Jutta Koether, ŒuVreS réCEnteS, exhibition view, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2026). Photo: Jiayun Deng.

ŒuVreS réCEnteS is Jutta Koether’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel. Bringing together a new body of work, the exhibition marks a return to Paris, where she lived for a few months in the early 1990s, and revisits some of the artistic and literary references that have shaped her practice.

Throughout her practice, Jutta Koether draws on a wide range of references from the history of painting, revisiting the work of artists such as Cy Twombly, Frank Auerbach, Cézanne, and Alberto Giacometti, among others. Appropriation is not simply a quotation or an homage to the past, but a strategy through which images from different periods and seemingly incompatible sources are brought into contact. Through this process, the history of painting is conceived not as a fixed legacy to be preserved, but as a living field that can be questioned, transformed, and expanded.

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