Art Nova
Germany
The Art Nova Gallery, located in Berlin-Charlottenburg, is an elegant art space that showcases the vibrant artistic traditions of various continents and cultures. Alongside a curated selection of contemporary artworks by emerging artists from around the world, the gallery displays Asian design objects.
Artists at the fair: Clent Yu Chuan Chang, Lu Lu, Martina Schumacher
Lu Lu
Lu Lu: Between Mountains / Ink on paper, 135x72cm, 2025
Lu Lu (born 1989) lives and works in Xi'an, China. In 2013, he completed a Bachelor of Arts at Xian University of Arts and Sciences. Lu Lu's work explores contemporary forms of artistic expression while drawing on traditional ink and mineral pigment techniques. His works convey a sense of timelessness, depth, and tranquillity, often reflecting Asian cultural and humanistic themes.
Honouring tradition, Lu Lu blends historical knowledge with innovation to breathe new life into classical ink painting. His work focuses on self-reflection and the expression of calm emotions.
Through his art, Lu Lu seeks to create a spiritual space, inviting viewers to experience the serenity of mountains, rocks, clouds, water, and trees. His paintings encourage contemplation of life's beauty and mystery.
Lu Lu's works have been featured in numerous exhibitions across China and are held in institutional and private collections.
Exhibitions:
Shanxi Province Art Exhibition, Western China Art Exhibition of Chinese Painting, Xian Chinese Painting Youth Art Exhibition, etc.
Martina Schumacher
Martina Schumacher: Mirror 5# / Acrylic glass on wood panel, diam. 170 cm, 2006
Martina Schumacher lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the UdK Berlin under Georg Baselitz and at the Royal College of Art in London, obtaining a Master's degree.
She has contributed to numerous exhibitions worldwide, including at the Museum Bochum, the Museum Ritter, the Museum Witten, the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, the Kunstverein Arnsberg, the Kunstverein Bochum, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, the Mehdi Chouakri Gallery in Berlin, and the Lombard-Freid Fine Arts in New York. Her work is coveted by major permanent collections, including the Richard John Massey Foundation in New York and MONA in Tasmania.
Schumacher's paintings reflect light, which is why she refers to them as 'spatial mirror paintings'. These works incorporate materials such as coloured gels and pools of ink. The extension of space through these mirrored surfaces is a distinctly Schumacherian concept. In a spatial mirror painting, the imaginary and the real converge, captured by its reflective surface and engaged in dialogue with the entranced viewer.
'Ink Mirror Picture' is a constellation of automotive steel shapes, each several centimetres in height and filled with hundreds of litres of ink. It reflects light from other artworks, the ceiling, pillars, walls, fixtures, mouldings and people in the room. The pools confer clarity and silence, giving rise to an unexpected sense of reverence.
The minimalist filter reliefs offer significant insight into Schumacher's thought process. These ethereal pieces, crafted from translucent plastic strips, are both choreographic and playful, introducing a novel brushstroke to the vocabulary of spatial mirror paintings. Made of glass and ink, the latest pieces establish a dialogue between painting and architecture.
Schumacher creates shapes in semi-transparent, atmospheric tones and vibrant, intense colours with clear, strong edges while controlling the interplay of colour, light, and space.
Clent Yu Chuan Chang
Clent Chang: Flower Series / Oil on paper, 56x38cm, 2025
Yu Chuan Chang (born 1982) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied at the Taiwan Art Academy.
He is a contemporary painter whose work combines Eastern and Western aesthetics. Although he was trained in the Western oil-painting tradition, his work is also deeply influenced by Chinese ink philosophy. This is evident in his work, which interweaves the fluidity of ink and the material density of oil. Using burnt textures, natural mineral pigments and free-flowing surfaces, he creates a unique style of abstract art that captures the essence of Eastern spiritual contemplation in a contemporary form.
Since his first solo exhibition, in Tokyo in 2011, Yu Chuan has presented numerous solo shows in Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Florence, Taipei, and Frankfurt. His five-year series of interconnected solo exhibitions — Stranding Moment (2019), No-Attachment (2020), White (2021), Sheng Sheng (2022), and Samatha and Vipasyana (2023) — reflect an introspective dialogue between abstraction and imagery, East and West, and emptiness and emotion. His recent exhibition, 'Let Life Be Beautiful Like Summer Flowers' (2024), marks a new phase of renewed vitality and equilibrium in his artistic expression.
His works are included in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including those of the Office of the Governor of the State of Hesse, Germany; Giorgio Armani; Paul Smith; Jackie Chen; and Kai-Fu Lee, to name a few.
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