INVISIBLE BORDERS – SPERLING – 2025-26

INVISIBLE BORDERS
21.11.2025-31.1.2026
Opening Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6 - 9 pm
McCarthy's solo exhibition INVISIBLE BORDERS brings together a new series of collages and drawings that interrogate the notion of borders in their social, political, emotional, and sexual dimensions. Developed between Munich and New York, the works reflect McCarthy's sustained engagement with the tensions between fragility and resistance, exposure and concealment told through a framing of the garden with images surrounding overgrowth and its constraints, its aids, as well as the transcendence therefrom. As is characteristic of her practice, the artist's process functions as both subject and methodology. In INVISIBLE BORDERS, McCarthy extends her inquiry into precarity and solidarity by aligning herself with the discarded - relinquishing control and subjecting herself and her materials to the weather, as part of the process.

https://www.sperling-munich.com/exhibitions/invisible-borders

Butterfly, fly away (kite), 2025 acrylic, paper, photograph on Northface jacket, hemp, leather, mixed media 220 x 140 x 25 cm, dimensions variable

Worms, 2025, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on chrome-plated waxcloth, 460 × 137 cm

Butterfly Bush, 2025, Acrylic, charcoal, newspaper on chrome-plated waxcloth (over a sweetheart swing), 315 × 137 cm

Magpie Island, 2025, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media, elderflowers on chrome-plated waxcloth, 139 × 106 cm

(right) Magpie Island (left) Lucy Egg 2025, mixed media on chrome-plated waxcloth, 105 × 55 cm

Tansy (business & finance), 2025, acrylic, charcoal, hemp, wax, mixed media on chrome-plated waxcloth, 315 × 137 cm

Anna McCarthy & Susanne Beck, (Schwarzbau AG) Atelier Denkmalschutz, 2025, C-Prints, table, 71 × 80 × 80 cm

photos @ sebastian kissel