Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Miltenberger as Director Sales & Artist Liaison.
In spring 2026, the Belvedere 21 will present a comprehensive retrospective of American painter Sue Williams (b. 1954, Chicago Heights, Illinois). Since the late 1980s, Williams has been exploring themes of power and oppression, gender relations, and body politics in her paintings and drawings. She consistently pursues a critical feminist agenda within a field that has long been considered a quintessentially patriarchal domain, which Williams brilliantly navigates using a variety of painterly strategies.
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.
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.
The Madoo Conservancy presents an exhibition of unique works by Ugo Rondinone. Featuring sixteen black-painted sailboats made within the last four years. A flotilla of black ships occupies the room, each set on a polished concrete plinth with a white top as shiny as the moonlit sea in a 19th-century photograph. Varying in scale, the sailboats recall hobbyist models familiar to this region—or to any seafaring community with a culture of leisure craft.
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.
The expansive sculptural installation Club Liaison (2024) by Liesl Raff was commissioned as Austria's first national participation at the 15th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Inspired by cabaret stages, theatres, and underground clubs, hand-cast, purple latex curtains are draped around the room in different lengths and layers, with a stage at its centre, functioning as a performance space. The space can be activated by a variety of performers. Following its presentation at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Club Liaison entered the collection of the mumok and marks Phileas' first donation of a national pavilion to a public collection.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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 Fondation Beyeler is hosting a special presentation of its collection to mark this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel. Inspired by the legendary song Over the Rainbow from the famous musical film The Wizard of Oz (1939), the exhibition pays homage to the music, colourfulness and diversity that characterise the ESC. The rainbow, a fascinating natural phenomenon created by the interaction of sun and rain, is the central theme of this collection showcase, which revolves around light, water and the power of colour. Continuing in this vein, Ugo Rondinone’s spectacular rainbow light sculpture we are poems, 2011, will be installed on the roof of the museum especially for the ESC.
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.
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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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.
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 exhibition explores varied forms of friendship, dialogue and support within the world of culture through materials from the extensive archive of American artist John Giorno (1936-2019). A poet of profound impact and a performer endowed with a powerful stage presence, Giorno crossed sixty years of history and culture—from the Beat Generation to AIDS activism, through Andy Warhol's Factory and Robert Rauschenberg's Experiments in Art and Technology—each time leaving his mark and elevating the spoken word to an art form.
Liesl Raff’s exhibition “A Corridor, a Room, and Four Dens” opened in early February in the industrial expanse of Eva Presenhuber’s Zurich-based Maag Areal location. Raff uses a range of dense materials — like metal or sandbags, along with more pliable objects like latex, rope, or jute — to present ten large-scale sculptural works in four thematic groupings. The connotations of hard to soft, and their emotional implications, are immediately evident by their close juxtaposition to one another, but the emphatic slippage of support and framework seems to be the conceptual underpinning of the work.
The collection exhibition outlines a small history of aesthetics with reference to different epochs and styles. What is beautiful for one person, can be repellent for another. What is regarded as beautiful depends on the cultural, social and societal background. Not only does the idea of beauty constantly change, the relationship between beauty and art does so too. For a long time, art was supposed to teach and to adorn. With modernism, however, the close relationship between beauty and art is no longer taken for granted, on the contrary. Beautiful art is suspected of being more pleasing than profound.
Through her portraits of the Washington family men—Denzel, John David and Malcolm—responsible for the screen adaptation of The Piano Lesson, artist Tschabalala Self celebrates both real and fictionalized Black America.
"Ultimately, Faldbakken’s exhibition does not just present drawings—it dissects and problematizes the very concept of drawing itself. In doing so, it positions the act of mark-making as an act of refusal to submit to clarity, resolution, or easy categorization. His works demonstrate that its power lies precisely in that refusal to be contemporary, to be readable, to be anything other than what it is: a space of negotiation between presence and absence, assertion and negation, material and idea."
Long last happy is an exhibition by Swiss contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone featuring works inspired by the principles of three celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon, and the rainbow. Through these large-format sculptures and the activation created by 1600 children from diverse backgrounds, rondinone explores the natural world and leads us to a reflection on human spirituality: solace and regeneration.
