ART COLOGNE 2025 — Galería Reus | Contemporary Art Galleries in Palma, Mallorca

Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.

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ART COLOGNE - 2025

MAITE Y MANUEL, GRÖNLUND-NISUNEN

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06.11.2025 - 09.11.2026

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LA BIBI + REUS presents a dialogue between two artistic duos who, from radically different visual languages, explore collaboration as form, tension, and method: Grönlund–Nisunen (Finland) and Maite y Manuel (Uruguay/Spain).

This proposal investigates the contemporary paradigm of four-handed creation, in an era where interdependence has become a creative condition. As sociologist Howard Becker states, art is a “collective activity” rather than the isolated expression of a singular genius. Becker reminds us that every work involves a network of actions, shared decisions, and systems of cooperation.

Grönlund–Nisunen work with physical principles such as gravity, oscillation, light, and magnetism. Their minimalist and precise installations invite a contemplative experience in which matter appears to defy its own weight. Through vibrating, floating, or line-tracing structures, they reveal phenomena that often go unnoticed. In their practice, collaboration unfolds as a logic of exact synchronization - mathematical, silent, almost scientific. Each work becomes a delicate choreography between forces, a wordless conversation between materials and phenomena.

In contrast, Maite y Manuel unfold a visceral, affective, and deeply playful painting practice. Their work is a continuous process of mutual intervention, where each one’s mark transforms the other’s, and the bodies depicted—creatures, characters, domestic ghosts - build a shared, ever-expanding language. Here, collaboration is friction, impulse, contradiction. A playful confrontation through which a hybrid identity emerges, impossible to attribute to a single hand.

Brought together in a shared stand, both duos reveal how gravitational tensions run through every act of collective creation. This proposal activates a layered reading of collaboration: not as concession or division, but as a system of forces that attract, balance, and always complement one another.

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