ART COLOGNE

Too Sure of the Sun. Adam Lupton at Galerie Judin, Die Tankstelle, Berlin. Through 14 June.

Lupton paints domestic interiors in blue and red only — a self-imposed restriction that turns out to be a form of total freedom. Bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen tables, the edge of a bed. Figures that are formally always himself, yet instantly universal. The man in the bathtub studying painted tiles of wrestlers. The endless to-do list inscribed across a torso. A sock with a toe poking through.

His studio coveralls, wiped clean of every session's blue and red, have gradually become the same palette as his paintings. Stand him in front of one and he nearly disappears.

OCD, anxiety, the quiet weight of daily existence, the domestic sphere as both refuge and cage — Lupton doesn't announce these themes, he furnishes them. Each canvas is a small world you feel you've already lived in.

And - you can also head to Die Tankstelle tonight: Jorinde Voigt is in conversation with Monopol editor-in-chief Elke Buhr in the gallery garden at 19:00. Free entry. Her exhibition Non Fiction is on view at Galerie Judin, Mercator-Höfe, through 6 June. A good Friday evening, whichever door you walk through.

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ART COLOGNE: 5-8 November 2026 | Koelnmesse - Köln Messe/Deutz