"Last year, more than a decade after settling back in Vienna, Raff represented the Austrian pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale with her work Club Liaison (2024), a club-inspired installation made from deep-purple latex sheets. On the occasion of her debut solo show, A Corridor, a Room, and Four Dens (7 February–21 March 2025), with Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Ocula met with Raff to discuss materiality, collective intimacy, and life as an artist in Austria."
The Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present Ugo Rondinone's first major institutional show in the Western United States in a career spanning over three decades. The museum’s second-floor gallery is recast as a prismatic arena where fluorescent, lifelike sculptures of dancers sit at rest and in waiting. In his practice at large, Rondinone is celebrated for expansive installations, working with photography, painting, poetry, outdoor sculpture, and neon rainbow signage. His visual vocabulary often incorporates the natural and primordial world, wherein rocks, clouds, trees, and the sun are recurrent motifs.
History meets the present as PoMo reopens the doors to Trondheim's former main post office. The inaugural exhibition, Postcards from the Future, showcases spectacular international visual art from our own collection, alongside unique loans that address the most relevant themes of our time.
A new solo exhibition by Austin Eddy opens on February 21 at Kunsthalle Emden. Eddy explores the characteristics of modern painting between abstraction and figuration. In dialog with classical modernism as well as following inspirations from comics, record covers, folk art, music and poetry, he creates his own iconography that opens up multi-layered possibilities of interpretation.
Compared to the stormy sea, the calm of lakes or even the melting of glaciers, water is a metaphor for our moods, our ambitions, while relating the reality of the world. After the themes of landscape and cosmos, this new exhibition is dedicated to water. A dozen international artists are invited, developing works ranging from representations inspired by landscapes to the living, analyzing ecological, geopolitical and social issues as well as poeticizing the subject. With works by Chemu Ng'ok and Sofia Mitsola.
The 6th edition of Elevation 1049 opens on February 1, 2025, in and around Gstaad. Centred on the concept of Energies, the Luma Foundation has invited Stefanie Hessler, Director of Swiss Institute in New York, as guest curator. Featuring works by 13 artists and collectives, the exhibition spans two indoor venues—the Carpentry in Schönried and the Station in Saanen, Gstaad—and includes new commissions and outdoor installations.
Sam Falls and The North Face will present a capsule collection featuring Brewed Protein™ fiber, a structural protein material. The collection will feature seven products with the key artwork “Spring Snow” from 2024. The collaboration encompasses a film, a photo essay, and an interview with the artist.
For over twenty years, Joe Bradley has worked on a multi-layered oeuvre characterized by graphical, comic-like figuration, minimalism, and color field elements. Many of the works also have ironic traits often found in post-conceptual art. The show at the Kunsthalle Krems encompasses around 70 of Bradley’s most recent works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. It is the US American’s first museum exhibition in Austria.
Until February 16, 2025, the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève is staging an exhibition featuring works by Konrad Witz and Jean Frédéric Schnyder. The exhibition features 61 works by Schnyder, a humorous response to the famous altarpiece in Geneva's St. Peter's Cathedral. Among these works, Schnyder presents a series of paintings depicting three flowers in slightly varied compositions, exploring the theme of repetition in figurative painting.
Blue holds a vast depth of possibilities: it is linked to contemplation, spirituality, and imagination. American painter Amy Feldman, who is known for her focus on grey, turns her attention to the colour that has captivated so many artists before her in her solo exhibition, Good Fortune (16 January–8 March 2025), at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna.
Shara Hughes fearlessly combines styles and colors. Whether sunset, nuclear fusion or tree nursery, with her luminous motifs, the artist succeeds to put contemporary painting under a strong current. A visit to her studio in Brooklyn by Lisa Zeitz.
The invisible becomes visible in the visual worlds of Kenyan artist Chemu Ng'ok, which are on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, until January 25, 2025. Clara Zimmermann from WELTKUNST met the artist for a conversation about her time after university, the power of community and colorful umbrellas.
Acting as reflections of the artist and viewer, the paintings of Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi intend to capture internal and emotional worlds while mirroring the rapid developments in technology that shape our visual and social landscapes. Their liminal status—in between digitally crafted and physically constructed—addresses issues of self-curated identities while simultaneously navigating art historical narratives. On the occasion of her solo show Whereabouts at Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, Claire Koron Elat sat down with Gagliardi to discuss why we seem to be more confident when we’re children, cringing over old work, and being forced to be pessimistic.
