La Vie En Rose Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Mana Urakami, Clara Tournay

"La Vie En Rose" is a group exhibition curated by Luisa Catucci in collaboration with Mario Bermel, and the first presented under the new name Luisa Catucci Contemporary, marking the transformation from a conventional gallery into an expanded platform grounded in exhibitions, long-term artistic relationships, and collective exchange.
 

Bringing together works by Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Mana Urakami, and Clara Tournay, the exhibition unfolds around the presence of pink — not as a decorative theme, but as a quiet, insistent pulse. Historically layered with shifting meanings, from spiritual embodiment to Rococo excess and later gendered domestication, pink is reclaimed here as a carrier of resilience and lived strength. It appears across drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and embroidery as stain, reflection, interruption, or subtle trace, holding tenderness and force in the same breath.
 

The title echoes Édith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose, invoking not romantic idealization but endurance shaped by hardship and survival. This undertone of transition resonates both institutionally and personally, mirroring the gallery’s evolution and Bermel’s move from Berlin to Paris.
 

Across the exhibition, bodies dissolve and recompose, figuration emerges from abstraction, materials shift between organic and industrial, and photographs are gently reanimated through thread. Pink surfaces as presence rather than proclamation — a quiet field in which strength exists without spectacle. The exhibition ultimately speaks of resilience that does not declare itself, but simply endures.