PATRIARCHY FADES, THE FUTURE RISES – Markus Keibel

On 15 October 2026, the exhibition “PATRIARCHY FADES, THE FUTURE RISES” by German artist Markus Keibel, curated by Luisa Catucci, opens with a vernissage at Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. At its core is a body of work based on Doré's 1865 Bible illustrations, in which Keibel keeps almost only those plates showing women – women who are accused, punished or cast away – and lets colour bring this long-hidden pattern to the surface. The exhibition moves from steel through paper to a forest of hand-wrapped totems and to works on silk, including three depictions of Lucifer from different eras of illustration and a silk field serving as a portal for a new consciousness. Everything is deliberately built as a non-permanent structure that can be taken apart and reassembled, because the exhibition argues that seemingly solid foundations are proposals that can be dismantled.