Exhibition
Walter Dahn
Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024
Haus Mödrath, Kerpen
Through August 31, 2025
Walter Dahn’s solo exhibition Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024 at Haus Mödrath provides a comprehensive insight into the artist’s work from 1986 onwards. As one of the protagonists of Mülheimer Freiheit in the early 1980s, Dahn became primarily known as a painter. Yet the exhibition deliberately begins after this period and sheds light on Dahn’s expanded concept of painting and his widely ramified system of references to (pop) culture as well as intellectual history. A central focus is on works with a clear reference to music. A catalog with texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oliver Tepel is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Exhibition
Thomas Demand
The Stutter of History
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Through May 11, 2025
After three years of planning, the museum is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of German conceptual artist Thomas Demand from 18 January to 11 May 2025. The exhibition, curated by independent curator Douglas Fogle, brings together approximately 70 large-scale photographic works, wallpaper installations, and two moving image pieces. It showcases Demand’s exploration of the complex interplay between photographic images and the real world, his interrogation of ingrained image culture, and the paradoxes of perception within contemporary society.
Exhibition
Thea Djordjadze, Rosemarie Trockel
limitation of life
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Through April 27, 2025
The Lenbachhaus will present a collaborative work by the artists Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze. Djordjadze was Trockel’s student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1998 to 2001 and the two have maintained a close artistic relationship ever since, realizing numerous joint projects and exhibitions. In their exhibition at Lenbachhaus, the artists want to delve into the conception of beauty and challenge established aesthetic conventions, taking inspiration from reflections by the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud’s opening lines from “Une saison en enfer” (1873) provide a leitmotif for the artists’ approach: “One evening I sat Beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter and I reviled her.”
Exhibition
Nancy Holt
Power Systems
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Through June 29, 2025
Nancy Holt: Power Systems features the most extensive inquiry yet into Nancy Holt’s studies of systems. The exhibition launches in summer 2024 with a presentation of Pipeline, which calls attention to the physical and economic systems powering buildings and to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. Holt visited Alaska in March of 1986 at the invitation of the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, with the hope she might create a work of art in celebration of the region’s beauty. Holt was instead struck by the infiltration of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System through the landscape. In response she made Pipeline, a sculpture made of steel pipes that twist in and out of the gallery, winding down to the floor where one section of pipe leaks—an incessant drip of oil pooling thickly on a white base. Pipeline points to the unchecked audacity and devastating consequences of the energy industry.
Exhibition
Nancy Holt
Seeing in the Round
The Art Institute of Chicago
Through April 20, 2025
In the early 1970s, Nancy Holt created her first sculpture, a viewing device that she called a Locator. Made from two pieces of welded steel pipe, with a viewing aperture set at the height of her own eyes, the Locator became a powerful means for Holt to ground her viewer in the conscious process of perception. The first Locators were installed in Holt’s New York studio in 1971. From here she could train a viewer’s eye on overlooked aspects of the urban landscape, focusing attention on found elements, such as ventilators on nearby rooftops or windows on neighboring buildings. She then created site-responsive installations, using the Locator as an apparatus to frame surprising passages in the built environment, which she selected and marked with paint.
Exhibition
Jenny Holzer
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac
Ongoing
Jenny Holzer has long used language as her primary medium, engaging words and phrases as tools for personal and political examination. Her presentation in Room 2 will include drawing, paintings, LED signs, and plaques alongside the seminal installation The Child Room (1990). Originally commissioned for the US Pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale, The Child Room combines vertical scrolling LED elements with a custom engraved marble floor featuring an original text by Holzer. This is the first time the work has been on view since 1993.
Exhibition
Arthur Jafa
Works from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art – MCA, Chicago
Through May 11, 2025
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection surveys the artist’s output over roughly the last ten years through a selection of artworks held in the MCA’s collection, including his videos APEX (2013), Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016), The White Album (2018), and akingdoncomethas (2018). Accompanying the videos are a few key sculptural and photographic works that further underscore Jafa’s unique approach to visual culture and image making, in which the lines between popular and high culture blur and the personal collides with the political.
The exhibition is organized by René Morales, former James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
Exhibition
Barbara Kruger
No Comment
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Through April 21, 2025
As a critical observer of popular culture, feminist, and conceptual powerhouse Barbara Kruger – one of the most influential artists of our time – grapples with power dynamics, late capitalism, and media overload in the most comprehensive presentation of her work in Denmark.
No Comment surveys Kruger’s digital productions of the past two decades: her signature text and image ‘paste-ups’; large-scale, vinyl wall and floor installations; multi-channel films and soundscapes.
