rEceNt WoRkS
Empty Gallery•Mar 22, 2026 — Jun 20, 2026
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Empty Gallery is pleased to present rEceNt WoRkS, Jutta Koether’s first solo exhibition in Greater Asia. For decades, Koether has pursued a practice which merges writing, painting, and performance in order to engage a reified art history on her own singular expressive terms. In her paintings, which also constitute a form of criticism, novel gestures emerge from a space of deep immersion into the aesthetic worlds and socio-cultural matrices attendant to particular artists. Creating through a movement of perpetual transmutation, she repurposes fragmentary elements drawn from canonical figures in order to generate a personal iconography which never seeks closure, but is instead defined by polyvocal openness and sense of parataxis. These charged borrowings and energetic re-makings reveal the mechanics of artistic performativity and self-commodification, as well as the submerged hierarchies of value implicit in our relationship to Art History. However, despite its critical valence,…
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rEceNt WoRkS
Empty Gallery•Mar 22, 2026 — Jun 20, 2026
Press Release
Empty Gallery is pleased to present rEceNt WoRkS, Jutta Koether’s first solo exhibition in Greater Asia. For decades, Koether has pursued a practice which merges writing, painting, and performance in order to engage a reified art history on her own singular expressive terms. In her paintings, which also constitute a form of criticism, novel gestures emerge from a space of deep immersion into the aesthetic worlds and socio-cultural matrices attendant to particular artists. Creating through a movement of perpetual transmutation, she repurposes fragmentary elements drawn from canonical figures in order to generate a personal iconography which never seeks closure, but is instead defined by polyvocal openness and sense of parataxis. These charged borrowings and energetic re-makings reveal the mechanics of artistic performativity and self-commodification, as well as the submerged hierarchies of value implicit in our relationship to Art History. However, despite its critical valence,…






















































