5 Standout Exhibits to See at Small Galleries in August 2025

On this month-to-month roundup, we highlight 5 stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries.

Grège Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

By means of Aug. sixteenth

Set within the former stables of a 14th-century Belgian farmhouse, “Timeless Remnants” options work from 4 artists that discover how reminiscence lives on in supplies—whether or not by way of the bodily marks left by time or the emotional weight we assign to things. Mounted by native artwork platform CWART and Grège Gallery, the exhibition echoes these themes in its area, which is full of uncovered beams and weathered brick.

Inside this historic venue, Conrad Willems’s Building VII (2022) stands 10 toes tall. Created from 977 items of Verde Levanto marble—reduce, sanded, and stacked with out glue—the sculpture references picket toy blocks, but feels nearer to a destroy. Like many works in his “Building” collection, the piece nods to the act of passing information ahead and is accompanied by three hand drawings that function meeting directions for each time the sculpture is moved.

Different artists spotlight the ability of reminiscence by way of the supplies used of their works. In LEAF1 (2025), Estonian artist Laura Pasquino presents the bottom of a damaged vase, a compact, cream-colored kind fabricated from unglazed stoneware and porcelain. Close by, Spanish painter Chidy Wayne’s Ego 138 (2025) layers paint right into a thick, tactile floor, depicting an opened and malformed hand in midnight blue in opposition to a brown background. Up shut, it seems that the floor is weathering away. Whether or not fashioned in clay or constructed up in paint, these works really feel temporal: The indicators of damage, very like the constructing they occupy, name consideration to their existence within the current.

Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

By means of Aug. twenty second

London-based artist Lucía Pizzani’s first solo exhibition in Italy, “Tropico Pasado” at Galleria Doris Ghetta, is impressed by two vastly totally different terrains: the Dolomite mountains, that are fashioned from an historical seabed, and the tropical landscapes of her native Venezuela. Incorporating the fossil varieties discovered within the Italian mountain vary and natural varieties from the jungle exterior of Caracas, Pizzani attracts connections between nature and the human physique.

Selva (2025), a big canvas with embedded purple stoneware varieties, anchors Pizzani’s exhibition. Created by urgent plant fibers and seed pods into uncooked canvas, the work resembles a fossilized forest ground. It additionally displays Pizzani’s ongoing curiosity within the which means behind concha, a phrase that interprets to “shell” in Spanish, but additionally evokes oval seed or the vagina. This form seems all through the exhibition as a metaphor for female energy. Pizanni famous in her exhibition textual content that “the shell is the last word armor.” In Tronco Ramal (2025), a standing sculpture composed of black ceramic, wooden, and a reside plant, Pizzani explores the form of the human physique extra overtly. Resembling a carved tree trunk, the work recollects ritual totems and protecting vessels, highlighting how the physique is usually a conduit for each ecological and ancestral connection.

Pizzani holds a BA from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, a certificates in biology from the CERC Middle at Columbia College, and a grasp’s in advantageous artwork from Chelsea Faculty of Arts. Her work was the topic of a solo exhibition at No. 9 Cork Avenue earlier this 12 months. Her work is included within the collections of the Tate in London and the Magasin III Museum for Up to date Artwork in Stockholm.

SUN.CONTEMPORARY, Bali, Indonesia

By means of Aug. twenty third

Named after the Balinese idea of rwa bhineda—the coexistence of opposing forces—this group exhibition brings collectively 17 Indonesian artists who replicate on dualities. The present at SUN.CONTEMPORARY in Bali navigates contrasts of life and dying, softness and construction, heritage and reinvention.

Ni Nyoman Merti’s Cremation (2023)—a big, intricately detailed, and densely populated cityscape—evokes the Balinese Hindu funeral ritual of Ngaben. Relatively than depicting the celebratory ceremony immediately, the portray explores how dying isn’t an finish however a return, folding the person again into the rhythms of life. In the meantime, Sarita Ibnoe’s Experimentation of Interruption 02 (2024) takes a special strategy to rigidity. Right here, yarn is stretched, pushed, and repeatedly manipulated in a course of each aggressive and meditative. The title displays the Bahasa Indonesia phrase kerajinan, which means each “craft” and “diligence.”

Different works replicate on ancestral legacy by way of materials and fantasy. Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto reimagines the standard kemben breastcloth in Tumpal Loka #01 (Kemben) (2023), utilizing batik-dyed cloth layered with archival images. The piece weaves collectively his concepts about household lineage with cosmological symbolism. In the meantime, Mangku Muriati’s portray Bharata Yudha Abad 21 (2014) provides a up to date retelling of a battle from the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata—an everlasting story of ancestral battle that weighs the forces of greed and justice. These artists render rwa bhineda as a residing precept, the place conflicting components exist in productive coexistence.

Ro2 Artwork, Dallas

By means of Aug. fifteenth

After experiencing non permanent blindness in 2018, American artist Kathryn Gohmert turned all for how the mind processes notion underneath stress. Knowledgeable by neuroscience and private expertise, her work discover how concern distorts imaginative and prescient utilizing symbolic varieties to depict the mind’s makes an attempt to make sense of uncertainty and shield itself. Her solo exhibition “Loculos Timoris”—Latin for “pockets of concern”—focuses on the psychological detours we take when confronted with disorientation and stress by way of work that depict the mind in motion.

Gohmert presents a collection of 10 work that resemble MRI scans of the thoughts, the place brain-like varieties are rendered with brilliant colours. Made with oil, graphite, charcoal, and sewn textiles, these works try to make inner ideas legible. In Movie 10 (2024), as an illustration, a vivid orange mind pulses in opposition to a darkish, textured background, flanked by stitched white eyes that seem each scientific and cartoonish. This psychological rigidity performs out within the portray that provides Gohmert’s present its identify, Loculos Timoris (OMY) (2024). Right here, disjointed mind varieties drift throughout the canvas alongside scattered symbols and fragments of textual content.

Primarily based in Germany, Gohmert holds a BA from the College of Texas at Austin. Her most up-to-date solo exhibitions have been introduced at Galerie Eigenheim in Weimar, Germany in 2023 and Galerie HELL in Berlin in 2022.

PM/AM, London

By means of Aug twenty ninth