Pius Fox: stable fragility
Pius Fox: stable fragility
Exhibition Dates: October 17 – November 28, 2025
Pablo’s Birthday presents stable fragility, a solo exhibition by Berlin painter Pius Fox. In his practice, he explores the thresholds between the recognizable and unrecognizable, painting and drawing, form and content– always hovering on the verge of the non-objective.
From photographs of doors or façades that often serve as a starting point for Fox’s work, only traces remain. The works in stable fragility emerge from his studio environment, translated through a process of continual construction and erosion. Applying oil and/or egg tempera on paper or aluminum, Fox scrapes, sands, drags, presses, and layers his surfaces in a meditative interrogation of perspective and perception.
These movements result in a tension where yellow triangles press against a blue that seems at once sky and ocean; black grids let light escape as if a window doesn’t quite fit; wandering lines cross pink fields like quick notes written in a margin. The dynamic interactions of surface and depth, structure and fragment, suggest a temporal juxtaposition—an interplay between memory and immediacy, between the historical and the contemporary.
Pius Fox (b. 1983, Berlin) graduated from University of the Arts in Berlin under professor Frank Badur and a master's class under professor Pia Fries in 2010. The Berlin painter has held solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, and throughout Germany and is featured in international collections across Europe and the US. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Text by Tadeo Nusser & Claire Zehnith