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  "description": "Julia Selin's Sun's Show at Galerie Leu Munich brings process-based oil paintings where light is released from within the surface. Through June 13, 2026.",
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  "textContent": "## Galerie Leu presents  _Sun's Show_ by Julia Selin, with a text by Karin Bähler-Lavér, through June 13, 2026.\n\n* * *\n\n**Sun's Show**\n\n**Artist:**\nJulia Selin\n\n**Exhibition:**\nSun's Show\n\n**Venue:**\n\nGalerie Leu\n\n\n**City:**\nMunich, Germany\n\n**Dates:**\nMay 7, 2026 – June 13, 2026\n\n**Address:**\nTürkenstraße 30, 80333 Munich\n\n**Photography:**\nLCB and Jann Averwerser\n\n**Image Courtesy:**\nCourtesy the artist and Galerie Leu\n\n* * *\n\nSwedish painter**** Julia Selin works simultaneously at two registers of scale: canvases that rise past a standing body and small works that read almost as notes.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , installation view, Sun's Show, Galerie Leu, Munich, 2026. Courtesy the artist and ****Galerie Le**** u. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , installation view, Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich,**** 2026. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\n\n_Sun's Show_ gathers twelve paintings made in 2026 at**Galerie Leu** , **Munich** , each executed in a single continuous oil layer worked wet.\n\nThe resulting forms hold something between diagram and perception, structures that seem to stay in motion as you look.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , What were the skies like when you were young?, oil on canvas, 250x188 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\n* * *\n\n## **_Curatorial Note_ by _Karin Bähler-Lavér_**\n\nSometimes a painting begins in the act of seeing. Or just after, as an afterimage—the persistent glow that remains when the eyes close after looking into light.\n\nJulia Selin's Sun's Show unfolds within this condition. The exhibition brings together a set of paintings that seem to hold together as a system, where each work depends on the others.\n\n> _Last night a moon came out_  _She replaced my eyes_  _She said your plans undermined you_  _Until the shadow rings the bellYou'll only see behind you_\n> (Tom Verlaine, Last Night, 1979)\n\nSeveral canvases rise vertically, exceeding the body; others remain small, close, almost held. Certain motifs return—branching lines, vertical structures, crescent forms, points of light—shifting slightly from one canvas to the next.\n\nThe works behave like recollections, forming and reforming as they are seen.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , This world, oil on canvas, 196x230 cm, 2026. Sun's Show,****Galerie Leu, Munich****. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , A dream of a dream of a dream of a dream, oil on canvas, 175x84 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, Galerie Leu, Munich. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\nSelin approaches painting as a site where images emerge through process. Each canvas is executed in a single, continuous layer of oil, worked while still wet. The image develops through pressure and movement. Where pigment gathers, it darkens into a compact field; where it thins, light appears from within the surface. The palette moves between dense, iron-rich reds and bright passages of yellow. Heat and illumination circulate across the works.\n\nThe composition in several of the paintings recalls Philip Guston's description of Piero della Francesca's manner of dividing a painting: \"The picture is sliced almost in half, yet both parts act on each other, repel and attract, absorb and enlarge, one another.\"[1]\n\n****Julia Selin**** , Anima, oil on canvas, 245x115 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich****. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , No stars, oil on canvas, 245x115 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , My signature will dissolve into nothing, oil on canvas, 96x205 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, Galerie Leu, Munich. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\nThe hand remains close—brush and finger tracing, pressing, dragging—leaving marks that feel both deliberate and immediate. The resulting colour hovers in an unstable register, a dewy, shifting tone the artist describes as a \"ghost colour.\" Illumination is not applied but released, giving the impression that the image is being uncovered rather than constructed.\n\nThis method produces forms that are precise yet open in their associations. In  _No stars_ , a tall, narrow field is held together by a vertical structure that stabilises the composition without resolving it. Subtle shifts suggest a mirroring that never fully aligns. In  _Anima_ , a central form extends and branches, recalling a stem, a spine, or a vascular system. The structure reads as active, as if conducting something unseen.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , It has one billion names, oil on canvas, 37x44 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , 13 billion years of ecstasy, oil on canvas, 53x44 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.****Julia Selin**** , The trees, the breeze, the trees, the wind, oil on canvas, 20x25 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\nIt is as though the paintings are all trying to tell us something, that lies beyond reason and language. An intuition, an incantation. In  _The trees, the breeze, the trees, the wind_ , faint contours of butterflies team across a dark background, suggesting something ominous; in  _Touched just once_ , a spiral shape creates a force field that radiates and seems to pour out of the picture.\n\nIn her painterly practice, Selin sustains a tension between inward, diagrammatic imagery and the direct presence of the painted surface, recalling both the symbolic structures of Hilma af Klint and the spatial clarity of Barnett Newman.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , What would they call themselves, oil on canvas, 53x75 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\nThe paintings remain grounded in their material conditions while opening toward something less tangible—an image that forms in the encounter and continues to shift with attention.\n\nWhat they offer is not a fixed statement but a sustained perceptual state, where seeing becomes a way of holding something briefly in place before it changes again.\n\n**_Karin Bähler-Lavér_**\n\n _[1] Philip Guston, Piero Della Fransesca: the Impossibility of Painting, 1965_\n\n* * *\n\nWhat holds the exhibition together is not a theme but a method: each surface was made in a single pass, which means the image either forms or it doesn't, with no subsequent layering to correct or compensate.\n\nIn  _A dream of a dream of a dream of a dream_ , the canvas is split horizontally, a field of magnetized red above and a field of blue-white stars below, the division feeling structural rather than compositional, like two perceptions that refuse to merge.\n\n****Julia Selin**** , Bloom, oil on canvas, 37x44 cm, 2026. Sun's Show, ****Galerie Leu, Munich.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser\n\nSelin's titles reach toward cosmological scale (\"13 billion years of ecstasy\", \"This world\") while the smallest canvases carry the same charge in miniature. The question the work poses is not what it means but how long it takes. That remains an unusual thing to ask of painting.\n\nInstagram Galerie Leu Munich\nJulia Selin on Instagram \nKarin Bähler Laver on Instagram \n\n* * *\n\n****Julia Selin**** , installation view, Sun's Show, Galerie Leu, Munich, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Leu. Photo: LCB and Jann Averwerser.\n\n**About Catapult - Exhibition Submission**\n\nThis is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond.\ncatapult.art\n\nWant to be featured? Submit your work →\n\n* * *\n\nArtist in Focus\n\n## Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic\n\nRead More\n\nExhibition\n\n## Clauda Presents Paula Gogola: soft_sighs synthesis\n\nRead More\n\nInterview\n\n## Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map\n\nRead More",
  "title": "Light Does Not Arrive. It Persists. Galerie Leu Munich",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-30T07:46:31.224Z"
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