Current Exhibitions

Keith Arnatt – Eden 69–89 – London

Keith Arnatt
Eden 69–89
November 22, 2023–February 3, 2024

London

Sprüth Magers is pleased to present a show of Keith Arnatt’s work at the London gallery, focusing on the period 1969 to 1989. The exhibition Eden 69–89 mixes photographs taken around his home on the Welsh border with physical interventions, proposals and jokes that targeted his own and others’ conceptual interests of the late ’60s and early ’70s. In texts and contextual interventions shown alongside color and black-and-white photographic works of the ’70s and ’80s, there are surprising connections: facileness of analysis exposed, a kind of Beckettian dross associated with that; the totemic, the beautiful; the sharply reductive; the whole thing, the individual, its breakdown in parts.
Peter Fischli David Weiss – London

Peter Fischli David Weiss
November 22, 2023–February 3, 2024

London

Peter Fischli and David Weiss have a unique whimsical perspective on the mundane material of everyday life. Since they began working together in 1979, the artistic duo set out to document and investigate their surroundings, juxtaposing the ordinary with the spectacular. Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce an exhibition of famed works of central importance to Fischli and Weiss’ oeuvre in the London gallery. Revolving around the recurring figures of Rat and Bear, the show traces the brown rat (deemed a pest and ugly) and the panda bear (considered endangered and adorable) throughout the artists’ three decades of collaboration. Across video, slide projection, photography, kinetic sculpture and several works on paper, Fischli and Weiss playfully and humorously employ the animal costumes as vehicles for probing Western dualistic thought and its dependence on opposing principles.
John Bock – Ex-Ego-Gynt – Berlin

John Bock
Ex-Ego-Gynt
November 18, 2023–January 27, 2024

Berlin

The works of sculptor, action artist, filmmaker and author John Bock are experiments in material and language that challenge the traditional boundaries within the art world. Bock composes spectacular and absurd structures wherein he stages his lectures and films. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the artist, which will transform the gallery space into Bock’s characteristically unique artistic cosmos and premiere his latest film alongside several new objects and an installation.

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Louise Lawler – GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS – Los Angeles

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.
Kaari Upson – Body as Landscape – New York

Kaari Upson
Body as Landscape
September 9–December 21, 2023

New York

The work of Kaari Upson was always profoundly concerned with the body, its interactions with the psyche, as well as its relation to other bodies both real and imagined. Limbs, eyes and other features populate her sculptures, paintings, drawings and videos; even in her abstractions, folds and orifices abound. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present Body as Landscape, an exhibition of Upson’s work at the New York gallery that offers an in-depth look at her multilayered, kaleidoscopic drawings, filled with bodily presences and texts rife with psychological exploration; alongside one of her celebrated “mother’s leg” sculptural installations which have never previously been shown in the US.
Pamela Rosenkranz – Alien Blue – Berlin

Pamela Rosenkranz
Alien Blue
September 16, 2023–January 27, 2024

Berlin

An alluring and extramundane blue light emanates from the Window, Sprüth Magers’ Berlin storefront exhibition space that is sunken and high-ceilinged, allowing visitors to view displayed works from the street around the clock. The spectacular color or, to be precise, the wavelengths emitted by Pamela Rosenkranz’s Alien Blue Windows permeate the entire room and pour out of the building. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist, showcasing five unique pieces from her enticing series alongside a selection of intricate kirigami works on paper.