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Latest Newsletter 24 Jan - 31 Jan 2023

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The Week in Art
24-31 January 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Carroll Dunham @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin		Joy Gerrard / Paula Rego @ Cristea Roberts Gallery London		Alicia Adamerovich @ Kohn Gallery Los Angeles
Louise Bourgeois @ Marlborough New York		Se il paesaggio è simbolico @ Boccanera Milan		Franzi Kreis @ Lukas Feichtner Galerie Vienna

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

Tahnee Lonsdale @ Fabian Lang Zürich		Heinz Mack @ Cortesi Gallery Milan		Jake Grewal @ Thomas Dane Gallery London
Ymane Chabi-Gara @ kamel mennour Paris		Je Veux, Vienna 1975-2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer Kunst @ *MEYERKAINER** Vienna		Thomas Schütte @ Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art Turin