PAN Amsterdam 2026: Booth 80

Visit MPV Gallery during PAN Amsterdam from Saturday 31 October to Sunday 8 November in stand 80 at the RAI in Amsterdam.

This year, MPV Gallery is presenting work by Lita Cabellut, Heikki Marila, Bram Braam, Diederik Schneemann, Neeltje de Vries, Osiris Hertman, Sylvestre Gauvrit, Ellis Holman, Willi Siber, and Peter Zimmermann.

Tickets can be ordered at pan.nl

The opening is on Saturday 31 October, for invited guests only.

LITA CABELLUT

ES, B. 1961

Lita Cabellut (1961, Spain) is an artist who lives and works in the Netherlands. She is regarded as one of the most relevant painters of our time, with her ability to combine different disciplines without the medium ever standing in the way of her language. Cabellut’s working method is based on reflection and a detailed study of the chosen motif, the core concept that she then develops in her studio. Her large-scale works combine traditional techniques with modern applications. The chosen characters form the channel through which the concept is communicated. Through these characters, who act as interlocutors, the human being, the social message, brutality, selfishness, ignorance, dehumanisation and transcendence are the central themes in her work. Her creative process is visceral and physical, and this is reflected in the texture, the gestures and the unvarnished emotional intensity of her works. Cabellut sees art as an essential element in changing and improving society.

PETER ZIMMERMANN

DE, B. 1956

Peter Zimmermann (1956, Germany) is an artist who lives and works in Cologne. His practice combines a wide range of media, including painting, digital art and installation. His artistic interest lies in the way reality is represented in a digital context, which allowed him to anticipate the debate on ‘alternative facts’ early on. Whereas his work initially focused on the relationship between text and image, he now explores the boundary between reality and virtuality. His multicoloured images in epoxy resin originate from digital sources such as photographs, film stills and diagrams, which he deconstructs and alienates using graphic algorithms before applying them to the canvas in countless transparent layers of epoxy. Since 2014 he has also applied this method in oil paint. In addition, he translates his visual language into spatial interventions, installations, and ceiling and floor works. His walkable floor piece Schule von Freiburg (2016) at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg attracted considerable international attention.

WILLI SIBER

DE, B. 1949

Willi Siber (1949, Germany) is an artist who lives and works in Dietenwengen in southern Germany. He studied art history and sculpture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, where he initially trained as a stone sculptor. His work cannot be captured in a single genre and moves along the boundary between sculpture and painting. Siber works with wood, steel, lacquer and epoxy resin, often starting from experiments with material and construction. He is not interested in the aesthetics of the material itself, but rather in the possibility of transforming it. He bends and folds steel tubes into dynamic sculptures with glossy layers of lacquer, and works wooden panels into wall objects and panels with a skin of lacquer or casting resin. Besides its formal inventiveness, Siber’s work is also remarkable for its use of colour. With a palette ranging from muted earth tones to energetic pinks and greens, he seems to attune form and colour to one another almost instinctively.

HEIKKI MARILA

FI, B. 1966

Heikki Marila (1966, Finland) is an artist who lives and works in Turku. He is considered one of Finland’s leading contemporary artists. Marila is known for his monumental oil paintings, centred on biblical motifs, self-portraits and floral still lifes. His work connects the spiritual and the beautiful with the corporeal and the disturbing, and moves continually between figuration and abstraction. He applies the paint in thick, almost relief-like layers that give his canvases a strongly physical presence. In his flower paintings he enters into dialogue with the seventeenth-century Dutch still life, by painters such as Willem Claesz. Heda and Abraham van Beyeren. He enlarges the intimate, domestic bouquet to an almost explosive scale, in which bloom and decay, beauty and chaos come together. ‘By using existing forms, I have the freedom to explore the essence of a painting,’ says Marila.

BRAM BRAAM

NL, B. 1980

Bram Braam (1980, the Netherlands) is an artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work is rooted in the visual and material language of the city and the ever-changing urban landscape. He works with concrete, steel, brick, glass, wood and paint; some materials he finds on the street, but most he recreates in his studio. His compositions balance between abstraction and representation and are built up from fragments of everyday urban life. Through cutting, rearranging, stacking and eroding, he creates surfaces that bear the traces of time and human intervention. Braam draws inspiration from concrete art, minimalism and modernist architecture, and is counted among the post-vandalism movement: a conceptual development of graffiti, detached from its original context. Central to his work are the interconnectedness of things and the tension between control and chance, the built and the natural, permanence and decay.

