Exhibitions – Sprüth Magers

Sterling Ruby
IN WARM SHROUD.
KISSING THE BLOOM CRUX.
A FROST WINDOW.
April 29–June 30, 2022

Berlin

For the artist’s upcoming solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Sterling Ruby presents several new bodies of work installed throughout the Berlin gallery that interrelate along themes of verticality, duality, craft, domesticity, and shifts in scale. The exhibition premieres a suite of monumental wall-based works, connecting the artist’s longtime engagement with textiles and assemblage to motifs from his WIDW paintings, also on view. In the upstairs gallery, a selection of Ruby’s ceramic FLOWERS and REIF sculptures explore varying geometries—opening, collapsing and reconstituting anew.

Andreas Schulze
Relax
April 21–September 30, 2022
Venice

Relax exhibits for the first time a series of new glass sculptures by Andreas Schulze. Created by the artist on the famous glass-making island of Murano, these new works function as bookends and extend Schulze’s unique and highly recognizable visual language. Surrounding the sculptures are paintings from Schulze’s well-known Vacanze series, whose motifs echo the theme of the exhibition in colorful, abstract images.

This exhibition is a collaboration between Sprüth Magers & DH Office and takes place at San Marco 3209, Salizziana Malipiero in Venice.

Karen Kilimnik
Early Drawings 1976–1998
April 8–May 21, 2022

London

Sprüth Magers is delighted to announce the solo exhibition Early Drawings 1976–1998 by Karen Kilimnik at the London space, presented jointly with Galerie Eva Presenhuber in New York. Spread across all three gallery floors, over 50 previously unseen early drawings will be on view, depicting portraits of British figures both semi-fictional and real, derived from the worlds of film, fashion, royalty and aristocracy, as well as more general themes such as London city views.

The accompanying exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber will run April 30–June 18, 2022 in New York.

Barbara Kruger
March 19–July 16, 2022

Los Angeles

Timed with her major survey exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, traveling from the Art Institute of Chicago and opening in March 2022, the Los Angeles gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent and historical works by Barbara Kruger.

Based in Los Angeles and New York, and celebrated internationally for her powerful, gut-wrenching words and images, Kruger continues to use strategies borrowed from mass media to call into question values and belief systems long engrained within contemporary culture.

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.

Hanne Darboven, Museum Mönchengladbach, 1969
Courtesy of the Archive Museum Abteiberg. Photo: Albert Weber

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