The High Line's Moynihan Connector Billboard features Loosie in the Park (2019) and Patience (2022) by Tschabalala Self. Loosie portrays a Black woman in a Harlem park, smoking a single cigarette ("loosie"), reflecting on bodegas' cultural significance in Black and Latino communities. Meanwhile, Patience depicts a Black woman blending into her domestic setting, exploring themes of home and gendered labor. Both artworks encapsulate Self's exploration of community pillars like bodegas and the psychological dimensions of domesticity, respectively, showcasing her distinctive style and thematic depth in capturing Black female experiences.

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The exhibition title Cry Me a River cites a song that has been interpreted by many singers, including Ella Fitzgerald and Justin Timberlake. In the case of Ugo Rondinone, “river” refers to the River Reuss, which flows out of the Lake Lucerne, in front of the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Inside the museum it seems as if it is snowing, a couple of fish flit by. Ugo Rondinone’s reference to the legendary Inner-Swiss Inwardness and its particular leaning towards materials is no coincidence. The artist stages his cultural origins lovingly and with great exhilaration. A nice example of this are his “Stonefigures”, larger-than-life stone men that continue the tradition of the helpful signposts in the mountains.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

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.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Ugo Rondinone grew up as a secondo in central Switzerland. As a gay man, he saw his life limited by the Aids crisis. But he became a world artist. NZZ conducted a big interview with the artist about his life, in which he said: "My self-confidence is like a fairy tale. One day you see yourself as a gilded carriage, the next you realize you're just a pumpkin after all"

Read the full interview here.

Ugo Rondinone has created a screen print of The Sun and a series of 27 of his Mountain sculptures exclusively for the NZZ. Reminiscent of geological formations, these are crafted from stacked stone chunks, arranged in pairs to create abstract compositions. Originating with a monumental installation in Nevada in 2016, Rondinone's mountains have found homes in public spaces globally, as well as smaller interiors. Each stone in the series is painted in a vibrant Day-Glo color, adding to the visual impact of the pieces.

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Louisa Gagliardi was in conversation with the Korean auction specialist MinHee Suh on the occasion of the opening of her solo exhibition Hard Feelings at Galerie Eva Presenhuber x Taxa in Seoul. 

Watch the artist talk here.

"Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, presents the eighth solo exhibition of the artist: bass+ (re)modification, on display until 18 May. In a large white room, a black horizontal line runs across three walls. Dotted above and below, we see a series of rectangular, monochrome MDF panels. These vary in size and palette – on one end we witness a vibrant neon green, on the other, a quiet, slim blue. There’s a sense of coolness and play at hand, invoked by geometric shapes that are constantly in conversation with each other. We feel an energy bounce off each board, reflecting and reverberating across the gallery in a way that suggests lyricality. You’d be forgiven for thinking that these panels represent bars of sound, as if to emulate a musical software application."

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Museum SAN presents BURN TO SHINE, a solo exhibition of works by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. With over forty works of sculpture, painting, installation, and film featured in the museum’s three main galleries, as well as the Nam June Paik Hall and the outdoor stone garden, BURN TO SHINE offers the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s oeuvre in Korea to date. In contrast to the broad spectrum of medium and visual language that individual works employ, however, the exhibition, as a whole, gravitates toward themes that remain at the core of Rondinone’ s artistic practice spanning over three decades – the cycle of life, and relationship to nature that fundamentally define our human condition and experience.

See the installation views here.

While in Paris for the installation of his Suddenly This Overview presented at the Bourse de Commerce, Peter Fischli gave an interview about this vast ensemble of clay sculptures conceived with David Weiss between 1981 and 2021.

Watch the interview here.

To inaugurate the second chapter of their involvement in the ReCollect! series, co-curator Laura Vuille talks to Matias Faldbakken and Ida Ekblad about their individual practices, artistic intentions and experiences in working collaboratively. For ReCollect!, the two have been working together for the first time, creating joint installations where they interpret selected works from the Kunsthaus Collection through their own hands-on approach.

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Tschabalala Self’s work has been selected for the 2026 Fourth Plinth commission. The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is one of the most important art commissions worldwide, putting new work by internationally renowned artists into the heart of London. Self’s sculpture, titled Lady in Blue, pays homage to a contemporary woman, who could be one of many Londoners walking through Trafalgar Square. Made of bronze, she will reference the square’s existing monuments, but will be patinated with Lapis Lazuli, a refined blue pigment in use since antiquity.

Find out more about the Fourth Plinth Commission here. 

Ocula spoke to Louisa Gagliardi about her unconventional painting methods and her upcoming show at Galerie Eva Presenhuber x Taxa, Seoul. Her work often explores feelings of awkwardness and alienation, earning her the nickname Digital Dali. Oculat states: "Gagliardi is one of very few artists who has found representation at a leading gallery for her digital paintings, which she augments with ink and nail polish."

Read the full interview on Ocula.

Apropos Hodler - Current Perspectives on an Icon, a new exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich, offers a deep dive into the enduring legacy of Hodler's art, examining its contemporary relevance through four key themes: landscapes, corporeality, belonging, and enigma/transcendence. Among the artworks, Ugo Rondinone's mesmerizing glass horses, forged from fire into cast glass, represent the earth through the animal's physicality. They are named after the oceans and captivate viewers with their fusion of themes surrounding natural elements, exploration, and romance.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Brooklyn-based Austin Eddy’s paintings call on the viewer to create their own stories out of the ones he proposes. He might use autobiographical events and abstract them to birds, but never imposes his own interpretation. His birds are more form than animal: they are stand-ins for the very human desire for personal freedom, framed by its equally strong wish for stability and structure. As his work toes the line between figurative and abstract, it recalls the cubist forms of the 20th century, while being firmly anchored in Austin’s present.

Read the full interview on Collectors Agenda

"The title of Steven Shearer’s exhibition “Sleep, Death’s Own Brother” reverberates from the almost seven-meter-wide wall piece Sleep II, 2015, a collage of hundreds of small photos depicting slumbering individuals. Some seem to be peacefully resting, while others appear lifeless, resembling corpses. This lurking presence of death pervades the entire exhibition, evident in thirty-seven small drawings and thirteen prominent paintings like The Sickly Fauve, 2014, which shows a pale androgynous figure whose dark under-eye circles suggest they haven’t seen sunlight for weeks."

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The Schirn Kunsthalle presents THE CULTURE, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop. Originating in the Bronx during the 1970s, Hip Hop emerged as a powerful platform for cultural expression and critique. In collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum, this exhibition sheds light on Hip Hop's profound global influence spanning music, fashion, technology, and the arts over the past five decades. Showcasing over 100 works by acclaimed artists like Adam Pendleton and Tschabalala Self, the exhibition delves into themes such as identity, racism, appropriation, and empowerment.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Sofia Mitsola has contributed her artwork Faux Fur, Faux Her (2024) to a fundraising auction held during the Ibero-American Patronage Awards on March 3, 2024, organized by the Fundación Callia in Madrid. This auction will support the conservation and restoration of the prestigious public collection of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In addition to the awards ceremony and auction, renowned auctioneer Simon de Pury will be in conversation with three selected artists.

Find out more about the project here.

Madeleine Pollard from Elephant Magazine reported on Sofia Mitsola's recent gallery show: "When it came to her latest body of work, Villa Venus: An Organised Dream, which recently showed at Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber, her focus expanded from the bodies themselves to their surroundings. “I’d been concentrating on my characters for some years, so then I was trying to imagine a place to put them. Where do they sprout from? Where do they live?” she explains. “In 2022, I was on the Greek island of Paros in the Cyclades and it got me thinking about fantastical places. I wanted to create an island of my own.”"

Read the full article on Elephant.

The Bourse de Commerce exhibis a portion of Peter Fischli David Weiss's Suddenly this Overview (1981-2012) installation. This clay-based work humorously explores human history through hand-modeled sculptures, accompanied by the film The Least Resistance (1981). The duo's first sculptural epic utilizes raw clay to create 76 figurines with captions serving as punchlines, offering a playful and thought-provoking blend of absurdity and universality. In the Auditorium, the experimental film The Way Things Go (1987) is screened. 

Find out more about the exhibition here.

The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Tschabalala Self’s Hear No, 2023, presented in dialogue with Faith Ringgold’s fabric work Coming to Jones Road Part 2 #2: We Here Aunt Emmy Got Us Now, 2010. A text by the artist accompanies the presentation.

Find out more here.

Tschabalala Self has been nominated as one of the seven artists shortlisted for the next Fourth Plinth commissions in 2026 and 2028. The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is one of the most important art commissions worldwide, putting new work by internationally renowned artists into the heart of London. The public is invited to vote for their favorite proposed artwork. 

Vote here. 

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art featuring work by Tschabalala Self is on view at London’s Barbican Gallery, where it can be seen through May 26, 2024. The major exhibition shines a light on 50 artists from the 1960s to today who have explored the transformative and subversive potential of textiles, harnessing the medium to ask charged questions about power: who holds it, and how can it be challenged and reclaimed?

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Expansive in their collecting habits, the Deans, both born and raised in New York, champion a philosophy of “artists supporting artists.” The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection, Giants showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings, including a work by Tschabalala Self. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative. 

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Spanning Fruitmarket's Exhibition Galleries and Warehouse, the exhibition starts with an architectural installation showcasing wall-based works, transitions to a room displaying Martin Boyce’s history with Jan and Joël Martel’s 1925 concrete ‘trees’, and reimagines Fruitmarket’s Upper Gallery with an atmospheric blend of works. In the Warehouse, sculptures are presented in unconventional ways, questioning notions of storage and memory. This comprehensive showcase, spanning from 1992 to the present, offers a rare opportunity to contemplate the artistic essence and sculptural language of one of the UK’s foremost artists.

See the installation views here.

Artnet portrayed 9 famous artist couples that have spawned creative collaborations, spanning from the the early 20th century to today's art world: "While many artistic couples collaborate on common themes, it is rare to find such a personal working relationship as that between Ugo Rondinone and the late poet and activist John Giorno."

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The digital animation Memory selec+ by Gerwald Rockenschaub is an integral part of the facade of the Casino Bregenz from February 15 to March 29, 2024, where two colored squares pulsate daily from 5 pm to 1 am. The dynamic effect of the animation is further enhanced by the intense color contrasts of green and pink. Rockenschaub skillfully deals with the architectural conditions and once again raises the question of the relationship between viewer, artwork and space. The environment and the people themselves become an integral part of his art.

See the installation views here.

Valérie Knoll interviews Jean-Frédéric Schnyder about ŒL AUF LEINWAND, his retrospective exhibition spanning 40 years. The conversation covers Schnyder's "Billige Bilder" (Cheap Paintings), initially created for fun without the intention of being artworks, as well as his pragmatic titles and his resistance to hierarchical art categorization. Schnyder discusses his artistic process, aversion to technology, and passion for hands-on craftsmanship. The interview also explores Schnyder's daily routine, unconventional studio setup, and perceptions of irony in his art, offering insight into his diverse subjects and the creation of a comprehensive catalog of his works, providing a glimpse into his unconventional artistic journey.

