Exhibitions

Jorge Galindo: Postcard Paintings

19 Apr - 16 May 2021 Murnau I like to use postcards as sketches because I am very interested in the old floral imagery which consists of unreal compositions and colours. Read more

Capturing the current Zeitgeist: Rulton Fyder in dialogue with conceptual art contemporaries

12 - 27 Jun 2021 Murnau The anonymous artist Rulton Fyder is best known for his recontextualisation of other artists’ works to capture time and emotion in the NFT art realm. Fyder utilizes the sense of familiarity elicited from known significant works in the contemporary art world to add new conceptual layer and imagery and create the works in the NFT realm to create completely new works that document and archive our current society and times while having the artist’s self-inquisitive journey in the rapidly advancing digital age, characterized by the endless circulation, reshuffling, remixing and exchange of ideas. Read more

(Re-)Birth of Venus

Renaissance Painting 2.0 9 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 Murnau In (Re-)Birth of Venus - Renaissance Painting 2.0 some of todays most talked about contemporary artists will take another look at Botticelli's masterpiece. Participating artists include Jake Wood-Evans, GOIN, Guillermo Lorca, Madsaki, Amadeo Morelos, Ricardo Passaporte, Judy Rifka and Mircea Suciu. Read more

Judy Rifka: A Glance Through The Rearview Mirror

An Assessment of Her Formidable Art: 1974 - Present 24 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 Murnau Judy Rifka was born in New York City in 1945. Was a student and lifelong friend of artist Ron Gorchov, ex-wife of painter David Reed, and was an integral part of the 70’s and 80’s downtown scene of New York City. A restless spirit with a Postmodernist, punk-like soul, Rifka set forth as an artist during the heyday of the Age of Aquarius, the hippie generation in the midst of Vietnam and political chaos. Her pro-action mindset in such an environment allowed Rifka to explore love and art simultaneously, whether traveling around Europe with 60’s sensation Donovan, the Scotish singer/songwriter of “Mellow Yellow” or living on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico to better understand space in a vast area, Judy Rifka was passionately and assuredly building on her Constructivist mindset for the paintings that would eventually put her on the map in the mid 1970’s: her Single Shapes on plywood. Read more