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The Week in Art
24-31 January 2023 |
Openings, events, auctions |
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Barcelona
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Thursday 26 |
Galería Marlborough: Riera i Aragó “El vell viatge” |
opens |
Berlin
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Wednesday 25 |
Galerie Bastian: Wim Wenders – TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER Wenders’ 3D film installation – shown alongside new photographs – is a tribute to one of the most important American painters of the 20th century |
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Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16: Carroll Dunham: Selected Drawings “there is no work of Carroll Dunham that doesn’t use drawing as a foundation … I have always drawn a lot, I have always used drawing as a laboratory to think about other things” – Dunham |
opening reception |
Bruton
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Saturday 28 |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset: Rodney Graham. Getting it Together in the Country “in Graham’s photographic work, each image is a fictional self-portrait, with the artist in costume but always recognizable, portraying a vast array of characters” |
special event |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset: The New Bend curated by The Kitchen’s Legacy Russell, an exhibition bringing together thirteen contemporary artists working in the raced, classed and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice |
special event |
Chicago
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Thursday 26 |
Gray Chicago: GRAY at 60 sixty historical and contemporary artists whose impactful works have been represented, and exhibited, since the gallery’s founding sixty years ago in 1963 |
opens |
Geneva
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Wednesday 25 |
Pace, Geneva: Leo Villareal: Nebulae new wall-based sculptures in Villareal’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland bring brightly coloured LED lights, electronics, and custom coding into the gallery space |
opens |
Hong Kong
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Thursday 26 |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Mcdull – When love springs auction: Thu 26 Jan – Tue 7 Feb (viewing: Mon 30 January – Sat 4 February) |
auction starts |
Tuesday 31 |
Gagosian: Uncanny Valley curated by Yang Zi, with new works by Owen Fu, Jiang Cheng, Li Hei Di, Li Weiyi, Nabuqi, Song Yuanyuan, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Haiyang, Wang Xiaoqu, Wang Xingwei, and Zhang Zipiao |
opening reception |
London
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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 |
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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 |
Wednesday 25 |
Christie’s London: Christie’s Lates: Year of the Rabbit |
special event |
Goodman Gallery: Paolo Salvador: Silencios entre el mar, los ríos y montañas new large-scale allegorical paintings by the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist – shown in partnership with Peres Projects – “understanding and constructing identity is embedded into my practice” – Salvador |
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JGM Gallery: Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda |
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Thursday 26 |
Annely Juda Fine Art: Sigrid Holmwood: A Terrible and True History recent paintings based around the brutal witch trials of 1590 in Denmark and Scotland |
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Annely Juda Fine Art: Roger Ackling: The Edge of Things an installation of two groups of works, each representing Ackling’s themes and previous approaches to making shows |
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Bermondsey Project Space: Sleeve Shock |
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Carl Kostyál: Hyegyeong Choi: Food Coma a new body of work in the New York-based South Korean artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, and her first solo show in Europe |
private view |
Cristea Roberts Gallery: Between Before and After the gallery starts the year with an exhibition of new projects by Ali Banisadr, Christiane Baumgartner, Rhys Coren, Michael Craig-Martin, David Nash, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Emma Stibbon, Paul Winstanley, Clare Woods, Richard Woods |
private view |
Cristea Roberts Gallery: Image as Protest: Joy Gerrard & Paula Rego powerful bodies of work by Gerrard and Rego centred on women’s rights and the different ways that protest can be manifested |
private view |
Darren Flook: Marcus Cope: Got Reason |
private view |
Gagosian Davies St: Adam McEwen new works in McEwen’s first solo gallery exhibition in London, including a return to his ongoing series of obituaries for the first time in over a decade |
opening reception |
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert: Richard Smith: Shaped Canvases 1966-1972 |
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Marlborough: Abstract Colour with artists including Remi Ajani, Gillian Ayres, Sam Bakewell, Lynda Benglis, Lubna Chowdhary, Pam Evelyn, Ilse D’Hollander, Caroline Denervaud, Lydia Gifford, Joseph Goody, Andrew Graves, Haroun Hayward, Baraj Matthews, and Dóra Maurer |
private view |
Maximillian William: Richard Maguire in conversation with Gemma Rolls-Bentley |
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Saatchi Yates: Omar El Lahib the gallery opens its new 10,000 sqft space in London’s St James with an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by the Cologne-based Lebanese artist |
opens |
Friday 27 |
Camden Art Centre: Mohammed Sami – The Point 0 Sami’s first institutional solo show in the UK continues his long-standing exploration of memory in relation to time and conflict |
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Camden Art Centre: Atiéna R. Kilfa – The Unhomely co-produced in partnership with KW Institute for Contemporary in Berlin, a new video work that places the viewer within a movie scene, unfolding in an undisclosed staircase |
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Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square: Bridget Smith: Field Recordings |
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MAMOTH: Party in the Blitz |
opening reception |
Saturday 28 |
Raven Row: People Make Television the gallery re-opens with an exhibition of DIY television – rare footage almost totally unseen since its original broadcast – from the 1970s, curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury |
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Tuesday 31 |
Bermondsey Project Space: The Other Checkbox: We Belong works created by the “The Other Checkbox” community – funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation – that explores otherness, feelings of belonging, and representation of diverse ethnic groups in London |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth: Günther Förg. Tupfenbilder an exhibition of the final series of works by this prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer, photographer – and one of the most significant German artists of the postwar generation |
