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New York, NY 10075
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Sprüth Magers is an international gallery dedicated to exhibiting the very best in groundbreaking modern and contemporary art. With galleries located in Berlin Mitte, London’s Mayfair, the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles (directly across Wilshire Boulevard from LACMA) and New York's Upper East Side, as well as outposts in Cologne, Hong Kong, and Seoul, Sprüth Magers retains close ties with the studios and communities of the artists who form the core of its roster, including John Baldessari, George Condo, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Cindy Sherman.
Past Exhibitions
Louise Lawler
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
November 10, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Alighiero Boetti
November 3, 2023 - January 6, 2024
Analia Saban
Synthetic Self
September 14, 2023 - November 4, 2023
The work of Analia Saban, which spans a plethora of media and approaches, has consistently explored the meanings we give to the objects and technologies that inform our everyday lives. Sprüth Magers and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery are pleased to present Synthetic Self, an exhibition of new work by Saban on view concurrently at both Los Angeles galleries. Comprising sculpture, painting, tapestries and other newly reimagined artistic media, the exhibition investigates subjects of paramount importance today at the intersection of environmental concerns, artificial intelligence and human creativity.
Kaari Upson
Body as Landscape
September 9, 2023 - October 21, 2023
The work of Kaari Upson was always profoundly concerned with the body, its interactions with the psyche, as well as its relation to other bodies both real and imagined. Limbs, eyes and other features populate her sculptures, paintings, drawings and videos; even in her abstractions, folds and orifices abound. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present an exhibition of Upson’s work at the New York gallery that offers an in-depth look at her multilayered, kaleidoscopic drawings, filled with bodily presences and texts rife with psychological exploration; alongside one of her celebrated “mother’s leg” sculptural installations, never-before shown in the US.
Martine Syms
Loser Back Home
June 2, 2023 - August 26, 2023
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to announce the representation
of Martine Syms and present the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition
Loser Back Home will premiere her latest works in video, sculpture, painting and
photography. Garnering widespread attention for her work that combines conceptual
grit, humor and social commentary, Syms has emerged in recent years as one of the
defining artists of her generation. Sprüth Magers is pleased to be representing Syms
in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ and Bridget Donahue.
Senga Nengudi
Spirit Crossing
May 16, 2023 - July 28, 2023
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present an exhibition by Senga Nengudi at the New York gallery that illuminates in-depth, for the first time, an important body of work created by the artist while working in New York in the early 1970s.
Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Analia Saban and Rosemarie Trockel
Sprüth Magers x Artadia: A Benefit Exhibition to Support the Next Generation of Artists
April 3, 2023 - April 22, 2023
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.
Anne Imhof
EMO
February 15, 2023 - May 6, 2023
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce EMO, a solo exhibition by Anne Imhof, the largest presentation of the artist’s work in the United States to date and her first in Los Angeles. Over the past decade, Imhof has developed a deeply moving and varied practice that encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, video and performance. EMO brings together several new bodies of work across multiple mediums, putting each in dialogue with found objects in ways that implicate visitors’ bodies as they move through the space, at turns exalting and frustrating the viewing experience.
Karen Kilimnik
The Kingdom of the Renaissance
January 20, 2023 - March 25, 2023
Sprüth Magers is pleased to participate in Master Drawings New York with The
Kingdom of the Renaissance, an exhibition of works by Karen Kilimnik and her old
master predecessors, curated by Mireille Mosler. Inspired by a variety of sources, from
old masters to present day, Kilimnik conjoins components while constructing her own
universe. From depictions of royal menageries of the Renaissance through public
figures' pooches, the artist filters her inner imaginary world through source material
procured from books and museum exhibitions. Early works on paper from the 1980s
and more recent paintings are paired with Renaissance sculptures, paintings and
drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
Although Kilimnik is fluent in a multitude of mediums—including Nymphenburg
porcelain—the mini-survey The Kingdom of the Renaissance focuses on drawings and
paintings inhabited by animals. Void of humans and localities, the artist’s imaginary
world becomes even more elusive, lacking any reference to her usual protagonists.
Animals in Kilimnik’s world are actors in their own universe, substituting princesses
and movie stars. Sometimes appropriating old master paintings, Kilimnik’s titles,
however, add another layer to this magical world rather than paying abject homage to
her precursors.
Kilimnik’s dinner in the alley, a small canvas from 2010, shows a dog guarding his meal
from a vigilant cat, while following Jan Baptist Weenix’s (1621–1660) much larger
composition. Other paintings, such as friends in the woods and the witche's familiars in
the woods (both 2010) reveal Kilimnik’s inspiration and witty interaction with an oil
sketch by Jan Fyt (1611–1661).
There is no contiguity in Kilimnik’s encounters with old masters: it is her fictitious
fantasy that jumps the narrative and makes us believe you can be in any existence of
your own choosing. Kilimnik’s Christmas reindeer meets The Highland Nurses by Sir
Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), while her sea horses encounter a Renaissance bronze
of a sea monster, and Napoleon + favorite camel, Hector at the pyramids of Giza,
Egypt, a pastel from 1987, is shown alongside a cavalryman by French academician
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891) providing us a construed narrative as we
enter Kilimnik’s kingdom.
Nancy Holt
Locating Perception
October 28, 2022 - January 14, 2023
Nancy Holt’s work addresses the consistent examination of how we attempt to understand our place in the world. The artist 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.
John Baldessari
The Story Underneath
September 9, 2022 - October 29, 2022
Sprüth Magers is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition at its New York space, a presentation of over seventy-five of John Baldessari's maquettes dating from the early 1980s to the 2000s, curated by Nana Bahlmann. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are the global representatives of the Estate of John Baldessari.
Created as preparatory works and sketches for his celebrated large-scale pieces, these dynamic works on paper contain and reveal the artist's original source materials from his vast image archive, from which he freely extracted, combined and thus re-contextualized elements to create his works. Together, the maquettes grant extraordinary insight into Baldessari's inspiring way of seeing and distinct image-making process.
Kaari Upson
never, never ever, never in my life, never in all my born days, never in all my life, never
August 4, 2022 - October 15, 2022
The gallery is honored to present the first solo show in Los Angeles by Kaari Upson in over a decade, and the first in the United States since her death in 2021. Titled by the artist, the exhibition debuts a remarkable series of sculptures and works on canvas created between 2020 and 2021, in which Upson's stirring characters, symbols and marks materialize through an array of painterly gestures; as well as examples from other recent series and installations that will receive their US premiere. Together, the works demonstrate the artist's unwavering urge to interpret the psyches and psychoses of our complex contemporary lives.
Barbara Kruger
March 19, 2022 - April 16, 2022
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present an exhibition of new and historical works by Barbara Kruger at the Los Angeles gallery, timed with her major exhibition, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., on view across Wilshire Boulevard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (March 20–July 17, 2022).
Hanne Darboven
Six Books on 1968
March 19, 2022 - July 16, 2022
Widely acknowledged as one of conceptual art's founding artists, and a rare woman amid that canon, Hanne Darboven offered a unique and fascinating voice in the turn to structural systems in the art of the late 1960s onward. At the Los Angeles gallery, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the West Coast premiere of the artist's first film work, Six Books on 1968 (1969), a groundbreaking installation that is key to grasping Darboven's overall process and artistic ethos