Munich

Julia Scher, Greta , 2022, marble 40 x 76 x 30 cm. © Rolf K. Wegst. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne

Julia Scher, Greta, 2022, marble 40 x 76 x 30 cm. © Rolf K. Wegst. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne

5 Shows On Our Radar

Phones from a dog’s eyes, knock-off poetry, and archives archives archives: Spike’s editors recommend four shows and one walking tour during Munich’s marquee art event “VARIOUS OTHERS.”

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Charlotte Salomon, Self-portrait , 1940, gouache. © Charlotte Salomon Foundation. Courtesy: Collection of the Jewish Museum, Amsterdam

Charlotte Salomon, Self-portrait, 1940, gouache. © Charlotte Salomon Foundation. Courtesy: Collection of the Jewish Museum, Amsterdam

Everything Leads Back to Love

At Lenbachhaus, Munich, Charlotte Salomon’s monumental proto-graphic novel Leben? Oder Theater? chronicles the comic minutiae and sweeping tragedies of its author’s too-short life.

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Sara Sadik, Khtobtogone  (2021). Courtesy of the artist and Crévecoeur, Paris

Sara Sadik, Khtobtogone, 2021. Courtesy: the artist and Crévecœur, Paris

Pedal to the Metal

Is acceleration all it’s cracked up to be? Spike editor Adina Glickstein motors to Munich for a survey of art that critically reflects on the need for speed.

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Senga Nengudi, Ceremony for Freeway Fets , 1978 11 C-Prints. Photos: Roderick &sbquo;Quaku‘ Young. Performance in Los Angeles. With: Senga Nengudi, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, RoHo, Franklin Parker, Joe Ray Courtesy the artist and galleries Thomas Erben and Sprüth Magers

Senga Nengudi, Ceremony for Freeway Fets, 1978, 11 C-Prints (detail)
Original photo: Roderick 'Quaku' Young
Lenbachhaus Munich, KiCo Collection
© Senga Nengudi 2019

Courtesy the artist and galleries Thomas Erben and Sprüth Magers