Louise Lawler
Collection Presentation
Kunstmuseum Basel
Through December 31, 2026

Louise Lawler presents the two works (Bunny) Sculpture and Painting (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times) and Three Flags (swiped and taken) (adjusted to fit) (mirrored or flipped) Cease Fire at Kunstmuseum Basel, which enter into a dialog with the works Damascus Gate. Variation I (1969–70) by Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #304 (1977) on site. Both works are part of the “adjusted to fit” series, in which Lawler digitally adapts her photographs to fit the exhibition space.

Seriously.
Curated by Nana Bahlmann
November 21, 2025–January 31, 2026
London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Seriously., a group exhibition curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs, print media, and select films ranging from the 1960s to the present, which expose the absurdities of our world and its representations. Through visual wit, subversiveness, and even outright slapstick, these photographic experiments offer humorous conceptual investigations of how images are constructed and interpreted. Employing a range of strategies, from masquerade and role-play to the construction of inexplicable scenarios, unexpected juxtapositions, and idiosyncratic sculptural compositions, these works reveal the farcical and fantastical within the visual realm. In reframing our visual world through satire and playful mimicry, they create space for both reflection and amusement.

Seriously. features the work of, among others, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijević, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Tom Friedman, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Scott Grieger, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Hammer, Rebecca Horn, Douglas Huebler, Astrid Klein, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Tom Marioni, Anthony McCall, Jonathan Monk, Peter Moore, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ray, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Santiago Sierra and Franz Erhard Walther, Roman Signer, Laurie Simmons, Robert Therrien, Rosemarie Trockel, Keiji Uematsu, Ger van Elk, John Waters, William Wegman, and Hannah Wilke.

GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Louise Lawler
November 10, 2023–February 10, 2024
Los Angeles

Louise Lawler examines the conditions, procedures, presentations and boundaries of art. Her photographs and other interventions analyze the contextual production of meaning as well as the very infinitude of context. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS, an exhibition of mostly new works by the artist at the Los Angeles gallery. Presenting pieces from her swiped, adjusted-to-fit, and traced series, Lawler investigates art history as well as her own work and questions both institutional and artistic authority.

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.

Sprüth Magers x Artadia

A Benefit Exhibition to Support the Next Generation of Artists
Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Analia Saban, Rosemarie Trockel
April 4–April 22, 2023
New York

Bringing together a group of outstanding female artists in an innovative and collaborative effort to support the next generation, Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a benefit exhibition to raise funds for the non-profit organization Artadia. Through grantmaking, community-building and advocacy, Artadia strengthens the invaluable role visual artists play in our society.

The exhibition comprises influential contemporary voices across multiple generations, reflecting both the discourse on art, gender and power that is firmly embedded in Sprüth Magers’ history and its enduring support of pioneering female figures. Featured will be works by artists who are all part of the gallery’s dynamic roster, including Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Analia Saban and Rosemarie Trockel. All funds raised will go towards the impactful Artadia Awards program.

NOT ENOUGH TO SEE
Louise Lawler
November 2–December 23, 2022
New York

Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Louise Lawler at the gallery's space in New York. This latest series of dye sublimation prints focuses on images of Jasper Johns' iconic painting Three Flags (1958), taken earlier this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lawler is a steadfast investigator of the making of pictures. Using long exposures, swift camera movements and cropping, Lawler creates abstract images of this well-known motif. Here, these analog techniques both manipulate the image and comment on both perception and the fast-paced flood of images that marks everyday life in the digital era.

Coinciding with this exhibition, Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a solo presentation by Louise Lawler at ADAA in New York in November 2022.

LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK
Louise Lawler
September 17–October 30, 2021
Berlin

LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK features a new series of works by Louise Lawler in which she has photographed the Judd exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. These photographs – taken over two evenings with the lights off, after hours, in the dark – offer an alternate view of an artwork’s existence and the abstract potential of an image itself.

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.

