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1-8 Oct 2024

Openings, events, auctions
Chicago, London, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Zürich

Gema Quiles @ LKIF Gallery Seoul		Kibong Rhee @ Tina Kim Gallery New York		Pouran Jinchi & Ruba Salameh @ Gazelli Art House London
The Color of Fall @ Findlay Galleries Palm Beach		Abstract Art Yesterday and Today @ Anita Shapolsky Gallery New York		André Butzer @ Galerie Max Hetzler London

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Chicago

Chicago, Thursday 3

Gray Chicago:
Evelyn Statsinger
as part of Chicago Exhibition Weekend 2024 the gallery celebrates its newly expanded space with a solo presentation of Statsinger’s work featuring pieces from the 1940s to the 1980s

first day

London

London, Tuesday 1

Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art
twenty-seven artists and fifty paintings, sculptures, ceramics, watercolors, and collages in an exhibition which explores magic, mysticism, and the occult in art

opening reception

London, Wednesday 2

Alon Zakaim Fine Art:
Muhammad Ali in Focus: The Greatest by Chris Smith
an exhibition of photographs to accompany the release of this book by the acclaimed photographer

first day

Grosvenor Gallery:
Adeela Suleman: Exit the Tiger: Symbols of Valour in Tipu’s India
new works by the Karachi-based artist known for the political commentary of her sculptures made of everyday objects – “a tribute to the indomitable spirit of Tipu Sultan and his father, Haider Ali, who resisted the British East India Company” – Suleman

first day

Raven Row:
Chronoplasticity
curated by Lars Bang Larsen, an exhibition of works which “attempt to fold or stretch time … ask what and how histories should be told, and consider new conceptions of the ‘historical’”

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Kehinde Wiley: Fragments from the treasure house of darkness
meticulous new paintings which capture a cross-section of young people from Wiley’s visit to the University of Lagos “spotlighting the beauty, self-invention and magic of being young and hip on the streets of West Africa”

opening reception

London, Thursday 3

The Artist Room:
Victor Boullet: Dundee Marmalade
two consecutive exhibitions in Boullet’s first solo presentation in London

opening reception

Camden Art Centre:
Jack O’Brien: The Reward
a major new commission from the 2023 recipient of the Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize

private view

Camden Art Centre:
Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object
sculpture, performance, painting, collage and film in the first exhibiton in the UK to exhibit the full breadth of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice 

private view

DES BAINS:
Roger Muñoz: Haunted Germs
the first solo exhibition in the UK of the artist known for his engagement with the macabre, goth culture, death, horror subcultures, and parody

opening reception

General Assembly:
Simon Bejer: Paradise Glitch

first day

Holtermann Fine Art:
Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home
“autonomous, seemingly disparate groups of sculptural objects … engage the viewer in a dialogue on our inability to comprehend the complexity of the world”

opening reception

LAMB:
Take a Seat
an international group of contemporary artists elevate the chair into an art object to explore the tensions between functionality and artistry

private view

lbf contemporary:
Like a Beacon Against the Cold
with its title inspired by the Grace Nichol poem, this exhibition explores how contemporary painters face identity and belonging within the backdrop of London, a city defined by its transience, rancour, and creativity

private view

Galerie Max Hetzler:
André Butzer
“André Butzer’s Synthetic Paintings are a challenge to our image of man” – Christian Malycha

opening reception

October Gallery:
Alexis Peskine: Forest Figures
new large-scale, mixed media “portraits” channel the power figures of the Congo Basin to explore the diversity of the African diaspora

first day

Pi Artworks:
Susan Hefuna: LISTEN TO: The Sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air
Hefuna’s most recent body of textile works are informed by influences across the globe and explore the fragility of life, nature and humankind

private view

Tiwani Contemporary:
Emma Prempeh: Wandering Under A Shifting Sun
the first of two solo presentations by the gallery where the UK- and Uganda-based artist considers landscape and “its relevance as an expansion of her hyperreal perceptions of home, belonging and memory”

private view

Victoria Miro:
Jules de Balincourt: Moving Landscapes
a new body of work from the Brooklyn-based artist who continues to explore painting as an intuitive process, producing fantasy-like worlds where landscapes and seascapes become sites of possibility and escape

private view

Workplace:
Pei Wang: The Enneagram Mask
meticulous and tightly cropped faces on canvas in the first UK solo exhibition by Wang – “painting as an act of defiance, a slow rebellion against the tyranny of the instantaneous”

private view

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix:
Delaine Le Bas: The Archipelago on Fire
this exhibition turns the gallery into “a land inhabited by fantastic creatures inspired by mythologies” to spread the idea our planet’s decay

opening reception

London, Friday 4

David Gill:
Sebastian Errazuriz: Rebuilding Reason
the New York-based designer and artist reimagines classical antiquity through the use of modern technology and traditional craft

first day

Doyle Wham:
Umseme Uyakhuluma: A Celestial Conversation

opening reception

Gathering:
Wynnie Mynerva: My Weaponised Body

opening reception

Gazelli Art House:
Pouran Jinchi & Ruba Salameh: Cipher
an exhibition of paintings by the two Middle-Eastern artists, drawn both from the traditions of Islamic calligraphy and geometric design and the Western modernist and post-modernist canon

