Threads of Inner Time: Eleven Women, Eleven Visions

This November, Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt will host a special presentation by JS Gallery, whose mission is to promote dialogue between emerging and established artists across borders, with a curatorial focus on “Connections: Voices of Identity.”

For Frankfurt 2025, the gallery brings forward “Threads of Inner Time”, an artist-run exhibition featuring eleven contemporary women artists from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain, Cyprus, and the USA, whose works weave memory, identity, and inner experience into a collective exhibition fabric.

From the time of Ariadne, women have expressed themselves with weaving, building the personal and the universal, the visible and the unseen into the fabric of life. Guided by this age-old idea, each artist in this exhibition contributes a “thread” in the collective tapestry, creating a vibrant matter of emotional memory, silence, and resilience, from painting and ceramics to AI-generated portraits. Visitors will encounter a contemplative booth designed to invite pause and reflection, a space to linger and connect.

Nelya Akimova

Czech-based artist Nelya Akimova moves fluidly between oil painting and digital media. Her works explore identity and emotion through striking portraits, where stillness and silence crystallize into fragile structures. In Frankfurt, she will present pieces from her series “Faces of Contemporaries,” works that speak of unspoken pain and inner confrontation.

Natalia Averianova

A watercolorist with roots in Minsk and now based in Stuttgart, Natalia Averianova blends elegance with emotion. Her paintings, shaped by her training in Italian design and symbolism, explore intimacy and the hidden dimensions of motherhood. At DAF, her work, “The Unseen Mother,” reflects sacrifice, presence, and protection woven into abstraction.

Svetlana Fenster

From Cyprus, Svetlana Fenster works with ceramics and interdisciplinary techniques. Her series “Inheritance” incorporates lace impressions, creating tactile forms where memory and identity become visible. These quiet yet powerful pieces embody tenderness and the silent strength of heritage.

Galina Hartinger

Vienna-based Galina Hartinger uses AI to probe questions of identity in the digital age. Her series “Nature Mort: Dreaming Beauties” presents hauntingly beautiful portraits of faces that never existed: fragile and strangely familiar, they reveal both allure and distortion in our digital world.

Olga Ivkin

Working from Portland, Olga Ivkin creates paintings that dive into the structures of contemporary society. With a focus on motherhood, symbolism, and ornamentation, her works invite reflection on the connections between private life and public patterns. Her large canvas, “Society,” captures these unseen dynamics.

Lena Kardash

Architect and artist Lena Kardash, based in Spain, explores complexity and perception in her ongoing “Mind Games” series. Through layered compositions, she reflects on the invisible tensions that shape inner experience, creating works that hover between personal reflection and universal questions.

Nina Kruser

German-based Nina Kruser, originally from Tajikistan, has exhibited globally in over 100 shows. Her works explore the layered nature of female identity and the quiet power of authenticity. At Discovery, she will present “Don’t Breathe Away My Air”, a canvas where masks fall away to reveal vulnerability.

Marina Kulow

A painter and professional pianist who relocated from Belarus to Germany, Marina Kulow creates interdisciplinary works combining sound, silence, and color. Her series “In Search of Clarity” responds to the overwhelming noise of contemporary life, striving for balance and harmony.

Inna Nikolaieva

Based in Austria, Inna Nikolaieva’s practice explores memory and symbolism. Her series “Ariadne’s Thread” uses female figures as codes within a labyrinth of perception. Rich in modernist fragmentation, her works reflect the complexity of feminine identity.

Elda Perl

The artistic duo Elda Perl (Elena and Daniel) combines painting with healing and sustainability, creating luminous works that invite awareness and transformation. Their piece “Insight” symbolizes inner alignment, openness, and the path toward self-discovery.

Natalya Radünz

Another articipating artist of this artist-run group exhibition, Natalya Radünz is a German metamodernist painter whose works merge tradition and spirituality. Her series “Before the First Light” reflects fragile moments of intimacy and silence, suspended threads between presence and absence.

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Threads of Inner Time will be on view at the Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Booth XX, November 7–9, 2025.

Visitors are invited to step into this collective space for reflection, where eleven women artists come together, weaving their voices into one inner vision.