Exhibitions

Current

(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

Forthcoming

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

Thinking out loud
19 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Murnau Thinking out loud will feature a selection of works by Agnes Grochulska, Gao Hang, Gregory De La Haba, Houda Terjuman, Jordan West, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Richard Roth, Royal Jarmon and Tracey Snelling. Read more

Javier Martin
15 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 Murnau For over a decade, Martin has been developing one of his most iconic collections, Blindness. The eyes, classically associated with the reflection of human emotions, are always concealed whether behind a vibrant stroke of paint or a glowing neon light. With painting and collage, he reproduces images of seemingly perfect models, symbols of a standard of beauty and lifestyle that most people long to enjoy. Inspired by the juxtaposition between the grit of city surroundings and the glossy ads that line them, Martin deconstructs this perceived perfection to create a contrast between technology, collage, and painting. Read more

Felicidad Moreno
11 Mar - 8 Apr 2022 Murnau Felicidad Moreno was artistically trained in Madrid. Her work focuses on abstraction based on color and matter and moves between geometry and gesture. She belongs to the generation of painters born around 1960 who began to show their works in the mid-eighties, a time when there was a revision of... Read more

Taylor White
17 Jun - 8 Jul 2022 Murnau My work gives form to fleeting memories and the dormant mania crawling beneath the carpet of the western home. These images recount crisis and triumph, momentum and confinement, lust and low-altitude bombing. Finding stillness in the recording of arguments within the process of painting and drawing, I return to my childhood freezer filled with popsicles and secret passageways. Read more

stephanie mei huang: the foul lump in my throat
15 Jul - 15 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

Jorge Galindo
22 Sep - 20 Oct 2022 Murnau Jorge Galindo was born on November 9, 1965 in Madrid, Spain. Trained in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), his artistic Œuvre spans more than three decades. Describing his own work as “dirty pop”, his paintings are gestural and expressionistic, often use elements of collage and are frequently painted so energetically that they border on abstraction. Most of his canvases are of monumental scale and his work has been exhibited globally including at Hall Art Foundation (Schloss Derneburg), Hamburger Bahnhof, Hirshhorn Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Hammer Museum of Art. Read more

Rhiannon Inman-Simpson
11 Nov - 31 Dec 2022 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

Nathan Ritterpusch
10 - 30 Mar 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, his studio is in Bethel, Connecticut where he lives with his wife and young daughter. Read more

Past

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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