The GalleriesNow Newsletter

The Week in Art
17-24 January 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Beneath the Surface @ Lehmann Maupin London		Gabrielle Graessle @ PULPO GALLERY Murnau am Staffelsee		Behrang Karimi @ Maureen Paley London
I am American @ Kutlesa Goldau		Roma 60 @ Sprovieri London		Robert Mapplethorpe/Sofu Teshigahara @ Mai 36 Galerie Zürich

Berlin

Saturday 21

Capitain Petzel:
Martin Kippenberger: Heavy Burschi
to mark Kippenberger’s 70th birthday, an installation which brings together many of his defining themes, both in terms of media and the process of production

opening reception

Beverly Hills

Saturday 21

Gagosian:
Llyn Foulkes: Bombs Away
paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works made between 2018 and 2022 – “a lot of my stuff is in opposition. My machine. My paintings. I’ve been fighting against something the whole time” – Foulkes

opening reception

Brussels

Thursday 19

Almine Rech:
Alexis McGrigg: In The Beloved
new works add to the visual cosmology of the interdisciplinary artist, extending the transcendent narrative she has been refining concerning her personal investigations into a multiform, pluralized conception of Blackness

opens

Almine Rech:
Fabien Adèle: Corridors
twelve oils on canvas in the rarely-shown young French artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery

opens

Almine Rech:
Ted Pim: Full Moon
Pim’s first solo exhibition with the gallery – “he builds singular paintings from multiple art historical sources, and the result is a personal vision, where, Pim says, he constructs his own reality” – Orit Gat

opens

Goldau

Friday 20

Kutlesa:
I am American
an exhibition of American artists who experiment with varying methods of abstraction, figuration and creation in painting

opens

London

Tuesday 17

Bermondsey Project Space:
Sleeve Shock
following the 2022 Open Call, an exhibition responding to the concept, from the novel “Altered Carbon”, of “Sleeve Shock” or identity conflict

opens

Mazzoleni:
OLD BOND ROOM: works from the Mazzoleni collection

opens

Tiwani Contemporary at Cromwell Place:
Virginia Chihota: Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa (The Womb Refused To Be Told)
“these unique muralesque serigraphic works are a palimpsest of drawn, printed and densely layered compositions, that intersect the realms of her sub-consciousness and lived reality”

opening reception

Wednesday 18

Bermondsey Project Space:
Sleeve Shock

opening reception

John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place:
Hinterland
curated by Jane Neal, an exhibition bringing together the work of seventeen contemporary painters

opens

Lehmann Maupin:
Beneath the Surface
curated by gallery Senior Director Isabella Icoz, six artists who engage water as medium, metaphor, and artistic method – Heidi Bucher, Alex Gardner, Lubaina Himid, Shirazeh Houshiary, Araba Opoku, and Calida Rawles

opens

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing
spanning four decades of Beuys’s work, almost 100 works on paper in the first major exhibition in London for thirty years dedicated solely to his drawings

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac:
SENSE: Beuys / Gormley. A conversation through drawing
alongside “Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing”, Antony Gormley curates an exhibition placing his own drawings in conversation with Beuys’s

opening reception

Thursday 19

Claas Reiss:
Hannah Beerman: Call me if you get lost
new works by the New York City-based Beerman in her first exhibition in the UK

private view

Claas Reiss:
Konstantinos Argyroglou: Re-touching Memory
“just like lost love, Argyroglou’s surfaces throb with this tension between the desire to remember but also to invent, and, in so doing, unearth the artist’s quest for the truth” – Matt Carey-Williams

private view

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Jim Dine: A History of Gardening

talk

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Jeremy Demester: Ram Muay
“Demester returns to figuration, marking a turning point in his practice and completing a cycle initiated in 2017 … This exhibition is a salutation after the fight”

opening reception

Simon Lee Gallery:
Chibuike Uzoma: To Kick a Stone
new painting, photography, drawing, text, and video by Uzoma, exploring pictorial illusion and the agency of the viewer – shown alongside a sound piece by Joāo Orecchia and a film work by Edward Owens

private view + tour

Simon Lee Gallery:
Threshold
an exhibition celebrating the work of female artists represented by the gallery, including Angela Bulloch, Rachel Howard, Donna Huddleston, Josephine Meckseper, France-Lise McGurn, Paulina Olowska, Mai-Thu Perret and Clare Woods

