Xavier Robles de Medina
SOURCE
11 SEP – 10 OCT 2026
Opening – 10 SEP 2026, 6–10 pm
Xavier Robles de Medina
Zoe Saldaña during the making of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Directed by James Cameron, 20th Century Studios, 2025
2026
oil on wood
70 x 54 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Noah Klink
For SOURCE, his first solo exhibition with Galerie Noah Klink during Berlin Art Week, Xavier Robles de Medina brings together newly produced paintings, sculpture, and documentary material that ask who holds the authority to represent, own, and circulate history, and who exists only as its subject. Drawing on colonial archives, popular culture, contemporary media, and personal experience, the works trace how exotification, desire, class, and economic power determine whose bodies and histories are seen, valued, and remembered.
Xavier Robles de Medina
Female figure Saamaka (?) or Creoles, Suriname, Meylwijks Plantation, collected before 1850 by Johann Jansa, Ethnologisches Musem Berlin, inventory nr. V A 286
2025
Bronze
27 x 8 x 6 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Noah Klink
Xavier Robles de Medina
‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is this photo the ultimate royal portrait?, The Guardian, 20 February 2026
2026
oil on linen
90 x 120 x 4 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Noah Klink
Moving between the personal and the historical, Robles de Medina negotiates the fractured experience of queer and transnational identity, where belonging is shaped by multiple, sometimes contradictory systems of representation. Refusing the neutrality of the archive, the works restage and reconstitute familiar sources, confronting the power structures that determine who gets to possess, define, and profit from history.
