Exhibitions – Sprüth Magers

Rust
Bernd & Hilla Becher, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Stephen Shore
July 2–August 27, 2022

Berlin

The photographic group exhibition Rust looks at the decline of the American Rust Belt through the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore and LaToya Ruby Frazier. The nuanced takes of the three artists offer complementary views on the industrial Northeast and Midwest since the late 1970s to the present day against a backdrop of wider societal changes.

Michail Pirgelis
Opaque Surfaces
July 2–August 27, 2022

Berlin

Michail Pirgelis' solo exhibition Opaque Surfaces presents new and previously unseen works that highlight his complex approach on sculpture. In his practice, the artist discusses different forms and expressions of sculpture by creating aesthetic surfaces with obvious painterly references, using material of decommissioned airplanes. Exploring the limits of our understanding of objects, Pirgelis' work radically expands and abstracts our experience of the sculptural.

Henni Alftan
Contour
June 10–July 30, 2022

London

The exhibition by Henni Alftan is the artist's first solo show at the London gallery, presenting new paintings that give a comprehensive insight into her artistic oeuvre. Her figurative subjects negotiate the relationship between medium and image, featuring a subtle palette and flat rendering style to transform their everyday subject matter from object to motif. Alftan’s compositions use the tight framing of close range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making while offering a fragmented vision of reality.

Kara Walker
Ring Around the Rosy
June 10–July 30, 2022

London

Kara Walker’s solo exhibition presents a selection of recent works on paper. Previously unseen, they cover the breadth of her practice in drawing, the medium that has been explored in depth in her recent touring museum exhibition A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be.

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

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, Salizzada Malipiero in Venice.

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