Pace Gallery Berlin will present a solo exhibition dedicated to David Lynch in January 2026. The show will offer a chance to rediscover his work as a visual artist beyond cinema. It will bring together paintings, sculpture, film and photography to trace the breadth of his creative practice.
The exhibition will take place in the restored former petrol station that Pace opened with Galerie Judin last January. This Berlin project will serve as a prelude to a major exhibition planned for the gallery’s Los Angeles space in autumn 2026.
Lynch, who died in January 2025, is remembered as one of the most singular filmmakers of his generation. His style gave rise to the term “Lynchian”, associated with atmospheres in which the everyday slowly becomes unsettling. Films such as Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet made him a benchmark of modern cinema. Even so, his artistic practice always developed in parallel. In 2025, he was the most in-demand artist on Artsy.
His beginnings as an artist
Before turning to the seventh art, Lynch trained as an artist. He studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., then attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later moved to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he eventually dropped out.
The exhibition will include never-before-seen paintings, presented in frames designed by the artist himself. These mixed-media and watercolour works feature enigmatic images that echo the atmosphere of his films. The show will also present three lamp sculptures and a selection of photographs taken by Lynch in Berlin in 1999.
Pace has represented the artist since 2022, although his exhibition history dates back to 1967. Over the course of his life, he presented major shows, including a solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1989 and a travelling exhibition that began at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 2007. In 2019, Sperone Westwater presented Squeaky Flies in the Mud. His first exhibition with Pace was Big Bongo Night in 2022.
The exhibition at Pace Gallery Berlin will be on view from 29 January to 22 March 2026. It will offer a rare opportunity to step into the visual universe of one of the most influential and enigmatic creators of his time.
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