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The Week in Art visit the site

22-29 Apr 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Beverly Hills, Brussels, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Salisbury, Stockholm, Tel Aviv

Guillaume Barth: Elina 2015-2025, the promise to the Aymaras @ Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais Paris		Prelude: The Early Work of Franz Kline @ Hirschl & Adler New York		Rosy Keyser: ultraUMWELT @ parrasch heijnen Los Angeles
Sasha Ferré: Daughter of Earth and Water @ Almine Rech Brussels		Jonathan Lasker: Pictures for Happy Existentialists @ Timothy Taylor London		Bruno Knutman: The Remote Viewer @ Galleri Magnus Karlsson Stockholm

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Berlin

Berlin, Friday 25

Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße:
Thomas Struth
including rarely-seen works, this survey exhibition provides a new and surprising insight into Struth’s work over four decades

opening reception

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills, Friday 25

Gagosian:
Paul McCartney: Rearview Mirror: Photographs, December 1963-February 1964
recently rediscovered early sixties photographs by McCartney – including some previously unseen – which provide an inside snapshot of Beatlemania just as it was becoming a global phenomenon

opening reception

Beverly Hills, Saturday 26

Gagosian:
Paul McCartney: Rearview Mirror. With Joshua Chuang

tour

Brussels

Brussels, Wednesday 23

Almine Rech:
Sasha Ferré: Daughter of Earth and Water
“Ferré establishes space, meaning that she opens it. She is armed only with her approach to the canvas, this way of painting that resembles a dancer’s movement … Her art is about fluidity” – Pierre Wat

opening reception

Templon:
Nazanin Pouyandeh: Beneath the Fabric of the World
the Iranian painter’s first exhibition in Belgium presents the central theme of her work: painting as a means of expressing pleasure and emancipation

first day

Chicago

Chicago, Friday 25

Gray Chicago:
Apparitions
over twenty pioneering artists from across the last century whose interrogations of the human form and its fleeting presence have pushed boundaries of representation

opening reception

London

London, Tuesday 22

Almine Rech:
Lou Zhenggang: Shizen
curated by Almine Rech and Simon de Pury, recent paintings of “staggering beauty” by one of the great masters of abstraction

opening reception

Waddington Custot:
The Shape of Colour
sculptural paintings and painterly sculptures by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Paul Feeley, Sheila Hicks, Vanessa Jackson, Sean Shanahan, William Turnbull and Fabienne Verdier in an exhibition that exploring the interplay between colour and form

first day

London, Thursday 24

Alice Amati:
Nicholas Marschner: Silent Running
“often working with drawings in pencil and pen and several layers of cutouts, of figures and props, Marschner has the sensibility of a puppeteer, albeit one who feels the pull of his own strings by an unseen hand” – Thomas McMullan

opening reception

Gazelli Art House:
The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties
curated with Marco Livingstone, the first posthumous solo exhibition dedicated to the early British Pop Artist exploring his pivotal transition from Pop figuration to bold geometric abstraction

private view

Hurst Contemporary:
A Third Hand
curated by Thom Oosterhof and inspired by Philip Guston’s quote “everyone who creates anything knows, there is a moment, when a third hand is doing it” – works by Ina Gerken, Paul Verdell, Julia Bennett, Ji Won Cha, Andre Hemer, and Samuel Bassett

opening reception

Lychee One:
Rowley Haynes: Slip

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Jake Longstreth: California Landscapes
new paintings and works on paper by the American artist in his first exhibition in the London space – “through meticulously rendered depictions of nature and manmade structures, Longstreth captures the essence and specificity of a time and place”

opening reception

Ruup & Form:
Katie Spragg: The Fragmented Landscape
sculptures, new drawings, and clay “sketches” by Spragg, examining landscapes and ecosystems – in dialogue with works by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Rosanna Martin, Inês Neto dos Santos, Sop, and Bethan Lloyd Worthington

private view

Soho Revue:
The Peace of Wild Things
curated by Claudia Cheng with works by Anna Ortiz, Sara Bonache, Georgia Beaumont, Seline Burn, Gill Button, Annalee Davis, Cecilia Granara, Monika Marchewka, Beatrice Hasell-Mccosh, and Ṣọlá Olúlòde

private view

Sprovieri:
Pietro Consagra. A Breathable Landscape. Sculptures 1964-1966
“grappling with the heavy truths of metallurgy – transformed from the start into images of delicate thinness, almost threadlike – Consagra, in this phase, chose to make color the very substance of the sculpture’s body” – Prof. Gabriella Di Milia

private view

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Andreas Eriksson: 19
new large-scale paintings inspired by the woods and landscape around the artist’s home and studio in Sweden – “the paintings act as windows, rather than a picture of a landscape” – Eriksson

