To Close A Small Distance

A Joint Exhibition by Katie Kearns and Leeza Negelev

Hošek Contemporary

Berlin, Germany
September 2026

Both artists investigate what is both sensible and near, addressing a world in which knowledge, experience, and sociality are increasingly oriented towards the virtual, this exhibition offers transdisciplinary perspectives on our entanglement with the material world.

Leeza’s work evolves from the tension between the ideals of formalism and the responsive and relational possibilities of the painting process. Through sensory-observation, her synesthetic attention leads directly to gestural, biomorphic marks. Katie’s sculptures begin with an interest in domestic objects and spaces. They disrupt the quiet familiarity of an old chair or dresser through surrealist interventions–alluding to the symbiotic way objects appear to absorb memory, as well as the fluidity of queer experience.