What becomes progressively clear is that the show does not aim to group, nor unify struggle. Resistance is rather shown in its dynamic and differentiated dimensions, articulating through its multiple sites, landscapes, spaces and infrastructures. The exhibited artworks allow resistance to reverberate and resonate: within silence, noise, music and distant echoes alike.
The Norwegian artist and author Matias Faldbakken will be opening a new solo exhibition Abstracts and Pewter Abstracts at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, on February 7, 5 – 8 pm. On the same evening, he will also be presenting his sixth novel ‘Armes Ding’ (btb 2024, in German) at the Literaturhaus Zürich. Selected passages will be read in German. The artist talk with Mikael Krogerus will be held in English.
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.
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” Doug Aitken said of his latest work Lightscape. The artist’s cinematic and sonic exploration of Southern California’s myths, histories, and potentialities, told through a series of interwoven but disjointed scenes, debuted as an hour-long film last Saturday, November 16, at the Los Angeles Music Center.
For decades, there have been close links between the histories of art and shop window display. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists, such as Tschabalala Self, have designed pioneering window displays. Conversely, window displays frequently feature as a motif in artworks or serve as a stage for performances and actions. The exhibition will explore this eventful relationship from its beginnings to the present day, while artistic interventions in shop windows in Basel extend the show into public space.
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.
Lightscape is an innovative multimedia artwork created by the artist Doug Aitken in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It’s a modern mythology propelled by music that asks the questions, “where are we now?” and “where are we going?” Lightscape is a shapeshifting act of contemporary storytelling that unfolds in various stages: a feature-length film, a multi-screen fine art installation, and a series of live musical performances. Following its concert premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 16, Lightscape migrates to the Marciano Art Foundation in the form of a multi-screen art exhibition
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"On 16 November, the time has come: as part of the PIN. Benefit Auction, works by contemporary artists, from renowned greats to newcomers, will be auctioned off in the Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich under the motto ‘Hands up for Art’."
All information about the works can be found here.
Bidding forms and all info about the auction can be found here.
The live auction can also be followed via livestream on Saturday, November 16 from 8:00 pm.
Register online to bid until November 9, 6 pm EST.
Live Auction on November 9, 8 pm EST.
Silent Auction Bidding concludes November 11, 12 pm EST.
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.
Jean-Marie Appriou's Vessel of Time (2024) is featured in the Forever is Now IV group exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza until 16 November. Made from Nile ochre clay, the sculpture draws on the solar barque of Khufu and ancient burial traditions, symbolizing transitions across states and time—a theme central to Appriou's work. In Giza, he combines archaeology with art, creating a vessel that honors its ancient roots while looking forward.
"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."
Wyatt Kahn presents his monumental sculpture 'Parade' at the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition in New Orleans, on view through June 2026. The artist will be in conversation with Daniel S. Palmer at the Ogden Museum, New Orleans on October 30 at 5.30 pm.
Tin Jobber (2024) by the Canadian artist Steven Shearer in the 2024 iteration of The FLAG Art Foundation's Spotlight Series. 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. A text by filmmaker and writer Durga Chew-Bose accompanies Shearer's presentation.
"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."
This year, for the first time, Fluxus Art Projects, an organisation created in 2010 by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, awards a prize at Art Basel Paris, supporting talent from the British art scene and promoting the artists’ visibility internationally. The prize of €15,000 is shared between the artist and the gallery exhibiting their work at Art Basel Paris.
Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons present a new retrospective exhibition at the Consortium Museum in Dijon. The exhibition offers an opportunity to see two significant bodies of work created by both artists over the past thirty years. Envisioned as a “marriage” of two monographic exhibitions, it brings together twenty works by each artist.
On the cover of Numéro art 15, now on newsstands, the two artists Ugo Rondinone and Tarek Lakhrissi form a striking duo. Their four-handed work can be seen in the new Reiffers Art Initiatives mentoring program exhibition, from October 16 to December 1.
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.