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Thu 19 – Wed 25 Jan

auction starts

Sprovieri:
Roma 60
“perhaps no era has ever aroused such nostalgia as the 1960s. And if nostalgia is a feeling that concerns space even before time, the place of this feeling can only be a city: Rome”

private view

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Jonathan Baldock: we are flowers of one garden
new ceramics and wall-based sculptures in a highly personal exhibition in which Baldock examines his relationship with his mother and her garden

private view

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Stephan Balkenhol
“devoid of expression or emotion, Balkenhol’s distinctive and timeless works are sculpted by his own hand, carved from a singular block of wood without the use of machinery”

private view

Stoppenbach & Delestre:
Mapping Landscapes
paintings and drawings which explore affinities and connections across generations and eras, highlighting the vitality and diversity of artists’ ideas of “landscape” and “nature”

private view

Timothy Taylor:
Antoni Tàpies
“the eternal, the artist hints, lies in a blade of grass or speck of earth, more infinite than a human life”

private view

Workplace:
Laura Lancaster | Rachel Lancaster: Cadence
new paintings by the Newcastle-based artists – and identical twin sisters – which extends their preoccupation with ambiguous found imagery as a catalyst for heightened dramatic states

opening reception

Friday 20

Maureen Paley:
Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit
the Köln-based artist’s first solo presentation across both of gallery’s London spaces

private view

Saturday 21

Maureen Paley Studio M:
Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit
the Köln-based artist’s first solo presentation across both of gallery’s London spaces

opens

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

Los Angeles

Saturday 21

Roberts Projects:
Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm
monumental new paintings by the renowned artist, drawing inspiration from Japanese Edo period nature paintings

opening reception

Murnau am Staffelsee

Saturday 21

PULPO GALLERY:
Gabrielle Graessle: piff paff puff
large format, colored, intuitive and figurative paintings by the Swiss artist

opening reception

Naples

Friday 20

Alfonso Artiaco:
Maria Thereza Alves: An Accounting
Alves addresses the exploitation of the Mexican Xico community at the hands of a noble Neapolitan family, taking inspiration from the Valle de Xico Community Museum as well as the Villa Aragona Pignatelli Cortes

opens

New York

Tuesday 17

Christie’s New York:
European Art
auction: Tue 17 Jan – Wed 1 Feb
(viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 January)

auction starts

David Richard Gallery:
Lester Rapaport: Outside / Inside
four paintings from each of two separate series made almost forty years apart – shown in pairs and representing the current endpoints of Rapaport’s ongoing spiritual journey

opensi

Gagosian West 24th St:
Y.Z. Kami: Night and Day
new paintings from two bodies of work in the Iranian American artist’s first solo exhibition in the City since 2014

opening reception

Wednesday 18

Christie’s New York:
Outsider and Vernacular Art
auction: Wed 18
(viewing: Thu 12 – Tue 17 January)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Art of the Americas
auction: Wed 18
(viewing: Fri 13 – Tue 17 January)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Old Master and British Works on Paper
auction: Wed 18 – Wed 25 Jan
(viewing: Sat 21 – Tue 24 January)

auction starts

Thursday 19

Christie’s New York:
19th Century American Art
auction: Thu 19
(viewing: Thu 12 – Wed 18 January)

auction

Christie’s New York:
From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection
auction: Thu 19
(viewing: Thu 12 – Wed 18 January)

