Alexia Vogel is a South African painter based in Berlin, whose practice is rooted in an intuitive exploration of colour, texture, and movement. Her work, a delicate interplay between abstraction and figuration, conjures dreamlike landscapes where time dissolves, and the familiar blurs into the imagined. Through fluid, gestural oil painting and instinctive mark-making, Vogel constructs immersive spaces that evoke nostalgia, reverie, and a sense of quiet wanderlust.
Her work has been exhibited widely, with solo shows in Cape Town and Sydney and inclusion in major international art fairs in London, Paris, and Johannesburg. She has participated in residencies with the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art in France and MI-LAB in Japan, where she explored the nuanced craft of Mokuhanga printmaking. Vogel’s limited edition book, Along the Way, is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Pratt Institute in New York.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint to suspend time, to craft spaces where memory, feeling, and form dissolve into something intangible yet deeply familiar. My work is a study in immersion - of slipping into a thought, a place, a fleeting sensation.
Through the organic flow of paint and instinctive mark-making, I relinquish control to chance, allowing movement and materiality to dictate each composition. The result is a landscape untethered to reality, where abstraction and figuration coalesce in luminous, shifting layers. In these spaces, I invite the viewer to linger, to lose themselves in the cadence of colour and texture, and to forge their own emotional landscapes within mine.