Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Francis Picabia – Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950, an exhibition of over 40 works on paper spanning 50 years of the iconoclastic French artist’s career.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand, an exhibition of paintings from the 1980s and 1990s by American artist Don Van Vliet (b. 1941, d. 2010).
Michael Werner Gallery, London, in collaboration with Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, is pleased to present Invisible Questions That Fill the Air: James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee, an exhibition of works by American artist James Lee Byars (b. 1932, d. 1997) and Korean artist Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932), curated by Allegra Pesenti.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Gaston Chaissac, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and collages by 20th century French artist Gaston Chaissac (b. 1910 in Avallon, France, d. 1964 in La Roche-sur-Yon, France).
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Maki Na Kamura, an exhibition of new paintings by Osaka-born, Berlin-based artist Maki Na Kamura.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Eugène Leroy: The Materiality of Light, Paintings 1950-1999, the first major exhibition of paintings by French artist Eugène Leroy (1910-2000) in the U.K. Spanning five decades, the exhibition includes rarely seen seascapes from the 1950s to the built-up almost sculptural paintings from the latter part of the artist’s career.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Interior, an exhibition curated by Andrew Bonacina. Artists include: Kai Althoff (b. 1966), Frank Auerbach (b. 1931), Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971), Enrico David (b. 1966), Jake Grewal (b. 1994), Gwen John (1876 – 1939), Christina Kimeze (b. 1986), Stanislava Kovalcikova (b. 1988), Florian Krewer (b. 1986), Janette Laverrière (1909 – 2011), Gilbert Lewis (b. 1945), Hilary Lloyd (b. 1964), Anne Low (b. 1981), Victor Man (b. 1974), Julien Nguyen (b. 1990), Christodoulos Panayiotou (b. 1978), Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953), Walter Price (b. 1989), Andy Robert (b. 1984), Raphaela Simon (b. 1986), Austin Osman Spare (1886 – 1956), Anita Steckel (1930 – 2012), Mary Stephenson (b. 1989), Angus Suttie (1946 – 1993), Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925), Édouard Vuillard (1868 – 1940), Willa Wasserman (b. 1990), Lionel Wendt (1900 – 1944).
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Ti Zwazo Clarendon: You Can Go Home Again; You Just Can’t Stay, the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of works by Haitian-American artist Andy Robert.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Peter Saul: New Work, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the eminent American painter Peter Saul (b. 1934).
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-2018). Taking the form of a small retrospective, the show focuses on the artist’s lifelong engagement with landscape, geology, and the natural world.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present A.R. Penck - Systems: Felt Works and Paintings. Throughout his career, Penck depicted the human struggle stemming from man-made political, scientific, and societal systems. On view are paintings, works on paper, and a unique group of felt sculptures on display for the first time in the UK.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present ride or fly, an exhibition of new paintings by Florian Krewer.#f75419
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present James Lee Byars: The Milky Way and The Star Man. The exhibition will feature two of Byars’s most ambitious works: The Milky Way, a 2-dimensional work composed of 100 black paper stars, and The Star Man, a 3-dimensional work comprising of 100 white Thassos marble stars. This exhibition marks only the second time each work has been on view and the first time these important works have been shown together.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Markus Lüpertz. Painted over the last four years in Italy and Germany, the artist masterfully combines Southern and Northern European painting traditions while creating work that is new, innovative and contemporary.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of major works by German painter Georg Baselitz, one of the most important painters of the second half of the twentieth century. I Was Born into a Destroyed Order begins in the 1960s and surveys the first three decades of the artist's career. A selection of seminal paintings, works on paper and sculpture will be on view.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce the reopening of our gallery and the opening of our new group exhibition About the Human Figure, which will run in tandem with our summer online exhibition The Human Figure. On view at Michael Werner Gallery, London will be a selection of major paintings and sculpture by James Lee Byars, Enrico David, Peter Doig, Florian Krewer, Francis Picabia, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Raphaela Simon, and Don Van Vliet.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of early sculptures and drawings by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Sigmar Polke - Objects: Real and Imagined features a mystifying and important body of work from the 1960s, and includes many loans from private and public collections. Image © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Erdbeeren, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Berlin-based artist Raphaela Simon (b. 1986). This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London and first with Michael Werner Gallery.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Doig.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of two seminal works by James Lee Byars. Together, these works present Byars' aim to question the very nature of the flag, nationalism and conscience.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Car Park Godiva, an exhibition of paintings by Düsseldorf-based artist Florian Krewer (b. 1986), opening 2 April. Krewer studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and this is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Markus Lüpertz: Dans l’Atelier, opening 30 January. The exhibition travels to London from Musée de la vie Romantique in Paris and is curated by the museum’s director Jérôme Farigoule. Comprising over two dozen plaster and wax sculptures completed between 2016 and 2018 as well as paintings and works on paper, Dans l’Atelier presents viewers with an intimate look at Lüpertz’s conceptual process.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Jörg Immendorff: Questions from a Painter Who Reads, opening 16 November. This exhibition of paintings is a visual history of one of the most important artists to emerge from post-war Germany and spans four decades of the artist’s career from 1974 to 2007.
