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The Week in Art visit the site

15-22 Apr 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Dubai, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Taipei, Tokyo

Picasso: Tête-à-tête @ Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue New York		Robert Kushner: Dahlias—Fields of Steadfastness @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles		Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories @ Autograph London
Lou Zhenggang: Shizen @ Almine Rech London		Mary Ann Unger: Across the Bering Strait @ Berry Campbell Gallery New York		Zanele Muholi: Sawubona @ Yancey Richardson Gallery New York

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Dubai

Dubai, Wednesday 16

Perrotin Dubai:
Group exhibition
the gallery opens its new space with a group show featuring Jean-Marie Appriou, Iván Argote, Daniel Arsham, Sophie Calle, Julian Charrière, Johan Creten, Mathilde Denize, Hans Hartung, Gregor Hildebrandt, JR, Takashi Murakami, and Jean-Michel Othoniel

first day

London

London, Tuesday 15

Camden Art Centre:
Richard Wright
responding directly to the architecture of the building, a monumental new site-specific work, alongside works in glass, on paper, and three-dimensional objects, in the Turner Prize-winning artist’s first solo exhibition at a London institution

private view

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

tour

London, Wednesday 16

Ab-Anbar:
Figure-Ground
photography, video, painting, installation, and sculptural works by emerging and established artists exploring the dynamic interplay of figure-ground relationships in architecture, psychology, media, and literature

opening reception

Autograph:
Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond
new portraits of herself and her young son where Minnicucci explores how vulnerability and discomfort in front of the camera can become self-discovery and collaboration

opening reception

Autograph:
Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories
three decades of photographs in the first comprehensive retrospective of Perrier’s work

opening reception

Upsilon Gallery:
Sentire: You Are the April Sky
Ava Grauls, Diane Chappalley, Epona Smith, Evie Mae Jacobs, Guan Guan, and Hannah Lim – six extraordinary international female artists who explore ephemeral moments that encapsulate the essence of the feminine experience

opening reception

London, Thursday 17

BEERS London:
Remus Grecu: The Silence Between
“the main idea of this new series of paintings is to be like an opposition to the imperfect world we live in … images filled with happiness, with beautiful colors and unreal atmosphere” – Grecu

private view

London, Monday 21

Sotheby’s London:
Modern and Contemporary Middle East
auction: Mon 21 Apr-Thu 1 May
(viewing: Fri 25-Wed 30)

auction starts

London, Tuesday 22

Almine Rech:
Lou Zhenggang: Shizen
curated by Almine Rech and Simon de Pury, recent paintings of “staggering beauty” by one of the great masters of abstraction

opening reception

Waddington Custot:
The Shape of Colour
sculptural paintings and painterly sculptures by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Paul Feeley, Sheila Hicks, Vanessa Jackson, Sean Shanahan, William Turnbull and Fabienne Verdier in an exhibition that exploring the interplay between colour and form

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 19

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar
Karetzky produces a hybrid of oil painting, clay sculpture, woodcut, and sgraffito, carving paint into relief surfaces, applying ceramic glazes to render illusionistic space, and pushing the boundaries of the rectangular canvas

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Robert Kushner: Dahlias—Fields of Steadfastness
“I had the whole fall free to paint dahlias as they slowly came into bloom … I was in heaven, haunting the flower sellers at our nearby farmers market, looking for new colors and forms and then trying to capture their individual personalities” – Kushner

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Jim Adams: Flight of Mirrors
deeply personal paintings exploring portraiture and mythology, as Adams reimagines himself within landscapes and interiors that merge past and present

opening reception

Rele:
Process + Place
a two-person exhibition of Terrick Gutierrez and Ayobami Ogungbe, who both explore the relationships between memory, architecture, and the emotional resonance of place

opening reception

New York

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

New York, Wednesday 16

Findlay Galleries:
Gilles Gorriti and Paul Aïzpiri
exceptional works by the quintessential “Mediterranean artist” Aïzpiri, and the master colorist Gorriti

first day

New York, Thursday 17

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Mary Ann Unger: Across the Bering Strait
the gallery’s first exhibition of the pioneering sculptor, curator, and feminist includes in its entirety for the first time in NYC, her monumental magnum opus “Across the Bering Strait”

opening reception

Jack Shainman Gallery:
Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi
vibrant photographs by the Malian artist – including some not previously exhibited – in a celebration of Sidibé’s role as a pioneer who sculpted the visual identity of the African diaspora, offering a window into a Malian nation

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Queer Love
significant and recently discovered erotic drawings by key Bloomsbury group member Duncan Grant, alongside works by contemporary queer artists including Soufiane Ababri, Leilah Babirye, Anthony Cudahy, Kyle Dunn, Alex Foxton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase …

opening reception

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Zanele Muholi: Sawubona
five different series exploring the South African artist and visual activist’s overarching project of empowering the Black LGTBQIA+ community in South Africa, including the first gallery exhibition outside Africa of their early work

opening reception

New York, Friday 18

Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue:
Picasso: Tête-à-tête
in partnership with Paloma Picasso, over fifty rarely seen – or in some cases never previously exhibited – paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the full span of Picasso’s career

first day

New York, Saturday 19

Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
Screening Room: ‘Dieter Roth’ by Edith Jud

special event

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
In Conversation: Zanele Muholi & Yasufumi Nakamori

talk

New York, Tuesday 22

Opera Gallery:
Feng Xiao-Min: Sailing Through the Light
paintings by the Paris-based artist – sailing boats adrift on vast, limitless seas provide an immersive journey into a world where light and form merge in a poetic interplay of colour and emotion

first day

Paris

Paris, Saturday 19

Perrotin Matignon:
Group exhibition

first day

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

Tokyo

Tokyo, Saturday 19

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Leonor Antunes: strips, trunks, trees and dots
new sculptures in an immersive environment from the Portuguese artist in which she focusses on two non-Japanese designers who had strong ties to the country

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruton, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Salisbury, Shanghai, Stockholm, Taipei

FEMMES. Curated by Pharrell Williams @ Perrotin Marais Paris		Benjamin Armstrong: Traverse @ Tolarno Galleries Melbourne		Anna Bjerger: Home Encyclopedia @ Galleri Magnus Karlsson Stockholm
Masaomi Yasunaga: Treading the Earth @ Lisson Gallery Shanghai		Back At Cha – A Celebration of Alonzo Davis @ parrasch heijnen Los Angeles		Alec Soth: Advice for Young Artists @ Sean Kelly Gallery New York