Past Exhibitions
14th November - 21st December 2025
Molly van Amerongen: What the Surface Knows
2025, óleo y polvo de mármol sobre panel de madera, 50 x 25 cm
In What the Surface Knows, Molly van Amerongen presents a new series of paintings on wooden board that explore how memory takes form through material. Each work becomes a site of quiet accumulation - where colour, gesture, and time gather on the surface, holding traces of lived experience.
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For van Amerongen, painting is a way of sensing rather than representing. Through rhythm and touch, memory seeps into material - not as image, but as presence. Pigment settles into the grain of wood, revealing fragments of places once felt or imagined - moments remembered through weight, texture, and tone.
​The works balance structure and spontaneity. Painted supports extend beyond the pictorial plane,transforming the paintings into quiet constructions - objects that hold memory within their material weight. Each piece becomes both a record and a presence.
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What the Surface Knows invites viewers into this space of still perception - where the surface becomes an active witness, carrying the residue of time, attention, and touch.
Molly van Amerongen
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Molly is an Irish painter living and working in London. Having grown up in rural Ireland, and later spending extended periods in India and Mexico City, she has become increasingly interested in how places — both domestic and wild — reveal their identities and their differences through colour, texture, and material.
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22nd August - 22nd October 2025
Javier Mondragón Sánchez: Qi-yun
2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 20 cm
Qi-yun could be translated as something close to a breath-resonance. This binomial encapsulates a couple of things very important for the artist.
First, that he considers that his works have that ‘breath’ and therefore in a way they are alive.
Second, that he shares a resonance with each one of his works. Maybe there were viewers that shared it as well. This possibility of having a profound and personal relationship with the works is fundamental for Javier. There is no way of predicting it, only of recognising it, but when it occurs, it is magical.
Javier ​Mondragón Sánchez
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Javier is a Mexican, naturalised British, multi-disciplinary artist, with a focus on painting. He obtained a Master of Arts in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London, a Master of Arts in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and his Master of Arts in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. During his BA he completed an Erasmus Exchange at L’École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Prior to his BA he completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London. Amongst other things, he has won the he has won the Deputy Vice-Chancellor's UK Scholarship awarded by the RCA, the Standbury Scholarship Prize awarded by UCL, and is an RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Scholar. He has exhibited in the United Kingdom, France and Mexico.
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18th October - 18th December 2024
Polo Farrera: Retazos
2021, piezography on fabric, 113 x 75 cm
'Si fotografiamos es para apegarnos a instantes de la vida de tal forma que olvidemos que existe la muerte. La fotografía tendría pues como misión eclipsar la idea misma de muerte.'
JOAN FONTCUBERTA, La cámara de pandora, 2007.
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I remember my maternal grandmother with a deep affection, but also with an ambivalent sensation, a profound commiseration. My reminiscence of her is very distant to the one my family members and friends refer me to, the time I spent with her was periodic and was diminished with time, it evoked ‘retazos’, images from when I was still younger and it would come to mind a tender and affectionate woman contrary to what I remember with more potency: she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, and for that reason those scarce images are diluted and overshadowed by more dominant ones which I lamentably retained, a tender but confused look reigned every time she looked at me, or in its defect, those that surrounded her. When I think about her, as much as I try to return to that warm past, in the end, those wastelands in which I felt a dark pity when I looked at her, predominate, having to introduce myself again every time we spent time together or even after some time had passed, or my mother providing her the context of the situation, this awoke a profound sympathy and at the same time an innermost fear.
‘Retazos’ are fragments of two bodies of work: ‘Arcano XIII’, a semiotic exploration to the homonym card of death and ‘En búsqueda de ausencias’, an exploration of the memory-related dynamics of the psyche, both with years between them, but nonetheless, connected by a theme that has been of paramount importance for me, individual memory. This exhibition, curated for Studio Mondragón is a small display of a near past, in which I can thread sense thanks to the inescapable distance of time, the topic fascinated me, because in the effort of understanding it, I found primordial comfort. At the time I didn’t understand it, now I do partially: we are ‘retazos’, our composition are memories, without them nothingness presents itself, seeing my grandmother in that state would awaken in me that archaic fear of decease, losing them is death in life, disappearing from within.
