UPCOMING
Ani Schulze, Roda Quente
May 24th, 6—8 PM
Figura Avulsa is pleased to present Roda Quente, a project by Ani Schulze, opening on Sunday, May 24th, 6–8 PM.
The artist produced new works following her interest in ornamentation, souvenirs, decoration, the slippage of materials and in being „on and off“ the stage. The exhibition displays a selection of new paintings on silk and on canvas, and figurative sculptures — contextually installed. From her studio in Cologne, situated in a insdutrial neighborhood, surrounded by trucks and loading docks, the hot wheel becomes a contenporary mantra. The painting Menino Solitário Com Duas Escadas (lonely boy with two ladders), resonates with the ladder in the courtyard, and comments on progress, circulation and access.Through building enigmatic, psychedelic and partly humorous sceneries and landscapes she explores and observes what constitutes identification and social mobility within late capitalism.
A screening of her ongoing video series The Convent of Pleasure is scheduled for friday May 29th at 7.30PM. The soap-opera is inspired by Margaret Cavendish’s 1668 eponymous comedy, in which a group of women decide to form a community without men — the titular convent. Schulze draws on both fictional and real figures, primarily female artists, and develops hybrid characters and surreal narrative fragments.
Ani Schulze lives and works in Cologne and in Porto.
Recent solo Exhibitions include At One Go, Mountains, Berlin (2025); The Convent of Pleasure (Part 1 & 2), Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne (2023/ 24); Snake Charming, Lehmann+ Silva, Porto (2022); Lovers & Hunters, Kunstverein Siegen (2021); Hang in There, Baby, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto (2021); Flint House Lizard,
I: Project Space, Beijing (2029); 7 Follies, Artothek, Cologne (2019); Merchants Freely Enter, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2017).
She participated amongst others in group exhibitions such as in Eternal Fields, Clages, Cologne (2025); Not dying, Center for Literature, Münster (2025); Nebula, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin (2025); Drifts and Creatures, Galeria Municipal, Porto (2023) FUTURA, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2022); Entretecido|Interlace, Pavilhão Branco, Lisboa (2021).
Ani will have a Solo Exhibition at Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and a Duo Show with artist Isabel Nolan at Kunststation Sankt Peter in Cologne (2026).