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Philip Sutton RA @ Twilight Contemporary, London

The Week in Art visit the site
28 Jan-4 Feb 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, St. Moritz, Stockholm, Sydney, Venice, Vienna

Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing: Art Lovers @ Thomas Dane Gallery Naples		Master Drawings New York @ Colnaghi New York		Keith Sonnier: Cat Doucet and Portal Series @ Galerie Mitterrand Temple Paris
Susanne Johansson: The Unanswered Question @ Galleri Magnus Karlsson Stockholm		Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark @ Raven Row London		Philip Sutton RA: Making History Dance @ Twilight Contemporary London

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Saturday 1

FILIALE:
Martin Kähler: picobello!

first day

London

London, Tuesday 28

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

first day

Emanuel von Baeyer:
Differences in Between, Prints and Drawings
works on paper by Marjorie Welish & Dan Walsh, Albert Oehlen, Bettina Mechtersheimer, Max Theo Kehl and Ellie Hayward, alongside drawings by Willi Geiger and Otto Dix

opening reception

LAMB:
Palm Tree in My Mind’s Eye
an exhibition which “aims to explore how a group of artists from indigenous communities in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, deeply rooted in the Amazon rainforest, channel its rhythms, forms and sacred geometries into their artistic practice”

first day

London, Wednesday 29

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Christiane Baumgartner: Sunken Treasure
new large-scale woodcuts of landscapes and seascapes, paired with ethereal views of sunsets and horizons, “mark the tensions between nature and human conflict”

opening reception
+ talk

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Found Objects: Prints and Multiples from the 1960s
an exhibition bringing together artists at the forefront of the printmaking scene in London and New York in the 1960s

opening reception

October Gallery:
Material Sensibilities
works which explore creative materiality, by Nnenna Okore, Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga, Susanne Kessler, LR Vandy, Jukhee Kwon, Sokari Douglas Camp and Sylvie Franquet, as well as Xanthe Somers, Theresa Weber, Gaia Ozwyn and Khadija Jayi

opening reception

Raven Row:
Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark
curated by John Douglas Millar and Gary Schneider, with Alex Sainsbury, this is the first exhibition to comprehensively present the work of one of tge leading figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York

opening reception

Ruup & Form:
Subtle Connections: Water and the Space in Between
co-curated with Stephanie Souroujon, an exhibition which explores “the profound relationship between water, materiality, and meaning”, with Yolanda López, Rebecca Scott, Ana Bridgewater, Natascha Maksimovic, and Katerina Knight

first day

Victoria Miro:
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
curated by Hilton Als, this exhibition of works by the celebrated American painter focuses on her portraits of people from queer communities to extend an ongoing exploration of aspects of Neel’s work and its continuing relevance today

private view

London, Thursday 30

Alma Pearl:
Porous Abstraction
works by BLCKGEEZER, Hoa Dung Clerget, Sophie Goodchild, and Luca Longhi which “engage with themes of identity, memory, familial relationships as well as the vicissitudes of lived experience”

private view

Alma Pearl:
Ivan Seal: prelude
new paintings and a sound piece based on Jung in Seal’s first exhibition with the gallery

private view

Annely Juda Fine Art:
Yves Zurstrassen: Décollage
the gallery’s first exhibition of major works by the Belgian artist known for his experimental techniques and dynamic compositions redefining the language of abstraction

opening reception

Annely Juda Fine Art:
Shaping Abstraction: Anthony Caro & Alan Green
“by juxtaposing Caro’s groundbreaking sculptures with Green’s dynamic paintings, we witness a compelling interplay between the physical and the pictorial”

opening reception

Annely Juda Fine Art:
Spotlight: Sammi Lynch
“Lynch’s work is shown in juxtaposition with pieces by Anthony Caro and Alan Green, where her paintings constitute a lyrical counterpoint to Caro and Green’s genre-defining abstraction” – Anna Souter

opening reception

BEERS London:
Martin Daiber: Onda Expansiva (Expanding Wave)
“my working method has always had a constructive character, the painting is built up from fragments, and the painting seems to have exploded, and these fragments return as a result of an expanding wave, floating in space” – Daiber

