Katinka Lampe's New Exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos Explores Portraiture Beyond the Figure

Galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam presents Zacht, a new exhibition by Katinka Lampe, running alongside Pip Greenaway's solo Too Much To Swallow. Lampe's latest body of work shifts portraiture into the background, introducing paintings with multiple figures on a single canvas. She explores divided attention and the gaze moving beyond the spotlight. Several works omit the human body entirely, featuring rows of dresses based on garments from Museum Rotterdam's collection. The paintings undergo a process of appearance and disappearance, with figures emerging from and fading into shadow. Lampe questions the centrality of the portrait in her practice, which has been her framework for decades, reflecting on how we look at one another and are perceived.