Press release
With Wassermusik, Haus der Kunst presents the new exhibition by Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980, Paris, France). At the centre of the exhibition is the artist’s latest stereoscopic motion picture Retinal Rivalry (2024), co-produced by Haus der Kunst. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened vision of the world around us. This key work leads viewers on a journey through folded time and inaccessible urban surfaces: dumpsters and subterranean arteries, humid landscape, and views through the eyes of the Bavaria statue at Oktoberfest. It thus enters into a close dialogue with the city of Munich and its folk festival, having it linger on as if in a strange memory, disrupting conventional perception with a sculptural and psychedelic space, and dissolving the narrative to reveal pure vision.
Curated by Xue Tan with Lydia Antoniou and Laila Wu.
Duration
17.10.25 – 22.3.26
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Credit
Cyprien Gaillard. Wassermusik
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Timo Ohler; Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
© Cyprien Gaillard
Credit
Cyprien Gaillard. Wassermusik
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Timo Ohler; Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
© Cyprien Gaillard
Credit
Cyprien Gaillard. Wassermusik
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Timo Ohler; Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
© Cyprien Gaillard
Credit
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Photographie des Nymphéas de Monet, le 30 août 1944 / Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie,
Photograph of Monet’s Water Lilies, August 30, 1944.
Collection of the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Credit
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
(3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps)
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
