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.

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.”

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“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.

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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. 

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.

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

Read the interview 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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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.

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.

'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. 

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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. 

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. 

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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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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.’

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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.'”

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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."

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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."

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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

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.

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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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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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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.

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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."

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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...” 

Read on Flash Art

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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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.

Read on The New Yorker

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.

Read on Die Welt

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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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.

Read on Vogue

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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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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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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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.

Read on The New York Times