DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam presents the largest international institutional survey to date of the late artist Noah Davis (1983-2015), on view from September 7, 2024, to January 5, 2025. Bringing together approximately 60 works spanning the artist’s complete oeuvre, this major touring exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Davis’ extraordinary practice. It will be the artist’s inaugural international institutional retrospective, which will subsequently travel to the Barbican, London and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Curated chronologically, the retrospective presents Davis’ relentless creativity and curiosity commencing with his first exhibition in 2007, spanning eight years until his untimely death in 2015. Featuring previously unseen paintings, works on paper and sculpture, the exhibition pays special attention to the art historical and conceptual approaches in his practice, revealing that art history, imagery, humor, and above all, people were the epicenter of his work.

Noah Davis at DAS MINSK highlights the artist’s unique perspective and extensive knowledge of the history of figurative painting, including German art, ranging from Neue Sachlichkeit and Magischer Realismus to the Leipziger Schule, while it simultaneously reveals, how his motifs riff on the so-called canon and question it by including his surroundings and community.

The exhibition Noah Davis is initiated by Barbican, London and DAS MINSK, Potsdam. This project is organised in close collaboration with the Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner Gallery.