private view

Barbican:
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land
painting, installation, embroidery and scent form “a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration” in the Indonesian artist’s first solo UK exhibition

first day

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Living Now
a wide-ranging group exhibition with works from the past twenty years representing some of the most recent perspectives and approaches in contemporary design

opening reception

County Hall Pottery:
Dining with the Artists

special event

David Zwirner:
Thomas Ruff: expériences lumineuses
new and recent works alongside images surveying Ruff’s career, together demonstrating his experimental approach to photography and his in-depth examination of photographic genres through both analogue and digital processes

opening reception

Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square:
Massimo Bartolini: Sparse Steps

private view

South London Gallery:
Christina Kimeze: Between Wood and Wheel
in Kimeze’s first solo exhibition in the UK, new paintings inspired by the resurgent popularity of roller skating in Black communities in London and beyond explore movement, flight and freedom

private view

South London Gallery Fire Station:
Christina Kimeze: Between Wood and Wheel
other new paintings by Kimeze and works on paper, shown alongside a newly commissioned tapestry made by Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios

private view

Twilight Contemporary:
Philip Sutton RA: Making History Dance
curated by Sam Hanson, an exhibition of paintings inspired by William Shakespeare by one of of the influential generation that emerged from the Slade School of Art following the Second World War

private view

London, Saturday 1

October Gallery:
Artists Xanthe Somers and Gaia Ozwyn in conversation with Curator Eleri Fanshawe

talk

domobaal:
Lee Edwards: Absence is Presence
meticulous A6 drawings on paper from the artist’s residency at Shiro–Oni in Japan – “these works present a direct response both to place as well as to the disconnect from his familiar surroundings and relationships”

opening reception

London, Sunday 2

The Gallery of Everything:
Cocky: From The Erotic To The Divine

opening reception

London, Monday 3

Cardi Gallery:
Highlights from the Collection

first day

London, Tuesday 4

Hauser & Wirth:
Mike Kelley. Vice Anglais
Kelley’s final “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction”, one of the last videos he ever made, is shown alongside related works including never-before exhibited paintings of the cast, a lightbox, and sculptures made using props from the video

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
In Conversation: Grace Ndiritu and Tanya Barson on Mike Kelley

talk

JGM Gallery:
What do you see?
twelve First Nations artists showing “the plurality of styles and aesthetics of Indigenous contemporary art, and invite us to question both how and why these manifest in different geographic regions of the Australian continent” – Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi

first day

Kearsey & Gold:
Woo Jung Ghil: Savouring Silence
“Ghil is a London-based painter whose work reflects a profound engagement with the meditative process of repetition … for the artist, painting serves as an existential exploration of an inner sanctuary

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 1

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Maggie Michael: Root Chords, Earth to Sky
the debut exhibition of Michael’s paintings, both at the gallery and on the west coast – “abstraction, a siren for expansive thinking, offers generous clarity and strangeness; also, brutal, base forms of beauty” – Michael

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Margaret Morgan: Love Must Be Reinvented
text-based installations and works on paper by Morgan – “developed through her praxis of walks in Griffith Park and her fascination with pareidolia – the ability to draw patterns and meaning out of random objects”

opening reception

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, Saturday 1

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing: Art Lovers
Landy and Wearing’s first exhibition conceived together in over twenty years presents new work responding to Naples and its history, alongside works from the last three decades reflecting their ongoing personal and artistic relationship

private view

New York

New York, Wednesday 29

Hauser & Wirth Wooster Street:
George Condo. Pastels
new works by Condo in a two-part exhibition staged with Sprüth Magers offering “a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and limitless inventive drive in the medium of pastel on paper”

opening reception

New York, Thursday 30

Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Camille Henrot. A Number of Things
vibrant paintings and the debut of new bronze sculptures in Henrot’s first major exhibition with the gallery in New York “address the friction between a nascent sense of imagination and society’s system of signs”