Eau de Cologne
Marlene Dumas, Jenny Holzer, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker
March 27–April 12, 2019
Hong Kong

Eau de Cologne
Rosemarie Trockel, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jenny Holzer / Lady Pink
June 28–August 20, 2016
Los Angeles

The group show Eau de Cologne at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles features work from the late 1970s to 2016 by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. The exhibition at Sprüth Magers’ recently-opened Los Angeles gallery is a follow–up to its predecessor in Berlin last year. It sheds light on key topics in these artists’ works, but also the specific history of the gallery and its connection to these important female figures of an art that subtly addresses women’s roles in very different ways.

Eau de Cologne
Rosemarie Trockel, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler
September 17–October 21, 2015
Berlin

This group exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin shows works from the early 1980s to 2015 by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. These five artists have been working with Monika Sprüth since the foundation of her gallery in Cologne in the early 1980s and have been closely connected to the gallery ever since.

No Drones
Louise Lawler
November 15, 2014–January 17, 2015
Berlin

Over the last 30 years, Louise Lawler has been making photographs that depict views of objects and artworks in their everyday working environments, shifting the emphasis from the subject itself to vantage points, framing devices and the modes of distribution that affect the reception of an artwork. For No Drones, Lawler will exhibit a group of ‘tracings’, a series that she developed for her exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in 2013.

No Drones
Louise Lawler
July 2–August 23, 2014
London

Over the last 30 years, Louise Lawler has been making photographs that depict views of objects and artworks in their everyday working environments, shifting the emphasis from the subject itself to vantage points, framing devices and the modes of distribution that affect the reception of an artwork. For No Drones, Lawler will exhibit a group of ‘tracings’, a series that she developed for her exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, in 2013.

No Drones
Louise Lawler
November 23–December 23, 2011
London

No Drones presents new work by American artist Louise Lawler in her first UK solo show in four years. For the artist’s third exhibition at the London gallery, Lawler reveals a series of photographs presented as mounted prints and vinyl murals that have been stretched and adjusted to fit the gallery walls.

Taking Place
Louise Lawler
September 22–November 7, 2009
Berlin

Taking Place is Louise Lawler's first solo exhibition in Sprüth Magers' new gallery space in Berlin after having shown her work many times since 1987. The photographs shown in the exhibition were taken in auction houses and homes, most notably Yves Saint Laurent‘s apartment in Paris.

Where is the nearest camera?
Louise Lawler
November 28, 2007–January 19, 2008
London

Renowned since the 1980s for her photographs taken in private collections, museums and auction houses, Louise Lawler continues to question the ideas of authorship and the notion of identity that we invest in works of art. Throughout her career Lawler has often focused on the environments where artworks exist after leaving the artist’s studio. As the place of creation, the artist’s studio was rarely of interest to Lawler. It was rather the life of the work afterwards that raised important questions for her: in which surroundings is art presented to us and how does our perception of it depend on these? What are the mechanisms of the institutions and the art market, which determine the various locations where we can find art?

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.

'Hand On Her Back' and Other Pictures
Louise Lawler
April 24–June 19, 1999
Cologne

Ausblick
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Louise Lawler, Vincenzo Castella
July 4–August 30, 1997
Cologne

Farbe – Wände – Bilder
Louise Lawler
April 25–June 28, 1997
Cologne

External Stimulation
Louise Lawler
September 9–October 29, 1994
Cologne

Eau de Cologne 83-93
Ellen Cantor, Nicole Eisenman, Katharina Fritsch, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Asta Gröting, Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer / Lady Pink, G B Jones, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Annette Lemieux, Zoe Leonard, Anne Loch, Sarah Lucas, Monica Majoli, Annette Messager, Cady Noland, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel
June 5–September 18, 1993
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

scripta manent – verba volant
Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Rosemarie Trockel
February 24–April 22, 1989
Cologne

Eau de Cologne
Gretchen Bender, Nancy Dwyer, Katharina Fritsch, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, Rosemarie Trockel
November 13–November 29, 1987
Cologne