How high is high? How deep is deep? And what makes something appear greater, smaller, heavier, or more valuable than something else? The answers are rarely as simple as they seem. A mountain can make us feel small, a tiny detail can command our entire attention, and a change in perspective can turn something ordinary into something remarkable. UPs and DOWNs 2026 invites you to discover how art challenges the way we measure, compare, and experience the world around us.
Now in its third consecutive year, UPs and DOWNs 2026, presented by Gallerium, brings together an international collection of artworks exploring differences in height, depth, level, size, and value. This juried smart international art exhibition is provisionally listed as on view from October 31 to December 31, 2026, welcoming you to explore its many interpretations at https://www.gallerium.art/ups-and-downs-2026.
Across the exhibition, landscapes rise and fall in extraordinary ways. Mountains stretch toward the clouds, waterfalls plunge into rocky depths, sweeping dunes meet an endless blue sky, and a storm gathers its immense force over the earth. Elsewhere, zebras move beneath open skies, a solitary tree stands against a vast horizon, and the colors of a sunset transform an ordinary landscape into something almost otherworldly. Each scene offers a different sense of distance, scale, movement, and our place within the natural world.
Yet the exhibition’s contrasts extend far beyond geography. Human figures, everyday objects, imaginative creatures, architectural forms, and abstract compositions introduce their own relationships between strength and fragility, weight and lightness, motion and stillness. Some artworks command attention through monumental forms or dramatic colors, while others draw you closer through delicate details, subtle transitions, or quiet moments of reflection. Here, the smallest element may hold the greatest significance, and what first appears simple may reveal unexpected complexity.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of UPs and DOWNs 2026 is how it invites us to reconsider the meaning of value itself. Is something greater because it is larger? Does being higher always mean being better? Can a downward movement express freedom rather than defeat? Through contrasting artistic perspectives, the exhibition suggests that the way we interpret height, depth, size, or importance often depends on where we stand, what we notice, and what we bring to the experience.
As you explore the exhibition, Gallerium‘s interactive smart platform invites you to become part of that exchange. Discover individual artworks, rate the pieces that resonate with you, leave comments or personal interpretations, and connect with participating artists through their replies. Your perspective adds another layer to the exhibition, revealing how the same artwork can inspire different feelings, memories, and meanings.
Life is full of measurements, comparisons, rises, and falls. But art reminds us that not everything meaningful can be measured, and not every difference needs to be judged. UPs and DOWNs 2026 invites you to look beyond the obvious, appreciate the beauty of contrasts, and perhaps discover that changing your point of view can change everything you see.
Participant Artists:
Linda Gulinson, Sandra Eppert, R. Geoffrey Blackburn, Jane Gottlieb, Ivan Gall, Nira Chorev, Rick Stearns, Shina Khorasani, Thomas Hunt, Ruth Egnater, Anastasiia Skisova, Steve Mason, Lourdes Rivera – LULU, MikeE, Russell Fennick, D. Moire Thom, Galen Rankin, Jessica Yard, Jeff Ratino, Leana Oberholzer, Shelley Skoropinski Supple, Don Stephens, Heather Morrow, Cherie Bauer, John Comisky, Robert Wynne, Karen Schaffenberger, Facundo Yebne, Nita Mehnert, Martin Büechi, Shreya Animesh, Dan Johnson, Xavier Miller, Mariana Tcaci, Neil Garrison, Denise Donnell, Dominique Grandfort
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