Upcoming Exhibitions

Sprüth Magers x Artadia – – Group Exhibition – New York

Sprüth Magers x Artadia
A Benefit Exhibition to Support the Next Generation of Artists
April 3–April 22, 2023

New York

Bringing together a group of outstanding female artists in an innovative and collaborative effort to support the next generation, Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce a benefit exhibition to raise funds for the non-profit organization Artadia. Through grantmaking, community-building and advocacy, Artadia strengthens the invaluable role visual artists play in our society.

The exhibition comprises influential contemporary voices across multiple generations, reflecting both the discourse on art, gender and power that is firmly embedded in Sprüth Magers’ history and its enduring support of pioneering female figures. Featured will be works by artists who are all part of the gallery’s dynamic roster, including Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Analia Saban and Rosemarie Trockel. All funds raised will go towards the impactful Artadia Awards program.

Craig Kauffman – Constructed Paintings 1973–1976 – London

Craig Kauffman
Constructed Paintings 1973–1976
April 14–May 20, 2023
Public Reception: April 13
London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present an exhibition of Craig Kauffman’s Constructed Paintings, made during the years 1973 to 1976, at the London gallery. Produced during a period of transition for the artist, his exploration of basic painting support and structure was parallel to the post-minimal and process-oriented painting and sculpture of that time, yet retained Kauffman’s inventive use of high-key color on an unusual ground. The works reflect Kauffman’s life-long interest in unorthodox supports for painting, as well as a sensuous and luminous color sensibility.

Andreas Schulze – Land’s End – London

Andreas Schulze
Land's End
April 14–May 20, 2023
Public Reception: April 13

London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Land's End, a solo exhibition by Andreas Schulze at the London gallery. The show focuses on rarely-seen charcoal drawings, many of which date from the 1980s. Also on view is a series of new, never-before-shown color paintings on paper. Together, both bodies of works underscore the artist's playful and experimental way of creating illusionistic, ambiguous pictorial spaces – parables of the supposedly familiar and the uncannily bizarre. Embedded in the UK context, the exhibition title refers to the legendary headland of Land's End in Cornwall, a transition point where one state of the landscape passes into another. Similarly, Schulze's exhibited works represent transformation and show the artist's compositional process, as many of the black and white drawings were later realized as color paintings.

Concurrent with the exhibition at the gallery, the artist is featured with his solo show On Stage at The Perimeter, which traveled from Kunsthalle Nürnberg to London and marks the first presentation of Andreas Schulze's work in the UK in nearly ten years.

Cao Fei – Duotopia – Berlin

Cao Fei
Duotopia
April 28–August 19, 2023
Public Reception: April 27

Berlin

For over two decades, the work of Cao Fei has stood at the forefront of thinking around art, media, technology and futurity. Diverse in medium and approach, her projects explore facets of everyday existence mingled with the surreal and spectacular to tap into deep-seeded questions around what it means to be human in this ever-shifting twenty-first century. Duotopia, a major exhibition by Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, will transform all of the gallery's main spaces and premiere several new works outside of China that delve into the metaverse, virtual reality and the interactions between human and machine consciousness.

Senga Nengudi – New York

Senga Nengudi
May 16–July 28, 2023

New York

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present an exhibition at the New York gallery that illuminates in-depth Senga Nengudi’s Spirit Flags, an important body of work created by the artist while working in New York in the early 1970s. These evocative works comprise boldly colored fabrics cut into the form of human-sized silhouettes, which Nengudi then affixed with ropes to the walls and edges of rooms, and even staged outdoors in alleyways and across fire escapes. Beautifully staged photographs of Nengudi's Spirit Flags strung in outdoor and indoor locations, shot in 1972, will be on view alongside a selection of sculptural Spirit Flags recreated by the artist for the first time in four decades.