Galleria Monica De Cardenas

20/08/2026

ON VIEW: Guy Yanai at Monica De Cardenas Zuoz

Guy Yanai’s paintings often begin with images that belong to the visual fabric of everyday life — personal photographs, cinema, literature and fragments of contemporary culture. Through painting, they are removed from their original context and reconstructed, becoming at once familiar and strangely distant.

In these works, figures emerge through sharp lines, compressed depth and luminous fields of color, suspended between direct experience and mediated imagery.

📍 Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz
👀 On view until 05.09.2026


Guy Yanai
Woman with Blue Hat, 2026
oil on canvas
51 × 46 cm

Guy Yanai
Woman with White Shirt, 2024 - 2026
oil on canvas
40 × 30 cm
detail

Guy Yanai
Isabelle, 2024 - 2026
oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm
detail

11/08/2026

ON VIEW IN ZUOZ
Guy Yanai’s solo exhibition is on view at our Zuoz gallery. Come and visit!

Yanai’s painting stems from a process of selecting and translating images, isolated from their original contexts and reconstructed through a rigorous formal grammar of sharp lines, compressed depth and saturated colors. In this process, the ceaseless flow of images that characterizes contemporary experience slows into contemplation. Everyday life thus becomes a space of focus and permanence, where the familiar takes on an unexpected and poetic quality.
On view through 5 September 2026.

📍 Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz


Guy Yanai
Yellow Hose, 2026
oil on canvas
150 × 180 cm
detail

Guy Yanai
Le Confort Naturel, 2026
oil on canvas
150 × 180 cm
detail

22/07/2026

OPENING: Saturday 25 July, 5 pm

We are delighted to announce the opening of Guy Yanai’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland at our gallery in Zuoz.

Yanai’s paintings transform the familiar into images of quiet intensity. Through luminous colour, distilled compositions and a rigorous formal language, everyday scenes become spaces of contemplation, where memory and perception converge. Situated between direct observation and mediated imagery, his works invite a slower way of looking, reaffirming painting’s enduring ability to reshape our experience of the ordinary.

We look forward to welcoming you!

📍 Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz
🗓 Opening: Saturday 25.07.2026, 5 PM
👀 On view: 25.07 – 05.09.2026


Guy Yanai
Lunch in LA (Flowers), 2026
oil on canvas
40 × 30 cm

25/06/2026

We are pleased to invite you to join us for a visit during Open Doors Engadin

Saturday 27 June, 2 - 5 pm
Sunday 28 June, 10 am - 1 pm

Monica De Cardenas Gallery is located in Chesa Albertini, an Engadine house built around 1300 and renovated in 2006 by architect Hans-Jörg Ruch to serve both as art gallery and a residence. Over the centuries, the building had undergone various alterations, but most of its original structure had been preserved. The successive alterations were reversed, allowing the original rooms to be revelead once more. The medieval timber walls were uncovered and restored, while all newly added elements are contemporary and clearly distinguishable, creating a fascinating dialogue between old and new. The former stables in the basement, as well as the former hayloft, now serve as exhibition spaces, while the traditional Stube is used as the gallerist’s office. The kitchen and dining room remain in their original locations. On the upper floor there are three wooden sleeping chambers set within a very tall space that extends all the way to the roof.


Ph credits:
1. Filippo Simonetti; 2. Helenio Barbetta; 3. Andrea Rossetti

23/06/2026

This weekend: Monica De Cardenas Zuoz takes part to Open Doors Engadin, book your visit!

Die Galerie Monica De Cardenas befindet sich in der Chesa Albertini, ein Engadiner Haus, das um 1300 erbaut →

11/06/2026

ON VIEW: “The Human Stain” at Monica De Cardenas Milano

Across “The Human Stain”, the image is never entirely fixed. Figures emerge, dissolve, and remain partially unresolved, inviting viewers into a space shaped as much by memory and imagination as by observation.

Whether through omission, transformation, abstraction, or distortion, the works in the exhibition resist definitive readings. Instead, they open a field of associations where recognition and uncertainty coexist, and where meaning is continuously negotiated between the painting and the viewer.

Bringing together works by Guy Yanai, Ivan Seal, Gideon Rubin, Alessandro Pessoli, Christopher Orr, Erin Lawlor, Emilio Gola and Michael Ajerman, the exhibition explores painting as a site of projection – where what remains unsaid can be as powerful as what is revealed.

📍 Monica De Cardenas, Milan
👀 On view through 30.07.2026


Guy Yanai
Woman with Peach in the Sun, 2026
oil on linen
46 × 51 cm

Emilio Gola
Noonday Demon, 2026
charcoal on Hahnemuhle paper
91 × 119 cm framed

Michael Ajerman
Sunday Morning, 2021
oil on gesso panel
35,5 × 40,5 cm

27/05/2026

"The Human Stain" is on view @ Galleria Monica De Cardenas Milano

Recensione della mostra “The Human Stain”, otto pittori alla Galleria De Cardenas di Milano fino al 30 luglio 2026.

21/05/2026

THIS FRIDAY: Opening of Cremona Contemporanea with Linda Fregni Nagler and Federico Tosi

Dal 23 maggio al 31 maggio 2026, Cremona Contemporanea intende aprire un dialogo tra il patrimonio storico artistico locale e l’arte contemporanea internazionale.