Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Sessions and Intervals

Opening Thursday Nov. 12, 6–8 pm

Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zurich

Opening: Thursday, Nov. 12

Nov. 12 - Dec. 19, 2026
Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zurich

We're pleased to present Sessions and Intervals, the third solo exhibition of Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Following the artist’s highly successful museum exhibitions at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (28 February to 14 June 2026) and the Sprengel Museum Hannover (1 July to 4 October 2026), the gallery shows new works that offer a concentrated insight into two decades of his practice.

With Sessions and Intervals, Sepuya looks back on the many sessions and cycles of intervals, on the processes, repetitions, and gradual experiments and changes that have shaped the interconnected bodies of work of Dark Room from 2016 to 2025. The museum exhibitions offered a moment of reflection and, at the same time, marked the point at which to begin a new chapter and leave his previous studio behind.

At the center of the exhibition are two new groups of work: the Portfolio series and new collages. Created in close engagement with his extensive archive, the Portfolio series is presented here for the first time. It picks up on the most recent works of the project TRANCE (2024–ongoing) and introduces an interplay between dynamic snapshots and night photography on the one hand and strictly formalized studio photographs on the other. It also includes the latest works from the ten-year cycle in Sepuya’s East Los Angeles studio, which shaped his projects from 2016 to 2026. The selected motifs thus come from different phases of his work and offer a special view of the development of his photographic thinking. Sepuya explores what it means to file away or archive things, and how sifting and sorting can create room for the unknown, connecting to his earlier unique artist’s book series and previous collages, which likewise emerged from finding meaning through filing away.