opening reception

Timothy Taylor:
Jonathan Lasker: Pictures for Happy Existentialists
paintings and drawings from 1990 through 2025 in a survey exhibition of Lasker’s exploration into line, figure, ground, and pictorial space

opening reception

Twilight Contemporary:
Film Screening: “Victim” by Basil Dearden

special event

opening reception

London, Friday 25

Larkin Durey:
Marc Padeu: Le Mariage de Roxane
new paintings by Padeu “capture moments of respite, repose and celebration, paying homage to the ceremonies that underpin everyday lives in an African context”

first day

Maureen Paley:
Kayode Ojo: An angel is just a messenger
in the American’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, and in the UK, “sculptures reveal how items can confer social status upon their owner [and] embrace the fragility and impractical beauty of their objects”

opening reception

Maureen Paley Studio M:
Chioma Ebinama: Real love is a love that sets you free
Ebinama explores contemporary femininity and how it has been shaped through narratives spanning myth and manga, and “love being a potent site of transcendence after destruction and loss” – Ebinama

opening reception

NıCOLETTı:
Chris Dorland: Clone Repo (server ruin)
the New York-based artist works at the edge of painting and technology

opening reception

NıCOLETTı:
Aurélien Potier: Intent
the first solo exhibition by the French artist in the UK marks the launch of the gallery’s new programme of solo exhibiitons and experimental projects

opening reception

London, Saturday 26

County Hall Pottery:
Edgelands: In Conversation

talk

National Portrait Gallery:
Weekend Workshop. Edvard Munch: Oil Painting Portraits in Colour

special event

Pace, London:
Michal Rovner: Pragim
prints, video works, and an installation by Rovner, named after and exploring the poppy – “drawing viewers into its layered meanings and evolving presence in her work”

first day

Pipeline:
George Richardson: Twice As Tall In The Rain
Richardson’s debut solo exhibition – “these works mark a moment of transition and a broadening of the scope of my practice, presenting a domestic space that is guided by curiosity and an active re-imagining of the everyday”

opening reception

Serpentine South Gallery:
Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

talk

London, Sunday 27

National Portrait Gallery:
Weekend Workshop. Edvard Munch: Oil Painting Portraits in Colour

special event

London, Tuesday 29

Sotheby’s London:
Orientalist Art
auction: Tue 29
(viewing: Fri 25-Tue 29)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
David Roberts, R.A. – Travels through the Middle East; Important Watercolours from a Distinguished Private Collection
auction: Tue 29
(viewing: Fri 25-Tue 29)

auction

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 26

Philip Martin Gallery:
Sung Jik Yang
new works by the Los Angeles-based artist, honoring the intimacy of the everyday – “I capture the appearance of people that I paint. I love their spontaneous image”

opening reception

parrasch heijnen:
Rosy Keyser: ultraUMWELT
works which “explore the synthesis of time and form as Keyser asks how we can propagate new beauty, new language, new structures, and new tools using the elastic language of painting”

opening reception

Melbourne

Melbourne, Saturday 26

Tolarno Galleries:
Brook Andrew: transitions

opening reception

Tolarno Galleries:
Kieren Karritpul: YERR WURRKEME MARRGU

opening reception

New York

New York, Tuesday 22

Edwynn Houk Gallery:
Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop: The Anonymous Project presents Being There
“a bold and timely reimagining of 20th-century visual history” – the British-French artist and filmmaker Shulman places the Senegalese artist Diop into original vernacular photographs to examine who gets to be seen, remembered, and included

first day

Opera Gallery:
Feng Xiao-Min: Sailing Through the Light
paintings by the Paris-based artist – sailing boats adrift on vast, limitless seas provide an immersive journey into a world where light and form merge in a poetic interplay of colour and emotion

first day

New York, Wednesday 23

CANDICE MADEY:
J.A Feng and Julia Haft-Candell: reach/grasp
Haft-Candell “we could call the show reach/grasp? Interlocking hands is a recurring theme in my work too” – Feng “Yes. That describes that painting–and the show”

first day

Perrotin New York:
Iván Argote: Breathings
a special survey exhibition of almost twenty years of work “link[ing] crucial previous bodies of work with new interventions that offer tender protest to the bombast of the world around” – Melanie Kress

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Nancy Graves: The Illusion of Motion
to announce their representation of the Nancy Graves Foundation, an exhibition of work by the prominent twentieth-century American who “translated scientific information into an abstract gestural language by reducing sources to their essential forms”

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Julia von Eichel: Fathom
“charged with a chromatic electricity, each painting contains a rhythm of mystery, only solvable through each onlooker’s curiosity” – Osman Can Yerebakan

opening reception

New York, Thursday 24

Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
A Dialogue Between Ernest Briggs And Peter Bonner
bringing together two generations of abstraction, an exhibition which juxtaposes the bold, gestural work of Briggs with the introspective, process-driven paintings of Bonner

opening reception

Di Donna:
The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet
in collaboration with Timothy Baum, a significant collection of collages by leading Surrealist artists including André Breton, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Nusch Éluard, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, René Magritte, Man Ray,…

