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21-28 Jan 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Cologne, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zürich

Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms @ Louis Stern Fine Arts Los Angeles		Darren Almond: Songbirds and Willows @ Alfonso Artiaco Naples		Ornaghi & Prestinari: Blursday @ Galleria Continua Marais Paris
Moore and Malaparte: Rhythm and Form @ Gagosian, rue de Castiglione Paris		Andriu Deplazes: Nasse Augen @ Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse Zürich		Jacopo Benassi: Eden @ Mai 36 Galerie Zürich

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Cologne

Cologne, Thursday 23

Sotheby’s Cologne:
UDO – The Personal Collection of the late Udo Jürgens
auction: Thu 23-Thu 30
(viewing: Sat 18-Thu 30)

auction starts

Dublin

Dublin, Saturday 25

Kerlin Gallery:
Richard Gorman: Japan
over two decades of Gorman’s handmade works on paper, with a focus on the motif of the circle

opening reception

London

London, Tuesday 21

Belmacz:
Working Title: I ❤️ Artists & Oceans
Lulua Alyahya, Valérian Goalec, Angélique Heidler, Zeynep Kayan, Valeria Schneider and Zinong Zhang “do more than offer a dreamy reflection on life, they provide a material kick, demanding that we do the work of thinking free(&)dom for ourselves”

private view

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Bruce Conner: THREE SCREEN RAY
continuing on from the gallery’s previous screenings of his work, this is the first UK exhibition of Conner’s Three Screen Ray

first day

London, Wednesday 22

JD Malat Gallery:
Group Show

first day

Unit:
Jake Wood-Evans: Nocturne
an exhibition in which Wood-Evans “considers the mysterious and evocative allure of the nocturnal”

first day

London, Thursday 23

Ab-Anbar:
Screening of Soleil Ô by Med Hondo

special event

Bartha Contemporary:
Sequential Gestures II: Serial Approaches in Contemporary Art
works by Frank Gerritz, Alan Johnston, Stefana McClure and Beat Zoderer in the gallery’s second exhibition examining “the enduring fascination with repetition, process, and order in art-making”

first day

Gazelli Art House:
Lilly Fenichel: Against the Grain
Fenichel’s first UK solo exhibition – “she is one of the true rebels and is an extremely important, if somewhat under-recognized artist in art history” – Juri Koll

private view

Hurst Contemporary:
Presently Fragmented
curated by Edoardo Monti, an exhibition of five artists from Palazzo Monti, the residency/cultural institution he founded in 2017

opening reception

Modern Art Bury Street:
Michael Simpson: Drawing towards Painting: Selected Works 1974 – 2024
Simpson selects drawings from his own archive and ongoing work – “working drawings, thinking with the hand: problem solving, notes to self, visual reminders – purely functional” – David Risley

private view

National Portrait Gallery:
Curator’s introduction to the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024

talk

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Levitation: Nathalie Junod Ponsard and Hans Kotter

private view

Sprüth Magers:
Joseph Kosuth: The Question
this survey exhibition, in honour of Kosuth on his eightieth birthday, celebrates his profound contributions to conceptual art

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Jim Hodges: It only takes a minute
this new UK solo exhibition by Hodges “invites an inquiry into our relationship to time, its measures, and meanings”

opening reception

Timothy Taylor:
California
Ruby Neri, Patrick Martinez, Hugo McCloud, Sara Issakharian, June Edmonds, and Hilary Pecis in an exhibition of new work by six multigenerational artists with deep connections to the American West Coast

opening reception

Unit:
Jake Wood-Evans: Nocturne
an exhibition in which Wood-Evans “considers the mysterious and evocative allure of the nocturnal”

private view

NISO:
Daniel Brusatin: The Flower is Always in the Almond
curated by Christian Domínguez Dietzel, Brusatin’s latest series celebrates “nature’s cycles, fragility, strength, and the quest for meaning, inviting viewers on an introspective journey where the primordial and eternal intertwine”

opening reception

London, Friday 24

Alison Jacques:
Last Night I Dreamt of Manderley
curated by Daniel Malarkey and titled after the opening line of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca”, over thirty artists across generations, disciplines, and geographies explore memory, transformation, and the dynamic interplay between past and present

private view

London, Saturday 25

Serpentine South Gallery:
Saturday Talks: Lizzie Carey-Thomas on Lauren Halsey: emajendat

talk

London, Monday 27

County Hall Pottery:
Narratives in Clay
six ceramic artists with “unique interpretations of storytelling, culture, and personal identity, expressed through the medium of clay”

private view

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 25

Louis Stern Fine Arts:
Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms
“since 1944 my painting has been concerned with the ‘magical’: the metamorphosis of the unreal into reality and, vice versa, reality into the unreal – and reality beyond itself into extra existences” – Feitelson

opening reception

Roberts Projects:
Lenz Geerk: Schwarzweiß
titled from the German word for “black-and-white” these new paintings and works on paper straddle the line between drawing and painting and allow Geerk to probe the emotional and psychological spaces of anxiety, uncertainty and disconnection

first day

Roberts Projects:
Daniel Crews-Chubb: Finding Figures
new works on paper by Crews-Chubb see him take an increasingly abstract direction and to uncover the timeless and universal rather than the contemporary and specific