"Giorno boldly pushed language within visual, musical, and sociopolitical spheres. At Galerie Eva Presenhuber, you'll find text paintings on rainbow or black backgrounds with wry, provocative slogans like 'You got to burn to shine', 'I want to cum in your heart', and 'God is man made'..."
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is proud to announce the representation of Nairobi-based artist Chemu Ng'ok, alongside Central Fine, Miami, and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. On Friday, November 15, 2024, Echoes, her debut solo exhibition with Galerie Eva Presenhuber will open at Waldmannstrasse, Zurich.
"One recent evening, not far from the perfectly preserved bedroom of William S. Burroughs and a vintage Orgone Accumulator set up to capture esoteric energies, the late poet and artist John Giorno could be seen reciting the quizzical line “God, please fuck my mind for good!” He was present in the form of footage from a documentary from 1995, but the occasion was more timely: a 50th-anniversary celebration of Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit that has been the impetus for some intriguing activity of late in downtown New York..."
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Science/Fiction - Une non-histoire des plantes, the MEP is pleased to welcome the artist Sam Falls for a discussion with Simon Baker, director of the MEP. The meeting will be followed by a book signing in the bookshop.
Wyatt Kahn was in conversation with Elke Buhr, Editor-in-Chief of Monopol Magazin about Kahn‘s new solo exhibition Signs, on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zurich.
Ugo Rondinone is the mentor of artist Tarek Lakhrissi for the fourth edition of the 2024 Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program. The exhibition opened at the Reiffers Art Center on the occasion of Art Basel Paris.
Kunstverein Heilbronn hosts the first institutional solo exhibition in the German-speaking world by New York-based artist Austin Eddy. Eddy’s work explores contradictions between figuration and abstraction, drawing from classical modernism. His bold paintings feature recurring motifs like birds, fish, and flowers, forming still lifes, landscapes, and cityscapes. Using vivid colors and layered textures, Eddy creates complex spatial overlays that challenge traditional depictions of nature. The exhibition, titled "Still Life," includes paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and ceramics, expanding his exploration of form and material.
In Oscar Tuazon's first solo exhibition in Austria, the US sculptor presents works that merge natural and industrial materials like wood, stone, metal, and concrete, creating structures that blur the line between functional architecture and sculpture. Drawing inspiration from eco-efficient and utopian designs of the 1960s and 1970s, Tuazon explores how these architectural models can apply to contemporary issues of space and self-sufficiency. The exhibition also includes his ongoing "Water School" project, which addresses global struggles over access to land, water, and infrastructure.
"What’s most striking in John Dilg paintings and drawings is the peculiar, somehow contradictory, mood they evoke. The recurring totemic pine-trees, the panettone mountains, and the waterfalls — of a certain mountain-like stillness — give a playful tone to the landscape they inhabit. They are made of repeating shapes which often transition from being a log to becoming a canyon, from water to mountain, valleys and even islands, and become the vocabulary of Dilg’s artworks."
"They look like cyborg animals carrying a burden as precious as it is mysterious: a phalanx of creatures with long, straight metal legs, on whose pelvises sharp-edged cuboid blocks rest like inorganic bodies. The cubes are transparent or semitransparent and enclose objects whose contours are sometimes clear, sometimes less so."
Ugo Rondinone's diverse art is in demand all over the world. Lisa Zeitz, Editor in Chief of Weltkunst, visited him in his new apartment in Paris and talked to him with him about stones, lightning and Caspar David Friedrich.
Whale Song, a new public artwork by Jean-Marie Appriou, will be unveiled at Boston’s Central Wharf Park on September 14. Curated by Pedro Alonzo, the artist’s historical and mystical perspectives on whales invite the public into a conversation about how the natural world has shaped us and vice versa. Incorporating three aluminum sculptures into his composition, Appriou melds myth and nature across time while gesturing to historical reckonings and mystical revelations.
For Doug Aitken’s first monographic exhibition in Turkey, Naked City at Borusan Contemporary, artworks covering the period from 2006 to 2024 are exceptionally brought together to create a site-specific journey through the architecture.
