Florian Krewer, woven thin*

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents Florian Krewer: woven thin*, the artist’s first solo exhibition in France. Organized following the artist’s donation of several works to the museum, this exhibition, at the heart of the collection’s itinerary, aims to be a plunge into the painterly universe of the German artist based in New York since 2020.

Krewer’s practice is deeply autobiographical, nourished by a direct confrontation with the world around him, in all its raw beauty as well as its violence. Drawing on both his lived experience and his imagination, the gallery of characters that populate his landscapes and ethereal interiors is stripped of any context and seems to lead an autonomous existence. Dancers, performers, animals and solitary figures traverse changing urban landscapes. They appear detached, as if freed from the gravity of the physical world and its social constraints. In this weightless universe, Krewer’s paintings celebrate moments of intimacy and collective resilience in the midst of an environment that is most often hostile.

At the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, sixteen monumental recent canvases are on display, some of which are new. Hung in a densely arranged manner, they form a dense pictorial panorama that reflects the intensity of the artist’s practice.

Florian Krewer (born 1986 in Gerolstein, Germany) studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Among his recent institutional exhibitions are Nice Dog, M WOODS Museum, Beijing (2023); everybody rise, Aspen Art Museum (2023); and Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2022). His works are in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; the Centre National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna. In 2022, Krewer received the Jean-François Prat Prize from the Bredin Prat Endowment. He lives and works in the South Bronx, New York.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by VeneKlasen Gallery, with publication scheduled for October 2026.

With the support of Arif and Dianne Suherman and The Kiki Collection.

*Finely woven