The familiar warning etched on rear-view mirrors symbolises not only distance on the road, but the inevitable split between perception and reality itself. At max goelitz gallery, the Munich edition of the two-part exhibition objects in mirror are closer than they appear is built around this philosophical metaphor. Running from 27 November 2025 to 7 February 2026, the show places processes of reflection, repetition, and transformation under a magnifying glass, staging an intergenerational dialogue.
The exhibition brings together pioneers of 1970s Process Art and a younger generation grappling with today’s digital mutations.
Intergenerational Encounter and the Spirit of Material
The Voice of the 1970s
Masters such as Gary Kuehn and Michael Venezia, who radically expanded the language of abstraction, explore the delicate balance between formal rigour and procedural openness. Works like Kuehn’s Black Painting (1971) and Drill Drawing (1972), shown alongside Venezia’s Untitled CVE (1967), foreground the authenticity of material and the primacy of process.
The Digital Generation
Younger artists — Lou Jaworski, Sophronia Cook, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, and Nicolás Lamas — intertwine material, body, language, and technology. Pieces such as Gawęda & Kulbokaitė’s Yield (Twinning) (2025) and Lamas’s sculptures The absent body and Losing the human form venture into the new territories between physical presence and digital projection.
The exhibition is unified by an architectural design of matte stainless-steel panels that subtly refract light and movement. These reflective environments reveal the complex relationships between body, material, and surroundings as gestures, narratives, and temporal processes overlap and collide. Presented with two distinct openings in two cities (Berlin and Munich), the dual exhibition demonstrates how reductive historical approaches intersect with contemporary art’s boundary-blurring strategies.
Exhibition Information Summary
Title: objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Venue: max goelitz, Munich
Dates: 27 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
Opening: Thursday, 27 November, 18:00–21:00
Artists: Gary Kuehn, Michael Venezia, Sophronia Cook, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Lou Jaworski, Nicolás Lamas
