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1-8 Apr 2025

Openings, events, auctions
London, Milan, Naples, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Zürich

Jürgen Klauke: Transformer @ Zander Galerie Paris		Harold Ancart: 좋은 밤 Good Night @ Gagosian at APMA Cabinet Seoul		New Works By: Stephen Brameld & Jay Staples @ Art Leven Sydney
Steven Shearer: The Golden Recline @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal Zürich		Niki de Saint Phalle & Yayoi Kusama: Inner Child @ Opera Gallery London		Élise Peroi @ CARVALHO PARK New York

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London

London, Tuesday 1

Ab-Anbar:
Poetry Event by The Fair Organ

special event

London, Wednesday 2

The Mayor Gallery:
Klaus Staudt: A Sense of Serenity
simple geometric forms encased in Plexiglas, which give the illusion of movement, in this exhibition of one of the leading exponents of constructive and concrete art in Germany

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
auction: Wed 2-Wed 9
(viewing: Thu 3-Wed 9)

auction starts

South London Gallery:
Christina Kimeze

book launch

London, Thursday 3

David Zwirner:
Rose Wylie: When Found becomes Given
new and recent canvases and multi-panel paintings by the British artist – “bold, uniquely recognizable compositions, which reveal witty observations and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of visual representation itself”

private view

DES BAINS:
Lara Smithson: CAUSE UNKNOWN
Smithson’s installation takes the medical cases of the modern ME and the ancient “dancing plague” to explore historical and contemporary contradictions between health, ritual, religious fervor and guilt

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
jazz meets art: Verena Loewensberg

special event

Kearsey & Gold:
Leonard “Soldier” Iheagwam: BLACK STAR

opening reception

lbf contemporary:
Benjamin Levy: Keeping Up With The Corbies
new paintings where Levy explores class and image-making in Britain today – “intimacy and loneliness, camaraderie and isolation, in which we must all ask what price we pay for our obsession with luxury and the fetishisation of objects”

private view

Lisson Gallery:
Oliver Lee Jackson: Intimacies
“energetic fields of abstract marks that occasionally coalesce into floating forms approaching figuration” – new paintings in the American’s first exhibition with the gallery, and in London

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Tunga
in the gallery’s first exhibition of the late multi-disciplinary artist, ten pieces from a pivotal period in the work of one of the most important sculptors of his generation in Brazil

opening reception

Opera Gallery:
Niki de Saint Phalle & Yayoi Kusama: Inner Child
over forty paintings and sculptures by Saint Phalle and Kusama in an exhibition which explores the Jungian concept of the “inner child” in their work

first day

Opera Gallery:
Daniella Portillo
Portillo explores the emotional terrain of her native El Salvador through paintings which blur distinctions to create “an intentional ambiguity that captures the essence of memory itself”

first day

Pilar Corrias, Conduit Street:
Pierre Knop: Fireflies Under Fever Sky
new paintings by Knop in his first solo exhibition with the gallery – “kaleidoscopic landscapes – lush forests, imposing mountain ranges, chocolate-box village scenes and dramatic seascapes – that unsettle as much as they seduce”

opening reception

Pilar Corrias, Conduit Street:
Prafulla Mohanti: ANANDA
part of Gallery 2, the occasional programme of exhibitions by non-represented artists, abstract paintings from the 1960–90s by Mohanti, for whom painting is a form of meditation and life control

opening reception

rosenfeld:
Abstract Expressionism: The Second Wave
a dual exhibition of Cesare Lucchini and Stephen Pusey – two artists who have reinterpreted the legacy of first-generation Abstract Expressionism to bring fresh relevance to the movement

private view

Serpentine South Gallery:
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
extending beyond the gallery to include outdoor sculptures, this is the most comprehensive institutional exhibition of the leading figure in the Arte Povera movement to be presented in the UK

first day

Sprüth Magers:
Songs before Sunrise
Oliver Bak, Eugène Carrière, Guglielmo Castelli, Enzo Cucchi, Enrico David, Leonor Fini, Anne Imhof, Alexej von Jawlensky, Conny Maier, Rosemarie Trockel and Andro Wekua – works which “interweave past and present in a dreamlike visual language”

opening reception

Tiwani Contemporary:
Wura-Natasha Ogunji: space comma space comma space
“through works on paper, the artist creates a memoir of her time inside the studio … the paper itself becomes a ritual space”

opening reception

London, Friday 4

Alma Pearl:
Jhonatan Pulido: Reparación
new paintings and a site-specific intervention which explore healing, restoration, and remembrance in relation to conflict and wartime violence

opening reception

Alma Pearl:
Hannah-Sophia Guerriero: Veils of Space
Guerriero’s debut solo exhibition in London – “sensuous and intimate are some of the adjectives that come to mind when confronted with Guerriero’s miniature paintings”