Exhibition
Anthony McCall
Solid Light
Tate Modern, London
Through June 29, 2025
In Summer 2024, Tate Modern will present a focused exhibition of immersive works by Anthony McCall. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations that began in 1973 with the seminal work Line Describing a Cone, a key work in Tate’s collection.
Publication
Reinhard Mucha
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space
Edited by Sprüth Magers in cooperation with Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Luhring Augustine, Lia Rumma Gallery
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, March 23, 2023
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space is an artist book which can be considered as Reinhard Mucha’s personal oeuvre catalogue. It comprises two volumes in a slipcase and is based on Reinhard Mucha's so-called portfolio books that he created for himself over the years, relating his photographically documented works to one another both formally and aesthetically. Nearly 800 reproductions as well as detailed image and work information provide unprecedented, comprehensive insight into both his work and understanding of sculpture. Also published for the first time are 19 letters and texts by Mucha further elucidating his artistic thinking.
Publication
Hyun-Sook Song
Published by Sprüth Magers and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2024
Published on the occasion of Hyun-Sook Song’s exhibition at Sprüth Magers, New York, the richly illustrated catalogue is devoted to the creative process that leads Song to her paintings. Through thirty-three color plates and two essays by Fritz W. Kramer and Josef Helfenstein, the catalogue delves into the roots of Song’s practice in Korean calligraphy, which began in the 1970s after her move to Germany and continues to significantly influence her exploration of the memories tied to her homeland even today. The catalogue also features hitherto new and unpublished works by the artist.
Exhibition
Salvo
Arrivare in Tempo
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin
Through May 25, 2025
The exhibition Arrivare in tempo (Arriving on time) at Pinacoteca Agnelli is the most comprehensive exhibition of the Italian artist Salvo to date. The exhibition offers a path through Salvo’s oeuvre, emphasizing how his approach to painting – in its recurrent thematic cycles, attention to art historical references and exploration of light – has always been in continuity with his early conceptual research.
Developed in close collaboration with the Archivio Salvo, the exhibition will focus on some of the fundamental motifs of his artistic exploration: the concept of repetition and probing recurring motifs both as painting technique and conceptual urgency; the reflection on painting as a language and language as art; the relationship between art history and the representation of the everyday.
Exhibition
Nora Turato
IN SITU #1 – I hear you, I hear you.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Through August 31, 2025
The Stedelijk launched IN SITU, a new series in the mezzanine of the new building. A new generation of artists has been commissioned to create experimental works for one of the museum's largest intermediate spaces.
For her new work, Turato examines the impact of language on our self-image, expression, and identity—from how we learn to speak as children to how we constantly adopt the words of others. By combining language and typography, she questions how much control we truly have over how we communicate. For her site-specific work, Turato is developing a custom-made typeface and a script for her own monumental moving billboard. She explores how rhythm, pronunciation, design, and typography influence the power, ambience and character of language.
Exhibition
Kara Walker
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA
Through spring 2026
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler.
Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners
Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious
by
Kara E-Walker.
Kara Walker has long been recognized for her incisive examinations of the dynamics of power and the exploitation of race and sexuality. Her work leverages expressions of fantasy and humor to confront troubling histories and dominant narratives, repossessing control in the process. Inspired by a wide range of sources, from antique dolls to Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower, Walker’s new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society. The presentation marks the first time that SFMOMA has commissioned an artist to create a site-specific installation for the Roberts Family Gallery.
Exhibition
John Baldessari
Parables, Fables and Other Tall Tales
Centre for Fine Arts – BOZAR, Brussels
September 19, 2025–January 4, 2026
John Baldessari (1931–2020) was a giant of contemporary art, whose codes he turned upside down. This autumn, Bozar is offering an essential insight into his work, a must for anyone wanting to grasp the subtleties of the avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. This first retrospective since his death will focus more specifically on his work during the 1980s, which was also the decade of profound breakthroughs that saw the artist emancipate himself from convention. Known for his assemblages of cropped and colorized photos and films, Baldessari constantly blurred visual boundaries, questioning artistic practice and teaching. An influential artist on the contemporary art scene, he introduced a complex narrative tinged with humor, creating a new visual alphabet that influenced both North America and Europe. The exhibition will explore and illustrate the impact of his work, and its relevance to generations born in the digital age.
Exhibition
The Parks of Aomame
Group Exhibition
Okayama Art Summit
September 26–November 26, 2025
The theme of this year’s Okayama Art Summit is The Parks of Aomame, inspired by Aomame, the mysterious character from Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84. As Artistic Director Philippe Parreno describes in his statement, a curated group of thirty individuals and groups from twelve countries and regions—including artists, musicians, architects, designers, scientists, writers, and thinkers—will use their unique methods of expression to create new forms, transforming Okayama’s public spaces into places where reality and imagination naturally merge. Sprüth Magers is delighted that Cyprien Gaillard and Mire Lee are amongst the participating artists.