first day

Gazelli Art House:
Aida Mahmudova: The Window
titled after a celebrated poem by Forugh Farrokhzad, Mahmudova’s exhibition explores longing, transformation, and the balance between presence and absence

first day

Luxembourg + Co.:
Alice Baber
significant works from throughout the career of the American artist known for her study of biomorphic forms and the possibilities of light and colour through painting

first day

Maureen Paley Studio M:
Seb Patane: In the Sharp Gust of Love
titled from a Siouxsie and the Banshees song, and based around a queer mode of desire and longing, this exhibition presents biographical references, period images, and found photographs, and emphasises the mutability of gender tropes

first day

National Portrait Gallery:
Life after the Award: Tai Shan Schierenberg, Ishbel Myerscough and Stuart Pearson Wright in conversation

talk

Ordovas:
Golds
works from a diverse group of international artists including Carl Andre, Lucio Fontana, Donald Judd, Giuseppe Pinone, Edmund de Waal and Andy Warhol explore one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art

first day

Serpentine North Gallery:
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: The Call
the first UK solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artists and musicians, two of the most influential artists currently working with artificial intelligence

first day

London, Saturday 5

Barbican:
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998
including many works not seen before in the UK, this major exhibition examines works made between two pivotal moments in India’s history – Indira Gandhi’s 1975 declaration of a state of emergency and the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests

first day

Goodman Gallery:
Kapwani Kiwanga: Rudiments
“Kiwanga has built her career on the hard work of research: of exploring archives, of asking questions and distrusting simplicity. Since the start of her career, she has eschewed conventional ways of telling stories” – Edward Behrens

opening reception
+ tour

rosenfeld:
Bongsu Park: MIRROR

performance

Sylvia Kouvali:
Anna Boghiguian: Living amidst the death

opening reception

London, Sunday 6

Alma Pearl:
Cullinan Richards in conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre

talk

Alma Pearl:
Social Sculpture with Spaghetti & Ice Cream

special event

The Gallery of Everything:
The Divine Theatre of Seyni Awa Camara
the first solo exhibition in the UK of the octogenarian African sculptor whose “mystical healing figures speak of motherhood, magic and the forest spirits who inform her daily practice”

opening reception

Modern Art Helmet Row:
Machine Painting
an intergenerational exhibition of fourteen artists from the 1970s to the present day who produce paintings with the assistance of machines

private view

London, Monday 7

Almine Rech:
Farah Atassi: The Lost Hours
“her riveting compositions are replete with quotations – even clouds seem to emanate from a repertoire of artworks – generating a feeling of visual familiarity and a sense of play” – Devika Singh

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Guimi You: Unwind
new paintings by the Korean artist who combines her training both in traditional Korean painting as well as oil painting

opening reception

Cardi Gallery:
Davide Balliano
new paintings by the Turin-born, New York-based artist in his first major presentation in London show his unique geometric abstraction as well as his reintroduction of color after more than a decade

private view

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill:
Jonas Wood
new paintings by Wood explore the dynamics of color, pattern, and space using recurring subjects like plants, family, and interiors

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
George Rouy. The Bleed, Part I
Rouy’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery presents a new body of work using a purely monochrome palette for the first time as he continues to explore the “human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis”

first day

Hauser & Wirth:
Jack Whitten. Speedchaser
including rare works, this exhibition focuses on Whitten’s paintings, works on paper and sculptures from the 1970s, to capture a pivotal moment in his career

first day

Nahmad Projects:
Murray Clarke: All Kinds of Gorgeous

first day

London, Tuesday 8

Alice Amati:
Miko Veldkamp: Buketan
Veldkamp’s first solo show with the gallery draws on his multi-national upbringing to explore themes of history, belonging, colonialism, and urban landscapes

first day

Asprey Studio Gallery:
Esc Keys by Susan Kare and Alastair Walker
new digital and physical pieces by Kane, the iconic graphic designer whose pioneering pixel art defined the visual language of the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s – in collaboration with Asprey Studio’s Chief Creative Officer

first day

Bluerider ART London:
Cao Jigang: Skypath
large-scale tempera Shanshui paintings in the Chinese artist’s first European solo exhibition – “even though nothing in this world is perfect, perfection is still worth pursuing” – Cao Jigang

first day

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Nacho Carbonell: Escaping Forward
this exhibition represents a transformative moment for the Spanish artist whose tactile sculptures treat objects as living organisms – “this is a new beginning, I’m trying to escape forward”

opening reception

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Castro NYC: Futurespective
seminal pieces in a retrospective celebrating the career of the jewellery designer otherwise known as Terry Castro

opening reception

Gagosian Davies St:
Anna Weyant: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?
new precisely rendered figure paintings and portraits, undercut by gestures of tragicomic awkwardness, in Weyant’s first exhibition in London

opening reception

The Mayor Gallery:
Homage to Surrealism: 1924 – Forever (All Media)
to celebrate the centenary of the movement a comprehensive exhibition of many of its most famous practitioners, covering almost every aspect of Surrealist creativity with a wide array of paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, objects, and photographs

