Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies

Says the gallery: “Drawing on literature, philosophy, and astrophysics, Benchamma transforms celestial phenomena into symbolic landscapes that invite us to move beyond the material and the real, into dimensions where the rational and the fantastical coexist”. For his third solo exhibition here, the French-Algerian artist has taken inspiration from Kometenbuch (The Comet Book), a 16th-century Flemish treatise depicting comets and fantastical apparitions; Benchamma suggests how astronomy and astrology, science and folklore, continue to overlap in shaping our perception of the cosmos via a new body of intricate ink drawings and landscapes . Meteorites, crying stones, and shooting stars drift across forests and horizons, hovering between recognition and mystery; there’s also a monumental mural paired with a projected animation that extends this vision into immersive territory, opening onto swirling, otherworldly sequences of light, texture, and form.

To 2 November.

Above: Abdelkader Benchamma, Komentenbuch – Couronne (2025)