The GalleriesNow Newsletter

The Week in Art
10-17 Oct 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Cristina BanBan @ Skarstedt London		Giuseppe Penone @ Gagosian Paris		Ndidi Emefiele @ rosenfeld London
Natural World @ Gallery Henoch New York		Derek Boshier @ Gazelli Art House London		Kenny Scharf @ Almine Rech Paris

Bucharest

Thursday 12

Mobius Gallery:
Gino Rubert: TIME TO SET THE CAGE ON FIRE
in Rubert’s inaugural show with the gallery, and his first in Romania, mixed media works invite viewers on a journey through the intricate architecture of human relationships

opening reception

Hong Kong

Tuesday 10

Christie’s Hong Kong:
No Regrets: 20th/21st Century Art Online
auction: Tue 10 – Fri 20 Oct
(viewing: Wed 11 – Fri 20 October)

auction starts

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Chinese Art Online: A Private Asian Collection
auction: Tue 10 – Wed 18 Oct
(viewing: Tue 10 – Tue 17 October)

auction starts

London

Tuesday 10

Ab-Anbar:
Jananne Al-Ani: Landmarks
a solo exhibition spanning more than two decades of photographic and moving image work while focusing on Al-Ani’s longstanding interest in the power of the gaze

opens

Alice Amati:
Rike Droescher and Zoe Koke: the serpent’s tail
two distinct scenarios, divided by floors in the gallery, as the two artists draw on the ancient Ouroboros archetype of a serpent eating its own tail

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism
paintings and sculptures in a group exhibition of emerging, mid-career and established artists, paying homage on the 50th anniversary of his death to Picasso’s enduring legacy

opening reception

Asprey Studio Gallery:
Digital Muses
the gallery launches with a four-day festival looking at trends in Digital Art and digital with physical companions

opening reception

David Gill:
Chris Schanck: Panspermia
ten new pieces by the American designer – “this is my first formal introduction to the UK and Europe, and I wanted to push both form and process to a new sense of resolution” – Schanck

opens + talk

David Zwirner:
Liu Ye: Naive and Sentimental Painting
“in his deeply meditative paintings, Liu investigates the intersections of history and representation through a distinct vocabulary that transcends time and place, evoking distinct conceptual and emotional registers of meaning”

opening reception

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill:
Oscar Murillo and Ben Luke On Franz West

talk

Gagosian Shop, London:
Derrick Adams: RECESS
Adams takes over the Gagosian Shop in London’s Burlington Arcade with new work alongside an installation of his interactive sculptures along the length of the arcade

opening reception

Goodman Gallery:
Shirin Neshat in Conversation with author and journalist Farah Nayeri

talk

Hauser & Wirth:
Avery Singer. Free Fall
Singer’s first solo exhibition in the UK reflects on her personal experience of the 9/11 attacks in New York and explores the wider societal impact of collective trauma and proliferating image culture and media dissemination

opens

Jack Bell Gallery:
Lavar Munroe: Kurova Guva
new paintings by Munroe borrowing from anthropology to explore the ritual-myth of Kurova Guva, used to “call home the spirit of the dead” among the Shona People of Zimbabwe and surrounding areas

private view

Luxembourg + Co.:
Katsumi Nakai: Unfolding
“by the mid 1960s Nakai developped a unique approach to art making that relied on cutting and assembling wooden panels using hinges to create paintings of exceptional complexity”

private view

Mazzoleni:
The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio
curated by the Italian writer, art critic and curator Marco Scotini, and presented in conjunction with Archivio Agostino Bonalumi, Milan and the Estate of Lee Seung Jio, Seoul, an exhibition comparing the works of these two great artists

private view

Modern Art Helmet Row:
Justin Caguiat: Dreampop
“in Caguiat’s work, painting has lost its support and follows the artist like a scrim traveling with a dance company or performing troupe” – Thomas Killian Roach

opens

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Intercontinental Abstraction Pt. 1
the first of a two-part exhibition, spanning almost 75 years and five continents, to celebrate the legacy of Abstraction

private view

Pace, London:
Robert Irwin + Mary Corse: Parallax
two pioneering American artists brought together in an exhibition exploring the intersections and convergences between their experiments with light, perception, and the role of the viewer

opens

Shtager&Shch:
Timescapes
curated by Maria Hinel (Borshchevska), works by eight contemporary artists – spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and photography – who consider the ways one can bridge and become aware of time

private view

Skarstedt:
Cristina BanBan: La Matrona
eleven new paintings extending BanBan’s explorations of the female body – “BanBan has pushed against their limits to hone in on the universal nature of womanhood and its many facets”

opens

Sotheby’s London:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Tue 10 – Tue 17 Oct
(viewing: Fri 13 – Mon 16 October)

