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Robert Elfgen’s “utopisch” at Sprüth Magers constructs an immersive world suspended between mythology, ecology, and spiritual atmosphere. Across sculpture, assemblage, painting, and light-based installation, the exhibition explores humanity’s relationship to nature through poetic and symbolic forms.

Elfgen’s works feel less like discrete objects than fragments of a larger cosmology. Weathered materials, translucent surfaces, and organic motifs create environments that oscillate between ruin and revelation, where perception itself becomes unstable. Transparency functions not only physically, but metaphysically—suggesting unseen forces, memory, and spiritual resonance embedded within matter.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, utopisch approaches myth as atmosphere and ultimately frames the natural world as a site of contemplation and metaphysical encounter.

Robert Elfgen, "utopisch" (installation view), 2026.
Robert Elfgen, "Emilia" (detail), 2026.
Robert Elfgen, "Cigno Nero" (installation view, 2026.
Robert Elfgen, "Al Na Jr" (detail), 2026.
Robert Elfgen, "Zacaate" (installation view), 2026. taken in Sprüth Magers by @robertelfgen

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Sperrholz, Intarsien, 300x170 2025 by @robertelfgen

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Beton/concrete 40 x60 by @robertelfgen

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60x 80 wood color 2026 by @robertelfgen

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Unser Kunst-Special ist online!

…und unter anderem kostenlos erhältlich in Museen in NRW. Und natürlich an unserem Art-Cologne-Stand, an dem wir im November unser neues Heft vorstellen. Darin schauen wir auf Ausstellungen in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Brühl, Bottrop. Und natürlich nach Köln - etwa in die Fuhrwerkswaage, die wir diesmal auf unserem Cover zeigen und in der noch bis 9. November Robert Elfgen ausstellt. Dazu besuchen wir die neue Dependance der Erfolgs-Galerie Ruttkowski;68 in Bochum. Wir porträtieren die Sammlerin und Museumsgründerin Charlotte Zander und feiern die Wiedereröffnung des Kölner Käthe-Kollwitz-Museums. (Link in Bio) @fuhrwerkswaage @spruethmagers @robertelfgen @artcolognefair @kollwitzmuseum @ruttkowski68 @zadik_koeln by @robertelfgen

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Danke an alle die das möglich gemacht haben ....... by @robertelfgen

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