Kreyn’s paintings exist in a unique place in contemporary art. They evoke a sense of mastery of technique such as Caspar David Friedrich, Salvador Dalí and Tullio Crali, eschewing the social media poise which often diminishes artists around topical content. Kreyn’s work stands by its monumentalism, an attitude which feels like a force in art we should celebrate.
Exhibition Notes: Maria Kreyn – Hyperobject
The MoN Art Foundation is delighted to present Hyperobject, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Maria Kreyn, set against the luminous Byzantine architecture of the Fitzrovia Chapel. Coinciding with Frieze London 2025, the exhibition transforms this sacred space into a site of awe and contemplation, where light, geometry, and atmosphere converge.
This is Kreyn’s fourth solo exhibition in a sacred architectural setting, following her acclaimed 2024 presentation at St. George’s Church in Venice, during the 60th Biennale Arte. With Hyperobject, she continues this dialogue between contemporary painting and ecclesiastical architecture, transcending ideology and transforming the church into a site of secular reverence and existential wonder.
At the focal point of the exhibition stands a monumental altarpiece, Solaris, surrounded by storm paintings that summon the sublime. Inspired by the idea of the “Hyperobject”—forces so vast they exceed human comprehension—Kreyn’s canvases unfold as portals and mirrors, entangling immense cosmic scales with intimate human emotion. Inventing visual metaphors for concepts at the frontier of scientific inquiry, Kreyn invites viewers into a suspended space where chaos meets harmony, fragility meets intensity, and reverence arises beyond the veil of doctrine.
These notions converge with the ethos of the MoN Art Foundation itself, as it works to support artists whose practices address urgent ecological and existential questions with rigor and vision. Across Kreyn’s foreboding works, she employs potent symbols, a vigorous palette and formidable skill in painting to reprise the Romantic tradition in its celebration of the sublime power and potential of nature and the universe. These otherworldly landscapes are at the same time expectant and ominous, dazzling and terrifying – inviting us to fall into a suspended moment of meditation and awe.
Maria Kreyn: Hyperobject. The Fitzrovia Chapel, 2 Pearson Square, London W1T 3BF. Curated by Maria Vega. Exhibition dates: 12 – 20 October 2025 Press review: Monday 13 October, 5 – 8pm,
Maria Kreyn, Hyperobject, installation shots, Fitzrovia Chapel, October 2025. Photo credit Philip Vile
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
