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The Week in Art visit the site

3-10 Jun 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Monaco, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Reykjavík, Shanghai, Stockholm, Taipei, Vienna, Zürich

Kathleen Ryan: Roman Meal @ Gagosian Davies St London		Andrea Francolino. Contemplatio @ Mazzoleni London		Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes @ Ben Brown Fine Arts London
Biographical Forms @ Lullin + Ferrari Zürich		Niki de Saint Phalle: Mythology @ Galerie Mitterrand Temple Paris		Marjatta Tapiola: Metamorphoses @ Galerie Forsblom Helsinki

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Berlin

Berlin, Friday 6

Capitain Petzel:
Monica Bonvicini in conversation with André Rottmann

talk

Brussels

Brussels, Thursday 5

Almine Rech:
Book Release & Artist Talk

special event

Helsinki

Helsinki, Thursday 5

Galerie Forsblom:
Marjatta Tapiola: Metamorphoses
recent oil paintings and works on paper by the leading Finnish painter – drawing on the writings of W.G. Sebald, Anne Carson, and Ovid

opening reception

Galerie Forsblom:
Charles Sandison: Tabula Rasa
titled with reference to John Locke’s philosophical theory that humans begin as a blank slate, an installation of words spilling out of open, empty books and moving towards each other in an ideological battle to fill the empty pages

opening reception

London

London, Tuesday 3

Gagosian Shop, London:
Rick Lowe
coinciding with his Art Basel Unlimited presentation, new works on paper by Lowe – “ densely worked, layered compositions … that link painterly forms with geometric motifs”

first day

Kearsey & Gold:
Filippo Antonello: Aufheben
curated by Roxane Hemard with spatial design by Thomas Brewin – “these works are not so much made as metabolised” – Maria Catalano

first day

Sprüth Magers:
Gala Porras-Kim: The categorical bind
“Porras-Kim’s drawings, paper marbling works and sculpture explore the transformation – and possibly emancipation – of objects throughout time”

opening reception

THE TAGLI:
Telepathy and the Unseen
a group exhibition of ten artists who explore “the invisible processes that shape how we perceive and relate”

first day

sketch:
Aurélia Jaubert

first day

London, Wednesday 4

Ben Brown Fine Arts:
Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes
the first exhibition of Muniz’s bold and experimental series at the London gallery – “paintings without paint, gesture without touch – a compelling testament to the complexity of vision and a vivid meditation on how we see, remember, and reconstruct”

private view

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Liza Giles: In Flux
titled in reference to her process-driven approach, new large-scale, multi-panel paintings by the London-based artist

private view

Hanina Fine Arts:
Godot est Arrivé: Claude Venard & Post-Cubism
“I love Venard because he’s created a universe where Godot has arrived, where anguish has disappeared from the universe” – Jacques Prévert

first day

The Mayor Gallery:
Rafael Canogar: Imprints (Paintings 1958 – 1962)
fourteen landmark paintings from the early, “Informalist” period when Canogar, one of the leading Spanish artists of the post-war era, first made his name

private view

Modern Art Helmet Row:
Francesca Mollett: Annual Honesty
new large-scale, abstract paintings in Mollett’s first solo exhibition with the gallery – “Mollett’s works hold within them a density of moments in time”

private view

Opera Gallery:
Anselm Reyle: Sunrise Mission
abstract, stripe, foil and scrap metal paintings alongside ceramics and neon installations in Reyle’s first major solo exhibition in London

first day

Soho Revue:
Immaterial
seven female abstract painters who approach painting in personal confrontation with the canvas – Isabella Amram, Kim Booker, Kristy M Chan, Laura Lancaster, Xi Liu, H.E. Morris, Sophie Smorczewski and Ming Ying

private view

South London Gallery:
Workshop: Re/Configure

special event

South London Gallery:
Workshop: Re/Imagine

special event

London, Thursday 5

Alice Amati:
Ilaria Vinci: INTROVERSE
the multimedia artist’s first UK solo exhibition – “Vinci transforms models and prototypes into works that merge architecture with anatomy, and design with psychology”

opening reception

Ames Yavuz:
Polyphonies
an exhibition of artists whose works challenge the intrinsic hierarchies and biases of language

opening reception

Annka Kultys Gallery:
Louisa Clement

tour

Benjamin Rhodes Arts:
Helen de Sybel: Still Life – The Emerging Form

opening reception

Bluerider ART London:
The Weight of Lightness

tour

GRIMM:
Matthias Franz: claim no easy victories
“for Franz, painting is a necessarily slow and thoughtful process. Inspired variously by literature and cinema, the artist uses paint and canvas as tool to visualise an interior notion, question and make sense of the world”

