This exhibition-cum-Gesamkunstwerk is a must-see. Replete with fifteen years of the Cologne-based Althoff's disarmingly sincere fragmentary drawings, delicately moody watercolors, sculptural installations, music, videos, and texts—created alone or in collaboration with friends—the show blends themes of male socializing, nostalgia for adolescence, recent German history, and religion into what comes across as an earnest, if slightly fantastical, rendering of everyday life. With an empathic, folksy faux naïveté, Althoff successfully yet somewhat ambiguously identifies with and inhabits an eclectic range of invented and real characters. From a schoolboy coming out of the closet to Francia Gimble Masters (fictional spokesperson for Workshop, Althoff's long-running band) to 1930s-era stage actors to Jürgen Bartsch (a 1960s pedophiliac serial killer), he divulges an ego-deflating sensitivity to disparate human experience that verges on the beatific. In curator Nicholas Baume's words, the artist “seeks to engage the emotional content” of images, and it comes across in the gallery: Althoff is a prism through which the white noise of everyday life is transformed into a dazzling rainbow.