Marta Djourina & Andréa Vamos in Conversation with Curator Livia Klein, Luxembourg Art Week

You work in complete darkness. How do you know what you are making? Working in complete darkness, I rely on bodily memory to guide my movements, developing choreographies of light that become colour drawings on photographic paper. I call it blind painting: the marks remain invisible until chemical development reveals the latent image. I’m fascinated by this delay, by the gap between the physical gesture and the moment its trace becomes visible. MD

Exhibition review by Club Paradis

Created to mark ArtOnPaper’s 10th edition, the new SOLO Prize recognises an artist presented within the fair’s Solo section whose practice places paper at its core. For its inaugural edition, the jury has selected João Freitas, presented by LAGE EGAL Curatorial Projects (Berlin / Brussels). The prize will lead to a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Ixelles in 2028 and a portfolio in The Drawer magazine in October 2027.

Exhibition review by Gwennaëlle Gribaumont, La Libre

Parmi les usages les plus étonnants du médium ? Le travail de João Freitas, présenté par LAGE EGAL Curatorial Projects. L'artiste portugais travaille notamment à partir de Tetra Pak qu'il désosse méthodiquement jusqu'à créer, par soustraction, une matière indéfinissable. Les couleurs et les textures affleurent timidement, comme les indices d'une histoire enfouie.

Work review by Winfried Heidrich, Praxis Palliative Care

An den Seitenrändern der Bilder sieht man Farben, die um die Kanten des Rahmens gelaufen sind. Sie stellen eine besondere Eigenart dieser Malerei dar. Wie in einem Protokoll halten die Ränder alle Farben des Malprozesses fest.

Work review by Winfried Heidrich, Praxis Palliative Care

Ob die Arbeit der Leipziger Künstlerin Franziska Reinbothe ein Bild oder in seiner Dreidimensionalität ein Objekt darstellt: Sie ist kein Gegenstand herkömmlicher Malerei.

Exhibition review by Low Ground Pressure

The works displayed in the exhibition proceed from a simple gesture: to remove in order to reveal. JOÃO FREITAS works with materials discarded by the packaging industry, notably composite papers and surfaces derived from Tetra Pak. (...)

Exhibition review by Jens Bülskämper, artmagazine

Exhibition review by Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir

Exhibition review by Annika von Taube, Blitzkunst 

Interview by Robert Klages, Tagesspiegel

Exhibition review by Céline Coubray, Paperjam