GLENN BROWN

Grottoesque (solo show)

No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath
22 May – 6 September 2026

Installation view:  Grottoesque, No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, 2026, photo: Guy Traynor
Installation view: Grottoesque, No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, 2026, photo: Guy Traynor

Glenn Brown’s solo exhibition Grottoesque, at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, presents paintings and drawings responding to the Georgian shell grotto, landscapes and the grotesque nature of trees, with one of the Gallery rooms transformed into a ‘grotto’ featuring three new large-scale paintings of multiple heads, set within shell-encrusted frames. Grottoesque is one aspect of a double presentation by Brown across two Bath museums, with Brown in Bath: Arrows of Desire opening concurrently at The Holburne Museum.

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Installation view:  Grottoesque, No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, 2026, photo: Guy Traynor
Installation view: Grottoesque, No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, 2026, photo: Guy Traynor

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GLENN BROWN

Gainsborough’s House, Suffolk
8 November 2026 – 18 April 2027

Glenn Brown, So We Drove On Towards Death Through the Cooling Twilight, 2025 © Glenn Brown, photo: Joe Humphreys
Glenn Brown, So We Drove On Towards Death Through the Cooling Twilight, 2025 © Glenn Brown, photo: Joe Humphreys

Glenn Brown’s works are the subject of a solo exhibition at Gainsborough’s House, Suffolk, presenting paintings and drawings from the past ten years. The exhibition explores the artist’s enduring engagement with the motif of the tree alongside a selection of layered portraits. Works are shown throughout the galleries and historic house, creating a dialogue between Brown’s contemporary practice and the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough.

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Glenn Brown, So We Drove On Towards Death Through the Cooling Twilight, 2025 © Glenn Brown, photo: Joe Humphreys
Glenn Brown, So We Drove On Towards Death Through the Cooling Twilight, 2025 © Glenn Brown, photo: Joe Humphreys

GLENN BROWN, WALTON FORD

Walton Ford in conversation with Glenn Brown (artist talk)
Galerie Max Hetzler, 41 Dover Street, London W1S 4NS
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 6.30pm

Left: Walton Ford, photo: Charlie Rubin; right: Glenn Brown, photo: Edgar Laguinia
Left: Walton Ford, photo: Charlie Rubin; right: Glenn Brown, photo: Edgar Laguinia

Walton Ford will be in conversation with Glenn Brown, in conjunction with Ford’s solo exhibition with Galerie Max Hetzler.

The event will take place at 6.30pm on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, at the gallery’s location on 41 Dover Street, London. Kindly note that due to limited capacity, rsvp is required to confirm attendance. Please RSVP at rsvp@maxhetzler.com

Left: Walton Ford, photo: Charlie Rubin; right: Glenn Brown, photo: Edgar Laguinia
Left: Walton Ford, photo: Charlie Rubin; right: Glenn Brown, photo: Edgar Laguinia

GLENN BROWN

The Holburne Museum, Bath
16 May – 6 September 2026

Installation view: Arrows of Desire, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2026, photo: Jo Hounsome
Installation view: Arrows of Desire, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2026, photo: Jo Hounsome

Glenn Brown’s work is the subject of Arrows of Desire, a solo exhibition at The Holburne Museum, Bath. Staged forty years after the artist studied in the city, a selection of Brown’s recent and dramatic works will be hung amongst the renowned English and Dutch paintings of the museum’s permanent collection, as well as smaller drawings in antique frames in adjoining galleries. Arrows of Desire is one aspect of a double presentation by Brown across two Bath museums, with Brown in Bath: Grottoesque opening concurrently at No. 1 Royal Crescent.

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Installation view: Arrows of Desire, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2026, photo: Jo Hounsome
Installation view: Arrows of Desire, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2026, photo: Jo Hounsome

GLENN BROWN, WALTON FORD, MATTHEW BARNEY, GLENN BROWN, VICTOR MAN, DANIELLE MCKINNEY, ALBERT OEHLEN et al.

​​​​​​​Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice
7 May – 12 September 2026

Installation view: Don’t have hope, be hope!, ​​​​​​​Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice, 2026, photo: Jacopo Trabuio
Installation view: Don’t have hope, be hope!, ​​​​​​​Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice, 2026, photo: Jacopo Trabuio

Works by Matthew Barney, Glenn Brown, Victor Man, Danielle Mckinney and Albert Oehlen are included in the inaugural exhibition, Don’t have hope, be hope! at Isola di San Giacomo, the new location of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Venice. San Giacomo will become a place for producing artistic projects and hosting research and discussions on art, music, cinema, theatre and contemporary culture. Surrounded by the delicate ecosystem of the lagoon, the island will serve as a laboratory for ecological reflection, where the principles of sustainability and energy transition will be put into practice.

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Installation view: Don’t have hope, be hope!, ​​​​​​​Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice, 2026, photo: Jacopo Trabuio
Installation view: Don’t have hope, be hope!, ​​​​​​​Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice, 2026, photo: Jacopo Trabuio

GLENN BROWN et al.

The Brown Collection, London
24 September 2025 – 8 August 2026

Installation view: Hoi Polloi, The Brown Collection, London, 2025, photo: © The Brown Collection
Installation view: Hoi Polloi, The Brown Collection, London, 2025, photo: © The Brown Collection

The Brown Collection, London, presents Hoi Polloi, a group exhibition curated by Glenn Brown. Derived from the Greek term ‘for the people’, most often used as an insult for the ‘great unwashed masses’, Hoi Polloi brings together a number of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the sixteenth century to the present, exploring how artists have represented, resisted, or reimagined the ordinary man through the lens of the spiritual.

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Installation view: Hoi Polloi, The Brown Collection, London, 2025, photo: © The Brown Collection
Installation view: Hoi Polloi, The Brown Collection, London, 2025, photo: © The Brown Collection

GLENN BROWN

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2025
With an interview by Ben Luke and and essay by Lizzie Perrotte

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Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition In the Altogether, at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris from 14 October – 18 December 2024. 

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GLENN BROWN

Published by TASCHEN

Photo courtesy of TASCHEN
Photo courtesy of TASCHEN

In his paintings, sculptures and drawings, Glenn Brown confronts the history of art with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of colour. Numbered and signed by the artist, this Collector’s Edition treats the viewer to a close encounter with Brown’s eye-deceiving renderings of brushstrokes from sources between Sci-Fi and the Old Masters.

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Photo courtesy of TASCHEN

GLENN BROWN

The Real Thing (publication)
Published by Holzwarth Publications, 2023
Text by Jurriaan Benschop, Glenn Brown, Katja Lembke, Reinhard Spieler

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The catalogue accompanying Glenn Brown’s double exhibition The Real Thing, currently on view at the Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover until 18 June 2023, is now available for purchase. This publication condenses the key ideas of the exhibition, which presents Brown’s work alongside a selection of historical masterworks from the two collections. In this way, Brown brings continuities and contrasts from 500 years of painting into a contemporary dialogue. The publication contains new texts by Jurriaan Benschop, Katja Lembke, and Reinhard Spieler, as well as a conversation with the artist.

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