Carole Seborovski: Bloom Beneath

April 30 until June 20, 2026

Galerie Karsten Greve is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Carole Seborovski in St. Moritz from April 30 through July 3, 2026. Karsten Greve first devoted a solo exhibition to the artist in Paris in 1991. The present exhibition renews this longstanding collaboration and brings renewed attention to a body of work that has, over several decades, consistently eluded fixed categorization.
Seborovski is among those artists whose significance rests less on visibility than on the sustained rigor and singularity of her practice. Her works are held in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Museo Cantonale d’Arte.
 

For me, art is something that is spiritual in nature. It is something that connects us to the unknown, to our culture, and to each other as human beings.

The exhibition brings together works on paper and sculptural pieces from the 1990s through the early 2000s, a particularly concentrated period in Seborovski’s artistic development. During these years, she established a distinctive visual language situated between painting, drawing, relief, and object. While her work resonates with the legacy of postwar abstraction, it expands that tradition through a profound engagement with materiality, tactility, and bodily presence.

The foundations of this practice can be traced back to the early 1980s, when Seborovski’s interest in Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and East Asian calligraphy shaped her understanding of pictorial space. Rather than conceiving the image solely through form, she became increasingly attentive to intervals, absences, and latent forces—concerns that continue to inform her work today.

Her works on paper reveal line, trace, and rhythm as elements of precise yet open-ended compositions. Circular motifs, reflections, and serial structures interact with organic movements, creating a dynamic balance between construction and intuition. Beneath seemingly restrained surfaces, subtle shifts of space and light draw the viewer beyond the visible image. It is precisely through their economy of means that these works attain a remarkable intensity.

The sculptural works extend these investigations into three dimensions. Layered surfaces, relief-like accumulations, and linear structures generate tensions between fragility and stability, repetition and variation. Materials such as latex, vinyl, beads, sand, lace, glitter, glass, and enamel are removed from their everyday associations and transformed into highly resolved formal constructions. At the same time, biomorphic forms and organic structures evoke processes of growth, germination, and transformation that have occupied the artist since the 1990s. In doing so, Seborovski engages central artistic questions of recent decades: the expansion of the pictorial field, the autonomy of materials, and the relationship between object and body.

The title Bloom Beneath points to hidden processes of emergence. Forms appear to grow beneath the surface, light seems to emanate from within the material itself, and a quiet sense of potential animates the works. Again and again, Seborovski directs attention toward what remains partially concealed: underlying layers, latent energies, and the possibility that matter may serve as a vehicle for experiences that transcend the visible world. Works such as Girl’s Dream (2000), Pods (2002), and Exodus (2003) exemplify her ability to create complex and sensually charged forms through a restrained visual vocabulary.

Seborovski’s more recent work continues this exploration of the relationship between material, light, and transcendence in ever-evolving ways.

This exhibition offers an opportunity to rediscover an artistic position that extends historical questions surrounding abstraction, materiality, and objecthood with exceptional subtlety, precision, and lasting resonance.

Carole Seborovski was born in San Diego in 1960 and lives and works in New York City.