Listen to the podcast here.

Philadelphia Art Alliance at UArts is proud to present(re)FOCUS, including works by Karen Kilimnik and others. It is an important multi-generational group exhibit that features varied works that probe the human condition through singular images and handmade processes. No one style is represented here, but rather a panoply, with feminist and world political allusions, art historical references, wry appropriation, DIY bricolage, and craft sensibilities in a range of media.

See the installation views here.

Chloe Stead reviewed Steven Shearer's exhibition at the George Economou Collection, Athens: "I’ve never had insomnia, but Steven Shearer’s paintings are a good indication of what it must feel like. Red-eyed, his protagonists stare pleadingly out at the viewer or hide from their gaze under veils of lank hair, shoulders hunched, cigarette in mouth. Rendered with luminous blue-, yellow- and green-tinged skin, these men – visually coded as artist and musician types through their personal style and twilight activities – are clearly in need of some quality shut-eye."

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The Sydney AIDS Memorial, a poignant bluestone and stainless steel sculpture titled 'the remembered‘ (2018) by Ugo Rondinone, serves as a solemn tribute to those lives lost to HIV/AIDS.

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Jerry Saltz reviewed Tschabalala Self's exhibition Bodega Run at the Swiss Institute in New York: "Were the dusty bodegas of old superior to the anonymous, flattened spaces where many of us now buy our food? Yes and no. Self’s pop-up show was a milestone in a project that testifies that, especially in this city, there’s no such thing as a love that’s uncomplicated."

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CC Strombeek presents the first institutional exhibition of Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi. Her practice mainly revolves around alienation, and dislocation as essential features of our current, global existence. Gagliardi’s strongly pronounced, figurative paintings form not only technically, but also visually a complex game denoting delirium or delusion. For this show, the artist will conceive a new series of paintings and sculptures within a maze-like scenography. Deep Breaths builds upon her ongoing interest in the liminal space. In our highly technological and hyper connected world the borders between reality and fiction are becoming more and more blurry. We get tricked into thinking that our flesh self and virtual self might become one.

See the installation views here. 

Among those familiar with Eva Presenhuber's work is Zurich-based artist and curator Mitchell Anderson, who founded the project space Plymouth Rock in 2014 to 'show artists who weren't getting the attention they deserved' in Zurich. In this conversation, Anderson shares his thoughts on the significance of hosting such an exhibition now, the relationship between art and melancholy, and the Swiss city's ever-evolving art scene.

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Wyatt Kahn presents a new solo exhibition titled Fantasmas at Museo Anahuacalli Mexico City from February 6 through May 19, 2024. The show includes over twenty sculptural paintings that move between painting and sculpture, between the abstract and the figurative, and between the flat and the three-dimensional. With more than thirty works in total and spanning thirteen years of Kahn’s career, the exhibition is his largest and most diverse to date, including works in bronze, lead, canvas, and stuffed animals and some of his first unprimed multi-panel works from 2011.

See the installation views here.

The Museo Jumex celebrates its 10th anniversary.  To commemorate this important milestone the museum has invited Lisa Phillips, the Director of the New Museum in New York, to curate an exhibition from our collection occupying the entire building, among others with works by Doug Aitken, Carroll Dunham, Peter Fischli David Weiss, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone, and Franz West.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

BOMB Magazine asked artist Chase Hall who he would most want to speak with and he selected mentor and visual artist, Henry Taylor. They discuss their memorable first meeting, lucky brushes, and how an athlete-inspired work ethic influences their processes. Chase Hall’s paintings in coffee and acrylic on cotton canvas investigate generational celebrations and traumas encoded throughout American history.

Listen here. 

Fondazione Prada presents the installation Suddenly This Overview (1981-2012) by Peter Fischli David Weiss at the Torre’s fifth floor as part of the exhibition project Atlas. This work’s version combines 157 medium- and small-scale raw clay sculptures arranged on plinths of different heights, representing the world through a seemingly arbitrary selection of events, objects, phrases, and historical or invented notions.

See the installation views here.

Tschabalala Self created an online cover of the Queen of Rap, Nicki Minaj, for Vogue. 

Find out more here. 

Jordane de Faÿ reviewed Sofia Mitsola's show Villa Venus: An Organized Dream for Le Quotidien de l'Art.

Read the article in French here.

Eight large-scale wooden 'Light Rings‘ by Oscar Tuazon are on view at Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of the city-wide light festival The Bright Side of the Desert Moon through December 16, 2023. Tuazon creates an immersive spatial intervention where the public is invited to walk around and through the work within the natural environment of Wadi Hanifa. Responding to the colonnade of palm trees on the site, Tuazon has positioned wood rings in the space between trees, which frame the artworks and create a series of illuminated portals along the stone pathway. Amidst the urban space of Riyadh, Light Rings takes ecology as its main source of inspiration, incorporating illumination, geometry, and harmony with its surroundings to form a vessel of time, light, and space.

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Aesthetica Magazine reviewed Doug Aitken's show at SCHAUWERK: "It’s a piece that informs a wider exhibition rooted in behaviour and fragmentation. The artist offers up a contemporary portrait of a restless, globalised world — driven by constant information, progress and technology. It speaks to other interdisciplinary installations, such as Julianknxx’s In ReMemory of Flight at The Barbican Centre, London, or John Akomfrah’s Arcadia at The Box, that use media and film as a means of documentation and observation. Overwhelmingly, Aitken tells us to pay attention to our rapidly changing environment. He asks us to look around and come into contact with the world around us, to resist being dictated by an algorithm. He notes, “When we look at art, perhaps we’re looking for a return to the real.'"

Read the full piece here. 

"Jean-Marie Appriou’s exhibition unfolds as a poetic journey into a sculptor’s mind, where words take shape, and sculptures emerge as the written pages of a journal. Like the characters of a play, the figures present in the gallery unfold one by one, weaving the plot of a story unique to every viewer, projecting the contemplative realm of Appriou’s sculptural universe into the limitless multitude of simultaneous existence."

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Dieter Roelstraete and Skarlet Smatana spoke to Canadian painter Steven Shearer, whose paintings combine motifs from Western art history with personal views of 1970s youth culture and the metal underground.

Read the interview here.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Pilar Corrias are pleased to present Bodega Run, a 235-page anthology inspired by Tschabalala Self's series reflecting New York City's bodegas. Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and edited by Sasha Bonét, it explores the cultural significance of these community-owned spaces. The anthology combines Self's vibrant visuals with nine newly commissioned texts by diverse authors that explore the complex consumer and merchant dynamics of New York's metropolitan culture and the bodega's potential as a radical site of resistance from racial, gender, and diasporic perspectives. To mark its release, the Swiss Institute in New York will host a book launch on January 11, 2024, displaying Self's new Bodega Run works. From January 11 to 13, 2024, the Swiss Institute will transform into a conceptualized bodega, showcasing Self's new artworks, including paintings, sculptures, and wall-mounted reliefs, accompanied by a neon sign installation.

Find out more here.

"The idea of the Phillips Collection’s “One-on-One” series is to pair a contemporary artist’s work with that of an artist from the museum’s holdings. Thus the current duet of Swiss-born New York artist Ugo Rondinone and Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864-1941), a New Jersey native whose mother was Swiss. But this time, there’s a twist: Rondinone owns a lot more Eilshemius paintings than the Phillips does."

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We are pleased to share an artist talk between Sofia Mitsola and art historian Dr. Pamela Kort, which took place on November 10, 2023, on the occasion of the opening of Villa Venus: An Organized Dream, Mitsola's first solo show with the gallery.

Watch the full conversation here. 

"The effect, both of Hall’s individual paintings and, in a more profound way, of his cumulative work, is a refreshing challenge. Hall forces us to meet the people he depicts on their own terms, without the usual lens—or crutch—of our inherited, fetishizing, or condescending projections. One of his central goals, as he put it to me later, is “redefining our relationship with the landscape, outside of basketball, enslavement.” He’s concerned with matters of agency, world building, and individuality—what he calls “post-victimhood” storytelling. “I really believe in life,” he told me. “I go out and try to make the best of it.”"

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Peter Fischli David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Ugo Rondinone, Doug Aitken, Tschabalala Self and Franz West were selected among this year’s Kunstkompass Top 100 contemporary artists rankings in Capital Magazin! Rondinone additionally ranked 72th in the top 100 of Monopol Magazin. The artists are selected based on a thorough assessment of their recent activities, including participation in major international biennales, institutional exhibitions, public art installations, awards, and reviews in prestigious journals. Fischli Weiss (30th), Gordon (40th), Rondinone (52nd), and Aitken (96th) ranked among the top 100 in the overall ranking. Self ranked 43rd among the top 100 with the highest increase in points (Stars of Tomorrow). West ranked 9th among the top 20 influential posthumous artists (Olymp).

Find out more on Capital Magazin

Hanno Hauenstein from Artnet visited Adam Pendleton in his New York studio: "Asked whether it would be fair to say that he is currently moving away from words and more towards abstraction, he said: “A little bit, but it is much more ‘both-and’ instead of ‘either-or.’” His answer not only explains an art practice, but it might also be useful to keep in one’s mind amid the political debates swirling in recent weeks. While he might be reluctant to admit it, the artist’s engagement with politics excels beyond the canvas or his studio."

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The exhibition Candida Höfer: Epic Gaze is a curatorial selection chosen from the body of work developed by Candida Höfer over the last 20 years. It features a variety of pieces organised in six major themes: ‘Passages’, ‘Theatres’, ‘Museums’, ‘Libraries’, ‘Worldview’ and ‘Unseen Works’. These themes are enclosed in separate sections and placed in a bespoke exhibition layout as a way to promote a paced and sequential contemplation in the viewer.

See the installation views here. 

"Presented in Vienna by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “Jean-Marie Appriou: Gemini” is the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery and is thematically focused on the celestial twins. The concepts of Gemini, twins, dualities, and dichotomies have long been present in the history of art, but here Appriou looks at ideas around these concepts and forms a new, unique parallel, that of poetry and sculpture."

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"For Jean-Marie Appriou and Andrew Lord, sculpture provides a means to explore the material essence of life and, imbued within it, history, personal experiences, myths, and memories. At Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, two concurrent solo presentations of Jean-Marie Appriou's bronze and casted glass sculptures in Gemini and Andrew Lord's intimate, entangled forms in a sculpture of my left hand and five embraces (9 November–22 December 2023) act as containers to these threads."

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"According to the vaguely trustworthy website we all use, Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic film Melancholia (2011) was inspired by a depressive episode he had. Apparently, a therapist told him “Depressive people tend to act more calmly than others under heavy pressure because they already expect bad things to happen.” However the current group show at Galerie Eva Presenhuber has nothing to do with this but rather Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia 1 (1514), which was the initial reference to the exhibition of the first major group show curated by the gallerist in 1988 at Galerie Grita Insam..."

