05.06.2025-08.05.2025

Somisen creates figurative paintings that explore humanity through the lens of emotion, color, and form. Her minimalist works, which deconstruct the human figure, resemble silent symphonies — filled with tension, yet marked by a striking fragility. These are not illustrations of feelings, but architectures of emotion: precisely composed, multilayered, and pulsing with intensity.

The starting point for her latest series is a phrase the artist often heard in childhood:
“Don’t be so emotional.”
In this new context, the phrase takes on a different meaning — it becomes a provocation, a question, and a source of strength.

“Emotions — often dismissed as irrational — become here the scaffolding of a visual language. These works don’t depict feelings, but rather the structures built from them. [...] Seen through this lens, being so emotional emerges as a source of power — one capable of shaping experience, memory, and meaning.”

The surface plays a key role in Somisen’s work. Rather than concealing the material, she collaborates with it. Texture, transparency, the weave of the canvas, and the movement of the brush all contribute to the emotional topography of the painting. It is a kind of painting that breathes — through both roughness and light.

Katya Somisen — a trained pianist, vocalist, and songwriter — translates her musical sensitivity into the medium of painting, creating a distinctive visual language. Her work has been shown in cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw, as well as at events like Art Show and Targowisko Sztuki. In 2025, she was a finalist in the Singulart Artist of the Year competition, and her art has been featured in publications including VOGUE, ELLE Decoration, LABEL Magazine, and whiteMAD.

This exhibition invites an intimate confrontation with emotionality — not as a weakness, but as a strength. Sensitivity becomes here a tool, a structure, and a signature.