NEUER GLAUBE

In Ryo Kato’s paintings, roses bloom through wreckage, light cuts across broken forms, and bodies seem to emerge only to dissolve again. His images do not offer stability. They hold together tenderness and violence, devotion and collapse, urgency and renewal. With Neuer Glaube, Galerie Sara Lily Perez presents a solo exhibition of new works by the Berlin-based Japanese painter, on view from 24 April through 30 May 2026.

Kato’s paintings are built out of collision. Animal forms, bodily fragments, geometric intrusions, smoke, flowers, and radiant shafts of color are forced into unstable relations. Nothing in these works remains purely symbolic or purely descriptive. A rose is never only a rose; light is never simply transcendence; ruin is never just backdrop. Each element is pulled into a volatile pictorial field in which beauty appears under pressure, and meaning remains open, provisional, and intensely alive.