This recent episode in the public debate about arts and cultural policy demonstrates how tightly bound absurdity is with questions about what constitutes meaning and meaninglessness, as well as the related issue of what the value of art is today. Clearly, there is a need to grasp and articulate why and how such “absurd” art may be significant…
>> Read moreGalerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the opening of Salt Road, the second solo exhibition by Li Gang (*1986 in Dali, Yunnan Province, lives and works in Beijing, China) at our Lucerne gallery. Li Gang studied painting, but went on to experiment with a wide range of media and materials.
>> Read more“Fragments of Empires” is an exhibition of contemporary art that addresses issues of memory, identity and the impact of migration through three different time-based media: sound, film and photography. Throughout the exhibition ‘fragments of empires’ are revealed through the notion of ‘object memories’ as artists examine how objects, and associations related to them, have been transferred and re-imprinted through historical processes of colonisation and migration, moving in this way from one culture to another.
>> Read moreThe exhibition Calme marks the beginning of the collaboration between Galerie Karsten Greve and the Chinese artist Qiu Shihua. Dedicating to him his first solo exhibition in France for almost ten years, the gallery exposes a selection of oil on canvas paintings produced between 2000 and 2013.
>> Read moreFor the MPA-B Month of Performance Art Berlin 2015
, MOMENTUM reprises its month-long program of Performance Sundays entitled WORKS ON PAPER. WORKS ON PAPER III inverts classic assumptions of paper as a medium, inviting performance artists to approach paper not as a static blank canvas, but as a dynamic source of conceptual and performative possibility. >> Read moreThe summer has finally arrived and we present living landscapes, four artistic positions and attitudes between Asia and Europe. Echo Ho (*1973 Beijing) has studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, stayed there and lives and works in the cathedral city. In 1697 the Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden was published in […]
>> Read morePresented by Shanghai Himalayas Museum and curated by Wong Shun-kit, Humanistic Nature and Society (Shan-Shui) – An Insight into the Future will be unveiled at Palazzo Ca’Faccanon on May 6th, 2015, as one of the collateral events of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
>> Read moreSolo exhbition September 15 – October 17 Opening reception: September 15, 6-9 pm Wang Sishun is an emblematic figure of the new generation of contemporary artists from Mainland China. Born in 1979, he lives and works in Beijing. His approach is conceptual while investing in the creation of objects that would easily be classified as […]
>> Read moreEast meets West. North meets south. Tex meets Mex. In the thrall of globalization, hyper-hyphenated culinary curiosities become signature souvenirs of metropolitan centers: the ramen burger, the Chinese burrito, the cronut. Flavors smash in dialectic. Meanwhile the city itself gets sliced into ever more distinct and finite servings, disingenuous attempts to serve everyone at once […]
>> Read moreThe Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present the third solo exhibition of Rina Banerjee in its Parisian gallery since Imagining the other half of the world from here in 2011, organised to coincide with her solo exhibition at the Musée Guimet, Chimères de l’Inde et de l’Occident. For Human Traffic, Rina Banerjee has specifically […]
>> Read moreXu Zhen – produced by MadeIn Company Movement Field September 11 – November 7, 2015 Movement Field, initiated in 2013 by Xu Zhen, is a long-term art creation and research project. It consists of a garden created out of a maze of various sized paths. Each path within the garden is the replica – enlarged […]
>> Read morePrivate View: 6-8pm, 8 October 2015 Exhibition Dates: 9 October – 21 November 2015 Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 – 6pm or by appointment He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. […]
>> Read more‘WU Tien-chang: Never Say Goodbye’, Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia opening on 7 May, 2015, will be a major solo exhibition by leading Taiwanese artist WU Tien-chang at the Palazzo delle Prigioni, a former prison inside the Palazzo Ducale.
