The Week in Art 24-31 January 2023
Openings, events, auctions
Barcelona
Thursday 26
Galería Marlborough: Riera i Aragó “El vell viatge”
opens
Berlin
Wednesday 25
Galerie Bastian: Wim Wenders – TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER Wenders’ 3D film installation - shown alongside new photographs - is a tribute to one of the most important American painters of the 20th century
opens
Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16: Carroll Dunham: Selected Drawings “there is no work of Carroll Dunham that doesn’t use drawing as a foundation ... I have always drawn a lot, I have always used drawing as a laboratory to think about other things” - Dunham
opening reception
Bruton
Saturday 28
Hauser & Wirth Somerset: Rodney Graham. Getting it Together in the Country “in Graham’s photographic work, each image is a fictional self-portrait, with the artist in costume but always recognizable, portraying a vast array of characters”
special event
Hauser & Wirth Somerset: The New Bend curated by The Kitchen’s Legacy Russell, an exhibition bringing together thirteen contemporary artists working in the raced, classed and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice
special event
Chicago
Thursday 26
Gray Chicago: GRAY at 60 sixty historical and contemporary artists whose impactful works have been represented, and exhibited, since the gallery’s founding sixty years ago in 1963
opens
Geneva
Wednesday 25
Pace, Geneva: Leo Villareal: Nebulae new wall-based sculptures in Villareal’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland bring brightly coloured LED lights, electronics, and custom coding into the gallery space
opens
Hong Kong
Thursday 26
Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Mcdull – When love springs auction: Thu 26 Jan - Tue 7 Feb (viewing: Mon 30 January - Sat 4 February)
auction starts
Tuesday 31
Gagosian: Uncanny Valley curated by Yang Zi, with new works by Owen Fu, Jiang Cheng, Li Hei Di, Li Weiyi, Nabuqi, Song Yuanyuan, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Haiyang, Wang Xiaoqu, Wang Xingwei, and Zhang Zipiao
opening reception
London
Tuesday 24
Gathering: Wynnie Mynerva: Bone of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh the first UK exhibition by the Peruvian artist focuses on male-centric creation myths and “seeks to dismantle the idea of sexuality as either intrinsically biological, or as rigidly defined by a male-centric creative tradition”
opening reception
Hamiltons: Tomio Seike: Eighty to celebrate Seike’s 80th birthday, an exhibition of some of his most iconic images
opens
Pace, London: Kenneth Noland: Stripes/ Plaids/ Shapes this survey exhibition of the American abstract painter - his first in London for more than twenty years - covers the significant period from the 60s to the 80s, from the development of his iconic Stripe paintings to his Shape canvases
opening reception
Wednesday 25
Christie’s London: Christie’s Lates: Year of the Rabbit
special event
Goodman Gallery: Paolo Salvador: Silencios entre el mar, los ríos y montañas new large-scale allegorical paintings by the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist - shown in partnership with Peres Projects - “understanding and constructing identity is embedded into my practice” - Salvador
opens
JGM Gallery: Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda
opens
Thursday 26
Annely Juda Fine Art: Sigrid Holmwood: A Terrible and True History recent paintings based around the brutal witch trials of 1590 in Denmark and Scotland
opens
Annely Juda Fine Art: Roger Ackling: The Edge of Things an installation of two groups of works, each representing Ackling’s themes and previous approaches to making shows
opens
Bermondsey Project Space: Sleeve Shock
talk
Carl Kostyál: Hyegyeong Choi: Food Coma a new body of work in the New York-based South Korean artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, and her first solo show in Europe
private view
Cristea Roberts Gallery: Between Before and After the gallery starts the year with an exhibition of new projects by Ali Banisadr, Christiane Baumgartner, Rhys Coren, Michael Craig-Martin, David Nash, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Emma Stibbon, Paul Winstanley, Clare Woods, Richard Woods
private view
Cristea Roberts Gallery: Image as Protest: Joy Gerrard & Paula Rego powerful bodies of work by Gerrard and Rego centred on women’s rights and the different ways that protest can be manifested
private view
Darren Flook: Marcus Cope: Got Reason
private view
Gagosian Davies St: Adam McEwen new works in McEwen’s first solo gallery exhibition in London, including a return to his ongoing series of obituaries for the first time in over a decade
opening reception
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert: Richard Smith: Shaped Canvases 1966-1972
opens
Marlborough: Abstract Colour with artists including Remi Ajani, Gillian Ayres, Sam Bakewell, Lynda Benglis, Lubna Chowdhary, Pam Evelyn, Ilse D’Hollander, Caroline Denervaud, Lydia Gifford, Joseph Goody, Andrew Graves, Haroun Hayward, Baraj Matthews, and Dóra Maurer
private view
Maximillian William: Richard Maguire in conversation with Gemma Rolls-Bentley
talk
Saatchi Yates: Omar El Lahib the gallery opens its new 10,000 sqft space in London’s St James with an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by the Cologne-based Lebanese artist
opens
Friday 27
Camden Art Centre: Mohammed Sami - The Point 0 Sami’s first institutional solo show in the UK continues his long-standing exploration of memory in relation to time and conflict
opens
Camden Art Centre: Atiéna R. Kilfa - The Unhomely co-produced in partnership with KW Institute for Contemporary in Berlin, a new video work that places the viewer within a movie scene, unfolding in an undisclosed staircase
opens
Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square: Bridget Smith: Field Recordings
opens
MAMOTH: Party in the Blitz
opening reception
Saturday 28
Raven Row: People Make Television the gallery re-opens with an exhibition of DIY television - rare footage almost totally unseen since its original broadcast - from the 1970s, curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury
opens
Tuesday 31
Bermondsey Project Space: The Other Checkbox: We Belong works created by the “The Other Checkbox” community - funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation - that explores otherness, feelings of belonging, and representation of diverse ethnic groups in London
opening reception
Hauser & Wirth: Günther Förg. Tupfenbilder an exhibition of the final series of works by this prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer, photographer - and one of the most significant German artists of the postwar generation
private view
Richard Saltoun: Antigone: Women in Fibre Art a group show focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, shown alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, as well as new work by Anna Perach and Egle Jauncems
opens
Unit London: Mauro C. Martinez: RateMySetup Martinez takes over both floors of the gallery with an immersive presentation of his multimedia practice visualising how hierarchical structures can seep into even the most decentralised digital spaces
opens
Los Angeles
Saturday 28
CJG2: John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres: JA – RT – LA – 23 following their residency at the gallery, works ranging from 1981 to 2022 by each artist, as well as the pair working together, including a very special pair of works - sculptures of the same person made over 30 years apart
opening reception
Kohn Gallery: Alicia Adamerovich: This is the time of the hour Adamerovich’s inaugural show with the gallery - “these forms represent thoughts and feelings ... I’m not trying to remake anything from our physical world; everything I’m making is psychological” - Adamerovich
opening reception
Milan
Thursday 26
Boccanera Milan: Se il paesaggio è simbolico a group show designed by the gallery’s long-term collaborator artist Linda Carrara, and including works from Giuseppe Adamo, Lorenzo di Lucido, Silvia Giordani, Vera Portatadino and Fabio Roncato
opening reception
Cardi Gallery: Paolo Scheggi: Making Spaces over twenty-five works by Scheggi in an exhibition curated by Ilaria Bignotti which includes the iconic immersive installation “Interfiore”
opens
Monaco
Wednesday 25
Hauser & Wirth Monaco: Amy Sherald. The World We Make new and monumental works by one of the most celebrated contemporary portraitists in the US - in her first solo show in Europe since the major solo exhibition at the gallery in London
opens
New York
Tuesday 24
