To mark the 20th anniversary of its Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of its Hors-les-murs initiative, Fondation Louis Vuitton presents a new exhibition by Wilhelm Sasnal at Espace Louis Vuitton München.
Titled Grey Eyes, the exhibition brings together works from the past two decades, drawn from both the Fondation’s collection and the artist’s studio. It forms part of the Hors-les-murs programme, which extends the Fondation’s reach through Espaces Louis Vuitton in cities including Tokyo, Venice, Beijing, Seoul, Osaka, and Munich.
Sasnal rose to prominence in the late 1990s and is known for a practice that examines how images shape memory and history. Working primarily in painting, with extensions into drawing and film, he transforms source material such as press photography, film stills, and everyday imagery through cropping, simplification, and fragmentation. The result is work that feels at once familiar and distant.
His compositions resist fixed meaning. Portraits, landscapes, and architectural elements coexist without hierarchy, often carrying subtle historical or political weight tied to 20th-century Europe. Across the exhibition, the recurring motif of the eye introduces a meditation on perception in a world saturated with images. Grey becomes a space of ambiguity, where visibility and obscurity exist at the same time.
By assembling the works himself, Sasnal creates a dialogue between intimate scenes and broader cultural references, posing a quiet but persistent question about what it means to see today.
Grey Eyes is now on view at Espace Louis Vuitton München.