Bogdan Murg

Marbella and Stockholm based artist Bogdan Murg Perlmutter identifies deeply with Francis Bacon’s concept of a “tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction.”

His paintings emerge from the tension between instinct and consciousness — between what we feel and what we can never fully articulate. Figures twist, merge, or fragment; bodies become vessels of emotion, humor, and contradiction.

Each work begins almost by chance — an act that suspends rational decision-making and invites
intuition to take over. Much like dreaming, the process cannot be controlled; when a piece begins, I never
know where it will lead, either for myself or for the viewer. This first phase is one of pure abstraction — a
spontaneous dialogue with the canvas. Gradually, the subconscious begins to surface, shaping the abstract
field into symbolic and metaphorical forms. This is the stage he calls the “mental painting”: a slow, contemplative unveiling of the mind’s inner imagery, where symbols, memories, and metaphors become visible through paint.

He works in oil because it allows slowness — the surface becomes a psychological terrain where gestures accumulate, memories sediment, and symbols distort. Recurring characters appear as ...

Bogdan Murg Perlmutter (b.1982) is a self-tought contemporary painter whose work explores the surreal intersection of body, belief, and emotion.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, he explores the fragile boundary between abstraction and figuration,
emotion and reason, the conscious and the subconscious.

Through this method, he creates paintings that feel at once psychological and mythical — mirrors of the human condition, filled with humor, tension, and transformation.
His paintings are included in private collections in the EU.

2024 — THE FUSION ART GALLERY, Vision Art Fair, Marbella, May 24 – May 25, 2024

2021 — BRUKENTHAL MUSEUM, Sibiu, Romania, Sep 10 – Nov 10, 2021

2020 — PALAZZO DUCALE, Genoa — Group Exhibition *Be Inspired* — Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2020