Water connects the artistic practices of different generations and origins: it is an ever-evolving territory that belongs to everyone and no one. With a new, previously unseen production, the exhibition at MAXXI marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon’s Water School project. This artistic and educational initiative explores the dynamics and politics related to access to land, water, and infrastructure. It is an all-encompassing practice of creating spaces for encounters and collaboration.
This new solo exhibition by Tschabalala Self will showcase the artist's wide-ranging practice, with paintings, immersive installations, music video works, and furniture coming together to produce spaces that cut-and-mix dream and reality.
The exhibition explores varied forms of friendship, dialogue and support within the world of culture through materials from the extensive archive of American artist John Giorno (1936-2019). A poet of profound impact and a performer endowed with a powerful stage presence, Giorno crossed sixty years of history and culture—from the Beat Generation to AIDS activism, through Andy Warhol's Factory and Robert Rauschenberg's Experiments in Art and Technology—each time leaving his mark and elevating the spoken word to an art form.
Liesl Raff’s exhibition “A Corridor, a Room, and Four Dens” opened in early February in the industrial expanse of Eva Presenhuber’s Zurich-based Maag Areal location. Raff uses a range of dense materials — like metal or sandbags, along with more pliable objects like latex, rope, or jute — to present ten large-scale sculptural works in four thematic groupings. The connotations of hard to soft, and their emotional implications, are immediately evident by their close juxtaposition to one another, but the emphatic slippage of support and framework seems to be the conceptual underpinning of the work.
The collection exhibition outlines a small history of aesthetics with reference to different epochs and styles. What is beautiful for one person, can be repellent for another. What is regarded as beautiful depends on the cultural, social and societal background. Not only does the idea of beauty constantly change, the relationship between beauty and art does so too. For a long time, art was supposed to teach and to adorn. With modernism, however, the close relationship between beauty and art is no longer taken for granted, on the contrary. Beautiful art is suspected of being more pleasing than profound.
Through her portraits of the Washington family men—Denzel, John David and Malcolm—responsible for the screen adaptation of The Piano Lesson, artist Tschabalala Self celebrates both real and fictionalized Black America.
"Ultimately, Faldbakken’s exhibition does not just present drawings—it dissects and problematizes the very concept of drawing itself. In doing so, it positions the act of mark-making as an act of refusal to submit to clarity, resolution, or easy categorization. His works demonstrate that its power lies precisely in that refusal to be contemporary, to be readable, to be anything other than what it is: a space of negotiation between presence and absence, assertion and negation, material and idea."
Long last happy is an exhibition by Swiss contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone featuring works inspired by the principles of three celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon, and the rainbow. Through these large-format sculptures and the activation created by 1600 children from diverse backgrounds, rondinone explores the natural world and leads us to a reflection on human spirituality: solace and regeneration.
"Last year, more than a decade after settling back in Vienna, Raff represented the Austrian pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale with her work Club Liaison (2024), a club-inspired installation made from deep-purple latex sheets. On the occasion of her debut solo show, A Corridor, a Room, and Four Dens (7 February–21 March 2025), with Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Ocula met with Raff to discuss materiality, collective intimacy, and life as an artist in Austria."
Louisa Gagliardi has established herself as one of the most interesting voices on the Swiss contemporary art scene. In her works, which combine traditional painting techniques and digital technology, she explores themes such as identity, how society is changing, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. For her solo exhibition at MASI Lugano – the first in a Swiss museum – the artist will be showing a series of new works, paintings and sculptures in a site-specific presentation designed for the LAC's lower ground floor.
The Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present Ugo Rondinone's first major institutional show in the Western United States in a career spanning over three decades. The museum’s second-floor gallery is recast as a prismatic arena where fluorescent, lifelike sculptures of dancers sit at rest and in waiting. In his practice at large, Rondinone is celebrated for expansive installations, working with photography, painting, poetry, outdoor sculpture, and neon rainbow signage. His visual vocabulary often incorporates the natural and primordial world, wherein rocks, clouds, trees, and the sun are recurrent motifs.
