DANIEL ARSHAM
MEMORY INDEX

KÖNIG MUNICH | SILOS
AM BERGSON KUNSTKRAFTWERK 2, 81245 MUNICH

17 SEPTEMBER – 21 DECEMBER 2025

OPENING
16 SEPTEMBER 2025 | 6 – 10 PM

KÖNIG BERGSON is pleased to present MEMORY INDEX, the gallery’s second solo-exhibition by internationally acclaimed New York–based artist Daniel Arsham. Bringing together recent works in sculpture, painting, drawing, and sound, the exhibition creates an immersive environment where memory, architecture, and time converge.

Daniel Arsham, LABYRINTH AND THE ORANGE, 2025 © Courtesy of the artist

Set within the raw industrial space of the Silos, MEMORY INDEX unfolds as a series of interconnected works that resonate with one another while inviting visitors to explore their own shifting perceptions of place and temporality.

At the heart of the exhibition are Arsham’s Labyrinth Sculptures: classical busts revealing intricate staircases, passageways, and miniature figures embedded within. These architectural portraits contemplate the structures of memory and intimate spaces of introspection, where physical form and imagined worlds intersect.

Surrounding these sculptures are drawings and paintings depicting rivers, imagined terrains, and landscapes that feel both familiar and otherworldly. These compositions introduce a contemplative dimension, balancing the industrial gravity of the Silos with moments of stillness and expansiveness.

Within the Silos, the works take on the aura of unearthed relics, as if discovered at a future archaeological site. This tension between permanence and impermanence, object and presence, ruin and resonance reflects Arsham’s enduring exploration of time, transformation, and memory.

MEMORY INDEX invites viewers into an environment where time, sound, and form shift and overlap, evoking spaces that feel simultaneously unearthed, imagined, and alive.

FEATURED ARTIST

DANIEL ARSHAM
Daniel Arsham (b. 1980, Cleveland, USA) lives and works in New York.

Arsham’s uchronic aesthetics revolve around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in sculpture, architecture, drawing, and film, he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces or situations, and stages what he refers to as “future relics of the present.” These eroded casts of modern artifacts and contemporary human figures are expertly made from geological materials such as sand, selenite, or volcanic ash, giving them the appearance of having been unearthed after centuries.

Most objects Arsham transforms into stone reference the late 20th or mi...
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