Copistes
Group Exhibition
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Through February 2, 2026

In a remarkable collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will present a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the art of copyists. Copying has long been a cornerstone of the classical tradition – an essential practice of learning from the masters, mastering their techniques, canons, and narratives. Through this process, one absorbs their expertise and transforms it into a personal journey of knowledge and creation, from the most academic to the most contemporary forms of expression.

For this unique exhibition, a selection of artists have been invited by the two curators, Chiara Parisi and Donatien Grau, to recreate a piece of their choice from the esteemed collections of the Musée du Louvre.

Henni Alftan
Immobile
Artothèque de Caen
November 15, 2025–February 14, 2026

Born in 1979 in Helsinki and based in Paris, Henni Alftan explores the medium of painting with both rigor and poetry. Her canvases, marked by a refined aesthetic, capture fragments of everyday life—cropped or fragmented—in order to reveal their strangeness. By playing with color, texture, scale, and perspective, she creates images that are at once familiar and elusive. Behind their apparent simplicity lies a complex construction: each framing is deliberate, each color carefully weighed, each texture intentionally flattened or made ambiguous. In her works, Henni Alftan does not seek to tell a story, but rather to evoke a tension—the tension of a gaze held still, of a suspended image: motionless…

Colour Form and Composition: Milton Avery and his enduring influence on contemporary painting
Group Exhibition
MICAS – Malta International Contemporary Art Space
Through April 4, 2026

MICAS presents a landmark exhibition exploring the enduring influence of American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965) on contemporary art. This exhibition features over 20 paintings and a number of watercolors spanning Avery’s entire career. Illustrating the argument that Milton Avery’s work continues to exert and influence of artists working today, the exhibition also includes works by seven acclaimed contemporary painters—March Avery, Harold Ancart, Andrew Cranston, Henni Alftan, Gary Hume, Nicolas Party, and Jonas Wood—each responding to Avery’s legacy in unique ways. Their contributions, from literal interpretations to more intuitive echoes of Avery’s style and sensibility, reflect the continuing relevance of his work.

Henni Alftan
By the Skin of My Teeth
September 12–October 25, 2025
Berlin

Henni Alftan’s artistic practice is grounded in a profound exploration of the medium of painting, examining its methods and histories. Her intimately familiar yet intriguingly enigmatic portrayals of everyday life arise from a process of observation and deduction, resulting in precise and carefully cropped figurative works that embody a studied economy of means. By skillfully employing scale, perspective and texture, Alftan reveals the strangeness of the ordinary. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a solo show during Berlin Art Week, featuring all-new paintings and the artist’s first-ever presentation of drawings.

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.

Henni Alftan
Contour
June 10–July 30, 2022
London

The exhibition by Henni Alftan is the artist's first solo show at the London gallery, presenting new paintings that give a comprehensive insight into her artistic oeuvre. Her figurative subjects negotiate the relationship between medium and image, featuring a subtle palette and flat rendering style to transform their everyday subject matter from object to motif. Alftan’s compositions use the tight framing of close range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making while offering a fragmented vision of reality.

Henni Alftan
Night-time
September 17–October 30, 2021
Berlin

Henni Alftan's solo exhibition Night-time is part of this year’s Gallery Weekend “Discoveries”. The Sprüth Magers Window presentation features ten new works by the Paris-based artist. Alftan’s figurative paintings negotiate the relationship between medium and image, employing a subtle palette and flat rendering style to transform their everyday subject matter from object to motif. Her pared-down compositions connote a stillness that oscillates between monotony and anticipation.

GO FIGURE!?
Henni Alftan, John Baldessari, Cao Fei, George Condo, Diane Dal-Pra, Thomas Demand, Alex Foxton, Lenz Geerk, Elizabeth Glaessner, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Oscar yi Hou, Gary Hume, Clementine Keith-Roach, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jo Messer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Scheibitz, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Andro Wekua
May 19–May 26, 2021

GO FIGURE!? is an online exhibition in collaboration with Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung. It presents works by artists from Sprüth Magers roster alongside a selection of emerging artists from around the globe and across various media, aiming to welcome a playful dialogue between the exhibiting artists and works.