From October 18, 2025, the transformative power of painting will unfold in an unprecedented way at Casa São Roque in Porto.

German artist Kerstin Brätsch will present her most ambitious installation and site-specific exhibition to date, turning the rooms of this eclectic house inside out — like infinitely malleable dreamscapes.

Visitors will embark on a journey through colour and form, videos, painting and drawing, wallpaper and kites — an immersive experience akin to walking through an inner world, a soul surrendered to perpetual abstraction.

But what is abstraction — what, after all, is abstract art in the 21st century? At a time when any screensaver, brushstroke, Rorschach test or colour gradient seems to qualify as abstraction? Nowadays, anything can be abstract painting: the digital, the psychological, a gestural stroke or mere chance.

This is the universe of Kerstin Brätsch’s work. It expands in all directions — beyond the medium, beyond authorship. Brätsch has long embraced collaboration, working with artists such as Adele Röder, Debo Eilers, Ei Arakawa-Nash and craftsmen such as Urs Rickenbach, Dirk Lange and Walter Cipriani.

Her art is collective and singular, simultaneously many voices and one. It is an art of colour and form that both shapes and is shaped by the psyche. Psychedelic yet formal, mirrored yet unrestrained, beautiful and unsettling — it dances like a kite in the wind: diving, emerging, spinning.