The Art of Living Slowly: Marina Adams

Opening as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin, 2 May 2025, 6 to 9 pm

Marina Adams’ second solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte is titled The Art of Living Slowly, a subtle nod to examine the speed and direction of our internet present. She considers how slowing down can offer another sense of time and space, opening room for clarity, and like deep breathing can bring an expansion of heart and a gain in empathy.

The exhibition will offer both medium to smaller scaled paintings as well as works on paper. Surrounded by the trees in her Long Island studio, her focus on paper has returned to tree drawings, which have entered her practice at various other times in her career. In the making of these works she says, “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ something. Instead, I’m trying to conjure up the energy of a tree, the energy of a line, the energy of a space”. This transference of energy connects the figurative and non-figurative as there is life force in everything.