Jutta Koether's 'Songs of New York' at Galerie Buchholz Surveys Two Decades of Painting
At Galerie Buchholz in New York, Jutta Koether's exhibition 'Songs of New York' is on display from 8 September to 31 October 2023. This showcase includes artworks created between the mid-1990s and 2008, which will be featured in the October 2026 edition of ArtReview. Highlights consist of 'Soulpack' (2000) and 'International Community: 3 from the heart of the brain' (1997) located on the ground floor, while upstairs are 'Homohomo 2' (2002) and 'Metal Maniacs #2' (2008). Koether, who emerged from Cologne's 1980s art scene, uses red and black in her pieces. Although there is no opening performance, the exhibition pairs an untitled work from 1943 by Fay Ruffo with Koether's 'Dance at Madison Square Garden' (1995). Additionally, two oils from 1997 draw inspiration from Blake and Benjamin.
Key facts
- 'Jutta Koether: Songs of New York' runs 8 September – 31 October at Galerie Buchholz, New York
- Works in the show date from the mid-1990s, after Koether's move from Germany to New York, through 2008
- The review appears in the October 2026 issue of ArtReview
- Koether bought the circa-1943 painting 'Madison Square Garden', attributed to Fay Ruffo, at the Chelsea Flea Market
- Her 'Dance at Madison Square Garden' (1995) is nearly three times the size of the flea-market canvas
- The two Madison Square Garden paintings were previously shown together in the 1990s exhibition 'Painting – the extended field'
- 'WB II (William Blake / He felt the female and C')' and 'WB IV (Walter Benjamin)' both date to 1997
- Koether described painting on her arrival in New York as an 'abandoned building' in a 2016 conversation with Benjamin Buchloh
- No opening reception was held for the exhibition
Entities
Artists
- Jutta Koether
- Fay Ruffo
- Nicolas Poussin
- William Blake
- Walter Benjamin
- Benjamin Buchloh
- Jenny Wu
- Tom Verlaine
- Tony Conrad
- Kim Gordon
- John Miller
Institutions
- Galerie Buchholz
- ArtReview
- Chelsea Flea Market
- Madison Square Garden
- Reena Spaulings
- SPEX
- Museum Brandhorst
- Mudam Luxembourg
- Museum Abteiberg
- Moderna Museet
- Van Abbemuseum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Whitney Museum of American Art
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Germany
- Cologne
- Berlin
- Munich
- Luxembourg