Galerie Sara Lily Perez presents René Wirths & Wolfgang Flad in dialogue
Berlins Galerie Sara Lily Perez makes its return this November with CHRONOSTASIS, a joint exhibition uniting the works of painter René Wirths and sculptor Wolfgang Flad. Opening on November 15 2025 at the gallery’s Bikini Berlin space, the show invites viewers into an immersive meditation on perception, stillness, and the fluid, poetic nature of time.
Exhibition Details
Galerie Sara Lily Perez Budapester Str. 48, 10787 Berlin
14 November 2025 – 3 January 2026 Vernissage:14 November, 6–8 PM
Borrowing its title from the perceptual illusion chronostasis, when a single instant seems to stretch and suspend time, the exhibition captures the precise moment between movement and memory. Through the interplay of painting and sculpture, Wirths and Flad examine how attention itself can alter the rhythm of experience.
“Both artists, in very different ways, embody what I would call the architecture of perception,” says Sara Lily Perez, founder and director of the gallery. “René paints with the patience of a watchmaker; Wolfgang builds with the energy of motion paused mid-breath. Together, they invite us to slow down, to see how time feels when we truly look.”
René Wirths: The Duration of Seeing
Known for his intense realism and quiet focus, René Wirths transforms everyday objects into meditative icons. His oil paintings, rendered with scientific precision and philosophical calm, isolate tools, jars, or glasses against pure fields of color. His canvases pulse with stillness, each brushstroke a unit of attention, every surface a reflection of time slowed to a crawl.
“In an ever-accelerating age, in a digitized and networked world, we retreat into a contemplative space, our studio, to engage with the world around us, alone and analog, as it were, and to see ourselves reflected within it..”
Wolfgang Flad: Movement in Suspension
In counterpoint, Wolfgang Flad’s sculptural forms bring movement into the gallery’s air. Working with wood, paper pulp, and composite materials, Flad creates biomorphic structures that feel caught mid-evolution, part bone, part branch, part breath. His sculptures twist and loop in suspended animation, echoing the pulse of nature held in stillness.
“I build structures that seem to grow, but stop just before completion,” Flad explains. “They are moments of energy that hover between gesture and gravity.”
A Dialogue of Time and Form
Wirths and Flad create a dialogue between the visible and the tangible, painting as an act of reflection, sculpture as an act of release. chronostasis transforms the gallery into a site of contemplation, asking what it means to truly inhabit the present.
“In a world obsessed with acceleration,” Perez adds, “we wanted to offer a counterpoint, an exhibition that celebrates slowness, attention, and the poetic mechanics of time.”
René Wirths, Oat, Liquids, 2025. Oil on canvas, 100× 110 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
Wolfgang Flad, Untitled (Structure), 2023. Mixed media sculpture, 193 x 98 x 42 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
Wolfgang Flad, Untitled (Structure), 2023. Mixed media sculpture, 193 x 98 x 42 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
René Wirths, Lighter, 2022. Oil on canvas, 100× 50 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
Wolfgang Flad, Characters (Structure SC3TH)*, 2025. Mixed media sculpture, 68.5 × 54.5 × 23 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sara Lily Perez.
