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The Week in Art 21-28 March 2023 |
Openings, events, auctions |
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Cologne
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Friday 24 |
Sotheby’s Cologne: Modern & Contemporary Auction, Part II auction: Fri 24 - Thu 30 Mar (viewing: Wed 22 - Mon 27 March) |
auction starts |
Geneva
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Tuesday 28 |
Pace, Geneva: Kylie Manning: You Into Me, Me Into You new, ambitious, and idiosyncratic paintings in Manning’s first exhibition in Switzerland, staged in conjunction with her forthcoming collaboration with the New York City Ballet |
opens |
Helsinki
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Friday 24 |
Galerie Forsblom: Tuukka Tammisaari: Bit of a Pickle “Tammisaari’s highly recognizable visual idiom has grown even richer in his recent paintings, which exude a sincere spirit of joy and free creativity” |
opens |
Galerie Forsblom: Sami Lukkarinen: Borderland pixelated portraits painted with a palette knife, using an artificial intelligence system to analyze donated photographs |
opens |
Hong Kong
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Tuesday 21 |
Gagosian: Katharina Grosse: Touching How and Why and Where “with my painting I seek to incite agitation. I want us to be so disturbed, positively or negatively, that we develop the desire to change something - preferably immediately and repeatedly” - Grosse |
opening reception |
Hove
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Saturday 25 |
Maureen Paley Morena di Luna: outer view, inner world the first group exhibition to be staged at the gallery’s Hove space brings together work by multiple artists exploring portraiture including Lubaina Himid, Peter Hujar, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing and Jane and Louise Wilson |
private view |
Larchmont
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Saturday 25 |
Lincoln Glenn: Alan Fenton ”Fenton is his own man, producing work that is uniquely his…in his work one feels that Fenton is testing the accepted and pushing for a newer and richer visual experience.” –Vincent Melzac |
opens |
Lausanne
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Thursday 23 |
Fabienne Levy: Vanessa Safavi: I feed my dreams slime at night |
opens |
London
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Tuesday 21 |
Christie’s London: Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale auction: Tue 21 (viewing: Tue 14 - Tue 21 March) |
auction |
Hauser & Wirth: In Conversation: Ben Luke and Michael Neff on Günther Förg |
talk |
Wednesday 22 |
Alison Jacques: Ian Kiaer: Endnote, oblique “Kiaer expands on his ongoing research around the ‘Function of the Oblique’, an architectural notion conceived and promoted by architect Claude Parent and the urbanist and philosopher Paul Virilio” |
opening reception |
Christie’s London: Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Tue 14 - Tue 21 March) |
auction |
FOLD: Echoes In The Sky a two-person exhibition exploring notions of memory, time and landscape through a material lens |
private view |
Thursday 23 |
Annka Kultys Gallery: Juliette Sturlèse: A little mouse was running through the grass in the first UK solo exhibition of the French artist, new abstract paintings which experiment with paint texture while combining artificial grass, bees wax and imaginary French landscapes and gardens |
opening reception |
The Artist Room: Poppy Jones an exhibition of works by Jones following her inclusion in the gallery’s inaugural group exhibition |
private view |
Hollybush Gardens: Johanna Billing: Each Moment Presents What Happens |
private view |
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Angela Heisch: Low Speed Highs a series of large-scale paintings and works on paper in which the artist’s signature organic shapes and movement are the subject |
private view |
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Mai-Thu Perret: Do not think at all about good and bad a new ceramic sculpture of scattered apples by the Swiss artist in the gallery’s micro project space |
private view |
Sprovieri: Mario Dellavedova: Sense Exercises / Sans Exercice “the artist's conceptual work juxtaposes artefacts, furniture, textiles and everyday objects” |
private view |
Friday 24 |
ATLAS Gallery: Frauke Eigen a retrospective of over twenty years of the German artist’s photography |
opens |
Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square: Polly Apfelbaum: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ |
opens |
Modern Art Helmet Row: Frida Orupabo: Things I saw at night in her first solo exhibition with the gallery, including collages, sculptures and videos, Orupabo combines fragments of bodies of Black women to imagine new narratives of subjectivity denied by colonial legacies |
private view |
Saturday 25 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Panel featuring Essie Dennis, Nyome Nicholas-Williams and Lucy Dawson. Chaired by Bee Illustrates |
talk |
Raven Row: Public Access Television, the Community Programme Unit and the BBC. An afternoon of discussion and screenings |
