291 Grand St.
New York, 10002

76 Avenue B
New York, 10009

11-6pm Tuesday to Saturday
info@gratin.com

19.10.24

LORENZO AMOS: No Regrets Because You’re My Sunshine - Opening October 24th at 76 Avenue B, 10009, NY from 6-8pm

03.10.24

CANEMORTO FISH MARKET - @matta___________ presents the grand opening of the world-renowed fish market by CANEMORTO in New York A wide range of fresh products sold directly from fishermen to the final consumer Fried drawings, drawing tartare, drawings in oil, drawings in salt, frozen drawings, filleted drawings... 🐟🐟🐟
GRAND OPENING
Thursday 10 October from 5 to 9 pm
Friday 11 October from 3 to 8 pm
Saturday 12 October from 3 to 8 pm
with final fish auction from 7 pm

05.09.24

CHRISTOPH MATTHES: Tactical hugs practical shrugs - Opening September 12, 6-8pm
Christoph Matthes second solo show with the gallery in the new space on 291 Grand Street, 2nd floor Gratin presents ‘Tactical hugs practical shrugs’, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Christoph Matthes.

31.07.24

The heat is on, and the excitement is undeniable!
GRATIN on Grand St is about to set the scene on fire 🔥 more info coming soon..
#newlocation #gratinnyc #291grandstreet

08.06.2024

ZIAD ANTAR: Does a sunflower turn with the sun. Opening June 15, 5-8pm.
Ziad Antar’s first exhibition with the gallery explores the sunflower’s symbolism of resilience and transformation, focusing on its heliotropic movement. Fascinated by its daily reorientation towards the sun and eventual stillness at maturity, Antar used experimental techniques, applying paint to blurred areas of photos to capture the dynamic essence of the sunflower. The resulting images convey an ambivalent, nostalgic space, preserving the sunflower’s motion as a memory. The exhibition will be on view until 27 July.

25.04.24

Breaking news!! We couldn’t be more excited to announce the first solo exhibition of ELISE NGUYEN QUOC at the gallery in New York, titled ‘Offering body and soul to a radical alterity’. Opening is on Friday, May 3rd, 6-8pm. Come see the magic!

20.04.24

Gratin is pleased to announce participation at the 40th edition of ART BRUSSELS at the Prime Section, presenting works by Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Lorenzo Amos, Ziad Antar, Christoph Matthes and Amitesh Shrivastava.
Booth 6B-11, PRIME April 25-28, 2024 Venue: Brussels Expo

20.03.24

MAXIMILLIAN ARNOLD:‘Days Like This’ Opening Wednesday 27th March, 76 avenue B, NY, 6-8pm. This will mark his first nyc solo show. Maximilian Arnold lives and works in Berlin. Arnolds’ work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally: Matta, Rome (2022), Goeben Berlin, Berlin (2021), Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2020), among others.

26.02.24

Opening this week in LA! TEARS FOR FEARS Vol.1 with works from #ziadantar #miriamcahn #omaridouglin #jeankatambayimukendi #christophmatthes #dustinhodges #nocompromises

20.03.24

We are excited to announce our next show CHRISTIAN SANTIAGO: full fantasy, it will mark his first New York Solo Show. Opening on Thursday, February 22, 2024 from 6-8pm. Christian Santiago studied illustration at Parsons. He has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, most recently his solo show, on a cellular level, at Collaborations, Copenhagen as well as the group exhibition, ENSEMBLE at Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in New York City.

19.01.24

Gratin is happy to announce the group exhibition ‘the 14th floor’ including works by Rita Ackermann, Sedrick Chisom, Kye Christensen-Knowles, Shuriya Davis, Shelby Jackson, Richard Prince, Juliana Seraphim, Randy Wray. The show will open at the gallery on Tuesday 23rd January with a viewing from 6-8pm. #ritaackermann #sedrickchisom #kyechristensenknowles #richardprince #julianaseraphim #randywray #shelbyjackson #shuriyadavis

20.12.23

GABRIELĖ ADOMAITYTĖ, Igoris Piekuras, Rūtė Merk, Vladas Žilius. The Painting and Model, from 2023.12.15–2023.01.20 At @meduza.fyi, Vilnius, Lithuania. Curated by Jonas Skačkauskas

31.10.23

Gratin is happy to present “Test drive” ALEKSANDRA SIDOR first solo show in NY/US. Opening reception is on the 9th November, 2023 between 6-8pm 🧊🧊🧊 Aleksandra Sidor lives and works in Poland. Aleksandra Sidor is a Polish visual artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bournemouth. She makes unsettling paintings investigating the concepts of perception, awareness, morality and trauma. Employing a highly ornamental visual language, irony and a surrealist sense of the uncanny, the artist often draws on different writings on psychoanalysis, old il- lustrations as well as social, cultural and political transformations. Her subject matter revolves around the transformative nature of encounters of bodies with other beings and their power relations.

