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Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Salisbury, Shanghai, Vienna

Rodrigo Valenzuela: MUECAS @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna		Lisa Breslow: From This Place @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts New York		Carlo Ciussi. Una danza di tracce e colore @ A arte Invernizzi Milan
Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years @ Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles		Rosie Gibbens: Muta @ Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London		Liisa Pesonen: Same But Different @ Galerie Forsblom Helsinki

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Berlin

Berlin, Thursday 20

Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße:
Elmgreen & Dragset: Momentan nicht erreichbar
in artist duo’s first exhibition with the gallery, an invitation to step into a world of introspective and fragile everyday moments

opening reception

Helsinki

Helsinki, Thursday 20

Galerie Forsblom:
Liisa Pesonen: Same But Different
Pesonen “never treats her paintings as pure studies of form, but rather as an inquiry into the meanings that emerge from interactions of compositional elements”

opening reception

Galerie Forsblom:
Kerttu Saali: Lightbeams and a Blizzard
“Saali’s paintings suggest nature’s cycles and growth processes, as if they were mimicking nature rather than just representing it”

opening reception

Galerie Forsblom:
Charles Sandison: The Garden of Death
immersive, site-specific installations that “blend cultural memory, linguistic structures, and history in a continuous process that crosses temporal boundaries, where meanings are not predetermined”

opening reception

London

London, Tuesday 18

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Panel Discussion with William Stockler and Danielle Knafo, moderated by Astrid Bernadotte

talk

Waddington Custot:
Yves Dana: Citadelle
works created over the past decade, including new and unseen stone sculptures alongside abstract wall-based reliefs in stone, wood and iron in Dana’s first solo presentation at the gallery

private view

London, Thursday 20

JD Malat Gallery:
Portraits: Through The Looking Glass
an exhibition of contemporary painters who explore portraiture both as a mirror to reality and as a window into the unseen or imaginary

first day

Gallery KIWA:
Hong Sooyeon: In the Flow
Hong Sooyeon’s first exhibition in London - “a compelling attempt within painting to merge traditionally Western and Eastern concepts concerning the nature of reality, and how to depict it in art” - Simon Morley

first day

Maximillian William:
MEETING #1: A VOCABULARY FOR PRACTICE

special event

National Portrait Gallery:
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift
curated by Sabina Jaskot-Gill, over 200 photographs in an exhibition of iconic images and portraits from the trail-blazing youth culture magazine

first day

National Portrait Gallery:
Lunchtime conversation: Behind the scenes of The Face magazine

talk

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Mario Martinez: Yaqui & Brooklyn Conversations
pre-colonial tradition in dialogue with canonical modernist figures in the Native American artist’s first solo exhibition outside of the US

private view

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Rosie Gibbens: Muta
in the gallery’s micro-project space, a new sculpture by the London-based artist

private view

Workplace:
Cold Feed
exploring the relationship between form and perception, new works by Andrew Bryant, Alice Channer, Callum Innes, Damien Meade, Robin Megannity, Jack Otway, Hannah Perry, and Hayley Tompkins

opening reception

DES BAINS:
Angela Maasalu: Taking Courage
the inaugural exhibition in this collaboration with Lungley gallery

private view

lbf contemporary:
Tianyue Zhong: Between Earth and Tide
layered paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist “inviting viewers into an introspective journey, exploring resilience, memory, and the shifting nature of time”

private view

rosenfeld:
Visions
five recent graduates from London-based art schools - Ruth Speer, Salvatore Pione, Mizuki Nishiyama, Baijie Liu, and Shuang Jing - “an illuminating glimpse into the future of the art world”

opening reception

rosenfeld:
Nuno Gil: Underwater Stories
intricate cut-outs and dynamic compositions in Gil’s first solo exhibition

opening reception

London, Saturday 22

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Christiane Baumgartner: Sunken Treasure

tour

National Portrait Gallery:
Weekend workshop: Disrupting fashion photography

special event

Sylvia Kouvali:
Ulrike Müller: Beside Myself
“Müller’s fascination with the production and manufacturing of things through tales, images, patterns and materials ... keeps giving and building a world on top of a world that is slowly disappearing” 

opening reception

London, Tuesday 25

Hauser & Wirth:
Verena Loewensberg
organized with Henriette Coray Loewensberg, and the support of Lionel Bovier, an exhibition of works from the period where this leading figure in the influential Zurich school of concrete artists broke from the strictures of movement

opening reception

Ordovas:
Dan Flavin
three major “situations” from across the career of the leading Minimalist and pioneer of installation art

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Tuesday 18

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
George Rouy. The Bleed, Part II
all new works in the British artist’s first US solo exhibition with the gallery - together with the US premiere of a collaborative creation with the acclaimed choreographer Sharon Eyal

