Exhibitions – Sprüth Magers

territory
Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, Zhang Ruyi
April 27–June 29, 2024
Public Reception: April 26, 6–9pm

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present territory, a group show of works by Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, and Zhang Ruyi, curated by Shi-ne Oh. It will be Sprüth Magers’ first group exhibition focusing exclusively on female Asian artists. The title, territory, naturally associated with aggressive political policies and behaviours, questions the vast definitions of borders and boundaries and how they both limit and liberate our transgressive desires on physical as well as psychological terrain.

The five artists will transform all of the gallery’s spaces, premiering works that examine the bounds of the body, disgust and morality, and the restraints of language, history and memory. Diverse in media and approach, the artworks on view employ unpredictable materials to engage and challenge viewers’ senses.

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Barbara Kruger
April 12–May 18, 2024

London

The razor-sharp, witty and unmistakable work of Barbara Kruger explores the power of image and word and touches on the dynamics of control, class, corruption and consumerism. For over four decades, her voice and aesthetic have transcended the insularity of the art world and influenced everyday visual culture. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Kruger at the London gallery. The artist’s most recent text-based wall work and series of vinyls will be set in dialogue with a group of “paste-ups”—collages from the 1980s related to some of her early and best-known works.

Marilyn Lerner
The Journey’s The Thing
April 12–May 18, 2024

London

In a painting practice that stretches over five decades, New York-based Marilyn Lerner has developed a unique visual vocabulary of color and form, producing compositions that reverberate in their kaleidoscopic nuance. Her powerful and radiant oil-on-wood panels, often themselves cleaved into different forms, speak of her influences from the gamelan music and geometric image-making of South and Southeast Asia, where she has traveled frequently, to her interest in early modernist abstraction, in particular the work of Hilma af Klint. Lerner has created her own complex personal vocabulary with her approach to form and color. These influences contribute to her complex approach to surface, shape and hue. Her exhibition of paintings conceived for this show on the third floor of Sprüth Magers, London, will be the first time her work has been exhibited in the city, and outside of the US in ten years.

Alighiero Boetti
Insecure Unconcerned
March 29–May 25, 2024

New York

At the core of Alighiero Boetti’s inventive and conceptually rigorous practice lies a philosophical interest in the liminal space between polarities. Raising existential questions centered around the theme of ordine e disordine (order and disorder), his modern parables and metaphors playfully delve into the complexities and contradictions of the human condition.

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present Insecure Unconcerned, a solo exhibition of works by Boetti, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the artist’s death. The show at the New York gallery is dedicated to the late Pasquale Leccese, a close friend of Boetti’s and curator of the artist’s previous presentations with the gallery: Early Works, Sprüth Magers, London (2003) and Works 1966–88, Sprüth Magers, Munich (2002). Before he died last year, Leccese was planning to curate Insecure Unconcerned in celebration of Boetti. Comprising artworks from four decades and providing an overview of his seminal oeuvre, the exhibition will include Insicuro Noncurante (1966–75), Tutto (1988) and Mappa (1989), “Biro” drawings (1975–78), selected “Arazzi” (1977–94), and Aerei (1983–89), alongside rich archival material.

Nora Turato
it’s not true!!! stop lying!
February 28–April 27, 2024

Los Angeles

Nora Turato’s medium is language. In a practice that spans performance, video, wall-mounted works and artist books, she examines the ephemeral nature of words and the instability of meaning. Using text as her artistic source material, Turato records and dissects the vernacular of our current visual culture and zeitgeist by collating appropriated words, fragments, and quotes and translating them into captivating incantations that harness the essence and the nonsense of what collectively moves us. Turato’s first solo show at the Los Angeles gallery showcases pool 6, the artist’s latest body of work in video, enamel and wall paintings, and a publication that each investigate and interpret the mechanisms of the anxiety-driven culture of self-optimization.

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