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Candida Höfer will be honoured with the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. The Akademie der Künste is honouring one of the world's most recognized German photographers with the prize. Candida Höfer's oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, ranks among the photographic avant-garde of the present day. Her large-format photographs show public and semi-public spaces in striking historical libraries, museums and opera houses. The motifs show places of encounter, communication, remembrance and knowledge, but also of relaxation and recreation. The artist herself describes her works not as architectural photographs, but as portraits of spaces.

Learn more here. 

Join Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Pilar Corrias at The Craig Robins Collection in the Miami Design District to celebrate the launch of Tschabalala Self’s new book Make Room (2023), published on the occasion of her recent solo exhibitions at Consortium Museum in Dijon, France, and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland. The artist will be signing copies.

Find out more about the publication here. 

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion with Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, and This Brunner. This special conversation event accompanies the publication of three new biographies by Bice Curiger, curator and director of the Fondation Van Gogh in Arles, art historian and author Jacqueline Burckhardt and film expert and curator This Brunner.

The conversation will take place on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 6 pm at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, and will be moderated by Maximilian Geymüller. The talk is held in German. 

From November 8, 2023, to January 1, 2024, the Fosun Foundation presents the Ugo Rondinone solo exhibition burn to shine. The exhibition takes its title from American poet and artist John Giorno’s 1994 poem of the same name. A Buddhist maxim equating life and death, it evokes a range of metaphors of death and rebirth from ancient Greek to Chinese folk mythology, inspiring contemplation of life and nature.

See all installation views here. 

Matthieu Jacquet reviewed the photograph Barbershop Scene by Torbjørn Rødland, on view at Consortium Museum, Dijon: "Rødland once compared his photographs to tarot cards, representations that are laden with symbols and multiple possible interpretations, none of which can be categorical, verified, or rationalized. The strength of works like Barbershop Scene is that Rødland can turn multiple potential readings into a psychological funhouse mirror, one that is both bewildering and captivating, causing viewers to constantly question their own assumptions."

Read the full essay here. 

Contemporary artists engage in conversation with the unique collection from the nineteenth-century art lover Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. They have been inspired by Dulle Griet (also known as Mad Meg) by Pieter Bruegel, the portraits by Cornelis De Vos and Alessandro Allori, still-lifes by Antwerp masters like Daniël Seghers, works by Jacob Jordaens, Joachim Patinir and Gerard de Lairesse, etc. The applied arts so richly represented in the museum collection also receive a contemporary response. The exhibibition includes a painting by Tobias Pils. 

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

"Eva Presenhuber opens a group show in Zurich this week, giving equal prominence to the artists she represents and those she describes as having “different positions”, who are mostly lesser-known. The latter include Stanislava Kovalcikova, a Czech artist whose work Presenhuber discovered at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum last year, and Aleksandra Waliszewska, an artist with great success in her home country of Poland but less well known elsewhere. They join gallery stalwarts, including Ugo Rondinone, Franz West and Steven Shearer, in a show of about 80 works by about 26 artists (November 11 to February 24). The title of the exhibition is Melencolia, although Presenhuber says that the art is more “works that are all reflective and thoughtful”. This, she says, is relevant for some of today’s artists under the age of 40 who can get “abused by high prices at auction, when they need more time and energy to think about what they are making. I have a distinct preference for slow burners,” she says."

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Group of Wall, Corner and Tube (2009) by Peter Fischli David Weiss is included in the Swiss Institute Annual Benefit Auction, the organization's largest fundraising event of the year. The 2023 Benefit Auction will help fund exhibitions, public programs and education workshops for children, teens and seniors. Place bids online before live bidding begins on Saturday, November 11 at 8 pm EST. Registration for this auction will close on Saturday, November 11 at 6.30 pm EST.

Place bids and find out more here. 

"As the work rouses and relieves this anxiety of gazing, Sleep, Death’s Own Brother sets forth a vision of rebellion that often turns on itself, its enactment of the anti-hero dandy exerting pressure on the parameters and possibilities of portrait-making. It is also a fascinating study of how an artist can entice the viewer into a poetic scenography of cat and mouse, where existential dread looms and strategies of release do not always ease the pain."

Read the full article on Spike Art Magazine. 

One-on-One: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius juxtaposes paintings by Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864–1941) alongside works Ugo Rondinone. Rondinone has long been collecting paintings by American poet and painter Eilshemius, who is known for his expressive and lyrical depictions of landscapes, nature, and nudes. The presentation will feature paintings by Eilshemius drawn from both the Phillips’s collection and Rondinone’s expansive personal collection of the artist’s work. In dialogue with Eilshemius, large-scale forest landscapes by Rondinone will be on view. Redolent of 17th-century Dutch woodcuts, the scenes are based on sketches by Rondinone made in 1989 during walks in the woods surrounding Vienna.

See all installation views here. 

Heinz Schütz interviewed Matthew Angelo Harrison for KUNSTFORUM International, stating: "The encapsulation of traditional African sculptures plays a central role in Matthew Angelo Harrison's work. Transparent, futuristic-looking plastic boxes preserve what has been encapsulated. With their purist minimalist aesthetics, they act like "coolers" that contain and dim down the once cultic-magical and highly expressive in a modernist way. What began as an exploration of Harrison's African-American roots points beyond and becomes a commentary on the present."

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Ugo Rondinone presents work created specifically for Galerija Kula, featuring a lightning bolt as the motif, a bifurcated composition anchored in the gallery floor, entirely covered with sand. This creates an environment that includes visual, haptic, and auditory elements in the field of experience. The momentary appearance of a lightning bolt, typically observed in the distance, is brought closer to the visitor by means of a bronze body visually accentuated with yellow colour. Rondinone’s static lightning bolt, placed amidst friable material, actually becomes a mental polygon where, on one hand, creation and destruction unite in opposition, and on the other, it prompts and recalls various belief systems in which lightning appears as a symbol of divinity, from Greek mythology to Catholicism or Hinduism

See the installation views here. 

Giulia Coletti from CURA Magazine reviewed Valentin Carron's exhibition Haus und Kropf at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna: "Touching on the relationships between living beings and environmental stimuli – which often entails divergent or abnormal responses – Haus und Kropf is an attempt to expand on interspecies companionship all the while accentuating the silent solitude that often shrouds our existence."

Read the full article here.

The exhibition Hoi Köln gathers a subjective overview of those who continue to paint under changed conditions. It is a cross-generational gathering. Some of those shown have been committed to painting for decades and experienced some surges in the medium. They also painted when it was infamous, and continue to paint today, when so many are doing so, without the need for legitimizing discourse. But this exhibition also includes many younger ones, raised in the digitalized world, who choose analog painting despite the technological possibilities. The show presents works by Peter Fischli David Weiss and Jean-Frédéric Schnyder. Peter Fischli will be in conversation with curator Valérie Knoll on Friday, October 20, 7-8 pm.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Since 1797, the Chalcographie du Louvre has preserved and printed thousands of engravings with different generations of artists. Most recently, Jean-Marie Appriou was commissioned by the musée du Louvre, to produce an etching for the Chalcographie du Louvre collection. It is presented at the Centre Vivant Denon during Paris+ par Art Basel 2023 on October 19, 6 pm. At the Grand Palais Éphémère, the RMN booth will be exhibiting Appriou's etching as well as carefully selected works, curated by the artist himself. In September, an accompanying interview by Franck Gautherot with Jean-Marie was published in the magazine Grande Galerie, le journal du Louvre.

Find out more about the project here.

Sam Falls was in conversation with Paul Laster from Ocula about his exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich. About his unique technique of imprinting by means of natural elements, Falls says: "The idea of removing my hand has always been important to me . . . With the patina changing, you see time passing—you see nature's take on the work."

Read the full interview here. 

Jean-Marie Appriou will be signing copies of his new monograph on Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 5.30 to 7.30 pm at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. This monumental monograph retraces ten years of the French sculptor's work over some 500 pages. With an interview and five essays by Gesine Borcherdt, Anne Dressen, Franck Gautherot, Jean-Marie Appriou, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Jean de Loisy and Daniel Palmer.

Find out more about the book signing here. 

Organised within the framework of the international celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and curated by Eric Troncy, The Echo of Picasso relates Picasso’s oeuvre to that of contemporary artists who, in one way or another, have made or are making its echo resound. The exhibition includes work by Tobias Pils and Franz West. 

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is delighted to present a joint booth with TARO NASU, Tokyo, at Art Collaboration Kyoto 2023 with new and significant works by Sam Falls, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Ryan Gander, John Giorno, Douglas Gordon, and Torbjørn Rødland. The presentation will outline the trajectory of conceptual art, a movement that gained prominence in the 1960s, by showcasing artists from diverse ages, nationalities, and media.

Find out more about Art Collaboration Kyoto here. 

During Paris+ par Art Basel 2023, Ugo Rondinone opens his Paris studio to present new works by Argentinian artist Manuel Cancel in the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth. Based in Paris for over thirty years, Manuel Cancel (born 1951 in Buenos Aires, AR) continues to draw inspiration from the windswept pampas of his native South America, particularly the Patagonian highlands. Immersing himself in their vast landscapes, Cancel’s art portrays his awe at the wonders of nature and the tranquillity and pristine beauty found in open spaces.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Valentin Carron will be in conversation with Oliver Zybok on the occasion of his current solo exhibition Haus und Kropf at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna. The talk takes place at the Skulpturinstitut of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 6 pm, as part of the Artist Lecture Series Vienna and will be held in French, German, and English. Oliver Zybok is a German art historian and curator. He is deputy director and head of collections at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE.

Find more information about Artist Lecture Series Vienna here. 

The solo exhibition Oh My God You Guys by Torbjørn Rødland highlights Rødland’s photographs in which two contradictory characters are featured. The artist often employs this type of “disruptive casting” to emphasize the oddness in the photographed scenes. The "scenario" created by the curator for this exhibition – titled Oh My God You Guys as agreed with the artist – takes the viewers on a journey from the dawn to the dusk of life, exploring sophisticated and troubled human relationships. The show is on view at Consortium Museum, Dijon, from October 27, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

See all installation views here. 

Katinka Fischer from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung concludes about Doug Aitken's new show at SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen: "Even in the spacious Sindelfingen exhibition space, the volume of his works only allows for a limited selection of ten items, which nevertheless provide a representative overview of his work over the past 15 years. The fact that the architecture makes it possible (and that this possibility has been used) to assemble several exhibits in one room demonstrates to the eyes and ears that Aitken's heterogeneous works are more connected than would have been clear from a separate presentation. The fact that images, light and sound effects are superimposed on one another is conducive to the effect of art. One moves through them and feels as if one is in a landscape."

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Julia Moritz reviewed Tschabalala Self's exhibition Spaces and Places, which was on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, from June 10 through July 22, 2023: "Her paintings and sculpture are expansive, figurative and ornamental. The colours glow. And Self's diverse application of self-dyed and found fabrics onto canvas is well on its way to becoming a trademark. So far so bold. But what place emerges in the interstices of self-representation and ascription to others in the Self's latest works?"

Read the full article here. 

