NK Gallery is pleased to present The Best Offer, a group exhibition by Belgian and Russian artists of the Gallery: Didier Mahieu, Hans Vandekerckhove, Taisia Korotkova and Gosha Ostretsov.

The exhibition is devoted to the movie ‘The best Offer’, a storytelling which highlights the importance of the role of women in an Art Collector's life. One can always argue that women have played a pivotal role – as much as men - in the enrichment of the arts. The Best Offer showcases the works, in which the artists express their value of being inspired by women.

Taisia Korotkova strongly contributes to this exhibition as a Russian female Artist questioning the relationships between human society and contemporary science, industry and technologies.

Next to Hans Vandekerckhove’s melancholic eye for tranquil landscapes, inscrutable greenhouses and modern architecture, the loving inspiration for his wife, Christine, is beautifully depicted in his latest paintings.

Didier Mahieu chooses reguraly the focus in his works on women as the characteristic of an underlying story of history, culture and poetic narrative.

During the latest solo exhibition of Gosha Ostretsov, a naked woman was the central part of a live performance where the artist and the woman played chess - an artistic hommage to Marcel Duchamp.

Oksana Mas represents the new generation of the South Russian Wave. The critics’ terms for describing South Russian Wave are all relevant to Mas’s art: it is “hot post-modern”, “transavant-garde neobaroque”, “new tenderness”. More than that, Oksana Mas is a living negation of the kind of weak stereotypes that are still persistent in relation to “female art”. 

"This represents a portrait of Sophia, a social humanoid robot. At first glance, it looks like a classical portrait painted during the renaissance period, but I changed the usual warm colors into cool colors. She’s wairing a dress made from plastic and instead of hair she get’s machinery. A strong and clear message in order to explore ones imagination; where science meets humanity.” -Taisia Koroktova

Taisia Koroktova, Sofia, 2019, 40 x 30 cm, tempera on gesso on wooden panel