Andreas Schulze
Special
Institute of Contemporary Art – ICA, Miami
Through March 15, 2026

Featuring paintings and sculptures from 1982 to the present, Special is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States for the German painter Andreas Schulze. Though never formally part of any movement or group, Schulze first emerged in 1980s Cologne during the rise of neo-expressionism, forming a singular practice to depict everyday life while challenging the conventions of abstraction and figurative representation. The exhibition surveys the range of Schulze’s distinctive visual language, which features tableaux rich with absurdist humor. Schulze’s imaginative studies of the objects around him are enlivened as their surfaces and volumes take on exaggerated gradients, evoking studio lighting and memory, as well as the dream worlds of surrealism and the gleaming surfaces of pop art.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze
About Painting
May 30–August 2, 2025
Los Angeles

The paintings of Andreas Schulze (*1955) and Salvo (1947–2015) depict intriguing worlds unlike any other. Across vibrant landscapes and eccentric interiors, their unique conceptual approaches to painting evolved over decades of experimentation with color, light and form. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are proud to present an exhibition of new works by Schulze alongside paintings by Salvo, bringing into focus their parallel contributions to the discourse of contemporary painting and their deft manipulation of paint to depict shifting spatial and light effects. The exhibition’s presentation at the Los Angeles gallery brings into focus this particular concern with light and space—a feature so prevalent in the history of modern art in Southern California, from its impressionist, plein-air roots to the reflective plastics and resins of the 1960s onward.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze
About Painting
November 12–December 20, 2024
London

The paintings of Andreas Schulze (*1955) and Salvo (1947–2015) depict intriguing worlds unlike any other. Across vibrant landscapes and eccentric interiors, their unique conceptual approaches to painting evolved over decades of experimentation with color, light and form. Working in Turin, Salvo made a radical departure from Arte Povera circles, first to text-based conceptual art and then in 1974 to painting that looked to art historical traditions from Giotto to Surrealism. In Cologne in the 1980s, Schulze developed a practice that balances representation and abstraction and draws also from the past, while infusing his surreal scenes with humor and irony. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are proud to present an exhibition of new works by Schulze alongside paintings by Salvo, bringing into focus their parallel trajectories and contributions to the discourse of contemporary painting. Originally conceived by the late Pasquale Leccese, who knew both artists intimately, this exhibition is dedicated to his memory.

Andreas Schulze
Inside Out
Gallery Weekend
May 24–June 2, 2024
Beijing

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Inside Out, Andreas Schulze’s first solo exhibition in Asia, on the occasion of Beijing Gallery Weekend. A key figure in contemporary painting since the 1980s, Schulze has developed a visual language all his own between abstraction and figuration, in which domestic spaces and scenic landscapes take on attitudes and proportions that are humorous, unnerving, and always unique.

Mondi Possibili
Henni Alftan, John Baldessari, Cao Fei, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Robert Elfgen, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, David Ostrowski, Michail Pirgelis, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze, Hyun-Sook Song, Robert Therrien, Rosemarie Trockel, Kaari Upson, Andrea Zittel
August 31–September 14, 2023
Seoul

Mondi Possibili highlights the interplay between art and design and explores the many ways in which experimentation with material, technique and scale can reveal the hidden narratives, quiet drama and humor in the everyday items that furnish our lives as well as our imaginations. Connected through a paradigm of the possible, all artworks on show examine familiar objects – citing, celebrating, adapting or appropriating them – offering surprising, playful or unsettling approaches that open up a range of “possible worlds.” This will be the fourth edition of Sprüth Magers’ Mondi Possibili – first titled by Pasquale Leccese – showcasing significant themes in the selected artists’ works as well as the gallery’s longstanding heritage. Its three previous iterations were presented in 1989, 2006 and 2007 in Cologne, where the gallery’s history is firmly rooted, and art and design have intersected for many decades.

Andreas Schulze
Land’s End
April 14–May 20, 2023
London

Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Land’s End, Andreas Schulze's fourth solo exhibition at the London gallery. The show features works on paper: rarely shown black-and-white charcoal drawings from the 1980s are presented alongside new colored acrylic works. Together, both bodies of works highlight Schulze’s playful and experimental way of creating illusionistic, ambiguous pictorial spaces. Embedded in the UK context, the exhibition title refers to the legendary headland of Land's End in Cornwall, a transition point where one state of the landscape passes into another. Just like the cliffs of Cornwall, Schulze’s exhibited works embody a transitory moment that represents a threshold – from black-and-white drawings to color paintings.

Concurrent with the exhibition at the gallery, Andreas Schulze’s work is on view in a solo show at The Perimeter. Traveling from Kunsthalle Nürnberg to London, On Stage transforms The Perimeter into a fantastical set for Schulze's distinctive painterly worlds.

