5 Standout Reveals to See at Small Galleries This April

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

Webber, Los Angeles

By way of Might 24

Acclaimed Greek director and photographer Yorgos Lanthimos at all times stored his movie digicam useful in the course of the manufacturing of his final two movies: Sorts of Kindness (2024) and the Oscar-winning Poor Issues (2023). Now, the pictures he took behind the scenes on these shoots are showcased in a solo exhibition at Webber in Los Angeles.

Drawn from Lanthimos’s two current books, i shall sing these songs fantastically (2024) and Expensive God, the Parthenon is Nonetheless Damaged (2024), these pictures have been taken on-site at filming areas in New Orleans and Budapest, in addition to in meticulously created units representing London, Lisbon, Alexandria, and Paris. Many are imbued with the identical eerie atmospheres and robust characterization that the director is understood for in his filmography. A number of works function actors Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in dramatically haunting scenes, typically with their faces turned away from the digicam. In the meantime, different pictures, like Untitled 100 (2021), provide a surreal, insider peek on the oddities of his film units, together with a hanging picture the place a horse’s head friends out from behind a display.

de boer, Antwerp

Apr. 11–Might 24

Wielding a tufting gun, Sam Druant intricately stitches wool threads into fantastical tapestries, creating mythological scenes in an experimental tackle conventional rug-making. As an illustration, in her wall work Daphne (all works 2025), Druant leaves an empty house the place viewers can see the wall beneath. The work’s title references the mythological nymph who was changed into a laurel tree by the god Apollo, and the tree’s anthropomorphic form appears to trace at this story. But, it’s the empty house that acts as the point of interest, drawing viewers into the tapestry. This work is a part of Druant’s present solo present, “Hatching Between Two Bushes,” at de boer in Antwerp.

Lots of Druant’s tapestries embody this immersive narrative high quality, the place characters traverse eerie environments. Within the ominous work Watching the Hatch, as an example, animal figures seem gripped within the mouths of two orange skulls. Above them, intense flames burst from the middle, evoking a way of loss of life and decay.

Born in 1998, Druant earned a BA and MA in textile design from LUCA Faculty of Arts in Ghent, Belgium, earlier than finishing an MFA in positive arts at HDK-Valand College of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her work can be presently featured in two coinciding group reveals: “Past the Veil” at Galleri Résistance in Gothenburg and “The Ripple Impact” at DEMAIN in Brussels.

Tütar Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

By way of Might 4

Lots of Siiri Jüris’s work are bordered by wood frames formed and coloured to resemble a goo-like substance. These amorphous frames create the phantasm that the kaleidoscopic coloration fields are seeping from her canvases. As an illustration, you, near my coronary heart (2025) options one huge canvas with a smaller affixed canvas, every topped with this distinctive body. The panels are bursting with swirling coloration painted throughout each canvases with energetic brushstrokes. This 3D portray is a part of Jüris’s solo present, “to soften into your soil and sprout as a flower,” at Tütar Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia.

Jüris’s work are created by means of a gradual layering course of, during which acrylic paint is allowed to maneuver freely earlier than drying. This random course of permits for surprising varieties and patterns to emerge. Inside these summary, considerate works, Jüris typically consists of hints of figures. Her portray final dance earlier than twilight (2025) appears at first look to depict a mountainous skyline, however upon nearer inspection, these varieties resemble a number of folks dancing arm in arm, and fingers from a greedy hand reaching over.

Jüris now lives and works in Uppsala, Sweden. The 33-year-old painter earned her MFA from the Royal Institute of Artwork in Stockholm in 2021 after finishing one other MFA program on the College of Tartu in 2017. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Galleri Duerr and the Tartu Artwork Museum.

Galerie Sturm & Schober, Vienna

By way of Might 8

The centerpiece of Gabriela Oberkofler’s solo exhibition, “Die Blätter des Zitronenbaums haben kleine Löcher. Es regnet rein,” is a meticulously organized desk of crops. These cuttings, every in varied levels of progress, are complemented on the entrance of the desk by small petri dishes containing colourful ink drawings, together with A Piece of Spring, Petrischalen (2025), which depicts an orange solar radiating mild.

The gallery house is full of a number of Oberkofler’s ink and watercolor works on paper, capturing an array of pure varieties akin to timber, flowers, birds, and salamanders. One standout piece, a large-format, two-part drawing, Vibrations (2024), portrays a fruit tree that’s concurrently decaying and blooming. On this work, Oberkofler explores the cycles of life and loss of life, detailing these processes with positive, dotted ink marks that evoke the fragility of pure patterns and the world we reside in.

Oberkofler, born in 1975 in Bolzano, Italy, and now residing in Stuttgart, Germany, has held varied solo exhibitions throughout Europe at venues akin to Kunsthaus Dresden and Galerie der Stadt Esslingen.

Duran Contemporain, Montreal

By way of Might 10