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Frieze London Frieze Masters 9-13 Oct 2024

The Week in Artvisit site

8-15 Oct 2024

Openings, events, auctions
Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zürich

Genesis Tramaine @ Almine Rech Paris		Mimosa Echard @ Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris		Sebastian Volz @ FILIALE Frankfurt
Moffat Takadiwa @ Semiose Paris		Dustin Pittman @ Eerdmans New York		Miko Veldkamp @ Alice Amati London

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Saturday 12

FILIALE:
Sebastian Volz: Glück

first day

London

London, Tuesday 8

Alice Amati:
Miko Veldkamp: Buketan
Veldkamp’s first solo show with the gallery draws on his multi-national upbringing to explore themes of history, belonging, colonialism, and urban landscapes

first day

Asprey Studio Gallery:
Esc Keys by Susan Kare and Alastair Walker
new digital and physical pieces by Kare, the iconic graphic designer whose pioneering pixel art defined the visual language of the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s – in collaboration with Asprey Studio’s Chief Creative Officer

first day

Bluerider ART London:
Cao Jigang: Skypath
large-scale tempera Shanshui paintings in the Chinese artist’s first European solo exhibition – “even though nothing in this world is perfect, perfection is still worth pursuing” – Cao Jigang

first day

Cardi Gallery:
Davide Balliano
new paintings by the Turin-born, New York-based artist in his first major presentation in London show his unique geometric abstraction as well as his reintroduction of color after more than a decade

first day

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Nacho Carbonell: Escaping Forward
this exhibition represents a transformative moment for the Spanish artist whose tactile sculptures treat objects as living organisms – “this is a new beginning, I’m trying to escape forward”

opening reception

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Castro NYC: Futurespective
seminal pieces in a retrospective celebrating the remarkable career of the jewellery designer otherwise known as Terry Castro

opening reception

Gagosian Davies St:
Anna Weyant: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?
new precisely rendered figure paintings and portraits, undercut by gestures of tragicomic awkwardness, in Weyant’s first exhibition in London

opening reception

Larkin Durey:
Anders Sunna: The Drumbeat of Noaidi
in Sunna’s first solo show in the UK new work examines the ongoing conflicts between the Sámi people and Swedish authorities – “when you grow up with a conflict and are in the middle of it, it becomes your life and everyday life” – Sunna

private view

Maximillian William:
5 Years
the gallery’s entire roster convenes for the first time in celebration of its five-year anniversary

first day

The Mayor Gallery:
Homage to Surrealism: 1924 – Forever (All Media)
to celebrate the centenary of the movement, a comprehensive exhibition of many of its most famous practitioners, covering almost every aspect of Surrealist creativity with a wide array of paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, objects, and photographs

private view

Mazzoleni:
Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art
including a series of Roman artefacts, this exhibition explores the ancient through the lens of Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico, Salvo and Giulio Paolini, alongside the Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake

private view

Opera Gallery:
Gustavo Nazareno: Orixás: Personal Tales on Portraiture
curated by Samuele Visentin, paintings and charcoal drawings based on Nazareno’s own fables inspired by entities worshipped in some religions of Africa and Latin America, in the inaugural solo exhibition of the São Paulo-based artist

first day

Pace, London:
Robert Longo: Searchers
monumental new multimedia works by Longo in a two-part exhibition presented with Thaddaeus Ropac

opening reception

Pace, London:
Genesis Belanger: In the Right Conditions we are Indistinguishable
the New York-based artist critiques the aesthetics of capitalist production and consumption with an exhibition of new labyrinthine installations incorporating porcelain, stoneware, metal, wood, and painting

opening reception

Palmer Gallery:
Shaan Bevan & Owen Pratt: Ex-Voto
titled after the offerings used by peoples throughout human history, the two artists explore the boundaries between living and nonliving, body and environment

private view

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Lucy Otter: Studio Jumps
an exhibition of works by Otter, drawn from the mind of Gabriel Sierra

private view

Sim Smith:
Daisy Parris: Back To The Sky
“there is an extraordinary luminosity that beams through dense, murky layers of oil, with paintings seeming to be lit from within … this is the work of a painter who has magic in their veins”

