The first half of 2026 carried this spirit of renewal across two cities. DCG Contemporary opened the year with its debut at the London Art Fair, presenting visionary works by Clementine de Chabaneix, Andrey Remnev, Joe Sorren, Jonathan Viner, Kukula and Elen Bezhen — paintings inhabiting an "aftertime" between memory and imagination. February brought Elen Bezhen's first solo exhibition at DCG London, exploring the dialogue between humanity and nature through the feminine form. March introduced two new voices to the programme: Daniel B. Dias at DCG Rome, whose neo-surreal figures evoke displacement and spiritual introspection, and Fatima Ronquillo at DCG London, whose classically inspired imagery merges Old Master technique with Latin American magical realism. Together, these exhibitions set the tone for a year defined by exploration, contemplation, and the blurring of boundaries between the real and the imagined.
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ANATOMY OF NOSTALGIA | GROUP EXHIBITION
11 JULY 2026
DCG London opens the second half of 2026 with Anatomy of Nostalgia, a group exhibition bringing together sixteen artists from across the globe, united by a single compulsion: to build. From Japan, Maruyama Junna, Kana Tsumura, Kazuki Takamatsu, Fuco Ueda, Ryoko Kaneta and Masakatsu Sashie bring visions rooted in folklore, philosophy and the surreal traditions of contemporary Asian art. From Europe, Zoé Byland, Ciou, Nadine Tralala, Mattia Barbalaco, Matteo Casali and Soslan Sosiev span folk mythology, Pop Surrealism and expressionist figuration. From the Americas, Saner, Liz Flores, John Brophy and Kristin Kwan draw on pre-Hispanic iconography, Latinx identity, Flemish classicism and allegorical fantasy. Different geographies, different vocabularies — one refusal of the boundary between the real and the imagined.
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DULK & ANDREW HEM | DOUBLE SOLO EXHIBITION
26 SEPTEMBER 2026
DCG Rome presents a double solo exhibition uniting two painters whose work opens onto somewhere we desperately need to go. Dulk, born in Valencia in 1983, paints dreamlike natural landscapes charged with ecological urgency — beautiful and quietly devastating. Andrew Hem, born during his family's flight from Cambodia and raised in Los Angeles, layers Khmer memory and urban experience into luminous, impressionist canvases suspended between reality and dream. Two distinct visions, in conversation.
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BEN ASHTON | SOLO EXHIBITION
OCTOBER 2026
DCG London is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Ben Ashton, one of the most compelling and distinctive painters working in Britain today. Ashton is a master of subversion, fusing evolving technology with self-taught classical techniques to produce work that is at once visually seductive and intellectually demanding. His paintings engage directly with the traditions of portraiture, drawing particular inspiration from the swagger portraits of Thomas Lawrence and the grandiloquent self-presentation of official painting at moments of political confidence, which he turns against itself with a painter's eye and a satirist's intelligence.
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NOZOMI | SOLO EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 2026
DCG Rome presents a solo exhibition by Nozomi, whose quiet, luminous paintings arrive like memories of places never visited. Working in the space where figuration softens into atmosphere, Nozomi builds canvases inhabiting a world suspended between waking and sleep, where light falls as it does in dreams and solitary figures carry an interior life that is felt rather than read. This exhibition marks a significant moment in the development of a singular and deeply considered artistic vision.
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YOSUKE UENO | SOLO EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 2026
DCG London is proud to present a solo exhibition by Yosuke Ueno, marking the continuation of a relationship with the gallery stretching back to 2009. Born in Japan in 1977, Ueno is a self-taught painter whose large, exuberant canvases weave Eastern philosophical symbolism together with Western pop culture into compositions of extraordinary vitality. Each element carries meaning — a message of positivity and cosmic vitality. His work has been exhibited at major institutions across Asia and internationally, and this new body of work continues his joyful investigation into the abundance of the image-filled world.
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