Christie’s New York: Old Master and 19th Century Prints auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 January)
auction
Marlborough: Berenice Abbott’s Greenwich Village more than fifty iconic and rare, never before published, pictures by the noted photographer - “it is your job to make photographs, let the future look at them” - Abbott
opening reception
Marlborough: In Search of the Miraculous curated by artist Gerard Mossé and gallery director Sebastian Sarmiento, works by twenty-seven artists in an “exhibition that must be discovered through personal experience”
opening reception
Marlborough: Louise Bourgeois: What Is the Shape of This Problem? prints from 1989 to 2007, highlighting Bourgeois’ lifelong themes of childhood, motherhood, familial identity, and human sexuality
opening reception
Wednesday 25
Christie’s New York: Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra - Selling Without Reserve auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Christie’s New York: Old Masters auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Sean Horton (Presents): Kirk Hayes: Droll’s Lament “beneath the bruised figures and singed surfaces of Kirk Hayes’ paintings lies a quietly voiced defiance” - Edward Holland
opens
Sotheby’s New York: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sun 22 - Tue 24 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Wed 25 - Tue 31 Jan
auction starts
Thursday 26
Christie’s New York: Old Master & British Drawings auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 January)
auction
Gagosian 541 West 24th St: Jonas Wood: Prints 2 “you have to build the print piece by piece. I just love the way it looks, the process, the whole feel of it. It’s irreplaceable” - Wood
opening reception
GRIMM: Volker Hüller: L.I.T.S. new works by the German-born, Brooklyn-based artist - in his first exhibition at the gallery’s new location - reference the acronym for both “life is too short” and “lost in time and space”
opens
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street: Charles Gaines. Southern Trees the gallery’s first major solo NYC exhibition by one of the most important conceptual artists working today
opens
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street: Roberto Cuoghi. Pepsis the legendary Italian artist’s first exhibition since joining the gallery, as well as his first in New York in nearly a decade
opens
Sotheby’s New York: Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings Part I auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 January)
auction
Friday 27
Christie’s New York: Modern Medici: Masterpieces from a New York Collection auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Christie’s New York: The Collection of André Leon Talley: Online auction: Fri 27 Jan - Thu 16 Feb (viewing: Fri 10 - Tue 14 February)
auction starts
Galerie Buchholz: Michael Oppitz: Singers of Ten Thousand Lines photographs and a new book, focussing on the mythical traditions and ritual practices of a remote community in the Himalayan mountains, long studied by Oppitz
opening reception
Galerie Buchholz: Michael Oppitz on Marcel Broodthaers
opens
Marian Goodman Gallery: Cerith Wyn Evans: …no field of vision new large neon sculptures and installations inspired by Frank Stella’s “Black Paintings” - alongside a series of works on paper referencing Japanese paper stencils
opening reception
Sotheby’s New York: The European Art Sale Part I auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 - Thu 26 January)
auction
Sotheby’s New York: Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Fri 27 Jan - Mon 6 Feb
auction starts
Saturday 28
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space
opens
Tuesday 31
Lisson Gallery: Future Shock across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber
opens
Lisson Gallery W 24th St: Future Shock across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber
opens
Paris
Wednesday 25
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione: Marc Newson new and recent limited-edition furniture by Newson - “design is about improving things and about looking to the future, pushing the technology forward” - Newson
opens
Friday 27
Christie’s Paris: Fragments of Collections by Raphaël Denis
opens
