Coinciding with Coproduction Office’s acquisition of EUPHORIA (2026), Julian Rosefeldt’s latest feature film starring Giancarlo Esposito and with the voice of Cate Blanchett, Galerie Philippe Bober opens Julian Rosefeldt’s solo exhibition GONE ASTRAY in parallel to Berlinale.

In GONE ASTRAY, the German artist and filmmaker powerfully exposes cinematic conventions as allegories for individual and collective behaviour across four works brought together for the first time: Trilogy of Failure (2004–2005), Detonation Deutschland (1996), Meine Kunst kriegt hier zu fressen – Hommage à Max Beckmann (2002) and Deep Gold (2013/2014).

One hundred years on from Beckmann’s time we’re facing similar scenarios. Through both content and the mechanisms of cinema, Rosefeldt’s works subtly highlight recurring patterns that reverberate in the present: the trap of mundane routines, attempts to erase and rewrite collective memory, a lingering financial crisis and the dangerous and looming rise of fascism. These political undercurrents are often masked by the absurdist register that his films carry.

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Please find the full exhibition press release here EUPHORIA international sales press release here.

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Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt (b. Munich in 1965) studied Architecture in Munich and Barcelona (MA 1994). He is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving image artworks, mostly presented as complex multi-screen installations. Inspired equally by the histories of film, art and popular culture, Rosefeldt uses familiar cinematic tropes to carry viewers into surreal, theatrical realms, where the inhabitants are absorbed by the rituals of everyday life, employing humour and satire to seduce audiences into familiar worlds made strange. Rosefeldt holds a professorship of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2011. 

 

Recent solo shows were held at: 

C/O Berlin (2025), World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte (2023), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2022), Museum MACAN, Jakarta (2020), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2019), Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2018), Musée d’Art Contemporain Montréal (2018), Auckland Art Gallery (2018), Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2017), HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2017), National Gallery Prague (2017), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016), Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2016), Sprengel Museum Hanover (2016) and ACMI – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2015). 

 

Recent group shows include: 

Dix und die Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2024), Die Kunst der Gesellschaft, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (2021-2023), The Cindy Sherman Effect, Kunstforum Vienna (2020), Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang Essen (2015) and Tate Modern London (2014)

 

Collections including his works, a.o.: 

Museum of Modern Art New York, Nationalgalerie Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Goetz Collection Munich, Auckland Art Gallery, CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Miami, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich, Sprengel Museum Hannover, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.​

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The exhibition design was realised in collaboration with Peter Klare and Alexander Wolf.