17.09.23

Opening Thursday 21st September 6-8pm PAP SOULEYE FALL: Itaintthatdeep. Is the first installation in New York by Senegalese/American artist. Introducing DEAD PIXEL, as in the screen of the monitor - a malfunction from a single-pixel creates a black dot. Pap Souleye Fall grew up in Senegal and now lives and works in New York. Much of his works reflects his growing up within the Diaspora. Being of two worlds, Fall realized that through art he had the ability to construct his own worlds. As such, he became fascinated with the ways art could be embedded in everyday life, activat- ing common materials and encounters to explore themes such as diaspora, post-apocalypse, Utopia, Africanisms, and Afro-Futurism. His work in “IT AIN’T THAT DEEP” was heavily influenced by his residency at RAIR in Philadelphia in 2023. With Master’s degree in Sculpture at Yale School of the Arts in 2022 and has received several awards, including the Black Rock Fellowship (2023), the Ilab Fellowship (2023), the Dedalus Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and the Alike Kimball Grant (Yale, 2021). His art has been featured in exhibitions such as “We are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now” in 2023, curated by C.C. McKee, as well as exhibitions in Philadelphia at Marginal Utility and ICEBOX PROJECT SPACE, and “Artists Prospering Really is Limitless” in New Haven, CT.

10.09.23

Raw Power opening Thursday 13th July from 6-8pm An exhibition of works made in the last 2 years by Albert Slaughter Aka MANGO SALSA Aka Mr Sky Mcfly Inc Pure Art

31.10.23

Opening Friday 19 May 6–8pm. GABRIELĖ ADOMAITYTĖ: Telescope MAX. ‘Telescope MAX’ will mark the first solo exhibition in the US by Amsterdam-based artist @gabriele_adomaityte 🔥 76 Avenue B, New York, 10009

Gratin

291 Grand St.
New york, 10002

11-6pm Tuesday to Saturday
info@gratin.com

Christoph Matthes
(b. 1990 in Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Born in the middle-class suburbs of southern Germany, Christoph Matthes is fascinated by the symbolic significance of everyday objects in culture and society. His work often features inanimate objects, colorful animals, and fading images inspired by a collection of photographs from the 1980s and 1990s that belonged to his grandparents. As if to breathe new life into them, Matthes transposes these subjects into a material pictorial landscape, where they are completely decontextualized and acquire new meaning as they take center stage in his colorful, large-scale, childlike compositions.

Fundamental to Matthes' work is the discovery of new pictorial techniques that are able to deepen the relationship between form and content. By employing a progressive layering process using materials such as ballpoint pen, acrylic, and oil paint, the surface of his paintings is put in dialogue with its substratum, where images emerge as shapes of colors, shadows, and silhouettes resembling scars or traces of experience. Like thought and memory, past and present merge in his pictorial process, where the initial image represents the beginning of the work, the first intention, which transforms into a larger visual narrative culminating in the predominance of the image on top, unblurred, vivid, and confrontational.
Although much of the inspiration for his subjects comes from his everyday life, his work is never intended to be entirely autobiographical. Rather, it aims to create visual stories that are capable of activating free associations in the viewer and a sense of empathy with the work and its resonance. By offering a commentary on how we perceive and remember the world around us, Matthes' works act as portals into the complexities of memory and the elusive nature of life. Like hearing a dialogue between two people from behind a wall, Matthes' work alludes to something larger, magical, and inexplicable, hinted at by the free association of symbols overlapping, fading, and reappearing on the surface of the canvas like ghostly manifestations of distan memories.

Matthes work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally: Duve, Berlin (2023); Gratin, New York (2023); Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton (2021); B10B, Düsseldorf (2020); Sinalunga, Tuscany (2019); Kunstverein, Leverkusen (2018); Castello di Gargonza, Tuscany (2018); Galerie Kiki Meier-Hahn, Düsseldorf (2016).


Publications



Hinter dem Schal sitzt der Klob / Behind the scarf sits the lump, 2022. Ballpen, pigments, acrylic and oil on canvas. 70 7/8 x 90 1/2 in (180 x 230 cm)




Besser so als gar nicht, 2022. Ballpen, rabbitskinglue, pigments, acrylic and oil on canvas. 70 7/8 x 90 1/2 in (180 x 230 cm)




Schlüsselkinder / Latchkey Children, 2022. Ballpen, pigments, acrylic and oil on canvas. 78 3/4 x 114 1/2 in (200 x 290.8 cm)




Not flawless but gorgeous, 2022. Ballpen, rabbitskinglue, pigments, acrylic and oil on canvas. 49 1/4 x 59 in (125 x 150 cm)




Processed, 2022. Ballpen, pigmented rabbitskinglue, acrylic and oil on canvas. 35 1/2 x 31 1/2 in (90.2 x 80 cm)