opening reception

October Gallery:
Film Screening: Queer (2024)

special event

London, Saturday 5

October Gallery:
What’s Left of a Radical Vision When it’s All Come True? A discussion on how do we maintain legacies of queer and radical vision

talk

London, Sunday 6

The Gallery of Everything:
Made in Guatemala
rare maguey fibre tapestries made by Central American craftspeople in association with Alexander Calder – who had a long-term fascination for folk art and indigenous manufacture

first day

London, Tuesday 8

Gagosian Davies St:
Maurizio Cattelan: Bones
new gunshot-pierced gold-plated panels and a single marble sculpture “explore a raft of opposing forces: domesticity and wildness, force and resistance, creation and destruction, perseverance and loss”

opening reception

Gagosian Shop, London:
Maurizio Cattelan
alongside new watercolors and a new panel work in the upstairs gallery, Cattelan takes over the main Shop with a presentation of editions, publications, and new merchandise

first day

Milan

Milan, Tuesday 1

A arte Invernizzi:
Talk and guided tour with Lorenzo Madaro and Francesca Pola

special event

Milan, Wednesday 2

Robilant+Voena, Milan:
Minjung Kim. Repetitions
twelve new works by the Korean artist at the gallery’s new Milan space, including her signature methodical works of burnt, cut and layered Hanji paper as well as pieces characterised by gestural forms

private view

Naples

Naples, Friday 4

Alfonso Artiaco:
Ann Veronica Janssens: UP

opening reception

Alfonso Artiaco:
Ugo Rondinone: ORA BLU

opening reception

New York

New York, Thursday 3

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts:
Maeve D’Arcy: Off the Record and Other Stories
recent paintings and a site-specific drawing and painting installation – “an exploration of mark making as language. Shrines, to-do lists, snippets of conversations, and old photos act as an evolving manifesto of observation” – D’Arcy

first day

New York, Friday 4

Friedrichs Pontone:
Claudia Doring Baez: My Brother’s Mind
Doring Baez’s first exhibition with the gallery is inspired by the 1975 film “The Night Porter” and her late brother’s photography, to explore “her desire to know her brother more deeply than anyone can ever know another person”

opening reception

Friedrichs Pontone:
Kristi Kongi: Twilight in the Garden
turning the gallery into a spiritual sanctuary, fourteen of Kongi’s recent paintings in the Estonian artist’s first solo exhibition in the US

opening reception

SANATORIUM at DIANA:
Zeyno Pekünlü: Perfect Loop
Pekünlü’s first solo exhibition in the US centers on a video, alongside a sound installation and works on paper to examine the vicious cycles encountered in everyday life

opening reception

Timothy Taylor:
Michel Pérez Pollo: Bolero
in the Cuban-born, Madrid-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, new large-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in earthen hues

opening reception

New York, Saturday 5

CARVALHO PARK:
Élise Peroi

opening reception

CARVALHO PARK:
Kristian Touborg, Marie Schumann, Elli Antoniou + Élise Peroi

opening reception

New York, Monday 7

Nagas:
Leonor Fini: Small Faces
the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space 47 W 28th St presents some of Fini’s crucial lesser-known small-scale drawings – “complex, unsettling, and utterly hypnotic”

first day

New York, Tuesday 8

Sotheby’s New York:
Prints & Multiples
auction: Tue 8-Tue 15
(viewing: Fri 11-Tue 15)

auction starts

Upsilon Gallery:
Shared Light: The Art of Alice Baber & Paul Jenkins
an exhibition exploring the careers of the two artists, who worked alongside each other and were briefly married, presenting how their vitality, freedom, and innovative practices impacted the community of artists recognized during Abstract Expressionism

private view

Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Thursday 3

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Belynda Henry: Recent Works
the contemporary Australian artist’s works “express the internal meditative quality evoked by the landscape, illuminating these impressions in wondrous and imaginative paintings”

first day

Paris

Paris, Tuesday 1

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Batten and Kamp: From a Distance
new hanging light sculptures and a minimalistic lounge chair by the collaborative art and design practice, exploring themes of place and memory with works that echo the designers’ belief in the future and longing for what is left behind

first day

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Léa Mestres: Welcome to Mestresville
new artworks by the artist and designer “who injects whimsy and nostalgia into a design world that she considers often too serious and self-aggrandising”

first day

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Martin Laforêt: Studies
new works in lacquered wood and concrete benches by the French designer which “embody the artist’s interest in the architecture of artificial contemporary landscapes”

first day

Emanuel von Baeyer x Galerie à Venir:
Howard Smith & Celia Middlemiss: Breathe Space

opening reception

Galerie Mitterrand St-Honoré:
Agustín Cárdenas: The Memory of the Future
works from the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s in a new exhibition of the late Cuban artist – “one of the three great sculptors of Surrealism”

