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The solo exhibition
„THE MIRROR ME“
PETER SIMON MÜHLHÄUßER @peter_s_m
October 16 to November 21, 2026
Opening Thursday, October 15, 7-10 p.m.

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SAVE THE DATE
Open Art Munich Gallery Weekend
16.–18. Oktober 2026

Drei Tage ganz im Zeichen der zeitgenössischen Kunst:
Beim 38. OPEN ART MUNICH Gallery Weekend öffnen Münchens Galerien gemeinsam mit zahlreichen Partnerinstitutionen ihre Türen und laden dazu ein, Kunst neu zu entdecken.

Freut euch auf:
• spannende Ausstellungen
• Sonderöffnungszeiten
• geführte Rundgänge
• inspirierende Begegnungen mit zeitgenössischer Kunst

Ob Kunstliebhaber:in, Sammler:in oder einfach neugierig – dieses Wochenende gehört in euren Kalender! @openartmunich @galerie_artoxin taken in München Germany by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Impressionen

15. Oktober 2026

PETER SIMON MÜHLHÄUßER

THE MIRROR ME

October 16 to November 21, 2026

„Moving between vulnerability and strength, seduction and irritation, Peter Simon Mühlhäußer’s nearly life-sized sculptures in bronze, directly carved marble, and cast concrete address themes of identity, sexuality, and social perception. Rather than reproducing reality, his figures develop through memory, imagination, and intuition, opening deep spaces for projection and psychological tension.“

„Zwischen Verletzlichkeit und Stärke, Verführung und Irritation beschäftigen sich Peter Simon Mühlhäußers nahezu lebensgroße Skulpturen aus Bronze, direkt bearbeitetem Marmor
und gegossenem Beton mit Themen
wie Identität, Sexualität und gesellschaftlicher Wahrnehmung.
Anstatt die Realität abzubilden, entwickeln sich seine Figuren aus Erinnerung, Vorstellungskraft und Intuition und eröffnen tiefe Räume
für Projektion und psychologische Spannung.“

GALLERY STƎPHAN STUMPF
gallery for contemporary art
Schleißheimer Straße 44 / Munich taken in Munich, Bavaria, Germany by @gallerystephanstumpf

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SAVE THE DATE: We are delighted to announce the solo exhibition THE MIRROR ME by Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, on view from October 16 to November 21, 2026. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 15, from 7 to 10 pm.

Moving between vulnerability and strength, seduction and irritation, Peter Simon Mühlhäußer’s nearly life-sized sculptures in bronze, directly carved marble, and cast concrete address themes of identity, sexuality, and social perception.

Rather than reproducing reality, his figures develop through memory, imagination, and intuition, opening deep spaces for projection and psychological tension.

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).

#contemporarysculpture #figurativesculpture #contemporaryart #gallerystephanstumpf #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @peter_s_m @openartmunich by @gallerystephanstumpf

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SAVE THE DATE: We are delighted to announce the solo exhibition THE MIRROR ME by Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, on view from October 16 to November 21, 2026. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 15, from 7 to 10 pm.

Moving between vulnerability and strength, seduction and irritation, Peter Simon Mühlhäußer’s nearly life-sized sculptures in bronze, directly carved marble, and cast concrete address themes of identity, sexuality, and social perception.

Rather than reproducing reality, his figures develop through memory, imagination, and intuition, opening deep spaces for projection and psychological tension.

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).

#contemporarysculpture #figurativesculpture #contemporaryart #gallerystephanstumpf #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @peter_s_m @openartmunich taken in München Germany by @gallerystephanstumpf

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SAVE THE DATE: We are delighted to announce the solo exhibition THE MIRROR ME by Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, on view from October 16 to November 21, 2026. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 15, from 7 to 10 pm.

Moving between vulnerability and strength, seduction and irritation, Peter Simon Mühlhäußer's nearly life-sized sculptures in bronze, directly carved marble, and cast concrete address themes of identity, sexuality, and social perception.

Rather than reproducing reality, his figures develop through memory, imagination, and intuition, opening deep spaces for projection and psychological tension.

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).

#contemporarysculpture #figurativesculpture #contemporaryart #gallerystephanstumpf #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @peter_s_m by @gallerystephanstumpf

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14 days ago

Jule Behrenswerth works with memories, everyday observations, and the possibilities contained within past moments. Through painting, she explores how perception and memory shape our reality and how we locate ourselves as individuals within a shared experience.

In Jule Behrenswerth’s work, the park appears as a controlled and carefully measured form of nature, a temporary retreat between the street and everyday life. Yet behind this familiar idyll, contradictions begin to emerge: heat, drought, and the limitations of this constructed experience of nature. The park thus becomes both a place of longing and a reflection of our ambivalent relationship with the natural world.

The group exhibition DISTURBANCE is on view through October 10, 2026. Thu-Sat, 3-7 pm, or by appointment.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @jul_ischka

© Jule Behrenswerth, SUMMER IN THE PARK, 2026, oil on canvas, 160 × 170 cm by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Closeness can be quite cruel. At least in the animal kingdom. Sometimes a partner ends up as dinner, rivals are simply eliminated, or a mate is absorbed forever. Pakistani artist Hira Khan explores precisely these rather unsettling stories. In her series “Kill, Fuck, Marry”, we encounter a honeybee, a praying mantis, and an anglerfish. But Hira Khan is interested in far more than the peculiarities of nature. Needle and thread become her writing tools. With them, she tells stories that open our eyes. On recycled plastic sacks, she creates works that seem almost playful, yet speak of power, violence, and female dominance. And it is precisely this textile unease that Hira Khan evokes in us that fascinates me.

