Sprüth Magers

“Natures mortes” Carte blanche à Anne Imhof

Eliza Douglas in rehearsals for Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, 2021
Courtesy of the artist and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski

Exhibition

Anne Imhof
"Natures mortes" Carte blanche à Anne Imhof
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Through October 24, 2021

Palais de Tokyo invited Anne Imhof to realize an exhibition occupying all its spaces in the spring of 2021. This project continues a series of Cartes Blanches, beginning with Philippe Parreno in 2013 and followed by Tino Sehgal (2016), Camille Henrot (2017) and Tomàs Saraceno (2018) thereafter. Anne Imhof, whose international recognition includes the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, has exhibited at Palais de Tokyo as early as 2015 with DEAL, presented as part of the festival Do Disturb.

Bock – Djordjadze – Gaillard – Scheibitz – Trockel – Wekua – STUDIO BERLIN

Exhibition

STUDIO BERLIN
Group Exhibition
Berghain, Berlin
Through September 25, 2021

In the exhibition STUDIO BERLIN, extended through September 2021, the Boros Foundation is showing works by over 100 contemporary artists who live and work in Berlin. On display are national and international positions from the fields of photography, sculpture, painting, video, sound, performance and installation. The venue of the exhibition organized by the Boros Foundation is Berghain, including the Panorama Bar, the column and the adjacent hall.

Gaillard – MAM Screen 014: Cyprien Gaillard

Cyprien Gaillard, Ocean II Ocean, 2019 (film still)
© Cyprien Gaillard

Exhibition

Cyprien Gaillard
MAM Screen 014: Cyprien Gaillard
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Through September 26, 2021

This fourteenth MAM Screen program showcases the video works of Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980 in Paris, currently based in Berlin), who works in a range of media including film, video, photography, collage, installation and performance. 2010 winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize and winner of Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (The Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Artists) 2011, Gaillard gained wide attention for his 2011 solo show The Recovery of Discovery at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and has continued to carve out an international niche for his practice that in Japan, has included the Aichi Triennale 2010, and French Window exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in 2011. MAM Screen 014 focuses on Gaillard’s videos, presenting a carefully curated selection of six works

Gaillard – CYPRIEN GAILLARD. WOLKENGARTEN

WOLKENGARTEN, installation view, 2021
Courtesy of the artist, Fondation Louis Vuitton. Photo: Christian Kain/Louis Vuitton

Collection Presentation

Cyprien Gaillard
WOLKENGARTEN
Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich
Through August 15, 2021

Espace Louis Vuitton Munich presents French artist Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition WOLKENGARTEN. Throughout the years, the Collection has brought together a number of works from the artist, including sculptures, videos, engravings, and photographs.
Prolonging the unveiling of his works in the Collection first initiated in Paris in 2015, WOLKENGARTEN presents two video installations, Real Remnants of Fictive Wars V (2004) and Desniansky Raion (2007), in an exclusive display reinvented by the artist himself. These works, which belong to the Collection, are presented within the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s ongoing "Hors-les-murs" program.

Andreas Gursky, Ratingen Schwimmbad, 1987
© Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021

Andreas Gursky
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
Through August 22, 2021

Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig in 1955, the same year his family fled to West Germany and later settled in Düsseldorf. The connection to Leipzig was never severed but it is only this autumn that the internationally celebrated artist will finally be honored with a retrospective of his work in his native city at the Museum der bildenden Künste.

Holzer – Survival: Men Don’t Protect You Anymore

Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie/David von Becker

Exhibition

Jenny Holzer
Survival: Men Don’t Protect You Anymore
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Through March 5, 2022

International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020, marked the close of the special exhibition Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919 at the Alte Nationalgalerie. The theme of the visibility of women artists remains evident in the public space through the outdoor presentation of Jenny Holzer’s work Men Don’t Protect You Anymore in the Kolonnadenhof (Colonnade Courtyard) in front of the museum.

Exhibition

Anne Imhof
Sex
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
Through November 7, 2022

Part of the Espressioni exhibition project, the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea presents the first exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to Anne Imhof (Gießen, Germany, 1978), the artist awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2017.

David Lamelas, Señalamiento de Tres Objetos (Signalling of Three Objects), 1968
© David Lamelas

Exhibition

David Lamelas
Far, America
CGAC – Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
Through October 3, 2021

The exhibition at the CGAC is Lamelas’ first career retrospective in Spain. It will show the evolution of his work through different stages, from the early sixties in Buenos Aires to the present moment, and will focus on two important issues: his relationship with Galicia (his parents emigrated from Manzaneda and Ponte Caldelas during the Civil War) and the importance of drawing in his artistic practice throughout his whole career.

