On 6th June, Elizabeth Xi Bauer will host a panel discussion exploring the current exhibition
+ Days + Nights. The panel will include artist Abraham Kritzman, Artnet European News Reporter Jo Lawson-Tancred, and curator and artistic caretaker of the Philippe Van Snick Estate, Benedicte Goesaert, moderated by art historian and critic Verity Babbs.
+ Days + Nights brings together for the first time in dialogue contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick, whose oeuvre combines the heritage of modern abstract art with the conceptual explorations of the 1970s.
This exhibition is featured as part of the 2025 edition of London Gallery Weekend, which will take place from 6th to 8th June. On 6th June, Elizabeth Xi Bauer will host a panel discussion exploring the exhibition and the dialogue between the artists’ works. The panel will include artist Abraham Kritzman, Artnet European News Reporter Jo Lawson-Tancred, curator and artistic caretaker of the Philippe Van Snick Estate, Benedicte Goesaert, moderated by art historian and critic Verity Babbs. The event will take place at the Exmouth Market space and is open to the public. To book your complimentary ticket, see here. Tickets for this event are limited.
Doors open at 3 pm for a drinks reception. The talk begins at 3:15 pm and runs until 4:15 p.m. (including a 10-minute Q&A to close). A drinks reception will follow, and the gallery will close at 6 pm.
Abraham Kritzman’s multidisciplinary practice centres on an immersive language expressed through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Inspired by journeys, his work merges mythical narratives, human imagery, architecture, and landscape to create layered and dynamic compositions. Kritzman’s works embody a dance of gestures and delicate details that bridge historical and contemporary themes. Kritzman studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and then received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2014. He won the Clore Prize and Scholarship and the Villiers David Travel Award in 2013. Kritzman is currently a Tutor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Benedicte Goesaert holds a Master’s degree in Arts from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies, which was organized by KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent University, and S.M.A.K. Ghent. She served as the director of Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp from 2011 to 2019. Since 2020, she has been working as an independent curator, art advisor, and the artistic caretaker of the Philippe Van Snick Estate. Based in Belgium, she joined the Philippe Van Snick Estate in 2020. Recently, she also became a member of the international editorial board of Glean Magazine. Benedicte is developing a growing expertise in the art scenes of Brazil and South Africa.
Jo Lawson-Tancred is Artnet’s European News Reporter. Jo’s book A.I. and the Art Market was published by Lund Humphries in 2024 in the U.K. and 2025 in the U.S, with an Italian edition coming soon. Jo has written an essay on the dialogue between contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick to accompany this panel discussion.
Verity Babbs is an art historian, presenter, and comedian. She is the host of Art Laughs art-themed comedy events, which have performed at the National Gallery, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and Royal Museums Greenwich. She has written for the Guardian, Artnet News, and the RA Magazine, and has worked on presenting projects for Tate, London Art Fair, and Elizabeth Xi Bauer.
About + Days + Nights
In their work, Kritzman and Van Snick make it their mission to explore and express the complex interplay between their life experiences and unique artistic languages. Rather than focusing on a singular investigation, these languages are interwoven throughout their works, forming a continuous thread that evolves over time.
Ultimately, both artists challenge viewers to reconsider unseen patterns that shape their worlds and the viewer’s experiences, not as fixed, rigid systems but as fluid, ever-evolving structures that invite constant reexamination.
+ Days + Nights continues until 8th June 2025. This exhibition has been conceived courtesy of the Philippe Van Snick Estate and Martins & Montero.
We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Xi Bauer’s Exmouth Market gallery has extended opening hours, open Wednesday to Sunday, from 12-6 pm, extended to 8 pm on Thursdays. For London Gallery Weekend, Elizabeth Xi Bauer’s Exmouth Market gallery will open additionally on Tuesday, 3rd June 2025, 12-6 pm. The gallery is also open by appointment.
About Philippe Van Snick
Philippe Van Snick (born 1946 in Ghent, Belgium, died 4th July 2019). Lived and worked in Brussels, Belgium.
Philippe Van Snick employed a rigorous yet poetic visual language, using binary logic, mathematical structures, and rhythms in nature to explore perception, time, and space. At the core of his oeuvre was a decimal system (0–9) paired with a distinctive ten-colour palette—red, yellow, blue, orange, violet, green, white, black, gold, and silver—through which he systematically examined the dualities of day and night, presence and absence, stability and instability.
Tickets for this event are limited. To book your complimentary ticket, see here.
Exmouth Market: 20-22 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE