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Catherine Goodman. Silent Music
the debut of new large-scale abstract paintings by the British artist whose “characteristically expressive brushwork yields animated surfaces that pulse with the frenetic energy of their making”

opening reception

Lincoln Glenn:
Juanita Guccione: A Divine Gamble
eighteen paintings unified by Guccione’s sensitive and singular approach, complicating our understanding of Surrealist iconography and style

opening reception

Robilant+Voena, New York:
Rediscoveries: Five Centuries of European Painting
nine artworks, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, each of which represents a significant art historical discovery from recent years

private view

New York, Friday 31

Luhring Augustine Tribeca:
Treasures of the Medieval World
presented with Sam Fogg, the fourth in a series of collaborative exhibitions showcasing medieval masterpieces in a contemporary context includes over forty rare pieces of sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, and the work goldsmith

opening reception

The Gallery at Soho Grand:
Norman Reedus: In Transit
an exhibition which “captures the raw, edgy, and moody draw of downtown New York City while showcasing the hidden beauty in the overlooked and abandoned”

first day

New York, Saturday 1

Colnaghi:
Master Drawings New York
an exhibition of 19th-century works on paper, “collectively demonstrating the remarkable artistic diversity of this period, from Neoclassicism through to Impressionism and beyond”

first day

New York, Monday 3

Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Pistoletto’s Journey: From Pop Art and Arte Povera to Artificial Intelligence

talk

New York, Tuesday 4

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
Alfonso Ossorio & Nandor Fodor: The Search for the Beloved

first day

Paris

Paris, Thursday 30

Galerie Mitterrand Temple:
Keith Sonnier: Cat Doucet and Portal Series
drawings and a neon – presented for the first time in France – by an artist who belongs to a generation which, since the 1960s, have challenged traditional art by experimenting with industrial materials such as felt, latex, glass flock, and plastic

opening reception

Paris, Saturday 1

Perrotin Marais:
Nick Doyle: Business, Pleasure, Pressure, Release
“through meticulously crafted vignettes of prosaic objects laden with strange melodramas and desperate longings, Doyle’s deadpan scenes tease at the gears of the machine that feeds us” – Sara O’Keeffe

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Clear History
works by artists including Oli Epp, Harrison Pearce, Tammi Campbell, Frank Brechter, Matthew Hansel, Devan Shimoyama, Ben Spiers, Salomé Chatriot, Maja Djordjevic, Ally Rosenberg, Liao Wen, Ry David Bradley, Sally Kindberg, Cary Kwok …

opening reception

St. Moritz

St. Moritz, Thursday 30

Robilant+Voena:
Jordan Watson. Easier to Breathe
never-before-seen paintings by the American artist that encapsulate his vibrant style and alluring subject matter

first day

Robilant+Voena:
Vincenzo De Cotiis. Archaeology of Consciousness
artworks by the Italian artist and architect whose practice blends archaic idioms with futuristic expressions – “De Cotiis deconstructs their implied contexts and re-evaluates their vaulted forms in a new light”

first day

Stockholm

Stockholm, Saturday 1

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Susanne Johansson: The Unanswered Question
Johansson’s new paintings and works on paper “shift between the familiar and the unfamiliar, between memories, associations and something more abstract”

opening reception

Sydney

Sydney, Saturday 1

Art Leven:
Balgo Horizons: Stories and Places Across Time
artworks by working Warlayirti artists, alongside pieces from private collections representing the founding and early stages of the Balgo movement, offer a glimpse into the history and evolution of one of Australia’s most vibrant artist communities

opening reception

Venice

Venice, Saturday 1

Victoria Miro Venice:
Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin
new work in charcoal on vellum which explores themes of voyeurism, intimacy and representation – “Colwell’s drawings profess innocence even when they are ripe with knowing” – Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

private view

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 30

Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Galerie Eva Presenhuber at Art Genève 2025

first day

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Baku, Berlin, Gstaad, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna

Ulrich Erben: Shadow in Light @ Galerie Bastian Berlin		Alejandro Cardenas: OLYMPIA @ Almine Rech Gstaad		Yukine Yanagi: Silent Sonata @ parrasch heijnen Los Angeles
Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981-1983 @ Lisson Gallery New York		What if it was all just a mirage @ Bigaignon Paris		Kyoko Murase: Only Yesterdays @ Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo