“David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by the German artist Isa Genzken, on view at the gallery’s Paris location. This will be the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with David Zwirner and her first solo show in Paris since 2010. The exhibition coincides with a major presentation of Genzken’s early work at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

With a career spanning more than four decades, Genzken has incessantly probed the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, media, technology, and the individual. Her prodigious oeuvre frequently incorporates seemingly disparate materials and imagery to create complex, enigmatic works that range in media, including sculpture, painting, collage, drawing, film, and photography. Deeply attuned to both the legacies of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the materials and forms of twenty-first-century global society, Genzken’s work​ viscerally ​interrogates the impact of our increasingly commodified and interconnected culture on our everyday lives.

The show features an installation of Genzken’s recent ‘tower’ sculptures. These works stem from the artist’s decades-long fascination with architecture and urban skylines. At once makeshift and monumental, these architectonic forms consist of vertical structures of medium-density fiberboard adorned with mirror foil, spray paint, and other media, complicating the distinctions between interior and exterior space.” — David Zwirner

Installation views of Isa Genzken: Paris New York 2020 at David Zwirner Paris  © Isa Genzken / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.