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24 Sep – 1 Oct 2024

Openings, events, auctions
Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Lugano, Monaco, New York, Paris, Rome, Zürich

Barbara Nessim @ RCM Galerie Paris		Nairy Baghramian @ South London Gallery London		Eeva Peura @ Galerie Forsblom Helsinki
Sierra Love @ Rusha & Co. Los Angeles		Gerome Kamrowski @ Lincoln Glenn New York		Helen Frankenthaler @ Gagosian Rome

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Hamburg

Hamburg, Thursday 26

Galerie Vera Munro:
Anne Laure Sacriste: Shades of green
Sacriste’s knowledge of art history and its iconography is evident in her work, which exposes an attachment to painting and the decorative arts

opening reception

Galerie Vera Munro:
Early Masterpieces II
an exhibition of works by John M Armleder, Silvia Bächli, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Helmut Dorner, Günther Förg, Mary Heilmann, Imi Knoebel, Gerwald Rockenschaub, and Winston Roeth

opening reception

Helsinki

Helsinki, Thursday 26

Galerie Forsblom:
Jordi Alcaraz: Dissonance
the Spanish artist’s work – rooted in classical painting and sculpture while rarely using traditional materials – is “essentially a visual enquiry into the nature of spatiality, language and time”

opening reception

Galerie Forsblom:
Reima Nevalainen: Body of Water
for Nevalainen, painting is both “a process of learning free expression … and searching for perfect, non-conceptual abstraction through representational form”

opening reception

Galerie Forsblom:
Eeva Peura: FLEURS DE MAI
Peura’s works on paper draw on tapestries at the museum of medieval art in Paris, and “might be described not as sketches of the future but more as visual notes on imagined realities”

opening reception

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Thursday 26

Hauser & Wirth:
Mark Bradford. Exotica
a major solo exhibition of new paintings by Bradford which navigate “otherness”

opening reception

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
auction: Thu 26

auction

London

London, Tuesday 24

Claridge’s ArtSpace:
Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot
the trained ballet dancer and winner of the inaugural Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize transforms the gallery into an immersive multimedia installation with performance, video work, and sound pieces

first day

London, Wednesday 25

Hanina Fine Arts:
Chromatherapie
an exhibition which explores the evolution of “colour” in post-war art via a grouping of artists using it as their primary medium of expression

first day

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Slow Motion
new multilayered paintings and installations by the three international artists Pius Fox, Lizzie Munn, and Amaya Suberviola, in an exhibition exploring the relationship between time and motion

private view

Victoria Miro:
Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
the premiere of a new Infinity Mirror Room alongside works from a new series of paintings as well as new sculptures

first day

London, Thursday 26

Alma Pearl:
Cullinan Richards: Retrospective
the pioneering artist duo’s first solo exhibition since the gallery announced their representation “breaks down traditional boundaries and approaches to painting, exhibition-making and social sculpture”

opening reception

Annely Juda Fine Art:
Yuko Shiraishi: Through
recent paintings and a major new architectural installation from the artist known for her abstract and delicate canvases, examining her long-standing fascination with dreams

private view

Annely Juda Fine Art:
László Moholy-Nagy: A New World
this major exhibition dedicated to the Hungarian artist highlights the breadth of his career and his ceaseless experimentation

private view

Elizabeth Xi Bauer:
Theodore Ereira-Guyer: Sleeping Lions
new works by Ereira-Guyer utilise innovative techniques to examine memory and time

private view

Lisson Gallery:
Yu Hong: Islands of the Mind
in the first solo exhibition in London by “one of the most important voices of her generation”, new large-scale acrylic-on-canvas paintings focus on the idea of psychological landscapes

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Dexter Dalwood: English Painting
having moved to Mexico in 2022, the British artist’s first exhibition with Lisson Gallery examines what it means to be an “English” painter

opening reception

National Portrait Gallery:
Curator’s introduction to the Portrait Award

talk

rosenfeld:
Robyn Ward: Sunset the Day after the Night Before
a major exhibition by the Irish artist with new large-scale paintings that examine the complexities of modern identity and culture

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
auction: Thu 26
(viewing: Thu 19 – Wed 25)

auction

London, Friday 27

MAMOTH:
Abul Hisham: Seven Scenes of Separation
the first exhibition in the UK – and with the gallery – by the Amsterdam-based artist

opening reception

South London Gallery:
Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet
across both gallery spaces, this major solo exhibition of Baghramian disrupts the idea of children’s building toys to celebrate things that don’t fit together

first day

South London Gallery Fire Station:
Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet
across both gallery spaces, this major solo exhibition of Baghramian disrupts the idea of children’s building toys to celebrate things that don’t fit together

first day

London, Saturday 28

Bartha Contemporary:
Stacked | Layered | Overlapped
an installation of works which explore these three compositional tools, from the two leading artists Henrik Eiben and Julia Mangold

private view

Unit:
Bobbi Essers: The World at Our Command
the Dutch artist’s first UK solo exhibition – “defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends”

first day

Unit:
Dante’s Inferno
an immersive, multidisciplinary group exhibition inspired by the epic poem and conducting a visceral journey through the nine circles of Hell

first day

London, Tuesday 1

Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art
twenty-seven artists and fifty paintings, sculptures, ceramics, watercolors, and collages in an exhibition which explores magic, mysticism, and the occult in art

