Berlin
Sprüth Magers
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- In the 1980s, Walter Dahn first gained recognition in Cologne as a pioneer of the “Bad” Painting movement and as a founding member of the Mülheimer Freiheit, a group of neo-expressionist artists known for their rebellious, punk-inflected attitude. During this period, Dahn’s practice centred on a critical reassessment of painting as a medium. Incorporating references to contemporary music and popular culture, his works evoke a broad array of associations, prompting existential and historical questions that aim at deconstructing the visual ideologies of everyday life. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present a survey exhibition of Dahn’s work on the occasion of Berlin Art Week, marking the first show since his passing in 2024.Description
Walter Dahn Let’s Get Married, Let’s Get Lost
Until 24 Oct 2026
- Jean-Luc Mylayne has devoted his life to philosophical questions about our place on Earth—questions for which birds and their natural habitats serve as both subject and symbol, and through which he probes what it means to be human alongside nature. Made in close collaboration with his life partner, Mylène, each photograph is the result of months of patient work, a sustained investigation into temporality, perception and community. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Reflection, a solo exhibition of Mylayne’s work, on the occasion of Berlin Art Week. The majority of the images on view were conceived during a residency in Marfa, Texas, where Mylayne was drawn to the intense shades of blue found in the water and sky, and sometimes in the birds themselves. Reflection, the title of this exhibition, speaks to the contemplation that Mylayne’s work invites, centred around the question how human beings might truly coexist with the natural world.Description
Jean-Luc Mylayne Reflection
Until 24 Oct 2026
- Salvo (1947–2015) began his career in the 1960s with early experiments involving photomontage, text and engraved marble. His conceptual practice was reconceived in 1973, when he turned decisively to painting as its unlikely vehicle. In his singular body of work, Salvo returns again and again to the same archetypal locations—Mediterranean landscapes, Classical ruins, factory districts, snowy mountainscapes and villages—each holding a universal familiarity. Through this gesture of repetition and refinement, the specific geographies of these recurring motifs dissolve, pushed to a point of “maximum tension” until they break free. What remains are pretexts for experiments in color, form and light. On the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2026, Sprüth Magers is pleased to present La città, an exhibition of paintings that dwell in the city. The presentation in the Berlin gallery’s Window space celebrates Salvo’s fascination with the urban as motif—and, within it, the nocturnal as the condition that enables the interplay between architectonic form and his articulation of light, refracted into ever-deeper registers of color.Description
Salvo La città
Until 24 Oct 2026
Recent past exhibitions
- Thomas Scheibitz draws equally from everyday life and from art history, distilling both into dense, vividly coloured paintings and elusive sculptures: repositories of accumulated imagery, layered and compressed until the familiar becomes something stranger. The show’s title serves not as a contradiction but as an artistic proposition that places at its centre an easily overlooked means of representation: the shadow. In painterly tradition, it is composed of all other colours rather than black, a play between absence and presence; for Scheibitz, “the shadow is a realm, like a landscape.” In his paintings, this is carried by the contour that emerges as a narrow silhouette, defining the boundary between one colour field and the next. In a world saturated with pictures, the unilluminated portion of things may be the more instructive starting point—not for reading images directly, but for analysing the logic by which they come to mean anything at all.Description
Thomas Scheibitz - Bright Shadows
Ended 16 May 2026
- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by David Salle at the Los Angeles gallery, the artist’s first solo exhibition in LA since 1997. Arguably the leading postmodern painter of the last forty-five years, Salle combines images from a variety of sources, all rooted in what the artist calls the “presentational mode.” His practice is grounded in the art of juxtaposition; his “style” is the integration of disparate, contrasting styles, all resolved into dynamic, highly malleable compositions. Salle’s image clusters are analogous to musical chords, in which notes, at precise intervals to one another, are struck at the same time, producing an emotional resonance. Explore nowDescription
David Salle / My Frankenstein
Ended 25 Apr 2026
Gretchen Bender: Political Entertainment
Ended 4 Apr 2026
Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A— and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories
Ended 4 Apr 2026
Gretchen Bender Political Entertainment
Ended 4 Apr 2026
Kara Walker Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A— and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories
Ended 4 Apr 2026
Sterling Ruby Atropa
Ended 28 Mar 2026
Frieze Los Angeles
Ended 1 Mar 2026
Horror Curated by Jill Mulleady
Ended 14 Feb 2026