special event |
Tuesday 28 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Jonathan Ford: STRUCK by Time and Nature after being struck by lightning in 2011 this exhibition brings a 200-year-old tree from the estate of Lieutenant General Pitt Rivers back to life |
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Christie’s London: Note to Self |
opens |
Grosvenor Gallery: Sayed Haider Raza an exhibition of Raza’s paintings to celebrate the launch of volume II of the Raza Catalogue Raisonné |
opens |
Los Angeles
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Friday 24 |
Rusha & Co.: Caroline Wong: A Many-Splendoured Thing in Wong’s debut solo exhibition in the US - presented in collaboration with Sabrina Andres - paintings and drawings influenced by her Malaysian-Chinese origins and upbringing in London explore the bonds of friendship and the culinary delights |
opening reception |
Rusha & Co.: Erick Medel: Mariachi Medel’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery celebrates mariachi performers while documenting everyday life for himself, his family, and his community of Mexican-Americans |
opening reception |
Saturday 25 |
Louis Stern Fine Arts: Mokha Laget: New Perspectives These recent iterations of the artist’s shaped canvases inject arcs and arches into their brilliantly colored geometries. They are active and alive, igniting a flurry of implications and contradictions within the eye and mind. |
opens |
Steve Turner: Raven Halfmoon: Sunsets in the West monumental ceramic sculptures - each a reflection of Halfmoon’s interpretation of Caddo culture - reflect her identity as a woman and a Native American |
opens |
Steve Turner: Rose Barberat: I’ll Pick You Up a series of paintings depicting scenes that relate to the physical aspects of air travel, through a dystopian cinematic narrative |
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Steve Turner: Hannah Morris: Acting Ordinary recent paintings combining reconstructed and collaged imagery from the pages of popular American magazines of the 1940s through 1970s which are overpainted by Morris |
opens |
Milan
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Wednesday 22 |
Sotheby’s Milan: Giovanni Pratesi The Florentine Eye auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Thu 16 - Mon 20 March) |
auction |
Monterrey
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Tuesday 28 |
Colector Poniente: Amor Muñoz: Tactile Translation |
opens |
New York
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Tuesday 21 |
Christie’s New York: Japanese and Korean Art auction: Tue 21 (viewing: Fri 17 - Mon 20 March) |
auction |
Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue: Bennett Miller having interviewed many of the key figures involved with artificial intelligence, Miller’s first exhibition with the gallery presents prints produced using a DALL•E image generator |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery: Dan Graham the gallery presents three seminal performances by the late artist as part of a multi-gallery tribute to someone whose legacy extends beyond his art and continues to be felt by the many who encountered him |
opens |
Sotheby’s New York: Celestial Colors. The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes auction: Tue 21 (viewing: Thu 16 - Mon 20 March) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Indian and Himalayan Art, including Masterpieces from the Nyingjei Lam Collection auction: Tue 21 (viewing: Thu 16 - Mon 20 March) |
auction |
Wednesday 22 |
Christie’s New York: South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Fri 17 - Tue 21 March) |
auction |
Christie’s New York: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Fri 17 - Tue 21 March) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Important Chinese Art auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Thu 16 - Tue 21 March) |
auction |
Thursday 23 |
Cheim & Read: Peter Shear: Following Sea new paintings by the self-taught painter - “it’s become increasingly important to leave behind an image to which no concrete meaning can be attached, only possibility” - Shear |
opening reception |
Christie’s New York: Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction: Thu 23 - Fri 24 Mar (viewing: Fri 17 - Wed 22 March) |
auction starts |
Hollis Taggart: Reminisce new and recent work celebrating the myriad ways identity can be expressed through painting and sculpture - with Paul Anagnostopoulos, Jonni Cheatwood, Katie Hector, Justine Otto, and Adrienne Elise Tarver |
opening reception |
Hollis Taggart: Wild Growth: Ralph Iwamoto, Surrealist Works from 1955 announcing the representation of Iwamoto’s estate, an exhibition of paintings from the very beginning of his career, when he first exhibited his work in the city |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York: Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics auction: Thu 23 Mar - Tue 4 Apr (viewing: Thu 30 March - Mon 3 April) |
auction starts |
Friday 24 |
GRIMM: Arturo Kameya: Los Ovnis new works by the Peruvian-born, Amsterdam-based artist explore alienation and otherness |
opens |
Saturday 25 |
