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KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present THIS TIME TOMORROW by Australian-born, France-based artist Jordy Kerwick in the Vault of St. Agnes.

Taking its title from The Kinks’ 1970 song, the exhibition begins with a question: ”This time tomorrow, where will we be?” The refrain captures a feeling of uncertainty about a future that seems near at hand yet remains indistinct. Across a group of recent oil and acrylic paintings, Kerwick turns the day-to-day into a site of meditation, where familiar motifs and fleeting impressions are transformed into vivid fables of the future.

These works begin with small details: vivid greens, floral bursts of magenta, vermilion, and mauve, the presence of water, and the passing impressions of lived surroundings. In Kerwick’s paintings, such familiar elements do not remain fixed. They accumulate, shift, and recombine, unfolding into tableaux where the everyday opens onto the mythical and the imagined.

Animals, plants, masks, and hybrid figures recur throughout the exhibition, moving between domestic scene, dream image, and allegory. Rendered in saturated color and animated by stripes, dots, waves, and repeated marks, the paintings hover between observation and invention. In Kerwick’s hands, the ordinary is not left behind, but recast: the everyday becomes theatrical, unsettled, and strangely prophetic.

In THIS TIME TOMORROW, the future is neither distant nor defined. It appears instead as something sensed from within the present, through fleeting encounters, recurring motifs, and sustained attention to the day-to-day. Kerwick’s paintings begin in ordinary life, then carry it outward into meditation and myth.

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About the Artist

Australian-born artist Jordy Kerwick’s practice is characterised by vibrant paintings brimming with whimsy and fun.

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KÖNIG GALERIE, founded in 2002, has evolved into a dynamic platform for contemporary art in Berlin and beyond. The gallery specializes in showcasing the work of both emerging and established international artists, with a particular emphasis on younger generations. Its program is characterized by interdisciplinary, concept-driven approaches, encompassing a wide array of artistic media, from sculpture and painting to video, installation, printmaking, photography, and performance.

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