Cardboard boxes that would normally end up in the trash are given a new purpose in this exhibition by Eduardo Lopez: each recycled canvas now carries a face, a gesture, a presence. In this shift, the material - ordinary and disposable - takes on new meaning and invites new ways of interpretation.

“Art on Cardboard – From Waste to Portrait” encourages us to reflect on the value of the medium and its relationship to artistic ideas. What defines an artistic medium? Where is the line between the banal and the meaningful in a time shaped by digitalisation and hyper-consumption? And in the end, what matters more - the surface art is made on, or the message it carries?

Reusing cardboard is more than an ecological choice: it also challenges our hierarchies of value. The fleeting and the trivial become vehicles for expression and remembrance.

With colours that deliberately break with reality, the portraits show how the everyday can transform into art - and open up space for reflection.

Mexican self-taught artist Eduardo Lopez deliberately exhibits his work in community spaces. His position is clear: “Art shouldn’t only happen in galleries - it should be accessible to everyone, democratic, and present in public space.”

📷 Photo exhibition: Art on Cardboard – From Waste to Portrait
🗓️ 10 Feb – 30 Apr 2026
🕒 Mon–Fri, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
📍 Begegnungscafé, Berlin Global Village