Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art

March 28 – August 2, 2026
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20

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Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20
Grabbeplatz 5
Düsseldorf 40213
Germany
 

Presented by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and curated by Vivien Trommer, this exhibition is the first European retrospective of the work of Anne Truitt. Bringing together 120 works spanning more than four decades, the show features Truitt’s sculptures of the early 1960s, her works on paper, the white-on-white Arundel paintings, and the Pith series—among the final works she produced. Highlights include her early, vividly colored sculptures Hardcastle (1962), Remembered Sea (1971), and Quipe (1984); and shown for the first time since the 1960s is Summer Run (1964), a rare metal sculpture produced during Truitt’s time in Japan. Large-scale, elongated paintings such as Echo (1973) and Ojibwa (1993) underscore her lifelong exploration of color as both structure and sensation. 

 

The exhibition is organized by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Musée de Grenoble; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. It is accompanied by an extensively illustrated catalogue, Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art, co-published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
 
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