>> Read more15.10.2015 – 28.11.2015 Opening and book launch October 15th, 6-9pm Finding the source: Dominique Stroobant and the joy of beginnings In the beginning there was kneading. The Word didn’t come until later. (1) – Dominique Stroobant, Carrara, 2011 How can the work of an artist be transformed into words? How can decades […]
>> Read more03.12.2015 – 23.01.2016 Opening December 3th in presence of the artist, from 6 to 9 pm Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of video artist Kurt Ralske (°New York, 1967). Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based artist who uses digital distortions to question the inner foundations of our process of visual […]
>> Read moreJoris van de Moortel will present his first monographic exhibition in a Belgian institution at BE-PART, the contemporary art centre in Waregem. All the exhibition space has been set aside for this young artist from Antwerp (b. 1983), allowing him to demonstrate the full range of his versatile talent. As always, Joris van de Moortel […]
>> Read moreExhibited artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai (TH), Neïl Beloufa (FR), David Blandy (UK), David Raymond Conroy (UK), Andrea Crespo (US), Simon Denny (NZ), Aleksandra Domanović (YU), Ed Fornieles (UK), Michael Fullerton (UK), Guan Xiao (CN), Eloise Hawser (UK), Ann Hirsch (US), Pierre Huyghe (FR), Daniel Keller (US), Christopher Kulendran Thomas (UK), Seth Price (US), Frances Stark (US) […]
>> Read moreThe exhibition by John Baldessari at Mai 36 Galerie, which has represented the artist for a quarter of a century, since 1991, presents a new group of works reminiscent of film stills. The artist uses a combination of text and image, linking vibrantly coloured pictures and captions to a contrasting white background.
>> Read more6 July 2016 – 5 September 2016 from 11h00 to 21h00 Forum -1 – Centre Pompidou, Paris Entrée libre To mark France’s Year of Korea, which celebrates the centenary of the opening of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Centre Pompidou is showing the work of Korean artist Haegue Yang, who has created a […]
>> Read moreSeptember 3 — October 8, 2016 • Paris Opening on September 3rd, 2016 / 6 – 8 pm Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition of American artists Eric Mack and Torey Thornton, together at the gallery’s Paris location. In addition to fluidly combining painting and sculpture, both artists also share a […]
>> Read more7 September – 22 October 2016 Opening Wednesday 7 September, 5-8 pm 8 rue Charles Decoster – 1050 Brussels The Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels is very pleased to announce its first collaboration with the Brazilian artist, Rodrigo Matheus. The artist, who was born in Sao Paulo in 1974, has called his exhibition Ornament and Crime, […]
>> Read moreDavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Thomas Ruff from his press++ series. This will be the artist’s first show with the gallery in London, and his ninth overall with David Zwirner. In his considered approach to the means and possibilities of photography, Thomas Ruff explores a breadth of themes […]
>> Read moreDavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by British artist Rose Wylie in THE UPPER ROOM at the gallery’s London location. On view for the first time will be the large-scale Black Painting; Horse, Bird, Cat (2016), from which the exhibition takes its title, as well as a group of works […]
>> Read moreMichael Werner Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the German painter Richard Oelze (1900-1980). A reclusive and visionary artist who participated in major international exhibitions of his time, Oelze is now lost to the broader art historical consciousness. This exhibition, with more than thirty paintings and drawings, is a rare opportunity […]
>> Read more“Painting without painting, creating without creating, this is what I want.” Axel Vervoordt Gallery Antwerp is pleased to present its solo exhibition of Chung Chang-Sup (Cheongju, 1927 – Seoul, 2011), a prominent member of the Korean art movement Dansaekhwa*. After two decades of studying and practicing Western abstract art, more particularly Art Informel, Chung Chang-Sup […]
>> Read moreSimon Lee Gallery is delighted to announce Mai-Thu Perret’s second solo exhibition and her first at the London gallery. Mai–Thu Perret creates interdisciplinary works that combine the languages of feminism, politics, theatre, nature, religion and art history. The exhibition Zone expands on Perret’s own fictional narrative The Crystal Frontier, which the artist has been writing […]
>> Read moreOn the occasion of YANG Jiechang’s 60th birthday, a solo exhibition entitled On Earth as in Heaven takes place at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Paris) presenting around 20 works by the artist, from different creative periods, as dense in content as they are in expression. Yang Jiechang was born in 1956 in Foshan in southern […]
>> Read moreLévy Gorvy is pleased to present an exhibition of Kazuo Shiraga’s paintings in London, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in the city in a decade. A selection of Shiraga’s forceful gestural canvases, mostly dating to the early 1960s, a period when the artist was gaining international attention, will be on view beginning 3 February […]