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth Wooster Street:
Thomas J Price. Resilience of Scale
five towering figurative bronze sculptures and a large-scale photographic work in Price’s first major solo exhibition with the gallery in New York

first day

Hirschl & Adler:
Prelude: The Early Work of Franz Kline
over twenty early works by the American Abstract Expressionist painter – “the works themselves reveal how Kline’s considerable talents for drawing and painting culminate in the architectonic calligraphies of his mature style” – Roberta Smith

first day

New York, Saturday 26

opening reception

New York, Tuesday 29

Goodman Gallery:
Ravelle Pillay: Sanctum (The Light and the Shade)
in Pillay’s US debut and first solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York location, new paintings inspired by a visit to Réunion Island explore cultural hybridity, resilience and the ways landscapes serve as silent witnesses to history

first day

Paris

Paris, Thursday 24

Hauser & Wirth:
Invite(s): Carlotta Amanzi
the second iteration of the gallery’s new program organized with Olivier Renaud-Clement hosts Lo Brutto Stahl

first day

Paris, Saturday 26

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Merci! John Giorno
across both Paris spaces works by, for, and inspired by Giorno – with Julie Béna, William S. Burroughs, David Douard, Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, Tarek Lakhrissi, Mélanie Matranga, Clément Rodzielski, Ugo Rondinone, Billy Sullivan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija

first day

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Emma Stern: Hell is Hot
“Stern’s girls see how they’re seen and they’re ready to go to battle with the full arsenal of seduction, smoothness, and adversarial appeal . . .the enemies-to-lovers pipeline has never been so scorching” – Alex Quicho

opening reception

Almine Rech, Matignon:
Merci! John Giorno
across both Paris spaces works by, for, and inspired by Giorno – with Julie Béna, William S. Burroughs, David Douard, Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, Tarek Lakhrissi, Mélanie Matranga, Clément Rodzielski, Ugo Rondinone, Billy Sullivan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija

opening reception

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois:
Concert by Rodolphe Burger and Hugues Reip

special event

Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais:
Guillaume Barth: Elina 2015-2025, the promise to the Aymaras
the gallery’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist examines the full scale of his sculpture, created in 2015 on the salt desert of Bolivia – “Barth’s work brings us back to the hidden meaning of thing”

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Sarah Crowner: Tableaux en Laine, Pierres en Bronze
new embroideries, bronze sculptures and canvases in the first exhibition with the gallery, and in Paris, by an artist renowned for her investigations into colour, materiality and form

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
GaHee Park: Not Quite Tomorrow
“Park’s paintings invite us to reconsider the operations of the gaze and the construction of meaning, emphasizing the limits of either/ or thinking and insisting instead on a more nuanced relation to contradiction and multiplicity” – Amanda Holmes

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Sophie Calle: Séance de rattrapage
“I took over Picasso museum … but some visitors never made it to the fourth floor. That’s why I wanted to organize a catch-up session at Perrotin Paris” – Calle

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Barry McGee: I’m Listening
“McGee’s exhibitions are characterized by their abundance and generosity. Every corner is filled with art, and the artist’s creativity is splashed onto all kinds of media: glass bottles, surfboards, discarded objects, canvases, drawings” – Richard Leydier

opening reception

Salisbury

Salisbury, Saturday 26

New Art Centre:
Nao Matsunaga: A Year’s Thought

private view

Stockholm

Stockholm, Saturday 26

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Bruno Knutman: The Remote Viewer
important paintings on paper by the late artist which “move between what is clearly spelled out and what is purposely kept behind a thin film of opaque white” – Anders Kreuger

opening reception

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Friday 25

Gallery Har-El:
The Best Words in the Best Order
works by Stephan Balkenhol, Avner Ben-Gal, Eduardo Chillida, Günther Förg, Moshe Gershuni, Tsibi Geva, Ido Gordon, Shai Harel, Jannis Kounellis, Moshe Kupferman, Sigalit Landau, Lea Nikel, Donald Sultan, Nahum Tevet, and Shai Zilberman

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Athens, Berlin, Essaouira, Hamburg, London, Milan, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Reykjavík, Seoul, Sydney, Taipei

Marion Mailaender: Mi casa es tu casa @ Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Paris		Cy Twombly – All is visible and all elusive @ Galerie Bastian Berlin		Taryn Simon @ Gagosian Park & 75 New York
Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir: ECHO LIMA @ BERG Contemporary Reykjavík		Ahn Sang-hoon: Hands and Stains @ Gallery Chosun Seoul		Dan Flavin @ Ordovas London