Andreas Schulze
Relax
April 21–September 30, 2022
Venice

Relax exhibits for the first time a series of new glass sculptures by Andreas Schulze. Created by the artist on the famous glass-making island of Murano, these new works function as bookends and extend Schulze’s unique and highly recognizable visual language. Surrounding the sculptures are paintings from Schulze's well-known Vacanze series, whose motifs echo the theme of the exhibition in colorful, abstract images.  
 
This exhibition is a collaboration between Sprüth Magers & DH Office and takes place at San Marco 3209, Salizzada Malipiero in Venice. 

Andreas Schulze
October 22–November 20, 2020

Andreas Schulze and Sprüth Magers have a shared history. In February 1983 Monika Sprüth opened her Cologne gallery with an Andreas Schulze exhibition, and since that fateful day he has had fifteen solo exhibitions with the gallery, in Berlin, London and Los Angeles. He has also exhibited widely in museums, including a solo exhibition at Villa Merkel, Esslingen (2014), which travelled to the Kunstmuseum Bonn and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2015). Most recently, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2018). Kunsthalle Nuremberg will host a comprehensive solo exhibition in February 2022.

Andreas Schulze
Traffic Jam
November 15–December 23, 2016
Los Angeles

The visible also always conveys the invisible. All the more so in the cheerful world of consumerism, in which we live today. The more perfect its surfaces, the more its opposites also seem to resonate – the suppressed and the absurd. No painter has understood this better than Andreas Schulze. The Cologne based artist, who has been associated with the gallery since 1983 and a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf since 2008, examines the most mundane objects from his personal surroundings.

Andreas Schulze
Stau
July 28–August 29, 2015
Berlin

The visible also always conveys the invisible. All the more so in the cheerful world of consumerism, in which we live today. The more perfect its surfaces, the more its opposites also seem to resonate – the suppressed and the absurd. No painter has understood this better than Andreas Schulze. The Cologne based artist, who has been associated with the gallery since 1983 and a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf since 2008, examines the most mundane objects from his personal surroundings.

Andreas Schulze
Looking and Listening
June 28–August 17, 2013
London

In his second solo show at the London gallery, the artist will present two ceramic sculptures alongside a selection of paintings, depicting landscapes inspired by the artist’s recent expedition to the island of Sicily. Schulze has been recognised as an inventor of new pictorial worlds, having developed an autonomous and unmistakable visual language with which to explore various interior views of society. A fundamental theme in the artist’s work is the power of painting to create illusion, giving multifaceted treatment to the theme of the interplay between being and appearance, reality and staging in the medium of painting.

Andreas Schulze
March 2–April 13, 2013
Berlin

In his third solo show at the Berlin gallery, the artist will present two ceramic sculptures alongside a selection of paintings, depicting landscapes inspired by the artist’s recent expedition to the island of Sicily. Schulze has since been recognised as an inventor of new pictorial worlds, having developed an autonomous and unmistakable visual language with which to explore various interior views of society. A fundamental theme in the artist’s work is the power of painting to create illusion, giving multifaceted treatment to the theme of the interplay between being and appearance, reality and staging in the medium of painting.

Malerei der 80er Jahre
Andreas Schulze, Richard Artschwager, Ashley Bickerton, Albert Oehlen, Malcolm Morley
curated by Albert Oehlen
November 9, 2012–January 12, 2013
Berlin

Andreas Schulze
January 15–March 23, 2011
Berlin

Ever since the 1980s, Andreas Schulze has focused on various interior views of our society. Most often, his works depict everyday landscapes and bourgeois idylls which he constructs as subtle, parallel worlds to reality. His early paintings consist of intensely colored compositions in which the dimensions of sculptural globes and other geometrical forms are shifted and inner pictorial perspectives constantly change. In the exhbition, Schulze is presenting his works in a specific setting within the exhibition space, which thereby becomes a component of the suggestive pictorial spaces. The arrangement interweaves real and fictional space, and develops a productive interplay between painting and installation.

Andreas Schulze
July 2–August 21, 2010
Berlin

At the center of the installation is the model of a miniature city from Schulze's collection of model trains. The walls of the exhibition room are covered with wallpaper and surround the model like a landscape; posters advertise the tourist attractions of Saxony and Dresden. With this model, however, it is a matter not of a true-to-reality representation, but of a fictional cityscape which is drawn from personal and narrated memories, information conveyed by the media, and associational set-pieces. Similarly as in other works, Andreas Schulze is concerned here with an approach to reality, with the possibilities of its representation and the emphasizing of the artificiality of this depiction.