Comprising loans from private and public collections, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper by a seminal artist of the late nineteenth century. The exhibition is curated by art historian and former National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa curator Louise d’Argencourt, and Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes, the painter’s great grandnephew, an art historian, and the President of the Comité Puvis de Chavannes. D’Argencourt also organized the first posthumous Puvis de Chavannes retrospectives at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (1976), and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1977).
Vile Bodies, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures, will be held simultaneously in both Michael Werner’s London and New York galleries.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Markus Lüpertz: Tent Paintings, 1965, opening 27 April. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to view key early "dithyrambic" works by this important artist.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce two concurrent exhibitions of works by A.R. Penck, one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period. Featuring several large-scale paintings and a monumental sculpture in wood and bronze, these exhibitions represent a key moment in A.R. Penck’s oeuvre.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Peter Doig. This is the artist's first exhibition of new works in London since 2012.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Enrico David. These sculptures, tapestries and works on paper mine a space between figuration and abstraction, exploring the human figure as a metaphor for transformation.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of works from the 1980s by Per Kirkeby. With a selection of more than twenty-five paintings and bronze sculptures, this exhibition explores an important period in Kirkeby’s oeuvre, one which has not previously been shown in such depth.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Georg Baselitz: 1977–1992, an exhibition of major paintings and works on paper by one of the most important German artists of the post-war period.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to announce an exhibition of Sigmar Polke’s Pour Paintings. Featuring over fifteen large-scale works on paper, this exhibition highlights the exuberant invention and uncommon beauty underlying Polke’s greatest work. Image © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the German painter Richard Oelze (1900-1980). A reclusive and visionary artist who participated in major international exhibitions of his time, Oelze is now lost to the broader art historical consciousness. This exhibition, with more than thirty paintings and drawings, is a rare opportunity to reconsider one of the forgotten masters of Surrealist painting.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Some Terrible Problems, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Peter Saul. This is the first London exhibition by Saul, who remains a vital presence in American painting through more than fifty years.