John Giorno founded Giorno Poetry Systems in 1965 and made it a non-profit organization in 1974, with a mission of supporting other artists, poets, and musicians. On October 27, 28, and 29, 2023 the John Giorno Foundation hosts a weekend-long celebration at 222 Bowery, including an open house and a two-day series curated by poet (and original GPS board member) Anne Waldman.

Find out more about the event here. 

The exhibition Dawn of Humanity. Art in Periods of Upheaval presents works of art from the Kunstmuseum Bonn’s collection of classic modernism which were created during the first two decades of the twentieth century and are now entering into dialogue with contemporary artistic positions. Tschabalala Self is represented in the show with her works Fade (2019) and Red Legs (2019). 

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House in Dallas, benefiting two organizations—the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. TWO x TWO 2022 raised $9.5 Million, bringing the total raised to $113 Million.  The 2023 catalogue is online and bidding is open – register at TWOxTWO.org. The painting LES PARISIENNES by Sofia Mitsola is included in the auction.

Find out more about the charity auction here.

The exhibition The Love of Art Comes First. Art & Project at the Kröller-Müller Museum highlights the significance and history of Art & Project based on more than a hundred works from the collection by artists such as Andrew Lord. Art & Project (Amsterdam 1968-1989, Slootdorp 1990-1998) was one of the pioneering galleries of contemporary art in the Netherlands and far beyond. Its founders Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) and Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) presented a programme featuring national and international artists, which was initially closely associated with the rise of conceptual art, but later broadened its focus with an emphasis on sculpture and painting.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

At the anniversary exhibition of VFO at Kunsthalle Zürich, a daybed sculpture titled 'Business and Pleasure' by Louisa Gagliardi is on view. The Swiss artist said in an interview in March 2023 about these pieces exhibited at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:  "The sculptures evolve out of the tenor of the domestic environment you see in some of my paintings. […] I placed my daybed on a plexiglass pedestal to give it the status of a sculpture. Like the paintings, I wanted to maintain a certain distance between the object one sees and the viewer’s ability to interact with it. I did not want anyone to sit on them, but nevertheless tempted the viewer to consider that possibility. And so I made them a height that would invite that."

See the installation views here. 

From September 2023, the SCHAUWERK shows a major solo exhibition by Doug Aitken. The sculptures and video installations include Migration from 2008 and his more recent work Wilderness. For the latter, which consists of several screens arranged in a circle, Aitken filmed the beach near his house in Los Angeles during the Covid-19 pandemic as people went about their everyday lives. Scored with a soundtrack generated by AI, the film is based on a rhythm of landscape shots alternating with images of people on the beach, showing a cycle from sunrise to nightfall.

See the installation views here. 

Horizons is a monumental aluminum sculpture started by Jean-Marie Appriou in 2022 and was first exhibited at Art Basel Unlimited 2023. Horizons is a a large-scale aluminum boat carrying two ‘austronauts.’ According to the artist, these two characters, their eyes fixed on the distance, are ‘exo-humans’ in search of an advanced humanity. 'Horizons' also echoes two historical paintings which he references in his work as a sculptor: 'La barque de Dante' by Eugène Delacroix (1822) and 'Die Toteninsel' by Arnold Böcklin (1880). The boat, and more broadly the theme of navigation, are central to Appriou’s work, imbued with the idea of passage and elevated consciousness.

See all installation views here. 

Recently, Tschabalala Self has developed an interest for sculpture, theatre and fashion. Central to the exhibition at Cultuurcentrum Strombeek is the work Sounding Board, an experimental video installation showing a recording of Self's first live performance that premiered in 2021 at the Performa Biennial in New York. The title of the exhibition, Feed Me, Kiss Me, Need Me, is taken from the accompanying script. Self is particularly interested in the dual nature of the private environment as an emotionally and socially charged locus. "The house has two realities," she states. "A desired reality — a place of comfort, inwardness and true self-expression." "In reality, it is a place full of expectations, where people are required to assume roles."

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

The 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial titled This is a Rehearsal with sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, Tschabalala Self and Jean-Marie Appriou is curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective Floating Museum and takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

This group exhibition highlights how the repertoire of circus forms continues to explore current social issues on both micro and macro levels, question political structures, expose stigmatization and illuminate the human-animal relationship. In his piece If There Were Anywhere But Desert. Saturday (2011), Ugo Rondinone skillfully captures the poignant essence of clowns, evoking a sense of melancholy that resonates with viewers. The suspended shoes embody the fragility and transience of human emotions, a theme that has permeated the circus throughout its long history, not only in its moments of joy and celebration, but also in its more sombre and melancholy aspects.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Ronald Berg at Kunstforum concludes about Martin Boyce recent gallery exhibitions: "Perhaps Martin Boyce's 'fall from grace' into the applied metier is a symptom of the fact that the patterns of autonomy and freedom of purpose are no longer strictly valid today. However, this would then at the same time formulate a condemnation of modernity as such - including its Enlightenment premises of individual freedom and responsibility. Modernity: 'Failed or unfinished?' could thus be the central question of Martin Boyce's work."

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Sherry Paik reviewed the Taxa show for Ocula Magazine: "the Seoul exhibition places a strong emphasis on the myriad ways in which contemporary artists engage with the more traditional mediums of painting and sculpture."

Read the full article here. 

The female nude is celebrating its comeback. But instead of catering to the the male gaze, a new generation of female painters is making nude skin as a self-confident declaration of war, and the genre as the a playing field for political debate. Following research in New York studios the author Claudia Bodin also portrayed Tschabalala Self.

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Following a studio visit, Shara Hughes told Vogue US: “I can’t live without painting. It’s how I live and breathe. I’m not threatened by other artists if they’re making landscapes, because I’m, well, I’m doing mine. I’m very serious about getting the works into the right places, where more people can see them, so that I can have a place in art history that’s meaningful.”

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This major solo exhibition spans the past five years Adam Pendleton’s work, with a marked emphasis on abstract composition. Encompassing all of the museum’s special exhibition galleries, To Divide By includes new paintings, drawings and ceramics, as well as two recent film portraits. For Pendleton, abstraction is a means of representation, a logic, and a space for theoretical and visual experimentation. “By working in and through abstraction,” noted Meredith Malone, curator at the Kemper Art Museum, who organized To Divide By in collaboration with the artist, “Pendleton calls for a more capacious, chaotic and fluid space, one capable of producing radically new expectations and outcomes, not only for himself but also for the viewer.”

See all installation views here. 

Oscar Tuazon and curator Lynn Kost will give an artist talk during Castell Art Weekend at Hotel Castell in Zuoz. Lynn Kost said "Oscar Tuazon, (*1975 in Seattle) creates platforms with his sculptures on which other things are supposed to happen besides the viewing of art. Based on his interest in do-it-yourself architecture, he creates objects that open up interior spaces to the public. These can be entered and are linked to art historical references and socially acute themes such as resource consumption or sustainability. Just as the artist does not complete the structures into functional architecture in order to create space for the audience's imagination, the content references are only offers for discussion, because the common exchange comes before everything else.“

Find out more about the event here. 

For the exhibition series ReCollect!, Matias Faldbakken and Ida Ekblad are working together for the first time, creating a joint installation where they interpret selected works from the Kunsthaus Collection, as seen through their own hands-on activity. Their gestures will open up new viewpoints on the holdings, with an emphasis on pulling women’s positions to the front.

See the installation views here. 

Olamiju Fajemisin reviewed HOWL by Doug Aitken for Flash Art: “HOWL,” the current exhibition of prophetic multimedia works by Doug Atkins, accelerates through Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s Maag Areal campus with a rapid succession of recurrent and shifting motifs (specifically environmental photography, geometric abstraction, and forms of address) that culminate in a confrontation of moving image and sound.

Read the full article here. 

Mitchell Anderson from Frieze Magazine reviewed HOWL by Doug Aitken: "Far from the often-didactic and predestined narrative of a documentary, Aitken’s judgment-free and non-politicized witnessing softly opens itself to many of the optimisms and resignations of desolate, small town American life – from the people who continue to make a living off the land to the children who have to avoid ‘druggies’ on their way home from school to those who dream of leaving. It’s an affecting work, not least because it centres on a rural segment of the population not traditionally depicted or discussed – past cheap caricatures – in contemporary art and life."

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The second presentation of “A Lover’s Discourse” features a new painting by New York–based artist Chase Hall exhibited alongside Jackson Pollock’s Untitled (1951). Hall’s new work Field Painting (2022–23) was completed as he researched examples of post-war abstraction in local private collections in Aspen. The direct juxtaposition of Field Painting with Pollock’s Untitled work on paper initiates a critical reading of the semiotics and cultural value attached to the drip-paint technique across histories of abstraction, improvisation, mark-making, and politics of labor.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

"HOWL makes no explicit reference to Allen Ginsberg’s celebrated 1956 poem of the same name. Other than a distant echo of lines such as ‘Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone!’ But that’s not to say that Aitken doesn’t indulge in a little (concrete) poetry of his own" writes Mark Rappolt in his review of the exhibition HOWL by Doug Aitken. 

Read the full article here. 

As guest curator of Sculpture Milwaukee, Ugo Rondinone presents the group show Nature Doesn't Know About Us, which includes works by John Giorno and Oscar Tuazon among others: "There is a world alongside ours—boundless, unhurried, interconnected, resourceful, lavishly inventive, and we are only temporarily in it. Nature Doesn’t Know About Us celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth, while exploring the human connection to nature. The exhibition brings together the works of eighteen artists who combine skeptical clarity and at times humor-tinged desire to locate the intersection of spiritual and physical presence in our daily life. The natural world serves as a doorway into a highly rarefied metaphysical realm where the sea of consciousness surges against the tangible world. A world where all is in flux as distinctions between self and soul, body and spirit, past and present, mortification and bliss, confinement and escape all blur and waver."

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Curator Maximilian Geymüller asked Doug Aitken essential questions about his exhibition HOWL, which is on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal until July 22, 2023. 

Watch the full walkthrough here. 

Together with Bergen Kunsthall and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents a trio of exhibitions that approach Oscar Tuazon’s work in different ways. The three individual projects form an overarching unity and thus provide a multifaceted overview of Tuazon’s artistic oeuvre. The Kunsthalle will show a cross-section of Tuazon’s work from the last ten years to the present day and thematically address questions about artistic and social existential needs: What is absolutely necessary, indispensable and systemically relevant? What are our essential needs?

See all installation views here.

Kate Brown at artnet wrote about Doug Aitken's HOWL: "In their arid dust-bowl of a town, huge pump jacks dot the horizon, pulsing in and out of a bone dry desert landscape to extract oil, which seems to be the main source of income of the town and also its raison d’etre. The new video, called HOWL, premiered in his solo exhibition at Eva Presenhuber, Zurich last month (it is on view through July 22), and it juxtaposes these rhythmic, unforgiving fracking machines against the voices from the people who coexist among them."

Read the full article here. 