opening reception

Skarstedt:
Marco Pariani: Painting Bakery
new paintings and works on paper show Pariani’s use of black gesso paint, bold colour compositions and graphic layering and make the exhibition “as much about the means of creation as what has been created”

opening reception

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Middle East
auction: Tue 8 – Tue 22
(viewing: Fri 18 – Mon 21)

auction starts

Sotheby’s London:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Tue 8 – Tue 15
(viewing: Sat 12 – Tue 15)

auction starts

Stern Pissarro Gallery:
A Century of Modern and Contemporary British Art
a selection of works by renowned British artists from the past hundred years explores the dialogue between British Modern and Contemporary masters

first day

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Robert Longo: Searchers
monumental new multimedia works by Longo in a two-part exhibition presented with Pace

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Heemin Chung: UMBRA
new paintings, sculptures and video exploring states of loss, in the Seoul-based artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the UK

opening reception

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Terry Adkins: Disclosure
early sculptures by the American musician, scholar, composer, performer and sculptor, shown in conversation with work produced in the last decade of his life

private view

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Magdalene Odundo
unique sculptural clay vessels by the Kenyan-British artist in her first solo exhibition in London for over twenty years

private view

London, Wednesday 9

Amanda Wilkinson:
Heman Chong: The Book of Equators
paintings, video, and a deleted-and-retrieved novel in an exhibition which examines multiplicity and diversity, space and time, the appeal of cartography, and the legacy of colonialism

first day

Colnaghi:
The Decay of Beauty. The Beauty of Decay.
curated by Alfred Kren, this exhibition takes from various periods, cultures, and media to explore the tension between beauty and its inevitable decay

first day

David Zwirner:
Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit
“Darkness a place of radical freedom / Markings, reading and sending telegrams… constellations of thoughts and gestures / Untraceable landscapes. Concealed – irrational! / Fields of despair—scarred” – Murillo

opening reception

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Ken Currie: The Crossing
the Scottish artist “transports viewers to an unknown archipelago, characterised by its desolate and barren islands … in this stark and unforgiving environment, an unidentified community endures a precarious existence without shelter”

first day

Hayward Gallery:
Haegue Yang: Leap Year
bringing together a wide range of visual and sensory experiences – through installation, sculpture, collage, text, video, wallpaper, sound – key works from some of Yang’s most notable series alongside major new commissions and productions 

first day

Hayward Gallery:
Huang Po-Chih: Waves
new video and text-work in a presentation of installation, photography and sculpture where the Taiwanese artist works with the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalisation, especially in the textile industry in East Asia

first day

JD Malat Gallery:
Katrin Fridriks: Stargate
the renowned Icelandic abstract artist turns her gaze from the earth to explore the infinity of space and the magnetic forces that bind the universe

first day

JD Malat Gallery:
John Copeland: MIRRORED VIEWFINDER
this exhibition represents a pivotal moment in the Californian artist’s over-twenty-five-year career, engaging with the complexities of image-making and representation

first day

The Mayor Gallery:
The Mayor Gallery at Frieze Masters 2024: Feliza Bursztyn
at the fair the gallery presents an exhibition on the pioneering Colombian artist – one of those who revolutionised the Latin American art scene

first day

October Gallery:
October Gallery at Frieze Masters 2024
shown at the fair for the first time, paintings spanning four decades of work by the late Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams

first day

Sotheby’s London:
Contemporary Evening Auction
auction: Wed 9
(viewing: Thu 3 – Wed 9)

auction

London, Thursday 10

Alice Amati:
Miko Veldkamp: Buketan
Veldkamp’s first solo show with the gallery draws on his multi-national upbringing to explore themes of history, belonging, colonialism, and urban landscapes

