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Tolarno Galleries @ Melbourne Design Week

The Week in Art
21-28 May 2024

Openings, events, auctions

Josh Smith @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber Vienna		Harminder Judge @ The Sunday Painter London		Judy Chicago @ Serpentine North Gallery, London
Recent Acquisitions @ Gallery Henoch New York		Jutta Koether @ Galerie Buchholz New York		Euan Uglow @ Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert London

Bruton

Bruton, Saturday 25

Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Phyllida Barlow. unscripted
a celebration of the late British artist’s transformative approach to sculpture, a decade after her 2014 solo exhibition inaugurated the gallery’s Somerset space

opening reception

Geneva

Geneva, Wednesday 22

Pace, Geneva:
Elmgreen & Dragset: Landscapes
an exhibition revealing the artist duo’s signature use of the surreal and absurd to comment on nature and our place within it

opening reception

London

London, Wednesday 22

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert:
Euan Uglow
curated by Catherine Lampert, an exhibition bringing together the artist’s most important nudes, still lifes and landscapes

first day

London, Thursday 23

Doyle Wham:
Aisha Seriki: Orí Inú

first day

John Martin Gallery:
Makiko Nakamura: When Stars are Born
a survey of Nakamura’s most recent work from her studio in Kyoto

first day

Lisson Gallery:
Otobong Nkanga: We Come from Fire and Return to Fire
new sculptural objects, tapestries and a sound installation alongside floor-based works evoking natural environments in Nkanga’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Jack Pierson
Pierson’s first exhibition in London in over two decades features his signature word sculptures, appropriating commercial signage and large-scale vintage lettering

opening reception

National Portrait Gallery:
Lunchtime Lecture: ‘Photography is a place for the viewer to dream in’: What can photography do?

talk

Pace, London:
Kiki Kogelnik: The Dance
the first solo presentation of Kogelnik’s work in London explores the possibilities and perils of outer space, and the abstracted body of the twentieth century

opening reception

Palmer Gallery:
Land, Sea, Air
emerging artists capturing the essence of the natural world in work which engages with ecology and the landscape, with Carolina Aguirre, Kavitha Balasingham, Shaan Bevan, Max Boyla, Connie Harrison, Action Pyramid, Sean Savage Ferrari, and Grace Woodcock

private view

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer: Fishing the World
Bouvier Ausländer’s artistic research explores our planet and the way it is shaped and transformed by humankind

private view

Serpentine North Gallery:
Judy Chicago: Revelations
the artist’s largest solo presentation in a London institution charts her influential six-decade career, highlighting rarely seen works

first day

The Sunday Painter:
Harminder Judge: A Ghost Dance
an exhibition across two spaces featuring a new body of work bringing wall-based plaster works into dialogue with free-standing sculptures, presented in collaboration with Matt’s Gallery

opening reception

London, Friday 24

Maureen Paley:
Hannah Starkey
“my work is a way of speaking to women about how you don’t always need to perform for the gaze, that there is more to being female than being seen” – Starkey

private view

London, Saturday 25

Bartha Contemporary:
Malene Birger, Florian Baudrexel and Beat Zoderer – A joint exhibition with Wellwood Gallery
a dialogue exhibition between the works of the three artists

private view

London, Tuesday 28

Shtager&Shch:
Caroline Achaintre in conversation with Niamh O’Malley, moderated by curator Maria Hinel

talk

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Thursday 23

Philip Martin Gallery:
Pamela Jorden: Light Falls
“for me, color is surprising… my response to it can be totally visceral and emotional” – Jorden

opening reception

Los Angeles, Saturday 25

Steve Turner:
Paige Jiyoung Moon: Gen 3
Moon’s highly detailed, intimate paintings capture scenes of domesticity and family life, including a series focusing on road trips

opening reception

Steve Turner:
Dreamscape
recent paintings by Pablo Benzo, Marina Iglesias, Emma Steinkraus and Augustina Wang, exploring reinvention, imagination and dreams

