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max goelitz's new gallery space
Since this September, max goelitz can be found in new gallery spaces with an enlarged exhibition area of over 200 square meters at Maximiliansplatz 10 in Munich—in the Luitpoldblock. The gallery says: “The building complex is characterized by a multidisciplinary community of art, music, fashion, and gastronomy. Beyond numerous opportunities for cultural interim use and activation, the Luitpoldblock offers the ideal location for promoting exchange within the local art scene. Its proximity to auction houses, other galleries, and the immediate vicinity of the art district and first-class museums distinguishes this location.”
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About the gallery
Since its founding in Munich in spring 2020 and its opening in Berlin in fall 2022, max goelitz has been presenting an international program of contemporary art. The gallery represents established positions in conceptual art and focuses on emerging artists who reflect the complexity of our present—whether through their processes, their chosen media, or interdisciplinary approaches. The gallery is led by director Simone Stoll, who has been working with Max Goelitz for nine years, together with associate director Alexandra Chizhevskaya and director Gabriel Schmidt—who has been part of the team since its founding and heads the second location in Berlin, where the gallery has since focused primarily on solo presentations. Together, the team shapes the gallery’s content and shares a commitment to long-term artistic developments and discourse-oriented formats.
Max Goelitz: “Munich and Berlin form the perfect synergy for us. The collectors and the critical and valuable exchange with the public in Munich have been essential in helping us shape our vision since the gallery was founded. In the first five years, we have created a strong basis for promoting international dialog, transdisciplinary approaches and artistic freedom. I would describe our approach as rather ‘old school’, especially when it comes to content orientation, the focus on long-term development of artists‘ careers and the gallery‘s self-image as a radically relevant place where the boundaries of art are pushed – but with a strong collaborative and partnership-based approach. Together with my growing team, we see the gallery not just as an exhibition space, but as a place for collaboration, production and discourse. Our new location stands for our conviction of what a gallery can be today.”
Photo: Christian Werner
Until November 8, the gallery is presenting the second solo exhibition by the London-based artist group Troika in its new premises, exploring the fragile boundaries between nature and construction, visibility and absence in their new works. deception island marks an arrival in unknown, changing terrain—ecologically, technologically, and symbolically—where extinct species, digital flora, and machine-mediated visions converge. At the center of the presentation is the new series of works Out of Place, Out of Time (2025), in which scenarios created by text-image generators encounter the historical photographic process of platinum printing—a media field of tension between transience and permanence. One of these works shows the eponymous volcanic island on the edge of Antarctica, where a now extinct Key Largo cactus improbably takes root against an icy backdrop. The exhibition is complemented by the new sculptural series Ultraflora (2025), in which pioneer plants are digitally captured and transformed back into tangible form as filigree metal shapes, as well as paintings from the series Forest Filled with Pines and Electronics, which were shown earlier this year in Troika’s solo exhibition Pink Noise at the Langen Foundation in Neuss.
Troika is an artist collective founded in 2003 by Eva Rucki (*1976, Germany), Conny Freyer (*1976, Germany), and Sebastien Noel (*1977, France). The artists live and work in London, UK. In their paintings, sculptures, films, and large-scale installations, they explore the interactions between analog and digital realities. Their work focuses on experiences and insights gained through technology and how these transform humanity’s relationship to nature, society, and reality on a global scale. Their collaborative approach is usually based on in-depth scientific research in the fields of natural philosophy and the history of technology.
The editorial on the current solo exhibition deception island in Munich is now online. The latest works, exhibitions, and projects by the artist group Troika are presented through in-depth insights into their artistic practice, texts about their work, quotes, and photographic and film documentation.
Above: Troika, Out of place, out of time, Lostman´s river, 2025; Rechts: Troika – Forest filled with Pines and Electronics, 2024, Photos: Dirk Tacke