Andreas Schulze
Flowers & Landscapes
June 3–August 28, 2009
London

Presenting five ceramic sculptures and two major new paintings, the exhibition showcases the appealing complexity and subversive luminosity of Schulze’s craft, a practice which has earned him widespread respect and extensive influence amongst both his contemporaries and younger artists for over three decades. Dominating the exhibition are two large-scale paintings which typify Schulze’s vibrant and powerful visual style. While stylistically Schulze’s paintings have often echoed and indeed drawn on a Modernist painting tradition which stretches back to artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, conceptually and attitudinally his work is suffused with the postmodern sensibility of his contemporaries. Juxtaposed against the Unheimliche atmosphere of Schulze’s paintings are his more playful and ebullient, yet nonetheless ironic evocations of the Gemütlich in the ceramic sculptures.

Mondi Possibili
Richard Artschwager, Benjamin Bergmann, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Thomas Grünfeld, Stefan Kern, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Franz West, Martin Wöhrl
January 15–March 17, 2007
Cologne

Accrochage: Zeichnungen
George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Marie Luise Lebschik, Michail Pirgelis
September 12–October 14, 2006
Cologne

Mondi Possibili
Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Thomas Grünfeld, Jenny Holzer, Stefan Kern, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Michail Pirgelis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West
January 17–April 7, 2006
Cologne

As part of the PASSAGEN, the supporting programme of the International Furniture Fair in Cologne, at the beginning of the year Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present a new edition of the exhibition “Mondi Possibili”. The works on display deal with the subject of furniture from a variety of angles: as citation, as homage, as adaptation, or as copy. Others are usable objects that hardly differ from their reference objects in the domain of design or furniture.

Andreas Schulze
October 29–December 23, 2004
Cologne

Malerei 7
Peter Fischli David Weiss, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Walter Dahn, Siegfried Anzinger, Thomas Scheibitz
October 30, 2003–January 31, 2004
Cologne

Spy
Thomas Grünfeld, Gary Hume, Andreas Schulze
October 2–December 8, 2001
Cologne

Babylon
George Condo, Marcel Dzama, Christoph Lohmann, Andreas Schulze, Karen Yasinsky
curated by Tanja Pol
September 22–October 28, 2000
Munich

Malerei VI
George Condo, Lucy McKenzie, Andreas Schulze, Monika Baer, Dirk Bell, Gillian Carnegie, Thomas Eggerer, Michael Krebber, Picco Gabriele
September 8–October 21, 2000
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
Stau
April 24–July 11, 1998
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
November 8, 1996–January 11, 1997
Cologne

Malerei II. Das Licht von der anderen Seite
Mary Hellmann, Jonathan Lasker, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Philip Taaffe, Joseph Wilkins
March 1–April 20, 1996
Cologne

Jahreswechsel 1995/96
Siegfried Anzinger, Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Peter Bömmels, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jenny Holzer, Karen Kilimnik, Max Mohr, Wilhelm Mundt, Raymond Pettibon, Philip Pocock, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
December 17–December 22, 1995
Cologne

Tutto Tondo
Curtis Anderson, Guglielmo Aschieri, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Ilaria Bona, Angela Bulloch, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jürgen Drescher, Peter Fend, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Anne Loch, Piero Manzoni, Annette Messager, A. R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
February 4–March 13, 1993
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
November 13, 1992–January 30, 1993
Cologne

Lying on the top of a Building the Clouds seemed no nearer than they had when I was lying on the Street
Angela Bulloch, Walter Dahn, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Tom Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Lothar Hempel, Axel Kasseböhmer, Hirsch Perlman, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
May 23–July 8, 1992
Cologne

Von den Ursprüngen bis zur Gegenwart
George Condo, Jean Fautrier, Alexander Graf von Schlieffen, Andreas Schulze, Charles Topino, Rosemarie Trockel
October 6–October 28, 1989
Cologne

Mondi Possibili
John Armleder, Barbara Bloom, Tony Cragg, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Louise Lawler, Allan Mccollum, Reinhard Mucha, Andreas Schulze, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Mayer Vaisman, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Bill Woodrow
September 8–September 30, 1989
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
Andreas Schulze / Pino Pascali
Wandmalerei – Zeichnungen 1988
November 11, 1988–March 4, 1989
Cologne

Das Licht von der anderen Seite – Teil I Malerei
Donald Baechler, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Rene Daniels, Marc Innerst, Axel Kasseböhmer, Milan Kunc, Albert Oehlen, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool
June 7–August 31, 1988
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
September 2–October 6, 1986
Cologne

Nouveau Boheme
Laure Chenard, George Condo, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Gerard Kever, Milan Kunc, Kenny Scharf, Andreas Schulze, Dieter Teusch
November 15–December 31, 1984
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
Bilder-Zeichnungen 1983-84
March 16–April 28, 1984
Cologne

Andreas Schulze
February 5–March 8, 1983
Cologne