David Lynch’s artworks take center stage at Pace Gallery Berlin

This winter, David Lynch’s artworks return to Berlin as Pace Gallery unveils a focused exhibition dedicated to the artist’s multidisciplinary vision. Running from January 29th to March 22nd, 2026, the exhibition will be held in Pace’s impressive Berlin venue, a converted gas station, and will offer visitors an exclusive insight into Lynch’s creative world beyond cinema. Bringing together David Lynch’s paintings, sculpture, photography, and film, the exhibition traces the visual language that shaped his unmistakable, Lynchian world.

David Lynch artworks beyond the screen

Although celebrated globally as a filmmaker, Lynch long considered himself a visual artist first. The Berlin exhibition reflects this foundation, presenting a carefully curated selection of works that span several decades. Mixed-media paintings and watercolors reveal his enduring fascination with texture, surface, and narrative suggestion, while early short films underscore his lifelong interest in what he once explored as “moving paintings”—images that hover between stillness and motion.

The works are unified by an atmosphere of unease and quiet intensity. Drawing on Surrealist traditions, Lynch’s imagery transforms ordinary scenes into something unsettling, inviting viewers into psychological landscapes that feel both familiar and disquieting.

Enigma, color, and material

At the heart of the exhibition are David Lynch’s paintings, many of which have never been shown before. These works feature ambiguous figures, fragments of text, and suggestive scenarios reminiscent of scenes from his films. Watercolours ranging from stark monochrome to deep reds, inky blues and flashes of yellow appear alongside paintings housed in frames designed and constructed by Lynch himself, emphasising his hands-on approach to materiality.

Three upright lamp sculptures punctuate the gallery space. Made from industrial materials such as steel, resin, plaster, and plexiglass, they emit an eerie glow, functioning as both light sources and sculptural objects that echo the moods of Lynch’s imagined environments.

David Lynch artworks and Berlin’s Industrial Memory

The exhibition also includes a series of photographs taken by Lynch in Berlin in 1999. Captured at abandoned factories and industrial sites, these images focus on smokestacks, broken windows, and heavy machinery. Rather than documenting decay, the photographs reveal Lynch’s attraction to the strange beauty and emotional charge of neglected urban landscapes—motifs that recur throughout his broader body of work.

Together, the paintings, photographs, films, and sculptures form a cohesive portrait of an artist who consistently blurred boundaries between mediums. As Pace Gallery Berlin prepares for a larger exhibition in Los Angeles later in 2026, this presentation offers a concentrated and atmospheric encounter with David Lynch’s artworks, reaffirming his place as one of the most singular visual thinkers of his time.

Revisiting a conversation with David Lynch, we trace his thoughts from the everyday to the infinite. He reflects on creativity, intuition, and meditation as a way of seeing beyond the surface.