Sabine Moritz brings 30 years of nature and memory to London
German painter Sabine Moritz has opened her first large-scale museum show in Britain.
Lie Down in Green Pastures runs from 8 Oct to 20 Dec 2026 at the Garden Museum in London, and spans 30 years of her practice, according to The Art Newspaper.
It is a show built on firsts. The majority of the works have not been exhibited before, the museum says, and it includes a vast abstract piece made especially for the building. The Garden Museum lists Pilar Corrias as the exhibition's supporter.
The earliest works look back to art school. Institute I and Institute II were painted in 1993 while Moritz was studying at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. They hang alongside much newer work made in Cologne, where she now lives and works.
Nature runs through it. The show includes chrysanthemum paintings and animal pictures titled Rhinoceros II and Koala II. That focus is also the subject of a new interview with the painter on how nature informs her work, headlined with her line: "Even an ugly thistle can be so beautiful".
Moritz grew up in East Germany. After the death of her father, her family moved to Neulobeda, the museum says. She has since shown in group and solo exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Brussels, Paris and London.
Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist described her work in 2013 as "memories made visual – the fleeting impulses of the past rendered concrete in art".
For visitors, this means a chance to see the long arc in one place. Student paintings, unseen studio holdings and a room-sized new commission. Short run. Small museum. A lot of ground covered.
