On October 4, Bank Austria Park on the Old Danube in Vienna, designed by André Heller, will open. One of the 14 artworks installed there is Ugo Rondinone's sculpture vienna mountain, which the artist developed specifically for this location. The work is 7.34 meters high and consists of four boulders stacked on top of each other and held in place by a solid rod inside. It is part of a series that began in 2016 with the seven-part installation seven magic mountains in Ivanpah Valley near Las Vegas and continued in numerous other locations (including Liverpool, Wolfsburg, Miami, and Doha).
Simose Art Museum has newly acquired works by three contemporary artists this year: Sam Falls, Tomokazu Matsuyama, and Miwa Komatsu. This two-part exhibition introduces these new acquisitions and their creators. The first part will feature Sam Falls and Tomokazu Matsuyama. This exhibition will be the first in Japan to present his monumental work Spring to Fall (2023–2024), measuring over 3.6 meters in height and 45 meters in width, which took more than a year to complete.
US artist Sam Falls works with plants, weather, and time. In Zurich, he is exhibiting new works created with rain. Here, he explains why nature has become the most important co-creator of his art.
For over twenty years, Joe Bradley has worked on a multi-layered oeuvre characterized by graphical, comic-like figuration, minimalism, and color field elements. Many of the works also have ironic traits often found in post-conceptual art. The show at the Kunsthalle Krems encompasses around 70 of Bradley’s most recent works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. It is the US American’s first museum exhibition in Austria.
Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds. What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.
ACCA is delighted to present the first Australian solo exhibition of revered American contemporary artist Tschabalala Self. With new and recent large-scale paintings and works on paper and an immersive 3-channel video installation. Skin Tight introduces Australian audiences to a practice celebrated for its beauty and sophistication.
Tschabalala Self’s distinctive practice combines painting, printmaking, and sewn elements to construct textured depictions of female figures. Her work explores the complexities of identity and Black womanhood, blending traditions from both fine art and craft and using collage as a metaphor for the layered nature of selfhood. Ahead of her presentation at Tokyo Gendai with Galerie Eva Presenhuber this September, Self discusses the evolution of her technique and the intuitive interpretations she hopes viewers will bring to her work.
The exhibition featuring twelve iconic masks by Ugo Rondinone are unveiled on July 26 during The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit. Installed across the Center’s grounds, the masks will be accessible to the public from dawn to dusk and will remain on view through spring 2026. This long-term exhibition reflects the Center’s commitment to showcasing visionary contemporary art in dialogue with its distinctive natural surroundings.
Museum Penzberg - Campendonk Collection shows over 60 works by the American painter Austin Eddy: From larger than life to postcard format. In multi-layered oil crayon, watercolour, drawing, collage and sculpture, Austin Eddy develops his pictorial language develops his visual language between figure and abstraction. Birds and fish, flowers, trees and buildings, which are more poetic forms than animals, nature and dwellings, enchant the viewer with their extraordinarily appealing visual language.
Yuz Museum is pleased to present Songs for the Sun, the first solo exhibition in China of Torbjørn Rødland, a pioneer of contemporary photography, featuring more than 20 works spanning from 2005 to 2023. Through his unique visual language full of calmness and tension, Rødland transforms ordinary scenes of everyday life into poetic expressions that contain existentialist thinking, reflecting the emotional atmosphere of the current era and the living conditions and spiritual aspects of modern people.
One of the most significant artists of his generation, Fischli is known for his four-decades-long collaboration with the late David Weiss (1946-2012) as the groundbreaking conceptual duo Fischli/Weiss. Today, Fischli’s solo practice continues his longstanding critical engagement with the aesthetics of the everyday and systems of meaning, through works that playfully upend the distinctions between art and life.
The Austrian painter Tobias Pils approaches the canvas with a precise idea, which he then executes in a muted color palette. He lets the energy of his subject speak through him, but is careful to add a certain estrangement to the work, so that the result offers a possibility of connection for everybody. Pils mixes abstract and figurative elements and thus constructs a multi layered composition. Once he is finished, a window that opens up in the work that will lead him to the next one, therefore placing his paintings into a process of creation.
This multimedia film installation showcases the complete body of work of Douglas Gordon, one of the most influential figures in video art. Unlike Gordon's renowned large-scale immersive projections, this installation evokes a personal video archive while providing an in-depth analysis of the themes that define his work.
As part of the New Museum’s ongoing Facade Sculpture Program, Tschabalala Self will present a new site-specific work entitled Art Lovers. Self’s work depicts a romantic scene of a couple embracing, mirroring the architectural “kiss point” where the SANAA-designed building meets the OMA-designed expansion. Visible from Bowery and Prince Street, Art Lovers offers viewers a contemporary portrait of NYC life and the personal connections enabled by public spaces like museums.
The new show at the Hirshhorn Museum, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen,” plumbs the past, the idea of presence and the possibilities of what painting could be.
French artist Jean-Marie Appriou uses various materials, such as clay, bronze, and glass, to craft immersive sculptures that evoke mythological and surreal landscapes. Through his process-driven practice, he explores themes of mythology, subconscious realms, and universal narratives. In his sculptures, the artist blends classic influences with contemporary narratives, bridging his respect for ancient artistic traditions with a fascination for science fiction and different states of perception.
The Hirshhorn Museum presents Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, a landmark exhibition of new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work in the Museum’s second-floor inner-ring galleries from April 4, 2025, to January 3, 2027. For his first solo exhibition in Washington, DC, Adam Pendleton will highlight his unique contributions to contemporary American painting while making use of the architecture of the Museum and the history of the National Mall.
The collection exhibition outlines a small history of aesthetics with reference to different epochs and styles. What is beautiful for one person, can be repellent for another. What is regarded as beautiful depends on the cultural, social and societal background. Not only does the idea of beauty constantly change, the relationship between beauty and art does so too. For a long time, art was supposed to teach and to adorn. With modernism, however, the close relationship between beauty and art is no longer taken for granted, on the contrary. Beautiful art is suspected of being more pleasing than profound.