Artists Space

Jana Euler
Exhibitionism

Book Launch
April 17, 2025, 7pm

Book launch & conversation
Thursday, April 17th
7pm
Free, no RSVP required

This book is dedicated to my practice of exhibition making. I often think of an exhibition as a body, made up of all the parts that go into the different aspects of exhibiting. Exhibitionism does not give an exhaustive account of my work, but rather is a subjective expression of my own retrospection.
—Jana Euler

Please join us for a book launch for Exhibitionism (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025). The artist will be in conversation with Jay Sanders.

A basement gallery is filled with red light and disco lights. On the far wall is projected a book cover featuring a painting of a naked body with body parts squished together. Fake chairs drawn in black outline are placed around the space.
[A basement gallery is filled with red light and disco lights. On the far wall is projected a book cover featuring a painting of a naked body with body parts squished together. Fake chairs drawn in black outline are placed around the space.]

Exhibitionism documents over fifteen years in the working life of Jana Euler, whose witty and exuberant painting practice is as stylistically varied as it is critically incisive—always attuned to the social and material bases of her chosen medium. This richly illustrated monograph highlights Euler’s unique approach to producing exhibitions, which the artist has likened to a kind of “body, made up of all the parts that go into the different aspects of exhibiting.” From her first forays as a student to major solo presentations at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, WIELS, Brussels, and more, Exhibitionism traces her evolving practice through her own memories and studio archive: surfacing invitation cards, exhibition texts, posters and diagrams, alongside new drawings and collages made especially for the book.

Jana Euler (b. 1982, Friedberg, Germany) lives and works in Frankfurt and Brussels. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (2024–25); WIELS, Brussels (2024); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Artists Space, New York (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Portikus, Frankfurt (2015), and Kunsthalle Zürich and Bonner Kunstverein (2015/14). Significant group shows include the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022); Museum Brandhorst (2023); Kunstmuseum Basel (2022); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2021); Manifesta 13, Marseille, France (2020); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2019); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); mumok, Vienna (2018); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2017); Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany (2013); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013), among others.

Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.

    Carousel of spreads from an artist's book, featuring text and reproductions of colorful paintings and drawings.
    Book spreads from Exhibitionism, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025. [Carousel of spreads from an artist's book, featuring text and reproductions of colorful paintings and drawings.]