A brand-new project called “The Wing” occupies the first floor of the Consortium Museum. This space is usually reserved for temporary exhibitions of the collection. The Consortium Museum's directors have given this "wing" of the structure to two artists, Tobias Pils (b. 1971, Austria) and Joe Bradley (b. 1975, USA), who have strong ties to the art center and have previously exhibited there. The "Paysage" exhibition was the result of these two painters becoming curators. It pulls together pieces from their own collections by artists whose discreet careers have been characterized as "folkart," "outsider," and other vague terms. Hans Kruckenhauser, an Austrian painter who lived from 1940 until 2017, is the subject of Tobias Pils's current project. Joe Bradley has given prominence to the prosperous landscapes painted by Alyne Harris (1943, USA) from her rural home in Florida.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

In the interview with Elephant, Louisa Gagliardi speaks about her recent show, A Moment’s Notice, which was on view until May 25, 2025 at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zurich, and discusses the complexities of existence in a post-internet world.

Read on Elephant.

The high-ceilinged halls of Bergen Kunsthall’s 1930s functionalist building recently housed another, quite different take on functional architecture—one conjured by American artist Oscar Tuazon. Having dissected ideological, structural, and philosophical underpinnings of architecture, construction, and Minimalist sculpture throughout his career, Tuazon’s inauguration of his ongoing “Water School” in 2016 marked a turn toward more explicitly incorporating activist themes and strategies.

Read the full article on Artforum. 

In short film HOWL, Doug Aitken considers the concept of placelessness, distilling collected interviews and footage captured within the town’s bounds in an eerie non-linear narrative reflecting its state of limbo. Here, residents face a Catch-22 between securing the town’s wealth through a questionable resource, and the inevitable decline and loss of industry associated with distancing itself from fossil fuels.

Watch the full short film on NOWNESS.

The George Economou Collection is host to Steven Shearer: Sleep, Death's Own Brother, an exhibition of paintings and printed works held in the Athens-based collection (18 June 2023–30 March 2024). Ahead of the opening, curator Dieter Roelstraete spoke to Ocula Advisory about the Shearer's transgressive perspective of the lifeless body, the decision to spotlight his practice now, and the works on show in Athens.

Read the full article on Ocula. 

The third International Biennial of Saint-Paul de Vence has chosen to draw its inspiration from the universe and symbolism of birds. The title of the exhibition recalls that the poet Jacques Prévert was a resident of the village and a "considerable" passer-by. His words, "Au hasard des oiseaux", invite us to discover, feel and meet twenty works by twelve artists, among which Jean-Marie Appriou, who are messengers reminding us, more than ever, that it is profitable for man to live with the light and beauty of the flight of birds. The artist take over public spaces in the village of Saint-Paul de Vence, each developing, in their own way, a unique relationship with birds.

See more installation views here. 

Austin Eddy, Shara Hughes, and Karen Kilimnik are taking part in a group show Games, Gamblers, and Cartomancers: The New Cardsharps at Vernon House, Newport, Rhode Island, curated by Dodie Kazanjian & Alison Gingeras. Built around 1708 and restored in 1760, the house is one of Newport's most historically significant buildings.

See the installation views here. 

Doug Aitken’s latest work, HOWL, is a 15-minute, five-channel film about an unnamed town in the American West. It’s filled with epic aerial shots of oil wells and daily life in the town, along with short excerpts from interviews with some of its residents. Those interviews take on an eerie meaning as their words echo and reverberate. It is on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Maag Areal through July 22, 2023. 

Read the full interview here. 

At this year's Art Basel, we are pleased to present Ugo Rondinone’s sculpture humanskysix (2022), which is revealed to have been cast from the body of Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer. The sculpture will be on view at our booth P5 in Hall 2.1. The Basel-born Federer collaborated with fellow Swiss Ugo Rondinone on his ambitious installation human clouds, which is the third part of the trilogy burn shine fly – an exhibition celebrating life and its seasons, rhythms, and natural elements.

Watch the documentary Portrait of a Champion here. 

Alice Goldwin reviewed Shara Hughes exhibition in Aalborg: "Known for her “invented landscapes,” Hughes’ paintings are not simply fantasy—they linger in the residue of memories and experiences. For this reason, Hughes’ paintings feel innately personal and human, though there are no actual people to be found."

Read the full article here. 

»My work doesn’t have a political agenda, doesn’t propose policy solutions, but it does acknowledge a political reality« says Adam Pendleton in his interview with Alexandra Markl for Collectors Agenda. 

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"The universe I create with my art may be similar to reality, but it is dominated by distorted figures and perspectives," says Louisa Gagliardi in her feature in the BILANZ Art Basel special. Further positions mentioned in its Swiss artist ranking 2023 are Ugo Rondinone, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, and Peter Fischli. 

Read the full article here. 

Mister Neutral: Martin Herbert investigates what lies behind the constructed guise of the amateur, the craftsman, the style-less dabbler, the cross maker, defining Jean-Frédéric Schnyder as a man of quietly huge ambitions who planned, up front, to outrun all of us while embracing a world full of difference and contradiction, of beauty and banality and brutality, leaving a trail of clues in his wake.

On Schnyderian Art: Originally published in 1990 in the pages of Parkett, this essay by Patrick Frey is an ode to the greatness of Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and his art—a mixture of trueness to life and a profoundly skeptical intelligence.

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Over the past ten years, Kahn has examined the spatial relationship between painting and sculpture to construct a visual vocabulary of representational and abstract forms that integrate formal concerns with materials from everyday life. His new works are playful narrative compositions with oversized figurative icons taken from domestic life. The deep, rusted red tone of the sculptures is a result of the natural weathering process of Cor-Ten steel, contrasting with the lush green foliage the LongHouse garden. The series was previously on view at City Hall Park, New York. In June 2023, two sculptures are shown at Art Basel Parcours 2023. 

See the installation views here. 

Celebrating the Museum’s 125th anniversary, this landmark exhibition honors the East End’s rich artistic legacy and brings greater attention to major artists practicing here today. Forty-one artists have selected works from the collection to be shown along with their own. Rondinone's contribution, the alphabet of my mothers and fathers, is made of twenty-six panels arranged as a grid on all four walls of the gallery. Each panel holds a set of preindustrial farming and kitchen tools collected by the artist in the past three years from different farms and garage sales on Long Island.

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For his group of works Sunrise. East, Rondinone assigned a head with characteristic, highly reduced facial features to represent each calendar month. Larger than life and cast in shiny silver aluminium, the massive sculptural heads are reduced to their facial expressions: With mouths agape, they gaze from small eyes, from friendly and naïve to sceptical, from surprised to eerie. They trigger the most diverse associations, evoking ritual masks and ghosts, as well as the visual language of comics, emoticons, and memes. Visitors to the Städel Garden are invited to come face-to-face with all twelve creatures – and thus every month of the year – and experience the various joys, adversities, and emotions of an entire year in fast forward.

See all installation views here. 

A work by Joe Bradley is included in the group show A Leisurely Stroll - The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum at Long Museum, Shanghai. The theme of this exhibition is "A Leisurely Stroll", which points to two concepts that I want to talk about: one is "time and history", and the other is a "way of seeing". The show is curated by Wang Wei. 

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is proud to announce the representation of London-based Greek artist Sofia Mitsola, alongside Pilar Corrias, London. Mitsola works primarily with painting to examine the female body. By looking at figures in ancient Egyptian and Greek sculpture, Japanese animation, and pornography, she composes her own mythological characters and places them in geometrical, stage-like compositions. These are painted in vibrant colors and are layered with washes and impasto. Her paintings often feature bare, larger-than-life characters who address the viewer with their direct gaze and invite them to look back. Through this act, Mitsola forms dynamic relationships between the painting and the viewer to establish new hierarchies and play with ideas of voyeurism, power, and control.

This year's Biennale Weiertal revolves around "common ground": it is about social and ecological justice, and how closely they are linked. This becomes clear with regard to the current global exploitation of people and nature, to the distribution of resources on the planet that is supposed to be our "common ground". With 17 artistic contributions, among which Sam Falls, the garden in the Weiertal becomes a place of reflection and perhaps even the nucleus of social utopias that are carried from here into the world.

See all installation views here.

Louisiana Channel met Hughes in her New York-studio to talk about drawing inspiration from other painters, and why she feels that a good painting is about “going to the edge and not giving away all the answers.”

Watch the video here. 

“How could I make a painting about one flower that has multiple layers to it?” says American artist Shara Hughes about her painting POP, why the genre of still life was a thing of the past and needed to be updated.

Watch the video here.

Storm King Art Center presents the sun and the moon, twin sculptures, which are both over sixteen feet tall, and are formed with delicate circles fashioned from cast-bronze tree branches, one silver-leafed and the other gilded. Installed parallel to one another, the sun and the moon are aligned along an east-west axis, like portals or apertures with views of Schunnemunk and Storm King Mountains.

See the installation views here.

On view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, Bradley's current solo exhibition Rejoice: Drawing and Sculpture (21 April–25 May 2023) combines the old with the new. Joe Bradley told Elliat Albrecht (Ocula): "The idea is to get as much into the work as you can. See what the work can tolerate."

Read the full conversation here. 

Liam Gillick’s intervention in the permanent collection of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East, titled Filtered Time, opened to the public in April 2023. Using light, color, shape, projection, sound, and almost no text, his intervention comes at a time when the Pergamon Museum, in which this collection is housed, is projected to close at the end of 2023. Gillick agreed to realize his project amidst difficult debates about how to deal with these buildings and the fraught colonial histories they house, about which he spoke to Jörg Heiser. 

Read the full conversation between Liam Gillick and Jörg Heiser here. 

Works by Karen Kilimnik and Verne Dawson are included in Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, a group exhibition at the Hill Art Foundation curated by artist and writer David Salle. The exhibition brings together paintings and sculptures by artists working across different eras, mediums, and geographies to explore the nature of affinity between works of art. The show is on view in Chelsea from April 21 to July 21, 2023.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

"[...] These paintings are time. They take it and give it away. They move toward the viewer and away with him. They transform themselves in him for it is he who shifts them into a subjective shade of time and recreates them. And yet they continue to exist, indeed by simply existing they are the most basic form of dialogue. A dialogue that never demands affirmation nor negation, but decision - even if without compassion, for this picture in this moment, that is, in time! [...]"
— Tobias Pils

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Among other things, the Würth Foundation honoured the Swiss-born Ugo Rondinone for his "masterful craftsmanship". This year, the prize is endowed with 50,000 euros. The prize has been awarded every two years since 1993 in memory of the Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen (1912-1993). Previous winners have included Eva Rothschild, Yngve Holen, Alicja Kwade and Jeppe Hein.

Find out more about the prize here.

This conversation with Doug Aitken and Neville Wakefield explores the origins of Aitken’s Mirage project (2017 – ongoing), and the continuum between the inaugural Desert X in the Coachella Valley and its newest exhibition. This program is presented in conjunction with the forthcoming release of Aitken’s immersive monograph Mirage, co-published by JRP|Editions and ZOLO PRESS, in collaboration with LUMA for Elevation 1049. This publication will also be presented on June 10 at Galerie Eva Presenhuber at the openign of Aitken's new exhibition HOWL. 

