Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and watercolours by Swiss artist Markus Döbeli at The Gallery of the Porto Arts Club. Bringing together recent works that unfold through layered compositions, subtle chromatic modulations, and a refined sensitivity to material and gesture, the exhibition highlights Döbeli’s distinctive visual language rooted deeply in abstraction. 

The third exhibition of Markus Döbeli with the gallery, the presentation at The Gallery of The Porto Arts Club offers an intimate view into the artist’s evolving abstract language, inviting viewers to engage with works that balance quiet intensity and formal rigor.

Born in Lucerne in 1958 where he now lives and works, Markus Döbeli is an abstract painter whose practice is characterized by a singularity of vision which dates back to his student years during the 1980’s, first at the School for Art and Design in Lucerne, Switzerland and then at the State Art Academy, Düsseldorf from which he graduated in 1987. Working primarily on very large canvases which flirt with the expanse of the wall, Döbeli's works are constructed  from multiple semi-transparent layers. These fields of colour have no contours or borders and even when they can be seen to give rise to forms these emerge suddenly and almost instantly disappear again giving his works an elusive but nevertheless arresting character. 

The exhibition will run at at the gallery of The Porto Arts Club from the 24th of January 2026.

Marc Jancou Contemporary at The Porto Arts Club, Rua Bela 24, Porto, PT

Tuesday - Saturday 9am -1pm and 2-6pm

For more information please contact us at: office@marcjancou.com