GLENN BROWN
The Real Thing Part 1 and 2 (Retrospective) (solo show)
Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover
24 February – 18 June 2023
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This landmark exhibition will combine old, modern and contemporary masters across two major institutions in Germany: the Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover. Glenn Brown will reimagine the permanent collections of both, generating a conversation around contemporary and historic art that is both evocative and enlightening.
The exhibition at the Sprengel Museum will consist of two parts: a solo exhibition of works by Glenn Brown in the main room and thematic interventions in the permanent collection rooms. Formative paintings by Brown, such as The Real Thing, 2000, as well as more recent works, including Black Ships Ate The Sky, 2020, and Doggerland, 2022, will be on view.
The exhibition at the Landesmuseum will likewise present works from the collection alongside drawings and paintings by Brown, encouraging a dialogue with Brown’s key influences, from Dutch still life painting to the German landscape tradition.
With Glenn Brown acting as both artist and curator, the dual projects will highlight the contemporary relevance of both historical collections.
GLENN BROWN et al.
The Life in a Line (group show)
Heath Robinson Museum, London
28 February – 28 June 2026
Glenn Brown’s works are included in the group exhibition The Life in a Line, at the Heath Robinson Museum, London. Bringing together works by canonical modern and contemporary artists, the exhibition presents a dynamic celebration of drawing across eras, art forms and styles, seeking to show just how far a single drawn line can go – from explosive expression to razor‑sharp precision, from humour to psychological depth.
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GLENN BROWN, URS FISCHER, VICTOR MAN, PAUL McCARTHY, DANIELLE MCKINNEY, ALBERT OEHLEN, RUDOLF STINGEL et al.
News From the Near Future: 30 Years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (group show)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
28 October 2025 – 8 March 2026
Work by Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Victor Man, Paul McCarthy, Danielle Mckinney, Albert Oehlen, and Rudolf Stingel features in the group show News From the Near Future: 30 Years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo until 8 March 2026. Curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, the exhibition celebrates 30 years of commitment to the promotion of contemporary artistic research.
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Hoi Polloi (group show)
The Brown Collection, London
24 September 2025 – 8 August 2026
The Brown Collection, London, presents Hoi Polloi, a group exhibition curated by Glenn Brown. Derived from the Greek term ‘for the people’, most often used as an insult for the ‘great unwashed masses’, Hoi Polloi brings together a number of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the sixteenth century to the present, exploring how artists have represented, resisted, or reimagined the ordinary man through the lens of the spiritual.
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GLENN BROWN, URS FISCHER, VICTOR MAN, PAUL McCARTHY, DANIELLE MCKINNEY, ALBERT OEHLEN, RUDOLF STINGEL, GIULIA ANDREANI, GLENN BROWN, JEFF KOONS, VICTOR MAN, PAUL McCARTHY et al.
Copyists (group show)
Centre Pompidou-Metz
14 June 2025 – 2 February 2026
Works by Giulia Andreani, Glenn Brown, Jeff Koons, Victor Man and Paul McCarthy are included in Copyists, an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Dedicated to the creativity of copyists, this unique group exhibition explores the history of copying as a central facet of classical tradition, used as a tool for learning about the canon of art history, as much as its techniques and stories. By absorbing the expertise and mastery of prior generations of artists, copying offers a pathway to knowledge, creation and innovation.
For this exhibition, a number of contemporary artists were invited to make copies of works at the Musée du Louvre, following in the footsteps of their predecessors. Viewers are invited to perform an act of decoding, investigation and understanding, juggling old forms and new. Featuring works by painters, draughtsmen, sculptors, video artists, designers and writers, Copyists mediates the tension between originality and duplication.
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GLENN BROWN
Glenn Brown: In the Altogether (publication)
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2025
With an interview by Ben Luke and and essay by Lizzie Perrotte
Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition In the Altogether, at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris from 14 October – 18 December 2024.
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GLENN BROWN
Collector’s Edition (publication)
Published by TASCHEN
In his paintings, sculptures and drawings, Glenn Brown confronts the history of art with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of colour. Numbered and signed by the artist, this Collector’s Edition treats the viewer to a close encounter with Brown’s eye-deceiving renderings of brushstrokes from sources between Sci-Fi and the Old Masters.
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The Real Thing (publication)
Published by Holzwarth Publications, 2023
Text by Jurriaan Benschop, Glenn Brown, Katja Lembke, Reinhard Spieler
The catalogue accompanying Glenn Brown’s double exhibition The Real Thing, currently on view at the Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover until 18 June 2023, is now available for purchase. This publication condenses the key ideas of the exhibition, which presents Brown’s work alongside a selection of historical masterworks from the two collections. In this way, Brown brings continuities and contrasts from 500 years of painting into a contemporary dialogue. The publication contains new texts by Jurriaan Benschop, Katja Lembke, and Reinhard Spieler, as well as a conversation with the artist.
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