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.