History meets the present as PoMo reopens the doors to Trondheim's former main post office. The inaugural exhibition, Postcards from the Future, showcases spectacular international visual art from our own collection, alongside unique loans that address the most relevant themes of our time.
A new solo exhibition by Austin Eddy opens on February 21 at Kunsthalle Emden. Eddy explores the characteristics of modern painting between abstraction and figuration. In dialog with classical modernism as well as following inspirations from comics, record covers, folk art, music and poetry, he creates his own iconography that opens up multi-layered possibilities of interpretation.
The 6th edition of Elevation 1049 opens on February 1, 2025, in and around Gstaad. Centred on the concept of Energies, the Luma Foundation has invited Stefanie Hessler, Director of Swiss Institute in New York, as guest curator. Featuring works by 13 artists and collectives, the exhibition spans two indoor venues—the Carpentry in Schönried and the Station in Saanen, Gstaad—and includes new commissions and outdoor installations.
Compared to the stormy sea, the calm of lakes or even the melting of glaciers, water is a metaphor for our moods, our ambitions, while relating the reality of the world. After the themes of landscape and cosmos, this new exhibition is dedicated to water. A dozen international artists are invited, developing works ranging from representations inspired by landscapes to the living, analyzing ecological, geopolitical and social issues as well as poeticizing the subject. With works by Chemu Ng'ok and Sofia Mitsola.
Sam Falls and The North Face will present a capsule collection featuring Brewed Protein™ fiber, a structural protein material. The collection will feature seven products with the key artwork “Spring Snow” from 2024. The collaboration encompasses a film, a photo essay, and an interview with the artist.
For over twenty years, Joe Bradley has worked on a multi-layered oeuvre characterized by graphical, comic-like figuration, minimalism, and color field elements. Many of the works also have ironic traits often found in post-conceptual art. The show at the Kunsthalle Krems encompasses around 70 of Bradley’s most recent works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. It is the US American’s first museum exhibition in Austria.
Blue holds a vast depth of possibilities: it is linked to contemplation, spirituality, and imagination. American painter Amy Feldman, who is known for her focus on grey, turns her attention to the colour that has captivated so many artists before her in her solo exhibition, Good Fortune (16 January–8 March 2025), at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna.
Lightscape is an innovative multimedia artwork created by the artist Doug Aitken in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It’s a modern mythology propelled by music that asks the questions, “where are we now?” and “where are we going?” Lightscape is a shapeshifting act of contemporary storytelling that unfolds in various stages: a feature-length film, a multi-screen fine art installation, and a series of live musical performances. Following its concert premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 16, Lightscape migrates to the Marciano Art Foundation in the form of a multi-screen art exhibition
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Shara Hughes fearlessly combines styles and colors. Whether sunset, nuclear fusion or tree nursery, with her luminous motifs, the artist succeeds to put contemporary painting under a strong current. A visit to her studio in Brooklyn by Lisa Zeitz.
The invisible becomes visible in the visual worlds of Kenyan artist Chemu Ng'ok, which are on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, until January 25, 2025. Clara Zimmermann from WELTKUNST met the artist for a conversation about her time after university, the power of community and colorful umbrellas.
Acting as reflections of the artist and viewer, the paintings of Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi intend to capture internal and emotional worlds while mirroring the rapid developments in technology that shape our visual and social landscapes. Their liminal status—in between digitally crafted and physically constructed—addresses issues of self-curated identities while simultaneously navigating art historical narratives. On the occasion of her solo show Whereabouts at Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, Claire Koron Elat sat down with Gagliardi to discuss why we seem to be more confident when we’re children, cringing over old work, and being forced to be pessimistic.
What becomes progressively clear is that the show does not aim to group, nor unify struggle. Resistance is rather shown in its dynamic and differentiated dimensions, articulating through its multiple sites, landscapes, spaces and infrastructures. The exhibited artworks allow resistance to reverberate and resonate: within silence, noise, music and distant echoes alike.