Galerie Maria Wettergren: Akiko Kuwahata & Ken Winther - In Praise of Shadows the Japanese and Danish designer/cabinetmaker couple’s first exhibition in France draws inspiration from traditional craft methods and design to create delicate handmade objects, from small sculptural bowls to pieces of furniture
opening reception
Monday 30
Sotheby’s Paris: Opéra de Paris : Auction for Action, Bid for Creation! auction: Mon 30
auction
San Pedro Garza García
Friday 27
Colector Poniente: Rachel Garrard: Oversight
opens
Saturday 28
Colector Oriente: Zhivago Duncan: Mapping Out Unification
opens
Stockholm
Saturday 28
Galleri Magnus Karlsson: Ulf Lundin: Best of Sweden Lundin photographs the same scene from before dawn until it gets dark in the evening - composing the final work from different parts of various of these shots to produce “a whole day compressed into one image”
opening reception
Vienna
Thursday 26
Lukas Feichtner Galerie: Franzi Kreis: Dunkelkammer photographs taken by Kreis during performances of Annie Ernaux’s “DIE SCHAM” at Volkstheater in Vienna
opening reception
Zürich
Thursday 26
Hauser & Wirth: Berlinde De Bruyckere both painter and sculptor, De Bruyckere presents new bronze and lead sculptures together with monumental framed relief works and paper collages
opening reception
Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Dubai
Saturday 28
Perrotin Dubai: Takashi Murakami
Gstaad
Saturday 28
Gagosian: Stanley Whitney: Paintings on Paper
Larchmont
Saturday 28
Lincoln Glenn: The City That Never Sleeps: New York Scenes, 1860 - 1960
London
Thursday 26
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art: Sophie Bouvier Ausländer | Jyll Bradley | Rebecca Salter
Saatchi Gallery: Hyangmok Baik & Adébayo Bolaji: Bitter Nostalgia
Friday 27
The Mayor Gallery: Emmy Bridgwater: The Edge of Beyond
Unit London: Stacey Gillian Abe: Shrub-let of Old Ayivu
Unit London: Stephen Wong: Dream Travel
Saturday 28
ATLAS Gallery: Carousel
Bermondsey Project Space: Sleeve Shock
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends
Lisson Gallery: Van Hanos: Twin
NıCOLETTı: Nana Wolke: Wanda’s
October Gallery: Govinda Sah ‘Azad’: Absent Presence
Pi Artworks: Friends and Family: Part II
The Sunday Painter: Kate Newby: So close,come on
Thomas Dane Gallery: Jake Grewal: Now I Know You I Am Older
Waddington Custot: M (Michael Chow) 周英華: Bridges
Sunday 29
John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place: Hinterland
Pontone Gallery: Viewing Room: Art Miami Collection 2022
Serpentine South Gallery: Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness
Tuesday 31
David Gill: Barbara Nanning: Bedazzled
Los Angeles
Saturday 28
GAVLAK: Marc Dennis: Once Upon A Time
Lugano
Saturday 28
Cortesi Gallery: Lucrezia Roda: GLASS POWER. The power of fragility
Milan
Friday 27
Cortesi Gallery: HEINZ MACK. Structures of Energy
Naples
Saturday 28
Thomas Dane Gallery: Mettere al Mondo il Mondo
New York
Saturday 28
Fergus McCaffrey: Leiko Ikemura: Anima Alma - Works 1981 - 2022
Nahmad Contemporary: Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century
Palm Beach
Wednesday 25
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Primitive Worlds
Paris
Friday 27
Gagosian Le Bourget: Richard Serra: Transmitter
Saturday 28
Art: Concept: Anthony D Green: Lifestyle
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: William Wegman: Agility conceptuelle / Significant Otherness
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: William Wegman: Agility conceptuelle / Spaces of Species
kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Valentin Carron: Bonjour Monsieur Serpent !
kamel mennour, r. du Pont de Lodi: Alberto García-Alix: Lo que queda por venir
kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: Ymane Chabi-Gara: Un petit morceau d’étoffe violette
Rome
Tuesday 31
Gagosian: Karin Kneffel: Face of a Woman, Head of a Child
Seoul
Thursday 26
Lehmann Maupin: Three Generations: Remembering Suh Se Ok (1929-2020)
Sunday 29
Barakat Contemporary: El Anatsui: Day After Night
Everyday Mooonday: Brian Robertson: FEELS
Turin
Saturday 28
Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art: Thomas Schütte: Works in Glass
Vienna
Saturday 28
MEYER*KAINER: Je Veux, Vienna 1975-2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer Kunst
Zürich
Saturday 28
galerie gmurzynska, Talstrasse: Otto Piene: Rouge et Noir
Sunday 29
Fabian Lang: Tahnee Lonsdale: Our Humans
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