Eurus Takeover debute: Black & White

Eurus Gallery launches a new curatorial initiative, Eurus Takeover, in which the gallery will temporarily transform different public spaces into art venues. For its first edition, Eurus Gallery collaborates with Cocoon Beauty Café — space offering wholesome snacks, refreshing drinks, and carefully curated skincare products that combine effectiveness with safety, creating a holistic experience of wellness and beauty.

This is the first in a series of such projects, each of which will bring art into unexpected urban contexts. To begin, Eurus Gallery turns to the origins — to achromatic colors, to the absence of color — and presents a Black & White Exhibition.

The inaugural show at Cocoon Beauty Café will feature works by Dickson Yewn (Hong Kong) — internationally recognized as a jewellery artist, but originally trained as a photographer and filmmaker at the New York Film Academy. Before the millennium, photography was his central medium, with multiple exhibitions in Paris, including solo shows. One of his works is held in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Grigory Yaroshenko (Russia/Europe) is Leica’s official photographer, known for his precise monochrome imagery. Dmitry Cockloft (Georgia) has unusual artistic method “returns” miniature objects, like toy soldiers or porcelain figurines, to the real scale of their prototypes.

The exhibition will also feature works by Alexander Grinberg, a renowned photographer of the early 20th century. His series Art of Movement was devoted to the study of motion and the depiction of frozen movement in black-and-white photography — works that are now considered canonical, though at the time they were radical experiments.

For the first time, Eurus Gallery presents two parallel projects on the same theme. Alongside the Black & White Exhibition at Cocoon Beauty Café (1 November – 30 November), there will be an identically titled exhibition at the Eurus Gallery own space — The House on Sathorn (29 October – 2 November). 

The second show will expand the monochrome theme from painterly and photography to jewellery works. This exhibition will include works by Irina Petrakova (Russia) — an artist with an academic background who rejects classical canons in favour of a unique “stain” technique. Her works recall Rorschach tests: abstract at first glance but filled with symbols and hidden narratives upon closer view. Black & white jewellery pieces, reflecting one of the deepest codes of jewellery art. This timeless duality is at once limitless in style — from Art Deco geometry to floral motifs — and technically challenging. Examples include high-tech black coating of platinum by VA (Hong Kong) or Richard Wu’s (China) black titanium (also used by Alessio Boschi), Art-Deco-inspired designs by Epic Jewellery, and delicate nature motifs by Alexander Laut and Alice in Wonderlab. And also, traditional techniques of black enamelling (Ilgiz F.) or stone carving (Richard Wu). 

Black and white is notoriously difficult for both photographers and jewellers. For photographers, the challenge is to create meaningful imagery beyond the easy “beautification” that monochrome often provides. For jewellers, removing colour shifts attention to structure, geometry, and line — demanding precision without the support of a vibrant palette. 

With these twin projects, Eurus Takeover demonstrates the richness possible within the absence of colour, and the ability of art to redefine familiar environments.

Dates:

1 November – 30 November 2025
Cocoon Beauty Café at 69/4-6, Charoenkrung Road Soi 39, 
Siphaya, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 

29 October to 2 November 2025
Eurus Gallery at The House on Sathorn
W Hotel, Bangkok