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Kings Road : Mona Kuhn’s solo exhibition
Kings Road : Mona Kuhn’s solo exhibition
Time | 2025.12.6 – 2026.1.31
Artists | Mona Kuhn
Venue | UP Gallery 2F viewing room
UP Gallery is delighted to announce the return of internationally acclaimed artist Mona Kuhn for a solo exhibition, opening December 6, 2025, and running through January 31, 2026. Following the success of her 2019 solo show at the gallery, Intimate, which centered on photography, the gallery is thrilled to present Kuhn’s latest exploration in our second-floor viewing room, offering visitors an immersive experience to her most recent project.
This exhibition introduces Kuhn’s newest series, Kings Road, in which she lyrically reconsiders the interplay of time and space within the architectural marvel of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Designed in 1922 by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler, the house served as both a social and design experiment, becoming an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Through her lens, Kuhn captures the house not merely as a structure, but as a living space that embodies historical, cultural, and emotional resonance.
For this presentation, Kuhn expands her practice beyond photography to include a video work accompanied by delicate solarised prints from the Kings Road series. The installation is further enriched by a 15-minute surround-sound original score composed by Boris Salchow, enveloping the viewer in a multisensory dialogue between image, sound, and space.
For over 25 years, Mona Kuhn has employed photography and lens-based media to re-examine figurative discourse, exploring both the physical and metaphysical presence of the human figure. Through her work, Kuhn invites audiences to reflect on the subtleties of our existence, uncovering the hidden depths of shared human experience.
This new exhibition at UP Gallery promises to be an intimate yet expansive encounter with one of contemporary photography’s most compelling voices.
About 2F Screening Room @ UP Gallery
A new initiative commenced in 2024 through collaboration with LG, designed to accentuate the significance of moving images, videos, and film works. In 2025, within an exclusive and intimate space located on the 2nd floor of the gallery, two distinct solo exhibitions featuring artists’works will coincide with 1st-floor exhibitions focused on photography. The gallery aspires to broaden both temporal and spatial dimensions, providing our audiences with the opportunity to deeply engage with artistic practices that demand extended contemplation and more intimate settings.
*We extend our appreciation to LG for their sponsorship, enabling the impeccable presentation of works through The LG OLED evo 8K 88inch Prestige Series television.
About the Artists
Mona Kuhn is an American artist, born in São Paulo, Brazil, of German descent, in 1969. Kuhn earned her BA from The Ohio State University before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Kuhn’s works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, subject, and purpose. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers. In 2021, Kuhn received The Stieglitz Award for her contributions to fine art photography. Occasionally, Mona Kuhn teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19) and Kings Road (2021). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn’s Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn’s most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada and Australian Centre for Photography.
