AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos returns to The Armory Show, presenting a selection of works that connect painting, sculpture, and video at one of New York’s most celebrated art fairs (September 4–7).
The gallery will showcase works by Daniel Arsham, Sebastiaan Bremer, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Anthony Goicolea, Remy Jungerman, Jonny Niesche, Jacco Olivier, and Matias Salgado. Together, these artists bring a wide range of perspectives, from intimate paintings and photographs to monumental sculpture and video installations.
Daniel Arsham presents new works that grow from his idea of Fictional Archaeology. He creates sculptures and paintings that look like relics from another time, mixing classical forms with today’s culture. His pieces often feel like objects dug up by future archaeologists (solid, fragile, mysterious). In this presentation, Arsham also explores sound, making visible what usually leaves no trace. Arsham’s work is held in major museum collections, including the Centre Pompidou and the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Jonny Niesche creates works that hover between painting and sculpture. Using voile fabric, polished steel, and gradients of color, his works shimmer and shift with changing light and viewer movement. Influenced by Josef Albers and the Light and Space movement, Niesche builds meditative, color-rich compositions. Niesche’s work is held in major public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, and MONA, and he was recently the official artist for the 2024 Munich Opera Festival and a collaborator on Gucci’s Art of Silk project.
Jacco Olivier combines painting and animation to create short films that turn everyday gestures into dreamlike narratives. Each brushstroke is photographed and layered into a moving sequence, where figures walk, swim, or wait in quiet reflection. Olivier, a graduate of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, is represented in major collections such as the Rubell Family Collection and the Zabludowicz Collection, and has exhibited at venues including MCA Denver and the New York City Center/New Museum.
Esiri Erheriene-Essi presents vibrant paintings that draw from family photos and archives. Her work celebrates daily life and the resilience of overlooked histories, especially within Black communities. Currently, her paintings are featured in the traveling exhibition When We See Us, curated by Koyo Kouoh, which has shown at Zeitz MOCAA, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Bozar.
Remy Jungerman bridges Afro-Caribbean traditions and Western modernism. In his work, Surinamese textiles and kaolin clay are combined with geometric abstraction, creating layered compositions that resonate with cultural memory. He recently had a solo show with us in Amsterdam, What the River Says, and a major exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. Jungerman represented the Netherlands at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Anthony Goicolea explores themes of displacement and belonging in layered, dreamlike paintings. His figures often occupy in-between spaces: ambiguous landscapes, waters, or interiors that feel both intimate and strange. Goicolea’s work is included in major museum collections such as MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and 21c Museum Hotels.
Matias Salgado paints scenes from everyday life: people at work, meals shared, simple gatherings. His bold colors and strong brushwork turn ordinary situations into vivid, almost monumental images. His paintings draw attention to small connections between people and the weight of daily experience. Salgado’s paintings were recently added to the collection of Museum Voorlinden, and he completed a residency at The Cabin in Los Angeles, where he developed a new body of work further exploring his interest in daily life observation. His work is also part of the private collection of prominent art collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez.
Sebastiaan Bremer transforms photographs by painting directly onto them with ink, dye, and delicate patterns. Flowers, landscapes, and portraits are covered with layers of marks that shift their meaning. His works hover between memory and dream, beauty and decay, turning familiar images into something otherworldly and mysterious. Bremer lives and works in New York and has shown widely, including exhibitions at Tate Gallery and the Aldrich Museum. His work is held in major collections such as MoMA, LACMA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and 21c Museum Hotels.
