Incarnate
Group Exhibition
Langen Foundation, Neuss
Through March 15, 2026

Curated by Nadim Samman, Incarnate brings together two of North Rhine-Westphalia’s most renowned private art institutions, placing modern and contemporary works from the Julia Stoschek Collection into dialogue with classic Japanese and Asian art from the Viktor and Marianne Langen collection. Spanning more than one thousand years, from the seventh century until present, the exhibition stages tensions between spirit and flesh, ghost and machine, image and reality. The exhibition runs throughout the entire space of the Tadao Ando-designed Langen Foundation in Neuss, showcasing works that probe boundaries between surface and depth, body and screen, data and metaphysics. Traversing time and geography, Incarnate offers viewers a catalyst for meditation on the ‘truth’ of illusion.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem
Works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation
Variety Arts Theater, Los Angeles
Through March 20, 2026

Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the US, What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, edited by Udo Kittelmann, experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling. Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines, dissolving the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

Cyprien Gaillard
Wassermusik
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Through March 22, 2026

Munich plays a central role in Cyprien Gaillard’s latest film Retinal Rivalry, a groundbreaking work exploring folded time and unreachable urban surfaces. Expanding on his stereoscopic motion pictures, Gaillard delves deeper into sculptural and psychedelic spaces, challenging our perception of images and their conventions. The Haus der Kunst draws on Gaillard’s search for artifacts and architecture that have lost their original purpose, using them to reflect on public monuments and their meanings. From there, the museum questions how its own building stands as a monument to its complex history, and how new works by living artists might inspire renewal. The exhibition titled Wassermusik presents this film installation, born from intense photographic research, alongside a new series of site-specific artworks, inviting viewers to reconsider history, memory, and urban spaces through a fresh artistic lens.

Horror
Curated by Jill Mulleady
November 21, 2025–February 14, 2026
Los Angeles

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Horror, an intergenerational group exhibition curated by Jill Mulleady. In conceiving the exhibition, Mulleady was inspired by the long history of horror in film and literature, as well as by Mike Kelley’s 1993 group exhibition and publication, The Uncanny, a curatorial statement which explored the complex interplay of recognition, memory, and repression. Over thirty years on, Horror takes Kelley’s project as a touchstone, moving beyond the psychological discomfort of the uncanny toward the explicit shock of horror.

With works by Dario Argento, Antonin Artaud, Oliver Bak, Bruce Conner, Mati Diop & Fatima Al Qadiri, Cyprien Gaillard, Jonathan Glazer, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Asger Jorn, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Harmony Korine, Tetsumi Kudo, Mire Lee, Diego Marcon, Tyler Mitchell, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jill Mulleady, Precious Okoyomon, Sondra Perry, Carol Rama, Cindy Sherman, Pol Taburet, Henry Taylor, Paul Thek, Rosemarie Trockel, Andra Ursuta, Kara Walker and Jordan Wolfson.

Cyprien Gaillard
Retinal Rivalry
May 3–July 26, 2025
Berlin

Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024), is an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. A decade after the premiere of Nightlife in 2015, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honoured to present the German debut of Gaillard’s major new film installation during Gallery Weekend Berlin. Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural qualities of three-dimensional moving images, the work extends beyond the confines of the screen. By harnessing cutting-edge technology to its full potential, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened and deeply affecting novel view of the world around us. The solo show shares its title with the film and is completed by new wall sculptures.

Cyprien Gaillard
Reefs to Rigs
February 11–July 24, 2020
Los Angeles

Reefs to Rigs is an exhibition of new sculptures and photographs by Cyprien Gaillard, as well as his most recent film, in a presentation that connects with the Los Angeles gallery’s particular site above a future LA Metro station and across from the La Brea Tar Pits. At this intersection of urban infrastructure and prehistoric matter, Gaillard’s works emphasize the cyclical, era-spanning interactions between nature and human industry, made visible and palpable through materials encountered across the world.

Cyprien Gaillard
Where Nature Runs Riot
May 2–July 16, 2015
Berlin

At the core of Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition Where Nature Runs Riot is Nightlife (2015), a major new film shot at night over the past two years in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Berlin.

Nightlife begins with a shot of a rippling form that looks as if it were carved from the very light of the projection. As the camera pans to the right to reveal a pitted surface of greenish bronze, one of the most iconic sculptures of the twentieth century slowly fills the frame: Rodin’s The Thinker. This particular cast, one of the few overseen by Rodin himself, is in the forecourt of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cyprien Gaillard, Morris Louis
From Wings to Fins
October 15–November 16, 2013
London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to announce From Wings to Fins, an exhibition of Color Field paintings by Morris Louis and new work by Cyprien Gaillard. While discussing his earliest body of work with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gaillard remarked that his process involves going ‘deeper into the crevice of negativity or failure to rise again somehow’. Gaillard travels in search of everything from overlooked corners of the landscape to colossal ruins, sites of potent desolation that he re-imagines as haunting objects.

Rethinking Location
Rosa Barba, Cyprien Gaillard, Andreas Hofer, David Maljkovic, Trevor Paglen, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Sterling Ruby, Paul Sietsema, Taryn Simon, Armando Andrade Tudela, Andro Wekua
May 1–June 21, 2010
Berlin

Evolving from the work of twelve conceptual artists, filmmakers and photographers presenting alternate interpretations of fictional geographies, imaginary sites and "mash-up" destinations, the exhibition Rethinking Location reconsiders the notion of location. In an era characterized by a rapidly changing perception of time and space due to ever increasing mobility, migration and globalization, our understanding of what a location is has significantly transformed.

Cyprien Gaillard
November 20, 2009–January 16, 2010
Berlin