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 28

Roberts Projects:
Luke Agada: Between Two Suns
recent paintings by the Chicago-based artist, who “paints in pursuit of visualizing the ‘third space’: an internal precipice at which interdependent forces of anxiety, bravery, stability, chaos, survival and collapse must be wrestled with”

opening reception

Rusha & Co.:
Jimmy Centeno: LA TINTA NEGRA Y ROJA FORJANDO LAS PALABRAS CON HIERRO
sculptures, assemblages, and mixed media works in the first solo exhibition by the artist, welder, and scholar who “brings the Indigenous cultures and the people of Latin America with those from Africa into conversation” – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

opening reception

Rusha & Co.:
Ever Velasquez: Chispa
editioned collage works by the Los Angeles artist, curator, and spiritual worker which explore the visual and attentional onslaught of modern life

opening reception

Rusha & Co.:
Sierra Love: Gestures
Love’s debut solo exhibition is inspired by Josef Albers’ observation that color is always in flux, continuously shifting in relation to its surroundings

opening reception

Lugano

Lugano, Wednesday 25

Cortesi Gallery:
SPAZIO TOTALE
this group exhibition provides a journey through the artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century – “a study of materials, forms, and the dynamics of perception, a detail of a broader and more complex composition”

first day

Monaco

Monaco, Tuesday 24

Almine Rech:
John M Armleder: Quasi Nocturne
a solo exhibition by the artist who was closely affiliated with the Fluxus movement, and co-founder of the Ecart Group

opening reception

Monaco, Thursday 26

Hauser & Wirth Monaco:
Surreal Legacies
in the anniversary year of the founding of the Surrealist movement, an exhibition exploring its legacies and focussing on the work of women artists, both of the period and contemporary

first day

New York

New York, Tuesday 24

Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
In Conversation: Shaping our Common Future Through the Power of Art

talk

New York, Wednesday 25

Findlay Galleries:
Hugo Grenville: Recent Works
“this collection is an exploration of the way in which colour influences our feelings. We live surrounded by colour … but seldom do we have time to stop and consider its effect upon us” – Grenville

first day

New York, Thursday 26

Gallery Henoch:
John Evans: Taking Flight
recent east-coast seascapes and botanical garden scenes by Evans – “these are compositions without horizons, without lateral divisions, but focused on movement and radiance” – Carol Pulitzer

opening reception

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary:
Beto De Volder

first day

New York, Friday 27

Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Curated
auction: Fri 27
(viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale
auction: Fri 27
(viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26)

auction

New York, Saturday 28

Lincoln Glenn:
Gerome Kamrowski: An American Surrealist
the first solo New York presentation since 2004 of the American surrealist and abstract expressionist pioneer

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Janaina Tschäpe in Conversation with Joachim Pissarro

talk

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Mitch Epstein in conversation with Brian Wallis

talk

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Sound journey with musician Samer Ghadry

special event

Paris

Paris, Thursday 26

RCM Galerie:
Barbara Nessim: The Past is My Present
an exhibition of the American artist’s pioneering early computer works from the 1980s

first day

Paris, Monday 30

Sotheby’s Paris:
Collection Francis Meyer – L’Âme du Verre Online
auction: Mon 30 Sep – Wed 9 Oct
(viewing: Thu 3 – Mon 7 Oct)

auction starts

Rome

Rome, Monday 30

Gagosian:
Helen Frankenthaler: Painting on Paper, 1990-2002
eighteen large-scale paintings – many never before exhibited – from the latter career of one of the most highly regarded American artists of her time

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Friday 27

Hauser & Wirth:
Günther Förg. Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper / Oeuvres sur Papier: 1975 – 2009
the largest exhibition of Förg’s works on paper includes lesser-known pieces, rare monotypes, and many works shown together for the first time, with more than thirty years’ work encompassing watercolor, acrylic and oil to charcoal, chalk and ink

first day

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Geneva, Gstaad, London, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Torre Pellice (Turin), Zürich

Sarah Sze @ Gagosian Paris		Mambor @ Tornabuoni Arte Rome		Mia Graham @ General Assembly London
Lee ShinJa @ Tina Kim Gallery New York		Naoya Hatakeyama @ Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo		Philip Guston @ Hauser & Wirth Zürich