Josilda da Conceição Gallery

12/07/2026

Colluding Paradox a exhibition that investigates contradiction not as an obstacle, but as the very condition through which contemporary life is experienced. At a moment when political polarization, ecological crisis, technological acceleration, and economic uncertainty increasingly define our shared reality, paradox has become less an exception than the language of the present.

The exhibition departs from the understanding that artists do not simply represent society; they inhabit its fractures. Artistic practice becomes a site where social, political, and cultural identities are negotiated, questioned, and continuously reimagined. Rather than offering solutions, the participating artists expose the unstable territories where personal experience intersects with collective history, where systems of power shape individual lives, and where acts of resistance often emerge from vulnerability itself.

Photographer: Jonathan de Waart

05/07/2026

Josilda da Conceição warmly invites you to the summer group exhibition - Colluding Paradox, join us for the opening on Saturday the 11th of July - 3 until 7 PM

This is the last exhibition before the summer break. The gallery will be closed from 1th August until 30th August. During this period, the gallery is only open by appointment for acquisitions.

11 July - 30 July 2026

Colluding Paradox brings together artistic practices that explore contradiction as a productive force. The exhibition reflects on the coexistence of opposing realities: collapse and renewal, individuality and collectivity, control and vulnerability. Through different media and perspectives, the participating artists examine how tensions shape contemporary life and how conflicting systems often become dependent on one another. Rather than resolving these oppositions, the exhibition embraces ambiguity and instability as spaces for reflection and imagination. The works create encounters between personal narratives, political structures, ecological concerns, and technological transformations, revealing paradox not as an exception, but as a condition of the present.

17/06/2026

If you are in Basel, don’t miss the book presentation of Nadim Choufi. At Liste Art Fair Basel.

23/04/2026

20/04/2026

The duo exhibition ‘Error Alloy’ by Tyron Winter and Vince Donders is extended until May 2nd.

In Error Alloy, Tyron Winter (.tyron) and Vince Donders () bring together two practices in which matter appears as a carrier of time. The exhibition connects questions of climate, humanity, and decolonial perspectives to the materiality of the works themselves: to body, pigment, metal, and decay.

As the gallery will be attending Art Brussels, we will be open by appointment only this weekend.We are also pleased to share that Error Alloy has been extended through 2 May.Please join us for drinks at the finissage.

Photos Jonathan de Waart
tyron

11/04/2026

In Error Alloy, Tyron Winter (.tyron) and Vince Donders () bring together two practices in which matter appears as a carrier of time. The exhibition connects questions of climate, humanity, and decolonial perspectives to the materiality of the works themselves: to body, pigment, metal, and decay.

Photos Jonathan de Waart ()

20/12/2025

𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

Today is the last day of this show by the collective To See the Inability to See — Maartje Fliervoet, Martín La Roche Contreras, and Arefeh Riahi.
Departing from the theme of refusal as both an act of creation and resistance, the collective has brought together a series of new works.

Arefeh, in addition to her foldable objects which create a platform and dialogue with Martín’s drawings from the “Magic Box” series, has experimented with new folds on paper. Inspired by the folds of Muqarnas, she continues to explore ideas related to the hashti — an entrance room in traditional Central Iranian architecture. The hashti is a space where host and guest meet, a room of possibility, acceptance and refusal, resistance, and the re/negotiation of boundaries.
In her fold drawings, Arefeh examines possible reactions within the hashti, using the infinitive form of verbs in Farsi. The texts function like a voice embedded within the folds of the wall or the dome. These works also reflect on the undecidability of language and communication.

Photos 1,2,3 & 6
Arefeh Riahi
To Refuse: To Lose Your Mind 2025
Folded Paper

Photos 2,4,5 & 6
Arefeh Riahi
To Be Refused: To Pass Through 2025
Folded Paper

Photo 6
To See the Inability to See
Un/folding the wall 2025
Wallpaper, digital print 396 x 296 cm

Photos 6-7
Arefeh Riahi
The multi-fold-object 2024
Installation, Platform

19/12/2025

Celio Braga
2025, oil and wax on silk and felt
&
Juliette de Graaf
2025
Mixed media + beeswax on wooden panel.

16/12/2025

Final week 𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

by To See the Inability to See (Maartje Fliervoet, Martín La Roche Contreras and Arefeh Riahi) shows new pieces evolved from their multidisciplinary project titled My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon. 

Refusal as an act of creation involves a genealogy of words. For instance,”waste,” in relation to the Latin r-e-f-u-s, which means “to pour back,” as in the “pouring back” of waste water. Or the English word “refusal,” that was derived from “refus,” linking “waste” to “resistance”. 

In the case of Maartje Fliervoet’s leftover textile and indium piece, based on mine tailings and image production, “refus” and “refusal” merge, taking on the shape of letters and words unfolding in the gallery space. Together, the works reference leftovers and byproducts; remainders of a production process.

On view until 20/12/’25

Photos 
Maartje Fliervoet. us, use, refuse. 2025. Size variable. Textile, aluminum.
1-3: Maartje Fliervoet
4-5: Jonathan de Waart
6: Maartje Fliervoet
7:  Jonathan de Waart
8-10: Maartje Fliervoet

Maartje Fliervoet. refus. 2025. 30cm x 50cm x 10cm. Textile, powder coated steel, second hand indium.
11: Jonathan de Waart
12 & 13: Maartje Fliervoet
14: Jonathan de Waart