Wynnie Mynerva’s paintings act as transformative spaces where fragmented bodies extend beyond fixed categories, blending genders, organs, and prosthetic elements. These floating forms express intimacy and compassion, suggesting a process of healing and reconciliation with desire. Drawing deeply from personal encounters with violence linked to race, gender, and sexuality, Mynerva’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, performance, and video. Growing up in Villa El Salvador, a neighborhood shaped by intricate social and economic challenges, their work delves into themes of change, defiance, and embodiment. Incorporating mythological symbols, Mynerva both pays tribute to and reinvents classical art traditions, encouraging viewers to reconsider inherited stories and forms. Their creations offer fresh viewpoints fueled by vivid imagination and emotional depth. By intertwining personal histories, collective wounds, and individual longings, Mynerva’s practice envisions renewed understandings of the past and present, while imagining hopeful futures amid uncertainty. Through engagement with the urban environment and its complex narratives, they develop a unique cosmology—an evolving universe where diverse paths and possibilities come alive through painting. ...
Société is a Berlin-based gallery with an international profile—its core operations lay in Europe, the United States, and Asia. The gallery’s exhibitions, publications, and boundary-pushing initiatives have established a vital dialogue among artists working internationally. Société focuses on establishing long-term, symbiotic relationships with its gallery artists, many of whom had their first solo exhibition with the gallery. The structure of the gallery’s program and the format of its projects is an artist-led approach that responds to the ever-evolving conditions of artistic research and production—at times even pushing beyond traditional exhibition formats. Although differing in media and approach, Société’s artists address the relationship between cultural production and consumption, the circulation of information, identity, and cultural history in an era highly mediated by technology. The gallery's publishing initiative Edition Société, has worked with accomplished graphic designers on a number of acclaimed artist's books. The gallery has additionally produced 12" records with several contemporary musicians. Société has exhibited at Art Basel / Art Basel Miami Beach / Art Basel Hong Kong / Frieze London / Frieze New York / Frieze LA / ARCO Madrid / Independent New York / Independent Brussels / Art Cologne / Art Brussels / Enter Art Fair / Gallery Weekend Berlin / and Art Berlin among other locations. ...
