Krewer's practice is deeply autobiographical, nourished by a direct confrontation with the world around him, in all its raw beauty as well as its violence. Drawing on both his lived experience and his imagination, the gallery of characters that populates his ethereal landscapes and interiors is stripped of all context and seems to lead an autonomous existence. Dancers, performers, animals and solitary figures pass through changing urban landscapes. They appear detached, as if freed from the gravity of the physical world and its social constraints. In this weightless universe, Krewer's paintings celebrate moments of intimacy and collective resilience amid an environment that is most often hostile. At the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, sixteen recent monumental canvases are on display, some of them unseen before. Hung closely together, they produce a dense pictorial panorama that reflects the intensity of the artist's practice.
Florian Krewer (born 1986 in Gerolstein, Germany) studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Among his recent institutional exhibitions are Nice Dog, M WOODS Museum, Beijing (2023); everybody rise, Aspen Art Museum (2023); and Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2022). His works are held in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna. In 2022, Krewer received the Prix Jean-François Prat from the Bredin Prat endowment fund. He lives and works in the South Bronx, New York.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the VeneKlasen gallery, scheduled for publication in October 2026.
With the support of Arif and Dianne Suherman and The Kiki Collection.
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