O Sonhador | The Dreamer 4 July - 12 August 2025

We want to honour a great artist and dear friend, Pascal Oliveira, who is known as Pascal Errante, who passed away all too soon in April. The exhibition will present larger works from his atelier along with collected art books and more that span a lifetime. At times we sit at the gallery and think that Pascal will stop by soon and present us with his latest works and then suddenly realize that that will never happen again. All our waiting is for nothing. Karen and Claus

Arvores - group exhibition ends on the 6th June

a  group exhibition

in Loja 11

 

Artists participating:

Carla Cabral
Caroline Fernandes
Hanamaro Chaki
Helena Jardim
Jelka Barras
Karen Bradtke
Maria Ângela Franco
Miguel Leitão Jardim
Pascal Errante
Samuel Santos

Pascal Errante's "Atmosferas" exhibition in Loja 11

 

Recent Works by Carla Cabral

 

"The Chair, where someone used to be"

“The Chair, where someone used to be”

 

a group exhibition by

Karen Bradtke, André Moniz Vieira, Vulindlela Nyoni and Siphiwe Cele

Constructing a chair is a very complicated process and involves solving ergonomic, technical and structural issues.

 

A chair allows a body to rest and depending on the configuration of the chairs, encourages conversation between occupants or to discourage conversation only to be spoken to.

 

A chair is also a metaphor about human abilities and limitations. Chairs represent people. They represent the presence and the absence of being. They represent relationships.

Up until March 2020 there were things and people that were part of our daily landscape. Suddenly they disappeared. Viewing the streets with closed shops, empty parks, having weekends without gathering with family, birthday parties without friends, we missed the people we used to have, the place where we used to be. Even though technology helps to connect people and to communicate with close ones, we also live with people who do not appear on computer screens. With this pandemic we all experienced our existence, presence and absence.

"A Cadeira" onde alguém costumava estar...   

A construção de uma cadeira é um processo muito complicado e envolve a resolução de questões ergonómicas, técnicas e estruturais.  

Uma cadeira permite que um corpo descanse e dependendo da configuração das cadeiras, encoraja a conversa entre ocupantes ou desencoraja a conversa apenas para ser falada.   

Uma cadeira é também uma metáfora sobre as habilidades e limitações humanas. A cadeira serve para ser sentada, oferecendo-lhe o descanso, para comer, ler, falar, ou esperar. Quando alguém se senta na cadeira, torna-se um objeto simples. Quando a cadeira não está ocupada... começam a "falar" umas com as outras. 

 

Representam pessoas. Representam a presença e a ausência de um ser. Representam relacionamentos. Até março de 2020 haviam coisas e pessoas que faziam parte da paisagem diária. De repente desapareceram. Vendo as ruas com lojas fechadas, parques vazios, fins de semana sem reunir com a família, festas de aniversário sem amigos, sentimos falta das pessoas que tínhamos, o lugar onde costumávamos estar. Embora a tecnologia nos ajude a conectar e a comunicar com as pessoas mais próximas, também vivemos com pessoas que não aparecem nos ecrãs dos computadores. Com esta pandemia todos nós experimentamos a nossa existência, presença e ausência.

"O Teatro Deste Lugar Não Tem Chão" by Carla Cabral 25 October - 24 December 2019

 

25 October - 24 December 2019 

"Girls with Guns Series" by Karen Bradtke 15 September - 2 March 2020

Girls with Guns Series

by Karen Bradtke

 

These works and others like them were created for a group exhibition titled Pulp Fiction in Durban, South Africa in 2015. Some of the works were sold so they have been replaced.

While reading up on what ‘pulp fiction’ I found this image from The Tin Ear and it inspired me to look for images of tough women characters from films who were holding guns. They are images taken from the Internet of actresses like Joan Crawford, Natalie Wood, Peggy Stewart, and Jane Mansfield. The text was found by Googling quotes from film said by women. I then matched the quotes to the images using Photoshop.