Hira Khan is a Pakistani artist from Karachi who has been living and working in Munich since 2021. Her practice centres on experimental, material-based approaches to sculpture, using the different processes as the starting point for her artistic research. Khan’s thematic concerns are informed by feminist discourse, drawing parallels between personal movement and structures of migration and integration.

In this series, Hira Khan explores mating and reproduction in the animal kingdom through the interplay of intimacy, violence and female dominance. The honey bee, praying mantis and anglerfish transform the conversational-party game “Kill, Fuck, Marry” into an unsettling love story in which survival, possession and mating take the place of romantic ideals, and present the female in power: physically, sexually and symbolically.
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Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @hirakhan1919 @openartmunich

© Hira Khan, fuckmarrykill 1-3, 2026, hand embroidery on plastic rice sacks with drawings, 25 cm x 25 cm taken in München Germany by @gallerystephanstumpf

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The group exhibition DISTURBANCE is on view through October 10, 2026. Thu-Sat, 3-7 pm, or by appointment.

What exactly is “nature” - and what internal and external images arise when we juggle with this term? The exhibition DISTURBANCE is dedicated to this elusive whole: nature as a space of existence that shelters us, yet does not belong to us. As a black box that defies any comprehensive human control or prediction. A (meta-)physical playground within which we navigate between connectedness and alienation.

DISTURBANCE looks beyond idyllic idealizations to explore the essential approaches, inner concepts, and manifold levels of meaning of “nature,” which are brought to light by art in a socially critical, pure, and disturbing manner.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @marielynnspeckert @__andrea_gallo__ taken in München Germany by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Andrea Gallo develops his paintings from intuitive impulses that continuously evolve throughout the creative process. Influenced by his engagement with architecture, stage design and visual communication, his works merge human figures and landscape into a shared pictorial space in which nature appears not as a backdrop, but as an active and unsettling force.

In Andrea Gallo’s paintings, the boundaries between the human figure and the natural environment begin to dissolve. Acidic colours and liquefying landscapes evoke a natural world altered by human intervention while simultaneously asserting its own force. The disturbance emerges from a relationship in which humanity and nature can no longer be separated.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @__andrea_gallo__

© Andrea Gallo, Paesaggio con figura, 2026, oil on canvas, 60 x 110 cm, price or exposè on request. by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Susannah Martin combines the precision of classical oil painting with a contemporary visual language that draws on Fantastic and Magical Realism. Her works explore the boundaries between reality and imagination, revealing how the human mind shapes the world we perceive.

What initially appears to be an idyllic landscape gradually reveals itself as a reflection of human projections. The dragon exists only because the protagonist allows it to grow within her imagination. In this way, the true disturbance is found not in nature, but within ourselves.

The group exhibition DISTURBANCE is on view through October 10, 2026. Thu-Sat, 3-7 pm, or by appointment.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @susannah_martin

© Susannah Martin, The Dragon Hunt, 2023, oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Raphael Auer lives and works in seclusion on a remote farmstead surrounded by forest, which serves as his home, habitat, and studio. Through his direct engagement with wood, transformation, and natural processes of decay, he creates sculptures that reflect on transience and the preciousness of life.

In ROBICA, the red wood ant, formed from split oak, becomes a monument to the quiet power of the collective. Individual fragments, marked by time, decay, and transformation, come together to form a supporting structure, making collective strength the central force of the work.

The group exhibition DISTURBANCE is on view through October 10, 2026. Thu-Sat, 3-7 pm, or by appointment.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @grabenvalley

© Raphael Auer, ROBICA, 2026, Eichenholz, ca. 280 x 170 cm by @gallerystephanstumpf

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Oskar Rahe is a Swedish-German artist who lives, works and studies in Munich. Working primarily with wood, he combines precise craftsmanship with the inherent qualities of the material, exploring the tension between order and chaos, stability and fragility, control and chance.

In Álfadans, movement is frozen within the material while remaining perceptible in space. The sculpture moves between natural order and uncontrollable change, searching for a balance that can never be entirely stable. The “fairy dance” thus becomes an image of nature’s invisible and fragile dynamics.

The group exhibition DISTURBANCE is on view through October 10, 2026. Thu-Sat, 3-7 pm, or by appointment.

Participating artists: Andrea Gallo, Betty Mü, Hira Khan, Hope Bartley, Jule Behrenswerth, Liza Mercedes, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nae Zerka, Oskar Rahe, Raphael Auer, Susannah Martin

Schleißheimer Straße 44, Munich, Thu–Sat 3–7 pm or by appointment.
More information on our website (link in bio).
#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #munichart @gallerystephanstumpf @rahe.oskar

© Oskar Rahe, Álfadans, 2026, wood and wood stain, 170 x 100 x 40 cm by @gallerystephanstumpf

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