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8-15 Apr 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Seoul, Taipei, Zürich

Nathalie Du Pasquier: Saint Fairy Anne @ Kerlin Gallery Dublin		Tania Pérez Córdova: Breathing for Speech Exercises @ Art: Concept Paris		A Foreign Cloud in Another Sky: Taiwan Abstraction from 1960’s @ Each Modern Taipei
Maurizio Cattelan: Bones @ Gagosian Davies St London		Martha Rosler: Truth is/is not @ Galerie Lelong & Co. New York		William J. Canning: The Heavens Laugh Along With Us @ Tropical Berlin Los Angeles

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Dublin

Dublin, Saturday 12

Kerlin Gallery:
Nathalie Du Pasquier: Saint Fairy Anne
recent paintings by the internationally renowned French artist – in a specially-designed exhibition installation of colourful painted zones

private view

Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Saturday 12

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin:
Franz West: Dinge und Menschen II
an extensive retrospective of the late artist, on the twentieth anniversay of the original exhibition – “West challenges us to take responsibility into our own hands: »do it yourself«, already at the gallery or later right at home” – Christian Malycha

first day

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Wednesday 9

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Fine Chinese Paintings
auction: Wed 9
(viewing: Sat 5-Tue 8)

auction

Hong Kong, Thursday 10

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Painting and Calligraphy on fans from the Xiao Wan Liu Tang Collection II 扇海─小萬柳堂舊藏明清書畫扇面 II
auction: Thu 10
(viewing: Sat 5-Wed 9)

auction

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Fine Classical Chinese Paintings
auction: Thu 10
(viewing: Sat 5-Wed 9)

auction

London

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

London, Wednesday 9

Annely Juda Fine Art:
Suzanne Treister Artist Talk

talk

Barbican:
Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Citra Sasmita

performance

Gagosian Shop, London:
Stuck: Maurizio Cattelan—The Unauthorized Autobiography by Francesco Bonami

book launch

October Gallery:
Transvangarde: Luminous Matter
seven artists from diverse Eastern backgrounds in an exhibition which “investigates the diverse outcomes of a meditative approach to artistic practice”

private view

London, Thursday 10

Amanda Wilkinson:
Oisín Byrne: Not Marble
“extra-sensory portraits … paintings of friends and collaborators – a reconstruction, of sorts, of people he likes to spend time with”

opening reception

Belmacz:
The Protagonist
on the 25th anniversary of the Belmacz name, a transforming, three-month group exhibition which creates “transitioning scenes, tableaus and clashes, amplifying the voices of our co-collaborators, constructing reverberations”

opening reception

Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market:
+ Days + Nights
works by Abraham Kritzman and Philippe Van Snick – shown for the first time in dialogue with each other

private view

GRIMM:
Tommy Harrison: Displays
new paintings of semi-closed metal shutters as “a threshold into an unknowable, impassable void” in Harrison’s first solo exhibition in the gallery’s London location

private view

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill:
Amoako Boafo: I Do Not Come to You by Chance
in Boafo’s debut at Gagosian London, and his first solo exhibition in the UK, new portraits celebrating the Black figure and placed in a “transformative and involving design conceived by the artist in collaboration with architect Glenn DeRoche”

opening reception

General Assembly:
Hattie Landells and Hugo Winder-Lind: The Language of Birds
a two-person “call and response” exhibition of paintings that contemplate “the manmade and natural worlds, wildness and domesticity, illusion and reality, and the blurry edges in between”

private view

General Assembly:
Charlie Boothright: Sentinels
the first presentation of these performative, personal works by Boothright exploring “the vertical as a symbol of time, transformation and mortality”

private view

Modern Art Helmet Row:
Steve Harrison: Forty
celebrating four decades of handmade ceramics by Harrison, reflecting the depth and range of his concerns, techniques, and recurring motifs

private view

Pontone Gallery:
Richard Harrison: Between Flesh and Forest
“a visionary prophet” whose paintings are “big, bold, beautiful and threatening” – Brian Sewell

first day

Pontone Gallery:
Claudia Doring Baez
“Baez’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature, rendered in a contemporary, expressionistic vocabulary”

first day

Twilight Contemporary:
The Space That Lies Between
eight artists presenting a figurative exploration of the self, our connections with others, and the nuanced space that lies between

private view

London, Friday 11

NOW Gallery:
War Child Presents Secret 7” at Greenwich Peninsula
an exhibition of unique record sleeve designs by renowned artists and emerging talents – and Yinka Ilori etched-vinyl – in the ninth edition of the charity initiative combining music and art

first day

Sylvia Kouvali:
Thanasis Totsikas: With Minerals and Track Threads
new works in Totsikas’ first exhibition in the UK “that exist within his own universe, subject to nature’s forces and to their own laws”

opening reception

London, Saturday 12

County Hall Pottery:
Masterclass: Processing & Using Local Clay

special event

Tiwani Contemporary:
Wura-Natasha Ogunji

talk

London, Tuesday 15

Tiwani Contemporary:
Exhibition walkthrough with Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Kate Macfarlane, Co-Director of Drawing Room, London

tour

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Friday 11

Lisson Gallery:
Carolee Schneemann
an immersive multi-media installation forms the centrepiece of the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of works by one of the boldest and most influential artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

