Art in America | Jutta Koether's Paintings Are Clever and Achingly Cool—But Can They Do More?
May 1, 2020
The paintings in Jutta Koether's recent exhibition at Lévy Gorvy were cooler than you, quicker than …
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Jutta Koether: 4 the Team
Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce its debut exhibition of Jutta Koether. Spanning all three floors of the gallery’s landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue, the exhibition features new paintings alongside a selection of key canvases from the early 1980s to 1990. Departing from the question of what it means to paint, and to continue painting, in the present moment, Koether adopts a fluid authorial position. Mining the discourses of appropriation that shaped Cologne culture in the ’80s, as well as those that she encountered when she moved to New York in 1991, she makes them her own, constructing an eclectic artistic genealogy that runs from early-modern perspective painting through Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, and Surrealism. She layers these allusions with a recurring repertoire of motifs, including pixelated grids, vibrant red paint, and unfurling ribbons. The meaning of these tropes is insistent but elusive, at once historically layered and negotiated anew by each viewer who encounters Koether’s canvases. Engaging with both the medium’s past and its unfolding present, Koether foregrounds affect, asynchrony, and dissonance, clearing a new and distinctly contemporary space for painting.
Selected Works
Selected Press
ArtFuse | Jutta Koether: 4 the Team at Lévy Gorvy, New York
April 20, 2020
Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce its debut exhibition of Jutta Koether. Spanning all three floors of …
Art Agenda | Jutta Koether’s “4 the Team”
April 7, 2020
Days before New York’s galleries shuttered in mid-March, I saw exhibitions of figurative paintings …
The Brooklyn Rail | Jutta Koether: 4 the Team
April 7, 2020
Jutta Koether inscribes herself in a grand German Expressionist tradition, one expansive enough to include …
The New Yorker | Jutta Koether
April 6, 2020
For her first show at the Lévy Gorvy gallery, now online only, this influential German painter, who …
Frieze Magazine | Jutta Koether Turns Herself Into a Verb
March 25, 2020
At Lévy Gorvy, New York, the painter reinscribes the female gaze into art history
The Thinker Magazine | Jutta Koether
March 4, 2020
Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce its debut exhibition of Jutta Koether. Spanning all three floors of …
GalleriesNow | Jutta Koether: 4 the Team
March 4, 2020
Lévy Gorvy presents its debut exhibition of Jutta Koether. Spanning all three floors of the gallery’s …