Nora Turato
they filled me up with words
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Through August 31, 2026

Language – both spoken and written – serves as a primary material in Nora Turato’s work, explored through typography, wall pieces, video, sound, performance, and artist books (notably her pool series). Working with found material from a wide range of sources – the internet, social media, press, books, films, music, and conversations – Turato collects and meticulously rearranges an abundance of verbal content, distilling it to its essence. Turato’s new work, conceived specially for the n.b.k. facade, marks a turning point in her practice – an approach that takes her own body as its starting point – using it both as a source of language and as the basis for her handwriting. Turato investigates the conditioning that shape us, focusing on how these internalized patterns are revealed physically through the hand – seeing handwriting not just a form of expression, but a direct outcome of learned behavior.

WHO’S A GOOD BOY?? – Sammlung von Kelterborn
Group Exhibition
Contemporary Forces, Venice
Through September 27, 2026

Named after Nora Turato’s work, the exhibition opens with a phrase that is both seductive and destabilizing, a command disguised as affection. Rather than confronting power through direct opposition, the exhibition approaches it through modulation, shifting its tone like a composition moving into a minor key. In doing so, it alters the emotional register of authority, introducing tension, hesitation, and instability where dominance once seemed fixed. The exhibition brings together thirteen artists from the Kelterborn Collection, including Joseph Beuys, Gary Hill, Claire Fontaine, Sung Tieu, Ulay, Renzo Martens, Laure Prouvost, Mariana Vassileva, Swen Bernitz, Teboho Edkins, Anke Röhrscheid, and Victor Alarcón. Across their works, authority appears not as spectacle but as a sedimented routine, embedded in language, repetition, atmosphere, and invisible infrastructures of control.

Nora Turato
pool8
Bechtler Stiftung, Uster
Through October 11, 2026

Conceived as a new site-specific work, pool8 marks the beginning of Nora Turato’s eighth pool cycle. The Amsterdam-based artist structures her practice through recurring bodies of work, which she refers to as “pools”. Within a defined period of time, these bring together different strands of her artistic practice. Following recent solo exhibitions at ICA, London (2025), and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024), Turato continues her investigation into installations that combine audio, text, and architectural response.

At the Bechtler Stiftung, she uses the pronounced length of the exhibition space to transform the room into an expansive work in which different media intersect. Bringing together sound, perception, and spatial experience, pool8 engages questions of transition, bodily awareness, and the unknown.

Embodied Word
Group Exhibition
Center of Contemporary Art in Torun
Through November 8, 2026

Hosted by Toruń’s Centre of Contemporary Art, Embodied Word is an international exhibition featuring the work of contemporary women artists who work with text and verbal statements in any shape or form, transgressing the traditional framing of word as a pure sign. Western philosophy views language as a tool subordinate to reason, truth, meaning or the Absolute. By programmatically rejecting the rationalised and conceptual nature of language, the artists challenge this tradition with their works. They bring into focus word that is embodied and sensualised and, at the same time, fiercely committed.

Nora Turato
i was empty and now i’m full
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2026

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents i was empty and now i’m full, a new site-specific commission by Nora Turato. Created for the wall opposite Lawrence Weiner’s Escalated from Time to Time (1973) near Fonda Café, the work responds to both conceptual art and the social setting of a museum café. The circular phrase “i was empty and now i’m full,” rendered in bright yellow Comic Sans, playfully explores ideas of physical and emotional fulfillment. The font evokes associations with children’s books, schools, and informal communication, adding humor and accessibility to the piece. A sound component further emphasizes the body and sensory experience, especially the act of eating. This focus reflects a recent shift in Turato’s practice toward embodiment and the relationship between language, sound, and lived experience.

10 Years LA!
May 15–August 15, 2026
Los Angeles

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present 10 Years LA!, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s decade-long presence in Los Angeles. Since opening its doors in February 2016, the gallery has featured solo and group exhibitions debuting new works by its iconic LA-based artists as well as major installations by artists from around the world, often bringing their work to the city for the very first time. Illustrating this expansive approach, 10 Years LA! fills not only the 10,000 square feet of the gallery at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard with works by a wide cross-section of Sprüth Magers artists, but also extends to the former Sizzler restaurant at 6145 Wilshire with an installation focusing on film and video.

10 Years LA! features the work of, among others, Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gretchen Bender, Cao Fei, George Condo, Hanne Darboven, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Cyprien Gaillard, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, Nancy Holt, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Anne Imhof, Robert Irwin, Arthur Jafa, Craig Kauffman, Karen Kilimnik, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Mire Lee, Anthony McCall, Robert Morris, Reinhard Mucha, Senga Nengudi, David Ostrowski, Otto Piene, Michail Pirgelis, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Jon Rafman, Bridget Riley, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, David Salle, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Martine Syms, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Nora Turato, Kaari Upson, Kara Walker, John Waters, Andro Wekua, and Andrea Zittel.

Nora Turato
it’s not true!!! stop lying!
February 28–April 27, 2024
Los Angeles

Nora Turato’s medium is language. In a practice that spans performance, video, wall-mounted works and artist books, she examines the ephemeral nature of words and the instability of meaning. Using text as her artistic source material, Turato records and dissects the vernacular of our current visual culture and zeitgeist by collating appropriated words, fragments, and quotes and translating them into captivating incantations that harness the essence and the nonsense of what collectively moves us. Turato’s first solo show at the Los Angeles gallery showcases pool 6, the artist’s latest body of work in video, enamel and wall paintings, and a publication that each investigate and interpret the mechanisms of the anxiety-driven culture of self-optimization.

Nora Turato
NOT YOUR USUAL SELF?
September 16–November 7, 2023
Berlin

In recent years, Nora Turato has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the contemporary art scene. Throughout her practice – which spans performance, video and graphic design – she examines the ephemeral nature of language, using text as her artistic source material. Drawing from film, advertising, literature, conversations, social media captions and theater, she deploys a collection of appropriated words, sentences, fragments and quotes with sharp wit and studied precision. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nora Turato at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will debut a series of new enamel panels featuring a custom typeface as well as a site-specific wall painting that cut through the cacophony of everyday life and reflect on the vernacular of present-day visual culture and zeitgeist.