private view

Gagosian Davies St:
Kathleen Ryan: Roman Meal
in Ryan’s solo debut at the gallery, two new sculptures explore ideas of utility and excess and luxury and repulsion while maintaining “an appealing sense of the absurd”

opening reception

General Assembly:
Silk
works by Fleur Dempsey, Rebecca Halliwell Sutton, and Eliza Owen in an exhibition curated by Freddie Foulkes

private view

Institute of Contemporary Arts:
Nora Turato: pool7

performance

Kearsey & Gold:
Filippo Antonello: Aufheben
curated by Roxane Hemard with spatial design by Thomas Brewin – “these works are not so much made as metabolised” – Maria Catalano

opening reception

Larkin Durey:
Massoud Hayoun: Stateless
new paintings in Hayoun’s ongoing exploration of systems of control and the redeeming power of culture and community

opening reception

Mazzoleni:
Andrea Francolino. Contemplatio
the Italian artist’s first London solo exhibition in almost a decade “invites visitors into a space of quiet introspection and renewal – where cracks, fractures and breaks are portals to transformation”

private view

Modern Art Bury Street:
Mark Manders: Three Related Works
sculptures, paintings, and a mixed-media installation in Manders’ first solo exhibition as an artist of the gallery – continuing a project he began in 1986

private view

NOW Gallery:
London Festival of Architecture Takeover
three architectural exhibitions, by the collectives Citizen Architects, Black Females in Architecture, and Somali Architecture – with participatory installations, film, photography, and live events

private view

NıCOLETTı:
total climate part 3: the map and the territory
works by Abbas Zahedi, Alfredo Aceto, Chloe Quenum, Diane Cescutti, Haroun Hayward, Onyeka Igwe, and Theresa Weber

private view

Ordovas:
Sculpted

first day

Perrotin London:
Gregor Hildebrand in conversation with Francesca Gavin

talk

Pipeline:
Rachel Clancy: The Thought Below
“ Interested in theatre and illusion, Clancy’s domestic spaces are heavy with suggestion. Though no figures are visible, the spaces she paints are dense with atmosphere and subtle cues that hint at narratives just out of reach”

opening reception

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Jennifer Bartlett: In the House
the first significant exhibition in London of the pioneering American artist for over forty years – “reveal[s] the depth and innovation of Bartlett’s research-oriented practice, which found enduring meaning in four walls for almost five decades”

private view

Pontone Gallery:
Matteo Massagrande: In Dialogue with Stanley Spencer
new work by the acclaimed Italian painter, inspired by the visionary world of the great Modern British artist – “poetic echoes – works that extend Spencer’s legacy into the contemporary moment”

private view

The Sunday Painter:
Fatzoo: No one @ mee…
the London-based graffiti artist brings his work inside a gallery for the first time – “part social commentary, part stream of consciousness … it’s about the act of defiance that is simply existing as a Black, Brown or Non-English man” – TJ Sidhu

opening reception

Sylvia Kouvali:
Luigi Zuccheri
“the selection of works that you are lucky enough to see has the ambition of retracing the evolution of Luigi Zuccheri’s works from the onset of the Second World War to his death in Venice in 1974” – MMXX

opening reception

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Jimmy Robert: The Erotics of Passage
new works which explore the intersection between photography and sculpture in Robert’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in London

private view

Twilight Contemporary:
Flotsam and Jetsam
curated by Jamie Hope, an exhibition which “explores the secret life and spirit of objects which have been long left abandoned”

private view

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix:
Damian Le Bas: Cartographer of a Fifth Dimension
Le Bas’s painted maps and globes are visual metaphors for his ideals – “Gypsy Europa is my dream… my maps are subversive imaginary conquest, a Roma resistance against racism and right wing propaganda”

private view

London, Friday 6

Alice Amati:
Exhibition Walkthrough and Musical Performance

special event

Alison Jacques:
Carol Rhodes: Sites
covering nearly twenty years, and with many works never before seen in London, these paintings and drawings by the late Scottish artist show the richness, specificity and psychological depth of her practice

private view

Almine Rech:
Gregor Hildebrandt: AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG
“though the works are seemingly hard-edged – minimalist, graphic, glittering, synthetic – a feeling of warmth and emotion somehow comes through, like the warmth of the sound from a vinyl record” – Young Kim

