Volume VIII – Andrew Gilbert & Zhuang Ruizhe
Volume VIII – Andrew Gilbert & Zhuang Ruizhe

November 2024

The Sun will never set on the Leek Phone™ Empire – Leek Phone™ sponsored Contemporary Art Conversations

In the autumn of 2023, Andrew Gilbert traveled to Hangzhou, China, as representative of Leek Phone™ to explore potential business deals, establish new trade routes, seek territory for founding Emperor Andrew Instant Coffee plantations, and participate in the BY ART MATTERS artist residency program.

Volume VIII – Andrew Gilbert & Zhuang Ruizhe

Sperling

Current:

20 Sep–8 Nov 2025

Anna Vogel: Fly In Fly Out

Upcoming:

21 Nov–31 Jan 2026

Anna McCarthy: Invisible Borders

News: 2 Nov

Anousha Payne and Veronika Hilger at Art Cologne 2025, (November 6 – 9). Collaborations with JO VAN DE LOO (presenting Jan Paul Evers and Boris Saccone). Click here for more information!

News: 1 Nov

Malte Zenses is part of Neu Cöln, at Stoff-Pavillon Möller, Hahnenstr. 8, Cologne. Click here for more information.

News: 29 Oct

Join us for the finissage of Fly In Fly Out by Anna Vogel on Thursday, October 30, from 6–9 pm.
Joint finissage with JO VAN DE LOO and Nir Altman.

News: 27 Oct

Anna Vogel is part of the group exhibition Stolpern Bitte!, curated by Dr. Franziska Kunze, at Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt a. M., October 30, 2025 to February 14, 2026. Click here to learn more.

News: 16 Oct

Ana Navas and Anousha Payne at Paris Internationale 2025, (October 22–26). Click here for more information!

News: 14 Oct

Anna McCarthy is part of Vulvæ* ((;)) – an exhibition about differences, empowerment and sexual organs, at iRRLand 2, Bermannstr. 4, Munich. Click here for more information.

News: 13 Oct

Andrew Gilbert in Berlin: New solo show at Galerie Kai Erdmann opens Saturday, October 18. The group show Neubau mit Geistern (together with Lutz Braun, Sebastian Dacey and Isabelle Fein) is on view at thenationalmuseum, Strassburgerstr. 53 (U-Bhf Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz).

News: 19 Sep

Thomas Geiger is part of The Museum of (Non)Restitution at Kunstverein Salzburg. His work A Cartography of Theft makes Nazi art looting visible by rendering it in a diagram that marks Salzburg and the Salzkammergut as central nodes of a far-reaching system of dispossession.

News: 14 Sep

Andrew Gilbert – Early Work, 2003–2006, from the Karel Tutsch Collection, curated by Petra Prikazska at Gallery of Modern Art, Hradec Králové, Opening September 18, On view until November 16, 2025.

News: 11 Sep

Thomas Geiger continues his Bust Talk performance series during a special encounter with contemporary sculptures in the exhibition Orchestrion by Lucy McKenzie at fjk3, Vienna, September 13, 7 pm. For more information, click >here<...

News: 10 Sep

Anna McCarthy is part of MAXIMAL – Remise in Wrangelkiez, curated by Sophia Süßmilch and Cathrin Hoffmann as part of Berlin Art Week, September 11–14, 2025.

News: 29 Aug

Anna Vogel is part of the group exhibition Notes on Becoming at Kunstverein Oldenburg, August 29 to November 11, 2025.

News: 19 Aug

Anousha Payne is part of Carbon, Carbon Everywhere, curated by Maria Hinel & Indira Dyussebayeva-Ziyabekat at Hypha HQ, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP, London, August 22 – October 2, 2025.

News: 8 Aug

Summer break: For the rest of August, the gallery has no regular opening hours. You are welcome to make an individual appointment (mail@sperling-munich.com) to visit our ongoing group show Dear Reality.

News: 23 Jul

Julia Anna Wittmann wrote about Dear Reality on gallerytalk.net. Read her review here...

News: 10 Jul

Anousha Payne is part of Flora’s Cloak at Huxley Parlour, Wiltshire (GB), July 8 – September 3, 2025

News: 4 Jul

Dear Reality group exhibition portfolio: view the PDF here!

News: 1 Jul

Andrew Gilbert is part of Denke frei, schaffe neu! Die Sammlung im Blick, at Stadtgalerie Sindelfingen, until July 5, 2026.

News: 20 Jun

A special edition with unique drawings and a silkscreen print on twill tape of Malte Zenses’ new artist’s zine is available (click on this post to see the PDF)!

News: 14 Jun

Malte Zenses at Liste Art Fair Basel, the closing chapter of the Pinturas para perros cycle, including the presentation of a new artist’s zine with contributions from Patrizia Dander and Misal Adnan Yıldız, June 16 – 22, booth 27.

News: 11 Jun

International Workshop “Shaka Spear Macbeth Voodoo Expressionist Theatre” by Andrew Gilbert at the School of Communication and Design, China Academy of Art, Liangzhu Campus, 16–28 June, 2025.

