Jan Albers: rOughrOuge

22 May—27 June 2026

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of Jan Albers’ solo show “rOughrOuge” at our gallery in Geneva, Thursday the 21st of May, from 6 pm.

German artist born in 1971, Jan Albers develops a practice situated somewhere between painting, sculpture, and architecture. His works often take the form of reliefs built through accumulation, like compact objects where different materials meet, collide, or coexist. Unlike a sculptural tradition based on removal, Albers works through addition. He assembles, layers, compresses. Wood, metal, polystyrene, ceramic, or polymer plaster become the elements of a dense, almost geological construction, where each surface seems to conceal another stratum beneath it.

His abstract compositions can evoke fragments of architecture, unfinished models, landscapes seen from very far away or, on the contrary, observed as if under a microscope. There is always a tension between something very physical, almost raw, and a more mental form of distance. The works oscillate between saturation and erasure, balance and collapse. Nothing is ever completely stable. The reliefs require a slow gaze; their complexity emerges gradually, through details, shifts in texture, or changes in light.