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Self Portrait With Pets (2026), solo exhibition, Number 1 Main Road, Berlin
“Self Portrait With Pets is the first European solo exhibition by American artist Gregory Nachmanovitch.
These artworks originated from a detailed 3D model of himself as an adolescent; meticulously constructed using family photos. The model, created for a forthcoming short film, is rigged with an armature and controlled like a complex, high resolution puppet. Other motifs, props, animals and architecture are built from memories of this adolescent period.
Nachmanovitch moves through this environment like a puppeteer working inside a doll’s house; animating figures, arranging scenes, pulling the work out from within.
The “pets” of the title speak to this dynamic: his digital creations are not illustrations of ideas but things he has made and, in some sense, looks after. He is not examining the past so much as operating from inside his version of it. What emerges from this process carries a persistent unease. The way a childhood home looks different when you go back as an adult.
The cicada runs through the exhibition as a recurring presence. These insects live almost their entire lives underground, emerging briefly every seventeen years before dying. Nachmanovitch remembers one of these cycles from his Virginia teenage years: the sudden mass appearance, and then the bodies. A long burial, followed by a brief and overwhelming return.“
‘Nymph’
100cm x 160cm x 30 cm, aluminum, single channel video, stainless steel, 2026
‘Nymph’ detail
‘Stage play’
105cm x 87.5cm, 3D rendering, aluminum dibond print with hand engravings, wax pastel, 2026
52.5cm x 70cm, 3D rendering, aluminum dibond print with hand engravings, wax pastel, 2026
75cm x 53cm, 3D rendering, aluminum dibond print with hand engravings, wax pastel, 2026
39.5 cm x 35cm, 3D rendering, aluminum dibond print with hand engravings, wax pastel, 2026
51cm x 65cm, 3D rendering, aluminum dibond print with hand engravings, wax pastel, 2024
25cm x 40cm, ink & graphite on paper, stainless steel mount, 2025
55cm x 40cm, ink & graphite on paper, stainless steel mount, 2025
25cm x 40cm, ink & graphite on paper, stainless steel mount, 2025