Textile Worlds
Group Exhibition
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Through October 3, 2023

Textiles shape human existence, they paved the way for industrial design, provided important inspiration for the development of Modernism in art, and today reflect the current topics of environment and sustainability and are sure to spur innovation in spatial design and architecture. 

DER KÖNIG IST TOT, LANGE LEBE DIE KÖNIGIN
Group Exhibition
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Through October 8, 2023

The legendary American collector Peggy Guggenheim opened her visionary gallery Art of This Century in New York in 1942, and in 1943 she presented the show Exhibition by 31 Women. This is now considered the first exhibition to exclusively showcase works by women. It was Marcel Duchamp, Guggenheim’s long-time artist-friend, who originally suggested that she mount an all-women show.

The Museum Frieder Burda remembers this historic exhibition that took place eighty years ago with The King Is Dead, Long Live the Queen. The project in Baden-Baden will likewise present thirty-one contemporary women artists in an exhibition that shows the current perspective on this topic.

FRAGMENT OF AN INFINITE DISCOURSE
Group Exhibition
Lenbachhaus München

"Fragment of an Infinite Discourse" is the title of a work of art by Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres: three glass rings interlock without touching one another. The work serves as the exhibition’s opening gambit and visualizes its program. It illustrates how subtly yet inextricably things are interwoven and prompts a variety of associations, sensations, and interpretations. As a basic geometric shape, the ring manifestly instantiates the infinite form of the circle. Adopted as the title of the exhibition, then, "Fragment of an Infinite Discourse" gestures toward the plethora of conceptual positions on view, while also opening up manifold possibilities for interpretations and perspectives.

Skin in the Game
Group Exhibition
With Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Andrea Zittel
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Through January 7, 2024

SKIN IN THE GAME presents seminal prototypes from the personal archives of internationally acclaimed artists, dating back to the 1970s and crossing over into the present. The exhibits include experiments never previously shown, from paintings to sculptures, to banners, video performances, photographs, collages, drawings, books, and concept notes. The works focus on that moment of professional and existential emancipation when these artists threw their skin in the game, and gave their all to art. These prototypes become the generative organs of an ongoing body of work, a series of unfinished inquiries that return, and are explored, at different moments throughout a lifetime. Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, and Joëlle Tuerlinckx are complimenting early prototypes with new productions for this exhibition. A choreography devised in collaboration with Joëlle Tuerlinckx takes over remnants of the previous exhibition at KW on the 3rd floor, exploring not only the constructive dialogue between artists and their works but also conditions of “neighborly dislike”.

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Group Exhibition
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Through January 21, 2024

Curated by Lynne Cooke, this exhibition foregrounds a robust if overlooked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century. Although at times unevenly weighted, the diverse exchanges, alignments, affiliations, and affinities that have brought these art forms into dialogue constitute an ongoing if intermittent narrative in which one art repeatedly impacts and even redefines the other. With over 150 works by an international and transhistorical roster of artists, this exhibition reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design, and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural, and sociopolitical forces, as they, in turn, were impacted by modernist art forms. Featuring works by Senga Nengudi, Analia Saban, Rosemarie Trockel and Andrea Zittel.

Raum für phantasievolle Aktionen
Group Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Through January 31, 2024

On the 30th anniversary of its presence along the Museum Mile, the Kunstmuseum Bonn is offering a comprehensive view of its collection of contemporary art, which is being freshly presented from new perspectives in twenty rooms. Even if the presentation shows the Kunstmuseum to be a special site for painting, fundamental roles in the argumentation are nonetheless played by installation, film and photography.

I’VE SEEN THE WALL
Group Exhibition
Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965
Das Minsk – Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Through February 4, 2024

DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam will present the exhibition I’VE SEEN THE WALL in the fall of 2023, focusing on the legendary concert tour that led Louis Armstrong through the GDR in 1965.
In the midst of the Cold War, the African American jazz musician performed in East Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Erfurt, and Schwerin. The tour was very tightly scheduled with 17 concerts in just nine days. The halls, with a capacity of no less than 2,000 to 3,000 seats, were quickly sold out—around 45,000 people experienced Louis Armstrong and his All Stars live in the GDR.
The exhibition at DAS MINSK takes this historic event as its starting point for an examination of the ambivalence of this official invitation against the backdrop of the civil rights movement in the United States and the Iron Curtain in Europe. One of the central questions in the exhibition is: What does it mean to tour the world, to visit oppressive systems and dictatorships in the name of freedom? What does it mean to repeatedly experience recognition and racism at the same time on the road and to return home to be confronted with racism all over again?
The exhibition I’VE SEEN THE WALL brings together paintings, photographs, archival material, and installations by Terry Adkins, Louis Armstrong, Pina Bausch, Romare Bearden, Peter Brötzmann, Volkhard Kühl, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Parks, Adrian Piper, Evelyn Richter, Lorna Simpson, Willi Sitte, Wadada Leo Smith, Andy Warhol, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and others. Filmmaker Darol Olu Kae (b. 1984 in Los Angeles) is producing a new film work commissioned by DAS MINSK for the exhibition.