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Titled after a line from Hesiod’s eighth-century BC epic poem Theogony (“Harmful Night, veiled in dusky fog, carries in her arms Sleep, Death’s own brother”), this new exhibition by Steven Shearer revolves around this uneasy proximity (“brotherhood”) between death and sleep, a recurring trope in Shearer’s art. Built around the George Economou Collection’s substantial holdings of Steven Shearer’s work in painting and printed matter, Sleep, Death’s Own Brother proposes an in-depth look at the oeuvre of this Vancouver-based artist from the transgressive thematic perspective of the lifeless body, which is sometimes truly, sometimes only seemingly dead.

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The Bündner Kunstmuseum is dedicating Dieter Roth an exhibition that by means of representative work groups gives a rare overview of his copious printmaking. The exhibition curated by Dr. Dirk Dobke and Dr. Ina Jessen for the Deichtorhallen Hamburg will be presented in an adapted form and brings together material and print works from all creative periods in the most comprehensive Dieter-Roth-exhibition in a good 20 years. 

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After their collaboration in burn to shine (2020), Ugo Rondinone and the French-Morrocan choreographer Fouad Boussouf join forces again in the world premier of VÏA. This new ballet piece with a decor by Rondinone takes the spectators on a trip across the rhythms of urban hip-hop, the splendor of Arabian folklore, and the extravaganza of Nouveau Cirque, ultimately leading dance back to its origin in the material soil. The presentation takes place at the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève from April 19 to 23, 2023.

Find out more about the project here.

Since April 22, 2023, two picturesque Piedmontese villages, located between Turin and the French Riviera, host site-specific a public artwork by Liam Gillick in collaboration with Hito Steyerl, as well as a sculpture by Jean-Marie Appriou.

See the installation views of Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl here. 

See the installation views of Jean-Marie Appriou here.

Lucas Blalock was interviewed by King Kong Magazine, for which he also designed the cover page. 

Read the interview here. 

Chase Hall was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York to produce a large-scale artwork banner for its opera house on the occasion of the piece Champion (April 10 - May 13, 2023). His monumental diptych, Medea Act I & II (2022), is on view at the Met Opera through June 2023. 

See all banners of the Metropolitan Opera here. 

John Giorno’s vision for a shared, open-access repository of information was groundbreaking in a pre-digital world. Dial-A-Poem was first presented at MoMA in the 1970 exhibition Information, organized by Kynaston McShine. Galvanized by social movements, including opposition to the Vietnam War, Giorno incorporated numerous works by radical poets and political activists. This exhibition features notes and documentation that illustrate how he originally arranged the poems, as well as phones containing 200 randomized poems selected by the artist in 2012 from his archive of thousands.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

In the exhibition Valentin Carron & Jacques Chessex, the Tichy Ocean Foundation presents two of the most well-known French-speaking Swiss artists. Central to this exhibition is Valentin Carron’s larger-than-life sculpture Man and Child. It was conceived especially for the Tichy Ocean foundation exhibition and is placed, as per the artist’s wish, with more than fifty Chessex’s collages (1934-2009), meant as a sculptural haven of peace for the rather existential paper-works.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Following the opening of ‘The Close of the Day,’ Chase Hall joins Document to discuss the American South, code switching, and how his biracial experience is far from monolithic. He says: “As we get closer to the future, and we talk about equity, and we talk about rights, it’s important for me to navigate in a way that’s honest to myself—even in that core, even in that genetic humility.”

Read the full interview here. 

The exhibition title Building at the Kunst Museum Winterthur has a programmatic character: Oscar Tuazon looks back at his architectural sculptures of the last twenty years and shows where he is heading: to his beginnings, water and language. In the house as a living sculpture all paths lead together. By Meret Arnold. 

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Tschabalala Self is the latest artist to unveil a new window display at the Hermès flagship boutique on Madison Avenue, New York, as part of the house’s historic Vitrine d’artiste programme. Hermès artistic window displays first began in the 1930s in Paris with the work of Annie Beaumel, a young sales assistant from the glove department, whose conceptual displays pioneered the use of shop windows as a space for artistic expression and exhibition. Tschabalala’s vignette offers shoppers and passersby a glimpse into an intimate moment, with her chorus of characters leisurely enjoying their familiar, albeit uncanny, environment, which Self has furnished with the trappings of an everyday home.

Annabel Downes from Ocula Art Advisory interviewed Louisa Gagliardi in her Zurich studio about her upcoming solo exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zurich. 

Read the full interview on Ocula. 

Ugo Rondinone was interviewed by Caroline-Micaela Hauger on the occasion of his current exhibition when the sun goes down and the moon comes up at Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva. He says: "Artists need to be authentic. I draw my inspiration from within myself."

Read the full interview on Schweizer Illustrierte. 

Yuki Higashino reviewed the exhibition Leaving the New World by the US-American artist John Dilg, which was on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, from January 14 to February 18, 2023. He says: "Dilg is highly skilled, and his painterly erudition is unmistakable. He gives shape to an idea of a place that might have but did not come into being." 

Read the whole review here.

Human Is juxtaposes historical with newly produced artworks. The exhibition paints a polyphonic picture of the mutual penetration of body and technology: it addresses the often violent interdependence of humans on their technological surroundings and opposes any promises of salvation through trans-humanistic progress. Simultaneously, it opens up spaces of possibility in which dual-istic taxonomies can be overcome in favor of a networked and interdependent existence. With a contribution by Matthew Angelo Harrison. 

Find our more about the exhibition here.

Since its emergence in the Bronx in the 1970s, hip hop has grown into a global phenomenon, driving innovations in music, fashion, technology, and visual and performing arts. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century captures the extraordinary influence hip hop has had on contemporary society through more than 90 works of art and fashion by some of today’s most important and celebrated artists, among them Adam Pendleton and Tschabalala Self. 

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The exhibition Ein Ruheloses Universum by the artist duo Peter Fischli David Weiss shows the two works Surrli (1989) and the original Rat and Bear costumes (2004). The two animal figures appear in Peter Fischli David Weiss' work in various roles, for example as protagonists in the film The Least Resistance (1980-81) or as "authors" of the artist book Order and Cleanliness (1981) – two works which are also part of the exhibition at the Bechtler Stiftung.

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In April 2023, Ugo Rondinone, curator of the exhibition when the sun goes down and the moon comes up, and the choreographer Fouad Boussouf work together on VÏA at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, a new piece for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. In March, as an appetizer, Fouad Boussouf imagines for the Ballet a way to inhabit the exhibition. The result of two weeks of intense work in the “rhythmic spaces” imagined by Rondinone on the ground floor of the Museum of Art and History, Corps (im)mobiles invites us to discover the exhibition in a different way.

Find out more about the project and purchase tickets here.

The exhibition ON STAGE explores the various theatrical and stage-related forms of expression in art since the 1960s, when a neo-avant-garde critical of tradition began focusing on performative and actionist art forms that endowed artists with a stage-like presence, often in front of an audience. The Viennese Actionism with its provocative and time-critical theatricality is just as much a part of this as the Vienna Group, whose literary cabaret stands firmly in the tradition of Dadaist theater, or the Fluxus-Movement with its media crossovers. The exhibition shows 150 works and work series, among them a painting by Tobias Pils, most of which are culled from the holdings of the mumok collection.

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A sale of contemporary art co-curated by artist Adam Pendleton and tennis champion Venus Williams will raise money for the restoration of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone’s childhood home, years after a group of artists purchased the house in order to protect it and preserve Simone’s legacy.

Read on The Art Newspaper.

As the signs that we need to rethink the polarity between nature and culture are multiplying, the exhibition “Nature Humaine – Humaine Nature” invites us to explore the complex relationship between humanity and nature. Although the fourteen artists seem to share the desire to foreground the urgent issues we face and to rethink our behaviours, they engage with different realms. Their works, including sculptures, drawings and videos, capture apparently bucolic elements or evoke the disastrous effects of humanity’s domination over the rest of the living world.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Highlighting an interest in the history, technology, form and aesthetics, function or symbolism of flying objects, the exhibition centers around planes, airships, collections around the Balloonmania, wind tunnel models, collections of the Museum of Air and Space and archival images to pay tribute to the essential history of this building in aerostation and atraumatic. The group exhibition will bring together major figures of international artistic creation, among them the artist Doug Aitken. In the park outside the hangar, a sculpture by Ugo Rondinone is on view.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

'It seemed early on like my work was less problematic in Asia,' Rødland said ahead of his exhibition in Seoul, presented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber in collaboration with Taxa. The show will open on March 17, 5 pm, and is on view until April 28, 2023. 

Read the full article here. 

The Swans: Karen Kilimnik/Stephanie Seymour Paintings and Dresses, mixes Karen Kilimnik’s romantic paintings in which a youthful Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars and fashion models are cast in leading roles, with selections from Stephanie Seymour’s collection of vintage haute couture created by the eponymous designers Azzedine Alaia, Courreges, Christian Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Paco Rabanne and others. The resulting exhibition consists of imaginatively calibrated vignettes of paintings and fashion, which celebrate glamour, beauty, fantasy, and the occult through the eyes of two singular yet overlapping perceptions. The title references the mid-century high society women who Truman Capote dubbed the “Swans”.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

In a historical first, the Vorderasiatisches Museum and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart join forces on a trans-historical, site-specific presentation by British artist Liam Gillick throughout the halls of the Pergamonmuseum. From Babylon’s iconic Ishtar Gate to the monumental sculptures of Tell Halaf, Gillick adds layers of sound, light and colour – creating an overlay to evoke connections across periods of the Pergamonmuseum.

Find out more about the exhibition here. 

Watch as artists Gelatin and Liam Gillick transform the Kunsthalle Wien exhibition space into a nightmarish film set. Based on the book To Live and Think Like Pigs, this improvised experimental film follows the story of four delusional, narcissistic, privileged young snobs as they navigate a time of political turmoil. You’ll almost feel like an extra in the film’s monumental faux-stone architecture set as you witness the main characters move through stages of development and self-reflection... until everything collapses.

Stream the movie from March 24, 2023, here. 

Pioneer (2023), a new sculptural work by Tschabalala Self, is now on view in this year’s Desert X, the recurring exhibition that activates desert locations through site-specific installations across the Coachella Valley. For most, the expansiveness and freedom of the American West is inextricably tied to the Stetsoned archetype. Forgoing the forefathers, Self’s Pioneer is a monument built in homage to the collective foremothers of contemporary America — the largely unidentified Native and African American women whose bodies and labour allowed for American expansionism and growth. It stands as a visual representation of their birthright and place within the American landscape.

Explore the viewing room here.

Discover the limited edition of 20 belts numbered and signed by Mark Handforth created for J. Hopenstand. Borrowing from ready-mades, pop art and minimalism, he uses elements of the urban landscape to create structural masterpieces. Lampposts, street signs and neons are distorted, bent, twisted and full of symbolism, confounding our vision of urban infrastructures.

Discover more about the project here. 

