On Andrea Berthel’s square canvases, the whole world fits into a fish can. In her series “Canned Koi Cosmology”, koi express feelings and moods while remaining unmistakably fish.

Instead of heaviness, she works with humour and vivid Pop Art colours that spark curiosity and invite reflection on society, politics and our values.

Trained by studying the Old Masters, she builds her paintings in many thin layers of oil until colour and volume reach their full intensity.