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4-11 Feb 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Beverly Hills, Boston, Bruton, Chicago, Cologne, Gstaad, London, Los Angeles, Naples, New York, Paris, Vienna, Venice, Zürich

Dennis Morris – Music + Life @ MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris		Shaping The Landscape: Spirit Figures From Northern Australia @ D’Lan Contemporary New York		Hannah Lupton Reinhard: Are We Here Yet? @ Rusha & Co. Los Angeles
Frank Wimberley: Before More After Less @ Berry Campbell Gallery New York		Mike Kelley. Vice Anglais @ Hauser & Wirth London		Matias Faldbakken: Abstracts and Pewter Abstracts @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse Zürich

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Berlin

Berlin, Saturday 8

Galerie Bastian:
Cy Twombly – All is visible and all elusive
“everyday events, the reflections of changing seasons throughout the year, motifs from Twombly’s homes … what all these still photographs touch upon is the poeticized nature and its intrinsicality as a parable and metamorphosis”

first day

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills, Thursday 6

Gagosian:
Alex Israel: Noir
new paintings by Israel – “like the filmmakers before him, Israel is defining the noir tendency in his own way, through images. These are painted streetscapes” – Sam Wasson

opening reception

Boston

Boston, Wednesday 5

Public Art Fund in Boston:
Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye
curated by Melanie Kress, this highly personal project on display concurrently in Boston, Chicago, and New York, sees Winant working from hundreds of film stills that she and her mother separately made driving across the US when they were teenagers

first day

Bruton

Bruton, Saturday 8

Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
An Uncommon Thread
ten artists who highlight the power of unconventional mediums in evoking personal and collective memories – in collaboration with Alice Black, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Carl Freedman, Gathering, Ginny on Frederick, Pippy Houldsworth, Union Pacific

opening reception

Chicago

Chicago, Wednesday 5

Public Art Fund in Chicago:
Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye
curated by Melanie Kress, this highly personal project on display concurrently in Boston, Chicago, and New York, sees Winant working from hundreds of film stills that she and her mother separately made driving across the US when they were teenagers

first day

Cologne

Cologne, Friday 7

Galerie Buchholz:
Martin Wong: Works on Paper

opening reception

Gstaad

Gstaad, Tuesday 11

Patricia Low Contemporary:
Pious & Profane
the gallery presents an exhibition of the photographs, painting, and sculpture by Andres Serrano and Barry X Ball, two artists who explore the edges of the titular states

first day

Patricia Low Contemporary:
Bjarne Melgaard: Lion Sluts
“existential dread wrestles with liberation … as the viewer navigates these frenzied compositions, the boundary between spiritual release and raw despair collapses, offering a glimpse of the tumult and redemption that echo through the entire show”

first day

London

London, Tuesday 4

Hauser & Wirth:
Mike Kelley. Vice Anglais
Kelley’s final “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction”, one of the last videos he ever made, is shown alongside related works including never-before exhibited paintings of the cast, a lightbox, and sculptures made using props from the video

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
In Conversation: Grace Ndiritu and Tanya Barson on Mike Kelley

talk

JGM Gallery:
What do you see?
twelve First Nations artists showing “the plurality of styles and aesthetics of Indigenous contemporary art, and invite us to question both how and why these manifest in different geographic regions of the Australian continent” – Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi

first day

Kearsey & Gold:
Woo Jung Ghil: Savouring Silence
“Ghil is a London-based painter whose work reflects a profound engagement with the meditative process of repetition … for the artist, painting serves as an existential exploration of an inner sanctuary”

first day

London, Wednesday 5

Asprey Studio Gallery:
Esc Keys by Susan Kare: Now Available

first day

Hanina Fine Arts:
Situation: Post-War Paris
celebrating the influential exhibitions at Jean Pollak’s Galerie Ariel in 1950s Paris, works by artists including Camille Bryen, Jacques Busse, Youla Chapoval, Jean Deyrolle, Pierre Dmitrienko, Henri Goetz, Jean Le Moal, Maryan, and James Pichette

