Almeida & Dale presents a solo exhibition by Thiago Hattnher (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) in it’s Kabinett in Booth 3E13 at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. Featuring a set of new paintings created specifically for this occasion, the show includes works executed in oil on canvas, and polyethylene, ranging from intimate formats to medium-sized works. 

Hattnher’s research is grounded in experimentation with painting across media and techniques, generating pictorial spaces where painterly genres, memories, and everyday scenes coexist. Within a single surface, different temporalities, moods, and tonalities unfold: flower arrangements, geometric fields, and landscape silhouettes occupy equal hierarchies, guiding the gaze along different paths, endlessly, without a defined point of departure or arrival—an experience that is equally dynamic and intimately silent. 

This simultaneity produces works that tackle as much rhythm, duration, and interval as they address how we engage with images today and throughout history. Chromatic shifts, pauses, and sudden contrasts generate a sense of rhythm and resonance, while subtle disruptions activate the surface with candor and precision. Like notations—brief gestures that preserve an experience without forming a complete narrative—his paintings do not present a defined storyline. Instead, the different images occupying the same surface invite the viewer to create montages, sequences, and episodes that ultimately do not settle. This subtle yet provocative aspect of his work echoes the contemporary relationship of infinite overlap of images while also challenging it. 

The presentation also reflects Hattnher’s ongoing and enduring experimentation with painting as a practice. By painting on canvas, or polyethylene, he challenges himself to reengage with the medium, learning anew how to work the different layers of paint on each surface. Thus, his works embrace the traces of their own making—layers, interruptions, and pauses that embody action as well as thought and stillness, becoming testimonies of the conversations between the artist and his medium. 

Thiago Hattnher’s singular practice uniquely balances quiet contemplation with radical experimentation with the possibilities of painting today and has been gaining increasing attention through exhibitions in São Paulo, New York, London, Paris, and Lisbon.