Exhibitions

Jon Groom - The Survey Show

Sep 14 - Nov 17, 2024 In a career that spans almost five decades, Jon Groom has steadfastly engaged with the lineage of modern painting while forging his own, deeply personal dialogue with color, form, and space. His work, characterized by a relentless pursuit of abstraction, resonates with the intellectual rigor and transcendental aspirations that defined early modernism. It is fitting, then, that this Survey Show, mounted at PULPO GALLERY in Murnau—a site forever linked to Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction—should present a comprehensive examination of Groom’s contribution to contemporary art. Read more

Sticker Album

Ed Broner | Gabrielle Graessle | Mattia Guarnera MacCarthy | Gao Hang | Julien Jaca Jun 14 - Jul 14, 2024 In the realm of contemporary art, the act of appropriation serves not only as a bridge between the past and the present but also as a reflective surface for societal desires and collective memory. Our "Sticker Album" group show, delves into this intricate dialogue through a unique lens—historic stickers, emblems of soccer's illustrious legacy and a testament to the universal penchant for collecting. Read more

Gao Hang - You See? You are also simulated.

May 17 - Aug 31, 2024 In "You See? You are also simulated.," the artist's oeuvre serves as a navigational chart through the intricate layers of reality and simulation, exploring the porous boundaries between digital experiences and the tangible world. Born in 1991 in Baoding, China, and now residing in Houston, USA, Gao Hang has crafted a unique pictorial language that draws from a rich tapestry of influences, from traditional Chinese oil painting to the avant-garde experimentation afforded by his transnational experience. His masterful use of airbrush technique evokes a digital smoothness, questioning the relentless pursuit of high definition in our digital age. Read more

DAMIEN CIFELLI - The Thing Beyond: Adventures in Tarogramma

Jan 27 - Apr 20, 2024 In "The Thing Beyond: Adventures in Tarogramma," Cifelli's exploration delves into the diversity of people within the imagined realm. Tarogramma emerges as a utopian society, devoid of ethnic, cultural, or gender dominance. The artist challenges societal norms, proposing a place where individual eccentricities and distinct characters take precedence over superficial attributes. Identity, in Tarogramma, is eloquently expressed through iconography, weaving a narrative thread that seamlessly connects the oil paintings with the sculptural works.

The exhibition marks the artist's first-ever solo presentation in Germany. Read more

Tom Warren - The 1980s Art Scene in New York

Nov 15, 2023 - Jan 20, 2024 In New York of the 1980s art was happening on the streets and in the clubs. Artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and curators were all attracted to the city of contrasts. They formed a vibrant art community and became the favored subjects of the omnipresent photographer, Tom Warren. Warren captured New... Read more

It’s a material world

Sep 15 - Nov 18, 2023 PULPO GALLERY is pleased to announce It´s a material world , a group exhibition including works by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias , Bob Geerts , stephanie mei huang , Tanya Ling and Kiki Smith. It’s a m aterial w orld showcases a selection of works by five contemporary... Read more

Pop Up Bergson x Pulpo Gallery

Jul 24 - Nov 18, 2023 Munich PULPO GALLERY is pleased to be part of the BERGSON pop-up in downtown Munich. Starting Monday, July 24, PULPO GALLERY will move into the first floor of the former sports store Münzinger directly at Marienplatz. The credo of PULPO GALLERY is to make art accessible and to show the broadest... Read more

Patrick Tresset - We Are Here and Now

Jul 1 - Oct 7, 2023 Murnau Patrick Tresset is a contemporary French artist best known for his performative installations, drawings, and generative computational works. His work explores the representation of human experience using computational systems, robotics, and traditional media. Read more

Rhiannon Inman-Simpson: A slow pulse

May 6 - Jun 17, 2023 Murnau In her captivating paintings, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson (*1989 in London, UK) focuses on the physical perception of places. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany showcases thirteen of her most recent oil paintings. Inspired by physical, emotional, and visual impressions, her paintings embody a combination of thoughts, experiences, feelings, places, and certain moments of light. Read more

Nathan Ritterpusch - Meet Me At Marcel’s

Mar 10 - Apr 22, 2023 Murnau Ritterpusch's references for the paintings in this exhibition range from beautiful old Greek statues and cowboys, that symbolize a past masculinity and beauty ideal of a man, to alluring women, which may also depict bygone beauty standards.

In some of his works, Ritterpusch depicts feminine figures, that evoke more than sexuality and attraction. The artist explores the complexity of the multilayered human personality - viewing these portraits, one may be put in an inconvenient position, dealing with complex feelings. Ritterpusch is drawn to subjects that are paradoxically both vulnerable and confident, and inspects the ways in which they are perceived by the viewers. Read more

Gabrielle Graessle - piff paff puff

Jan 21 - Feb 25, 2023 Murnau Gabrielle Graessle unites the most diverse motifs of our time in her oeuvre. She finds her inspiration in a pack of cards, during flea market visits, but also in dealing with current world politics. In some of her works, serious problems are hidden behind the innocent purity of playful representations. Destructive bombings indicated by squeaky colorful planes or political show of force wrapped in an official birthday celebration.

