Monika Baer lives and works in the Black Forest in Germany. A solo show of new work, titled Schweine Steine Scherben, will open at Greene Naftali on Friday, November 7.

A key figure in postwar German painting, Baer has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and Kunsthalle Bern, as well as at the Museum Bonn, Museum Abteiberg, and Kestner Gesellschaft in Germany, and at the Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts. Recent solo exhibitions include Trautwein Herleth, Berlin (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2021, 2015); and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2020). Baer received Berlin’s Hannah Höch Prize for lifetime achievement in 2019. Her work was recently acquired by The Museum of Modern (MoMA), New York, and is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.