Julian Lombardi, Shane Berkery and Gus Monday
Through closed eyes, darkly
21.02 – 22.03.2025
Belenius
Opening
Thursday, 20.02 at 5 – 7 PM
"Space is a dominant organising principle that structures the way we experience the world around us. It plays out in the architectures that contextualise and inform embodied experience while also serving as a framework through which we arrange our inner lives. Our relationship to space is intimate, particular, and shaped as much by our psychology as our physicality."
– Kitty Gurnos-Davies
Julian Lombardi (b. 1996 in Philadelphia, USA) is an American artist living and working in London. Julian Lombardi has exhibited his work in several notable international exhibitions. In 2023 he presented "Heaven and Heathens" in Seattle, WA, followed by "Beautiful Little Rapture" in 2024 at The Something Machine in New York, where he will return for another solo exhibition in 2025. His recent group exhibitions include the 2024 Royal College of Art Painting MA Degree Exhibition in London, UK, and exhibitions at L.U.P.O in Milan, Italy, Bermondsey Project Space in London, UK, and Arusha Gallery in London, UK. He will also participate in group exhibitions at L.U.P.O in Milan, Italy, Chilli Arts Projects in London, UK, Belenius in Stockholm, Sweden, and Kearsey & Gold in London, UK in 2025.
Shane Berkery (b. 1992 in Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in London. He completed BA in Fine Art and History of Art at the National College of Art and Design in 2015 where Berkery first gained some national recognition through the college's censorship of his proposed degree show painting being reported in the Irish Times. The following year he was awarded the preeminent Hennessy-Craig award at the Royal Hibernian Academy. From then Berkery started having solo exhibitions nationally and abroad, exhibited work in the National Gallery of Ireland and entering works in to the state collection. In 2024 Berkery graduated from Painting MA at the Royal College of Art in London, concurrently exhibiting a large scale self portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. He will be exhibiting works in numerous exhibitions in 2025 in Singapore, Stockholm, London, Paris, and more.
Gus Monday (b. 2000 in London, UK) is a British, South African painter based in London. He graduated with a Foundation in Art and Design and a BA Hons (First Class) in Fine Art from The City and Guilds of London Art School, having been nominated for both The HARI Art Prize (2023) and the New Blood Emerging Artist Prize (2023). Monday graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and has exhibited internationally in South Korea, Spain and London. He currently has upcoming shows in London, Milan, Singapore, Stockholm and Seoul.