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Farah Atassi in conversation with Mark Rappolt

talk

Belmacz:
Total Theatre ESP
the gallery channels the late theatrical polymath Edward Gordon Craig with a group exhibition of sculpture, photography, and works on and from paper

opening reception

Cob Gallery:
Fabian Treiber: Bruised
new large diptychs and small mixed media paintings from the German artist in one of the two concurrent exhibitions continuing the gallery’s dual programming

private view

Cob Gallery:
Ginny Casey: Busywork
new contemporary, surrealist paintings by the American artist in one of the two concurrent exhibitions continuing the gallery’s dual programming

private view

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Artist Talk: Ian Davenport

talk

David Zwirner:
Oscar Murillo in conversation with Fi Churchman

talk

Emanuel von Baeyer:
From Old Masters to Contemporary
works from Old Masters to Contemporary in the first exhibition at the gallery’s newly opened space

private view

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Ken Currie: Paintings and Writings

book signing

Gazelli Art House:
Pouran Jinchi & Ruba Salameh: Cipher
an exhibition of paintings by the two Middle-Eastern artists, drawn both from the traditions of Islamic calligraphy and geometric design and the Western modernist and post-modernist canon

private view

Gazelli Art House:
Aida Mahmudova: The Window
titled after a celebrated poem by Forugh Farrokhzad, Mahmudova’s exhibition explores longing, transformation, and the balance between presence and absence

private view

Grosvenor Gallery:
Adeela Suleman: Exit the Tiger: Symbols of Valour in Tipu’s India

special event

Hauser & Wirth:
George Rouy. The Bleed, Part I
Rouy’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery presents a new body of work using a purely monochrome palette for the first time as he continues to explore the “human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis”

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
Jack Whitten. Speedchaser
including rare works, this exhibition focuses on Whitten’s paintings, works on paper and sculptures from the 1970s, to capture a pivotal moment in his career

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
In Conversation: Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Glenn Ligon and Zoé Whitley on Jack Whitten

talk

Hayward Gallery:
Haegue Yang in conversation with Yung Ma

talk

Maximillian William:
5 Years
the gallery’s entire roster convenes for the first time in celebration of its five-year anniversary

opening reception

Nahmad Projects:
Murray Clarke: All Kinds of Gorgeous
a solo exhibition by the London-based artist which examines the marketing and consumption of luxury objects

private view

National Portrait Gallery:
Francis Bacon: Human Presence
with pieces both from private and public collections, this exhibition brings together more than fifty-five works by Bacon, dating from the 1950s onwards

first day

NOW Gallery:
Inès Elsa Dalal: Human Stories: Unreported Uprisings
the gallery’s annual photographic exhibition returns with this exhibition by Dalal, who presents a series of essays on striking workers in the UK in 2023

private view

Robilant+Voena, London:
Michelangelo Pistoletto
a rare opportunity to view new and archetypal works by the legendary Italian artist, presented in collaboration with Galleria Continua

private view

rosenfeld:
Xue Ruozhe: Chronoscape
Sophie Guo curates a solo exhibition by the Chinese artist – “time is not only embedded in the image but also in the very materiality of the painting. Each brushstroke is made at a different moment”

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Contemporary Day Auction
auction: Thu 10
(viewing: Thu 3 – Wed 9)

auction

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Terry Adkins: Disclosure

special event

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Magdalene Odundo

special event

London, Friday 11

The Gallery of Everything:
Eva Švankmajerová: Talk by Anna Pravdová and Bertrand Schmitt

talk

National Portrait Gallery:
Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun in conversation

talk

October Gallery:
Alexis Peskine: Forest Figures
new large-scale, mixed media “portraits” channel the power figures of the Congo Basin to explore the diversity of the African diaspora

private view

Palmer Gallery:
Kenichi Iwasa x Simina Oprescu

performance

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Champagne Brunch

special event

Serpentine South Gallery:
Lauren Halsey: emajendat
the American artist’s first UK exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive environment related to its location in Kensington Gardens

first day

Staffordshire St:
DONUT JAM

performance

Waddington Custot:
Fabienne Verdier: Retables
new work by the French painter – presented by the gallery and Galerie Lelong in Paris – which breaks from the conventional canvas format to adopt the structure of a winged altarpiece, though outside of any religious context

first day

London, Saturday 12

Ab-Anbar:
Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics

tour

David Zwirner:
Oscar Murillo, A song to a tearful garden

performance

National Portrait Gallery:
Painting from photography

special event

Tiwani Contemporary:
Exhibition walkthrough and conversation between Emma Prempeh and Dr Michael McMillan

special event

New York

New York, Tuesday 8

Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Abstract Art Yesterday and Today
an exhibition of both historical and contemporary abstract art, from pioneers of the form through to artists from younger generations who continue to push the boundaries

first day

New York, Wednesday 9

Eerdmans:
Dustin Pittman: New York After Dark
Pittman’s first exhibition with the gallery features over thirty of his most powerful images, taken across New York City’s cultural landscape from 1968 to 1982