first day

opening reception

The Mayor Gallery:
Décio Noviello: Pop Subversion
the first exhibition in London of this key figure in Brazil’s pop art and avant-garde movements, whose work shows the transformative power of art in addressing political, cultural, and societal issues

private view

Raven Row:
Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark exhibition tour with John Douglas Millar and Gary Schneider

tour

London, Thursday 6

Arusha Gallery:
Morwenna Morrison: Play-Time

first day

Barbican:
Noah Davis
over fifty works in the debut retrospective exhibition celebrating the late artist’s wide creativity, and showcasing one of the most original painters to have emerged in recent years

first day

Doyle Wham:
Heather Agyepong: Through Motion
the British Ghanaian artist and actor explores mental health and wellbeing, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive

opening reception

Goodman Gallery:
Misheck Masamvu: Mubato (The Handle)
works by one of the most significant Zimbabwean artists, who explores psychological uncertainty and existential fragility

opening reception

Hamiltons:
From The Roster
“united by their mastery of the craft and influence on the medium, the artists represented in the exhibition provide a thoughtfully curated overview of the modern masters of photography”

first day

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Ai Weiwei: A New Chatpter
new works, including a striking installation, where the renowned artist presents a provocative exploration of contemporary issues through the lens of historical and artistic reference

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Peter Joseph: The Early Works
early and rare works from the 1960s and ’70s that track Joseph’s development from vividly coloured, geometric compositions through to the muted rectangular and square paintings that would define the following decades of his career

opening reception

Lychee One:
Conor Murgatroyd: The Glass Key
“manifestations of his inner landscape, deeply rooted in his past, familial heritage, and cultural influences . . . through his paintings, he fights against oblivion, preserving the traces of lives and moments that once existed” – curator Hongshuo Liu

opening reception

Michael Werner Gallery:
Per Kirkeby: Natures Mortes
an exhibition of still life paintings by the eminent Danish painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author

private view

Tiwani Contemporary:
A Conscious Relation: body/mind/movement
recent works by Virginia Chihota, Alicia Henry, Joy Labinjo, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Dawit L. Petros, Umar Rashid, and Leo Robinson, exploring sovereignty not just as a political condition but also as a deeply embodied experience

private view

London, Friday 7

Alice Amati:
Apollo Painting School w. Ally Fallon, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Isaac Jordan, Deborah Lerner and Isobel Shore
new works by Ally Fallon, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Isaac Jordan, Deborah Lerner, and Isobel Shore as the gallery hosts 2024 Apollo Painting School alumni

first day

London, Sunday 9

The Gallery of Everything:
Cocky: From The Divine To The Erotic
running the gamut from carved phallic deities to abstracted hardcore, this “survey of aroused physical manhood … explores its obsession in depth”

private view

London, Monday 10

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert:
Richard Smith: Early Works

first day

London, Tuesday 11

Hayward Gallery:
Linder: Danger Came Smiling
the pioneering feminist artist’s first London retrospective showcases fifty years of her montage, photography, performance and sculpture – from early, punk, 1970s photomontages to new digital works shown for the first time

first day

Hayward Gallery:
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
paintings, photographs, collages, and installations in an exhibition presenting two decades of the internationally celebrated portraitist’s vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest

first day

Hayward Gallery:
Mickalene Thomas in Conversation with Renée Mussai

talk

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 8

Rusha & Co.:
Hannah Lupton Reinhard: Are We Here Yet?
“traveling among larger works and intimate drawings, women in transit carry baskets, light candles and take moments of rest in response to uncertainty”

opening reception

parrasch heijnen:
La Monte Westmoreland: A Survey, 1974 – 2024

first day

Naples

Naples, Tuesday 4

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing: Art Lovers
Landy and Wearing’s first exhibition conceived together in over twenty years presents new work responding to Naples and its history, alongside works from the last three decades reflecting their ongoing personal and artistic relationship

first day

New York

New York, Wednesday 5

Public Art Fund:
Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye
curated by Melanie Kress, this highly personal project on display concurrently in Boston, Chicago, and New York, sees Winant working from hundreds of film stills that she and her mother separately made driving across the US when they were teenagers