private view

Mazzoleni:
Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art
including a series of Roman artefacts, this exhibition explores the ancient through the lens of Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico, Salvo and Giulio Paolini, alongside the Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake

private view

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Yayoi Kusama: Early Works on Paper
the gallery presents an exhibition which explores the early and formative years of Kusama’s creative journey

first day

Opera Gallery:
Gustavo Nazareno: Orixás: Personal Tales on Portraiture
curated by Samuele Visentin, paintings and charcoal drawings based on Nazareno’s own fables inspired by entities worshipped in some religions of Africa and Latin America, in the inaugural solo exhibition of the São Paulo-based artist

first day

Pace, London:
Robert Longo: Searchers
monumental new multimedia works by Longo in a two-part exhibition presented with Thaddaeus Ropac

opening reception

Pace, London:
Genesis Belanger: In the Right Conditions we are Indistinguishable
the New York based artist critiques the aesthetics of capitalist production and consumption with an exhibition of new labyrinthine installations incorporating porcelain, stoneware, metal, wood, and painting

opening reception

Palmer Gallery:
Shaan Bevan & Owen Pratt: Ex-Voto
titled after the offerings used by peoples throughout human history, the two artists explore the boundaries between living and nonliving, body and environment

private view

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Lucy Otter: Studio Jumps
an exhibition of works by Otter, drawn from the mind of Gabriel Sierra

private view

Sim Smith:
Daisy Parris

opening reception

Skarstedt:
Marco Pariani: Painting Bakery
new paintings and works on paper show Pariani’s use of black gesso paint, bold colour compositions and graphic layering and makes the exhibition “as much about the means of creation as what has been created”

opening reception

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Middle East
auction: Tue 8 – Tue 22
(viewing: Fri 18 – Mon 21)

auction starts

Sotheby’s London:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Tue 8 – Tue 15
(viewing: Sat 12 – Tue 15)

auction starts

Stern Pissarro Gallery:
A Century of Modern and Contemporary British Art
a selection of works by renowned British artists from the past hundred years explores the dialogue between British Modern and Contemporary masters

first day

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Robert Longo: Searchers
monumental new multimedia works by Longo in a two-part exhibition presented with Pace

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Heemin Chung: UMBRA
new paintings, sculptures and video exploring states of loss, in the Seoul-based artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the UK

opening reception

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Terry Adkins: Disclosure
early sculptures by the American musician, scholar, composer, performer and sculptor, shown in conversation with work produced in the last decade of his life

private view

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Magdalene Odundo
unique sculptural clay vessels by the Kenyan-British artist in her first solo exhibition in London for over twenty years

private view

New York

New York, Thursday 3

Tina Kim Gallery:
Kibong Rhee: There is no place
new paintings and an installation by Rhee – “ephemeral beings in his mist-soaked worlds invite us to consider what can truly be represented, what lies at the boundaries of perception, what those boundaries might reveal” 

opening reception

New York, Saturday 5

Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
In Response to Leon Golub: Rashid Johnson, Tiona Nekkia McClodden & Taryn Simon with a performance by Zahra Alzubaidi

talk

New York, Tuesday 8

Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Abstract Art Yesterday and Today
an exhibition of both historical and contemporary abstract art, from pioneers of the form through to artists from younger generations who continue to push the boundaries

first day

Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Tuesday 1

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
The Color of Fall
works by artists ranging from Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters to contemporary practitioners which celebrate the season’s bittersweet beauty and ephemeral splendor

first day

Paris

Paris, Tuesday 8

Sotheby’s Paris:
Collection Francis Meyer – L’Âme du Verre
auction: Tue 8
(viewing: Thu 3 – Mon 7)

auction

Seoul

Seoul, Wednesday 2

LKIF Gallery:
Gema Quiles: Somewhere, Someone
the first solo exhibition by the Spanish artist presents new paintings which continue her exploration of a fictional space and how her characters interact with their environment

first day

Seoul, Thursday 3

Gallery Chosun:
Woven Knot
Matsunobe works with the concepts of space and emptiness in two- and three-dimensions, exploring “the space that lines create, as well as their inherent kinetic and materiality”

first day

Tokyo

Tokyo, Saturday 5

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Justin Caguiat & Rafael Delacruz: The Toys of Peace
in the first exhibition of collaborative works by the two artists, a multi-media installation takes the viewer through “misadventures in personhood”

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Friday 4

galerie gmurzynska, Paradeplatz:
Richard Phillips: Best Picture
on the occasion of the Zûrich Film Festival the gallery presents the first showing of portraits of celebrities from the world of film by the contemporary artist, his first solo show in Zürich for over twenty years

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Frankfurt, London, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Seoul

Olivier Ratsi @ Bigaignon Paris		Sam Falls @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber x P21 Seoul		Japan In/Out Brazil @ Nara Roesler New York
Mia Graham @ General Assembly London		Annabelle Agbo Godeau @ Alice Amati London		The Metaphysics of Dreams @ Tornabuoni Art Paris