Acclaimed artist and filmmaker David Lynch presents a new exhibition that brings together his multidisciplinary artistic practice at Pace Gallery. The show features a curated selection of paintings, sculptures, watercolors, photographs, and early short films, offering insight into Lynch’s distinctive visual language across different media.

The exhibition also includes photographs taken by Lynch in Berlin in 1999. Captured in abandoned industrial sites, these images highlight his fascination with the aesthetic power of industrial architecture smokestacks, broken windows, machinery, and factory structures. The decaying urban landscapes reveal the haunting atmosphere and sense of mystery that frequently appears throughout Lynch’s artistic work.

Lynch has long described himself primarily as a visual artist. While studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1960s, he created his first experimental “moving painting,” Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), combining painting with projected imagery. This early experiment laid the foundation for the material exploration and image-based storytelling that would continue to shape his practice.

The Berlin presentation highlights the unsettling and enigmatic imagery often associated with Lynch’s work. Drawing on elements of Surrealism, his paintings combine visual symbolism with fragments of text and narrative, creating an atmosphere of tension that seems to emerge from the subconscious.

Also on view are Lynch’s watercolors often rendered in bold reds, deep blues, and flashes of yellow alongside paintings presented in frames designed by the artist himself. Three upright lamp sculptures made from steel, resin, plexiglass, plaster, and wood punctuate the exhibition space, transforming Lynch’s signature cinematic lighting into a physical sculptural presence.

Lynch’s artistic career spans decades and includes numerous international exhibitions. His 1989 solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery introduced his visual art to a broader audience. In 2007, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain presented The Air Is on Fire, which later traveled to Milan, Moscow, and Copenhagen. One of the most comprehensive presentations of his work, Someone Is in My House, was held at the Bonnefanten Museum in 2018 and featured more than 500 artworks.

The Berlin exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the unique creative universe Lynch has built between cinema and visual art. It also precedes a major exhibition of his work scheduled for fall 2026 at Pace Gallery, in the artist’s hometown.