first day

Sotheby’s New York:
19th Century European Art
auction: Wed 5
(viewing: Sat 1-Tue 4)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
auction: Wed 5
(viewing: Sat 1-Tue 4)

auction

New York, Thursday 6

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Frank Wimberley: Before More After Less
paintings, sculpture, and collages dating from 1969 to 2025 by the 99-year-old African American artist who works in a pure abstract style that comes out of the tradition of the Abstract Expressionist painters

first day

Berry Campbell Gallery:
In Focus | Larry Zox: Lyrical Abstraction

first day

D’Lan Contemporary:
Shaping The Landscape: Spirit Figures From Northern Australia
thirty-one figurative sculptures drawn from over fifty years of acquisition by one of the most significant and comprehensive private collections of Aboriginal sculpture held outside Australia

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Paintings Part I
auction: Thu 6
(viewing: Sat 1-Wed 5)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Paintings Part II
auction: Thu 6
(viewing: Sat 1-Wed 5)

auction

New York, Friday 7

GRIMM:
Charles Avery: The Eidola, Pigs and Blades of the Inner Vast
new works by Avery – “the horizon acts as a dividing line through the whole show, a mirror or Rubicon that stands between one realm and the other“

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | Master Paintings & Sculpture
auction: Fri 7
(viewing: Sat 1-Fri 7)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Sculpture & Works of Art
auction: Fri 7
(viewing: Sat 1-Thu 6)

auction

New York, Saturday 8

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
Alfonso Ossorio & Nandor Fodor: The Search for the Beloved

first day

Paris

Paris, Wednesday 5

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Dennis Morris – Music + Life
in the first retrospective in France of the British artist, photographs of Morris’s youth in London, his portraits of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols, and his work with artists including Oasis, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, and Marianne Faithfull

first day

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Chia Huang – Silence is Speaking
from the Winner of the 2024 Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, an intimate project which looks at the lives of two autistic brothers, living alone with their father who has cancer

first day

Paris, Thursday 6

Bigaignon:
Hideyuki Ishibashi: Portraits
the Japanese artist returns to the gallery with a compelling new exhibition “of a Kyoto pottery workshop, of an ancestral craft passed down through generations, but also of a group of schoolgirls whose story might have remained forever buried”

opening reception

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Happy Birthday Bob Marley !

special event

Venice

Venice, Friday 7

Patricia Low Venezia:
Helen Downie, Alice Gavalet: Hiraeth
captured in their distinct visual languages of ceramics and portraiture, the two artists create objects and images that evoke the Welsh word hiraeth – a deep, personal desire for the unreachable

first day

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 6

Lukas Feichtner Galerie:
Finissage of Mari OTBERG & Christian STOCK

special event

Zürich

Zürich, Thursday 6

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Liesl Raff: A Corridor, a Room, and Four Dens
the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery – “Raff’s installations can be described as social structures because they are … transformative passages where visitors enter one way and emerge another, subtly altered” – Samuel Leuenberger

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Artist talk with Liesl Raff and Michael Birchall, Co-Director at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

talk

Zürich, Friday 7

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
Matias Faldbakken: Abstracts and Pewter Abstracts
abstract Faldbakken drawings on paper, on canvas, with pewter – “drawing has a strange essence … it seems easier to discard a piece of paper stained by a lousy drawing than to throw away the untouched sheet”

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
Artist talk and live reading of Matias Faldbakken’s sixth novel Armes Ding

special event

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Monaco, New York, Paris, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Zürich

Johnny Izatt-Lowry: In, and just outside of @ Galerie Fabian Lang Zürich		Through Nature to Eternity @ Each Modern Taipei		Evi Keller: Origins @ Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais Paris
Sophie Treppendahl: The Nearness of You @ Philip Martin Gallery Los Angeles		Jonathan McCree: Through The Wrong End Of A Telescope @ Sim Smith London		Reginald Baylor: Amen Corner @ Friedrichs Pontone New York