private view |
Richard Saltoun: Antigone: Women in Fibre Art a group show focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, shown alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, as well as new work by Anna Perach and Egle Jauncems |
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Unit London: Mauro C. Martinez: RateMySetup Martinez takes over both floors of the gallery with an immersive presentation of his multimedia practice visualising how hierarchical structures can seep into even the most decentralised digital spaces |
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Los Angeles
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Saturday 28 |
CJG2: John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres: JA – RT – LA – 23 following their residency at the gallery, works ranging from 1981 to 2022 by each artist, as well as the pair working together, including a very special pair of works – sculptures of the same person made over 30 years apart |
opening reception |
Kohn Gallery: Alicia Adamerovich: This is the time of the hour Adamerovich’s inaugural show with the gallery – “these forms represent thoughts and feelings … I’m not trying to remake anything from our physical world; everything I’m making is psychological” – Adamerovich |
opening reception |
Milan
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Thursday 26 |
Boccanera Milan: Se il paesaggio è simbolico a group show designed by the gallery’s long-term collaborator artist Linda Carrara, and including works from Giuseppe Adamo, Lorenzo di Lucido, Silvia Giordani, Vera Portatadino and Fabio Roncato |
opening reception |
Cardi Gallery: Paolo Scheggi: Making Spaces over twenty-five works by Scheggi in an exhibition curated by Ilaria Bignotti which includes the iconic immersive installation “Interfiore” |
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Monaco
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Wednesday 25 |
Hauser & Wirth Monaco: Amy Sherald. The World We Make new and monumental works by one of the most celebrated contemporary portraitists in the US – in her first solo show in Europe since the major solo exhibition at the gallery in London |
opens |
New York
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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 |
Wednesday 25 |
Christie’s New York: Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra – Selling Without Reserve auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Christie’s New York: Old Masters auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Sean Horton (Presents): Kirk Hayes: Droll’s Lament “beneath the bruised figures and singed surfaces of Kirk Hayes’ paintings lies a quietly voiced defiance” – Edward Holland |
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Sotheby’s New York: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sun 22 – Tue 24 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Wed 25 – Tue 31 Jan |
auction starts |
Thursday 26 |
Christie’s New York: Old Master & British Drawings auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 January) |
auction |
Gagosian 541 West 24th St: Jonas Wood: Prints 2 “you have to build the print piece by piece. I just love the way it looks, the process, the whole feel of it. It’s irreplaceable” – Wood |
opening reception |
GRIMM: Volker Hüller: L.I.T.S. new works by the German-born, Brooklyn-based artist – in his first exhibition at the gallery’s new location – reference the acronym for both “life is too short” and “lost in time and space” |
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Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street: Charles Gaines. Southern Trees the gallery’s first major solo NYC exhibition by one of the most important conceptual artists working today |
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Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street: Roberto Cuoghi. Pepsis the legendary Italian artist’s first exhibition since joining the gallery, as well as his first in New York in nearly a decade |
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Sotheby’s New York: Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings Part I auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 January) |
auction |
Friday 27 |
Christie’s New York: Modern Medici: Masterpieces from a New York Collection auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Christie’s New York: The Collection of André Leon Talley: Online auction: Fri 27 Jan – Thu 16 Feb (viewing: Fri 10 – Tue 14 February) |
auction starts |
Galerie Buchholz: Michael Oppitz: Singers of Ten Thousand Lines photographs and a new book, focussing on the mythical traditions and ritual practices of a remote community in the Himalayan mountains, long studied by Oppitz |
opening reception |
Galerie Buchholz: Michael Oppitz on Marcel Broodthaers |
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Marian Goodman Gallery: Cerith Wyn Evans: …no field of vision new large neon sculptures and installations inspired by Frank Stella’s “Black Paintings” – alongside a series of works on paper referencing Japanese paper stencils |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York: The European Art Sale Part I auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 January) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Fri 27 Jan – Mon 6 Feb |
auction starts |
Saturday 28 |
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space |
opens |
Tuesday 31 |
Lisson Gallery: Future Shock across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber |
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Lisson Gallery W 24th St: Future Shock across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber |
opens |
Paris
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Wednesday 25 |
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione: Marc Newson new and recent limited-edition furniture by Newson – “design is about improving things and about looking to the future, pushing the technology forward” – Newson |
opens |
Friday 27 |
Christie’s Paris: Fragments of Collections by Raphaël Denis |
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Galerie Maria Wettergren: Akiko Kuwahata & Ken Winther – In Praise of Shadows the Japanese and Danish designer/cabinetmaker couple’s first exhibition in France draws inspiration from traditional craft methods and design to create delicate handmade objects, from small sculptural bowls to pieces of furniture |
opening reception |
Monday 30 |
Sotheby’s Paris: Opéra de Paris : Auction for Action, Bid for Creation! auction: Mon 30 |
auction |
San Pedro Garza García
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Friday 27 |
Colector Poniente: Rachel Garrard: Oversight |
opens |
Saturday 28 |
Colector Oriente: Zhivago Duncan: Mapping Out Unification |
opens |
Stockholm
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Saturday 28 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson: Ulf Lundin: Best of Sweden Lundin photographs the same scene from before dawn until it gets dark in the evening – composing the final work from different parts of various of these shots to produce “a whole day compressed into one image” |
