Upcoming Exhibitions

Mire Lee – Faces – Los Angeles

Mire Lee
Faces
September 10–October 25, 2025
Public Reception: September 9, 6–8pm

Los Angeles

The work of Mire Lee fuses volatile substances with traditional sculptural materials and industrial remnants to produce haunting objects and installations. Equally beautiful and grotesque, her sinuous compositions twist into positions that evoke bodies, entrails and skeletal forms and touch upon notions of psychological tension and trauma. Following upon Lee’s major installation at Tate’s Turbine Hall last year, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

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Kaari Upson – House to Body Shift – London

Kaari Upson
House to Body Shift
September 17–November 1, 2025
Public Reception: September 16, 6–8pm

London

Throughout the work of Kaari Upson, the home and the body are persistent themes, from her earliest installations and sculptures from “The Larry Project” to her later series drawn from the contents of her childhood home. House to Body Shift explores how the late artist delved into the rich connections between our selves and our domestic surroundings, both physically and psychologically and across familial generations. As with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober and Paul McCarthy before her, the home in Upson’s practice becomes a surreal site of trauma, memory and intrigue.

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Gretchen Bender – Berlin

Gretchen Bender
November 14, 2025–April 4, 2026
Public Reception: November 13, 6–8pm

Berlin

Shown for the first time since their 1989 debut, Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Gretchen Bender’s series Top Ten Grossing Films of 1988 at the Berlin gallery. The ten sculptures, made of black crumpled heat-set vinyl and backlit by neon, illuminate the titles of 1988’s highest-grossing films, compiled by Bender during her constant scrutinising of the daily Hollywood magazine, Variety. Driven by her desire to never be a step behind the popular culture her art was critiquing, Bender began her research into Variety for industry production notes about upcoming films before they were completed, or often before they even went into production. She discovered that what was portrayed as an ‘entertainment’ industry was quickly revealed to be an industry of corporate and financial politics. The ten titles of this series emerge as the most successful products of those influences, and our passive consumption of them.

Over thirty-five years since its inception, the series continues to resonate as programming and personalities are currently being cut due to political influence over corporate interests.

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Seriously. – Group Exhibition – London

Seriously.
Curated by Nana Bahlmann
November 21, 2025–January 31, 2026
Public Reception: November 20, 6–8pm

London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Seriously., a group exhibition curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs, print media, and select films ranging from the 1960s to the present, which expose the absurdities of our world and its representations. Through visual wit, subversiveness, and even outright slapstick, these photographic experiments offer humorous conceptual investigations of how images are constructed and interpreted. Employing a range of strategies, from masquerade and role-play to the construction of inexplicable scenarios, unexpected juxtapositions, and idiosyncratic sculptural compositions, these works reveal the farcical and fantastical within the visual realm. In reframing our visual world through satire and playful mimicry, they create space for both reflection and amusement.

Seriously. features the work of, among others, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijević, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Tom Friedman, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Scott Grieger, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Hammer, Rebecca Horn, Douglas Huebler, Astrid Klein, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Tom Marioni, Anthony McCall, Jonathan Monk, Peter Moore, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ray, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Santiago Sierra and Franz Erhard Walther, Roman Signer, Laurie Simmons, Robert Therrien, Rosemarie Trockel, Keiji Uematsu, Ger van Elk, John Waters, William Wegman, and Hannah Wilke.

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