Exhibitions

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