Halsey McKay Gallery: Studio Lenca: Listo new paintings from the artist Jose Campos tell an autobiographical story navigating borders and identities which have been destroyed, redrawn and erased through colonisation and war |
opening reception |
Halsey McKay Gallery: An Hoang: The Apple and the Moon “Hoang’s ... latest paintings capture fleeting moments in nature, while introducing a recently developed bright and vibrant palette on a larger scale” |
opening reception |
Sunday 26 |
Fridman Gallery: Beam Splitter |
performance |
Paris
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Wednesday 22 |
Christie’s Paris: Dessins anciens et du XIXe siècle auction: Wed 22 (viewing: Fri 17 - Wed 22 March) |
auction |
Thursday 23 |
A&R Fleury: Victor Vasarely: Une autre dimension |
opens |
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Tomi Ungerer: Tomi The Alchemist - The Magnum Opus Ungerer’s art draws from alchemy and metamorphosis, transforming people and objects into strange beings - death is a recurring theme, seen as a starting point for transformation towards perfect union |
opening reception |
Mariane Ibrahim: Zohra Opoku: I Have Arisen... Part 2 |
opens |
Sotheby’s Paris: Contemporary Curated auction: Thu 23 - Thu 30 Mar (viewing: Sat 25 - Wed 29 March) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s Paris: L’Œil infatigable – Tableaux de la collection Asbjorn Lunde auction: Thu 23 (viewing: Sat 18 - Wed 22 March) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Paris: Gericault, La Collection Elmore auction: Thu 23 (viewing: Sat 18 - Wed 22 March) |
auction |
Friday 24 |
Mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Le corps de l’autre curated by Christian Alandete, with works by Laure Albin Guillot, Carole Douillard & Babette Mangolte, Louise Bourgeois, Camille Claudel, Leonor Fini, Camille Henrot, Annette Messager, Alice Neel, Orlan, Judit Reigl, Germaine Richier |
opens |
Mennour, 6 r. du Pont de Lodi: Judit Reigl: Female figure in man |
opens |
Mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: Gina Pane: Préliminaire |
opens |
Monday 27 |
Christie’s Paris: Chagall et la Musique, oeuvres provenant de l'Atelier de l'artiste (Partie III) auction: Mon 27 Mar - Thu 6 Apr (viewing: Thu 30 March - Thu 6 April) |
auction starts |
Tuesday 28 |
Christie’s Paris: Roland Petit & Zizi Jeanmaire : Un patrimoine pour la danse (Partie II) auction: Tue 28 Mar - Fri 7 Apr (viewing: Thu 30 March - Fri 7 April) |
auction starts |
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione: Carsten Höller: Clocks an exhibition of new and rarely seen earlier works by Höller which focuses on how the measurement of time impacts human ways of being |
opens |
Salzburg
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Saturday 25 |
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art: An Intimate Distance works by Anouk Lamm Anouk, Gilbert Bretterbauer, Carmen Calvo, Andreas Duscha, Ulrike Köppinger, Sandrine Pelletier, Jaume Plensa, Anneliese Schrenk, Iv Toshain, Jorinde Voigt |
opens |
Seoul
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Thursday 23 |
Lehmann Maupin: Tammy Nguyen: A Comedy for Mortals: Inferno Nguyen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and her first in Korea, presents new works in the first of a three-part series based on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” |
opens |
Turin
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Thursday 23 |
Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art: Giuseppe Penone: Impronte foglie parole sculptures, works on canvas and drawings “relate the action of the sculptor in touching matter and that of the writer who leaves his imprints on the first published copy of one of his books” |
opening reception |
Zürich
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Tuesday 21 |
Sotheby’s Zürich: A Friend to Artists: The Marisa Perret-Rezzonico Collection auction: Tue 21 - Tue 28 Mar (viewing: Wed 22 - Sat 25 March) |
auction starts |
Friday 24 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal: Louisa Gagliardi: A Moment’s Notice Gagliardi’s first solo exhibition reflects existentialism, playing with blurred borders and dichotomies, while offering illusion and portrayals of possibility, questioning reality and our place in the world |
opening reception + talk |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Addis Ababa
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Saturday 25 |
Addis Fine Art: Alle Legends |
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Barcelona
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Saturday 25 |
Galería Marlborough: Riera i Aragó: El bell viatge |
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Kensington
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Thursday 23 |
Pazo Fine Art: Sim Buhls |
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London
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Wednesday 22 |
Thaddaeus Ropac: Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing |
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Thaddaeus Ropac: SENSE: Beuys / Gormley. A conversation through drawing |
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Friday 24 |