auction

Hollis Taggart:
Hayoon Jay Lee: Fields of Vision

performance

Lehmann Maupin:
Alex Prager: Part Two: Run
to mark the debut of Prager’s new film, new photographs and sculptures which examine human perseverance and the opportunities for empathy, participation, and action

opens

Sotheby’s New York:
The Important Americana Collection of Charles & Olenka Santore
auction: Thu 19
(viewing: Fri 13 – Wed 18 January)

auction

Friday 20

Christie’s New York:
Important Americana
auction: Fri 20
(viewing: Thu 12 – Thu 19 January)

auction

Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue:
Cy Twombly
organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper produced in the final decade of Twombly’s life

opening reception

Petzel:
Samson Young: Frames and Variations
Hong Kong-based artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery encompasses sound, film and performance in the form of two new immersive and experiential installations

opens

Saturday 21

David Richard Gallery:
Lester Rapaport: Outside / Inside

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
The Kindig Collection: Important American Furniture, Paintings, Silver & Decorative Arts
auction: Sat 21
(viewing: Fri 13 – Fri 20 January)

auction

Monday 23

Sotheby’s New York:
The European Art Sale Part II
auction: Mon 23 – Mon 30 Jan
(viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January)

auction starts

Sotheby’s New York:
Important Americana
auction: Mon 23
(viewing: Fri 13 – Fri 20 January)

auction

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

Paris

Thursday 19

Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu:
Hurly-burly
an exhibition of sculpture by Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, and Alison Wilding, realizing their long-standing desire to collaborate

opening reception

Saturday 21

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
David Salle: Tree of Life. This Time With Feeling
representing the culmination of this celebrated series, vibrant new paintings by the American artist

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Bob Colacello: It Just Happened, Photographs 1976-1982
“I never planned or plotted any of this. I have, however, always followed my mother’s dictum: ‘When opportunity knocks, open the door!’” – Colacello

opening reception

Sunday 22

Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin:
Georg Baselitz: La boussole indique le nord
recent work by the internationally renowned artist fill the gallery’s Pantin space

opens

Monday 23

Sotheby’s Paris:
Opéra de Paris: Auction for Action, Bid for Creation | Online
auction: Mon 23 – Tue 31 Jan
(viewing: Wed 25 – Sun 29 January)

auction starts

Tokyo

Wednesday 18

Perrotin Tokyo:
GaHee Park: Eveningness
“both personal and fantastical, Park’s paintings explore domestic intimacy and desire in her provocative vignettes of everyday objects and gestures”

opens

Saturday 21

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Yann Gerstberger: ECCHYMOSES
the French painter’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in Asia presents collages assembled from mixed fabrics and augmented with oil pastel alongside a large-scale tapestry produced with a technique conceived by the artist

opens

Vienna

Wednesday 18

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Weltgeist
curated by Bjorn Stern, an exhibition loosely based on Hegel’s views on the World spirit as a secular means to better understand and to philosophise about history

opening reception

Zürich

Thursday 19

Mai 36 Galerie:
SPECIES
works by the legendary Swiss artist HR Giger shown alongside three contemporary artists, Maren Karlson, Berenice Olmedo and Hiroki Tsukuda

opening reception

Mai 36 Galerie:
MAPPLETHORPE / TESHIGAHARA
bringing together the photography and sculpture of these two major artists to reveal their enduring visions

opening reception

Friday 20

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Zilla Leutenegger: I Love You to the Moon and Back
new works – monotypes, a video installation, and small ceramic pieces – all connect characteristic elements of Zilla’s practice, including the moving drawing and the interplay of surface, light and shadow

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Postwar Abstract Painting @ Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York		Adel Abdessemed @ Galleria Continua Paris		Helen Chadwick, Penny Slinger @ Richard Saltoun London
Anne-Lise Coste @ Lullin + Ferrari Zürich		Alonzo Davis @ parrasch heijnen gallery Los Angeles		Josephine Meckseper @ Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong