Jecza Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 2025 edition of Basel Social Club, presenting a new series of works by Genti Korini. This marks a return to Basel for both the gallery and the Tirana-based artist, following Korini's initial presentation here in 2014.
Known for his large-scale abstractions rooted in post-socialist urbanism, Korini now takes a more introspective turn. These new paintings shift the focus from architectural form to the human figure-understood not as a subject of portraiture, but as a psychological structure. Figures emerge in ambiguous relationships with one another and with the viewer, navigating spaces of emotional tension, silence, and suggestion.
"I turn inward-toward the human figure, psychological space, and emotional dissonance," the artist notes. "These are not portraits in the traditional sense; they are psychological constructs, suspended in uncertain relationships."
Inflected by literature, cinema, and the visual languages of architecture, Korini's compositions open up narrative fragments without resolving them. They invite the viewer into a world that feels at once precisely constructed and inherently unknowable.
Jecza Gallery's presentation is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, as part of its ongoing mission to support Eastern European voices within the international art dialogue.
