- Visual Art
Amid the Vastness of the Sea: 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival Edition
Sylvester Zagato
3 July 2026 19:00–22:00
4 July 2026 13:00–20:00
5 July 2026 11:00–18:00
Amid the Vastness of the Sea brings together sculptures and paintings that examine how systems grow, repeat, and regulate access. The sculptural works draw on the structure of sea anemones, organisms that survive through selective relationships. Certain species of fish can live safely among their tentacles while others are repelled. This biological mechanism becomes a metaphor for relational systems in which belonging, protection, and opportunity often depend on compatibility and proximity.
These structures appear throughout the exhibition as expanding fields of color and form. Alongside the sculptures, patterned paintings develop through the endless repetition of a single shape. The patterns originate from the idea of obsessive thoughts, mental loops that multiply beyond control and seem capable of extending indefinitely.
Together, the works suggest different kinds of proliferation. Organisms spread, networks grow, and thoughts repeat. Installed as a collective environment, the exhibition invites viewers to enter a landscape of expanding structures where connection, exclusion, and repetition shape the way systems form and sustain themselves.
These structures appear throughout the exhibition as expanding fields of color and form. Alongside the sculptures, patterned paintings develop through the endless repetition of a single shape. The patterns originate from the idea of obsessive thoughts, mental loops that multiply beyond control and seem capable of extending indefinitely.
Together, the works suggest different kinds of proliferation. Organisms spread, networks grow, and thoughts repeat. Installed as a collective environment, the exhibition invites viewers to enter a landscape of expanding structures where connection, exclusion, and repetition shape the way systems form and sustain themselves.
Biography
Sylvester Zagato
Sylvester Zagato (b. 1997 in Geneva)
is a Swiss artist living in Berlin.
In Switzerland he studied horticulture. Fascinated by growth, form, and the quiet intelligence of nature, this early curiosity became a way of observing the world—not only as a subject, but as a form of art in itself: self-generating, rhythmic, and imperfectly precise. During this time he began painting and developed a visual language rooted in emotion, repetition, and abstraction.
After moving to Berlin, Zagato expanded his practice to include sculpture, exploring ideas of connection and interaction through organic forms made of resin.
is a Swiss artist living in Berlin.
In Switzerland he studied horticulture. Fascinated by growth, form, and the quiet intelligence of nature, this early curiosity became a way of observing the world—not only as a subject, but as a form of art in itself: self-generating, rhythmic, and imperfectly precise. During this time he began painting and developed a visual language rooted in emotion, repetition, and abstraction.
After moving to Berlin, Zagato expanded his practice to include sculpture, exploring ideas of connection and interaction through organic forms made of resin.
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