Société Presents A Solo Exhibition By Artist Wynnie Mynerva

Opening Preview: November 6, 2025 | 6 – 8 PM

On View: November 7, 2025 – January 15, 2026

SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Wynnie Mynerva, the artist’s first in Germany. Wynnie Mynerva draws upon personal experiences of violence tied to race, gender, and sexuality to create a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, performance, and video. Raised in Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Lima, a place shaped by complex social and economic realities, their work explores themes of transformation, resistance, and embodiment.

Mynerva describes painting as a “living process,” a “document of thinking and feeling.” This expressive realm serves as the starting point for projects that extend into other media or rethink the traditional conventions of the medium. Their raw, often erotic canvases draw upon religious and mythological visual tropes to depict bodies pushed to their limits, capturing rapturous figures in states of disintegration, metamorphosis, and communion. For their exhibition at SOCIÉTÉ, Mynerva’s artistic inquiry turns toward love for the first time—one of humanity’s oldest fabulations. Mynerva will transform the gallery into an immersive textile installation centered around a large oil painting of fluid anatomies suggesting both complicity and affection, healing and desire. Attending these entwined, ecstatic bodies are four smaller paintings of figures that function as witnesses. This gap between witnessing and experience reveals love as a structure of lack, recasting it as a dramatic event that carries anguish, despair, and desire. Love, like painting, can function as an attempt to articulate that which cannot be said: what remains of love when the image collapses? When the body no longer responds to the illusion of completeness, and only pleasure, the gaze, and yearning remain?