Wilfrid Almendra: Where the Sun Pauses opens at Kunsthalle Lingen
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Wilfrid Almendra: Where the Sun Pauses opens at Kunsthalle Lingen
Wilfrid Almendra, Sonata (detail), 2024. Photo: Nassimo Berthomme. Courtesy of Galerie Ceysson&Bénétière.



LINGEN.- From June 7 to August 17, 2025, Kunsthalle Lingen hosts Wilfrid Almendra’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Co-produced with the Fondation Pernod Ricard, the project reflects the Foundation’s long-term commitment to supporting the French art scene.

It is entitled Where the Sun Pauses and primarily presents new works created for the exhibition. The title itself conveys a sense of suspension and transition and complements an evocative image that the entire exhibition offers. Where the Sun Pauses speaks of a moment that oscillates between two intensities, a kind of heat that lingers in the materials, in the gestures, in the landscapes that are characterised by the history of the rural population, the working class and the diaspora.

Installations made of glass modules that act as partitions in the space, complemented by dried wild plants such as poppies, convey the atmosphere of an allotment garden, as many workers still have them today. Broken windows tell of new greenhouses being built, plants being grown and harvested; worn work shoes lie around and point to people who want to realise a dream. Fragile slugs dominate the scene and a peacock sits proudly on a ladder overlooking the action. Oranges scattered on the floor form a horizon line and link everything together. An atmosphere that is as wild as it is fragile. In addition, objects with the title Model Home (Sonata) are presented. It refers to the sonata in several movements and evokes music. Partly brightly coloured glass and latticework in front of it tell of protection against the danger of burglary. They point both to detached houses and to the dream of working-class comfort.

A feeling of stillness and calm tension is conveyed—blurred scenes between reality and fiction, between the real and dreamed world are conjured up, in which a possible plot seems to be inexplicably interrupted. Just as the title “Where the Sun Pauses” speaks of an intermediate state, the atmosphere of the exhibition conveys this. On the one hand, it criticises the dominance of neoliberalism and the widening gap between rich and poor. A light seems to penetrate through the surface permeated by past labour and lived memory, telling of a time and a space where the sun pauses.

Wilfrid Almendra (born 1972 in Cholet, France), lives and works in Marseille and Casario, Portugal. He studied fine art from 1996 to 2000, first in Lisbon, then in Manchester and finally at the École de Beaux Arts in Rennes, France. He has presented his artistic work in solo exhibitions at Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, Atlantis Lumière, Marseille, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fogo Island Arts, Canada (2016), Fondation Pernod Ricard, and participated in group exhibitions including Sors de ta réserve #1, Frac Île-de-France, Komunuma, Romainville, Manifesta 13 in Marseille.

The exhibition was co-produced with Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris. It is generously supported by the Institut Francais in Berlin, the french Ministry of Culture, Klaas Management, Krone Group, fair4you, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the district of Emsland, the city of Lingen (Ems) and the Heinrich Kampmann Cultural Foundation.










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