In her artistic practice, Graessle deals with a wide range of themes, some of which have accompanied her since her childhood and repeatedly appear in her works. Such recurring motifs include her own body awareness and the female identity captured in movies or Vogue issues. Read more

Taylor White: Paintings of Cars

Nov 11 - Dec 23, 2022 Murnau 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

Sep 16 - Oct 29, 2022 Murnau The exhibition features the most recent works by the Houston-based painter and visual artist. After numerous exhibitions across the US and Europe, Hang’s work sare being shown in a solo exhibition in Germany for the first time. Hang belongs to a generation that grew up in the computerage and is naturally familiar with the internet. For millennials, the extended use of social media is part of everyday life and can become increasingly time-consuming. Read more

stephanie mei huang: how to hobble a young horse

Jul 16 - Aug 28, 2022 Murnau The exhibition features the most recent works by the interdisciplinary artist. After numerous exhibitions across the US, huang’s work sare being shown in a solo exhibition in Germany for the first time.

"how to hobble a young horse" explores the slippery terrains of animality, constraint, and consent, in both taking on the figure of the Chinese cowboy/girl and the horse in the American (U.S.) West. huang shifts animalities, in becoming them, rejecting them, and transmuting them. The body of work includes performance, film/video, sculpture, painting and photography. Read more

Agnes Grochulska: The Outline

Apr 30 - Jun 15, 2022 Murnau Outlined emotions and impressive physiognomies – Agnes Grochulska’s “Outline”-Series deals with the representation of feelings carved intosplendid human faces. In the search for deeply hidden sentiments, Grochulska's paintings resemble a psychological and spiritual dissection. Read more

Felicidad Moreno - Streamflow

Mar 16 - Apr 16, 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

Jan 15 - Feb 26, 2022 Murnau Behind the glow of spectacular neon stripes, tempting models are depicted. They have been taken out of their perfectly staged world of advertising. Their seductive glances hide behind vibrant lights and a direct eye contact with the viewers is impossible. The eyes, understood as the mirror of human emotions, are intentionally covered up, causing ambivalent feelings and challenging questions. Read more

Thinking out loud

Nov 19 - Dec 23, 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 Sep 24 - Oct 31, 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 Jul 9 - Aug 22, 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

Jun 12 - 27, 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

Tom Warren: the 1980s art scene in New York

Portrait Studio / Visual Journal Nov 26, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022 In New York of the 1980s art was happening on the streets and in the clubs. Artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and curators were all attracted to the city of contrasts. They formed a vibrant art community and became the favored subjects of the omnipresent photographer, Tom Warren. Read more

Head and Shoulders. Mastering the art of portraying

Oct 21 - Dec 23, 2023 This exhibition provides a comprehensive exploration of contemporary portraiture, an art form that has captivated humanity since ancient times. It delves into the desire for self-expression, the subtle portrayal of character traits, and the unveiling of hidden or suppressed emotions that become apparent through prolonged contemplation. The artworks featured in... Read more

The Proof Is ONLY Ocular

Jan 17 - Apr 19, 2021 We at PULPO GALLERY view art as the true ​lingua franca​ of the world that has the power to unite. It transcends boundaries, dictates, and rules. It blurs reasoning and clarity to allow for surprise, delight and magic. It turns the obvious on its head and makes truth seem like a dare. The artist in this show gives voice to the more universal components of communicating in myriad creative ways. And that primordial communication, absent our iphones and social media, is the truest, most timely, and invaluable art form. Read more

Lockdown Diaries: The soothing effect of Nicolas Party's Still Lifes

Finding calm through art Dec 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021 With most of the world going in and out of lockdown constantly, our lifes have changed drastically. No more socializing at gallery openings, no more late nights at the museum and first and foremost: much more time being spent at home.

At PULPO GALLERY, we are blessed to be surrounded by art both in the gallery and at home. It was one artist in particular that had a soothing effect on us: Nicolas Party. His still lifes radiate such peace and calmness that we couldn't help but sit down, relax and marvel at their beauty. Read more

Jochen Cerny

Emerging Artists Viewing Rooms - Part 1 Nov 15, 2020 - Jan 15, 2021 Investment banker, family father and friend to Andreas Gursky. Jochen has an impressive life story to tell. It was a re-union with the latter, childhood friend and world famous photographer Andreas Gursky that caused Jochen to reinvent himself as an award winning photographer. Read more

New York's Art Scene in the 80s

through the Eyes of Contemporaries Sep 1 - Nov 30, 2020 It was June 7, 2020 when it hit the Pulpo Gallery inbox: Newsletter Signup Confirmation of Brett De Palma We were flabbergasted. Could this possibly be the Brett De Palma we came across when researching the 1980's downtown art scene in New York City? The same Brett De Palma that... Read more