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Lumen Prize Anniversary Auction 2024 | An Auction Curated by Auronda Scalera & Alfredo Cramerotti x Lumen Prize
auction: Wed 9 – Wed 16

auction starts

New York, Thursday 10

Friedrichs Pontone:
Angela Glajcar: Floating in Space
works by the renowned German artist who works with large sheets of paper to produce layered, often suspended, sculptures

first day

Hirschl & Adler:
John Moore: Poetry of Place
observation, memory, and imagination in an exhibition of new oil paintings by Moore

first day

Sotheby’s New York:
Photographs
auction: Thu 10 – Thu 17
(viewing: Fri 11 – Tue 15)

auction starts

Sotheby’s New York:
The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
auction: Thu 10 – Fri 18
(viewing: Fri 11 – Tue 15)

auction starts

New York, Tuesday 15

Sotheby’s New York:
Prints & Multiples
auction: Tue 15 – Tue 22
(viewing: Fri 18 – Tue 22)

auction starts

Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
In Performance: Morton Feldman’s ‘For Philip Guston’

performance

Paris

Paris, Tuesday 8

Sotheby’s Paris:
Collection Francis Meyer – L’Âme du Verre
auction: Tue 8
(viewing: Thu 3 – Mon 7)

auction

Paris, Saturday 12

Adrian Sutton Gallery:
Emilija Radojicic: Curiosa Continua
textile works and drawings in the Serbian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery

opening reception

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Genesis Tramaine: SWEET JESUS!
new paintings in the first solo exhibition at the gallery in Paris by the self-described “queer devotional painter”

opening reception

Almine Rech, Turenne:
César, at first glance
to mark the release of a new book on César an exhibition of selected pieces by the artist

opening reception

Bigaignon:
Bernar Venet: Macadam 1963
presented in its entirety for the first time, the French conceptual artist’s radical and historic 1963 photographic series

opening reception

Galerie Marian Goodman:
Daniel Boyd: Dream Time
“complex and divergent works spanning an array of historical references from landscape and Western-style portraiture to the traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” which “negotiate the identity of art, history and cultural survival”

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Jean-Marie Appriou: Exonaut Horizon
Appriou’s first exhibition at the gallery’s Paris location – “drawing inspiration from ancient cultures such as Egyptian and Greek mythology, Appriou pushes the boundaries of traditional sculptural techniques by blending diverse materials” – David Wahl

first day

Perrotin Marais:
Lynn Chadwick: Hypercycle. Chapter I: Scalene (1947-1962)
the first in a series of exhibitions – proposed by art historian Matthieu Poirier – which examine Chadwick’s career

first day

Perrotin Marais:
Emma Webster: The Engine of Beasts
Webster’s first solo exhibition in Paris presents paintings alongside sculptures, so “viewers may follow the representation of a beast in all its states”

first day
+ book signing

Semiose:
Moffat Takadiwa: The Reverse Deal
“Takadiwa’s works are akin to algorithms relentlessly producing variants of the same narrative” – N’Goné Fall

opening reception

Semiose:
Asami Shoji: October, Much Ado About Nothing
“she focuses on that precarious, suspended instant when in a moment of metaphysical indecision, appearances endlessly turn and turn again. This catastrophic time, the tipping point at 180 degrees” – Clélia Zernik

