Alexia Vogel is a South African painter, now based in Berlin, whose practice centres on an intuitive, deeply sensory exploration of colour, gesture and atmosphere. Working primarily in oil, she moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration, conjuring dreamlike environments where memory and imagination dissolve into one another. Alexia's paintings often unfold as immersive, emotive landscapes; places that feel both tenderly familiar and quietly elusive, inviting viewers into states of reverie and unanchored wandering.
Alexia’s work has been exhibited extensively with solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Sydney and presentations at major international art fairs in London, Paris and Johannesburg. She has undertaken residencies with the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art in France and MI-LAB in Japan, where she studied the intricate tradition of Mokuhanga printmaking. Her limited edition artist book, Along the Way (available to view at Otomys) is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Pratt Institute in New York.
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.