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Serolod: Reality is Relative
“the soul of these works lies in the relationship between things – figures, objects, the space between them … Serolod’s works are both depictions of a single moment and reflections on the universe itself” – Louisa Mahoney

opening reception

Alon Zakaim Fine Art:
École de Paris

first day

Amanda Wilkinson:
Derek Jarman: The Black Paintings: A Chronology. Part I 1984 – 1987
a two-part presentation of Jarman’s work tracing the development of his most significant series of paintings

first day

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Marie Harnett in conversation with Nancy Durrant

talk

David Gill:
Valentin Loellmann: Arriving Somewhere, Maybe
“the German-born, Maastricht-based designer strives for perfect harmony in his work. Inspired by the sinuous beauty of Japanese minimalism and nature, he seamlessly blends the fleeting with the permanent and the elegant with the sensuous”

first day

David Zwirner:
Joe Bradley: Animal Family
new paintings by the American artist – “I have never really felt comfortable calling myself an abstract painter … there have always been flashes of figuration in my work” – Bradley

first day

domobaal:
Nicky Hirst: Slant
“in this new body of work, looking and seeing is as important for Hirst as making”

first day

Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market:
+ Days + Nights Panel Discussion

talk

The Gallery of Everything:
Bowls, Pots, Vessels, Urns, Creatures, Figures, Lumps
“taking its inspiration from an imaginary Abyssinian poem” over a dozen artists in “an impromptu investigation into ceramic practices from the 18th to 21st centuries”

first day

The Gallery of Everything:
Guided tours with James Brett

tour

Grosvenor Gallery:
Stephen Cox
bronze sculptures alongside preparatory sketches and studies in this exhibition focussed on the intimate scale of the renowned British sculptor’s work

first day

Grosvenor Gallery:
Artist-led walkthrough

tour

Hauser & Wirth:
In Conversation: Michaela Yearwood-Dan and Ekow Eshun

talk

Institute of Contemporary Arts:
Nora Turato: pool7

performance

Lisson Gallery:
Workshop + Talk + Pop Shop

special event

Luxembourg + Co.:
In Plain Sight
an exhibition of sculptures that assert their spatial presence by means of concealment or invisibility, focussing on radical experiments in material and conceptual reduction from across the last century

first day

Mazzoleni:
Artist Walkthrough

tour

Nahmad Projects:
Visual Symphonies
curated by Grammy Award-winning artist Eve, key works by Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Gris, Dufy, Dubuffet, Calder, and Braque brought together to explore the relationship between the visual and the auditory

private view

Pace, London:
Emily Kam Kngwarray: My Country
including pieces never exhibited before, this is the first UK solo exhibition of works by the renowned Australian artist – in collaboration with D’Lan Contemporary

opening reception

Pace, London:
In Conversation with Jennifer Higgie, Tamsin Hong and Amanda Thomson on the occasion of Emily Kam Kngwarray: My Country

talk

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Garden BBQ and late viewing of Barbara Nicholls: Between the Tides

special event

Pilar Corrias, Conduit Street:
Philippe Parreno: El Almendral

tour

Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Ragna Bley: Move Baby, Move

tour

Pontone Gallery:
Into the Light: New Talent at the Livery
painting and sculpture from newly-joined members of one of the most ancient and prestigious of the city’s livery companies

first day

Serpentine South Gallery:
A Capsule in Time: Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum
this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is by Marina Tabassum, celebrated for her work in establishing an architectural language that is both contemporary and deeply connected to a specific place, climate, context, culture, and history

first day

Serpentine South Gallery:
Architect’s Talk: Marina Tabassum in Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

talk

Sprovieri:
Renato Leotta: Unfolding of Time (Archaeology-Patisserie)
“a collection of universal images that speak of a slow and inexorably welcoming landscape; one rooted in the time of the Mediterranean” – Leotta

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Rooted in Memory
the first UK solo exhibition of the ground-breaking visual artist, prominent curator, and Indigenous activist presents a broad survey and celebration of her work and influence

opening reception

Tiwani Contemporary:
Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God?
Chihota blends screen-printing with drawing and painterly gestures, producing works which explore themes of intimacy, kinship, bereavement, faith, and transformation

opening reception

Tiwani Contemporary:
In Focus: Felix Shumba: For want of a horse, a button was lost
an installation of charcoal drawings influenced by the evidential and documentary values of photography to examine the history of settler-colonial Rhodesia and contemporary challenges in Zimbabwe

opening reception

Twilight Contemporary:
Spanish Folk with Zoe Barnett

special event

Victoria Miro:
Victoria Miro: 40 Years
including new paintings, sculptures and installations, a special and expansive exhibition which celebrates the artists who have shaped the gallery since its founding in 1985

