Thaddaeus Ropac Opens Exhibition Pairing Painter Boeckl and Sculptor Josephsohn
The Facts
On July 24, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced an exhibition pairing Austrian painter Herbert Boeckl (1894–1966) with Swiss-born sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), two artists who never met. The show stages a dialogue between their respective practices, highlighting parallels in their treatment of corporeality, materiality, and the process of form-making. Rather than reviving the historical paragone debate between painting and sculpture, the exhibition pursues a phenomenological comparison across divergent historical, spatial, and cultural contexts.
The Signal
The pairing draws on a growing curatorial interest in cross-medium affinities, moving beyond rivalry to reveal shared formal and experiential concerns. For collectors, the presentation underscores the sustained relevance of figuration and material presence in 20th-century art, especially in the work of two figures whose practices bridge classical modernism and postwar expressionism. The exhibition also reinforces Thaddaeus Ropac’s program of generating dialogue between historically distant but aesthetically resonant artists.
- Artists: Herbert Boeckl, Hans Josephsohn
- Galleries: Thaddaeus Ropac
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