Zander Galerie
Ed Ruscha , United States
"Cityscapes"
Installation view, Zander Galerie, Cologne 2024, featuring works by Ed Ruscha: If You Ever Tell I'll Hurt Your Mama Real Real Bad, 1994, If No Cash By Noon You Will Have Visitors, 1997, Do As Told Or Suffer, 1997, and A Columbian Necklace for You, 1997.
Zander Galerie Paris is delighted to present a selection of Ed Ruscha’s Cityscapes series, painted between 1994 and 1997. With these works Ruscha explores the intersection of language, meaning, and abstraction. Each work features blank spaces corresponding to cryptic or menacing messages inscribed below—some invented, others inspired by real-life ransom notes. These works evoke censorship, redaction, and the fragmented nature of communication, playing with the idea that meaning is shaped as much by omission as by presence. Ruscha’s ability to distill visual and linguistic tension into a minimalist aesthetic creates a realm of poetic ambiguity and subversive wit.
Solo show by Ed Ruscha
From May 22nd to June 28th, 2025
The gallery
Zander Galerie, based in Cologne since 1996, represents international artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. Its photography section, established since the very beginning, is the foundation of the program. It centres on artists considering their medium within the larger concerns of contemporary art, taking Walker Evans’ documentary style as a main reference point.
The opening of Zander Galerie Paris marks the continuation of its aim to foster dialogue and appreciation of these mediums and brings outstanding artworks to the new venue in the heart of the French capital.
Located in the vibrant district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Parisian venue features exhibitions of contemporary art and photography by renowned and emerging artists. The gallery embraces the intimate scale of the exhibition space, offering a uniquely focused environment for visitors to engage with the artworks.
Gallery artists
Robert Adams, Peter Alexander, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Lothar Baumgarten, Christiane Baumgartner, Victor Burgin, Allana Clarke, Peter Downsbrough, Don Dudley, Mitch Epstein, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andrea Geyer, Joe Goode, Anthony Hernandez, Candida Höfer, Jürgen Klauke, Tarrah Krajnak, Helen Levitt, Anthony McCall, John McLaughlin, Dieter Meier, Santu Mofokeng, Sabine Moritz, Tod Papageorge, Joanna Piotrowska, Max Regenberg, Tata Ronkholz, Judith Joy Ross, Molly Springfield, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Sultan, Günter Umberg, Henry Wessel, James White
