Artists

Kate Newby

Press release

Kate Newby's site-responsive work addresses the transit zone in front of Museum Brandhorst as a site of permanent change. Like a sculptural drawing in the landscape, her intervention “anything, anything” resists the monumental and the closed—grasping public space as a place of interwoven histories, times, and contradictions. EXHIBITION INFO Period 14 May 2026 until 30 May 2027 Location Outdoor space Curated by Franziska Linhardt ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Around 1,000 bricks have been set in the ground in two long lines of over 80 meters along the swath of green between the museum building and the sidewalk of what is known as the “Türkenstraße” (Turks’ Street). Opened in the context of the exhibition “Carrying,” the intervention will remain on view in public space for twelve months—a full cycle of seasons. Before firing the bricks, Newby worked the material: traces gathered in the urban fabric—drawings, incisions, and patterns pressed into the clay, at times with glass shards that are fused inseparably with the material. Rainwater, debris, and objects carried by the wind collect within the bricks over time—like small pieces of landscape—creating localized artifacts that document transience and the social texture of the place. This intervention was first created in 2024 for Klosterruine Berlin and takes on a new form in Munich. Running toward Walter De Maria’s “Large Red Sphere” (2002–10) in the “Türkentor” (Turks’ Gate), it resists the monumental and the closed. Embedded in the earth along the “Türkenstraße,” the work recalls canal channels—and points to the never-realized waterway project of the “Türkengraben” (Turks’ Canal) that gave the street its name. KATE NEWBY Kate Newby (*1979 in Auckland) studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, where she received her Doctor of Fine Arts in 2015. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in places such as Melbourne, Mexico City, Brussels, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Toronto, Vienna, London and more. Newby has completed artist residencies in Germany, Australia, the USA, Mexico and Canada, including at the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, 2012), Fogo Island Arts (2012–13) and ISCP (NYC, 2012). She was awarded the Walters Prize in 2012 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2019. Kate Newby lives and works in San Antonio, Texas, USA.