RAPHAELA SIMON
Paintings and Sculptures 2012–2022 (publication)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler, Michael Werner Gallery and Hannah Hoffman Gallery
Text by Chloe Stead

This book, jointly published by Galerie Max Hetzler, Michael Werner Gallery and Hannah Hoffman Gallery, features paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Raphaela Simon from 2012 to 2021, as well as a text by Chloe Stead and conversation with the artist. The book is now available for purchase on the Galerie Max Hetzler publications website.
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RAPHAELA SIMON
Blaue Nacht (solo show)
Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
10 May – 21 July 2023

Fondazione Giuliani will host Blaue Nacht, a solo exhibition of Raphaela Simon. Known for her paintings of deceptively simple, non-distinct forms set against dark monochromatic backgrounds, Simon plays with the viewer’s desire to imbue abstract forms with meaning. Her paintings generate forms of palimpsests, with colours shining through the different layers, adding nuances to the compositions. For this exhibition, the artist will present artworks from the last couple of years, as well as new pieces produced specifically for the show. These works will include both her signature paintings on canvas, and a new corpus of sculptures.
Fondazione Giuliani

RAPHAELA SIMON
Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter (publication)
Published by Verlag Walther & Franz König, 2023
Design: Thomas Spallek

A catalogue, with German and English texts, has been published to accompany the exhibition Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter, on view at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from 10 December 2022 to 19 February 2023. In addition to an introduction by director Gregor Jansen and curator Alicia Holthausen, the catalogue features interviews with the artists, with questions from Questionnaire by Max Frisch (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1984).
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RAPHAELA SIMON et al.
Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter (group show)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
10 December 2022 – 19 February 2023

Raphaela Simon’s work will be presented alongside Carina Brandes and Florian Krewer in the trio-exhibition Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter, at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Questions of bodily self-determination and self-realisation dominate the respective oeuvres of the three artists, who were all born in the 1980s. Their work experiments with the body as an object of longing, freedom, and submission, and engages with corporeality with alternating closeness and distance.
Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter opens on 9 December 2022 and will remain on view until 19 February 2023. The exhibition is curated by Gregor Jansen and Alicia Holthausen.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