Chase Hall interrogates the realities of race in America through innovative figurative painting techniques and iconography that engage the past and the present. Using coffee grounds as pigment on raw cotton canvases, Hall varies the levels of coarseness and fineness of the bean to achieve a range of tonal values, metaphorically articulating a non-monolithic Black experience and evoking his biracial hybridity. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition brings together new paintings and an impressive installation featuring a century-old, self-playing Wurlitzer organ ensconced in a brick room, evoking the museum’s historic structure — and the breath and memory of those who created it. 

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Gerwald Rockenschaub's exhibition reappropriation (allure/construct) is on view at Schlossmuseum Linz from March 31 to July 2, 2023. The artist is one of the most internationally renowned representatives of contemporary Austrian art. Since his artistic beginnings in the Neo Geo movement of the 1980s, he has developed a stringent oeuvre characterized by radical reduction and precision. His works reveal borrowings from constructivist-concrete traditions as well as an interest in the abstraction of form, which plays an essential role in the creation of pictograms and similar pictorial signs.

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mumok presents New York artist Adam Pendleton’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe. Pendleton’s painting is a continuous index in which gestures are recorded, transposed, and overwritten. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the idea of Black Dada, an ever-evolving inquiry into the relationship between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. In his paintings, drawings, and other works, a visual philosophy of incomplete postulates emerges, flattening the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange. Curated by Marianne Dobner.

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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Modern Art Collection presents itself anew on 3,600 square meters of exhibition space with around 350 works by more than 150 artists. Under the programmatic exhibition title MIX & MATCH, painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, and video art meet for the first time in thematic spaces that transcend epochs and media. One of the artists included in the exhibition was Tschabalala Self. 

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Shara Hughes' solo exhibition at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art showcases over 30 new and recent large-scale paintings and works on paper, many of which take inspiration from the Nordic landscape and light. The works were created following Hughes's residencies in Skagen and The Boathouse at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk.

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Karen Kilimnik's solo exhibition Swan Lake at Kunsthaus Glarus is on view from February 26 to June 25, 2023. The exhibition presents two installative settings featuring Kilimnik's works Swan Lake (1992) and Kitri and friends at the garden folly (2004). Flanking these are paintings from different years that depict a “forest clearing as stage” theme but which also engage intrinsically with presence and absence. With these and other works, the exhibition highlights Kilimnik’s artistic ability to continually renegotiate the conditions of established narratives within and beyond her time.

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Tschabalala Self's solo exhibition Inside Out at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is on view from February 25 to June 18, 2023. The artist is deeply engaged with the medium of painting. She paints with various pigments, materials, textiles and threads. Her unique technique includes found, acquired, and hand-­dyed fabrics. With these she creates figures that depict avatars rather than individuals. The artist draws from her personal experiences as a Black American woman. In this context she stages bodies that are often exalted and excluded within her imagined environments.

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Sam Falls’s show at moCa Cleveland, Ohio, the artist’s first major solo museum exhibition, offers expansive insight into his unique practice of collaborating with nature to create monumental paintings and sculptures.

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Josh Smith is among the artists who showcase their art at the new 8,500-square-foot flagship store of Supreme New York in West Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Find more about the project here. 

Torbjørn Rødland’s exhibition Old Shep at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Maag Areal, was reviewed by Gallery Talk. 

Read the full article here.

Gareth Harris reviews when the sun goes down and the moon comes up, an exhibtion by Ugo Rondinone at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève. The artist draws extensively from the institution’s rich holdings of Swiss art's giants Ferdinand Hodler and Félix Vallotton. 

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In his exhibition at Secession, Vienna, Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder showed a retrospective of his painting from almost forty years (1983–2021). This episode of the Secession Podcast: Artists is a conversation between the artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and the curator Jeanette Pacher.

Listen to the full podcast here. 

Sam Falls’ exhibition We are Dust and Shadow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland was reviewed by Artnet. Sam Falls on making art out of nature to capture the nature of time: ‘I’m after something more sublime.’

Read the whole article here. 

Ugo Rondinone and Roger Federer announce their collaboration 'Portrait of a Champion'. In Rondinone’s 'burn shine fly', the athlete agrees to be known as 'Cloud Six'. He takes a leap from simply admiring the art to becoming a part of it.

Watch the full video here.

Tschabalala Self's exhibition "Make Room" at Le Consortium/Dijon was featured in Flash Art. Self’s desire is to “create a cultural vacuum in which bodies can exist for their own pleasure and self-realization. Their role is not to show, explain, or perform but rather ‘to be.'”

Read the whole article here.

Anthony Huberman was appointed Executive Director of the John Giorno Foundation and Artistic Director of The Bunker.

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purple Magazine published an interview with the artist Doug Aitken. Aitken says: "The continent stops, and you find yourself looking out at the infinite horizon, and there’s nothing there — you’re looking out at the idea of the future, at what could be."

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Max Henry from SPIKE Magazine reviewed Sam Falls' exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna. Henry writes: "Taking cover on a raw, blustery winter afternoon, I step inside the warm confines of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, to enter the world of Sam Falls and his botanical memento mori."

Read more on SPIKE Magazine

Muse Magazine dedicates a photo feature on Torbjørn Rødland's exhibition Old Shep at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal. The editorial team writes: "Rødland appeals to our general visual memory, but not without disrupting it in an almost surrealist manner."

Read more on Muse Magazine

Kunstmuseum Winterthur is presenting a retrospective of the American artist Oscar Tuazon, covering the years from 2000 to the present. For the exhibition in Winterthur, the artist is realizing an expansive wooden structure that is a sculpture, model house, meeting place and event forum all in one. By going beyond the limits of the room, it creates a new, incomparably more informal space for encounter and art.

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The National Museum, Oslo recently received a significant gift from Carroll Dunham, consisting of no less than 161 impressions dating from the 1980s to the present. A selection of these are shown in the exhibition Carroll Dunham. Where am I? Prints 1985–2022, opening on February 3.

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Bergen Kunsthall presents a large-scale exhi­bition with new works by the American artist Oscar Tuazon. For his exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, curated by Axel Wieder, Oscar Tuazon presents a scaled-down version of the initial Water School pavilions. The structure will occupy all four main gallery spaces of the Kunsthall and create a series of rooms in which inside and outside blurs.

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The Musée d'art & d'histoire invited Ugo Rondinone to take over its collection and its main building to create a unique aesthetic experience. More than 200 pieces from the MAH's collection are used and staged in a continuous dialogue with Ugo Rondinone's works, including new productions created especially for the occasion.

Take a tour through the exhibtion. 

Artspace dedicated an article on Ugo Rondinone's great year. They write: "That’s quite a win for the artist, and next year looks just as promising. Look out for a huge outdoor show in Germany in 2023 at the Städel Garden Halls in Frankfurt."

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Karen Kilimnik's recent solo exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, is reviewed by Sabrina Tarasoff for Mousse Magazine. Tarasoff writes: "Like teasing meaning from whatever’s intercalated between the forever-equivocal face of Kirsten Stewart as immersed in elusive Alpine cumulus, Kilimnik floats ideas in the midst of her chosen motifs, allowing the recherché referent to become impressionistic and subject to its own un-resolve, or unmooring."

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Carole Kittner from Tribune Des Arts dedicated a major article on the artist Louisa Gagliardi. In the article and interview, the artist is talking about the beginnings of her career, her influences, and future exhibitions.

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At last month’s Paris Fashion Week, Akris’s 100th anniversary Spring 2023 show was staged on the outdoor square between the Palais de Tokyo and the Musee d’Art Moderne—a fitting location for a brand that prides itself on being at art’s intersection. The outdoor fountains were appropriately festive for the occasion, adorned with a large Ugo Rondinone rainbow that read “We Are Poems.”

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Listen to Dior Talks podcast series, themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foremanas, where artist Shara Hughes shares her vision for the Lady Dior bag. Evocative of escape, the two creations establish an outsider’s perspective peering into another universe. The scenic painting serves as portals as a parallel to the bag itself being an object that stores mysteries inside. With sleek paintings and textural embossments, the bags fulfill this enchanting concept.

Listen to the Podcast here

Gerwald Rockenschaub's solo exhibition at Belvedere 21, Vienna, officially on view until March 12, 2023 shows colorful surfaces, figures, and shapes flicker, jerk, and twitch in a dynamic but silent manner on the walls: at the Belvedere 21, Gerwald Rockenschaub has created a sensory overload that is both minimalist and complex and extremely precisely staged, requiring close observation. His multimedia work possesses a distinct style defined by the principle of distillation to a few but essential elements, structures, and color contrasts. 

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On the occasion of Shara Hughes’ exhibition Time Lapsed at Kunstmusem Luzern, an accompanying catalogue is published with DCV Books. Shara Hughes describes her pictures and drawings as psychological or invented landscapes. Her cliff coasts, river valleys, sunsets, and lush gardens, often framed by abstract patterns, might be the settings of fairy tales or scenes from paradise.

Find out more about the publication

Artflyer recently published a major article and interview with the artist Jean-Marie Appriou. In the interview, Appriou says, “What interests me is to go beyond this imaginary surface that the mirage, or the world, is. This Alice in Wonderland or William Blake trick of the passage. The door to another state. When we are in front of a work of art, we don’t know what happens, it is indescribable, but we pass through a door to a state of superior consciousness.”

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Shara Hughes’ exhibition Time Lapsed at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne is reviewed by Ramona Heinlein for Texte zur Kunst.

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In the newest video with Public Art Fund, artist Wyatt Kahn and curator Daniel S. Palmer discuss Kahn’s first public art exhibition, Life in the Abstract. Together, they delve into the inspiration drawn from Kahn’s daily life, connections to his broader practice, and how the sculptures reflect the democratizing spirit of public art. On Wednesday, December 7, there will be an Artist Talk with Wyatt Kahn, where he will address his multidimensional practice encompassing painting, drawing, and sculpture, focusing on Life in the Abstract.

Watch on Public Art Fund

Kunstforum International recently dedicated a major interview for Ugo Rondinone. Heinz-Norbert Jocks talks to the artist about the beginnings of his career, his influences, and the artists' different exhibitions over the past year.

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For the podcast Cerebral Women, host Phyllis Hollis talks to Tschabalala Self about her work, her inspiration and passion.

Listen to the Podcast here

Doug Aitken’s solo exhibition, Flags and Debris, at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is the subject of a feature by Barry Davis in The Jerusalem Post. The feature discusses how Aitken’s current show at Israel Museum is a reflection of the woeful social distancing, self-incarceration state of affairs in 2020.

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The strong, vivid hues shining in this collection appear as the shades of the rainbow. A color spectrum beautifully represented in Ugo Rondinone's visual cosmos, particularly his rainbow works. WE ARE POEMS embodies the artist's fascination with poetry emphasizing the subjective, the irrational, the emotional. The Swiss-born, New York-based artist believes that poetry-like art-needs no explanation, no thinking, but rather demands simply to be felt. Creative Director Albert Kriemler has selected this artwork as a symbol for the self-evident sensuality of Akris clothes and as a perfect representation for the 100 year anniversary of the fashion house.

