Candice Berman Gallery at FNB Art Joburg 2026
Contemporary Expressionism
For FNB Art Joburg 2026, Candice Berman Gallery presents a focused exploration of Contemporary Expressionism, bringing together Cyrille Chamayou, Andrew Mogridge, Eulogia Merle, Thirza Schaap, Restone Maambo, John Vusi Mfupi and Astrid Dahl. Across painting, collage and sculpture, the presentation considers Expressionism as a living contemporary language, one driven by emotion, instinct, colour, gesture and materiality rather than faithful representation.
The artists approach this language from distinctly individual perspectives. Chamayou and Merle embrace psychologically charged figuration and distortion, while Maambo and Mfupi explore the human figure through identity, memory and lived experience. Schaap’s flower paintings shift between botanical form and bodily suggestion, allowing beauty and ambiguity to coexist. Mogridge and Dahl extend this expressive vocabulary into three dimensions, where material, organic form and the physical act of making become integral to the work.
Together, the presentation reflects Candice Berman Gallery’s renewed commitment to Contemporary Expressionism, positioning the gallery around artists whose work is immediate, visceral and deeply human. At Art Joburg, these diverse practices come together not through a prescribed aesthetic, but through a shared belief in art as an expressive act, one capable of communicating something felt before it is fully understood.
