Sprüth Magers: The Monthly February ’24

Astrid Klein

Through March 9, 2024
Sprüth Magers, New York

The work of Richard Artschwager has always defied categories and continues to be marked by a spirit of nonconformity. In honor of the artist’s centennial, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present a solo exhibition of Artschwager’s work at the Berlin gallery.

Displaying works from his “Crates” (1995) and Splatter (2000–08) series, Formica sculptures (1964–2008) and paintings (1997) alongside an exuberant Exclamation Point (2008), the show offers a synoptic overview of a practice concerned with the habits and mechanics of looking. Learn more

Sylvie Fleury

Égoïste
February 10–March 23, 2024
Public Reception: February 9, 6–8pm
Sprüth Magers, Berlin

ÉGOÏSTE. Thirteen bright neon works that read the French word are mounted at different heights on the walls of the gallery’s storefront exhibition space.

The sunken and high-ceilinged room with its large display windows allows visitors to view Sylvie Fleury’s installation from the street. Learn more

Thea Djordjadze’s temporary sculptural environments draw on the language of architecture, allude to modernist design and echo the culture of her native Georgia.She combines a variety of artistic, industrial and unconventional materials to produce idiosyncratic works full of contrasts.

By reconfiguring her works for the duration of an exhibition to respond to the particularities of the spaces in which they are installed, Djordjadze investigates institutional modes of presentation and display and how context affects the understanding and experience of art. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Djordjadze’s fresh, site-specific iterations of earlier sculptures combined with entirely new works across two floors of the London gallery. Learn more

David Maljkovic is known for a multifaceted practice that, through a collagist approach referencing both the works of other artists and his own earlier works and exhibitions, considers individual and collective attitudes toward the complexity of time, whilst also playing with the nature of the gaze.

His exhibition Overpaint with Shadows on the third floor of Sprüth Magers, London, presents a series of new paintings and architectural interventions that take the process of overpainting as both their subject and source. For Maljkovic, the act of overpainting is both literal and metaphorical, pertaining not only to the act of painting or to painting itself, but also addressing the content, or rather, the starting point. Learn more