Berlin Artist Tatiana Kligman's PUPAE Exhibition Runs in Valencia Until 26 June — Free Entry

From 29 May to 26 June 2026, the Valencia exhibition by Berlin artist Tatiana Kligman, PUPAE, takes place — a series of works made from building materials that explore metamorphosis. Like the chrysalises from which butterflies emerge, the artist's works tell the story of change and every movement within it.

The artist says:

Berlin, a studio without windows.

While life moves faster and faster and our knowledge becomes obsolete the same day, while AI draws us three versions of the Mona Lisa in 20 seconds (in another 15 it brings her to life, and if you have 10 spare seconds more, it posts her to TikTok, where the new Mona Lisa, having lost her mind, does a squat dance with Trump and a fat cat) — I go in the opposite direction. With my hands, in layers, in accretions, through talc and mineral dust, through acrylic and dry plaster — I want to create something tangible, even weighty! Something that cannot be generated in 20 seconds, because it exists in three dimensions and smells of the studio, of wet plaster, and just a little of solvent.

Naples, Berlin, Bucharest, Belgrade — these are my cities. Here, beauty is not put on display but seeps through — a hint of a mural in a peeling entrance hall, a child's hand over an old wall, a heart carved into a tram seat, and dreadfully funny curses on the wall of yet another "department for the oversight and management of departments."

My paintings are large and heavy — not by the weight of the canvas, but by the weight of presence. They exist, and they take up space. You intuitively feel them as part of something larger — part of an alleyway, a piece of wall, a fragment of a house where the wallpaper has peeled away and your grandmother's childhood has emerged beneath it. Something grounding, almost tangible, strangely calming — as though there is finally something to hold on to, to root yourself in, to anchor yourself.

At La Cotorra, I am showing the Pupae series. However much we accumulate silt, cocoons, pseudopods, and antennae, we still keep changing. Some parts fall asleep, some parts finally peek out. We do not diminish over the course of life — we grow heavier, yes, but also larger. Living parts of childhood stretch within us, youth settles, and old age gradually ripens. It doesn't matter where our walls are, where our drawn-on hearts and curses were left behind — it's all already inside. We carry it all with us.

La Cotorra gallery opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Closed: Sunday, Monday.

Address: Editor Cabrerizo, 5 bajo.

Ticket price: free entry.

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