Ice Cream is Better than Mathematics by Björn Heyn offers a playful and poetic view of the dichotomies of life, exploring the contrasts between simple pleasures and the complexities of everyday challenges. The title of the exhibition, which contrasts ice cream – a symbol of pleasure, lightness, and childhood – with mathematics, which evokes rationality and the challenges of growth, reflects the duality present in the artist's work: the tension between lightness and hardship, pleasure and demand.

In his collages, paintings, and installations, Heyn irreverently recreates the everyday, using a vibrant color palette and humorous elements that transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. Through fragments of reality, the artist deconstructs and reorganizes the elements he observes, creating new forms and meanings that challenge traditional perceptions of life.


His art thus emerges as a meditation on chaos, nostalgia, and the learning process, imbued with a lightness and softness that invite the viewer to reflect on their own experience.

This exhibition offers visitors an immersion in the creative universe of Björn Heyn, where pleasure and challenge meet, urging us to look at the world with more curiosity and creativity. By exploring the nuances between the lightness of ice cream and the difficulties of mathematics, Heyn invites the audience to rediscover the importance of maintaining the ability to marvel at the simplicity of life.

This exhibition is the result of the 2nd International Artist Residency organised by GAMA RAMA, in partnership with Estúdio Yucca, which hosts an international artist each year to develop its work, surrounded by the Ria Formosa.

For more information, please contact Toma Svazaite on 961 371 891