DIEDERIK SCHNEEMANN

NL, B. 1979

Diederik Schneemann (1979, Belgium) is an artist and designer who grew up in Maastricht and lives and works in Rotterdam. He studied 3D design at AKI ArtEZ in Enschede. He is internationally known for work at the intersection of art and design. Schneemann usually starts from existing objects that already carry a meaning or a story: icons and products that evoke memories, emotions or wonder. By changing their appearance and function, he gives them a second life and an unexpected new reality. In his series Cherished, he transforms personal collections of perfume bottles, Smurfs, cigar bands and matchboxes with the care usually reserved for marble or bronze. The same applies to this painting cabinet, which consists of some 55 oil paintings by undervalued artists. These ‘Dutch masters’ never gained international recognition, but by giving their work a second life, Schneemann acknowledges the love, passion, time and effort these artists put into their creations.

NEELTJE DE VRIES

TR, B. 1976

Neeltje de Vries (1976, Turkey) is a Dutch photographer who lives and works in Amsterdam. After some twenty years as a graphic designer, she returned in her mid-thirties to her first love, photography, and studied at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. Her black-and-white photographs seduce and unsettle at the same time. They seek a balance between line and form, body and boundary, attraction and discomfort. Her background in graphic design is visible in the geometric shapes, repeating patterns and careful framing. What sets De Vries apart is her singularity. Her photographs are self-portraits in disguise: women who embody the freedom she once could only imagine. Now, through photography, she claims that space for herself. These women are not there for us. They exist for themselves, they feel their own boundaries, they explore their own freedoms. In De Vries’s world, nudity is not about eroticism but about liberation, although she leaves room for interpretation. Her work resists categorisation. She is not interested in making “pretty” pictures of naked women, but in capturing the strength of free women who refuse to be anything other than themselves. Her images breathe quiet resistance.

SYLVESTRE GAUVRIT

FR, B. 1977

Sylvestre Gauvrit (1977, France) is a sculptor who lives in The Hague and works in Pietrasanta, Italy. He grew up in the forests around Moulins in France, where he spent his childhood climbing centuries-old oaks and observing nature. Later he travelled the world to surf. Unity with nature is central to his life and work. Gauvrit studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara and then honed his skills in carving monumental marble sculptures in various workshops in Pietrasanta, before establishing his own studio. In his designs, Sylvestre explicitly chooses flowing, organic forms. He experiences these forms in nature, in human movement and in the shapes and patterns evoked by the natural elements of air, water and fire. The sculptor mostly uses marble or stainless steel, in his eyes the perfect materials to give these movements spatial form. Gauvrit combines hammer and chisel with 3D computer techniques to shape the material. The new technology he applies enables him to give the material a natural, flowing form rather than leaving traces of the process of carving, chiselling and sanding. Sylvestre’s work radiates an almost self-evident ease, a quality found in both his small works and his monumental sculptures.

ELLIS HOLMAN

NL, B. 1997

Ellis Holman (1997, Waalwijk) is a visual artist who graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 2022. Her work moves between landscape, identity and the sensory experience of space. She draws inspiration from the urban and natural landscapes around her. Having grown up in a family of carpenters, she has a strong connection with craft and material; for each story she chooses the medium that fits, from kinetic installations and film to photography and sculptures in Plexiglas. Her work plays with tension and distorted perspectives and revolves around the relationship between past and future: the feeling of drifting at sea, detached from land, between unknown waters and the familiar shore. In a time of polarisation, digitalisation and social pressure, she explores the longing for stillness and escape. In the series Composed Oceanscapes she creates imaginary seascapes in which light, tension and gravity converge. Holman captures the moment when a rough sea comes to rest.

OSIRIS HERTMAN

NL, B. 1972

Osiris Hertman (1972, the Netherlands) is a designer and interior architect. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he was trained and mentored by, among others, Lidewij Edelkoort. As early as his second year of study, his ceramic work was included in a design book by Philippe Starck, and his graduation project was later shown at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. He worked for Ulf Moritz and Marcel Wanders and opened his own studio in 1997. From furniture design, his practice expanded into interiors, tile design and silver jewellery for Buddha to Buddha. His award-winning interiors, including Fort Resort Beemster and Brass Boer Curaçao, are known for their detailing and bespoke craftsmanship. His recognisable style is founded on his meticulous drawings, which are executed by hand by specialised workshops in the Netherlands: a steel studio for welding and polishing stainless steel elements, a ceramics studio for making the ceramic legs that recur in many of his design objects, and a studio where he experiments and paints with transparent lacquer. The result is sculptural tables and cabinets, mirrored wall objects and collectible pieces that reflect their surroundings and change with the position of the viewer.