first day

Milan

Milan, Tuesday 28

Robilant+Voena, Milan:
Priscilla Rattazzi. Between Worlds
three bodies of work from across five decades in this “reflection upon a lifetime through Rattazzi’s lens”

private view

Naples

Naples, Tuesday 21

Alfonso Artiaco:
Darren Almond: Songbirds and Willows
an exhibition which “invites us to reflect on the passage of time, the fragility of memory and our connection with nature, offering a meditation on the cyclical and ever-changing rhythms of life”

opening reception

New York

New York, Tuesday 21

Gallery Henoch:
Winter Group Show
a diverse selection of recent paintings by emerging and established gallery artists

first day

New York, Wednesday 22

Gagosian West 21st St:
Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures
monumental sculptures by Schütte in the largest presentation of his work in the United States to date

opening reception

New York, Thursday 23

Galerie Buchholz:
Yair Oelbaum: Teiku

opening reception

Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue:
Cy Twombly
organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation, this exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper includes key bodies of work as well as pieces that have never been shown before

opening reception

New York, Friday 24

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Postcards from the Edge

private view

CARVALHO PARK:
Nicola Turner: Fabric of Undoing
“Turner’s installation is an accumulation of a collective body’s affects and associations, stories, impressions and sensations … she invites us to watch them move, to be moved by them and move with them” – Rebecca Birrell

opening reception

CARVALHO PARK:
Yulia Iosilzon + Nicola Turner: The Threshold Beckons
“together, Iosilzon and Turner’s paintings and sculptures constitute a kind of gallery-based ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’” – Rebecca Birrell

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
auction: Fri 24 Jan-Mon 3 Feb

auction starts

New York, Saturday 25

Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Petite Treasures
an intricate selection of works by twenty-three artists from multiple generations which “distill the essence of the artist’s expression into an intimate, compact format”

first day

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Kate Shepherd in conversation with Isabelle Dervaux

talk

Sotheby’s New York:
Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
auction: Sat 25
(viewing: Fri 17-Thu 23)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Important Americana
auction: Sat 25
(viewing: Fri 17-Fri 24)

auction

Paris

Paris, Wednesday 22

Gagosian, rue de Castiglione:
Moore and Malaparte: Rhythm and Form
small-scale sculptures and drawings by Moore in dialogue with pieces of furniture from Casa Malaparte – drawing unexpected connections between sculptor and designer

first day

Paris, Thursday 23

Galerie Mitterrand St-Honoré:
Ron Gorchov
works from 1970 to 2020 by Gorchov, who was one of the generation of painters who broke with the traditional rectangular frame in the 1960s, establishing a new link between sculpture and painting

opening reception

Tornabuoni Art:
Valerio Adami
“I draw in prose, but a few rhymes escape. Imagination must be used with caution; it’s too fast and flies off in all directions. Drawing, on the other hand, is slow, building closed forms and solid cages, beginning where speech ends” – Adami

first day

Paris, Friday 24

Galleria Continua Marais:
Carlos Garaicoa: La Sección áurea

opening reception

Galleria Continua Marais:
Ornaghi & Prestinari: Blursday

opening reception

Galleria Continua Marais:
Silent Threads – Resounding Kosova

opening reception

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 23

MEYER*KAINER:
Hélène Fauquet: Species of the Pod

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Thursday 23

Christophe Guye Galerie:
Erik Madigan Heck: The Tapestry
twenty photographs and a painting present “Heck’s unique fusion of photography and painting, characterized by a bold embrace of natural light, resulting in a stunning array of unapologetically beautiful and vividly colorful images”

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
Rachel Khedoori
Khedoori uses cast aluminum, bronze, 3-D printing, resin, encaustic paint and paper to produce an ensemble of sculptural works that oscillate between constructed and deconstructed states

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
Uman. A Fantastic Woman
all new paintings and works on paper reflecting her reverence for the natural world, in Uman’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland – presented in partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery, NY

opening reception

Mai 36 Galerie:
Jacopo Benassi: Eden
the gallery’s first solo exhibition of Benassi, whose work spans photography, installation, painting, performance, and sculpture

opening reception

Mai 36 Galerie:
General Idea: ZIGGURAT
four Ziggurat paintings by the artist trio, on view for the first time in Switzerland

opening reception

Zürich, Friday 24

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Andriu Deplazes: Nasse Augen
“a journey through five rooms that reflects on our contemporary reality and privileges, immersing us in realms of thought filled with depth and irony”

opening reception

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Shifting
a group exhibition which addresses aspects of demarcation, deconstruction, or dissolution of boundaries with works by Maja Bajević, Travis Boyer, Fabian Marti, Kenrick McFarlane, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tobias Spichtig and Christine Streuli

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, Gstaad, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Stockholm, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Venice, Zürich

Sophia Flood: Sun and Its Living Shadow @ Babst Gallery Los Angeles		Leslie Hewitt: New Waves @ Perrotin Los Angeles Los Angeles		Nikki Maloof: Around the Clock @ Perrotin Marais Paris
As the Sharp Narrative Fades, A Revealing Map Emerges (PART 2) @ Gallery Chosun Seoul		Chemu Ng’ok: Echoes @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse Zürich		18 Women: 50 Years @ Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York