FIGURES IN MOTION AND PLACES REMEMBERED
FILIPP JENIKÄE
07 MARCH - 18 APRIL 2026
The exhibition brings together a body of paintings produced in 2025 that explore urban environments, sports iconography, domestic architecture, and collectible imagery. Jenikäe’s work examines how contemporary visual culture shapes memory, identity, and emotional orientation.Across saturated, rhythmically composed canvases, athletes captured in moments of performance coexist with global cityscapes, swimming pools, and symbolic interiors. These images are not presented as documentary representations but as recollections filtered through movement, media consumption, and personal experience.
By placing spectacle and everyday life on equal footing, Jenikäe approaches sports, travel, and architecture as parallel visual languages. His paintings operate as emotional mappings, where places and figures are carried forward through memory rather than fixed in time. Figures in Motion and Places Remembered marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
FEATURED ARTIST
FILIPP JENIKÄE
Filipp Jenikäe (b. 1987) is a German artist working and living in Münster and Paris. His access to the art world was through his mother who was an art teacher. A family of art lovers, his sister studied history of arts, but despite this, Jenikäe has no formal training in art. He studied Law and later political science at the UAB Barcelona, before studying business administration in the Netherlands. It was later in his life when he discovered his passion for art, following the end of his childhood dream to play professional basketball.
At the time he was living in Berlin, which was a perfect environment for his creative pursuits. Painting mainly with acrylics on canvas his paintings document popular culture including the achievements of sportsmen and women, as well as musicians. His fascination with the nuances of the societies he has lived within also influence his paintings of landscapes and vibrant social scenes in a variety of location across popular cities including nightclubs, bars and backyards.
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