RYO KATO | NEUER GLAUBE

24.04. - 30.05.2026

OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 24 2026 | 6–8 PM | FREE ENTRY

With Neuer Glaube, Galerie Sara Lily Perez presents a solo exhibition of new works by the Berlin-based Japanese painter, on view from 24 April through 30 May 2026. In Ryo Kato’s paintings, roses bloom through wreckage, light cuts across broken forms, and bodies seem to emerge only to dissolve again. His images do not offer stability. They hold together tenderness and  violence, devotion and collapse, urgency and renewal.

Kato’s paintings are built out of collision. Animal forms, bodily fragments, geometric intrusions, smoke, flowers, and radiant shafts of color are forced into unstable relations. Nothing in these works remains purely symbolic or purely descriptive. A rose is never only a rose; light is never simply transcendence; ruin is never just backdrop. Each element is pulled into a volatile pictorial field in which beauty appears under pressure, and meaning remains open, provisional, and intensely alive. 

The exhibition’s title, Neuer Glaube  “New Faith” points to a form of belief that has survived fracture. Kato’s work does not imagine faith as refuge from the world, but as something tested within it: amid ecological destruction, political exhaustion, spiritual disorientation, and the increasing sense that inherited structures no longer hold. His paintings ask whether conviction, tenderness, or even hope can still appear after collapse,  and what form they might take if they do.