Andy Denzler, Inner Space
Opera Gallery is delighted to present Swiss artist Andy Denzler’s third solo exhibition in Paris. Titled 'Inner Space', this new body of work comprises 29 recent paintings created in the artist's studio in Zurich between 2025 and 2026. Through a series of intimate portraits and imagined interiors, Denzler continues his exploration of the human condition in the digital age, all whilst infusing his works with new luminosity.
In 'Inner Space', Andy Denzler presents a world in which identity oscillates between physical presence and digital echo. Anchored in portraiture and the language of the interior, these works register a contemporary condition shaped by constant mediation: the self-curated, the environment designed, the present experienced as an afterimage. The new series represents the human figure as a quiet archetype, absorbed in a private room, drifting through the echo of contemporary life.
For the artist, the exhibition title—'Inner Space'—symbolises a room without walls, an invented interior where memory blurs, identity glitches, and stillness begins to move. The painted interiors and portraits become both architecture and inner life. Denzler offers scenes of quiet intensity, portraits of a generation negotiating intimacy, authorship, and self-determination. These paintings do not simply depict a distorted image; they render distortion as experience: the moment when an image almost resolves and, in doing so, reveals the fragile distance between who we are and how we would like to live.
In this new series, darker tones gradually give way to lighter hues—creams, Naples yellows, luminous greys—bringing a refined touch to the compositions while retaining a density inherited from classical painting. The paint itself remains in tension, oscillating between smooth surfaces and fragmentation, between emergence and erasure.
We invite you to enter this pictorial ‘inner space’ and experience the resonant stillness of Andy Denzler's work, where blur is not a flaw but an expression of our fragile relationship with reality. This exhibition reminds us that painting, far from being a medium of the past, remains vital for examining how we inhabit images and for making visible that which resists clarity within us: that interplay of shadow and light that makes us at once present and in motion, real and imagined.
