The Double: Live Painting Performance
Bruno Neves & Doris Kolpa
11.09.2025, 18:00 – 22:00
In The Double, artists Bruno Neves and Doris Kolpa paint each other live, simultaneously, in an open-ended performance that invites the public to come and go, witnessing the unfolding of two mirrored portraits.
Each artist becomes both subject and observer, exploring how in this condition identity, gaze, and representation are shaped in the act of painting.
Doris Kolpa is a Rotterdam-based artist. Her paintings are inner landscapes in which she lets my endless and unanswered questions wander. Is it allowed to be frivolous in a world that constantly screams for responsibility? What is it like to grow up in a dying world? What does it mean to be uprooted from nature and community? Kolpa lets the questions echo back to myself while painting, as well as towards the subjects in the paintings, and hopefully towards the viewer. With the fleetingness of oil pastels, Kolpa paints from personal memories, interweaving them with actuality, pop culture, the digital world, and the painting tradition. She expresses both beauty and suffering through everyday moments. She doesn’t want to forget or disguise, she wants to forgive. The paintings offer space and attention to the contradictions and complexity of being.
Bruno Neves is an artist based in Rotterdam, whose practice centers on painting but extends into installation, collage, and sound. Trained at the Piet Zwart Institute, Neves considers himself an imagemaker rather than strictly a painter. Drawn to the complexity and uncertainty of oil painting, he embraces not knowing as a way to continually question and push his practice forward. His work explores the ontology of images and the conventions that shape how we perceive them, weaving together references from art history, social media, and AI-generated imagery. By juxtaposing different visual traditions, he seeks to deconstruct and redefine what a visual experience can be today.