Last Friday, Navot Miller’s exhibition Paradise opened at Berlin’s DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM gallery. Eleven new paintings fill the space (portraits, cityscapes, quiet moments between people), all carrying the kind of tension Edward Hopper captured so well.

Navot Miller

The heart of Paradise is personal: two recent changes in Miller’s life. One is a romance with someone named Eliezer; the other is leaving Berlin, a city that had become home. The paintings hold warmth, humor, and the ache of goodbyes. There’s no bitterness in the heartbreak here, just the sense that longing isn’t defeat, but proof you’re alive. It’s a feeling Olivia Laing wrote about in The Lonely City, and Miller paints it in his own language.

The works vary in size, some large, some small, and the gallery itself gets a colorful architectural touch from Miller. The scenes, whether a lover’s gaze or a Berlin street, feel familiar but charged, like a memory just out of reach.

Check it out below:

 

Paradise runs until August 30, 2025.