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.
Ugo Rondinone: Dreams and Dramas is installed on the occasion of the 150th Munich Opera Festival on the roof of Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. The glowing rainbow, a recurring motif in Rondinone's work, combines this year's festival theme, “Myth,” with modern symbolism. In many cultures, the rainbow is considered a mythical bridge between heaven and earth, hope and transformation. At the same time, it is also a global contemporary symbol of diversity, tolerance, and the LGBTIQ+ community.
La cinquième essence, a new solo exhibition by Jean-Marie Appriou, allows the artist to explore his medium of choice, sculpture – aluminum, bronze, glass, clay - and uses the architecture, built around a patio, to distill the four elements employed in his work: water, earth, air and fire. Alchemy introduces a fifth element, or a fifth essence: ether. According to its antique and medieval definition, ether is the invisible element that fills the void. It is everything and nothing, it gives life to others. That’s how Appriou approaches sculpture: “it is a matter of balance, of emptiness and fullness, of mass, like another part of life”.
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.
American artist Chase Hall sits down with Ruby J. Thelot on the occasion of his first solo show in Vienna at Galerie Eva Presenhuber to consider the inner and outer worlds of his paintings.
Nothing Without Nature, a new solo presentation by Sam Falls, marks the inauguration of the Cookie Factory in Denver. Created specifically for the site, the exhibition features new paintings, sculptures, outdoor banners, and a live video installation that bring the immensity of Colorado’s landscapes into the gallery through direct collaboration with the natural world. Falls’ nomadic process embraces unpredictability and elemental forces. Working en plein air, he allows sunlight, wind, rain, and plant life to shape his canvases—surrendering control and inviting nature to act as co-author.
At Pilane Heritage, Ugo Rondinone presents five monumental stone sculptures from 2024—each with a distinct personality—and the bronze piece the sun from 2022. Standing nearly five meters tall, these rough-hewn yet expressive figures evoke ancient presences along the sculpture park’s pathway. Rondinone’s use of raw stone and archaic forms reveals a quiet beauty in the play of light, texture, and natural color. Set against the landscape of verdant hills and ancient burial grounds, the sculptures feel deeply rooted, as if they’ve always belonged there.
Ten years after the exhibition presented as a declaration of love, Ugo Rondinone: I 🖤 John Giorno at the Palais de Tokyo, John Giorno’s poetry returns to the heart of the art center with an installation specifically designed for the building.
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.
Conceived for Galleria d'Arte Moderna, this is the first institutional exhibition in Milan by Ugo Rondinone. Curated by Caroline Corbetta, the exhibition project offers a journey into Rondinone's personal history and collective memory, tracing correspondences between some of the museum's masterpieces and the artist's works linked to the themes of land and migration.
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The Guardian reports that Matias Faldbakken's work 'UPHOLDING‘ has been chosen as the National 22 July Memorial in the new Government Quarter in Oslo, to commemorate the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011 on the island of Utøya. Faldbakken's work will be based on the re-erection of the steel frame that was custom-made to move and preserve Picasso's mural The Fishermen. The motif in the stone mosaic is taken from Utøya. It is a drawing of a small wading bird and some reeds and branches reflected in the water of the Tyrifjord.
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.
Water connects the artistic practices of different generations and origins: it is an ever-evolving territory that belongs to everyone and no one. With a new, previously unseen production, the exhibition at MAXXI marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon’s Water School project. This artistic and educational initiative explores the dynamics and politics related to access to land, water, and infrastructure. It is an all-encompassing practice of creating spaces for encounters and collaboration.
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.
This new solo exhibition by Tschabalala Self will showcase the artist's wide-ranging practice, with paintings, immersive installations, music video works, and furniture coming together to produce spaces that cut-and-mix dream and reality.
The 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.
Louisa Gagliardi has established herself as one of the most interesting voices on the Swiss contemporary art scene. In her works, which combine traditional painting techniques and digital technology, she explores themes such as identity, how society is changing, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. For her solo exhibition at MASI Lugano – the first in a Swiss museum – the artist will be showing a series of new works, paintings and sculptures in a site-specific presentation designed for the LAC's lower ground floor.
History meets the present as PoMo reopens the doors to Trondheim's former main post office. The inaugural exhibition, Postcards from the Future, showcases spectacular international visual art from our own collection, alongside unique loans that address the most relevant themes of our time.
A new solo exhibition by Austin Eddy opens on February 21 at Kunsthalle Emden. Eddy explores the characteristics of modern painting between abstraction and figuration. In dialog with classical modernism as well as following inspirations from comics, record covers, folk art, music and poetry, he creates his own iconography that opens up multi-layered possibilities of interpretation.
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.
Acting as reflections of the artist and viewer, the paintings of Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi intend to capture internal and emotional worlds while mirroring the rapid developments in technology that shape our visual and social landscapes. Their liminal status—in between digitally crafted and physically constructed—addresses issues of self-curated identities while simultaneously navigating art historical narratives. On the occasion of her solo show Whereabouts at Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, Claire Koron Elat sat down with Gagliardi to discuss why we seem to be more confident when we’re children, cringing over old work, and being forced to be pessimistic.
In September 2025, the mumok in Vienna will present a solo show by the Austrian artist Tobias Pils. Curated by Manuela Ammer, it will be the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's oeuvre to date. Along with an overview of his painterly works of the last decade, it also highlights the artist’s extensive drawing practice. A site-specific mural, which references both the transitory and the spatial dimensions of Pils’ work, is also part of the show.
Shara Hughes has created a selection of vibrant new paintings in dialogue with the narratives of the Met Opera’s upcoming 2024-2025 season, including Antony and Cleopatra, Moby Dick, The Queen of Spades, and The Magic Flute. The project is curated by Dodie Kazanjian is on view through June 2025.
"Artist Chase Hall paints his canvases with coffee, making large-scale works that examine mixed-race identity in America. Now, on the eve of the biggest show of his career, Hall is reconciling his fractured past with his blindingly bright future."
"It isn’t hard to get Chase Hall talking. Having grown up with a mother in and out of rehab and a father in and out of jail; attended eight schools before the age of 16; and achieved an enviable degree of fame for an untrained 31-year-old artist, Hall has a lot to say."