DUSSELDORF.- Isabelle Borges’ exhibition title Forking Paths – is based on the short story “The Garden of Forking Paths” by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about the infinite realities that open up when people are faced with decisions and the non-linear aspect of time and space.

Analogously, Isabelle Borges refers to the numerous decisions she has to make as an artist when she chooses a particular painting. Before she begins to paint, she photographs natural structures of plants reflected in a particular lake in Brandenburg, which she visits regularly. She transfers the lines, surfaces and spaces she observes there, which are formed by the reeds in the lake, into her paintings as abstract elements. Her paintings are non-representational and radiate an enchanting lightness, despite their geometric rigor. They invite the viewer to move their gaze in a shared imaginary space. Isabelle Borges therein concerns herself with the process of deceleration and the perception of color, line and space.

The color surfaces are painted in many layers to create an enormous depth. Lines also change their straight course again and again, bend, cross each other, sometimes widen or taper and become hair-thin.

Isabelle Borges, born 1966 in Salvador, Brazil, lives and works in Berlin and Rotterdam and studied fine art at the art academies in Rio de Janeiro and Düsseldorf. In Brazil, she has had solo exhibitions at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture MUBE, São Paulo (2013) and the Museum of the Republic, Rio de Janeiro (2000). As part of the 14th International Curitiba Biennial, she exhibited in a large hall at the Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba (2019/2020) and most recently at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Salvador (2022). The artist realized a wall painting with installation at the Mies van der Rohe Haus in Berlin (2021) and had a solo show at the Till Richter Museum in Buggenhagen (2021). In 2022 she presented new prints at the Kunstverein Meißen (2022). In 2025, Isabelle Borges will exhibit at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen and as part of the Capital of Culture 2025 Chemnitz.

The artist’s works are represented in institutional and private collections in Brazil as well as in Europe.

SIMONE LUCAS – Showroom // DE

The imagery in Simone Lucas’ paintings is enigmatic, dreamy and pensive, but always empathetic and sensitive. The protagonists accompany us through timeless and spaceless scenes. They are part of a cosmos of their own, in which they act silently yet naturally, often fused with motifs from the animal and plant world.

In all her paintings, the treatment of color and the occasional haptic application of paint is clearly visible, which makes tangible use of the structure of the paint as a material. This is also evident in her new paintings of butterflies and mushrooms, where nature develops its own color spectra, without any human intervention, and creates beauty with the help of light and matter.

Simone Lucas (*1973) studied from 1995 to 2002 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Dieter Krieg.

Her works are represented in numerous collections in Germany and abroad. Her works have been shown at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2005), the Kunstmuseum Ratingen (2007), the Museum Baden Solingen (2010) and the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2015), among others. In addition, her paintings were exhibited at the Kunstverein Speyer (2011), the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013) and in solo exhibitions at the Stadtmuseum Weilheim (2014), the Abtei Brauweiler in Pulheim (2018), and in 2021 at the Museum Bensheim, the Neue Galerie Gladbeck and the Galerie der Stadt Backnang. In 2023, Simone Luca’s works were shown at the Mannheimer Kunstverein, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and the Neue Galerie im Haus Beda.

In 2020, she received a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.