Walker – A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be

Kara Walker, Barack Obama as Othello "The Moor" With the Severed
Head of Iago in a New and Revised Ending by Kara E. Walker, 2019
© Kara Walker

Exhibition

Kara Walker
A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Kunstmuseum Basel
Through September 26, 2021

Throwing open the doors to her personal archive that she has closely guarded for the past twenty-seven years, Kara Walker (b. 1969) presents hundreds of drawings from her studio. The Kupferstichkabinett Basel displays these treasures together with brand-new works by the world-famous American artist in her first extensive solo exhibition in Switzerland. The show will travel to two more locations in Europe after Basel.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
October 14, 2021–January 16, 2022

DePont Museum, The Netherlands
February 19, 2022–July 24, 2022

Cao Fei, Nova, 2019 (film still)
© Cao Fei, Courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

Exhibition

Cao Fei
Supernova
MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
December 16, 2021–April 24, 2022

Between dreams and reality, the real and the virtual, Cao Fei's videos examine the dilemmas of contemporary life, exploring the transformations in China, the perception of self and facing universal questions. Among the most prominent figures in the international art scene, Cao Fei (born in Guangzhou and based in Beijing) has participated in more than one hundred biennials and exhibitions and her works are exhibited in the most prestigious international art institutions.

Condo – George Condo: The Picture Gallery

George Condo, The Cloudmaker, 1984
© George Condo/ARS (Artists Rights Society), New York, 2021

Exhibition

George Condo
The Picture Gallery
Long Museum, Shanghai
September 25–November 28, 2021

George Condo’s largest ever solo exhibition in Asia, The Picture Gallery, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, opens in September 2021 at the Long Museum (West Bund). Presenting more than 90 works from throughout his career, including a number of large scale paintings not seen before, the exhibition will show the breadth in his practice since his rise to prominence in the late 1970s New York art scene.

Demand – Thomas Demand. Mirror Without Memory

Thomas Demand, Nursery, 2020
© Thomas Demand/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021

Exhibition

Thomas Demand
Mirror Without Memory
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
September 10, 2021–January 30, 2022

The first Russian exhibition by the artist Thomas Demand, with contributions from filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge and architects SANAA.

Exhibition

Thea Djordjadze
all building as making
Gropius Bau, Berlin
September 18, 2021–January 16, 2022

Influenced in equal measure by historical artefacts and concepts of modern art and architecture, Thea Djordjadze’s sculptural works are characterised by formal ruptures and an idiosyncratic material aesthetic. By combining materials such as plaster, metal, rubber, textiles, wood or papier-mâché, Djordjadze creates fragmentary spatial settings in which she reformulates the classic display – vitrine, plinth, framing and pedestal – as a recurrent theme in her work.

Exhibition

Andreas Gursky
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
September 9, 2021–January 30, 2022

The Ruhr region often served Andreas Gursky as the setting for his early works during his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy with Bernd and Hilla Becher. The titles of these works bear witness to his forays into the surrounding area: Ruhrtal, Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr, Angler, Krefeld, Hühner, Duisburg, Brücke, Ratingen, Schwimmbad, to name but a few examples. A selection of these early small-format works from the Ruhr region now welcome visitors to Duisburg and introduce them to the world of Andreas Gursky, which unfolds fully in the following rooms through his well-known large-format works.

Robert Irwin, Light and Space, 2007. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
© Robert Irwin/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021. Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Exhibition

Robert Irwin
Light and Space
Kraftwerk Berlin
November 25, 2021–January 2, 2022

LAS’ newly commissioned and site-specific exhibition Light and Space by renowned American artist Robert Irwin is his largest installation in Europe to date. For over five decades, Irwin’s oeuvre has been driven by his continuous inquiry into human perception and use of space.

Exhibition

Barbara Kruger
BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF ~~YOU~~, I MEAN ME, I MEAN YOU
The Art Institute of Chicago
September 19, 2021–January 24, 2022

The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York are pleased to announce a major solo exhibition devoted to the work of Barbara Kruger.

Opening at the Art Institute of Chicago, THINKING OF ~~YOU~~, I MEAN ME, I MEAN YOU will present four decades of the artist’s work—the largest and most comprehensive presentation of her work in twenty years.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: March 20–July 17, 2022
Museum of Modern Art, New York: July 18, 2022–January 2, 2023

Exhibition

Jon Rafman
An Involuntary Trace: Jon Rafman
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
October 14, 2021–January 9, 2022

An Involuntary Trace is a story curated by This is Jackalope and told in five episodes: three solo shows featuring the artists Agnieszka Polska, Jonathan Baldock and Jon Rafman, an exhibition dialogue between David Horvitz & Javier Cruz and a performative dialogue between Hanne Lippard & Claudia Pagès.
A trace is a vestige, sign or indication of a something that has already happened. We leave traces all the time, whether or not we realise it. One could say that “we are” to the extent that we leave a trace; the footprints we make are the measure of our current (or past) existence.