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7-14 Jan 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Beverly Hills, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai

Jack O’Brien: Cascade @ Capitain Petzel Berlin		Sophie Treppendahl: The Nearness of You @ Philip Martin Gallery Los Angeles		Carlos Jacanamijoy: Olor a tierra @ Almine Rech, Turenne Paris
Ana González: Bruma @ Sean Kelly Gallery New York		On Paper @ Galerie Max Hetzler London		Maggie Michael: Root Chords, Earth to Sky @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles

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Berlin

Berlin, Friday 10

Galerie Buchholz:
Peter Fischli, Gili Tal: Autumn on Everything

opening reception

Berlin, Saturday 11

Capitain Petzel:
Jack O’Brien: Cascade
in O’Brien’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, a striking suspended sculpture that merges two grand pianos into a singular form, hovering mid-air. alongside smaller works created from repurposed materials partly sourced in Berlin

opening reception

Capitain Petzel:
25 for 2025
works by artists of the gallery program including Yael Bartana, Karla Black, Ross Bleckner, Monica Bonvicini, Isabella Ducrot, Thomas Eggerer, Anna Gaskell, Sanya Kantarovsky, Sean Landers, Zoe Leonard, Robert Longo, Alexandra Metcalf, Matt Mullican …

opening reception

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills, Thursday 9

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

Brussels

Brussels, Saturday 11

Templon:
René Wirths: I Can’t Get No
the virtuoso painter unveils fourteen new works created over the past two years – “I have developed a new vocabulary … I allow myself to stage my great masters of art history through a new perspective”

first day

London

London, Tuesday 7

General Assembly:
Vital
a group show of emerging artists which engages with art historical dialogues about pictorial and visual language in our contemporary moment

first day

London, Wednesday 8

South London Gallery:
Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet

tour

London, Thursday 9

Ab-Anbar:
Screening of Sambizanga by Sarah Maldoror

special event

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Jakkai Siributr
an exhibition by one of Southeast Asia’s leading contemporary artists, known for intricately handmade texiles and installations which respond to societal issues in Thailand, migration and personal stories of grief and remembrance

opening reception

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
In Conversation: Iola Lenzi and Jakkai Siributr

talk

GRIMM:
Claudia Martínez Garay: Borrowed Air
new work by the Peruvian artist “experimenting with diverse media and pushing the boundaries of her print and painting practice whilst maintaining the political power that makes her work increasingly urgent” – Diego Chocano

private view

lbf contemporary:
Lawrence Perry: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
an ambitious new body of work by the London-based figurative painter – “mythological tableau vivants that manage to be at once extraordinarily realistic and yet remain strange and surreal”

private view

Sim Smith:
Jonathan McCree: Through The Wrong End Of A Telescope
McCree presents cardboard sculpture, cast aluminium and folded metal sculpture, painting, drawing and film as he continues his exploration of body, painting and sculpture

opening reception

sketch:
Michal Korman: The Rendezvous for an Innocent Walk
new paintings exploring French gardens and interiors associated with Marie Antoinette, in the final exhibition of a year-long collaboration between sketch and Hong Kong and Shanghai-based Pearl Lam Galleries

first day

London, Saturday 11

David Zwirner:
Readings from On Kawara’s One Million Years

special event

Serpentine North Gallery:
Saturday Talks: Ruth Waters on Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

talk

London, Tuesday 14

Galerie Max Hetzler:
On Paper

opening reception

Pace, London:
Acaye Kerunen: Neena, aan uthii
Kerunen’s first solo exhibition in the UK features a new body of sculptures, sound installations, and performance that examine living forms of knowledge embedded within Ugandan communities

opening reception

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 11

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Maggie Michael: Root Chords, Earth to Sky
the debut exhibition of Michael’s paintings, both at the gallery and on the west coast – “Abstraction, a siren for expansive thinking, offers generous clarity and strangeness; also, brutal, base forms of beauty” – Michael

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Margaret Morgan: Love Must Be Reinvented
text-based installations and works on paper by Morgan – “developed through her praxis of walks in Griffith Park and her fascination with pareidolia – the ability to draw patterns and meaning out of random objects”

opening reception

parrasch heijnen:
Yukine Yanagi: Silent Sonata
Yanagi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery – “it is that energy and that life force that I search for within the work, a visceral kind of confrontation. It is energy contained, spewed out, an emblem of hope” – Yanagi

opening reception

Philip Martin Gallery:
Sophie Treppendahl: The Nearness of You
new works by the New Orleans-based painter “present familiar places to which we have never been”

opening reception

New York

New York, Thursday 9

Almine Rech:
Marie Laurencin, Works from 1905 to 1952
Laurencin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery – “why … should Laurencin paint still lifes of “dead fish, onions, or beer glasses” when there was so much to explore in the rich and multilayered world of women and their desires?” – Hannah Stamler

opening reception

Friedrichs Pontone:
Reginald Baylor: Amen Corner
new works by the artist known for his bold, geometric works which “combine elements of abstraction, Pop Art, and Black cultural identity … to explore the iconic symbols, enigmatic figures, and dreamlike landscapes that bridge the past and future”

opening reception

Hirschl & Adler:
Winold Reiss and the New American Portrait
an exhibition showcasing the renowned German American artist’s portraits, offering a rare glimpse into his celebrated work

first day

Jack Shainman Gallery:
Barkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place
curated by Elisabeth Sann – with an accompanying Soul Jazz Records playlist – this exploration into the relationship between celestial bodies and the human experience offers a look at the profound and visionary works of the renowned artist

opening reception

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts:
Susan English: Still Light
new work by the artist – “ethereal and minimal, Susan English’s paintings play with light and space”

first day

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts:
Laura Bidwa: Each
Bidwa’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents recent paintings composed of layers of oil, latex, and spray paint on panels – “planes of color are disrupted by bold brushwork, building organic forms carefully laid down”

first day

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Dawoud Bey: Stony the Road
the New York debut of Bey’s newest photographic series and film centering on Richmond, Virginia – where African captives first arrived in the US in enslavement