>> Read moreThe Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present Ricardo Brey’s exhibition entitled All that is could be otherwise, after Kicking the can down the road held at the Brussels gallery in 2014. Ricardo Brey, born in Havana (Cuba) in 1955, lives in Ghent, Belgium, since 1991. He is one of the most prominent Cuban artists on the international […]
>> Read more3 February 2017 – 25 March 2017, London Tim Noble and Sue Webster return to Blain|Southern London to present a new body of sculptural works. In their third exhibition with the gallery, STICKS WITH DICKS AND SLITS, the duo present pairs of giant self-portraits. These stickfigures are sculpted in twisted bronze, an entirely new method […]
>> Read moreTim Noble (b. Stroud, 1966) and Sue Webster (b. Leicester, 1967) met at art school in Nottingham, England in1986, when they both arrived a day late for enrolment. Inspired by the work of Damien Hirst and other Young British Artists, they moved to London and worked for the artist duo Gilbert and George. Noble and […]
>> Read moreAlmine Rech Gallery – Grosvenor Hill is pleased to present ‘Plastic Show‘, a selection of works by seminal California artists from the Light and Space movement: Mary Corse (b.1945), Robert Irwin (b.1928), Craig Kauffman (1932–2010), John McCracken (1934–2011), and DeWain Valentine (b.1936) – five artists who, through a series of individual explorations, went on to […]
>> Read moreTo coincide with Secrets and Stories, a new BBC documentary about the life and work of Paula Rego, directed by her son Nick Willing, Marlborough Fine Art reveals a previously unseen series of eleven large pastel works on paper created by Rego between 2006-7. Notoriously private and guarded, Rego opens up for the first time […]
>> Read moreAlmine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce Skin N’ Bones, the second solo exhibition by Chris Succo with the gallery. The show will comprise of new paintings and drawings by the artist that are based on scenes captured in the ever-growing archive of photographs and sketches Succo takes wherever he goes. Art follows historical imperatives, […]
>> Read moreBlain|Southern presents Amy Feldman’s first solo exhibition in Germany. Breath Myth comprises a group of entirely new paintings by the New York-based artist. Starting with a preparatory sketch in marker pen, Feldman makes each painting in a single performative take. Giving herself just one chance to get it right, the associated risk and anxiety play […]
>> Read moreGalerie Urs Meile Lucerne 17.2. – 9.4.2017 Beer & Popcorn Movie night at Galerie Urs Meile featuring Cheng Ran’s In Course of the Miraculous (2015) Friday 17.2.2017 5 – 8.30 pm Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am-6pm Saturdays: Visitors welcome, please schedule an appointment In the exhibition, we will display a selection of Cheng Ran`s […]
>> Read moreMax Wechsler: IMI KNOEBEL Drachenlinien We are pleased to present Drachenlinien (Kite Lines), Imi Knoebel’s seventh solo exhibition at the Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder. Imi Knoebel will be showing a selection of new works here for the first time, including “Datumsbilder” (Date Paintings) from the “Asteroiden mit gespaltener Persönlichkeit” (Asteroids with Split Personalities) […]
>> Read moreGalerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present We owe this considerable land to the horizon line, the first solo exhibition in France of the work of Shahpour Pouyan. Shahpour Pouyan was born in Isfahan in 1979, a year marked by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and grew up in Tehran in the midst of […]
>> Read moreMichael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Georg Baselitz: 1977-1992, an exhibition of major paintings and works on paper by one of the most important German artists of the post-war period. Widely known for his inverted portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, Baselitz has long cultivated a subversive approach to figurative imagery. The artist’s debut exhibition in […]
>> Read moreMarlborough Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of works by renowned American sculptor George Rickey (1907 – 2002). On view for the first time in London, and the first time in the UK since 1982, are 16 sculptures from the private holdings of the George Rickey Estate. An iconic and influential sculptor represented […]
>> Read moreIn The Centrifugal Soul, Mat Collishaw’s forthcoming exhibition at Blain|Southern, the artist presents new sculpture, installation and paintings. Drawing on various forms of illusion, the exhibition explores ideas of super cial truth and the erosive effect of our primal urges for visual supremacy.
>> Read moreKatharina Grosse’s oeuvre has continued to occupy one of the most important positions in international painting since the early 1990s. Constant innovation and variable perspectives run through her ideas and work, in which she systematically questions and expands the notion of painting in a remarkable way.