first day

Waddington Custot:
Bernar Venet: When Steel Dreams of Code
shown for the first time in the UK, twelve new generative artworks by the celebrated French conceptual artist – in his first use of artificial intelligence in art making

opening reception

London, Saturday 7

ai.:
Molly Burrows and Woo Jin Joo

performance

Amanda Wilkinson:
Derek Jarman: The Black Paintings: A Chronology. Part I 1984 – 1987
a two-part presentation of Jarman’s work tracing the development of his most significant series of paintings

opening reception

Bluerider ART London:
The Weight of Lightness

tour

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Liza Giles: In Flux

tour

Gazelli Art House:
The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties

tour

Institute of Contemporary Arts:
Nora Turato in conversation with Andrea Nitsche-Krupp

talk

Ruup & Form:
Kerry Lemon: Simpling
titled after the historical practice of harvesting medicinal plants, an exhibition of sculptural works and immersive installation where Lemon “invites viewers to reimagine the interdependence of body, plant, and place”

opening reception

Sim Smith:
Dreamlandia
co-curated by Sim Smith and Emily Hunt, an exhibition which brings together an intergenerational group of female artists to explore the importance of women in Surrealism

first day

Sim Smith:
Emily Hunt and Cora Wöllenstein

performance

ai.:
Molly Burrows and Woo Jin Joo

performance

domobaal:
Nicky Hirst: Slant
“in this new body of work, looking and seeing is as important for Hirst as making”

opening reception

London, Sunday 8

Alma Pearl:
Song of A Captive Nightingale

performance

Annka Kultys Gallery:
Louisa Clement
“it’s a new body of work … about the loss of our true knowledge, through algorithms and the generation of texts and the manipulation of news, our facts become more blurred than ever before” – Clement

opening reception

London, Tuesday 10

Hayward Gallery:
Yoshitomo Nara
more than 150 drawings, paintings, sculptures, installation and ceramics in the largest European retrospective of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists

first day

Hayward Gallery:
Yoshitomo Nara: Artist’s Talk

talk

Hayward Gallery:
Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi: Freudian Typo
new image-based works, sculpture, video and found objects in a multi-layered exhibition exploring language and the vocabulary of corporate finance, debt and development

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 7

Roberts Projects:
Back to the Earth
painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and video in a group exhibition of artists whose work “emerges from a symbiotic relationship with their environment”

opening reception

Monaco

Monaco, Thursday 5

Almine Rech:
Looking at Horizons
an exhibition of contemporary takes on landscape painting “whether they pay homage to the history of the genre or they inaugurate a new relationship with the land … the works presented here embody the challenges of their epoch” – Armand Camphuis

opening reception

New York

New York, Wednesday 4

Graham Shay 1857:
Anna Walinska: West Meets East: An Artist’s Journey Around the World, 1954 – 1955

first day

The Gallery at Soho Grand:
Bob Mackie: From Sketches To Spotlight
including sketches not seen before in public, an intimate look into the creative world of the iconic American designer known for dressing cultural icons from Cher to Madonna

first day

New York, Thursday 5

Gallery Henoch:
Summer Group Show (Part I)
new and notable works by Eric Zener, Rebecca Stenn, John Evans, Mavis Smith, Ioanna Stefou, Annette Davidek, Gary Ruddell, Alexandra Pacula, Carin Gerard, Eric Wert, Richard Combes, and Elizabeth McGhee

first day

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary:
Iliana Emilia García & Scherezade García: Landed
sculptures, works on paper, and a new installation in the first exhibition at the gallery of works by the Dominican-born sisters

opening reception

Jack Shainman Gallery:
Claudette Schreuders: Genesis
figurative sculptures made in both wood and bronze in an exhibition which reimagines scenes and characters from the suburban landscape of Schreuders’ Cape Town

opening reception

New York, Saturday 7

ACA Galleries:
Summer in the City
“a love letter to New York in all its maddening, magnificent glory” – works by John Baeder, Danielle DeJesus, David DeSimone, Richard Haas, Claire Heidinger, Steven Katz, Ernest Lawson, Joseph Peller, Philip Reisman, Doug Safranek, and Edmund Yaghjian

opening reception

Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Wednesday 4

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Figures and Expression
over a dozen artists offer “a powerful exploration of the human figure as a medium for emotional depth, narrative complexity, and aesthetic innovation”

first day

Paris

Paris, Tuesday 3

Bigaignon:
Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books
part of the gallery’s annual curatorial invitation, photographs by the American artist – “a contemplative look into the personal library of … the twentieth-century Italian painter renowned for his quiet and precise still life compositions”

opening reception

Paris, Wednesday 4

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Marie-Laure de Decker – L’image comme engagement
the first major retrospective devoted to the prominent photojournalist, who covered numerous conflicts while concentrating on the dignity of individuals and the off-field of war

first day

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Ilanit Illouz – Au bord du Volcan
to start the new partnership between Le Studio and the Centre national des arts plastiques, an exhibition of “endless landscapes” photographed on the outskirts of Italy’s still-active Mount Etna volcano

first day

Paris, Thursday 5

Gagosian, rue de Castiglione:
Andreas Gursky
four works by the renowned German photographer – two new, one recent, and one from the beginning of his career

opening reception

Galerie Maria Wettergren:
Worlds Unfolded

opening reception

Loevenbruck:
The Ways of Nature
in an exhibition across both gallery spaces “a dialogue between natural beauty and that shaped by human hands” presents pieces and works honoring nature, from the ancient to the contemporary

opening reception

Galerie Mitterrand St-Honoré:
Niki de Saint Phalle: Mythology
across both the Paris spaces, this new exhibition of Saint Phalle brings together works from the 1960s to 2000

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Matthew Ronay: Thirteen Forms
monumental installations, sculptures and wall reliefs that continue Ronay’s exploration of the subconscious through the transformation of the intangible into tactile experience

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Portals to Unwritten Time
an exhibition with over a dozen artists who “do not only look ahead; they move sideways through history, delve into the body, and project outward toward the unknown”

opening reception

Paris, Friday 6

Galleria Continua Marais:
Nedko Solakov: YOUNGER (a fairy tale), 1980-1990

opening reception

Galleria Continua Marais:
Pièces à vivre
works by artists including Ai Weiwei, Juan Araujo, Alejandro Campins, Yoan Capote, Loris Cecchini, Chen Zhen, Nikhil Chopra, Jonathas de Andrade, Leandro Erlich, Subodh Gupta, Eva Jospin, Julio Le Parc, Jorge Macchi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Hans Op de Beeck, …

opening reception

Galerie Mitterrand Temple:
Niki de Saint Phalle: Mythology
across both the Paris spaces, this new exhibition of Saint Phalle brings together works from the 1960s to 2000

first day

Sotheby’s Paris:
Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection
auction: Fri 6-Fri 13
(viewing: Thu 5-Thu 12)

auction starts

Sotheby’s Paris:
Tableaux 1400-1900 Online
auction: Fri 6-Fri 13
(viewing: Fri 6-Wed 11)

auction starts

Reykjavík

Reykjavík, Friday 6

BERG Contemporary:
Still Life
an exhibition of works by Dieter Roth, Haraldur Jónsson, Hákon Bragason, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Marta Skoczeń, Páll Haukur, Rósa Gísladóttir, and Steina & Woody Vasulka

first day

Shanghai

Shanghai, Friday 6

Perrotin Shanghai:
Kelly Beeman: Invitation
“Beeman invites viewers into an immersive experience within her carefully staged world … viewers shift their bodily engagement – changing angles and perspectives while navigating the arrangement of the works” – Kaimei Wang

first day

Stockholm

Stockholm, Thursday 5

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Summer Group Show
works by gallery artists incuding Mamma Andersson, Roger Andersson, Idun Baltzersen, Duda Bebek, Amy Bennett, Helene Billgren, Anna Bjerger, Mette Björnberg, Thomas Broomé, Marcel Dzama, Niklas Eneblom, Sara-Vide Ericson, Jens Fänge, Carl Hammoud, …

opening reception

Taipei

Taipei, Saturday 7

Bluerider ART Taipei·DunHua:
Rising in Fire: Hantoo Art Group
the inaugural exhibition at the gallery space pays tribute to one of the most iconic artist collectives in Taiwan’s contemporary art history

opening reception

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 5

MEYER*KAINER:
Michèle Pagel: schön ist anders

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Thursday 5

Lullin + Ferrari:
Biographical Forms
Benedikte Bjerre, Anne-Lise Coste, Clare Goodwin, Pierre Haubensak, Jamie Isenstein, Koka Ramishvili – six gallery artists who explore the interplay between life and art

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Berlin, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, Naples, New York, Paris

Monica Bonvicini: It is Night Outside @ Capitain Petzel Berlin		Marco A. Castillo: From the Circle to the Star @ Nara Roesler New York New York		Process + Place @ Rele Los Angeles
Telepathy and the Unseen @ THE TAGLI London		Ugo Rondinone: ORA BLU @ Alfonso Artiaco Naples		Merci! John Giorno @ Almine Rech, Turenne Paris