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Ana González: Bruma
paintings and tapestries of the threatened flora and fauna of her native Colombia in González’s first solo exhibition in New York

opening reception

Templon:
François Rouan: Recorda
thirty paintings and photographs by one of the leading lights of the French contemporary art scene in his first solo show in the city – coordinated by Alfred Pacquement

first day

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
John Divola: The Ghost in the Machine
works from Divola’s latest series, alongside selections from a seminal early series, offer a rare opportunity to trace the evolution of his practice and his examination of the process of image-making

opening reception

New York, Friday 10

Marian Goodman Gallery:
An-My Lê: DarkStar
with two new cinematic series of photographs, one shot at night and one taken in the day and presented as a cyclorama, An-My Lê explores “the contradictory nature of the manifest and the sublime within the contemporary American landscape”

opening reception

Marian Goodman Gallery:
Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times
two video works – from the late ’60s-70s and 2024 – alongside three iconic photographic series from the ’80s and ’90s in an exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed and groundbreaking photographer

opening reception

New York, Saturday 11

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Elizabeth Osborne: Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye
twenty-five paintings and works on paper, from 1969 to 2024, providing a comprehensive survey of Osborne’s distinctive approach to landscape painting

opening reception

Berry Campbell Gallery:
In Focus: John Opper
a focus exhibition presenting three paintings spanning three decades of the artist’s career – “I orchestrate color, line, and shape. My whole purpose is to produce an aesthetic response” – Opper

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Dora Jeridi: Humanity
new paintings in Jeridi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery capture “an ambiguity between vulnerability and strength, between a febrile state and the expression of power, inviting us to consider what makes our humanity” – Hiji Nam

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Pieter Vermeersch: (((())))
“to Vermeersch, the experience of painting is still a powerful sensory and philosophical encounter, but one that is rooted in a desire to work with the contradictions of perception and matter, temporality and space” – David Rhodes

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Mathilde Denize: Sound of Figures
“Denize encourages us again to think without bounds of a permeability of format and form, to appreciate the similar role of her paintings, garments, and ceramics, all evocative vessels” – Grant Klarich Johnson

opening reception

Paris

Paris, Saturday 11

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Carlos Jacanamijoy: Olor a tierra
“to define Jacanamijoy’s paintings is to construct the genealogy of a signature cosmology that is the outcome of an intercultural fusion between his ancestors’ traditions and his Western artistic baggage”

opening reception

Almine Rech, Matignon:
Serge Poliakoff: Les étés de Poliakoff
“the uniqueness of Poliakoff’s gouaches lies in their space for exploration and discovery” – Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov

opening reception

Semiose:
Xie Lei: Mort heureuse
“how can one represent ambiguity in painting?” asks the artist … “as a painter, you’re confronted with white and death every day. How is it possible to make something invisible appear?” – Victorine Grataloup

opening reception

Templon:
Hervé di Rosa: Idols and Treasures 2020 – 2024
the gallery’s first exhibition of work by one of the founders of the Figuration Libre movement reveals “a vision of art without borders … effectively abolishing any hierarchy that values high culture over low culture”

first day

Templon:
Prune Nourry: Vénus
sculptures of women Nourry met at a support centre for female victims of violence in a project that continues her work exploring women’s role in society using the symbolism of clay

first day

Seoul

Seoul, Friday 10

Perrotin Seoul:
Cabinets of Curiosities
works by gallery artists including Takashi Murakami, Josh Sperling, and Nick Doyle together with art books, editions, posters, and goods in a pop-up store – alongside a “collector’s room” of vintage furniture and art pieces

first day

Shanghai

Shanghai, Thursday 9

Perrotin Shanghai:
The Cloud Catcher
curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan, an exhibition of eighteen artists who “engage with the notion of clouds not only as a visual element but as a concept that embodies the fragility and transience of human beings”

first day

Shanghai, Friday 10

Almine Rech:
Jean Miotte: Return to China
twelve paintings by the first Western painter to be invited to show his work after Mao’s regime – “Miotte was a born colorist” – Lydia Harambourg

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Brussels, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Monterrey, Naples, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Seoul, Vienna, Zürich

Valerio Adami: Narrations 2020-2024 @ Templon Brussels		Hannu Väisänen: Rose Window @ Galerie Forsblom Helsinki		Gustav Metzger. And Then Came the Environment @ Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles
Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance @ Luhring Augustine Tribeca New York		Jean-Michel Basquiat: Venus @ Gagosian, rue de Castiglione Paris		Alicia Viebrock: Bellaboteurs @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna