ARCOmadrid 2026 - Galerie Anita Beckers

DANIEL CANOGAR *1964

Daniel Canogar’s data works reflect on the position of the individual in a technologically networked age. In his recent data work Iconoclast, he examines identity, celebrity, and the fleeting nature of image in the digital age. Faces of contemporary media personalities continuously dissolve from recognizable portraits into abstract, painterly compositions that evoke photographic decay, creating a living archive that captures both fame and its accelerated aging. By blending social-media culture, politics, and art, Canogar reflects on how we perceive and preserve identity today.

JONAS ENGLERT *1989

Jonas Englert is a Frankfurt‑based artist whose work investigates how memory, the body and the image intertwine across politics, history and media. His two recent works explore the persistence of the past in the present, creating poetic, analytical spaces where traces, afterimages and echoes of history emerge through layered imagery. His practice – shown in exhibitions and included in major public collections – reveals the shadows within the visible and reflects on how images carry and shape collective memory over time.

Bewegtes Beiwerk #1 is a collage of sculptural draperies ranging from the Classical Antiquity to Neoclassicism. As a transtext of textile pathos, the work reflects the perpetual transformation, both pictorial and material: from the copy of the supposed original, through the cast and the digitized, to the analog and its molding; from the Artemis of the Parthenon to Sergel’s Aphrodite, from Athens to Lemnos to the High Cathedral of St. Martin in Mainz. A sculptural drapery in itself, the work is an attempt at folding time, at exploring the tension between seeming opposites: gestural yet incorporeal, physical yet motionless, moving yet petrified, equally sacred and profane, analog and digital, anachronistic and yet present.

JAN SCHMIDT *1973

Jan Schmidt, a Frankfurt-based artist, explores the hidden life of materials through patient, disciplined processes that blur art and science. His works reveal time, labor, and transformation, from Sägearbeit 1, two hand-cut wooden blocks standing as relics of a lost sawdust floor piece, to a work, where 22,568 push-ups on a life-size sheet of white handmade paper leave ghost-like traces of hands, feet, and knees – evoking the devotional imprint of Das Schweißtuch der Heiligen Veronica. Frequently shown in museum exhibitions and held in public collections, Schmidt’s work uncovers the extraordinary in the ordinary.

AMPARO SARD *1973

Amparo Sard explores the human condition in an era of rapid technological and social change. Her work reflects on humanity’s limits in keeping pace with technology and society’s fragile responses to ecological and social crises. Known for her signature technique of piercing paper to create intricate, surreal sculptures, Sard transforms delicate materials into complex forms that confront the pressures and contradictions of contemporary life. Frequently shown in museums and included in public collections, her work merges poetic craftsmanship with critical reflection.