Mindset Los Angeles – Works from the Schürmann Collection

Lippold-Gallery

27. 6.

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8. 11. 2026

During this period, the Los Angeles art scene—as a broad cultural mindset—extends across the entire museum. The California spirit, along with the dystopian counter-narratives that shadow it, forms a conceptual matrix for an artistic milieu that continues to shape generations of practitioners. Selected works from the extensive Schürmann Collection present seminal artistic perspectives from the 1990s and 2000s, following on from the Cool School artists featured on the ground floor.

At the heart of the Lippold Gallery stands Jason Rhoades’s laboratory-like installation The Great Sea Battles of Wilhelm Schürmann (1994–95), inspired by photographs taken by the collector. Questions of social fragmentation, tension, and conflicting imagery—often within the framework of US (consumer) culture—set the conceptual backdrop for the sculptures and paintings gathered here.

Once again, Marta’s architecture as a site of spatial experience—and the ever-resonant Herford–Los Angeles axis—comes sharply into focus within the museum’s exhibition program.

Artists

Edgar Arceneaux, Sean Duffy, Sam Durant, Richard Hawkins, Jason Rhoades, Aura Rosenberg, among others

Accompanying program

The exhibition program will be published here shortly.

Thanks

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Marta Herford Corporate Partners and Corporate Premium Partners, as well as the Marta Fund for New Art, for their long-term support of our program.