See you soon
group exhibition organized by New Uncanny
Images courtesy of Taon, Ivry-sur-Seine
Bravo Space
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
Bravo Space
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
Bravo Space
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
Participating artists: Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Craig Jun Li, Paul Spendier, Umico Niwa
"My bitterness over nostalgia’s impotence to revive and resurrect becomes a tearful rage against God, who created impossibilities, when I think about how the friends of my dreams – with whom I’ve shared so much in a make-believe life and with whom I’ve had so many stimulating conversations in imaginary cafés – have never had a space of their own where they could truly exist, independent of my consciousness of them!"
– Fernando Pessoa
See you soon is a fleeting encounter between artists from New York, Vienna, and Berlin, staged across only three days. Some have met through mutual friends, some have shown together, and some may never cross paths again amid the constant flux of these three art capitals. The exhibition thus becomes a site of brief encounter for them, offering quiet reflections on distance and longing: experiences of being absorbed by an unreachable love, memories of the departed manifested through temporary objects, recipes for dreams of faraway places. Nostalgia grows stronger with distance and separation, building to a moment of overwhelming yearning. It consumes both its subject and object, reaching across great divides, undoing its bearers with equal intensity.
7 Nov. 19:00–00:00 Exhibition Opening
19:00 Doors open
21:00 Live sound performance Mataya
22:15 Live sound performance Pavel Pakhomov
Contributors
craig jun li
Artist
“CJ” Craig Jun Li (b. 1998, China) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York (Munsee Lenape land). Driven by research interests in circulation and semiotics, Li's work often configures as inconstant installations utilizing perishable materials and architectural elements. Li runs a nomadic curatorial project Benny’s Video. He has an MFA from Hunter College MFA, and a BFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Get Around with Coco Klockner, Below Grand, New York, NY (2025); plutôt, Taon, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR (2025); of, RAINRAIN, New York, NY (2024); Valentine (Kristen Stewart) with Mike Goldby, Parent Company, New York, NY (2024); sanction, Abel Contemporary, Stoughton, WI (2024); cool, hatred 2, New York, NY (2024); if, Prairie, Chicago, IL (2023); or, hosted by Canal Street Research Association, organized by ACOMPI, Canal Projects, New York, NY (2023); ...tell me what you want, what you really, really want, organized by ACOMPI at Home Gallery, New York, NY (2022)
monilola olayemi ilupeju
Artist
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju (b. 1996) is a Nigerian-American artist and writer based in Berlin. Working across painting, writing, performance and installation, she balances intimate experiences of connection, violence, and healing against broader considerations of cultural distortion and identity. She graduated with distinction from New York University, where she studied studio art and social and cultural analysis. She is also an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her debut collection of writing, Earnestly, was published in 2022 by Archive Books. Recent solo exhibition include 2025 The Wishing Well, Art Basel: Statements, PSM, Basel, Switzerland (2025); Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju: BloodLetter, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2024); BloodLetter, PSM, Berlin, Germany (2024); Saint V., Tarte Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2023); Gymnasia, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy (2023); Hands Full of Air, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany (2020); Eve of Intuition, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, Germany (2020)
umico niwa
Artist
Umico Niwa’s (b. 1991, Japan) practice explores the way Western notions of personhood subsume human life into constructs of sexuality and gender, overlooking the various other modes of unbridled existence: plant, microbial, fungal, animal, celestial bodies. Her speculative medical papers propose novel forms of body modification to combat gender dysphoria as well as playfully explore the possible efficacy of including fecal matter transplants as part of hormone replacement therapy for transgender individuals. She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Recent solo exhibitions include. She has held solo exhibitions at XYZ Collective in Tokyo, Japan (2023); Someday Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Tilings in Montreal, Canada (2022); and Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR (2020). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions in ILY2, New York, NY (2025);Towada Art Center in Aomori, Japan (2024); Simon Subal in New York City, NY (2022); Kristina Kite in Los Angeles, CA (2021); and Miriam in New York City, NY (2020).
paul spendier
Artist
Paul Spendier (b. 1997, Klagenfurt, Austria) lives and works in Vienna.
He had solo presentations at tart.vienna as well as the ACF Washington DC. Recently, he exhibited at Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna and Galerie Thoman, Vienna. In 2024, he was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and spent an exchange semester at Tama Art University Tokyo.