Fairs

Frieze Seoul
September 3–5, 2026
Private View: September 2
Booth: B22

Sprüth Magers is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2026 with a group presentation bringing together works spanning six decades of artistic practice. The presentation reflects the breadth of the gallery’s international program through dialogues between conceptual art, painting, sculpture and installation, pairing historical positions with leading contemporary voices. At the centre of the booth is a major wall-mounted sculpture by Reinhard Mucha, one of Germany’s most influential conceptual artists. Surrounding it are significant works by Anne Imhof and Cyprien Gaillard, whose practices likewise explore transformation, materiality and the passage of time. Also on view is a seminal neon by Joseph Kosuth, one of the artist’s earliest investigations into language as both subject and material. A dialogue between works by Rosemarie Trockel and Gala Porras-Kim reflects on systems of knowledge, conservation and display. Further highlights include Salvo’s luminous landscapes, John Baldessari’s iconic hand-painted prints, Bernd and Hilla Becher photographs, and paintings by George Condo, Hyun-Sook Song, Oliver Bak, David Ostrowski, and David Salle. The presentation also features works by Arthur Jafa, Mire Lee, and Thomas Demand, among others.

Independent 20th Century
September 25–27, 2026
Private View: September 24
Booth: 409

At this year’s iteration of Independent 20th Century, Sprüth Magers is proud to present a sarcophagus and LED work from the Laments series by the influential conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, whose text-based practice is an ongoing investigation of language and the construction of meaning. The series was conceived during the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, which ravaged New York. With a generation of the city’s artistic community decimated, and survivors left grieving their peers, the crisis hit close to home for Holzer. Each text that appears in the Laments is a verse written by the artist from the perspective of the dying: a last-breath lamentation. These profoundly haunting meditations appear in two contrasting forms: flashing LED signs, urgent and technological, and carved stone sarcophagi, timeless and classical.