
Brishty Alam, Kazuko Miyamoto, David Gruber, Installation view, Art Düsseldorf, 2026. Photo by choreo.info

Kazuko Miyamoto, Lines passing over rectangles, 1976/2024, silkscreen print, 56 x 76 cm

David Gruber, Untitled, 2025, tempera and oil on linen, 30 x 40 cm, photo kunst-dokumentation.com

David Gruber, Untitled, 2026, tempera and oil on linen, 53 x 45 cm

David Gruber, Untitled, 2026, tempera and oil on linen, 53 x 45 cm

Brishty Alam, The ass in the tiger’s skin, 2020-2026, masking tape, steel, polyethylene, oil paint, charcoal, dimensions variable

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1972/2026, string and nails, 138 x 36,5 x 1,5 cm

Kazuko Miyamoto, Stunt, 1982, three-part photocopy collage, 69 x 30 cm

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1972, color crayon on vellum, 51 x 64 cm

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1976/2023, Screenprint, 61,5 x 55 cm

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled (detail), 1972/2026, string and nails, 172 x 182 x 1,5 cm

Brishty Alam, Kazuko Miyamoto, David Gruber, Installation view, Art Düsseldorf, 2026. Photo by choreo.info
For ART DÜSSELDORF, works by Kazuko Miyamoto (born 1942), Brishty Alam (born 1988), and David Gruber (born 1989) are set in dialogue. The exhibited works reference vertical and horizontal spaces through connecting patterns. These patterns, from grids to neuronal networks, inform or disrupt any analytical rasterization of spacial order. Alam’s large-scale sculpture, which in itself is the negative imprint of another work, is the shedded skin of its former self, a biomorphic residue. Gruber’s paintings appear as fractured remains, of masks or shapes in states of flux and visual uncertainty. Miyamoto’s early string pieces from 1972 focus on the artist’s transition from minimalist pattern to a more bodily form that would become increasingly important to the artist. Further, the artists’ individual practices refer to each other through their reduced, anti-opulent and muted materiality. When viewed together, the three artists present ways of perceiving identity beyond the occupancy of spatial volume towards individuality and intimacy.
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