opening reception

Paris, Wednesday 2

Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu:
Difference and Repetition
examining the challenging of convention and use of repetition, defining works by key postwar figures including De Maria, Fontana, Judd, Manzoni, Merz, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Serra, and Warhol

first day

Galerie Mitterrand Temple:
Agustín Cárdenas: The Memory of the Future
across both gallery spaces, an exhibition of works from the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s in a new exhibition of the late Cuban artist – “one of the three great sculptors of Surrealism”

first day

Sotheby’s Paris:
Marc Chagall, La symphonie des rêves. Œuvres provenant de la succession de l’artiste
auction: Wed 2-Wed 9
(viewing: Wed 2-Wed 9)

auction starts

Sotheby’s Paris:
Art Moderne et Contemporain Day Auction
auction: Wed 2-Fri 11
(viewing: Wed 2-Wed 9)

auction starts

Paris, Thursday 3

Bigaignon:
Thomas Paquet: Oh Light!
“with an almost childlike joy, Paquet playfully deconstructs photographic techniques, returns to its essential elements, in order to celebrate a single component: The most important element is light” – Lillian Davies

opening reception

Galleria Continua Matignon:
Max Ernst & Joaquín Ferrer: Les surprises du hasard

opening reception

Gagosian, rue de Castiglione:
Julie Curtiss: Suburban Lawns
new acrylic and oil paintings in Curtiss’s first solo exhibition with Gagosian, and in Paris – drawing on 18th- and 19th-century European painting and integrating influences from the Chicago Imagists, ukiyo-e, comics, and popular illustration

opening reception

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Amandine Kuhlmann – Cash Me Online
a video installation which uses social media as a performative space to explore the impact of it on the commodification of – particularly women’s – bodies

first day

Zander Galerie:
Jürgen Klauke: Transformer
seminal photographs from the early 1970s by this pioneer of conceptual and staged photography, which challenge conventional notions of gender and its representation

opening reception

Paris, Friday 4

opening reception

Paris, Saturday 5

Adrian Sutton Gallery:
Adéla Janská: Collisions
“Janská’s practice is a meditation on form and perception, a delicate unravelling of selfhood tracing contours of femininity with an ethereal hand” – Luana Hildebrandt

opening reception

Seoul

Seoul, Thursday 3

Gagosian at APMA Cabinet:
Harold Ancart: 좋은 밤 Good Night
new paintings at APMA (Amorepacific Museum of Art) Cabinet, a project space in the headquarters of Amorepacific – “the night is a unifying force. It is when children dream and prisoners escape” – Ancart

opening reception

Sydney

Sydney, Thursday 3

Art Leven:
New Works By: Stephen Brameld & Jay Staples
collaborative paintings by the Walyalup (Fremantle) artist duo, in a departure from the usual gallery program – only the second presentation of non-indigenous artists since their relaunch and the artists’ first solo presentation in Gadigal (Sydney)

opening reception

Tokyo

Tokyo, Thursday 3

Perrotin Tokyo:
Gregor Hildebrandt: Cherries Bloom in April
the German artist’s first solo exhibition in Japan presents “a dance of silences from various origins, moments of anticipation, and moments of calm after the deep emotional engagement that only music can inspire” – Andreas Schlaegel

opening reception

Vienna

Vienna, Wednesday 2

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Hannah Perry: Film Stills
“Perry’s practice – spanning collage, printmaking, and installation – explores personal memory in today’s hyper-technological world”

opening reception

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Focus On: Soojin Kang: sometimes i think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams
Kang explores the sculptural potential of woven materials, working with both textile and concrete to create sculptures that blur the boundaries between the organic and the industrial

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Friday 4

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Steven Shearer: The Golden Recline
sourced from the artist’s extensive collection of found online images, “Shearer’s images of sleep offer a quiet counterpoint to the culture of hyper-attention and incessant activity that dominates contemporary life” – Andrew Witt

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
Wall Works & Sculptures
works by Walead Beshty, Angela Bulloch, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, John Giorno, Adam Pendleton, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ugo Rondinone, and Steven Shearer

opening reception

Zürich, Saturday 5

Hauser & Wirth:
In Performance: ‘Uman. A Fantastic Woman’ by ZHdK Fine Art Students

performance

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Taipei, Tokyo

André Butzer: Frau am Tisch mit Früchten @ Galerie Max Hetzler Paris		Hugo Crosthwaite: Ex-voto @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles		Gerard Byrne: The Struggle With the Angel @ Kerlin Gallery Dublin
To Sway and Surround: Japanese Female Abstraction @ Each Modern Taipei		Jorge K. Cruz: Just To Keep You Satisfied @ Hurst Contemporary London		Stefan Müller: Linke Füße @ Galerie Bärbel Grässlin Frankfurt