16 Oct Amarist Studio at The Line Dreams, Beijing Design Week 2025
Amarist Studio at The Line Dreams, Madrid Design Festival exhibition at Beijing Design Week 2025
Amarist Studio is part of The Line Dreams, an exhibition presented by Madrid Design Festival within the Madrid Guest City program at Beijing Design Week 2025, held from September 26 to October 25 at the Genesis Art Gallery, a space designed by architect Tadao Ando along the banks of the Liangma River.
The project, co-organized by Beijing Design Week, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation (BCAF), Genesis Beijing, and Madrid Design Festival, and co-produced by Cui Qiao and Wang Yudong, celebrates the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union. The exhibition serves as a cultural bridge between Spain and China, using light as a poetic and universal language.
Curated by Javier Riera, The Line Dreams unfolds across five thematic sections —In Praise of Shadow, Light, Form and Matter, Light in the Landscape, Sustainable Light, and a film program— each reflecting on the relationship between light, nature, and creativity.
Within this context, Amarist Studio presents four works that embody its ongoing research into “liquid stone” and the poetics of alabaster: Gravity, Aqua Fossil Light, and Fossil Abyss and Aqua Fossil Mirrors, the latter unveiled here for the first time. These pieces explore the tension between matter and transparency, inviting contemplation on the passage of time and the fragility of water turned to stone.
Amarist joins a group of 40 Spanish designers representing the diversity and innovation of contemporary Spanish design, alongside figures such as Miguel Milá, Mayice, Rocío Asensi, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, and Lucas Muñoz, among others.
The Genesis Art Gallery, with its exposed concrete geometry and subtle play of natural light —hallmarks of Ando’s architecture— provides a perfect setting for this dialogue between art, design, and landscape. Within this space, Amarist’s works reaffirm the studio’s commitment to a practice that merges nature, contemplation, and material experimentation.
