weather systems or tides, they articulate states of density, flow, and resistance. by @si__we__
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in awe taken in Cornwall by @si__we__
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Lago Como taken in Lake Como, Italy by @si__we__
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Silke Weißbach is a German artist who asks of painting something it has rarely been asked – namely, for it to be dynamically combustible, and, to all intents and purposes, alive. She assembles compounds, such as hyaluronic acid, collagen, and plant matter as interactive creative participants in work that looks very much like abstract painting, yet behaves like a living system – one in which materials continually metabolise one another, asserting a presence that is neither wholly synthetic, nor wholly organic. “There is a moment within my process where technology and the living world circulate through one another – where boundaries are porous, and everything is in exchange” - Silke Weißbach This month she opens a new exhibition INFOCUS at Circle contemporary gallery, located in the Hawksfield artisan hub along North Cornwall’s Atlantic Highway - a unique space with a distinct, landscape-driven approach to the presentation of art that feels like it parallels Weißbach’s practice. In her conversation with FUTURISTIC DRAGON she coins the phrase ‘Metabolic Intimacy’ to describe her work and reminds us that the world we inhabit is made of compounds that communicate, conjoin, and alter one another, proposing art as a practice for leaning into the strange chemical conversations at the root of life. “The canvas acts less as a fixed surface and more as a membrane — porous, responsive, and metabolising. The materials behave with their own agency” - Silke Weißbach Read the full interview here: https://www.futuristicdragon.com/silkeweisbach Interview by @johnpaulpryor Portraits of the artist by Rita Silva. Artworks: Anma, 2025, oil, cochineal (Dragon’s Blood), cornflowers, wax on canvas, 152.4×101.6×3cm; High On You, 2024, acrylic, soap, shea butter, PVA, pigments, wax, Magic Bells – Mother of Thousands, comfort (lily and riceflower) on linen, 210×160cm; One More Rush, 2025, arcrylic, ink, cochineal, collagen, comfort, estrogen, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, lactose, plant sap, progestin, starch on canvas, 200×180cm. All images courtesy of the artist. #silkeweißbach #circlegallery #art #artlife futuristic_dragon by @si__we__
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