Science/Fiction - Une non-histoire des Plantes traces a visual history of plants linking art, technology and science from the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together over 40 artists from different eras and nationalities, the exhibition compares historic photographic works such as Anna Atkins' cyanotypes, Karl Blossfeldt's inventory of plant forms and Laure Albin Guillot's microscope experiments, with works by contemporary artists such as Sam Falls.
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris presents Les Fleurs d'Yves Saint Laurent in Paris. This spontaneous dialogue between the arts and different eras continues with the work of Sam Falls throughout the exhibition. The patterns and colors of his reconstructed take on nature blend harmoniously with those seen on the haute couture pieces. In the clothing of Yves Saint Laurent, as in the paintings of Sam Falls, flowers transcend time and remain eternally in bloom.
Liesl Raff is known for her sculptural works with latex; she works with and alters these materials to create spaces, atmospheres and situations. She studied stage design in Graz and then sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2024, she will design the Austrian pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale and will also produce a new work for the Lyon Biennale. In both exhibitions, Raff will be creating a collective moment, to be shared by the visitors when entering her installations; be it a club or a corridor.
Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick, Matthew Angelo Harrison, and Liesl Raff will participate in the 15th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, which will feature 31 pavilions throughout Gwangju, including in Yangnim-dong and Dongmyeong-dong. The Biennale will host creative artistic entities from around 30 countries, cities, and institutions. These exhibitions will not only resonate with the Pansori soundscape of the 21st century but will also create a rich tapestry of sights and discourse by showcasing diverse perspectives.
Ugo Rondinone will be awarded the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Stiftung Würth. The award ceremony will take place on September 5, 2024, at 7 pm in the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, Germany. This is also the opening of his presentation solar spirit at Museum Würth 2 and in the Sculpture Garden, which will be on display from September 6, 2024 to March 23, 2025.
Liesl Raff presents a performative exhibition titled Club Liaison in the Austrian Pavilion at the LEEKANGHA Art Museum: an immersive installation which serves as a setting for a programme of live performances by Austria based and South Korean artists.
On Tuesday, September 3, 6 pm, Raff will be in conversation with Marianne Dobner, curator at mumok at Piknic, 194 Namchang-dong, Jung District, Seoul.
Ugo Rondinone’s triumphant thirty-year retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Luzern is an ode to Switzerland’s majestic overlapping mountains and verdant terrain. “Cry Me a River” ranges from his early to most current work, reflecting themes that have been a consistent inspiration.
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is proud to announce the representation of Vienna-based artist Liesl Raff. Liesl Raff's sculptures explore the nuances of physical and social interactions through a profound appreciation of diverse materials and persistent experimentation. Her work features a semiotics of materials that begins where words fail. Recently, she has used natural rubber to showcase its adaptable and shape-shifting properties. Standing near or within Raff's pieces, you experience a transition into a warm, cozy, and calm state, feeling a sense of dependability and safety. Her sculptures integrate seamlessly with their surroundings, promoting contact and interaction.
Daniel Palmer, chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, spoke with painter Shara Hughes about her Zurich exhibition, Tree Farm, which features Hughes's new horizontal tree paintings and ceramics. They also discussed her upbringing in Georgia and her invitation to her father to display his work in a cabinet next to the gallery.
Josh Smith is a multi-talented artist: he is not just a painter. Since the pandemic, he has appeared on Instagram as an ambassador for the art world. He also hosts a regular series on YouTube called "Studio News". During the broadcasts, he sometimes talks about his artistic creative process - in some editions, he simply remains silent. Now Smith is presenting a series of 16 new canvases with his first eponymous exhibition in Vienna.
At her pop-up in the Melina Merkouri Art & Concert Hall, sponsored by the Pappas Family Collection and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, the industrious Tschabalala Self drew crowds of tourists and locals to The Bigger Picture. This triple-screen video (until 2 July) revisits, rather than documents, Sounding Board, the play with music (by Boney M) that she contributed to the 2021 Performa Biennial.
Louisa Gagliardi captivates collectors with her unique paintings that explore the tension between online and real-life existence. Her works feature slick, serene yet uneasy scenes with avatars that evoke a sense of ennui. Using a laborious digital process, she prints sketches on glossy PVC surfaces, creating a surreal, sci-fi allure. Gagliardi's background in graphic design influences her industrial technique, and her works reflect themes of hyperconnectivity and isolation. Influenced by artists like Fernand Léger, her art combines reflections and trompe l'oeil effects, aiming to immerse viewers in otherworldly, dream-like realms.
