Rubber Veins - 16.–28. October 2025

Rubber Veins brings together drawing, printmaking, and sculpture by Ruben Türler (b.1999, Zurich). The exhibition examines the charged encounter between objects and bodies, focusing on their capacity to dominate, attract, and transform. Türler isolates fragments and materials - steel, rubber, glass - as if to register their physical and psychological force.

The presentation treats objects as active agents that carry histories of labor, strength, and desire. The works are at once seductive and aggressive, moving between the threatening and the civil. This negotiation extends to the body: images of muscles, joints, and torsos appear as points where identity dissolves into material.

Türler treats objects that are often disregarded as if looking at a crush, under scrutiny - a voyeuristic logic that runs through his process. The apparent banality of the objects sharpens the tension between what they are and what they suggest - Türler allows their insistence, and indulges the confrontation.

Central to the exhibition are works that imagine a collapse between body and matter: glass as skin, rubber as veins, steel as chest. This chain of transformations frames masculinity as a process under pressure rather than a fixed state, suggesting that strength and vulnerability may be less opposites than part of the same continuum.

Ruben Türler (b.1999, Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Rubber Veins is his first solo exhibition

The exhibition is curated by Simen Frantzen (b. 1994, Oslo, Norway)