Cornelia Baltes - The Sun Stumbles In : Paris
On October 2025, simultaneously to Art Basel Paris, the gallery will be pleased to present The Sun Stumbles In, the first solo show in Paris by German artist Cornelia Baltes. The opening will take place Saturday 18 October from 4-8pm, in presence of the artist.
Cornelia Baltes’ minimal compositions balance playfulness with subtle detail, where seemingly spontaneous brushstrokes are in fact meticulously applied with highly pigmented paint. Her paintings and installations oscillate between abstraction and figuration, where gestural lines of corporeal elements such as facial features, hands and feet, are painted over solid fields or gradations of bright colour. Grounded in a lexicon of imagery that conjure the viewer’s personal memories, experiences and associations, Baltes’ paintings morph into a different narrative for each of us. Her practice also includes murals and permanent installations.
An extensive monograph on Baltes was released last year by DVC books and she recently presented a major solo exhibition at Fuhrwerkswaage in Cologne.
Baltes’ work is to be found in prestigious private and public collections around the world. She received an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011 and has exhibited at institutions such as The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff; Kunsthalle Nuremburg, Nuremburg, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; ICA London; Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany; Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf.