News: 7 Jun

Malte Zenses in conversation with Alessandra Giacopini for émergent magazine, talking about his time in Mexico and preparing for his two part exhibition at Pequod Co. & Sperling...

News: 2 Jun

Ana Navas at the Liverpool Biennial, BEDROCK, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay, presenting a series of glass collages in the Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel inspired by the colors, textile patterns and shapes of objects depicted in portraits of women throughout art history. Click here for more information.

News: 28 May

Two new performances by Thomas Geiger will be presented at Kunstverein Hannover.

May 31, 15:00, The Lion, a new Bust Talk performance with one of the lion statues in front of the Kunstverein.

June 6, 18:00, 25 Years Too Late, a guided tour across the former EXPO 2000 grounds.

News: 21 May

Please find press articles and the full documentation of our Various Others exhibition by Malte Zenses on the exhibition page. You can visit the show in our new location at Enhuberstr. 6 until June 28.

News: 8 Apr

Anna McCarthy is part of the group show not dying at Rüschhaus (Burg Hülshoff, Center for Literature, Münster), April 5–October 31, 2025.

News: 16 May

Murmurations, Anousha Payne’s first solo exhibition in Turkey, curated by Anlam de Coster, is on view at the historic Zeyrek Çinili Hamam in Istanbul until August 15, 2025.

News: 13 May

Veronika Hilger has been awarded the Lothar Fischer Preis 2025 by the Lothar Fischer Museum in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. The jury, headed by art historian Selima Niggl, announced the decision on May 9th. Veronika Hilger will have a solo exhibition at the museum in 2026.

News: 5 May

Sperling’s Various Others 2025 schedule:

Thursday, 08.05., 8:30 pm, Concert by What Are People For? (feat. Anna McCarthy) as part of Various Others’ Too Soon To Say – The Unconference at Bayerischer Hof, Promenadeplatz 2–6, 80333 Munich

Friday, 09.05., 6–9 pm, Opening, Malte Zenses, Durchhalten galore! Pinturas para perros. In collaboration with Pequod Co. (CDMX), Sperling, Enhuberstr. 6, 80333 Munich

Friday, 09.05., 7 pm: Performative reading responding to Malte Zenses’s exhibition by Misal Adnan

Friday, 09.05., 6–9 pm, Opening, Andrew Roberts, Protean Silicone Matter, video installation in the basement of the gallery, in collaboration with Pequod Co. (CDMX), Sperling, Enhuberstr. 6, 80333 Munich

Friday, 09.05., 9–11 pm, After Opening Party, Nir Altman, Jo van de Loo, Sperling, at Enhuberstr. 6, 80333 Munich

Saturday, 10.05., 11 am – 5 pm, Special opening hours of the gallery for Various Others.

Saturday, 10.05., 10 pm, Review Sonatas by Thomas Geiger as part of the Various Others’ Too Soon To Say – The Unconference at Bayerischer Hof, Promenadeplatz 2–6, 80333 Munich

Sunday, 11.05., 11 am – 5 pm, Special opening hours of the gallery for Various Others.

News: 22 Apr

The documentation of Malte Zenses’ exhibition at Pequod Co. (CDMX) is online. Click here to see the first part of his two part exhibition Pinturas para perros. Durchhalten galore!

News: 15 Apr

Anna McCarthy is part of Villa Stuck’s festival I HEAR A NEW WORLD, the closing chapter of the museum’s interim location at Goethestr. 54 (Munich), April 22–27, 2025.

News: 9 Apr

Art Düsseldorf 2025, with Wolfgang Matuschek, Anna McCarthy and Anna Vogel at stand B04.1, April 10–13 (Click here for preview!).

News: 7 Apr

Last chance to see Wolfgang Matuschek as part of the group show Frozen Mirrors, curated by Ludwig Seyfarth at Kai 10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, (closing April 26, 2025).

News: 31 Mar

Goodbye Regerplatz! After ten years, Sperling is moving to a new location in Munich Maxvorstadt, opening May 9th parallel to Various Others Munich with a solo show by Malte Zenses.

You can still visit Andrew Gilbert’s exhibition Andrew is Trapped in Tiger Fur Church at Regerplatz by appointment until April 17th (mail@sperling-munich.com).

News: 19 Mar

Amuleto by Ana Navas, March 19 – May 5, 2025, at Crisis, Lima, PE.

News: 8 Mar

Anousha Payne is part of the group show The Volcano Lover at Galerist, Istanbul, curated by Anlam de Coster, March 13–April 26, 2025.

News: 30 Jan
News: 1 Nov

Malte Zenses is part of Neu Cöln, at Stoff-Pavillon Möller, Hahnenstr. 8, Cologne. Click here for more information.

News: 22 Jan

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News: 8 Jan

Pizza, Taxi, Radio by Wolfgang Matuschek is featured in MOUSSE Magazine exhibitions. His show is extended until Friday, January 31!

News: 7 Jan

Anna McCarthy and her band What Are People For? perform a New Year’s concert at K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, January 8, 7:30 pm.