Mies in Mind

Part of Berlin’s SUNDAY OPEN programming, organized by INDEX Berlin, Sprüth Magers is presenting “Mies in Mind,” through September 4. A tribute to the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the group exhibition features work by names like Thomas Ruff, Jenny Holzer, Thea Djordjadze, John Bock, Otto Piene, Thomas Demand. and others. Including work directly referencing the architect and linked by general themes and motifs, viewers in the gallery will find pieces like Thomas Scheibitz’s drawing of an image of Mies van der Rohe, Portrait (Studie Mies van der Rohe), Bock’s white plaster city model HOUSE METAATEM, and a sculptural video installation by Reinhard Mucha, which looks at the architect’s 1982 Die Letzten warden die Letzten sein.