Sprüth Magers Dissects the Anatomy of ‘Horror’
The all-star group exhibition is now on view in Los Angeles through February 14, 2026.
Summary
- Sprüth Magers Los Angeles has unveiled Horror, a new group show curated by artist Jill Mulleady
- Running through February 14, the exhibition gathers work from a star-studded roster stretching across generation and place, all exploring the aesthetic and psychological power of horror
We fear what we think we know, argues Jill Mulleady, featured artist and curator of Sprüth Magers‘ new group show, Horror. Staged at the gallery’s Los Angeles outpost, the exhibition gathers an intergenerational lineup of names exploring the aesthetic depths of horror and the tight grasp it has on our personal and collective psychologies.
“Horror takes things we inherently trust — the human form, domestic spaces, children’s toys, or the natural world — and renders them repulsive,” Mulleady penned in the exhibition statement. “Horror finds its true power in betrayal.”
The exhibition builds on the legacy of Mike Kelley‘s seminal 1983 exhibition and text, The Uncanny, though tilts more toward visceral shock than the ambient discomfort of Sigmund Freud’s historic concept. Here, we see artists employ fear and repulsion as means to uncover deeper social and cultural truths, the ones we often busy ourselves with trying to bury.
Many works turn to the body as a volatile site of transformation, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Tyler Mitchell, Sondra Perry and Precious Okoyomon. Others, such as those by Paul Thek and Anne Imhof, twist realism into psychological rupture, forcing viewers to encounter mortality and decay head-on.
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Horror, as the exhibition suggests, is a cultural barometer; it’s an allegorical space where we can digest our fears safely. In this reading, the monster is never supernatural, but rather a metaphor for political and institutional collapse, as in the work of Kara Walker, Arthur Jafa and Henry Taylor. Elsewhere, contributions from Jonathan Glazer, Jordan Wolfson, Otessa Moshfegh and Harmony Korine, force self-reflection with brilliantly humorous hand, refracted into cinematic fragments and sculptural pleasures.
“By shocking us into intense self-reflection about what we fear and why, horror connects our internal landscape to the wider human narrative,” Mulleady continues, “it transcends chaos, becoming a tool for reflecting a profound empathy for the precariousness of the human experience.”
The exhibition is now on view in Los Angeles through February 14, 2026. Read on for the full list of featured names.
Exhibiting Artists:
Dario Argento
Antonin Artaud
Oliver Bak
Bruce Conner
Mati Diop & Fatima Al Qadiri
Cyprien Gaillard
Jonathan Glazer
Anne Imhof
Arthur Jafa
Asger Jorn,
Mike Kelley
Karen Kilimnik
Harmony Korine
Tetsumi Kudo
Mire Lee
Diego Marcon
Tyler Mitchell
Ottessa Moshfegh
Jill Mulleady
Precious Okoyomon,
Sondra Perry
Carol Rama
Cindy Sherman
Pol Taburet
Henry Taylor
Paul Thek
Rosemarie Trockel
Andra Ursuta
Kara Walker
Jordan Wolfson
