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Raphaela Simon's First New York Solo Show in Eight Years at VeneKlasen

exhibition · 2026-08-13

VeneKlasen in New York is currently showcasing "Raphaela Simon: On the Street," marking the artist's first solo show in the city in over eight years. This exhibition highlights Simon's latest paintings and sculptures that explore urban environments, particularly her home city of Berlin. She simplifies her subjects into fundamental geometric shapes, stripes, and expansive color fields, rendering urban themes nearly unrecognizable. Her artwork exists in a space between abstraction and representation, while her fabric sculptures transform the intricate surfaces of her paintings into soft, three-dimensional pieces, accentuating the contrast between flatness and volume. The exhibition is available for viewing at VeneKlasen, New York.

Key facts

  • Raphaela Simon's first solo exhibition in New York in over eight years
  • Exhibition titled 'On the Street' at VeneKlasen, New York
  • Features recent paintings and sculptures
  • Inspired by urban landscape, particularly Berlin
  • Simon reduces subjects to geometric forms, stripes, and broad planes of color
  • Works hover between abstraction and representation
  • Fabric sculptures translate layered surfaces into three-dimensional forms
  • Emphasizes tension between flatness and volume

Entities

Artists

  • Raphaela Simon

Institutions

  • VeneKlasen

Locations

  • New York
  • Berlin

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