Renk – The Night | Exhibition 2025

RENK

THE NIGHT

08.05 – 02.08.2025

60 White (New York)

Lio Malca and Doriano Navarra present The Night, Renk’s first solo exhibition in New York, from 8 May to 2 August 2025 at 60 White in Tribeca. A collection of new and recent works that unfolds as a poetic meditation on the transition from day to night.

View of the exhibition The Night by the artist Renk at the 60 White Gallery, New York, 2025

Born in Rennes, France, in 1987, Renk began in graffiti before turning to canvas in 2011. His atmospheric colourscapes, built up through successive layers of spray-painted tags, echo the bold colour field paintings of mid-twentieth-century abstraction. In the line of Mark Rothko, Pierre Soulages and Cy Twombly, he seeks to refine one single aesthetic, keeping his tag at the heart of every canvas: “I don’t paint what I see, but what I feel.”

The large canvases of The Night, up to 300 × 200 cm, extend an obsession with the sky born during a stay at Ras Sheitan, in Egypt’s Sinai Desert: “There were shooting stars every night. When I returned, I started painting the sky, and I never let go of that obsession.” Two stays in Tulum have since deepened this fascination with the sky and the stars.

On canvases often of natural linen, the tag almost disappears into misty expanses of deep blues, muted greys and luminous highlights. Hovering between figuration and abstraction, these nocturnal atmospheres evoke the quiet solitude and infinite depth of the night sky. For Doriano Navarra, Renk’s work “carries the energy of the streets yet speaks the language of fine art.”