# Oliver Bak

> Oliver Bak’s vibrant painterly topographies stem from a deep engagement… Oliver Bak at Sprüth Magers in Uptown. Opens Jan 14, on view through Mar 13, 2027.

- Venue: [Sprüth Magers](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/spruth_magers.html.md)
- Address: 22 East 80th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10075 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=22+East+80th+Street%2C+2nd+Floor%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10075))
- Neighborhood: Uptown
- Status: Opens Jan 14, on view through Mar 13, 2027
- Section: [NYC Art Galleries](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/index.html.md)
- Web page: https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/spruth_magers/oliver-bak.html
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- Last updated: Nov 05, 2026 at 07:24 AM

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- When: Opens Jan 14, on view through Mar 13, 2027
- Run: Jan 14 – Mar 13, 2027
- Source: https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/oliver-bak-new-york/

Oliver Bak’s vibrant painterly topographies stem from a deep engagement with historical painting traditions, their ideas and visual languages reimagined within a contemporary context. His mottled brushwork builds up dense, overlapping layers to form a pictorial space in which fragments gradually emerge through successive narrative veils, allowing multiple strands of meaning to take shape. Sprüth Magers is delighted to present Bak’s first solo exhibition at the New York gallery, marking the Danish artist’s debut in the United States. In his latest body of work, spectral figures drift into slumber among floral forms. Sleep appears here in two registers: the outward stillness of bodies at rest and the inner dreamscape into which consciousness wanders and clouds over. As the artist paints, ephemeral images are sublimated through a palimpsestic process to materialize something unconscious. Bak’s process therefore converges with its subject: sleep as a fragile threshold between life and death, giving way to oneiric states suspended between earthbound natural forms and the cosmic, celestial quality that suffuses his paintings.

## Also on at Sprüth Magers

- [Thea Djordjadze: A well of night](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/spruth_magers/thea-djordjadze-a-well-of-night.html.md) — On view through Dec 12