Artaround : THECORE Annual 2025/26: light, gesture, matter

Eight voices. One arc: light → gesture → matter. In Artaround THECORE Annual 2025/26, THECORE brings together the artists and designers featured throughout the year to map contemporary sensibilities. An edition meant to be seen slowly-work, detail, pause. Here’s a sneak peek with highlights and the full curatorial flow.

Iratxe Arteta

Essences of Light

Whites in suspended glazes. Light becomes matter; color, silence. Painting made to inhabit space with calm and precision.

Carolin Kreutzer

Textural Hush

Whispering textures-layers of time, subtlety, restraint. A surface that beats between gesture and balance.

Klaudia Jurić

Sensitive Geometries

Structure with a human pulse. Minimal planes and rhythms organize emotion without losing warmth.

Cat Spilman

Gesture & Emotion

Stroke as intimate narrative-love, loss, humor, belonging. A vivid, contemporary alphabet of gesture.

Ramona Russu

Color & Memory

Emotive abstraction. Color builds memory and turns painting into a place to dwell.

Lara Youssef Nabawy

Silhouettes in Red

Bodies in suspension. Sculptural reds and reliefs that anchor identity, bond, and presence.

Alicia Gimeno

Graphic Breath, Painterly Field

A material calligraphy. Between graphic and painterly, a precise, quiet grammar emerges.

Francesco Maria Messina  

Glacies: Light Held Within

Volterra alabaster and glass. Glacial objects where light rises from within. Proportion, Tuscan craft, longevity.

Manifesto

Light, gesture, matter. To look is to listen: veins, layers, pauses. This Annual doesn’t rush—it breathes. Read slowly, in the company of architecture, and return to what is essential.

Credits

Artists: Iratxe Arteta, Carolin Kreutzer, Klaudia Jurić, Cat Spilman, Ramona Russu, Lara Youssef Nabawy, Alicia Gimeno, Francesco Maria Messina.

Photography: courtesy of the artists (credit per image).

Curated by: THECORE.