GRIMM is pleased to present You must change your life, a group exhibition curated by Tom Morton on view at the New York gallery from June 26 to August 7, 2026.

Featured artists: Alexander Tovborg, Elinor Stanley, Sophie Ruigrok, Sara Rossberg, Jhonatan Pulido, Ken Kiff, Matthew Day Jackson, Ted Gahl, Gabriella Boyd, Anderson Borba, Kinga Bartis, Mahesh Baliga, Charles Avery.

You must change your life takes its title from the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s extraordinary poem Archaic torso of Apollo (1918), which has puzzled and inspired readers for more than a century. In this work, written at a time when Rilke was employed as secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, the poet gazes lingeringly at a headless and limbless fragment of Classical statuary, which suddenly and without warning addresses him with the words: ‘For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life’.

Bringing together an international group of thirteen painters and sculptors, the exhibition does not seek to illustrate Rilke’s poem, but rather to trace its multiple preoccupations, and channel its enigmatic atmosphere and orphic energies. Accordingly, You must change your life is concerned with how the past speaks to the present; the animation of materials and art objects by the numinous; the fragment as synecdoche; the persistence of the metaphysical impulse in our material age; the tranquillity, erotics and violence of visual contemplation; and how the human psyche is shaped by the act of seeing, and being seen.