Our gallery is delighted to present Echoes of Tomorrow, the newest exhibition by Lisbon-born artist Mateo Arendt (b. 1990). Known for his layered works on paper that weave together memory, architecture, and abstraction, Arendt has created a new body of work that deepens his ongoing exploration of forgotten spaces and imagined cities.
A Language of Fragments
At the heart of Echoes of Tomorrow is Arendt’s fascination with urban traces—walls, windows, and foundations that remain even when the cityscape around them transforms. Through acrylic washes, delicate graphite lines, and unexpected collage elements, the works capture fleeting impressions of places that seem both real and imagined.
Between Past and Future
Although rooted in urban memory, Arendt’s compositions gesture toward the future. Buildings dissolve into mist, grids shift and fragment, and entire skylines emerge only to disappear within the page. This sense of instability echoes the way contemporary cities evolve—layer upon layer, always incomplete, always in motion.
A Poetics of the City
Arendt’s exhibition invites visitors to slow down and read the city differently: not as a set of fixed coordinates, but as an ongoing conversation between time, memory, and imagination. Each drawing acts as a fragment of a larger narrative, as though the city itself were dreaming of what it once was and what it might still become.
Exhibition Details
Echoes of Tomorrow will be on view at Salz Vision Gallery, Vienna, from October 10 – December 15, 2025. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
