Milena Muzquiz. Make or Break
16.05 - 31.07.2026
On the occasion of Various Others 2026, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle is collaborating with Travesía Cuatro (Madrid / Guadalajara / Mexico City) and inviting artist Milena Muzquiz to exhibit at the Munich gallery space. The exhibition "Make or Break" offers a concentrated insight into the complexity of Muzquiz's practice uniting her ceramic works and oil paintings. Born in Mexico in 1972 and living in Los Angeles, Muzquiz locates the origins of her imagery in the visual landscape of Tijuana, a border town characterised by tourism, trade and cultural overlaps.
Elif Saydam. Glory
16.05 - 31.07.2026
The exhibition "Glory" presents an installation of Elif Saydam's signature miniature works, alongside a new series of larger works in oil, collage and silverleaf. Using an art-historical misunderstanding of Medieval landscapes – whereby gilded silver depicting wells, springs and bodies of water has patinated over centuries, turning black – these works explore the widening abyss of misrecognition between notions of pleasure and pain, benevolence and malice, trash and treasure.
Elif Saydam (b. 1985, Calgary) currently lives and works between Berlin and Izmir. Through an expanded painting practice, they deploy the language of ornamentation and decoration to rearrange systems of valuation and emphasis.
