Kat Kristof: Exhale
23 October - 16 November 2025
Admission: Free Entry. Pre-booking is not required.About
In Exhale, Kat Kristof explores the boundaries of inner and outer space through richly layered, psychologically charged works. Trained in architecture and painting, Kristof constructs immersive compositions that navigate identity, memory, and perception. Her figures—neither strictly figurative nor fully abstract—exist in architectonic dreamscapes that oscillate between fullness and emptiness, surface and depth.
Recurring motifs, such as water and the pool, suggest both containment and release. These are meditative spaces, where colour and form evoke a quiet, reverberating energy. Kristof’s visual language is rooted in emotion rather than realism, offering a poetics of identity that resists fixed interpretation.
Kristof demonstrates remarkable command over composition, structure, and psychological tone. Her work references both art history and the subconscious, inviting comparisons to the metaphysical worlds of de Chirico or the emotive stillness of Rothko. Yet, Kristof’s vision is distinctly her own: fluid, introspective, and rigorously constructed.
Born in Hungary and now based in Folkestone, Kristof invites viewers to submerge themselves—to trust in the work’s ability to hold contradiction and complexity. Exhale is an invitation to navigate the mind’s layered architecture and re-emerge with new ways of seeing.
Presented by BEERS gallery.