Polo Farrera,
London, 5th August 2024.
Polo Farrera
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Born in Mexico in 1997, Polo obtained his Licenciatura in Artes Visuales with honours at the “ENPEG-La Esmeralda” (INBAL), he also studies in Painting at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos (FAD-UNAM), and Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He trained as a cinematographer and scriptwriter at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (INBAL) and the Vancouver Film School. He studied his Masters in Photography at the Royal College of Art in London, where he currently lives.
He is co-founder of LUX-19, a festival that fuses cinema and visual arts. His works have been exhibited at the Centro Nacional de las Artes, the Festival Internacional de Fotografía de México and the Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Valparaíso, as well as in spaces such as the Fitzwilliam Museum, Tate Modern and the Malta Biennale. His photobook En búsqueda de ausencias was part of the official selection of the Kassel Dummy Award and a finalist at the London Camera Exchange.
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8th March - 8th May 2024
Andrea Honsberg: Lagunas de la sobremesa
2024, printed on kromekote paper, 20 x 25 cm
2024, printed on kromekote paper, 20 x 25 cm
With a wide array of techniques at her disposal that include painting, video, installation and drawing, the artistic vision of Andrea is profoundly rooted in the exploration of images extracted from childhood y and adulthood. Her work investigates experiences that reflect and shine a light on aspects of the human condition.
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The painting strategies of Andrea are characterised by repetition, vibrant colours and visual patterns. She is interested in language and how it moulds our perceptions and interactions with the world. This focus leads her to create a ludicrous relationship between the images and her respective titles.
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In the works of Andrea Honsberg, each brushstroke of paint, each photogram of video and every carefully curated installation offers a vision of human experience, inviting the spectator to participate, reflect and explore next to her.
Andrea Honsberg
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Andrea Honsberg is a Mexican artist whose artistic practice develops in the intersection between painting, fine art and multimedia exploration. After obtaining her BA in Painting and Fine Art from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, she currently studies her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art in London.
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13th October - 13th December 2023
Javier Mondragón Sánchez: Trazos y Rastros
2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 130 x 80 cm
The title of the exhibition Trazos y Rastros is an allusion to the brushstrokes that Javier makes, that become a trace of his whole life, his personality, his emotions, his experiences and his conscious and subconscious mind. At the same time, they are the traces that we look for to try to find a path to follow and the traces that we leave behind as we go through life.
In this exhibition of 7 paintings, the artist shares with us works made from 2019 to 2023 (the night before the Private View). The paintings will pull you with their depth, you will find traces of the identity of the artist and looking at them you will accompany him in his quest for purpose.
Javier ​Mondragón Sánchez
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Javier is a Mexican, naturalised British, multi-disciplinary artist, with a focus on painting. He has spent the last 14 years of his life in the UK. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and his Master of Arts in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. During his BA he completed an Erasmus Exchange at L’École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Prior to his BA he completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London. Amongst other things, he has won the Standbury Scholarship Prize, and is an RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Scholar. He has exhibited in the United Kingdom, France and Mexico.
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14th - 24th of April 2022
Nicolás Canal Tinius: Americanitis
2020, pigment print on archival paper. Large: 102.5 cm x 82 cm Edition of 10 + 2 AP Small: 35 cm x 28 cm Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Americanitis is a large-scale, multi-disciplinary project that investigates the role of architecture in the construction of power structures and inequalities throughout the history of the United States of America. Its core premise is that the instillation of - unfounded - fear and precarity into the people with power is what maintains and reinforces the social order.
In its pursuit of clarity, Americanitis draws from evidence found throughout history, ranging from presidential executive orders and documentation of historical events to popular films and elementary school history books. Fragments from this research have been put together as an archival installation for this exhibition. Alongside the installation is a series of manipulated archival photographs of Antebellum neoclassical architecture sourced from the Library of Congress.
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy - Nicolás Canal Tinius
Nicolás Canal Tinius
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Born 1994, is an artist, designer, and researcher with an archival and historiographic focus. After completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge, he was awarded a MEAD Fellowship, which funded a large-scale art project investigating collective memory and white supremacy in the US South. Alongside his continuing artistic practice, he is building a centre for creative exchange in lower Normandy, France, which is set to open in 2023.