opening reception

Melbourne

Melbourne, Saturday 25

Tolarno Galleries:
A&A: The Kissing Cabinet
A&A’s practice explores sculptural forms that intentionally blur the boundaries between art, craftsmanship and design

opening reception

Milan

Milan, Tuesday 21

A arte Invernizzi:
Pino Pinelli
“a new opportunity to rediscover one of the most intense and productive periods of Pinelli’s activity . . . an active and continuous dialogue between work, space and spectator”

opening reception

New York

New York, Wednesday 22

Galerie Buchholz:
Jutta Koether: 1982, 1983, 1984

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Paintings
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Sat 18 – Tue 21 May)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
19th-Century European Paintings & Works of Art, Featuring An Independent Eye: Property from Jack Kilgore & Co.
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Sat 18 – Tue 21 May)

auction

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Laura Letinsky: For, and because of…
Letinsky’s new photographs deconstruct the traditional still life, revealing “the tattered remnants of domestic life”

opening reception
+ tour

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Bryan Graf: Midnight Swim
“the chromatic vapor of memory is constantly swirling; these [photographs] stand as testaments to the layered sensations of being engulfed in that canopy” – Graf

opening reception

New York, Thursday 23

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Libbie Mark: Collage Paintings (1950s-1960s)

first day

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Dorothy Dehner: A Retrospective
Dehner’s seven-decade career is explored in this retrospective, featuring paintings, drawings and monumental sculptures

first day

Gallery Henoch:
Recent Acquisitions
new additions to the gallery collection from John Evans, Ben Whitehouse, Alan Feltus, Ioanna Stefou, Igor & Marina, Bo Bartlett, and Raymond Han

first day

New York, Saturday 25

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Miranda Fengyuan Zhang

first day

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Shaun O’Dell

first day

Paris

Paris, Wednesday 22

Galerie Mitterrand:
Raphaël Zarka: Tautochrone
sculptures designed both for the exhibition space and for public space, alongside engravings on wood based on the artist’s research into sundials

opening reception

Galerie Mitterrand:
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy: Notes
a solo exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and large-format digital prints, exploring the artist’s hybrid use of photography

opening reception

Paris, Thursday 23

Art: Concept:
Caroline Achaintre: The Seeker

opening reception

Galerie Maria Wettergren:
Tora Urup: the Sun the Moon
“my new works are sculptural forms based on movement, rotating around a central axis… a universal movement linked to both the natural manufacturing process of the glass and to all movement in our universe” – Urup

private view

Paris, Friday 24

Perrotin Matignon:
Kelly Beeman: Distant Cities
in Beeman’s first solo exhibition in France, oil paintings and works on paper, create “a world of serenity, luxury and pleasure”

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Sean Scully: Carbon and Air
recent and historical drawings in an exhibition Scully’s rarely exhibited works on paper

opening reception

Paris, Saturday 25

Galerie Marian Goodman:
Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics
a solo exhibition dedicated to Struth’s ongoing photographic series exploring the world’s scientific research centres

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin:
Alex Katz: 60 Years of Printmaking
six decades of Katz’s work in a solo exhibition dedicated to the influential American artist’s printmaking practice

opening reception

Paris, Sunday 26

Galerie Mitterrand:
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy in conversation with Emilie Villez

talk

Paris, Tuesday 28

Sotheby’s Paris:
DESIGN XX-XXI
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Fri 24 – Mon 27 May)

auction

Tokyo

Tokyo, Tuesday 28

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Dan Graham

first day

Vienna

Vienna, Thursday 23

Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Josh Smith: Studio News
the once reclusive New York-based artist presents a new public persona to complement his recent painting series

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Artist talk with Josh Smith and Michelle Cotton (Director Kunsthalle Wien)

talk

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art @ Barbican London		Yves Klein @ Lévy Gorvy Dayan New York		Clifford Prince King @ Public Art Fund in Chicago Chicago
Noh Seokmee @ Gallery Chosun Seoul		Nick Mauss @ Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris		Danielle Orchard @ Perrotin Shanghai