opening reception

Perrotin Los Angeles:
Young-Il Ahn: Selected Works 1986-2019
a survey exhibition announcing their global representation of the Estate of Ahn – “I painted and painted and could not stop … no matter how many water ideas I manage to express on canvas, more water ideas continue to surge” – Ahn

opening reception

Los Angeles, Saturday 12

Tropical Berlin:
William J. Canning: The Heavens Laugh Along With Us
on the release of William J. Canning second album, an exhibition of his video, photography, and sculptural works that “spring forth from the album’s visual world”

opening reception

New York

New York, Tuesday 8

CARVALHO PARK:
Élise Peroi: For Thirsting Flowers
eight standing wooden structures, encasing delicate tapestries in the French artist’s first US exhibition – “Peroi is not interested in revelation, but rather in uncovering something fundamental about how art is conceived” – Dr. Rebecca Birrell

first day

CARVALHO PARK:
Phantasms
four artists who take their cue from “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror” – “each be seen to respond to Parmigianino’s legacy, his entwining of sight and doubt, his exploration of the tensions between image and reality” – Dr. Rebecca Birrell

first day

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

auction starts

New York, Thursday 10

Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
In Performance: Jesse Paris Smith, Rebecca Foon & Nikolai Fraiture respond to ‘Catherine Goodman. Silent Music’

performance

Gallery Henoch:
Landscapes: A Group Show
landscape and seascape paintings by six international artists showing their various methods of immortalizing the natural world around them

opening reception

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

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Martha Rosler: Truth is/is not
starting with a choice – whether to enter the exhibition or play a video game – Rosler’s installation spreads throughout the gallery to explore political consciousness and mass media

opening reception

Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh
conceived by Saara Pritchard, this exhibition is the first to focus on the three artists, who worked in New York City during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, often portraying mutual sitters, exhibiting together, and participating in public discussions

opening reception

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

opening reception

New York, Saturday 12

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Cordy Ryman

opening reception

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Off Kilter
presented by Deanna Evans with works by Kerri Ammirata, Lisha Bai, Tess Bilhartz, Fiona Buchanan, Erica Mao, Lauren Portada, Marisol Ruiz, Aparna Sarkar, and Polly Shindler

opening reception

New York, Tuesday 15

Gagosian West 24th St:
Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting
the first presentation at the gallery’s newly renovated Chelsea space is an exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani with both paintings and sculpture by the pioneering figure of postwar art – “a restless explorer of the canvas” – Alemani

opening reception

Paris

Paris, Thursday 10

Sotheby’s Paris:
Art Moderne et Contemporain Evening Auction
auction: Thu 10
(viewing: Wed 2-Wed 9)

auction

Sotheby’s Paris:
Collection Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt | La Liberté pour dogme
auction: Thu 10
(viewing: Wed 2-Wed 9)

auction

Tornabuoni Art:
The Book. Object Between Memory and Symbol
works by artists including Alighiero Boetti, Jean Boghossian, Chiara Dynys, Emilio Isgrò, Anselm Kiefer, Claudio Parmiggiani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Yinka Shonibare exploring the book, not only for its literary content but also its symbolic value

opening reception

Paris, Friday 11

Art: Concept:
Tania Pérez Córdova: Breathing for Speech Exercises

opening reception

Seoul

Seoul, Saturday 12

Galerie Eva Presenhuber x P21:
Shara Hughes Austin Eddy: Roots n’ Fruits
the first collaborative exhibition by the Brooklyn-based couple – “both Hughes and Eddy translate autobiographical material into abstract allegory, removed from their own lives … to connect with the chaotic world through painting” – Heinz-Norbert Jocks

opening reception

Taipei

Taipei, Tuesday 15

Each Modern:
A Foreign Cloud in Another Sky: Taiwan Abstraction from 1960’s
“representing Each Modern’s reinterpretation of post-war and contemporary Taiwanese art from a 21st-century perspective … these works represent concrete and impermanent expressions of Eastern consciousness, evolving through cultural intersections”

first day

Zürich

Zürich, Wednesday 9

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Sea Hyun Lee: Red Romance
in the South Korean artist’s first solo exhibition, paintings ranging from the intimate to over two metres square explore the tensions between utopian beauty and unsettling realities

opening reception

Zürich, Thursday 10

Mai 36 Galerie:
Magali Reus: Full House
the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the London-based Dutch artist presents recent sculptural and photographic work that explores ecology and systems of production, examining the invisible infrastructures that shape our consumption

opening reception

Mai 36 Galerie:
Rémy Zaugg: In Erinnerung
in memory of one of the most radical Swiss artists of our time, pieces from three pivotal groups of work in an exhibition to mark twenty years since his passing

opening reception

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Group Show
with works by Marc Bauer, Valérie Favre, Zilla Leutenegger, Teresa Margolles, Valentin Rilliet, Grace Schwindt, Shirana Shahbazi, Melanie Smith, and Francis Alÿs

first day

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Berlin, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Naples, New York

Shim Moon-Seup: A Certain Scenery @ Perrotin New York New York		Lyne Lapointe: Becoming Animal @ Jack Shainman Gallery New York		Anne Rothenstein @ Stephen Friedman Gallery London
Kim Tschang-Yeul: L’origine du vide @ Almine Rech Brussels		Maria Brunner: Acqua Felice @ Capitain Petzel Berlin		Camille Henrot. A Number of Things @ Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street New York