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The Week in Art
24-31 Oct 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Alina Kopytsia, Sarah Margnetti, Valentin Rilliet @ Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zürich		Morvarid K @ Bigaignon Paris		Ghada Amer @ Tina Kim Gallery New York
Emily Young @ Richard Green London		Matthias Weischer @ GRIMM New York		Tangram @ JGM Gallery London

Goldau

Friday 27

Kutlesa:
Alexandre Wagner: Aurora
new and recent paintings which “remain on the threshold between abstraction and figuration” in the São Paulo-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe

opens

Hong Kong

Saturday 28

Perrotin Hong Kong:
Xie Qi: Shame of Intimacy
“Xie Qi is in control of what she gives us to see, even if she lays herself bare. And it is our choice to receive these paintings with a loving eye. It is our choice to receive these gifts” – Ruth Noack

opens

London

Tuesday 24

Sotheby’s London:
20th Century Art/Middle East
auction: Tue 24
(viewing: Fri 20 – Mon 23 October)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
The Orientalist Sale
auction: Tue 24
(viewing: Fri 20 – Mon 23 October)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Japanese Art
auction: Tue 24 – Tue 31 Oct
(viewing: Sat 28 – Tue 31 October)

auction starts

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
auction: Tue 24
(viewing: Fri 20 – Mon 23 October)

auction

Wednesday 25

JGM Gallery:
Tangram
an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Dominic Beattie and Olly Fathers, who use similar aesthetic tools with widely diverging conceptual approaches

opening reception

Richard Green:
Emily Young: Pareidolia in Stone
an exhibition of new sculptures by Britain’s greatest living free-carver, in association with Willoughby Gerrish Ltd.

opens

Sotheby’s London:
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
auction: Wed 25
(viewing: Fri 20 – Tue 24 October)

auction

Thursday 26

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Marylebone:
A New Dawn, A New Day

special event

Christie’s London:
Christie’s London Staff Auction
auction: Thu 26 Oct – Tue 7 Nov
(viewing: Tue 31 October – Tue 7 November)

auction starts

Shtager&Shch:
Timescapes

tour

Friday 27

Christie’s London:
An Eye Enchanted: Indian Paintings from the Collection of Toby Falk
auction: Fri 27
(viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 October)

auction

Maureen Paley:
Max Hooper Schneider: Twilight at the Earth’s Crust
installed both at Maureen Paley and Studio M, this is the American artist’s first solo exhibition in London

opening reception

Maureen Paley Studio M:
Max Hooper Schneider: Twilight at the Earth’s Crust
installed both at Maureen Paley and Studio M, this is the American artist’s first solo exhibition in London

opens

Los Angeles

Wednesday 25

L.A. Louver:
Matt Wedel: Pictures in the Garden
an exhibition of gouache paintings by the acclaimed sculptor, revealing formal and thematic dimensions involving time and space, metaphor, and mythology

opening reception

L.A. Louver:
RED
twelve artists present “a gamut of intense human emotion and experience through a color that never fails to cause a stir”

opening reception

Mahón

Sunday 29

Hauser & Wirth Menorca:
Closing Day

special event

Melbourne

Friday 27

D’Lan Contemporary:
Reverence 2023
twenty contemporary works by leading Australian First Nations artists, from the private collection of Barrie and Jude Le Pley

opens

Saturday 28

Tolarno Galleries:
Brent Harris: The Stations

opening reception

New York

Wednesday 25

David Nolan Gallery:
Vian Sora: End of Hostilities
Sora’s first solo exhibition in New York features paintings and works on paper which demonstrate her vocabulary of gestural abstraction

opening reception

David Nolan Gallery:
Steve DiBenedetto: Uncertainty Takes a Holiday
crusty, built-up paintings and finely detailed works on paper by DiBenedetto

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
auction: Wed 25
(viewing: Sat 21 – Tue 24 October)

auction

Thursday 26

Art Projects International:
IL LEE: Drawing Nature’s Vital Force

opens

David Richard Gallery:
Martha Szabo: Up On The Roof: Liberation, Transformation, Celebration
paintings from the early 1950s through the early 1990s, all easel-sized, oil on canvas, and all views of the NYC skyline as viewed from the artist’s apartment buildings in Manhattan

opening reception

Galerie Buchholz:
Christophe Verfaille

opening reception

James Cohan, 48 Walker St:
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Boomerang: Returning to African Abstraction

opening reception

Leon Tovar Gallery:
Agustin Fernandez: Navigating the Line
an exhibition which explores the relationships of violence and eroticism, human anatomy and machinery, unconscious desires, and obsession

opens

Tina Kim Gallery:
Ghada Amer: Paravent Girls
groundbreaking new works by the Cairo-born, New York-based, pioneering feminist artist of the post-colonial generation

