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3 stories across Contemporary, Matthew Barney, Sculpture, and Aspen. Latest: Galerie Max Hetzler Presents Matthew Barney's 'ZONE DEFENSE' Sculpture at Aspen Art Museum's AIR Festival.
Matthew Barney has created "ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax," a large-scale sculpture for the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR Festival. The work, described as a drawing in space, responds to the artist’s site-specific performance "TACTICAL parallax" from the festival's 2025 edition.
On June 17, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that works by Matthew Barney, Katharina Grosse and Thomas Struth are included in A Thousand Times Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof, marking the museum’s 30th anniversary with over 70 works by more than 50 artists from 1989 to the present.
On June 10, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that Albert Oehlen released the artist edition Badende in collaboration with Texte zur Kunst. The work appears in an edition of 100 plus 20 AP and 2 PP and shows a figure against a turquoise background.
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