Hanne Darboven
Hanne Darboven & Julia Gaisbacher. Am Burgberg
Kunstraum München
October 26–December 3, 2023

The exhibition juxtaposes work by the two artists as well as features two new pieces by Gaisbacher that make reference to Am Burgberg, Darboven’s lifelong residence and place of work in Hamburg-Harburg.

In the 1960s, Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) founded Conceptual Art with her artist friends. Her key contribution to the emergence of Conteptual Art is that she succeeded in developing her own independent methods for the representation of periods of time—days, months, years, or even a century. In addition to this central aspect of time, the exhibition focuses in particular on the specific location of this artistic practice.

Julia Gaisbacher (*1983) has created two new pieces for the exhibition which are the result of on-site research in Hamburg-Harburg since the summer of 2022. She has approached Hanne Darboven’s home with photographic and cinematic methods, conducted interviews with various companions for this artistic research, and reconstructed the camera shots of Der Mond ist aufgegangen in the streets of Harburg.

Curated by Luise Horn and Dietmar Rübel

Hanne Darboven
Hanne Darboven – Writing Time
Menil Drawing Institute, Houston
October 27, 2023–February 11, 2024

Hanne Darboven—Writing Time explores the intertwining of writing and drawing that formed the core of the artist’s practice for over forty years. Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), a German conceptual artist, is best known for her immersive installations of individually framed sheets filled with text formulations and collaged images. At the heart of her practice is the question of how to picture the unfolding of history, the passing of time, and one’s experience within both.

The exhibition at the Menil explores three defining motifs of the artist’s work on paper—abstract drawings, date calculations, and monumental installations. The display culminates with Inventions that Have Changed Our World, 1996, an enormous set of over 1300 individually framed sheets that incorporates all the hallmarks of her practice and how they reverberated and evolved over the decades of her life.

Hanne Darboven—Writing Time is curated by Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute. The show will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that features essays by Kelly Montana and Dieter Schwarz, independent curator and former Director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

20/20 Vision – The Collection Remixed
Collection Presentation
Kunsthalle Bremen, Der Kunstverein in Bremen

With the title “20/20 Vision: The Collection Remixed", the Kunsthalle Bremen presents a radical new look at its collection for the first time in nearly ten years. Using bold colors on the walls, an elaborate staging and an entirely new arrangement of the works on display, the exhibition allows surprising new aesthetic experiences. Descriptions of all works on display provide in-depth information, some of which are findings from the very latest research. Several works have not been seen in public in decades. The installation will also present for the first time a number of recent acquisitions, donations, and permanent loans. Works of art created after 1945 will also be given a greater presence.

Hanne Darboven
Six Books on 1968
March 19–July 16, 2022
Los Angeles

Hanne Darboven’s first film work, Six Books on 1968, was presented for the first time in 1969 on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany. The work comprises six 16mm films based on the six books in which Darboven recorded her date calculations of the year 1968 for her major work Six Books on 1968. Sprüth Magers is pleased to show the original version of this iconic piece at the Los Angeles gallery with a room-sized installation of six 16mm projectors, creating a cinematic and time-based orchestration of the year 1968.

Nancy Holt / Hanne Darboven
Time goes on and remains
Hanne Darboven, Nancy Holt
March 24–May 5, 2021

Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce the representation of Nancy Holt, in cooperation with Holt/Smithson Foundation. Celebrating this collaboration, the gallery presents an online exhibition between Nancy Holt and Hanne Darboven. A previously unseen work with a heartfelt inscription—sent to Holt from Darboven in 1973—links the two groundbreaking artists together and lays the foundation of this focused presentation, spanning large-scale installations, photographic series and works on paper. The works demonstrate Holt and Darboven’s shared interest in revealing the particular qualities of time experienced, time measured and time passing.

Hanne Darboven, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Zeichen der Zeit / Zeit der Zeichen
Sign of the Times / Times of the Sign
July 9–September 19, 2020
London

While Hanne Darboven and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt lived on different sides of the wall in a divided Germany and were quite unaware of the other’s practice, their juxtaposition in this show makes for a surprising dialogue – not only within their respective works, but also in their exchanges within an international network of artists. The exhibition brings together works and material from the 1970’s and early 80’s.

Hanne Darboven
Erdkunde und (Süd-) Koreanischer Kalender / Geography and (South) Korean Calendar
September 12, 2019–February 26, 2020
Berlin

The exhibition Erdkunde I, II, III / Geography I, II, III (1986) and (Süd-) Koreanischer Kalender / (South) Korean Calendar (1991) marks the beginning of the gallery’s worldwide exclusive representation of the Darboven Estate. The Hamburg-born Conceptual artist is known for her serial writing pieces and date-based cross sum calculations hung as wall-spanning blocks of identically framed paper works.

Hanne Darboven
September 9–October 29, 2016
Los Angeles

Hanne Darboven is recognised for her ambitious and idiosyncratic body of work that operates at the limits of representation. Sprüth Magers presents the first solo show of her work on the West Coast since 2010 – exhibiting three of her monumental installations that knit together mathematical procedure, historical and cultural artefact, and autobiographical documentation in an attempt to record subjective and objective perceptions of time via a conceptually coherent visual system.