Anton Unai is a contemporary visual artist working across painting, collage, and installation. Born in London, raised in Spain, and now based in Berlin, his practice reflects a nomadic sensibility shaped by urban environments and cultural friction. His work is rooted in gesture and materiality, embracing chance, abrasion, and accumulation as formal strategies.

Unai’s compositions often incorporate found materials and street detritus — fragments he refers to as “golden trash” — drawing conceptual lineage from Arte Povera and Neo-Dada while remaining firmly embedded in the language of the contemporary city. Layers of paint, paper, and debris collapse abstraction and figuration, creating surfaces that feel both constructed and eroded, deliberate and volatile.

Trained originally as a political scientist, Unai brings a critical undercurrent to his work, which frequently grapples with themes of existential tension, urban decay, and the human condition. His material palette moves fluidly between traditional media such as acrylic and oil and unconventional substances including coffee, lipstick, and discarded notes. These choices are not merely aesthetic, but symbolic — embedding traces of lived experience directly into the work, where chaos and order coexist in uneasy balance.