View the Défilé here

the water is a poem
unwritten by the air
no. the earth is a poem
unwritten by the fire

Every autumn since 2015, the Petit Palais, Paris has invited contemporary artists to exhibit alongside its permanent collection. This year, Ugo Rondinone will present an exclusive exhibition opening October 18. At the Petit Palais, Rondinone presents three groups of works including the world premiere of his video installation burn to shine. The trilogy reflects the union of the human body with natural elements.

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Shara Hughes suspends time with dazzling, otherworldly landscapes in her new exhibition Time Lapsed at Kunstmuseum Luzern.

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For The Art Newspaper’s podcast A brush with… Ben Luke talks to Adam Pendleton about the artist’s influences in the worlds of literature, music and art, as well as the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work.

Listen to the Podcast here

For Vogue’s August issue, Chase Hall was profiled by Dodie Kazanjian. The article discusses Hall’s fiercely independent and deeply inspired artistic practice which is informed by questions of identity and belonging. Kazanjian writes, "A self-taught artist with boundless energy and a lot to say, he has emerged virtually overnight as a strong and highly original new voice."

Read on Vogue

Kunstmuseum Luzern is dedicating a major exhibition to the American artist Shara Hughes. The exhibition Time Lapsed, curated by Fanni Fetzer, will present significant landscape paintings by Hughes. Her steep coasts, river courses, sunsets, and abundant gardens play with remembered landscapes of the kind that we all can recall.

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Tschabalala Self’s first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Make Room, will present new and recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Curators Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim introduce the exhibition as presenting works where the relationships between the masculine and the feminine are expressed with domestic figures and poses alternating between light and shadow.

Learn more on Le Consortium

Villa Medici in Rome has invited the French artist and sculptor Jean-Marie Appriou to unveil a series of new pieces that will populate the gardens of Villa Medici this summer. As part of the cycle Art Club, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, these recent creations take up the core figures of Appriou's practice, whose deeply dreamlike visual universe is imbued with telluric concerns.

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The Schirn is dedi­cating a large survey exhi­bi­tion to Ugo Rondi­none that will show­case key paint­ings, sculp­tures, and video works by the renowned Swiss artist. The exhi­bi­tion LIFE TIME combines funda­mental themes that have shaped the work of the concep­tual and instal­la­tion artist for the past 30 years: time and tran­sience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture. 

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Wyatt Kahn discusses his Public Art Fund exhibition, Life in the Abstract, with Roger Clark for NY1. Life in the Abstract is Kahn's first public art exhibition, comprising seven new monumental sculptures fabricated in Cor-Ten steel. Each sculpture juxtaposes components adapted from Kahn’s abstract canvas paintings with “readymade” items from his domestic life. 

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Karen Kilimnik's exhibition, Early Drawings 1976 – 1998, is reviewed by Johanna Fateman for Goings On About Town in The New Yorker. Fateman writes, "The diverse works on view are unified by the artist’s inimitable hand and wry humor—and by their lustrous gilt frames, which strike the perfect note of irony, fantasy, and understated camp."

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Artist Louisa Gagliardi recently spoke to Louisa Elderton about her large-scale painting for the 2022 edition of Art Basel Unlimited. Gagliardi describes the work in reference to an atmosphere of “opening random doors and observing whatever scenes hide behind them. That’s what I want the work to feel like. Sometimes you open a door to an empty room that has a peaceful stillness, but it’s still eerie because of the potential for activation...” 

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Organized by Public Art Fund, Life in the Abstract is Wyatt Kahn’s first public art exhibition, comprising seven new monumental sculptures fabricated in Cor-Ten steel. Each sculpture juxtaposes components adapted from Kahn’s abstract canvas paintings with “readymade” items like eyeglasses, clock, comb, hand, foot, and other elements from his domestic life. 

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Ugo Rondinone has been appointed as the Guest Curator of Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2022 exhibition. The exhibition, entitled Nature Doesn’t Know About Us, will include “thirteen works by thirteen artists who combine skeptical clarity and at times humor-tinged desire to locate the intersection of spiritual and physical presence in our daily life,” according to Rondinone.

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The Musée d’arts de Nantes invited Angela Bulloch to design an exhibition specifically for the museum's atrium. Undeterred by the monumentality of the space, the artist integrated her work into its architecture pursuing a practice of blending light, color, video, and sound. Bulloch drew on the legacy of the conceptual art of the 1960s, while also incorporating digital technologies to produce work that appeals to the senses. 

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Ugo Rondinone's solo exhibition, burn shine fly, at Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice is the subject of a feature by Stephanie Bailey on Ocula Magazine. The feature discusses how Rondinone's artworks reflect on common experiences of love and loss, particularly in relation to works by the late John Giorno. 

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On the occasion of the 59th La Biennale di Venezia, the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista hosts a major solo exhibition of work by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, entitled burn shine fly. Curated by Javier Molins, burn shine fly presents both iconic works by Rondinone as well as a new body of work created specifically for this exhibition.

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Adam Pendleton will participate in the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept. Established in 1932 to chart developments in art of the United States, the Whitney Biennial is the longest-running exhibition of its kind. A constellation of the most relevant art and ideas of our time, the 2022 exhibition will be the Biennial’s eightieth edition.

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At seventy-two, Carroll Dunham is one of the most successful and well-respected American painters of his generation. The artist recently sat down with the writer Naomi Fry for a conversation about painting, the body, repression, and family.

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Eva Presenhuber discusses her return to her home country of Austria and why she has decided to open a gallery in Vienna after years of operating out of Zurich and New York. Tobias Pils introduces his inaugural exhibition, Between Us Space, featuring Gerwald Rockenshaub, and reveals how the collaboration came about.

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New York-based artist Adam Pendleton’s first solo exhibition in Canada, These Things We’ve Done Together, presents new monumental paintings from his series Untitled (WE ARE NOT) as well as drawings from his defining series Black Dada produced this year. The exhibition also includes a video portrayal of the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer.

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Chase Hall discusses his debut solo show in Europe—a collection of paintings and portraiture titled Clouds in My Coffee on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich. Despite exhibiting internationally, many of the ideas he’s currently working through are rooted in American history.

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Bern celebrates the important Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder with a hanging of the holdings in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern and a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. At Kunsthalle Bern, new, rarely, or never-before-seen works from 1970 to the present are brought together, including those that were not necessarily planned as works of art, but resulted from daily activities.

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At the Performa Biennial last October, artist Tschabalala Self presented her first-ever live performance. Besides writing the script and directing the actors, Self also painted the backdrop and designed the costumes, produced in a special collaboration with UGG. The first seven pieces from UGG x TS will be available online and in selected stores on March 1.

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Doug Aitken’s awe-inspiring work comments on the aesthetics of the future and the conflict between modernity and nature. Now, he is pushing his eye-popping sensibility even further with a new exhibition that spans four galleries in different cities and exists mainly in the form of virtual reality. Learn more about booking your VR experience in Zurich here. 

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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, which maintains locations in Zurich and New York, and is set to open another in Vienna, will now represent Chase Hall, whose work is currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in a show of Black portraiture. Hall’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will open at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, on March 4.

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Bern celebrates the important Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder with a hanging of the holdings in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern and a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. For the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern, the artist himself has made a selection of 68 earlier paintings and sculptures and arranged them in an overall installation.

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Eva Presenhuber will open her second gallery since the beginning of the pandemic, this time in Vienna. The gallery will open on April 2 with an exhibition of Austrian native Tobias Pils, featuring an intervention by fellow Austrian Gerwald Rockenschaub.

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nude in the landscape at the Belvedere 21 is Ugo Rondinone’s first solo show in an Austrian museum. In the sunlit glass pavilion of the Belvedere 21, the artist brings together new groups of works from the classic genres of the nude and the landscape. 

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This major exhibition focuses on the importance of Steven Shearer’s archive of photographic and print material, collected over the past 25 years, and showcases how this pictorial reservoir continues to act as source material for works across a variety of media, including sculpture, prints, drawings, and painting.

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Ugo Rondinone’s performatively costumed and made-up clowns stand in as those figures who remain outside society’s mainstream. In a time in which we have spent hours contemplating solitude, Rondinone offers the opportunity to explore notions of being through his community of jesters. 

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In this Sydney-exclusive exhibition, see Doug Aitken's installations, objects, photographs, and vast immersive multi-screen environments that will envelop you within a kaleidoscope of moving imagery and sound. Aitken's works lead us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.

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Valentin Carron's latest body of work examines figuration as a fundamental concern of art and translates this into a contemporary visual language. Through this supposedly worn-out motif, he explores the origins of artistic representation and uses his sculptures to relate to the first cultural expressions of man. 

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Shara Hughes’ latest landscape paintings transcend spirituality, which was inspired by physical nature, bridging utopia and reality. The Bridge not only is an epitome of Hughes’ creative breakthrough during the pandemic but extends to her profound understanding of life and death, man and universe, ephemerality and immortality.

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At Performa 2021, Tschabalala Self will bring to life characters from her paintings in a performance entitled Sounding Board. Understanding this commission as an invitation to experiment with the medium of performance, Self has written and designed an intimate work of theatre.

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Amy Feldman’s paintings have been gray for over a decade, a commitment which would be bold were it not so seemingly innate. In the Brooklyn-based artist’s alluringly abstract works, shapes float amidst gray-washed cosmoses layered with coats of gesso, paint, and more paint.

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Much recent figurative painting has sought, admirably but with some obviousness, to invert and destroy the genre’s entrenched hierarchies. More subtle is Steven Shearer’s examination of portraiture through the lens of those who construct and consume it. 

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Who Is Queen? transforms MoMA’s Marron Family Atrium into a dynamic arena exploring Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Adam Pendleton has created a spatial collage of text, image, and sound—a total work of art for the 21st century.

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Adam Pendleton is rethinking the museum. Who Is Queen? at MoMA is the artist’s most personal and ambitious show yet, exploring how we might live beyond labels in American society. “I want to overwhelm the museum,” he said.

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For Oscar Tuazon, the artistic practice is a principle of life. His works are de facto inseparable from what can be called a life project, which includes living on the fringe of society, at the periphery of social codes, in pursuit of harmony with the environment that surrounds him.

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Shara Hughes is often referred to as a landscape painter, but from the artist’s point of view, her paintings “are not really about landscapes” at all. Hughes' first major solo museum show in the US, On Edge includes more than 30 paintings, drawings, and prints.

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Tschabalala Self will present her first live performance in the form of brief scenes from a play that she has written and directed. On a stage designed by the artist, a male and female actor will explore communication, gender roles, and power play within intimate relationships.

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In 2020 and 2021, Michael Williams created six large-scale paintings for the Lokremise in St. Gallen, which will be presented there for the first time. During the lockdown, there were no openings and no trips; instead, it was time to retreat to the studio.

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It’s not easy to catch up with Sam Falls, an artist who is almost always on the move. From the remote woodlands surrounding New York City to the Mojave desert in super bloom, Falls travels the country in his camper van making unusual portraits of nature.

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