Opening Preview: November 6, 2025 | 6 – 8 PM
On View: November 7, 2025 – January 15, 2026
October 16, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Wynnie Mynerva, the artist’s first in Germany. Wynnie Mynerva draws upon personal experiences of violence tied to race, gender, and sexuality to create a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, performance, and video. Raised in Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Lima, a place shaped by complex social and economic realities, their work explores themes of transformation, resistance, and embodiment.
Mynerva describes painting as a “living process,” a “document of thinking and feeling.” This expressive realm serves as the starting point for projects that extend into other media or rethink the traditional conventions of the medium. Their raw, often erotic canvases draw upon religious and mythological visual tropes to depict bodies pushed to their limits, capturing rapturous figures in states of disintegration, metamorphosis, and communion. For their exhibition at SOCIÉTÉ, Mynerva’s artistic inquiry turns toward love for the first time—one of humanity’s oldest fabulations. Mynerva will transform the gallery into an immersive textile installation centered around a large oil painting of fluid anatomies suggesting both complicity and affection, healing and desire. Attending these entwined, ecstatic bodies are four smaller paintings of figures that function as witnesses. This gap between witnessing and experience reveals love as a structure of lack, recasting it as a dramatic event that carries anguish, despair, and desire. Love, like painting, can function as an attempt to articulate that which cannot be said: what remains of love when the image collapses? When the body no longer responds to the illusion of completeness, and only pleasure, the gaze, and yearning remain?
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About Wynnie Mynerva:
Wynnie Mynerva (b. 1992, Lima, Peru) lives and works between Lima and Amsterdam. They are currently a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Mynerva’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including The Sweet Nectar of Your Blood at Mayoral, Barcelona; My Weaponized Body at Gathering, London; Presagio at Fondazione Memmo, Rome; The Original Riot at the New Museum, New York; and A Garden of Earthly Delights at Museo Amano, Lima. Their work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Museo de Arte de Lima; C3A, Córdoba; Ill Posto, Santiago de Chile; Sargent’s Daughters, New York; and Pedro Cera, Lisbon, among others. They have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including Pasaporte para un Artista (2020), the Banco Central de Reserva Painting Contest (2019, 2020), the Contemporary Art Award (2019, 2020), and the National Visual Arts Meeting of Trujillo (2018).
About SOCIÉTÉ:
SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.
Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.
SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Image Credits:
Wynnie Mynerva, 2025. Photography by Felix von der Goltz. Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.