Munich’s annual Various Others—the southern German city’s answer to a gallery weekend—launched its fifth edition last month. In a slightly unusual partnership, this gallery-weekend-meets-art-festival brings together private galleries and public museums for several weeks of openings and exhibitions.

 

The art event plays to the strengths of the local art scene, which has a robust institutional landscape, which has blossomed even more in recent years, with new directors at two of its main museums, Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein Munich.

 

Borrowing from the well-loved Condo format that has taken place in London and New York, Various Others features 19 partner galleries from abroad collaborating with their Munich colleagues. Some were given a carte blanche, like at gallery Beacon, where Société presented a solo display of Trisha Baga’s installation There’s No “I” in Trisha (through October 15).

 

Sperling, one of the event’s founding galleries, hosted Berlin’s KOW with a two-person show by Anna Ehrenstein and Andrew Gilbert (through October 15), an uncanny union of two artists who each explore power structures in very different ways.

 

And, not unlike Brussels or Vienna, Munich is steeped in collectors—and some of these patrons opened their doors to the public, with Sammlung Goetz and Paulina Caspari hosting viewings. Here are seven shows not to miss in Munich this month.

 

Imi Knoebel at Sammlung Goetz

On view through April 29, 2023

 

 

Imi Knoebel, 16 Farben auf Blanc de titane (1993). Photo: Johannes Haslinger. Courtesy of the the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022.

 

 

In Germany, the Minimalist painter and sculptor Imi Knoebel needs no introduction—yet an extensive exhibition, like the one at Sammlung Goetz, one of Germany’s most respected private collections, offers a refreshing view into the artist’s career, with museum-quality works and historical considerations. The retrospective, which shirks a chronological succession of work, spans five decades. Organized in collaboration with Knoebel and his wife Carmen, the exhibition features his well-known fiberboard paintings and geometric works made with aluminum, as well as rarely exhibited expressive paintings from the 1980s.

 

 

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By Kate Brown