Current Exhibitions

Cao Fei – Cao Fei – Los Angeles

Cao Fei
October 8–December 22, 2021

Los Angeles

Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Cao Fei that highlights the artist’s recent projects, presenting several of them in Los Angeles for the first time. Films and photographs from her feature-length films Nova (2019) and Asia One (2018), as well as photographs related to previous groundbreaking projects such as Haze and Fog (2013) and La Town (2014), will transform the Los Angeles gallery, transporting visitors through the artist’s reflections on the rapid urbanization of her native China in the wake of mass cultural, social and technological upheavals.
Thomas Scheibitz – Black Swan – London

Thomas Scheibitz
Black Swan
October 8–November 20, 2021

London

Black Swan is Thomas Scheibitz's first solo exhibition at the London gallery since 2010. In a practice that creates intrigue through a movement between the precipices of figuration and abstraction, Scheibitz looks to this liminal space, drawing from both art historical references and his vast archive of printed material to offer a complex visual of our time. The definition of the term and the exhibition title Black Swan describes a singular event that occurs unexpectedly, typically an occurrence that is considered to have a low probability but high impact, and only in hindsight is determined to have in fact been predictable. Thus, the title of the exhibition is a metaphor for the present time as well as for painting or the painting itself.
Pamela Rosenkranz – Healer – London

Pamela Rosenkranz
Healer
October 8–November 20, 2021

London

At her first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London, Pamela Rosenkranz shows sensory and atmospheric works in which light, sound and color play an essential role. On the main floor, visible from outside through the large window front, as if in a terrarium, lives a robotic snake covered with kirigami scales. Shimmering paintings on mirrors and aluminum, painted with semi-transparent pale pink paint, reflect the green light projected from the ceiling. Flickering LED spotlights illuminate seemingly ephemeral objects resting on transparent pedestals. Materiality and message merge. In her oeuvre, Rosenkranz questions the certainties of authentic human experience, perceiving people as permeable membranes at the interface between nature and artificiality. Drawing on themes that we encounter in our everyday, visually overcharged lives, Rosenkranz creates links that allow us to make unexpected connections between objects and ideas, while at the same time unsettling us.
Andro Wekua – It Seems Like That – Berlin

Andro Wekua
It Seems Like That
September 17–October 30, 2021
Berlin

On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, Sprüth Magers announces a solo exhibition by Andro Wekua, presenting new paintings. Building on the artist’s practice, regularly working between figuration and evocative abstraction, the new body of work depicts a reduced visual language. Wekua’s works have an almost magnetic quality that oscillates between seduction and repulsion, creating a mysteriousness and intrigue that is captivating – if also slightly unsettling – to the viewer in its direct appeal to their emotional psyche.
Henni Alftan – Night-time – Berlin

Henni Alftan
Night-time
September 17–October 30, 2021

Berlin

Henni Alftan’s solo exhibition Night-time is part of this year’s Gallery Weekend *Discoveries. The Sprüth Magers Window presentation features ten new works by the Paris-based artist. Alftan’s figurative paintings negotiate the relationship between medium and image, employing a subtle palette and flat rendering style to transform their everyday subject matter from object to motif. Her pared-down compositions connote a stillness that oscillates between monotony and anticipation.