Wherever You Go, There You Are — Five Artists at ERITAGE Lisbon

Location: ERITAGE Studio Gallery, Lisbon

Date: April 1 – June 6, 2026

Project: Wherever You Go, There You Are, a group show with Iryna Maksymova, Javiera Gart, Júlio Vieira, Kwame Sousa, and Shareon "Bhare" Blenman

Why it Matters: Five artists from four continents on what it means to stay yourself when everything around you keeps moving

Opening of Wherever You Go, There You Are

ERITAGE, a studio-gallery tucked into central Lisbon, describes itself as a space for artistic expression and belonging that transcends borders and disciplines. Their new exhibition lives up to the brief.

It gathers five artists whose biographies read like maps of the current moment: Ukraine, Chile, Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the Caribbean diaspora by way of Queens and Charlotte.

Javiera Gart - An Offering In Waiting - Oil on canvas, 2026

The title came from Javiera Gart. The Chilean painter has lived in six countries over thirteen years, and she talks about that movement as a long search that eventually led back to herself. "We always carry our history, our past, our experience, everything," she says. Her canvases bear that out. Warm ochres, quiet interiors, a chair, a vase. An Offering In Waiting sets two figures around a dark vessel and leaves the rest to the viewer.

Iryna Maksymova -The Vase - Reclaimed Textiles, 2026

Iryna Maksymova paints, but she also sews. The Ukrainian artist cuts up old fabric and stitches it back together into large, patterned works. Her visual vocabulary comes from Ukrainian folk painting and the early twentieth-century avant-garde, and a female figure runs through almost everything she makes. Since 2022 she reads differently. In Ukrainian, the word for the country is feminine, and Maksymova paints her the way the country feels right now: young, exposed, and impossible to finish off.

Júlio Vieira - For All Those Who Planted Flowers In My Heart 1, Oil on canvas, 2026

Júlio Vieira brought three cities into the show. The Brazilian painter, who completed a Lisbon residency in 2025, has been photographing facades mid-demolition in São Paulo, Rio, and Lisbon, then painting them into something closer to a love letter than a document. For All Those Who Planted Flowers In My Heart stacks a crumbling balcony against a field of small dark blooms, the title surfacing on the canvas like half-erased graffiti. Different continents, a shared colonial inheritance, and a tenderness that sticks with you.

Kwame Sousa - Ritual de Passagem - Mixed Media on canvas, 2026

Kwame Sousa paints the protagonists of liberation movements back into the frame. He's from São Tomé and Príncipe, works in painting, photography, and installation, and he writes on his canvases. The words matter as much as the figures. Ritual de Passagem puts its people in stark black and white, framed by a thick border of red, blue, and green. It's a tribute and a reclamation at the same time. "My works are not merely born from imagination," he says. "They are palpable objects born from the history of my people."

Shareon “Bhare” Blenman - Held Under The Cross - Acrylic, oil pastel and fabric on canvas, 2026

Shareon "Bhare" Blenman is making his European debut with this show. A first-generation Barbadian American, self-taught, based in Charlotte, he grew up between two inheritances: the collective spirit of Caribbean ancestry and the restless individualism of American life. Held Under The Cross sews those tensions together literally, in acrylic, oil pastel, and fabric. At the center, a small figure looks up from inside a fabric maze.

ERITAGE feels more like a home than a gallery, which is part of why a show like this works here. Five artists, five parts of the world, together for the first time. On view in Lisbon through June 6.

More info: eritageartprojects.com