>> Read moreFor her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao (b. 1983 in Chongqing, China) looks at rapidly changing urban environments as they are transformed through the speed and influx of economic development and technology. Living Sci-Fi, under the red stars engages in an ecosystem built by humans. A place where the old […]
>> Read moreDavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage. On view at 24 Grafton Street in London, this is the artist’s first exhibition since the major survey of her work at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts in 2015, which traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum St. […]
>> Read moreFor Gallery Weekend Berlin 2017, painter Jonas Burgert returns to exhibit in his hometown, presenting his largest work to date: a 22m landscape painting that spans almost the entire length of the gallery. This vast psychological drama is faced by full-length portraits of figures on the opposing wall, who stare into the scene, posing the […]
>> Read morePerrotin Paris is proud to present “Purple Cloud”, Zach Harris’s debut exhibition outside the United States and his first with the gallery. Harris’s practice synthesizes many art-historical references and is highly inspired by European pictorial tradition, making the presentation of his work in France particularly significant. Harris’ work is included in several public collections, including […]
>> Read moreLi Gang (*1986, lives and works in Beijing) digs deep into everyday life to find materials that make the strongest statements. Out of these he produces his thoroughly classical-looking works of art. He works with exhaust pipes, cement, rebar, jade bracelets, plaster, human hair, hemp rope, bank notes, stones, and rubbish. Our exhibition in Lucerne […]
>> Read moreAurel Scheibler is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by the young Chinese artist Zhang Wanqing in Europe. Zhang Wanqing, born in 1985, emerged as an up-and-coming artist in China in 2011. At that time, she decided to live a recluse life in Shenyang in Northeastern China. She continued to paint and remained almost […]
>> Read moreMichael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present an exhibition of works from the 1980s by Per Kirkeby. With a selection of more than twenty-five paintings and bronze sculptures, this exhibition explores an important period in Kirkeby’s oeuvre, one which has not previously been shown in such depth.
>> Read moreVictoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by US Detroit-based artist Hernan Bas inspired by the lore and romanticism of life at Cambridge. Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed “Night Climbers of Cambridge,” a […]
>> Read moreExhibition Venue: Coningsby Gallery 30 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RJ Dates: 30 Oct-4 Nov 2017 http://www.katrinelevin.com/gao-xiang-exhibition Showcasing for one week only during Asian Art Week London, the show is a rare opportunity to view the works of this acclaimed Chinese artist in London. Gao Xiang: Interrogating Dreams is a lyrical web of Chinese tradition, mythology and […]
>> Read moreThe Galerie Nathalie Obadia is pleased to present the first exhibition by Youssef Nabil in Brussels. Titled Deep Roots, this exhibition, in the form of a retrospective, covers the artist’s full career from his first colour photographs in 1992 until his most recent and unseen self-portraits.
>> Read moreMai 36 Galerie is delighted to present, for the very first time, the latest groups of works by American artist Matt Mullican, whose oeuvre encompasses such diverse media as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography alongside video, installations and performances. In this, his ninth solo exhibition at Mai 36 Galerie, two groups of new rubbings and glass works will be shown.
>> Read moreSimon Lee Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of late paintings by pioneer of twentieth-century abstraction, Hans Hartung (1904-1989). This inaugural presentation with the gallery celebrates the last, highly productive decade of the artist’s life, which saw him return to many of the themes that had occupied him throughout his career, while expanding his […]
>> Read moreDatumsoria: The Return of the Real 2017.9.9 – 2018.3.18 ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany) Curated by ZHANG Ga Artists Ralf Baecker, Laurent Grasso, George Legrady, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Carsten Nicolai, Nam June Paik, LIU Xiaodong, YAN Lei, ZHANG Peili, WANG Yuyang Co-presented by Chronus Art Center (Shanghai) ZKM | Center for Art […]
>> Read moreTo kick off the 50th anniversary of Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle the rising position of Chinese artist Chen Wei and Thomas Ruff will be presented. Chen Wei was shown in Germany for the first time in 2010 by Rüdiger Schöttle, Thomas Ruff has long since been closely associated with the gallery, where he had his first […]
>> Read moreTHURSDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 4 – 5 PM: MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO IN CONVERSATION WITH NICHOLAS CULLINAN Simon Lee Gallery is delighted to present works from celebrated Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s most recent series of mirror paintings, in which he directs his attention towards the subject of scaffali, or shelves. This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition […]
>> Read moreSince 2014 Thomas Ruff has been working on his Negatives, a series in which he converts the typical sepia tones of early photography into cyan tones, thus not only harking back to the cyanotypes of yesteryear but also, and more importantly, transforming the positive back into its negative form, a process that raises the means to the […]
>> Read more“When I was at school, I had to travel 40 kilometers every week from the eastern suburbs to the west side of the city. This experience allowed me to witness the city’s metamorphosis. Stores popping up on one day disappeared the other, as if they had never existed. Many of my memories are chaotic and […]
>> Read moreMichael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce two exhibitions of works by A.R. Penck, one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period. Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier will be presented concurrently from 23 February to 21 April.
