Current Exhibitions

Reinhard Mucha – Kasse beim Fahrer – Berlin

Reinhard Mucha
Kasse beim Fahrer
November 26, 2022–March 25, 2023

Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Reinhard Mucha opening in the fall at the Berlin gallery. Mucha is one of the most influential sculptors and conceptual artist of his generation. For decades he has succeeded in combining formal rigor, conceptual clarity and witty irony with the richness and delicacy of painterly and sculptural details. His work contains moments of contemporary history, personal history, and his previous pieces cross and intersect with discourses in art as well as other social systems.

Thomas Ruff – d.o.pe. – Berlin

Thomas Ruff
d.o.pe.
November 26, 2022–January 31, 2023

Berlin

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce d.o.pe., Thomas Ruff’s solo exhibition of new works at the Berlin gallery. With the d.o.pe. series, Thomas Ruff once again immerses into the world of mathematics and additionally evokes his personal experience with psychedelic art of the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring fractal patterns that the artist generates with a specialized software program and prints on industrial carpets, the works illustrate Ruff’s constant striving to visually express the beauty of mathematics while representing his interest in the possibility of generating images that appear natural but are produced artificially. The connection that fractals are both natural and artificial structures reinforced the artist in his ongoing investigation of human perception. By further recalling the highly detailed and exuberant Northern Renaissance style of artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Matthias Grünewald, Ruff interprets d.o.pe. as a reference to the fact that there are no limits to the artistic imagination.
Jon Rafman – ὁμοίωμα – Oōeli, Hangzhou

Jon Rafman
ὁμοίωμα
November 13–December 18, 2022

Sprüth Magers and Oōeli are delighted to announce a solo exhibition by Jon Rafman at B1ock Gallery in Hangzhou. These new quasi-anthropological works—ranging from algorithmically-generated paintings to video installations often incorporating internet-sourced images and narrative material—investigate digital technologies and the communities they create, focusing on the losses, longings and fantasies that shape our technology-infused lives today.
Louise Lawler – NOT ENOUGH TO SEE – New York

NOT ENOUGH TO SEE
Louise Lawler
November 2–December 23, 2022
New York

Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Louise Lawler at the gallery’s space in New York. This latest series of dye sublimation prints focuses on images of Jasper Johns’ iconic painting Three Flags (1958), taken earlier this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lawler is a steadfast investigator of the making of pictures. Using long exposures, swift camera movements and cropping, Lawler creates abstract images of this well-known motif. Here, these analog techniques both manipulate the image and comment on both perception and the fast-paced flood of images that marks everyday life in the digital era.

Coinciding with this exhibition, Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a solo presentation by Louise Lawler at ADAA in New York in November 2022.
Nancy Holt – Locating Perception – Los Angeles

Nancy Holt
Locating Perception
October 28, 2022–January 14, 2023

Los Angeles

Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce Locating Perception, the first presentation of work by Nancy Holt (1938–2014) at the Los Angeles gallery, and her first solo exhibition in LA since 1985, addressing the artist's consistent examination of how we attempt to understand our place in the world. Holt is one of the most important figures of earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, she recalibrated the limits of art, expanding the places where art could be found and embracing the new media of her time. Across five decades she investigated perception, systems and place.
Anne Imhof – Avatar II – London

Anne Imhof
Avatar II
September 23–December 23, 2022

London

Sprüth Magers is delighted to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Anne Imhof in London—the first show to span all four of the gallery's floors. Continuing and expanding upon the narrative arc of Imhof's recent exhibitions, the works range from oil paintings, large-scale paintings on aluminum panels, and drawings to film and sound works that interweave notions of reality and artifice, presence and absence, exposure and concealment. Fitness equipment and gym furniture are installed throughout the gallery, blurring the boundaries between functional object and art while creating a multilayered experience as visitors encounter and move through Imhof's abundant spaces.

Photo: Anne Imhof, Avatar, 2022 (film still). Featuring Eliza Douglas.