The show feels like both a transmission from an unmapped other world and a perfectly logical correction to the history of Modern art. In 2020, he received the Berlin Comic Scholarship and his work was exhibited in the Museum for Communication Berlin. Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art.

Af Klint's ascendancy feels inevitable: She could be viewed as a heroine for our current moment, an artist who rejected commercial success, resisted the pull of self-publicity, and challanged the myth of individual authorship. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her, this is a story of the strength it took af Klint to continue as an artist against all odds. Her work has also appeared in Artforum , Journal of Surrealism of the Americas, Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies , and Black Mirror .Paintings for the Future' endorses Klint’s mystical conviction that the spiral symbolizes the dualities of the universe―good and evil, male and female, known and unknown―slowly reaching equilibrium.

Lo compré para una investigación que estoy haciendo y los ensayos que tiene son muy completos, me han aportado mucha información. Elsewhere, though, she floundered; she was sidelined by male artists and struggled for exhibition space, living in near total anonymity.The mix of floral, geometric, and biomorphic forms with letters and inverted words creates a vocabulary of complex and shifting meanings, with which af Klint herself appears to have grappled. Guggenheim Museum's 2018 survey of af Klint's work was the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to the artist, offering an unprecedented opportunity to experience af Klint's long-underrecognized artistic achievements. Birnbaum has held the position of Rector at the Städelschule Fine Arts Academy at Frankfurt at Maim in Germany and has also actively written for Art Forum.

The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the history of the museum/institution.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021 and David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this book features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint’s spiritual and theosophical influences.