>> Read moreAlmine Rech Gallery is pleased to present ‘Sequences from a volatile now’, a new exhibition by Matthias Bitzer from April 17th to May 19th, 2018. This exhibition will be the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery. On this occasion, a new body of work will be presented encompassing drawing, painting and sculpture with the […]
>> Read moreAxel Vervoordt Gallery is eager to present the second solo exhibition of the Korean artists Chung Chang-Sup and Kwon Dae-Sup in the so-called Terrace Gallery.The exhibitions overarching title “Return” is taken from Chung Chang-Sup’s earliest tak series from the ’80s and refers to the reappearance of the usage traditional Korean paper in the artists’ work […]
>> Read moreAxel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, Space and Time Odyssey, a solo show by Otto Boll. The exhibition features large-scale sculptures, site-specific works, a selection of the artist’s Flute Drawings from 1975-76, and a projection of experimental, 8-milimeter videos shot between 1978 and 1980.The industrial architecture of the Escher Gallery – with […]
>> Read moreAxel Vervoordt Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition devoted to Jef Verheyen, featuring previously unseen works from the artist’s estate that will be shown in public for the first time. The exhibition focuses on key paintings from the 1960s and 70s. Colours represent Jef Verheyen’s interpretation of the world and the ways in […]
>> Read moreAmerica My Hometown traces Edward Kienholz’s formative years (1954-1967), showing an artist coming to terms with both his unique vision and the social climate of the US throughout this tumultuous era. The work is direct and raw in its execution, as well as unsparingly critical of the political problems of twentieth-century America.
>> Read moreWe are pleased to present a new solo exhibition by the Belgian video artist David Claerbout on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle. The pure necessity is the title of Claerbout’s latest video work, which explores the animated classic film The Jungle Book – which, incidentally, celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.
>> Read moreToulu Hassani’s second solo exhibition at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle merges her two key methodologies: delicate oil paintings and visual objects made of artificial resin. Her distinct interest in the way humans try to interpret and represent the world through theories and models is intrinsic to, and clearly visible in, her works.
>> Read moreJohannes Girardoni (b. 1967, Austria) has dedicated the last two decades of his practice to a complex and precise exploration of the limits of perception through material and light. Shifting between disciplines—sculpture, installation art, and photography—his work is concerned with creating new definitions of space through digital and analogue technology. Lévy Gorvy is pleased to […]
>> Read moreDavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by the Belgian artist Harold Ancart at the gallery’s 24 Grafton Street location in London. Ancart began painting icebergs in January 2018 in response to a glacial winter in New York, where the artist is based. These new works will be on […]
>> Read moreFor his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Glenn Ligon will present a new series of large and small silkscreen and ink marker paintings, based on abstracted letter forms; two figurative neon installations inspired by an uncompleted project of Pier Paolo Pasolini; ten oil stick and coal dust paintings on paper quoting a Gertrude Stein text.
>> Read moreThe Focus Kazakhstan Berlin exhibition “BREAD & ROSES” examines the work of four generations of Kazakh woman artists, created from 1945 to the present. The exhibition with over 20 artists, and its related artist residency programme, offers a fresh perspective on both modern and contemporary Kazakh art and culture.
>> Read moreThe exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery is presented in two gallery locations at Kanaal to provide a comprehensive survey into the variety of Sodi’s practice. A series of recent works is presented in the Patio Gallery, in which the space’s natural light creates a unique dynamic, bringing to life the natural, organic feel of the work.
>> Read moreFor his first solo exhibition in Germany, The World Upside Down, Ali Banisadr presents twelve paintings on canvas and twelve works on paper. Banisadr’s new body of work demonstrates a change of direction for the artist, showing a looser, freer depiction of space in the paintings, as well as a shift in palette and tone.
>> Read moreBlain|Southern is delighted to present Sean Scully’s first exhibition with the gallery, Uninsideout. Featuring large-scale, multi-panel paintings, as well as works on paper, sculpture and a group of his celebrated Landline paintings, the exhibition will offer an overview of the artist’s multi-faceted oeuvre.
>> Read moreAs part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to present a concise solo exhibition by New York-based artist Ryan Mrozowski. His latest work – paintings in acrylic on linen, covered in natural and botanical motifs – explores optics, repetition and the depiction of nature, examining perception and the ways in which […]
>> Read moreOn the occasion of the OPEN art 2018, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle presents the work of renowned Czech painter Jan Merta. First attempts at describing the artist’s paintings invariably fail when trying to make out the representational aspects in his complete reduction of forms. At first glance the eye is confronted with a minimalist representation of […]
>> Read moreMichael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Jörg Immendorff: Questions from a Painter Who Reads, opening 16 November. This exhibition of paintings is a visual history of one of the most important artists to emerge from post-war Germany and spans four decades of the artist’s career from 1974 to 2007.
