Drinking from the Same River — Eritage, Lisbon
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Location: Eritage Studio Gallery, Lisbon
Date: 3 July — 12 September 2026
Project: Group exhibition of 11 artists
Why it Matters: Artists from ten countries and five continents, selected from six years of the gallery's collection, shown together for the first time
Eritage Studio Gallery's summer exhibition brings together eleven artists from France, Mexico, the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, the United States, Austria, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia. All selected from the collection the gallery built over six years. The title comes from a simple premise. Drinking is visceral. Before culture, before language, sharing was essential.
Abel B. Burger is a self-taught French artist who calls his method "archaeology of the future." He paints over his own earlier drawings, each layer of graphite, coloured pencil and paint building on the one beneath. He has shown at Musée d'Art Moderne Collioure, Wondering People in London and Mason Fine Arts in Atlanta.
Ana Leovy is a Mexican visual artist based in New York working with oils, gouache, coloured pencils and acrylics. She learned to draw using blind contour, eyes on the subject, never on the paper. The distorted figures are not accidents. In 2025 she completed a residency in Lisbon, culminating in AMORES at Eritage.
David Shillinglaw graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2002 and works out of Margate. He paints, draws, collages and installs. His portraits are built from dense, tangled lines and text, somewhere between a map and a diary.
Jamel Armand is a Dutch-Indonesian artist from The Hague who trained in cartooning and photography. His portraits honour his Indonesian heritage. No perspective, no depth, flat like traditional folk painting. That is the point. In 2025, he showed When Rain Kisses Dust at Eritage.
JAS is a multidisciplinary artist from Porto. He paints faces, carves faces, fragments faces into alphabets. For this show, he presents wood carvings rooted in a technique that runs from ancient China through Northeastern Brazil to West Africa. Work in the Berardo Collection.
Kylie Wentzel is from Durban, South Africa. No formal training. Bold graphics borrowed from linocut, then subverted. Intentionally loose, intentionally naive, intentionally raw.
Lauren dela Roche is a self-taught American artist who paints on antique cotton feedsacks from the late 1800s. She dropped out of high school, started making art while harvesting sugar beets in North Dakota, and has since received the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and the Joan Mitchell Grant.
Mafia Tabak started painting graffiti in Vienna in 2006. He finishes every canvas in hours. Many have the date written directly on the surface. He calls himself a storyteller, not a painter.
Marcelo Macedo works from Rio de Janeiro. His sculptures come from Afrodiasporic ritual, built from discarded materials, geometric and repetitive. In 2024 he showed CrossRoads at Eritage, his first solo in Europe.
Martin Daiber works from Santiago, Chile. He paints primitive human forms in heavy black lines on the same surface as triangles, circles and rectangles. He is interested in how children draw before anyone tells them how to.
Stephen Smith, working as Neasden Control Centre, makes paintings, prints and installations from the South West of England. In 2025 he was art director for the Oasis Live '25 world tour, 41 concerts, 14 countries. He has shown alongside Banksy and David Shrigley at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Drinking from the Same River is on view at Eritage Studio Gallery, Lisbon from 3 July through 12 September 2026.
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All images courtesy of the artists and Eritage Studio Gallery, Lisbon.