Drawing from nuanced forms of joy, Black artists, whether residing in Africa or within the vast African diaspora, have pursued a spectrum of visual vocabularies that encompass the experiences of Blackness – of being Black; of living within Black cultures and navigating the complexities of representation and visibility. In doing so, they have intentionally explored the poetics of Blackness in a way that subverts reductive tropes. They explore Black subjectivity and Black consciousness through figurative painting as part of a historical continuum. Join curator Koyo Kouoh as she discusses these vocabularies and histories – surveyed and celebrated in the exhibition When We See Us, A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, currently on show at Kunstmuseum Basel – with artists Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Tschabalala Self.
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) pushes the traditional boundaries of painting with her innovative use of pigments, textiles and printmaking methods. Infusing her work with her experiences as a Black American woman, Self deconstructs and reimagines Western portrayals of the Black body. In the video, Self discusses her artistic practice and her solo exhibition, Around the Way, which opened at EMMA in May 2024. The colourful displays in the exhibition evoke the metropolitan landscapes of Harlem and the atmosphere of its domestic interiors. Tschabalala Self is the seventh artist to join InCollection series of exhibitions co-produced by EMMA and Saastamoinen Foundation.
With sixteen new works at Galerie Presenhuber, Vienna, American artist Josh Smith on treating his paintings like puzzles and his Instagram channel as a work of art.
"The plants in Shara Hughes’s mind-bending paintings export the viewer far from reality. The American artist’s forms seem to be plundered from the depths of her imagination. Towering trees are depicted in spidery strokes of yellow, green and orange (Wits End (2024)), or with vibrant, fluffy blue dots embellishing their branches (What Nerve (2024)). Her works are often so loaded with energetic marks and organic forms that the background and foreground converge, leading to a rich tangle of dynamic visual material."
Shara Hughes is an American painter based in Brooklyn, and is known for her lush, vibrant, imaginative landscapes. These do not root in any outside reference, but rather in her exploration of shape, form and light. The narrative in her work is subtle; it is open to interpretation, but ultimately deals with the nature of her actions, reactions and emotions. Hughes calls her mostly large and vertical canvases invented or psychological landscapes – offering a colorful, kaleidoscopic vision of a painter’s interior.
Premiering in Zurich this week at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Tobias Pils: Happy Days marks the seventh solo show the artist has had with the gallery and presents a new body of work that highlights his signature style. On view June 7–July 20, 2024, the exhibition is comprised of two large-scale triptychs, a suite of eight paintings, and a bronze sculpture.
"Doug Aitken is an American artist known for installations that span a wide spectrum of media and genres; they may include video, print media, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance. Aitken wants to make the traditional definition of art more accessible to a much more comprehensive and connecting meaning. The viewer is invited to move through his large-scale works, either by walking around huge screens, stepping on a train, or even swimming through mirrored sculptures – to name but a few of his immersive projects."
Fresh out of the shower from Vienna, Josh Smith introduces his solo exhibition Studio News (24 May–20 July 2024). Fish, palm trees, and the Grim Reaper ('I mean that was a really bad one') have all graced the New Yorker's gestural and colour-rich canvases over his 20-year career. This time, it's bats: 'They're like birds, just way cooler.'
For their second instalment of ReCollect! at the Kunsthaus Zürich, Oslo based artists Matias Faldbakken and Ida Ekblad have hung one of their favourite works from the collection, Francis Picabia’s Cure-dents (Toothpicks, c. 1924), opposite four painted bronze sculptures by Ekblad. Faldbakken has then ‘measured’ the distance between Picabia and Ekblad using a VHS-copy of the 1983 splatter film1 Stage Fright. The second installation is on view in the Chipperfield building of the Kunsthaus.
