Cyro Bloemsierkunst
Julia Dubsky, Thomas Helbig
26. – 29.03.2026
Cyro Bloemsierkunst, Charlois. Photo: Frans Parthesius
Exhibition view at Cyro Bloemsierkunst, March 2026, with works by Julia Dubsky. Photo: Frans Parthesius
Exhibition view at Cyro Bloemsierkunst, March 2026, with a work by Thomas Helbig. Photo: Frans Parthesius
Left: The Critics The Gaps (guitar f/b), 2025. The Critics The Gaps (Grashalm), 2024. The Critics The Gaps (guitars), 2024. All by Julia Dubsky. Right: Thomas Helbig, Shamans Know Nothing, 2022. Photos: Frans Parthesius
At Cyro Bloemsierkunst, a flower shop in Charlois run by owner Jansen, flowers and plants fill the shop and its window facing the street. The shop moved to the Wolphaertsbocht last year, but had already been part of the neighbourhood for many years. As part of the exhibition, three paintings by Julia Dubsky and one sculpture by Thomas Helbig were shown in the space.
The Critics and The Gaps by Julia Dubsky belong to a series reflecting a way of working in which blindness is method and intuition—being guided by resonance—is primary. Through automatic drawing, Dubsky began finding squinting, nearly blind cherubs, figures were not conceived symbolically, yet recognised as mirroring her working method. The symbolism of guitars and the blade of grass (“Grashalm” in German, to avoid the sharpness of “blade” in English) also emerged through this blind method. Without pinning down the meaning, the artist see these symbols arising in connection to ideas of authenticity and nature, or what is natural. The hole of the guitar becomes a halo, as if authenticity were saintly; in another painting a cherub squints earnestly under the arch of a blade of grass, checking nature, as if seeing through to the other side could provide certainty.
Julia Dubsky's works were presented in collaboration with Kirchgasse Gallery.
Thomas Helbig's work was presented in collaboration with Galerie Guido W. Baudauch.
Artworks:
Julia Dubsky, The Critics The Gaps (guitar f/b), 2025
Julia Dubsky, The Critics The Gaps (Grashalm), 2024
Julia Dubsky, The Critics The Gaps (guitars), 2024
Thomas Helbig, Shamans Know Nothing, 2022
Julia Dubsky is an Irish painter and writer based in Berlin. She completed her BA at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2016, and received the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency in 2017. From 2018 to 2021, she studied in the MFA class of Jutta Koether at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Recent solo exhibitions include Amanda Wilkinson, London (2025), Kirchgasse, Switzerland (2023/24); Becky's, Berlin (2021); and Amanda Wilkinson, London (2021, 2019). Dubsky was the Art School Alliance resident at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the DAAD and the Karl H. Dietz Stiftung (Spring 2020), and a Heinrich Böll Cottage Resident (August 2025).
Thomas Helbig is an artist based in Berlin. The practice of Thomas Helbig contains painting, drawing and sculpture, while each of the media plays on its own field. The focus of the paintings is colour itself—in its intrinsic value, its materiality and the ability to create spatial illusions from countless shades of light and dark. In contrast, his collage sculptures demonstrate a different kind of transformation of the source materials he uses. His repertoire is based on a fundus of discarded, thrown-out things, as well as kitschy plastic sculptures. Helbig mixes and connects these disparate elements into new forms, which are displayed as coded messages from an enigmatic present. Helbig attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Goldsmiths, University of London, from 1989 to 1996, and is represented by Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin.
Kirchgasse Gallery was founded in 2016 in Steckborn, a small village at Lake Constance, Switzerland. Located near the border with Germany and Austria, the gallery is exhibiting international emerging and established contemporary artists. Kirchgasse is oriented towards a discursive program alongside an experimental approach. Its internal structure is driven by a collective approach.
Galerie Guido W. Baudach is a gallery for contemporary which was founded in 2001 on the base of a former project space. Since then, it has presented a changing program of exhibitions infall kinds of media. Currently the gallery represents fifteen international artists. The gallery participates in art fairs and publishes artist books and catalogs.