In September 2025, the mumok in Vienna will present a solo show by the Austrian artist Tobias Pils. Curated by Manuela Ammer, it will be the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's oeuvre to date. Along with an overview of his painterly works of the last decade, it also highlights the artist’s extensive drawing practice. A site-specific mural, which references both the transitory and the spatial dimensions of Pils’ work, is also part of the show.
Adam Pendleton will open his solo exhibition Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Spring 2025. This landmark exhibition will highlight Pendleton’s unique contributions to contemporary American painting and serve as an anchor for the Museum’s 50th anniversary celebration. The exhibition will feature new and recent paintings from multiple bodies of work alongside a new single-channel video work.
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” Doug Aitken said of his latest work Lightscape. The artist’s cinematic and sonic exploration of Southern California’s myths, histories, and potentialities, told through a series of interwoven but disjointed scenes, debuted as an hour-long film last Saturday, November 16, at the Los Angeles Music Center.
For decades, there have been close links between the histories of art and shop window display. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists, such as Tschabalala Self, have designed pioneering window displays. Conversely, window displays frequently feature as a motif in artworks or serve as a stage for performances and actions. The exhibition will explore this eventful relationship from its beginnings to the present day, while artistic interventions in shop windows in Basel extend the show into public space.
Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons present a new retrospective exhibition at the Consortium Museum in Dijon. The exhibition offers an opportunity to see two significant bodies of work created by both artists over the past thirty years. Envisioned as a “marriage” of two monographic exhibitions, it brings together twenty works by each artist.
Shara Hughes has created a selection of vibrant new paintings in dialogue with the narratives of the Met Opera’s upcoming 2024-2025 season, including Antony and Cleopatra, Moby Dick, The Queen of Spades, and The Magic Flute. The project is curated by Dodie Kazanjian is on view through June 2025.
"Artist Chase Hall paints his canvases with coffee, making large-scale works that examine mixed-race identity in America. Now, on the eve of the biggest show of his career, Hall is reconciling his fractured past with his blindingly bright future."
"It isn’t hard to get Chase Hall talking. Having grown up with a mother in and out of rehab and a father in and out of jail; attended eight schools before the age of 16; and achieved an enviable degree of fame for an untrained 31-year-old artist, Hall has a lot to say."
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is proud to announce the representation of Nairobi-based artist Chemu Ng'ok, alongside Central Fine, Miami, and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. On Friday, November 15, 2024, Echoes, her debut solo exhibition with Galerie Eva Presenhuber will open at Waldmannstrasse, Zurich.
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris presents Les Fleurs d'Yves Saint Laurent in Paris. This spontaneous dialogue between the arts and different eras continues with the work of Sam Falls throughout the exhibition. The patterns and colors of his reconstructed take on nature blend harmoniously with those seen on the haute couture pieces. In the clothing of Yves Saint Laurent, as in the paintings of Sam Falls, flowers transcend time and remain eternally in bloom.
For Doug Aitken’s first monographic exhibition in Turkey, Naked City at Borusan Contemporary, artworks covering the period from 2006 to 2024 are exceptionally brought together to create a site-specific journey through the architecture.
Liesl Raff is known for her sculptural works with latex; she works with and alters these materials to create spaces, atmospheres and situations. She studied stage design in Graz and then sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2024, she will design the Austrian pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale and will also produce a new work for the Lyon Biennale. In both exhibitions, Raff will be creating a collective moment, to be shared by the visitors when entering her installations; be it a club or a corridor.
Around the Way features multi-material paintings and sculptures by Tschabalala Self, whose works will together form colourful spatial displays in EMMA’s concrete-dominated exhibition space. Self’s art often deals with the intersections of race and gender. The artist draws from her personal experiences as a Black American woman. She depicts bodies that are both exalted and objectified in Western imagery and art history. Through repetition, deconstruction and distortion of this imagery, she creates a new kind of narrative about the Black body.