Exhibitions

Current

Gabrielle Graessle - piff paff puff
21 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Murnau Gabrielle Graessle was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1956 and has been fascinated by painting and drawing since she was a child. She attended Zurich Art School for 5 years, where she completed a degree in graphic design. Her first exhibitions took place while she was still a student. During this time, she made mainly black and white charcoal drawings spontaneously depicting her personal imagery. In 2015, she settled down in Andalusia. She decided to immerse herself completely in her imaginary world again and to express herself in large format, colored, intuitive and figurative paintings. Read more

Forthcoming

Nathan Ritterpusch - Meet me at Marcel’s
10 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 Murnau Nathan Ritterpusch was born in Pennsylvania in 1976. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1999 and went on to live in Brooklyn from 2000-2017. Nowadays, he lives in Danbury with his wife and two young children. Read more

Rhiannon Inman-Simpson
6 May - 17 Jun 2023 Murnau Focusing on bodily perception of place alongside the nature of painting itself, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson’s work looks at the differences in how we navigate, both physically and imaginatively, three distinct realms: the visceral experience of an environment, the pictorial space of a painting and the space of written language. Her current paintings dwell on encounters between body and place: the colour change when your eyes are disorientated by bright light; the sensation of moving your limbs through cold water; a rapid heartbeat. Approaching each work instinctively, she moves between colour, form and marks as if navigating a physical environment. Read more

Past

Taylor White: Paintings of Cars
11 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Murnau "When I was a kid, the first things I wanted to draw were cars. I see them differently now though, like containers, where the car is a container for the driver in the way that the skull is a container for the mind.
Painting pictures of cars feels like it teaches me something about how we perceive problems and adversity in life. All of the driver's concerns are paused and frozen in a rectangle. Can I learn to view things like that in life?
I’m also interested in the most fundamental things a car does. Inside of this container, I can go forward and backward, I can turn left and right. I have lights. I have a horn, a speedometer. I bought one in a color that I prefer. There’s a radio inside, and I can listen to whatever I want. I can also sleep in here if necessary. I have paperwork that says it’s mine. This is my car." - Taylor White, 2022

Taylor White’s newest series showcases 10 monumental depictions of cars. These sketchy, cartoonish oil-stick paintings are made with broad gestures – some on raw canvas, others on wide color fields. Spontaneous and unrestrained, the pieces suggest an archetypal, basic idea of the car, the epitome of a simplified, absolute conceptual form inspired by the design and history of the problematic East German Trabant 601. Read more

Gao Hang - My Bad Ideas
16 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Murnau GAO HANG was born in 1991 in Baoding, China. He is a painter and visual artist now living and working in Houston, TX. He holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Painting/Drawing from the University of Houston, and a Bachelor of Art degree in Oil Painting from the Capital Normal University. He is also an Artadia Houston fellow. Read more

stephanie mei huang: how to hobble a young horse
16 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Murnau This body of work is an ongoing study in racial melancholia and racial grief, in examining how and why we fixate, even devour that which we are excluded from. The foul lump is a reference to John Yau’s poetic series “Genghis Chan: Private Eye” (1989), in which the Chinese American narrator states: “A foul lump started making promises in my voice.” If we consider the foul lump to be a repulsive object that hijacks the Chinese American subject’s racialized body for the vocalization of others, we must consider how the lump arrives in the larynx in the first place. In Freudian melancholia, melancholy is pathological and enduring, in which the ego wishes to incorporate the object into herself through devouring. Read more

Agnes Grochulska: The Outline
30 Apr - 15 Jun 2022 Murnau The outline acts as a metaphor here. It suggests a frame. It incorporates and roots the portrait in the traditional art of portraiture. It also represents the contemporary aspect of the painting in its bold and vibrant expressive character.
The color choice is somewhat intuitive. I usually decide on the color at the very last stage of the process and just try to find one that works well. Hopefully, by doing both - adding a narrative and emotion associated with that certain hue, and working on a strictly decorative level as well. Read more

Felicidad Moreno - Streamflow
16 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 Murnau Streamflow – Like streams of water, Felicidad Moreno lets the paint flow across her canvasses, capturing a state between weightlessness and grand movement. Moreno’s works are expressions of movement in liquified forms. In each of her paintings, splashes of colors find their way through numerous layers of paint. At different... Read more

Javier Martin: Lights Appropriation
15 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 Murnau At this stage of his 15-year process of creating the iconic Blindness collection, Javier Martin presents a continuation of this series: it concerns the appropriation of light, the struggle and contraposition of natural, artificial, and reflected light, and the visual definition of the complex characteristics of light.
Within the beauty of the seductive models lies the falseness per se: these women have been taken out of their world context of spotlights and placed as illusions for the viewer between idyllic landscapes and cold neon lights. They are portrayed as serene, often exotic and belonging to almost all beauty ideals. With the help of their beauty and self-confidence, they seduce and, at the same time, force the viewers to take place in their world: behind the light, in total blindness and delusion. Read more

Thinking out loud
19 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Murnau THINKING OUT LOUD will feature a selection of works by Noah Becker, Agnes Grochulska, Gregory de la Haba, Gao Hang, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Royal Jarmon, Justine Otto, Richard Roth, Tracey Snelling, Houda Terjuman and Jordan West. 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

(Re)Birth of Venus
Renaissance Painting 2.0 9 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 Murnau Beautiful blonde waves, a gracile nude female figure and a mythical scallop shell - In the mid 1480s, the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli changed the art world with his tempera masterpiece The Birth of Venus. His Italian Renaissance artwork set new standards for fine art and inspired artists all over the world in the centuries that followed.

Almost 540 years later, in (Re)Birth of Venus - Renaissance Painting 2.0 some of todays most talked about contemporary artists take a deeper look at Botticelli's masterpiece and reinterpret the mythical moment of the goddess’ arrival on land after her birth. As part of a Renaissance revival in this day and age, painting, sculpture, craftmanship and street art merge together in this show.

Featuring 12 international contemporary artists: Jake Wood-Evans, Goin, Gao Hang, Paa Joe, Guillermo Lorca, Madsaki, Joseph Meloy, Amadeo Morelos, Ricardo Passaporte, Judy Rifka, Mircea Suciu and Sophie Vallance. 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

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

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