auction starts

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Daniel Richter: Stupor
new paintings that portray biomorphic forms in twisting, metamorphic poses, reinforcing the German artist’s approach to depicting the human body

opening reception

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Igshaan Adams: Primêre Wentelbaan
large-scale tapestries and hanging “cloud” sculptures in the gallery’s first exhibition with Adams, whose densely crafted work brings together cultural and religious references from his own history

private view

Wednesday 11

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Vincenzo De Cotiis: Archaeology of Consciousness
an exhibition which examines the symbolic significance of archways -“arches symbolise transitions, a concept that extends beyond the mere human and earthly to encompass the ancestral” – De Cotiis 

opens

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Gareth Mason: Seeing Things
in partnership with Jason Jacques Gallery, works by the celebrated British ceramicist – “ceramics is an arena of extravagant observation for me. Its textures and colours – its sheer transformative ‘phenomena’” – Mason

opens

Frieze, Frieze Masters
11-15 Oct

preview

Hayward Gallery:
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

opens

Victoria Miro:
Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
the first solo presentation of paintings by the New York-based artist since he joined the gallery – “complex worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from history and art history, as well as allusions to our own turbulent times”

opens

October Gallery:
El Anatsui: TimeSpace
new and early works giving an overview of the development of the influential artist, who will also create this year’s Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

opens

Thursday 12

Ab-Anbar:
Jananne Al-Ani: Landmarks

talk

Alice Amati:
Rike Droescher and Zoe Koke: the serpent’s tail

opening reception

Alon Zakaim Fine Art:
Marc Chagall: Love and Luminosity

special event

Bartha Contemporary:
Henrik Eiben: Leap Before You Look
recent works by the artist known for his multi-faceted sculptures which push the boundaries of form, colour and material

private view

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Ritual Ecstasy of the Modern

special event

Frieze, Frieze Masters
11-15 Oct

preview

Gazelli Art House:
Derek Boshier: Reinventor
two new bodies of work which reflect and reimagine Boshier’s artistic legacy while offering social commentary across intricate drawings

private view

Grosvenor Gallery:
Talpur

special event

Hauser & Wirth:
Avery Singer in conversation with Simon Denny, moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

talk

Holtermann Fine Art:
Nick Cave: Power & Cycles

special event

John Martin Gallery:
Francis Hamel: Thirty Gardens
the result of an eighteen-month painting odyssey to some of the country’s most beautiful locations

opens

Nahmad Projects:
Ksenia Pasyura

special event

Robilant+Voena, London:
Daniel Ambrosi. AI and the Landscapes of Capability Brown

talk

rosenfeld:
Ndidi Emefiele: The Gift of Fellowship
a new body of works on paper, representing the slow process of healing and how one goes about dealing with memory and pain, as Emefiele attempts to come to terms with her sister’s tragic passing

opening reception

Sotheby’s London:
The Now Evening Auction
auction: Thu 12
(viewing: Sat 7 – Thu 12 October)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
Contemporary Evening Auction
auction: Thu 12
(viewing: Sat 7 – Thu 12 October)

auction

Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.:
Sylvie Fleury: S.F.

special event

Timothy Taylor:
Eddie Martinez: Enough
nine new large-scale paintings by Martinez, whose approach to gestural abstraction involves the deep processing of a personal lexicon of images, idioms, and themes

opening reception

Tiwani Contemporary:
Joy Labinjo: Beloved, Take What You Need
in the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new Cork Street space in Mayfair, a new body of work where Labinjo focuses on everyday Black life, and the personal and professional changes she has been through since the gallery first presented her work

opening reception

Friday 13

Addis Fine Art:
Helina Metaferia and Lisa Anderson in conversation

talk

Christie’s London:
20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale
auction: Fri 13
(viewing: Fri 6 – Thu 12 October)

auction

Christie’s London:
Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship
auction: Fri 13
(viewing: Fri 6 – Thu 12 October)

auction

Frieze, Frieze Masters
11-15 Oct

public day

October Gallery:
El Anatsui: TimeSpace

private view

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Wangari Mathenge: A Day of Rest

special event

Pontone Gallery:
Angela Glajcar: Vital Materiality
the German artist sculpts in paper, tearing, layering and puncturing to transform the mundane into complex structures enclosing, defining and revealing three-dimensional spaces

opens

Sotheby’s London:
Contemporary Day Auction
auction: Fri 13
(viewing: Sat 7 – Thu 12 October)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary African Art
auction: Fri 13 – Thu 19 Oct
(viewing: Sat 14 – Thu 19 October)

auction starts

ZÉRUÌ:
Mia Vallance: Into Black Light
the first UK solo exhibition for the London based artist – “to love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him” – Baudrillard

opening reception

Saturday 14

Christie’s London:
Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
auction: Sat 14
(viewing: Fri 6 – Fri 13 October)