opening reception

Friday 27

Christie’s New York:
Prints and Multiples
auction: Fri 27 – Sat 28 Oct
(viewing: Mon 23 – Fri 27 October)

auction starts

GRIMM:
Matthias Weischer: Sequence
new paintings by one of the foremost painters of his generation in Weischer’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s Tribeca location

opening reception

HB381:
Steen Ipsen: Organic Reflection
new ceramic sculptures by the Copenhagen-based artist, amplifying the scale, complexity, and ambition of his work

opening reception

James Cohan, 48 Walker St:
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA in conversation with Donna Honarpisheh

talk

Luhring Augustine Tribeca:
Frank Auerbach: Frank & Julia
an exhibition focussing on Auerbach’s portraits of his wife Julia, presented alongside a selection of self-portraits

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Gérard Schneider: Rhapsody in Blue
the first exhibition of work by Schneider in the United States in over a half-century, spanning his almost seven decades long career, focusing specifically on the artist’s relationship with the color blue

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Jean-Michel Othoniel: The Reconciliation of Opposites
an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures, following Othoniel’s recent solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

opening reception

Saturday 28

Halsey McKay Gallery:
The Glass Show
curated by David Kennedy Cutler, an exhibition that brings together twenty-five contemporary artists working in glass, each with their own motivation for using the medium

opening reception

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Aubrey Saget: Took a Walk
Saget’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents oil paintings on panel highlighting her brush work and touch in producing painterly snapshots of wildflowers, landscapes, and thickets of botanica

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Cildo Meireles: One and Some Chairs / Camouflages
installation and painting in the first exhibition in more than a decade to premiere an entirely new collection of work by Meireles

opening reception

Monday 30

Christie’s New York:
Picasso Ceramics
auction: Mon 30 Oct – Mon 13 Nov
(viewing: Sat 28 October – Sat 11 November)

auction starts

Tuesday 31

Marian Goodman Gallery:
Rineke Dijkstra: Night Watching and Pictures from the Archive
a new exhibition by Dijkstra including the East Coast premiere of a three-channel video installation as well as never-before-seen works from her archive

opening reception

Paris

Tuesday 24

Bigaignon:
Morvarid K: This Too Shall Pass
the Iranian artist’s first exhibition at the gallery – “through the manipulation of photographic material, her work questions our relationship to the world, transformative memory and the in-between”

opening reception

Thursday 26

Christie’s Paris:
Collection Jean-Louis Danis
auction: Thu 26
(viewing: Sat 21 – Thu 26 October)

auction

Christie’s Paris:
Photographies & Lothar Schirmer’s Glamour Collection
auction: Thu 26 Oct – Thu 9 Nov
(viewing: Sat 4 – Thu 9 November)

auction starts

Monday 30

Sotheby’s Paris:
Hydra: The Karpidas Collection
auction: Mon 30
(viewing: Wed 25 – Mon 30 October)

auction

Shanghai

Friday 27

Almine Rech:
Keiichi Tanaami
“as Tanaami continues to obsess over Picasso, which is driving a current wave of productivity, the artist also reflects on his innate urge to paint, rooted in an enduring childhood memory consisting of colors and crayons” – Athena Chen

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Brian Calvin: Crosstalk
“Calvin’s figures are in some kind of flux, oscillating between profile and frontal views, breaking open flat like a dismantled box. Small areas of dazzling dots and dashes encode the twinkle of an inner life, maybe a sadness” – Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

opening reception

Tokyo

Tuesday 31

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Rosalind Nashashibi: Infinity Pool
“from a female Punchinella to the prismatic ripples on the surface of a pool, Nashashibi’s new paintings address the borders between the inner and outer worlds, of the infinite and the finite”

opening reception

Turin

Saturday 28

Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art:
Marisa Merz

opening reception

Venice

Saturday 28

Victoria Miro Venice:
Celia Paul: Myself, Among Others
new paintings completed during a residency with the gallery in Venice – “Venice is full of memory – my own memories, everyone’s memories. Nothing has changed since the time Proust visited Venice with his mother” – Celia Paul

opens

Zürich

Wednesday 25

Mai 36 Galerie:
Roger Eberhard: Escapism

book launch

Friday 27

Lullin + Ferrari:
Jamie Isenstein: Home Theater

opening reception

Lullin + Ferrari:
Koka Ramishvili: Horizon

opening reception

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Alina Kopytsia, Sarah Margnetti, Valentin Rilliet (three new positions)
a group exhibition which explores themes of personal freedom, feminism, gender identity, mythology, and memory

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Jonathan Meese @ Templon Paris		Evita Tezeno @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles		Charline von Heyl @ Petzel New York
Niki de Saint Phalle @ Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Paris		Ernesto Burgos @ The Sunday Painter London		Sam Falls @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber Zürich