Amidst a world rapidly changing under the weight of climate change, the exhibition I Feel the Earth Whisper at Museum Frieder Burda invites us to contemplate the fragile beauty of the natural world and our profound interconnectedness with it. Through the installations of Bianca Bondi, Julian Charrière, Sam Falls and Ernesto Neto – including sculpture, painting, video and photography – the show curated by Patricia Kamp and Jérôme Sans, invites us to reflect upon our relationship with the forests and unique ecosystems of the planet, and to rekindle our historically rooted role as guardians of these vibrant living spaces.
John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem and Wall Paintings are on view at Art Busan as part of the Connect program which allows space for curated exhibitions that are not part of a commercial gallery. This Connect booth was curated by Henna Joo and is "connecting the past and present, New York and Busan, poets and performers."
Nick Byrne from King Kong Magazine interviewed Torbjørn Rødland, whose photographic works are a moveable feast for the eyes. The subject matter is caught in the moment, but starts to alter in the imagination. Changing and warping, sneakily shapeshifting, his photographs give the illusion of reality, when in fact the realism of the images are just a shudder away from the surreal.
Matthew Angelo Harrison was interviewed by Nick Byrne for King Kong Magazine on his new show American Ghost. The artist speaks about blending resin, 3D tech, and memorabilia to encapsulate personal and societal memories. He explores the connection between opposing elements in life, drawing from his African American upbringing in Detroit's industrial landscape. His pieces merge Fine Art and Industrial Design, conveying powerful messages about identity and society through carefully chosen objects and innovative techniques.
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.
It's snowing, the sun is setting, a storm is brewing – Ugo Rondinone's expansive exhibition cry me a river at Kunstmuseum Luzern invites viewers to immerse themselves in both his art and the elements. At the heart of the artist's work is the overwhelming beauty of the landscape and the power of nature. Rondinone, who lives in New York, grew up in Brunnen on Lake Lucerne and is now returning to his home country to present a major retrospective.
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.
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"
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.”"
The Bourse de Commerce exhibits 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tschabalala Self created an online cover of the Queen of Rap, Nicki Minaj, for Vogue.
Jordane de Faÿ reviewed Sofia Mitsola's show Villa Venus: An Organized Dream for Le Quotidien de l'Art.
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.
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.'"
"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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
"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.”"
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).
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."
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.
"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."
"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."
"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..."
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. To mark the award ceremony, the Akademie der Künste is staging an exhibition at Pariser Platz with current works by Candida Höfer dedicated to historical buildings in Berlin and Weimar.
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.
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.
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."
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.
"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."
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.
"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."
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.
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."
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
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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?"
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.
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).
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.”
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.”
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.“
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.
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.
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."
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.
"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.
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."
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.
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?
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
»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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
“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.
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.
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."
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.
"[...] 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lucas Blalock was interviewed by King Kong Magazine, for which he also designed the cover page.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Torbjørn Rødland’s exhibition Old Shep at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Maag Areal, was reviewed by Gallery Talk.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.'”
Anthony Huberman was appointed Executive Director of the John Giorno Foundation and Artistic Director of The Bunker.
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder's solo exhibition, officially on view until February 5, 2023 at Vienna Secession, shows a cross-section of the artist's painting from almost forty years (1983–2021). In his typical manner, the 102 paintings of various formats (all: oil on canvas) are hung evenly spaced and, increasing in size from front to back and then decreasing again, form a horizontal line. The ever-changing live image of the outdoor space, which the glass door on the front wall reveals, is part of the concept.
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.
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.”
Shara Hughes’ exhibition Time Lapsed at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne is reviewed by Ramona Heinlein for Texte zur Kunst.
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.
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.
Ugo Rondinone is one of six contemporary creators to reimagine an iconic handbag by Louis Vuitton. William Van Meter from Artnet News writes: "A handbag becomes a blank (and luxurious) canvas for the esteemed, high-profile cadre tasked with crafting the latest Artycapucines.”
Kate Brown from Artnet News recently visited American artist Amy Feldman in her Brooklyn studio to talk about her studio practice and work routine.
Ugo Rondinone’s exhibition the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire at Petit Palais, Paris is reviewed by Devid Gulandris for Ignant Magazine. Goulandris writes, “Ugo Rondinone is an expert in evoking emotion, leaving one entranced and visually awakened.”
For the podcast Cerebral Women, host Phyllis Hollis talks to Tschabalala Self about her work, her inspiration and passion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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...”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