Richard Saltoun: Antigone: Women in Fibre Art |
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Saturday 25 |
Autograph: Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT |
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BEERS London: Deborah Segun: Where is my mind? |
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Bermondsey Project Space: HYSTERICAL. Curated by Cheer Up Luv and Bee Illustrates for Women’s History Month |
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Cob Gallery: Night, Light. |
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NıCOLETTı: George Henry Longly: Microgravities |
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Parafin: Andrea Heller: Inhabit |
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Pi Artworks: Aviv Benn: And The Sky Cast an Eye on this Marvellous Meat |
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Rodeo: Eftihis Patsourakis: Painting |
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Shapero Modern: Andy Warhol: 20 Under 20 |
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Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: Jon Rafman |
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Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: Gretchen Bender: Image World |
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Victoria Miro: Grayson Perry: Posh Cloths |
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Sunday 26 |
Pontone Gallery: Through the Mind's Eye: an Anthology |
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Pontone Gallery: A New Home |
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Raven Row: People Make Television |
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Los Angeles
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Saturday 25 |
Charlie James Gallery: Erika Rothenberg: Vital Signs |
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GAVLAK: Think Pinker |
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HOSTLER | BURROWS: Zimra Beiner: If it Holds it Grows |
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Lugano
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Friday 24 |
Cortesi Gallery: Contrasti. Da Alighiero Boetti a Giuseppe Santomaso |
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Milan
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Friday 24 |
Cortesi Gallery: Contrasti. Da Alighiero Boetti a Giuseppe Santomaso |
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New York
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Saturday 25 |
Cheim & Read: Joel Mesler: The Rabbis |
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David Nolan Gallery: Jorinde Voigt: The Match |
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Eva Presenhuber: Weiss Falk: Found Refined Refound |
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Galerie Lelong & Co.: Nancy Spero: Woman as Protagonist |
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James Cohan, 48 Walker St: Bill Viola |
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Lehmann Maupin: Tony Oursler: mAcHiNe E.L.F. |
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space |
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Tina Kim Gallery: Tania Pérez Córdova: Precipitation |
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Palm Beach
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Saturday 25 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Charles Neal - The Pursuit of Color |
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Paris
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Saturday 25 |
Art: Concept: Giuseppe Gabellone |
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Galerie Chantal Crousel: José María Sicilia: Suspendu à un fil |
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Galerie Maria Wettergren: Akiko Kuwahata & Ken Winther - In Praise of Shadows |
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Sunday 26 |
MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Cédrine Scheidig: de la mer à la terre |
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Salisbury
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Sunday 26 |
New Art Centre: Matt Rugg: Early and Late Works |
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Shanghai
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Saturday 25 |
Perrotin Shanghai: I Feel the Way You Feel |
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Perrotin Shanghai: Thilo Heinzmann |
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Tokyo
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Saturday 25 |
Taka Ishii Gallery: Goro Kakei |
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Vienna
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Saturday 25 |
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Frauke Dannert: Traumfragmente |
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Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Fredy Solan: Impossible Objects |
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Daily Diary New VRs Bookshop |
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