David Lynch’s practice as a visual artist takes center stage in an exhibition at Pace Gallery Berlin, opening from 29 January and running until 22 March, 2026. Spanning works from 1999 to 2022, it reveals the continuity of his experimental approach: a fascination with texture, the play of light and shadow, and the uncanny potential of the everyday.

The exhibition reframes Lynch’s legacy, presenting him foremost as a visual artist rather than a filmmaker. Painting, sculpture, photography, and film are placed in dialogue, each medium informing the others.

Known for his haunting cinematic landscapes in Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive, David Lynch has always moved fluidly across media. This exhibition makes that multiplicity tangible, bringing together paintings, watercolours, photographs, sculptural objects, and early films.

In the gallery’s former gas‑station space, Lynch’s paintings and watercolours dominate, with fragmented texts, and his signature reds, deep blues, and bursts of yellow. Displayed in custom frames designed by the artist, the works emphasise his concern for presentation. Interspersed throughout are upright sculptural lamps in steel, plexiglass, resin, and wood, resonating with his film sets.

Lynch’s photographs from Berlin around the turn of the millennium, of abandoned industrial sites, smokestacks, and decaying urban landscapes, bring a quiet poetry to neglected corners of the city, echoing the psychological terrains of his cinema. Selected early short films underscore that his visual language emerged organically from experiments with movement and perception, rather than being a byproduct of filmmaking.

The show also gestures toward a larger Los Angeles retrospective in autumn 2026, positioning the Berlin presentation as both a focused survey of his visual work and a prelude to a wider museum show. David Lynch is an artist whose imagination transcends any single medium.