Group Chat: Group Show
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This August, RHODES brings together seven leading contemporary artists for our summer exhibition, Group Chat.
In bringing together this selection of artists, Group Chat asks the viewer to reflect on the works in conversation with one another. Making art is often a personal and solitary process, but this show is about connection – a shared space where individual voices come together. Group Chat highlights the ways these distinct practices can sit side by side, creating something richer through engaging in a dialogue with one another.
One artist featured in Group Chat is Koshiro Akiyama. The Japanese artist is known for both disturbing and dream-like works, created from memories and transformed into texturally rich worlds. This tension between delicate subject matter and vivid colour palettes reflects the contrast between vulnerability and strength in humanity.
Diana Ruban is a Ukrainian artist whose practice delves into human experience and resilience through motifs and themes seen in folk stories and imagery. Her figures are created in rich colour palettes, with subjects framed by decorative patterns and motifs.
Alongside Ruban are new works by Greek artist, Martha Zmpounou. Zmpounou’s artistic practice features relaxed figures created in bright colours and joyous landscapes. These figures and settings are often created using mixed media, with a base in monoprinting and details in watercolour and acrylic.
Another acclaimed artist featured in the exhibition is Stewart Swan, a Glaswegian whose portraits reflect the grit and humour of his home country. His surreal portraits feature animals as the sitters, with exaggerated wrinkles and sharpened teeth. The often-garishly coloured faces contrast with their flat, subdued backgrounds, making them pop from the canvas.
German artist Delia Hamer creates warm, impactful works influenced by her roots in the South of Spain. In Group Chat, two larger-than-life portraits embody the personification of both Night and Day. The deep blues and reds highlight the soft and pale bodies in the center of the canvas, while the gold leaf embellishments provide a heavenly touch.
To create her soft, abstracted figures, Camille Cottier combines gentle colour palettes and rounded forms. However, the results are figures from another world, evoking a strong reaction of both comfort and suspicion. She creates art through instinctual mark-making, leading to authentic works she wants the audience to react to.
The final artist in Group Chat is Madison Skriver. With a dedication to the surreal, Skriver’s works utilise elements of graphic design and stylistic realism to create works that are almost too realistic. The saturated colour and deep shadows push her works out from the real world, leaving the viewer with a sense of nostalgia for another place.
Group Chat will be on display at RHODES 1st - 30th August 2025 -
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Selected works
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Collecting
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