Matthias Bitzer, Time Traveler, 2017, acrylic and ink on canvas, wood, metal, glass and paint, 210 x 540 x 50 cm, 82 x 212 x 19 inches / Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present ‘Sequences from a volatile now’, a new exhibition by Matthias Bitzer from April 17th to May 19th, 2018. This exhibition will be the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery. On this occasion, a new body of work will be presented encompassing drawing, painting and sculpture with the elaboration of forms in the gallery space.

Matthias Bitzer (b. 1975, Stuttgart) has exhibited in numerous exhibitions regionally and internationally. Notable solo institutional exhibitions include ‘KNOCK / KNOCK / NEPOMUK’, Kunstverien Hechingen, Hechingen, Germany (2016); ‘Disintegration of the properties’, K21 Standëhaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (July 2014-July 2015); ‘King Rat’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, United Kingdom (2010); and ‘Palimpsest’, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2010). Group exhibitions include ‘Luce 01’, Palazzo Mongiò dell’Elefante della Torre, Galatina, Italy (2015); ‘Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder - Shrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren’, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2013-2014); ‘Galerie Utopia / The Forgotten Bar project: The Garden of Eden’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); and ‘What You(ngs) See Is What You Get’, Rosenblum Collection, Paris (2011). His work is represented, among others, in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, and Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris. Matthias Bitzer lives and works in Berlin.