ECLIPSE
20 January, 2026 – 31 March, 2026
Curated by LAURA LIMBOURG
ANNE-MARIA VARDANYAN
KRISTÝNA MATALOVÁ
LAURA LIMBOURG
An eclipse marks a moment in which two worlds overlap — light and darkness, the concious and the unconscious, past and present.
Within artistic practice, it operates as a metaphor for the mutability of identity, transitional states, and subtle inner shifts. It suggests that beneath the visible surface lie deeper layers: hidden aspects of the self, suppressed emotions, and quiet truths that shape the inner world.
Eclipse as an exhibition functions as an intersection of three female voices, three approaches to self-exploration, and three ways of understanding inner transformation. Here, eclipse does not represent darkness, but transition - a sensitive space in which what is hidden becomes visible. Each of the artists enters this space in her own distinctive way.
Anne-Marie operates in the space between intimacy and the public sphere, between personal experience and collective memory. Her portraits are not merely representations of specific individuals, but mirrors of cultural tensions that shape identity in a globalized world. Figures and environments in her works exist in a kind of “eclipse” - a moment in which past and present converge, and certainty merges with unease. Her practice reminds us that identity is not fixed, but continually transformed through cultural and emotional layers. Within the exhibition, she approaches the eclipse as a quiet yet intense transformation, in which one reality overlays another.
KRISTÝNA MATALOVÁ
ANNE-MARIA VARDANYAN
Kristyna’s practice focuses on female identity - its suppression and its rediscovery. She works with the tension between women’s lived experience and societal expectations. The motif of Lilith - an archetype of untamed feminine power - functions as a symbolic eclipse: a moment in which the traditional image of woman recedes and a new, often tabooed form of femininity emerges. Eyes, lips, and hands in her paintings simultaneously reveal and conceal, operating as visual eclipses. Within the exhibition, Kristyna approaches the eclipse as a process of emancipation, in which old roles dissolve and new identities are formed.
LAURA LIMBOURG
Laura works with the moment of returning to oneself - to the most sensitive and most honest place within a person. Her self-portraits capture the instant when the mask falls away and the face enters a state in which all emotions are fully present and visible; a state where vulnerability overrides strength, and strength itself transforms into fragility. Motifs of snowdrops, nocturnal landscapes, and horses appear in her work as symbols of resilience, hope for new and better days, but also of the restlessness that accompanies inner struggle. Her visual language, moving along the threshold between revelation and concealment, touches upon the very essence of an eclipse - a fleeting moment in which we come closest to the truth about ourselves.