Exhibition
Gilbert & George
21ST CENTURY PICTURES
Hayward Gallery, London
October 7, 2025–January 4, 2026
21ST CENTURY PICTURES marks the third time Gilbert & George have shown their art at the Hayward Gallery and it is set to be their largest exhibition in the space to date. Showing their living journey as artists, this presentation will focus on new pictures from the start of the millennium as well as pictures that have never been seen in the UK.
The artists will also showcase pictures across key series made since 2000, such as NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016) and their more recent CORPSING PICTURES (2022). Through these, audiences will be invited to explore contemporary society through the complexities of hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption, violence, patriotism, addiction, ghosts, death and more.
Exhibition
Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall: Works 1972 – 2020
Futura, Seoul
April 29–September 7, 2025
Futura Seoul presents Anthony McCall's first extensive survey exhibition in South Korea comprising early performance based work, vertical solid light films, a sound installation and extensive archival material.
Exhibition
David Ostrowski
Let me put it this way
Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe
May 26–November 23, 2025
Aranya Art Center North is pleased to present German artist David Ostrowski’s first solo museum exhibition Let me put it this way in China. Known for his reduced canvases, Ostrowski has produced a body of work that relentlessly questions the medium of painting and its constitutive elements – deliberately breaking with painterly codes and traditions. On some of his paintings there is simply a sprayed line while others show traces of dirt or glued-on paper remnants from his studio. Thus, the artist’s light-handed and complex approach to the non-motif opens up the space of the canvas for unique breaks in perception and an unexpected freedom of vision.
This exhibition is organized by Assistant Curator Gao Liangjiao and Associate Curator Wu Yiyang at the Aranya Art Center.
Exhibition
Jon Rafman
Nine Eyes
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
October 8, 2025–January 11, 2026
Canadian artist Jon Rafman is renowned for a multifaceted work that revolves around our relationship with digital technologies and surveillance. He will often use images and stories from the internet, which he adapts and reworks seeking to cast an empathetic and critical look at the way technologies affect modern life – emotionally, socially and existentially. Nine Eyes, considered a major work in contemporary art, is presented for the first time in a standalone exhibition. Rafman's pioneering project, which has been developing since 2008, focuses on both the everyday and the existential aspects of life in the age of digital surveillance.
Exhibition
Pamela Rosenkranz
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
May 21–August 24, 2025
Artist Pamela Rosenkranz presents her first exhibition in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum. Rosenkranz is internationally acclaimed for her immersive works that reflect on the relationship between the body, its physiology and rapidly changing environment. In Rosenkranz’s work, this environment is marked by advanced technology, late capitalism, and human-machine relations. Her work often consists of installations and readymade sculptures that frequently reference famous artworks or everyday objects such as Amazon packaging and water bottles.
Exhibition
Andreas Schulze
Le Consortium, Dijon
May 16–November 2, 2025
Andreas Schulze’s exhibition at Le Consortium is the artist’s first solo show in France for 30 years. Schulze – one of the key figures in contemporary German painting – is known for his autonomous visual language and his room spanning pictorial installations. The exhibition, curated by Éric Troncy, focuses on the painting itself and presents the canvases in an almost purist manner, providing a comprehensive insight into Schulze’s painterly practice. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, the show includes iconic works such as Traffic Jam – the series of life-size paintings of intriguing vehicles arranged as a classical frieze. Another premiere in France is an early work complex – consisting of three paintings and a sculpture – which can be read as Schulze’s homage to Barnett Newman’s Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue.
Exhibition
Nora Turato
pool7
Institute of Contemporary Arts – ICA, London
April 9–June 8, 2025
pool7, the first solo presentation in the UK by Nora Turato features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. In an enveloping installation that is the artist’s most personal to date, Turato investigates our collective relationship to language, exposing the ideologies, failures and pleasures that characterise communication today.
Exhibition
Kaari Upson
Doll House – A Retrospective
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
May 27–October 26, 2025
Bodies tell tales. Objects remember. Memories leave traces. In Kaari Upson’s distinctive world, beauty meets horror, sensitivity resonates with despair. The first retrospective museum exhibition featuring Upson after her untimely death shows the strength and range of an artist already well on her way to becoming a modern classic. At her untimely death from cancer in 2021, aged 51, Kaari Upson was widely regarded as one of the most significant and versatile American artists of her generation with a practice spanning sculpture, drawing, performance, film and painting. Though her career was cut short, she has left behind a rich, intense and strongly personal body of work that revolves around identity, body, relationships, emotions, illness and loss.
