This first mid-career survey in Germany presents nearly 100 works expressing the full range of Mehretu’s practice, from her early, urban-inspired line drawings of the 1990s to her most recent, spectacular abstract paintings. Also included is time-based media inspired by Mehretu’s work, such as a music album, documentary, and video work. This first mid-career survey in Germany presents nearly 100 works expressing the full range of Mehretu’s practice, from her early, urban-inspired line drawings of the 1990s to her most recent, spectacular abstract paintings. With a selection of Mehretu’s source material and works on paper, some of which have never been shown before, the K21 exhibition contextualizes the conceptual thinking behind the artist’s work. Organized by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Pinault Collection, following the exhibition Julie Mehretu. Ensemble, presented at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 2024.

We are pleased to announce Thomas Schütte’s solo exhibition Genealogies at Punta della Dogana, opening on Sunday, 6 April 2025. Genealogies is the first major exhibition of Thomas Schütte in Italy. The exhibition explores the flow of motifs in the artist’s major works, from the 1970s to the present day. Centred around the exceptional group of works belonging to the Pinault Collection (almost fifty sculptures) and accompanied by loans from the artist, as well as around a hundred works on paper, many of which have never been displayed before, the exhibition retraces, in a non-chronological way, the emergence of the forms and their variations, and compares them with the German artist’s practice of drawing, watercolour and printmaking. The exhibition is curated by Camille Morineau, independent curator, and Jean-Marie Gallais, curator at the Pinault Collection.

Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom presents 25 years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle and mass culture. By repurposing the tools and systems of media production—including editing, staging, and outsourcing—Pfeiffer recontextualizes global celebrities such as pop stars, film actors, and athletes to reveal relationships between audiences and icons. As the artist puts it, “who’s using who? Is the image making us, or do we make images?” Whether through televised broadcasts of sporting events, editorial photographs of cultural icons, or the ecstasy of a soccer stadium, Pfeiffer interrogates the consumption of images and culture. For Pfeiffer, the basketball court, the boxing ring, and the stadium not only serve as platforms for grand spectacles but as sites where the body politic—of a nation, of a community, of society—is imagined, defined, and contested