REBECCA BRODSKIS: THE LAST ONES AWAKE

Pass this on #1
2026

KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present THE LAST ONES AWAKE, a solo exhibition by French artist Rebecca Brodskis in the Vault of St. Agnes.

September 9 – November 8, 2026

For THE LAST ONES AWAKE, Brodskis turns her attention to those who became her chosen family in Berlin. The portraits that make up the exhibition depict close friends whose presence shaped the years she spent in the city, tracing a community bound less by circumstance than by shared vulnerability, ambition, and care.

The portraits in THE LAST ONES AWAKE are shaped by this experience. Rather than documenting a generation or a scene, Brodskis paints the quiet intensity of relationships forged through proximity and mutual dependence. Her oil-on-linen figures appear suspended in moments of introspection, their expressions resisting narrative while carrying the accumulated weight of shared histories. Each painting becomes less an individual likeness than a fragment of a collective memory.

The ebinum brothers
2026

The exhibition is, in many ways, an ode to a particular Berlin that no longer exists, not simply a city transformed by time, but a set of conditions that allowed strangers to become indispensable to one another. Without romanticising the past, Brodskis reflects on a fleeting moment when artistic life was inseparable from everyday endurance, and when friendship became the place where both could be sustained. 

THE LAST ONES AWAKE is both a portrait of individuals and a portrait of a city remembered through those who inhabited it together. It is an ode to a community that, however temporary, continues to shape the artist’s understanding of belonging.