KB: September 2019 

"It's Just a Thought" by Bettina Charlotte Radatz 14 July - 15 September 2018

Bettina Charlotte Radatz

It's Just a Thought

An Exhibition of Paintings, Ceramics and Sculpture

"The Whale's Dream"

Ceramic tile on mdf

An exhibition of paintings by this German-born Madeira-based artist. Her art has turned more into the abstract and sometimes metaphysical. Her special ability is intuitive painting in a gestural expressive way.

Bettina Charlotte’s career as an artist began after a long life of exploration. Although she has traveled around geographically too, Berlin/ Germany had been her base for 54 years – in 2013 this has changed as she decided to move to the Portuguese island of Madeira. 

Before starting her artistic career Bettina Charlotte has explored different professions: she travelled the world as flight attendant for Lufthansa, she learned to be and worked as professional photographer, studied adult education and worked with adults for many years, was self employed and worked as systemic life coach in Berlin, Germany – these professions have given her a wide horizon of different elements of life. Because of her constant drive to be creative, art has always accompanied her during times of other professions and in 2013 she finally decided to work as full time artist when she moved to the island of Madeira to be part of the local artist community.

Perhaps because of all this together–getting to know so many earthly professions–her art has turned more into the abstract and sometimes metaphysical. Her special ability is intuitive painting in a gestural expressive way – she calls it “The Art to Listen to Your Heart” which she also teaches in workshops in Berlin/ Germany and Funchal, Madeira.

"Who Am I?"

"Sentinels" by Pamela Benporath

Sentinels by Pamela Benporath

DURBAN HARBOUR, Ethekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

29°52'0" S : 31°1'0" E

This body of work explores the view from my studio, looking out over the 4th largest harbour in the Southern Hemisphere, operating 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day, handling over 30 million tons of cargo a year, from about 4500 commercial vessels per year* - it never sleeps!

Despite this bustling activity and never ending action in the harbor, it and the city come across almost docile and silent. The ever-changing weather, light, atmosphere, clouds, sunrises and sunsets offers a lifetime’s worth of opportunities for sketching and painting this one subject. I look forward to seeing how this body of work develops.

* http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/articles/entry/article-durban-harbour-kwazulu- natal 

Pamela Benporath is an artist living and working in Durban, South Africa./ Pamela Benporath reside e trabalha em Durban, Africa do Sul.

Born in Pretoria in 1966, she matriculated in 1983 from Clapham High School in Pretoria. She studied graphic design at Pretoria Technikon, and has a BVA from University of South Africa.

As Lágrimas das Flores | Tears of Flowers by Hanamaro Chaki Opening 1 April at 11a.m. - 1p.m.

As Lágrimas das Flores | Tears of Flowers

by Hanamaro Chaki

Exposicao de pintura e desenho | Exhibition of paintings and drawings 

"Tears falling"

Hanamaro e a artista nascida no Toquio. Reside e trabalha no Funchal, Madeira. Mostra as suas novas obras na Galeria RESTOCK Funchal.
"A obra da Hanamaro Chaki é cativante, tanto pelas suas formas como pela sua habilidade de refletir o espírito obsessivo e apaixonado do ser humano.
Os seus desenhos emergem de um traço delicado, mas crescem e expandem-se de forma segura e gestual, dotando-os de uma força onírica singular.
Nas suas pinturas convive o traço com o equilíbrio de cores, da sua maravilhosa habilidade para criar camadas e velaturas claro-escuro, que dão às obras uma profundidade espetacular”

Texto: Abigail L. Enrich

Hanamaro is a Tokyo-born artist. She lives and works in Funchal, Madeira. She is showing her new work at RESTOCK Gallery in Funchal.
Hanamaro Chaki’s work is captivating both in her way and in her ability to reflect the obsessive and passionate spirit of human beings.
Her drawings emerge from a delicate stroke but they grow and expand confidently with gestures that are guided by unique oneiric power. In her paintings you find that line and color balance in harmony.

 [Translated from Portuguese text by Abigail L. Enrich]

 

and an interview on RTP:
https://www.rtp.pt/play/p3070/e289244/casaartes 



We still have a selection of Hanamaro's works on show. Please contact us for more information or come and have a look!