>> Read moreLévy Gorvy is pleased to present Calder / Kelly, the first major exhibition exploring the visual and personal affinities between landmark American artists Alexander Calder and Ellsworth Kelly. Presented in collaboration with the Calder Foundation and Ellsworth Kelly Studio, the exhibition is a discourse between generations that celebrates the artists’ friendship and their extraordinary experiences as […]
>> Read moreIn Slapstick, Todd Bienvenu’s new show at Almine Rech, comedy springs from the physical world failing human ambition. His scenes teem with raucous energy, feeding off the kind of ugly emotions usually swept under the carpet by art world good manners. Humiliation, embarrassment and loss crash-land into his canvases like uninvited guests. Bienvenu’s eye is compulsively […]
>> Read moreIn Slapstick, Todd Bienvenu’s new show at Almine Rech, comedy springs from the physical world failing human ambition. His scenes teem with raucous energy, feeding off the kind of ugly emotions usually swept under the carpet by art world good manners. Humiliation, embarrassment and loss crash-land into his canvases like uninvited guests.
>> Read moreAs part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to present a solo presentation of ceramic works by gallery artist Mai-Thu Perret. Known for her multi-disciplinary practice that engages installation, performance, sculpture, textile, and the written word, Perret derives inspiration from such avant-garde art movements of the twentieth-century as Dada,
>> Read moreschlagen und bleiben is the first exhibition to focus solely on Jonas Burgert’s drawings as an independent body of work. Known predominantly for intensely coloured, lifesize figurative paintings, the exhibition places emphasis on the intricacy of the artist’s character studies in black and white.
>> Read moreEsther Schipper Bookstore Holiday Edition and Book Sale December 1, 2018 – January 19, 2019 Opening December 1, 11 – 6pm www.estherschipper.com To celebrate the holiday season, Esther Schipper Bookstore presents a selection of limited editions, multiples, rare publications and out of print catalogues! Join us this Saturday, December 1, for hot mulled cider and […]
>> Read moreFor his first exhibition with the gallery, Blain|Southern presents new paintings and works on paper by Henning Strassburger (b.1983 Meissen, Germany). Strassburger’s latest series of works entitled Kenny, can be seen as the continuation of two earlier series Pool and Jane. In all three, he draws references from pop-cultural semantics, where the deliberate adoption of […]
>> Read moreSimon Lee Gallery, London is pleased to present Metal, a group exhibition of sculptures in metal produced between 1968 and 1990. The exhibition comprises works created by some of the most prominent and innovative artists of the twentieth century, pioneers of the Minimalist and Arte Povera movements. The exhibition links together artists working in industrial […]
>> Read moredreams. A fragment of time from 2017 to 2019, from the North to the South and back again where repetitions recur as hallucinations in both day and in night, awake or asleep. Leaving dreams to continue endlessly, where dreaming generally is forbidden. The second solo exhibition of the artist Fiona Mackay showcases a glimpse into the […]
>> Read moreApproaching Abstraction is a group show that showcases a movement amongst Mexican artists towards abstract and more monochromatic works. It runs concurrent to Bosco Sodi’s exhibition, Heavens and the Earth. Sodi is the founder of Fundación Casa Wabi, a foundation that supports the development new opportunities for contemporary art in Mexico. He co-curates the exhibition alongside Casa Wabi’s […]
>> Read moreSimon Lee Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Dexter Dalwood, his second to be held in the London gallery. ‘In this modern world where everything plays out fast and it plays out in the open at incredible speeds and just when it seems like we are all in on it […]
>> Read moreBarthélémy Toguo is a traveller, crossing boundaries of all sorts as his vision evolves. His travels are not just physical – though he has been to many places – but are also concerned with crossing the various borders, barriers and boundaries that human beings construct in their minds. He uses watercolour painting, photography, sculpture, installation, […]
>> Read moreTo describe Ji Dachun as a post-internet artist, at first sight seems inadequate. His painting doesn’t appear as particularly technoid or media based. At the heart of his more recent work, however, is to create a possible syntax of his medium along the transmitted painterly forms, and so to speak “to write and continue to write” its CODE.
>> Read moreThe recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated.
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