opening reception |
Vienna
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Thursday 26 |
Lukas Feichtner Galerie: Franzi Kreis: Dunkelkammer photographs taken by Kreis during performances of Annie Ernaux’s “DIE SCHAM” at Volkstheater in Vienna |
opening reception |
Zürich
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Thursday 26 |
Hauser & Wirth: Berlinde De Bruyckere both painter and sculptor, De Bruyckere presents new bronze and lead sculptures together with monumental framed relief works and paper collages |
opening reception |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Dubai
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Saturday 28 |
Perrotin Dubai: Takashi Murakami |
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Gstaad
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Saturday 28 |
Gagosian: Stanley Whitney: Paintings on Paper |
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Larchmont
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Saturday 28 |
Lincoln Glenn: The City That Never Sleeps: New York Scenes, 1860 – 1960 |
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London
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Thursday 26 |
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art: Sophie Bouvier Ausländer | Jyll Bradley | Rebecca Salter |
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Saatchi Gallery: Hyangmok Baik & Adébayo Bolaji: Bitter Nostalgia |
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Friday 27 |
The Mayor Gallery: Emmy Bridgwater: The Edge of Beyond |
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Unit London: Stacey Gillian Abe: Shrub-let of Old Ayivu |
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Unit London: Stephen Wong: Dream Travel |
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Saturday 28 |
ATLAS Gallery: Carousel |
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Bermondsey Project Space: Sleeve Shock |
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Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews |
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Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends |
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Lisson Gallery: Van Hanos: Twin |
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NıCOLETTı: Nana Wolke: Wanda’s |
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October Gallery: Govinda Sah ‘Azad’: Absent Presence |
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Pi Artworks: Friends and Family: Part II |
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The Sunday Painter: Kate Newby: So close,come on |
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Thomas Dane Gallery: Jake Grewal: Now I Know You I Am Older |
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Waddington Custot: M (Michael Chow) 周英華: Bridges |
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Sunday 29 |
John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place: Hinterland |
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Pontone Gallery: Viewing Room: Art Miami Collection 2022 |
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Serpentine South Gallery: Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness |
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Tuesday 31 |
David Gill: Barbara Nanning: Bedazzled |
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Los Angeles
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Saturday 28 |
GAVLAK: Marc Dennis: Once Upon A Time |
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Lugano
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Saturday 28 |
Cortesi Gallery: Lucrezia Roda: GLASS POWER. The power of fragility |
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Milan
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Friday 27 |
Cortesi Gallery: HEINZ MACK. Structures of Energy |
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Naples
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Saturday 28 |
Thomas Dane Gallery: Mettere al Mondo il Mondo |
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New York
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Saturday 28 |
Fergus McCaffrey: Leiko Ikemura: Anima Alma – Works 1981 – 2022 |
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Nahmad Contemporary: Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century |
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Palm Beach
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Wednesday 25 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Primitive Worlds |
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Paris
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Friday 27 |
Gagosian Le Bourget: Richard Serra: Transmitter |
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Saturday 28 |
Art: Concept: Anthony D Green: Lifestyle |
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Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: William Wegman: Agility conceptuelle / Significant Otherness |
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Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: William Wegman: Agility conceptuelle / Spaces of Species |
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kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Valentin Carron: Bonjour Monsieur Serpent ! |
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kamel mennour, r. du Pont de Lodi: Alberto García-Alix: Lo que queda por venir |
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kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: Ymane Chabi-Gara: Un petit morceau d’étoffe violette |
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Rome
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Tuesday 31 |
Gagosian: Karin Kneffel: Face of a Woman, Head of a Child |
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Seoul
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Thursday 26 |
Lehmann Maupin: Three Generations: Remembering Suh Se Ok (1929-2020) |
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Sunday 29 |
Barakat Contemporary: El Anatsui: Day After Night |
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Everyday Mooonday: Brian Robertson: FEELS |
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Turin
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Saturday 28 |
Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art: Thomas Schütte: Works in Glass |
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Vienna
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Saturday 28 |
MEYER*KAINER: Je Veux, Vienna 1975-2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer Kunst |
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Zürich
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Saturday 28 |
galerie gmurzynska, Talstrasse: Otto Piene: Rouge et Noir |
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Sunday 29 |
Fabian Lang: Tahnee Lonsdale: Our Humans |
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