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life, a group exhibition which includes important works by Hans Arp, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Enrico David, Willem de Kooning, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Paul Klee, Eugène Leroy, Markus Lüpertz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, A.R. Penck, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Kurt Schwitters and Don Van Vliet.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions by Jörg Immendorff. LIDL Works and Performances from the 60s and Late Paintings after Hogarth will provide viewers with an opportunity to see two distinct and rarely-exhibited bodies of work by one of the most important artists to emerge during the post-war period in Germany. These are the first major exhibitions dedicated to Immendorff in London in twenty years.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Allen Jones: Maîtresse. The exhibition brings together for the first time the paintings that form Jones’s "Maîtresse "cycle. Begun as a commissioned movie poster in 1975, "Maîtresse" developed into a discrete group of several major works by 2015.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of early works by German artist A.R. Penck. Featuring important paintings and sculptures created in Dresden in the 1960s and early 1970s, the exhibition presents unique insights into the artist’s distinctive style and sensibility.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Body Shop, a group exhibition exploring depictions of the human figure in painting and sculpture. Artists in the exhibition include Kai Althoff, Hans Arp, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Enrico David, Peter Doig, Allen Jones, Fredrick Kiesler, Henri Laurens, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, Francis Picabia, Félix Vallotton and Don Van Vliet.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present James Lee Byars: The Diamond Floor. This is the first time the work has been shown in the UK. Originally created for Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris in 1995, “The Diamond Floor” (1995) is a sculptural incarnation of “Five Points Make a Man”, a conceptual motif that appears in many of the artist’s drawings, sculptures and performances.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Italian artist Gianni Piacentino, curated by Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva’s director Andrea Bellini. The exhibition will feature a consistent body of work, following the development of Piacentino’s artistic career over the last fifty years, from the minimal objects developed between 1965 and 1968 to the present day.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present an exhibition of early works on paper by Sigmar Polke. This is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition in London of Polke's works on paper in just over a decade. The exhibition features nearly 100 works, many of which are being exhibited for the first time. Image © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present Morning Zoo, the first solo exhibition in London of paintings and works on paper by Michael Williams. Rendered with an inventive combination of traditional and contemporary painterly techniques, Williams' work has a highly tactile, disorienting opticality.
Kai Althoff, born 1966 in Cologne, currently lives and works in New York. For his first show with Michael Werner, Althoff will present a new body of work comprised mostly of paintings and drawings.
Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Curry. This is the artist’s first exhibition devoted to paintings, representing a new direction in his work.
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of early works by Peter Doig. The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Doig’s formative works from the 1980s and includes several paintings and drawings shown for the first time.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present Players Ball, an exhibition of works by Markus Lüpertz selected by renowned painter Peter Doig. Players Ball is Lüpertz's first solo exhibition in London in over twenty-five years and explores the artist's fifty-year pursuit of painting with a focus on works of the 1960s and 1970s juxtaposed with a group of new paintings and sculptures.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present two major concurrent exhibitions by Marcel Broodthaers. Décor: A Conquest and Bricks: 1966-1975 will provide viewers with an opportunity to see two distinct and rarely-exhibited bodies of work by one of the most important artists of the last century. This is the first showing of Décor: A Conquest in the UK since its debut in London in 1975.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Enrico David. This is the artist's second exhibition with Michael Werner Gallery and his first exhibition in London since the Turner Prize in 2009.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Danish artist Per Kirkeby. With a career spanning five decades, Kirkeby has developed a unique approach to painting, gradually refining a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived primarily from observations of the natural world. This is the first exhibition in London of new works by the artist since his 2009 retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern.
Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919). Wilhelm Lehmbruck is a seminal figure in the development of modernism and the first German sculptor of the twentieth century to significantly impact art on an international scale. Featuring a large selection of sculptures as well as related etchings and works on paper, this is the first major Lehmbruck exhibition in Great Britain since a 1957 exhibition at Tate Gallery.
Michael Werner Gallery in London is pleased to announce an exhibition of major works by the late American artist James Lee Byars, opening 17 January. Early Works & The Angel includes sculptures, scrolls and performative objects dating from the artist’s time in Japan, where he lived and worked for nearly ten years beginning in 1958. Also exhibited is the 1989 sculpture “The Angel”, a work made of 125 hand-blown glass globes created in Venice over a period of one year. This pairing charts the origin of Byars’s aesthetic and examines the artist’s obsession with figuration and his lifelong quest for perfect form.
Michael Werner is pleased to announce the opening of its London gallery with an exhibition of new works by Peter Doig. The gallery is located at 22 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair and open Tuesday through Saturday, 10AM-6PM.
Aaron Curry's latest project, MMNKTLKPLKT raises to a new level of complexity the artist's exploration of relationships between drawing and form, abstraction and figuration, and spaces both real and virtual. The exhibition continues outside the gallery with two monumental sculptures installed in Hoxton Square Park.