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SURVIVING THE FUTURE

Luigi De Simone

Kore, 2017, Pigments on canvas, 190x150 cm

SURVIVING THE FUTURE
a solo show by Luigi De Simone
curated by Nicola Patruno
May 2–17, 2025
Opening on May 2, 2025, 7PM

Jergon Wrangelstr. 76
10997 Berlin

Surviving the Future marks the first solo exhibition in Berlin by Italian artist Luigi De
Simone, curated by Nicola Patruno, founder and creative director of the artistic hub
JERGON.

Conceived through an intense and ongoing dialogue between artist and curator, the exhibition stems from a reflection on the inherently utopian nature of any artistic endeavor embedded in the present moment: to make and exhibit art is at once an impossible and indispensable act. "I can’t go on, I will go on," wrote Samuel Beckett. It is precisely from this impossibility that the exhibition takes shape. From this paradox emerges the urgency of a new mythopoeia—the forging of a contemporary mythology, a pantheon of hybrid figures where the human and the divine, the animal and the alien, the ancestral and the futuristic converse, merge, and morph into one another within the spaces of JERGON.


Detail of Physis, 2018, Pigments on canvas, 189x148 cm

The second room shifts tone: a darker, enigmatic atmosphere hosts a constellation of figures, suspended in time. They seem to rise from ancient ruins and imagined futures, forming a silent chorus that speaks of survival, transformation and the mythologies we are yet to write.


Medusa stelle cadenti, 2017, Pigments on canvas, 190x158 cm

Luigi De Simone
Born in Naples, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Nicola Patruno
Freelance curator and culture critic, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
In 2020 he founded JERGON, an independent exhibition space, gallery, and research center located in the heart of Kreuzberg.

Jergon Wrangelstr. 76
10997 Berlin


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