David Lynch's Never-Before-Seen Artworks Head to Pace Gallery Berlin

Summary

• Pace Gallery in Berlin will host a solo exhibition of works by the late artist and filmmaker David Lynch
• Running from January 29 through March 22, 2026, the showcase brings forth a cross-disciplinary selection of works created between 1999 and 2022

Before David Lynch the filmmaker, there was David Lynch the artist. A voice of a generation, the late Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director lives on through a surreal and often unsettling aesthetic vocabulary that straddles the “macabre and mundane,” according to David Foster Wallace, the writer who coined the term “Lynchian” — a cryptic sensibility that first found its roots on canvas.

In January 2026, a year following his death, Pace Gallery will present a solo exhibition dedicated to Lynch’s art at its new Berlin space – a refurbished gas station, co-opened with Galerie Judin — shining a light on this foundational, though lesser known, chapter of his creative life. Gathering works across various mediums and periods, the forthcoming showcase will explores the rich depth and range of a Lynchian imagination beyond cinema.

In 1964, Lynch enrolled at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, before transferring to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He later attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for painting, where he conceived his first “moving painting” and film, “Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)” (1967), which planted the cinematic seeds for his breakout feature, Eraserhead (1977).

The forthcoming Berlin presentation will feature works created between 1999 and 2022: never-before-seen paintings and watercolors in bespoke frames, three lamps from Lynch’s Pace debut in 2022 and photographs grounded in the German capital’s industrial beauty. Early short films will also be screened in conversation with the paintings on view.

The exhibition will be on view in Berlin from January 29 through March 22, 2026, and serves as a prelude to a larger survey of Lynch’s lifelong oeuvre, going up at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery this fall.

Pace Gallery Berlin
Die Tankstelle,
Bülowstraße 18,
10783 Berlin