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Sturtevant: ZIP ZAP !
on the centenary of the pioneering American artist’s birth “a sexy funky show that goes through thought and time”

opening reception

Paris, Monday 14

Almine Rech, Matignon:
James Turrell: Path Taken
a new light piece from Turrell’s ongoing “Glasses” series begun in 2004

opening reception

A&R Fleury:
Vieira Da Silva / Penalba. Le chemin de la consécration
an exhibition of ten paintings and ten sculptures, highlighting two major artists of the second half of the twentieth century and their contribution to the development of abstraction

first day

Behind The Door:
In The Mood For Love
a group exhibition which highlights the emerging contemporary Asian art scene through the works of a group of young painters showing together for the first time in France

opening reception

Galleria Continua:
Michelangelo Pistoletto: Nouvelle perspective

opening reception

David Zwirner:
Dana Schutz: The Sea and All Its Subjects
new paintings by the American artist – “complex, allegorical visual narratives that engage the capacity of art to represent subjective experience”

opening reception

David Zwirner:
Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow
to inaugurate the gallery’s new second-floor exhibition space, the Paris section of an exhibition presented in partnership with Victoria Miro in Venice, with new paintings which develop Ofili’s relationship with Shakespeare’s Othello

opening reception

Gagosian Le Bourget:
James Turrell: At One
a comprehensive exhibition with two new large installations, an early projection work, new in-wall Glassworks pieces, holograms, models, prints, and plans of Roden Crater, as well as other photographs, prints, and archival materials

first day

Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu:
Maison Ancart
new paintings by Ancart, including a single panoramic alpine triptych of over twenty-five feet

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
Rashid Johnson. Anima
new works spanning painting, sculpture and film, by one of the leading voices of his generation

opening reception

lbf:
Pale Fires
the gallery’s first exhibition in Paris presents major new works by three represented artists – Annice Fell, H. E. Morris, and Tianyue Zhong

private view

Galerie Marian Goodman:
In Conversation: Daniel Boyd and Asad Raza

talk

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Glenn Brown: In the Altogether
a new body of paintings of the human form as Brown continues his “dialogue between antiquity and modernity, ingenuity and appropriation, the beautiful and the grotesque”

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Jean-Marie Appriou: Exonaut Horizon

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Lynn Chadwick: Hypercycle. Chapter I: Scalene (1947-1962)

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Emma Webster: The Engine of Beasts

opening reception

Perrotin:
Panorama

opening reception

Perrotin Matignon:
Takashi Murakami
“duplicated, recontextualized, or even updated and rearranged, Murakami’s favorite characters make this exhibition something of a “greatest hits” where everyone can identify familiar figures”

opening reception

Skarstedt:
Andy Warhol: Art After Art
an exhibition which examines the many influences art history had on Warhol’s work, with seminal examples of his use of others’ art

opening reception

Tornabuoni Art:
Arte Povera. Charting a Revolution
historical works and large-scale installations by key protagonists of the Arte Povera movement, including Boetti, Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini, Pascali, and Pistoletto – “Freedom, in the visual arts, is an all-contaminating germ” – Germano Celant

first day

Paris, Tuesday 15

Galerie Chantal Crousel:
Roberto Cuoghi: PEPSIS

opening reception

Galerie Chantal Crousel:
Mimosa Echard: Lies
“Echard presents two entangled bodies of work – a continuation of her oxidised metallic tableaux and a new series of photographs taken in a 1920s Parisian arcade”

opening reception

Saatchi Yates:
Benjamin Spiers: Kind Hearted Sinners
English artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris – “Spiers isn’t just an artist, he’s an engineer driven by a gut instinct to play around and subvert expectations” – Christina Donoghue 

private view

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 10

Lukas Feichtner Galerie:
Albana Ejupi, 24/23/22

book launch

Zürich

Zürich, Thursday 10

Galerie Fabian Lang:
Amour-Propre
new works by Carina Emery, Christin Khaukha, Elena Alonso, Isabelle Young, Kilian Rüthemann, Mark Wallinger, Sarah Dwyer, Vincent Grange and Xiao Guo Hui

opening reception

Galerie Fabian Lang:
Conversations with the artists Carina Emery, Christin Khaukha, Kilian Rüthemann and Vincent Grange

talk

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Stockholm, Taipei, Venice, Vienna, Zürich

The Metaphysics of Dreams @ Tornabuoni Art Paris		Linda Vallejo @ parrasch heijnen Los Angeles		Ernest Cole @ Autograph London
Ling Yung @ Each Modern Taipei		Leiko Ikemura @ Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zürich		Gordon Cheung @ Almine Rech Shanghai