auction

Frieze, Frieze Masters
11-15 Oct

public day

Tiwani Contemporary:
Joy Labinjo: Beloved, Take What You Need

talk

Sunday 15

Frieze, Frieze Masters
11-15 Oct

public day

Melbourne

Saturday 14

Tolarno Galleries:
Hannah Gartside: This body is experiencing pleasure

opening reception

New York

Tuesday 10

Acquavella Galleries:
Painted Pop
painted works by key figures of the American Pop movement including Rosalyn Drexler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, George Segal, and Marjorie Strider

opens

Thursday 12

Gagosian West 24th St:
Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self

tour

Graham Shay 1857:
Artists of the 1913 Armory Show
in collaboration with Lincoln Glenn, an exhibition celebrating the impact of the 1913 Armory Show

opens

Gallery Henoch:
Natural World
twelve artists who use nature as both motif in muse in their painting

opening reception

Hollis Taggart:
Dana James: Pearls & Potions
“large fields of smooth colour are offset by a flurry of mark making. These marks are akin to scars on otherwise flawless skin, diaphanous but permanent, heavy with history” – James

opening reception

Lincoln Glenn:
Artists of the 1913 Armory Show
in collaboration with Graham Shay 1857, an exhibition celebrating the impact of the 1913 Armory Show

opens

Sotheby’s New York:
Design
auction: Thu 12 – Thu 19 Oct

auction starts

Tuesday 17

Christie’s New York:
Antiquities
auction: Tue 17
(viewing: Sat 14 – Mon 16 October)

auction

Christie’s New York:
Marc Chagall, Color of Life: Prints & Artist’s Books formerly from the Artist’s Estate
auction: Tue 17 – Mon 30 Oct

auction starts

Palm Beach

Tuesday 10

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Gordon Onslow Ford
works by the American painter who was an important bridge between the Parisian Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist movements

opens

Paris

Wednesday 11

Christie’s Paris:
Art Moderne
auction: Wed 11 – Tue 24 Oct
(viewing: Thu 12 – Tue 24 October)

auction starts

Thursday 12

Christie’s Paris:
La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Dessins et Gravures de l’Ecole de Pont-Aven Online
auction: Thu 12 – Wed 25 Oct
(viewing: Thu 12 – Sat 21 October)

auction starts

Friday 13

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Paula Rego: Drawing Breath
twenty works on paper personally selected in the months leading up to her death by Rego for this exhibition

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Etel Adnan. La mer. Rien d’autre. La mer.
an exhibition summarising the range of Adnan’s late work and representing many of her favourite themes

opens

Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon:
Samuel Levi Jones: Longing
Jones is inspired by questions of authority, representation, and recorded history, and is known for challenging historical and contemporary power structures through the act of taking apart “source” material

opening reception

Mariane Ibrahim:
Peter Uka, The Triumph of Being
new work by Uka

opens

Sotheby’s Paris:
Art Impressionniste et Moderne Day Auction
auction: Fri 13 – Mon 23 Oct
(viewing: Sat 14 – Thu 19 October)

auction starts

Saturday 14

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Kenny Scharf: Tout Suite
“through his own language, Kenny Scharf speaks about the various states of life – the good, the bad, joyous, scary, and all its in-betweens. All the while, he urges us – both with content and form – not to take anything too seriously” – Maria Vogel

opening reception

Art: Concept:
Andrew Lewis: Au Bonheur des femmes
with this new series based on Emile Zola’s novel, Lewis continues to reflect on the renewal and relevance of genre painting

opens

Art: Concept:
Lin May Saeed: Milo
“because this exhibition was so important to her, and because we are convinced of the importance of her work, we are continuing this project in her memory with a selection of recent works”

opens

A&R Fleury:
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Centenaire
“Riopelle’s art is an intimate experience, inviting viewers to feel the cold, hear the rustling of nature, and feel the vastness of the landscape and the light that shines through it”

opens

Galerie Frank Elbaz:
Anne Le Troter: Les Pornoplantes
Le Troter’s work mixes sound installation, performance, theatre, literature and poetry

opening reception

Galerie Marian Goodman:
Delcy Morelos: El oscuro de abajo
a large-scale earth installation alongside pictorial works on textile, natural fiber, and paper in Morelos’ inaugural exhibition with the gallery, and first solo presentation in France

opening reception

Perrotin Matignon:
October+
a special installation by Sophie Calle, alongside a curated selection of works by artists from the gallery’s roster

opens

Perrotin Marais:
Elmgreen & Dragset: David and other sculptures
“the two Berlin-based Scandinavian artists depict the emotional effects of life dominated by devices, a preoccupation that has persisted across time and media”

