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Elizabeth Warfel

ELIZABETH WARFEL

Escapist Tendencies Sprüth Magers 14 November–19 December 2026 Berlin
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Born in 1997, Elizabeth Warfel came of age amid successive smartphone upgrades, the rise of social media and the confinement of the pandemic. Her oil paintings take up the busy interiors of bars, pool halls, casinos and clubs: spaces of spectacle and communion in which one can be swept into the crowd and identity markers temporarily shed. Staged in the Berlin gallery’s Window space, Escapist Tendencies borrows the logic of the threshold, with arches and entryways framing glimpsed spaces beyond. Though no device appears, the camera phone’s presence is felt in blurred figures and warped walls. Warfel’s paintings exist where digital presence and physical space bleed together.

Elizabeth Warfel (*1997, Lancaster, PA) lives and works in New York. She studied art history and studio art at Middlebury College in Vermont and the Sorbonne in Paris. She then studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. She was featured in the group show Time of Our Lives at Anthony Gallery in Tokyo (2024).

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About the Gallery

Sprüth Magers has expanded from its roots in Cologne (Germany) to become an international gallery dedicated to exhibiting the very best in groundbreaking modern and contemporary art. With galleries located in Berlin Mitte, London’s Mayfair and the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles–as well as an office in Cologne and an outpost in Hong Kong–Sprüth Magers retains close ties with the studios and communities of the German and American artists who form the core of its roster.

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Oranienburger Straße 18
Berlin
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Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 6pm
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Berlin Oranienburger Straße 18
Spruth Magers contemporary art gallery in Berlin Germany
Sprüth Magers
Oranienburger Straße 18, Berlin, Germany
+49 302 888 4030
http://www.spruethmagers.com

Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 6pm
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