Fäden
Group Exhibition
Dreiflessen Collection, Mettingen
October 15, 2023–February 24, 2024

Who does not know the thread of life, the golden thread? Who is not interwoven with others? We encounter threads in myths, language use, and also in art, where they are often used as metaphors, models, or mediums. Therefore, this exhibition thematically explores the symbolic meanings of thread for people and human life.

THREADS thus brings together works by contemporary women artists, along with exemplary spinning and weaving utensils, and graphics with motifs from select Greco-Roman myths. These works, deliberately gathered from different contexts and categories, are “interlaced” in such a way that they offer visitors—to continue this train of thought—numerous connecting threads, enabling them to engage with the use and meaning of thread as a symbol of personal and social narratives. Conceptual and associative spaces open up between the poles of fate and responsibility, trust and skepticism, individuality and collectivity, and power and powerlessness. The exhibition thus builds bridges from antiquity through the present into a possible tomorrow.

Kochen Putzen Sorgen
Care-Arbeit in der Kunst seit 1960
Group Exhibition
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
October 22, 2023–March 3, 2024

The Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, in cooperation with scholars from the Institute of Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum, is presenting a group exhibition that addresses historical and current issues in artistic discourses surrounding care work. The videos, photographs, installations, and paintings by international artists included in the exhibition, explore the social, economic, and political meanings as well as the visibility of a form of work that is mostly performed by women. This is the first overview of artistic engagement with care work in a global context that also considers the specific local perspective of the Ruhr region as a "region of labor".

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.

Rosemarie Trockel
Why gravel, Ms. Smith?
January 25–March 19, 2022
London

The solo exhibition Why gravel, Ms. Smith? presents new works by Rosemarie Trockel at Sprüth Magers, London. On view are new and recent ceramic works, a previously unseen Cluster consisting of digitally reconfigured photographs, as well as two new variants of key themes and forms, including the debut of a new series consisting of photographic prints rendered as oil paintings.

In her practice, Trockel investigates questions that emerge from artistic processes as well as societal issues by integrating the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques and crafts (such as ceramics), the ironic shifting of cultural codes, and the refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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.

local talent
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Miriam Böhm, Marieta Chirulescu, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Jason Dodge, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Haris Epaminonda, Omer Fast, Ceal Floyer, Mathew Hale, Mathew Hale / Eddie Ruscha, Oliver Laric, Henrik Olesen, Manfred Pernice, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Anri Sala, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Slominski, Thomas Struth, Akinori Tao, Rosemarie Trockel, Corinne Wasmuht
July 4–August 22, 2020
Berlin

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

Rosemarie Trockel / Thea Djordjadze
Un soir, j’ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter. And I hurt her.
July 7–August 26, 2017
Berlin

Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter and I hurt her is a joint exhibition by the long-time collaborators Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze. It is the first time that the two installations from 2007 and 2008 are on view in Berlin. The works have an allegorical nature that explores a number of themes pertinent to contemporary art. Issues around the boundaries of media, and the artwork as a fixed concept are called into question, as well as the exhibition space as a representational frame.

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.

Rosemarie Trockel
September 4–October 5, 2013
London

In Rosemarie Trockel's most recent works in wool, the material is placed like a stroke of the brush on the canvas, initiating a subtle examination of twentieth-century abstract painting. The exhibition features black monochrome pictures placed among others with vibrantly coloured stripes, creating a shifting set of colour relationships that constantly renew themselves as the viewer moves through the gallery.

Selections: Morris, Trockel, Holzer & Pink
Jenny Holzer / Lady Pink, Robert Morris, Rosemarie Trockel
Curated by Sterling Ruby
April 8–May 28, 2011
Berlin

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

Tutto Tondo
Curtis Anderson, Guglielmo Aschieri, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Ilaria Bona, Angela Bulloch, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jürgen Drescher, Peter Fend, Peter Fischli  David Weiss, Anne Loch, Piero Manzoni, Annette Messager, A. R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
February 4–March 13, 1993
Cologne

Rosemarie Trockel
November 13, 1992–January 30, 1993
Cologne

Lying on the top of a Building the Clouds seemed no nearer than they had when I was lying on the Street
Angela Bulloch, Walter Dahn, Peter Fischli  David Weiss, Tom Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Lothar Hempel, Axel Kasseböhmer, Hirsch Perlman, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
May 23–July 8, 1992
Cologne

A. R. Penck, Rosemarie Trockel
A. R. Penck at Monika Sprüth Galerie, Rosemarie Trockel at Galerie Michael Werner
June 8–June 30, 1990
Cologne

Von den Ursprüngen bis zur Gegenwart
George Condo, Jean Fautrier, Alexander Graf von Schlieffen, Andreas Schulze, Charles Topino, Rosemarie Trockel
October 6–October 28, 1989
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

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

Rosemarie Trockel
November 13, 1986–January 30, 1987
Cologne

Eau de Cologne
Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
November 15–December 12, 1985
Cologne

Rosemarie Trockel
May 3–June 30, 1984
Cologne

Rosemarie Trockel
Skulptur – Zeichnung
March 11–April 12, 1983
Cologne