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
David Hammons. Concerto in Black and Blue
presented for the first time since its celebrated 2002 debut, this is another chance to catch Hammons’ acclaimed installation work

opening reception

Los Angeles, Wednesday 19

Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
Charles Gaines. Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs
new Plexiglas works and watercolors by the pioneering conceptual artist in his first LA solo exhibition since 2019

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
In Conversation: Charles Gaines, Naima J Keith, Gean Moreno & Olga Viso

talk

Lisson Gallery:
Kelly Akashi
in Akashi’s first exhibition with the gallery, new works with glass, earth, stone and bronze elements “rich with the possibilities of making, remaking and unmaking”

opening reception

Marian Goodman Gallery:
Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years
the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Nauman presents sculptures, installations, sound works, videos, works on paper, and editions to explore the prolific decade that established him as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time

opening reception

Perrotin Los Angeles:
Mr.: It Was on a Brilliant Day.
in Mr.’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, new paintings and an installation based on his studio in Japan

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Wu Chi-Tsung and Lindsay Adams in Conversation

talk

Los Angeles, Thursday 20

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
BODYSUIT by Sharon Eyal & George Rouy

performance

Sotheby’s Los Angeles:
BEAT MAKER. Curated by Timbaland
with 50% of profits going to the LA Art Community Fire Relief Fund, Timbaland and Sotheby’s present an exhibition about the love affair between art and music, centered around the dynamic canvas

first day

Tropical Berlin:
Marco Schuler: I'm All That
playful, bold, and humorous paintings by Schuler in the gallery’s inaugural exhibition at The American Cement Building

opening reception

Los Angeles, Friday 21

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
BODYSUIT by Sharon Eyal & George Rouy

performance

Los Angeles, Saturday 22

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
BODYSUIT by Sharon Eyal & George Rouy

performance

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Frieze Weekend Brunch

special event

Milan

Milan, Tuesday 25

A arte Invernizzi:
Carlo Ciussi. Una danza di tracce e colore
curated by Lorenzo Madaro, paintings and works on paper from between 1983 and 1990 where Ciussi “sets aside the systematic nature of a geometric abstraction and modularity that he has been verifying with untiring commitment since the 1960s”

opening reception

New York

New York, Tuesday 18

Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Tue 18-Fri 28
(viewing: Wed 19-Wed 26)

auction starts

Upsilon Gallery:
Fernando Varela and Carmen Herrera: Form and Void
Varela’s first exhibition with the gallery, and in New York, sees him paired with the American-Cuban minimalist in an exhibition which explores presence and absence, color and space, and structure and transcendence

opening reception

New York, Wednesday 19

Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Wed 19-Thu 27
(viewing: Wed 19-Wed 26)

auction starts

New York, Thursday 20

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts:
Lisa Breslow: From This Place
new paintings by Breslow made during a period of immense productivity following the loss of her husband

first day

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts:
Meg Hitchcock: All That Matters
two and three dimensional abstract paintings and works on paper in the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery - “I use inverse perspective and conflicting light sources to redirect attention from pictorial space back to the viewer” - Hitchcock

first day

New York, Tuesday 25

Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
Dieter Roth. Islandscapes
graphic works, monoprints, multiples and unique pieces from the early 1960s to 1975 explore Roth’s radical printmaking and the genre of landscape

first day

Paris

Paris, Thursday 20

Hauser & Wirth:
Invite(s): Hanna Rochereau
in this new program hosting artists, galleries and writers in the Paris space, an exhibition “rooted in Rochereau’s practice as a painter and installation artist, exploring ideas around categorization, ornamentation, the glamorous and the ghostly”

opening reception

Salisbury

Salisbury, Wednesday 19

New Art Centre:
Roche Court Film Club: Art in Progress: Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling

special event

Shanghai

Shanghai, Saturday 22

Lisson Gallery:
Masaomi Yasunaga: Treading the Earth
new experimental vessel sculptures alongside intricate mosaic tablet works in the Japanese sculptor’s first solo exhibition in China

first day

Vienna

Vienna, Tuesday 25

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Rodrigo Valenzuela: MUECAS
“this exhibition continues Valenzuela’s critical examination of the socio-political landscapes that shape human experience … the struggles of labourers, the persistence of historical injustices, and the potential for collective resistance”

opening reception

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Paco Koenig: NOT BE PAINTED
“I don’t want my work to feel all tormented ... I want the works to just appear. Not be painted. Just appear” - Koenig

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Baku, Berlin, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Reykjavík, Rome, Sydney, Vienna

Richard Gorman: Japan @ Kerlin Gallery Dublin		Raphaela Simon: Shelter from the cold @ Galerie Max Hetzler Paris		Margaret Morgan: Love Must Be Reinvented @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles
Balgo Horizons: Stories and Places Across Time @ Art Leven Sydney		Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures @ Gagosian West 21st St New York		Gülşah Mursaloğlu: Downtime, Spread Too Thin @ SANATORIUM Istanbul