Your Sacred Self
Konstantinos Argyroglou, Hugo Avigo, Nina Childress, Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Guenther, Lukas Heerich, Agata Ingarden, Apostolos Itskoudis, Daniel Licht, Talia Maidenberg, Auguste Pain Cazzani, Patrick Salutt
December 11th, 2025 - February 11th, 2026
December 11th, 2025 - February 11th, 2026
Your Sacred Self brings together twelve artists exploring self-representation across photography, painting, sculpture, video, and installation. The exhibition approaches the sacred not as belief but as gesture—an intimate register where identity, vulnerability, and self-care occasionally intersect. The self is considered as something constructed and tended to, shaped through images, personal rituals, and acts of quiet devotion.
(—b. 1953, Washington D.C., USA)
Born in Washington in 1953, Nan Goldin was deeply affected by her older sister’s suicide in 1963. She left home at the age of 15 and began learning photography at an alternative school, where she met photographer David Armstrong. He became her best friend and introduced her to the world of drag queens, bringing her into a marginalized community that she would become deeply involved in and photograph throughout her life. She also attended evening classes, where she discovered the work of Larry Clark, Diane Arbus, August Sander, and Weegee. After graduating from the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1977, she moved to New York shortly thereafter. Working as a waitress in a bar, she took uncompromising photographs of New York’s counterculture, of “the human condition, the pain and the difficulty of surviving,” as she puts it. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and distinctions and has been the subject of solo exhibitions around the world.
(—b. 1994, Kraków, Poland)
Agata Ingarden lives and works between Paris and Athens. She studied Fine Art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Cooper Union in New York. Working across multiple media, her sculptural practice extends into collaborative projects that combine video, performance, sound, and writing. Her work is driven by material research and informed by investigations into post-humanities, science fiction, and mythical narratives.
Konstantinos Argyroglou
(—b. 1998, Athens, Greece)
Konstantinos Argyroglou’s practice centers on intimacy, care, and subjectivity through the prism of memory. Working primarily in painting, he revisits personal and familial histories through layered compositions that blend autobiographical fragments with emotional resonance.
Often engaging a young figure as a trace of the past while increasingly expanding beyond self-representation, Argyrogloyu constructs dreamlike, emotionally charged environments where relationships, belonging, and inherited connections come into focus. Through translucent washes in oil and watercolour, he creates imagery that oscillates between past and present, static and shifting, recalling rituals, gestures, and moments of care.
Hugo Avigo
(—b. 1988, Paris, France)
Hugo Avigo develops a bold practice that plays with a controlled exaggeration of the codes of sculpture, painting, and installation. Through these different media, his artistic practice explores the realms of public space, speculative fiction, and self-healing. Inhabiting space in unexpected ways, his works—often extravagant in form and disproportionate in scale—challenge our preconceived notions about bodies and their gravity, places and their functions, in order to destabilize our perception of everyday life.
Nina Childress
(—b. 1961, Pasadena, California, USA)
Childress studied at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Paris (ENSAD) and at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts de Paris where she currently teaches and is appointed Chairman. In 2021, she was nominated for the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her career in the arts. Childress offers a gritty revisiting of the history of portraiture in Western popular culture, increasingly capturing the stereotypes of female representation. The artist refers to her practice as “conceptual and dumb”, never enforcing strict boundaries and constantly changing her subjects. In Childress’ portraits we see the familiar faces of cultural icons such as Sylvie Vartan, Kate Bush, Hedy Lamar, Bulle, Pascale Ogier and, more recently, pioneer gallerists Colin de Land and Pat Hearn.
(—b. 1953, Washington D.C., USA)
Born in Washington in 1953, Nan Goldin was deeply affected by her older sister’s suicide in 1963. She left home at the age of 15 and began learning photography at an alternative school, where she met photographer David Armstrong. He became her best friend and introduced her to the world of drag queens, bringing her into a marginalized community that she would become deeply involved in and photograph throughout her life. She also attended evening classes, where she discovered the work of Larry Clark, Diane Arbus, August Sander, and Weegee. After graduating from the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1977, she moved to New York shortly thereafter. Working as a waitress in a bar, she took uncompromising photographs of New York’s counterculture, of “the human condition, the pain and the difficulty of surviving,” as she puts it. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and distinctions and has been the subject of solo exhibitions around the world.
Wofgang Guenther
(—b. 1990, Munich, Germany)
Wolfgang Guenther is a painter based in Berlin whose work centers on themes of transformation - across nature, human identity, and social systems.
Inspired by the metamorphosis of insects, Guenther draws a poetic parallel between the cocoon and the human experience. His layered, textured paintings balance intuition with control, shifting between the playful and the melancholic. The figures in his work appear as quiet witnesses or uncertain protagonists, subtly reflecting the complexity of being human - with all its contradictions, desires, and silent evolutions.
Lukas Heerich
(—b. 1990, Munich, Germany)
Lukas Heerich explores liminal tensions reflected in personal and collective narratives of protection, isolation, and power. His sculptures, installations, and photographs are accompanied by years of research and usually incorporate historical and sociocultural contexts. At the same time, Heerich draws on spontaneous situations and personal experiences to create multi-layered works in which seemingly ambivalent aspects are juxtaposed. His works often have a strong material presence and can hover on the threshold of visibility and invisibility, alluding to the past and emotions. Influenced by fashion and club culture, his works show how the subject of control runs through many aspects of society in a multifaceted way.
(—b. 1994, Kraków, Poland)
Agata Ingarden lives and works between Paris and Athens. She studied Fine Art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Cooper Union in New York. Working across multiple media, her sculptural practice extends into collaborative projects that combine video, performance, sound, and writing. Her work is driven by material research and informed by investigations into post-humanities, science fiction, and mythical narratives.
Apostolos Itskoudis
(—b. 1985, Alexandroupoli, Greece)
Apostolis Itskoudis was born in Alexandroupolis and grew up in Nea Orestiada. He studied drawing and painting at the workshop of N. Christoforakis and L. Martzoukos (2003–2005) and completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 2010. He has been teaching drawing and painting since 2012 and is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. He has held seven solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and Italy. He lives and works in Alexandroupolis.
Daniel Licht
(—b. 1996, Los Angeles, USA)
Daniel Licht lives and works in New York. He earned an MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School in 2023 and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2018. His exhibition of fifty drawings and paintings opened last spring at Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles. In the essay “Narcissus, my Hero”, he writes: “Artists are always in search of images that reflect what they are.”
Talia Maidenberg
(—b. 1998, Paris, France)
Originating from her collected archive on female artists, significant others and herself, Maidenberg’s figures resist the role of muse, unsettling the dynamics between subject and audience. Often portrayed in at once intimate and strange situations, enthralled in their own inner workings, whether lust, longing, or sorrow, they seem, like elusive goddesses, uninterested in our projections. Maidenberg studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, in Mimosa Echard’s studio, and graduated in September 2025. Before attending the Beaux-Arts, she studied social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, specialising in anthropology of urban spaces and the Middle East.
Auguste Pain Cazzani
(—b. 2002, Paris, France)
Auguste Pain Cazzani is a student at Villa Arson in Nice. His practice is almost that of a pyrotechnician. He uses fireworks and explosions in actions, performances, and sometimes radical detonations like poetic sabotage acts.
Patrick Salutt
(—b. 1992, Susch, Switzerland)
Born and raised in the Engadin mountains of Switzerland, Patrick Salutt’s early life was one of cow herding and professional skiing. Leaving to study arts and architecture abroad, he found himself longing for the brutal, raw poetry of his alpine Heimat. After a decade in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, Salutt now spends his summers in a wooden openair barn in his Engadin mountains, painting large scale oil paintings with a physical intensity and delicate tenderness that capture the duality of this place and these people. Alpine traditions, ancestral memories resurface— humbled and violent, yet with an unmistakable, indomitable fortitude.