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Chen Ke: Bauhaus Gal – Theatre
for several years Chen Ke has produced paintings based on photographic portraits, and here presents a series of young female Bauhaus students, alongside architectural photographs

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Laurent Grasso: Orchid Island
Grasso reconsiders the landscape tradition by making the familiar unfamiliar, allowing it to be freshly perceived

opening reception

Semiose:
Amy Bravo: Well Done Assassin
“the queerness of Amy Bravo’s work, far removed from the academic and institutional traditions of collections, archives … breathes new life into and reaffirms the magical power of healing” – Géraldine Gourbe

opens

Semiose:
Gert & Uwe Tobias: An Ocean in Between the Waves
“the twin brothers have developed a four-handed body of work, whose conceptual and production process is unique from every point of view” – Marc Donnadieu

opens

Sunday 15

Almine Rech, Matignon:
Alex Israel: LA Californie
Israel brings a fresh perspective to the worldwide commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, and relates the La Californie villa to his own LA studio

opening reception

Monday 16

Galerie Chantal Crousel:
Jean-Luc Moulène: le point le puits le plein et la pluie
new sculptures and black and white photographs in an exhibition organized in three sequences – relative dimensions, conditions of practice and sphere of representation

opening reception

Galerie Chantal Crousel:
Wade Guyton. Galerie Matthiesen, Ausstellung, Edouard Manet, 1928, 6. Februar bis 18. März, Vol. II
new works on paper in Guyton’s first exhibition of lithography – “thinking of a book as an exhibition and an exhibition as a book”

opening reception

David Zwirner:
Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena
new paintings in the Swedish artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris – “Andersson’s works embody a new genre of painting that recalls late nineteenth-century Romanticism”

opening reception

Mennour:
Tadashi Kawamata: Meubler
site-specific installations transform the spaces of Rue Saint-André-des-Arts and the Avenue Matignon in Kawamata’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery

opening reception

Mennour, r. Saint-André des arts:
Tadashi Kawamata: Meubler
site-specific installations transform the spaces of Rue Saint-André-des-Arts and the Avenue Matignon in Kawamata’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery

opening reception

NISOPROJECT:
Hitoshi Nakazato and Daniel Brusatin
an intergenerational dialogue between a group of works from the 1970s by Japanese artist Nakazato and an installation by Colombian artist Brusatin

opening reception

Perrotin, Salle de Bal:
October+
a special installation by Sophie Calle, alongside a curated selection of works by artists from the gallery’s roster

opens

Skarstedt:
Jana Schröder: ÉQUIPE TACHISTOSCOPIQUE
new paintings in Schröder’s first solo show at the gallery, and in Paris, continue to show her unwavering rigor that priotizes the interplay of color and form and is rendered on a large scale

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Lisa Brice: LIVES and WORKS
the first exhibition of the South-African-born, London-based painter at the gallery in Paris – and her first solo presentation in France – Brice’s figurative paintings challenge the traditional representation of women in Western art history

opens

Tuesday 17

Galerie Frank Elbaz:
Anne Le Troter: Le Corps Living Room

performance

Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu:
Giuseppe Penone: Impronte di luce / Empreintes de lumière
an new body of paintings, unique in the artist’s over fifty-year career – “the imprint reveals the golden ratio that I have in my hands. With my eyes closed, my skin’s points of contact are endless” – Penone

opening reception

Galerie Marian Goodman:
Delcy Morelos and Humberto Moro in conversation

talk

Adrian Sutton Gallery:
William Osorio: Contrapunto
for the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in Paris, a solo show by Osorio

private view

Seoul

Wednesday 11

Gallery Chosun:
LEE Yoonseo: Painting painted Painting
Lee Yoonseo translates the constant flow and circulation of online information and images through painting

opens

Saturday 14

Everyday Mooonday:
record of possession
seven artists who continue to depict life on canvas or on flat surfaces to add a sense of temporal value to objects that have lost their true values

opens

Stockholm

Saturday 14

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Idun Baltzersen: The Bathers
starting with a shell-shaped installation of frame-mounted textile collages, they are repeated in the second room as larger, more elaborate collages and painted woodcuts

opening reception

Vienna

Tuesday 10

Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Valentin Carron and Oliver Zybok, Artist Lecture Series at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

talk

Thursday 12

Lukas Feichtner Galerie:
Richard Kaplenig: High-Lights

opens

Tuesday 17

Galerie Ernst Hilger:
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed – Vices and Virtues

opens

Zürich

Saturday 14

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Zilla Leutenegger: NZZ

opens

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

The Departed @ The Gallery of Everything London		John Akomfrah @ Lisson Gallery Beijing		Albrecht Schnider @ Mai 36 Galerie Zürich
Curated By: Sacha Craddock @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna		John Giorno @ Almine Rech Shanghai		Manuel Aja Espil @ Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary New York