Sabine Moritz, Ara, 2024 (detail), Courtesy of the artist
Ara is Sabine Moritz’s first exhibition in Mexico and will include works drawn from the Olivia Collection alongside recent works spanning a range of visual vocabularies. Anchored by major new works that push her abstract painting into the space of imagery, it also includes works that privilege gesture and markmarking as a means to charge or subsume representational depictions. The breadth of ways of working and subject matter in Ara reveal painting as a continual site of exploration for the artist, a precise medium that she has consistently unbound and expanded across her practice.
This exhibition marks Olivia Foundation’s first solo exhibition of an artist’s work and is a means to extend the conversation with artists whose works are held in depth in the collection.
Sabine Moritz. Portrait by Albrecht Fuchs. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
About the Artist
Sabine Moritz was born in 1969 in Quedlinburg, East Germany, and studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Düsseldorf, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Gagosian, Los Angeles; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Hyundai Gallery, Seoul; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; König Galerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Rostock, Germany; and K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, among others. She has been included in recent group exhibitions at such venues as Kunsthalle Halle, Emden, Germany; Imperial War Museum, London; Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany; and Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium. Moritz lives and works in Cologne.