Open Studio | Tobias Thaens
Wednesday 22 April 2026
12 - 4pm
Location: Unión 221, Escandón I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11800, CDMX

Join us for an open studio with Tobias Thaens (b. 1999, NL), currently artist in resident at Espacio Unión in Mexico City. During his residency he continues to draw inspiration from both nature and culture, from animals using camouflage to the colour of lipstick, Thaens looks at how identity and surface are constructed and perceived. His work often evokes an androgynous, fluid world in which bodies and environments subtly change their skin, pattern, or tone.

Rather than escaping the everyday, he works through it, finding intensity and strangeness within the mundane experience. By focusing on these small shifts and layered surfaces, Thaens invites viewers to look longer and perhaps reconsider what they think they see.

Tobias Thaens is a painter who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the AKI Academy for Art & Design, Enschede, the Netherlands, in 2021, completed his residency at DeAteliers, Amsterdam, in 2023 and won the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2024. He currently has a solo exhibition at Brownies, Shanghai.