Press Release

Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present strike the dust, the first West Coast exhibition of new paintings by prominent German-born, New York-based painter Florian Krewer.

Full of rampant desires and fervent dreams, Krewer chronicles his recent travels, experiences, and revelries on the canvas. He celebrates community and love, while at the same time documenting his profound feelings of injustice, isolation, loneliness, and loss. Deeply personal and autobiographical, Krewer’s visceral and impassioned paintings are also universal. They offer up a world in which everyone has the freedom to love without barriers and bask in the fullness of nature and humanity.

Florian Krewer (born in Gerolstein, Germany in 1986) has exhibited around the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Nice Dog, M WOODS Museum, Beijing; light the ocean, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; everybody rise, Aspen Art Museum; Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; and ride or fly, Michael Werner Gallery, London. The artist received the Prix Jean-François Prat awarded by the Bredin Prat Foundation in 2022. Krewer lives and works in the South Bronx, New York.

strike the dust opens to the public on 14 September from 10am to 6pm with an opening reception on 13 September from 5 to 8pm and will remain on view through 16 November. A catalogue with text by Hiji Nam will accompany the exhibition. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6 pm.

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About the Artist

Florian Krewer is a New York-based German figurative artist, who trained under Peter Doig.

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About the Gallery

In 1963, Michael Werner opened his first gallery, Werner & Katz, in Berlin, Germany with the first solo exhibition of Georg Baselitz. Galerie Michael Werner was later established in Cologne in 1969. Since then, Galerie Michael Werner has worked with several of the most important artists of the twentieth century, including Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Eugène Leroy, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke and Don Van Vliet.

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