'The exhibition titled Mirror of Mysteries: Women Artists and the Surreal Legacy with artists Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Leonora Carrington, Anna Perach, Chantal Powell and Emma Witter reimagines and questions surrealism in the 21st-century con- text through the feminine psyche, symbolism and the power of objects. Responding to La Boulangerie!’s non-profit display space, architecture and design, the exhibition invites visitors to playfully discover artworks (some in hidden parts of the space such as the fridge, ceiling or shelves) and reimagine the Surrealist discourse. In this exhibition, Huma Kabakci invites four contemporary women artists to transcend Carrington’s depiction of surrealism and psychoanalysis by engaging site-specifically with La Boulangerie’s unique Rococo architecture and history.'

'Marta and guest curator Krista Mileva-Frank are pleased to present Objects for a Heavenly Cave, a group exhibition that explores the materiality and mythos of the grotto. Grottoes—cave-like spaces in which the natural and the artificial merge—have long been a vibrant site for material experimentation. The Renaissance grotto was an aesthetic laboratory and a place of symbiosis between human and non-human entities: stalactites ‘grew’ with the help of hidden water spouts, moss crept over lava rock walls, and microorganisms deteriorated marble sculptures. Designers learned from nature by staging and imitating petrification and decay, inventing the style we now know as the ‘grotesque.’ Inspired by a broad set of historical references, the thirteen artists and collectives in the exhibition consider these sensorily-rich spaces as a prompt for contemporary practice.'