Aqua Art Miami - Art Miami Fairs - 2025 3.12 - 7.12.2025
A Journey Through Contemporary European Abstraction & Expressionism
SHIM Art is pleased to present an exhibition that brings together a distinguished group of European artists in a resonant exploration of contemporary abstraction and expressionism. Opening on 4 December 2025 at Aqua Art Miami, the exhibition offers a considered survey of the artistic languages currently shaping the European scene. At its heart lies a dialogue between gesture, form, and emotional intensity, works that speak not only through colour and material, but through the charged atmospheres they
create. This assembly of painters and image‑makers reflects the breadth of practices found across the continent today, from the lyrical and intuitive to the structurally rigorous, each rooted in the long and dynamic lineage of European modernism.
Curated under the experienced guidance of Galeries Hohenthal und Bergen (Germany), Laurence Pustetto (France), and Peter Hopkins (United States), the exhibition highlights artists whose voices are at once singular and emblematic of a wider movement. Together, they offer a nuanced portrait of contemporary European sensibility: restless, searching, deeply human. This presentation at Aqua Art invites visitors to discover a constellation of practices that, while diverse, share an unwavering commitment to the expressive potential of abstraction and the emotional truths it can reveal.
1530 Collins Ave | Miami Beach, FL 33139 | 4 to 7 December | 10 am - 8pm
2025 1.11 - 21.12.2025
Conrad Schirmann does not paint in order to depict, but to experience the dialogue between mastery and renunciation. His work is not the result of a single gesture, but rather the layering of successive interventions, erasures, reappearances, and unexpected rediscoveries integrated into a rigorously considered composition. The image, treated with many overlays and glazes, opens up spaces of undetermined depth. These are neither landscapes nor abstractions in the strict sense, but intermediate fields in which light and shadow are continually redefined.These undefined zones challenge the viewer: what one believes to recognize becomes fleeting, and it is precisely in this instability that the work gains its power. It can be seen as a response to the legacy of Art Informel and gestural abstraction: where others opt for expressive explosion, Schirmann chooses restraint, focus, and a near-ascetic approach.