Eva Kotátková, Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Santiago de Paoli, Diego Bianchi, Isa Melsheimer West Bund Art & Design 2025

Booth 1D08 

Meyer Riegger Wolff is pleased to announce its first participation at West Bund Art & Design. From the familiar objects that populate our daily surroundings to complex compositions of extended surreal imagination, this presentation brings together works by Katinka Bock, Diego Bianchi, Miriam Cahn, Isa Melsheimer, Eva Kotátková, and Santiago de Paoli. Each artist engages material reality as both subject and catalyst, transforming the ordinary into a site of psychological, bodily, and poetic inquiry.

Through strategies of displacement, fragmentation, and juxtaposition, these works reveal how the banal can act as a threshold to the surreal. Rather than illustrating dream or fantasy, the presentation considers surrealism as a methodology, a mode of perception through which the everyday becomes charged with ambiguity, affect, and narrative potential.

Diego Bianchi (b. 1969) constructs an apotheosis of everyday situations, tracing the derailments of human excess and the anarchic order that emerges in their wake. Isa Melsheimer (b. 1968) draws from the histories of architecture and urban planning, cultivating dialogues between humans, animals, and plants through material and spatial form.

Eva Kotátková (b. 1982), inspired by surrealism, unites sculpture, text, and performance into a distinctive vocabulary. Her works metaphorically mirror modern civilization, its dreams, expectations, and shared anxieties, particularly those of children, the elderly, and animals. Miriam Cahn (b. 1949), influenced by performance art and the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, often instrumentalizes the body as a drawing tool, transforming seen images into mental ones and reshaping perception into a medium of introspection.

In Santiago de Paoli’s (b. 1978) oeuvre, painting becomes a conduit to what lies beyond the visible, not the invisible, but rather what is perceived with closed eyes, in the threshold between wakefulness and sleep, between consciousness and dream.