CURRENT
Ani Schulze, Roda Quente
May 24th — June 21st, 2026
Figura Avulsa is pleased to present Roda Quente, a project by Ani Schulze, opening on Sunday, May 24th, 6–8 PM.
The exhibition can be visited by appointment until June 21st, 2026.
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, as well as figurative sculptures contextually installed. From her studio in Cologne, situated in an industrial neighbourhood surrounded by trucks and loading docks, the hot wheel rolls on and becomes a contemporary mantra. The painting Menino Solitário Com Duas Escadas (lonely boy with two ladders), resonates with the ladder in the courtyard of Figura Avulsa, and comments on progress, circulation and access. Through building enigmatic, psychedelic and humorous sceneries she explores 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).
UPCOMING
Film Screening, Friday May 29th, 2026
Ani Schulze: The Convent of Pleasure, 8pm
The Convent of Pleasure — Episode 1: The Beginning, 15 min, English, 2023
The Convent of Pleasure — Episode 7: At One Go, 9 min, English, 2024
The soap opera series The Convent of Pleasure by Ani Schulze is based on the comedy of the same name by Margaret Cavendish, published in 1668. In its plot a group of women decide not to marry and to found a community without men – the eponymous convent. Loosely based on the comedy the series explores both fictional and real figures – mostly female artists – and develops hybrid characters and surreal narrative fragments. These are based on an investigation into the lives and works of artists such as Marie Vassilief (1884–1957), Abigail de Paiva Cruz (1883–1944), Germaine Richier (1902–1959) and Lola Mora (1866–1936). In a male-dominated avant-garde they explored metamorphosis and hybridity and challenged contemporary representations of gender, the body, and female subjectivity. They produced artistic works that have been historically sidelined. In The Convent of Pleasure, real stories and anecdotes from the lives of the researched artists are interwoven with contemporary elements and narrative fragments from the 17th-century comedy.
