OPENING: Navot Miller mit "A gift to Pedro" in der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Navot Miller opens A gift to Pedro
at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Opening: Friday, April 17, 2026, 6-10 pm
Duration: until May 10, 2026

On April 17, 2026, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will open the five-month exhibition project "Work in Progress" with a large-format mural A gift to Pedro by the painter Navot Miller, which turns the space itself into an image carrier. Miller, whose works are characterized by bright colors, intimate scenes and subtle references to queer realities, will cover the Kunsthalle's approximately 1,000 square meters of wall space with a temporary mural specially developed for the project. From April 14 to 17, visitors can watch the artist paint during opening hours from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. - a rare opportunity to experience the creation of such a large work first-hand.

The mural entitled A gift to Pedro will be on display for a month from the opening. It refers to a journey through South America that Miller undertook with friends and lovers in 2025. In vibrant, color-saturated scenes, he recalls moments of closeness, nature, observation, retreat and freedom. The intensity of his colors stands in dynamic contrast to his search for naturalness - a dialogue that locates his painting between sensuality and tranquility, directness and poetry. While Miller's pictorial language is increasingly developing towards realism, the artist also sets a counterpoint by working with the simplicity of color surfaces and a supposedly "childlike" formal language that is partly inspired by the work of the Memphis Group, whose designs often used plastic laminates and were characterized by ephemeral designs with colorful, abstract decoration and asymmetrical forms.

The exhibition marks the start of the "Work in Progress" series, in the course of which five artists will create site-specific murals on the white surfaces of the Kunsthalle on a monthly basis. Each work is created directly in the space, remains visible for four weeks and is then painted over before the next intervention begins. In this way, a sequence of temporary inscriptions will be created over five months, constantly redefining the space. Themes such as change, transience and the relationship between image and wall, between visibility and disappearance, come into focus.

A discussion with Navot Miller will take place on Tuesday, April 14 at 5 pm in the exhibition space. Free admission.

Following the opening, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM invites you to a party in the Salon des Amateurs from 10 pm - a joint event as part of Art Düsseldorf.

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf

kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de

April 10 - May 10: Navot Miller (* 1991, ISR)
May 11 - June 7: Rosilene Luduvico (* 1969, BRA)
June 8 - July 5: Federico Herrero (* 1978, CRI)
July 6 - August 2: Stefan Marx (* 1979, DE)
August 3 - August 30: Joëlle Dubois (* 1990, BE)

The empty Kunsthalle becomes the starting point for an exhibition in which the space and its walls themselves become the central protagonists. Every four weeks, five artists will successively create site-specific murals on the white walls of the Kunsthalle. Each work is temporary and is painted white again after a month while the next intervention begins.