The GalleriesNow Newsletter

The Week in Art
25 April – 2 May 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Raphaela Simon @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin		Dan Linden @ Claas Reiss London		Man Ray @ Di Donna New York
Dawoud Bey @ Sean Kelly Gallery Los Angeles		Karen Wilberding Diefenbach @ Barbara Mathes Gallery New York		Oliviero Toscani @ Mazzoleni London

Berlin

Thursday 27

Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16:
In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort
an exploration of the current transformations in the art market

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45:
In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort
works by Merlin Carpenter, Jutta Koether, Valentina Liernur, Kerry James Marshall, Albert Oehlen, Adam Pendleton, Avery Singer, SoiL Thornton, and Rosemarie Trockel in an exhibition curated by Isabelle Graw with a soundtrack by Jens-Uwe Beyer

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Raphaela Simon: Nighthawks
shown for the first time, new paintings by Simon exploring existential themes with nocturnal totems

opening reception

Friday 28

Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Kaloki Nyamai: Dining in Chaos
new large-scale paintings in unusual materials explore the historical tradition of painting

opening reception

Galerie Barbara Thumm:
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Liminal Circularity
the artist returns to physiological motifs in her photography, installation, and drawing, claiming herself a formalist of living matter

opening reception

Galerie Buchholz:
Samuel Hindolo: Guest room
paintings of human figures in architectural spaces in Hindolo’s first solo exhibition with the gallery

opening reception

Capitain Petzel:
Malcolm Morley: Sensations
including loans from private collections, an exhibition curated by Michael Short in collaboration with the Estate of Malcolm Morley

opening reception

Saturday 29

Galerie Bastian:
Cy Twombly – Forms and Shades
photographs and sculptures which “touch a poeticised Mediterranean nature”

opens

Dubai

Monday 1

Christie’s Dubai:
Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Online
auction: Mon 1 – Tue 16 May

auction starts

Helsinki

Friday 28

Galerie Forsblom:
Ina Gerken: A Journey
Gerken describes painting as a dialogue between herself and the canvas

opens

Galerie Forsblom:
Kerttu Saali: Kurottelua (Reaching)
intuitive paintings inspired by light and color

opens

London

Tuesday 25

Gazelli Art House:
Non-binary States: Quantum Superposition in Digital Art. Libby Heaney in conversation with Paul Luckraft

talk

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Surface Works
works by Albert Oehlen, Günther Förg and Ida Ekblad emphasizing the importance of surface work and materiality in painting and sculpture

opening reception

Mazzoleni:
TOSCANI CHEZ MAZZOLENI
the celebrated photographer and art director’s first solo exhibition at the London gallery – curated by Nicholas Ballario

private view

Modern Art Bury Street:
Richard Tuttle: 18 x 24
new wall-based works in the second of two exhibitions by Tuttle, together forming a large-scale solo presentation of both new and historical work

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Testimony of a Journey: The Al Zayani Collection
auction: Tue 25
(viewing: Thu 20 – Tue 25 April)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
The Orientalist Sale
auction: Tue 25
(viewing: Fri 21 – Tue 25 April)

auction

Wednesday 26

The Artist Room:
Pourea Alimirzaee: Tear Gas
in Alimirzaee’s first solo exhibition in the UK, watercolours reflecting on the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran and exploring fragile masculinity

private view

John Martin Gallery:
Martin Finnin: The Grammar of Clouds
“the process of painting has its initial dance steps, layering, adding and washing out shapes but with sculpture it was very different, I had no idea at all what to do” – Finnin

opens

October Gallery:
Golnaz Fathi: No rain will put out this fire
Fathi is a renowned Iranian artist whose abstract paintings challenge viewers to intuit their significance through illegible calligraphic forms and bright colors

private view

The Sunday Painter:
Emily Kraus: Nest Time

opening reception

Thursday 27

Addis Fine Art:
Tizta Berhanu: Synthesis of Souls
Berhanu’s first European solo show is curated by Claudia Cheng and deals with human emotions in figurative paintings with gestural brushstrokes and primary colors

opens

Addis Fine Art:
Collaboration with Guns & Rains: Soft Power
in the gallery’s first collaboration with Guns and Rain, an all-women trio of South African artists challenge perceived boundaries between painting and weaving, sculpture and crafting, textile and sculpture

opens

Autograph:
Ajamu: The Patron Saint of Darkrooms
an exhibition unapologetically celebrating black queer bodies and pleasure as activism

opening reception

Autograph:
Eric Gyamfi: Fixing Shadows – Julius and I
an exhibition asking how photography can shift meanings and histories – “fixing shadows” of legacy, absence, and revival

opening reception

Bartha Contemporary:
Florian Baudrexel: Soft Control
the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery features works made of recyclable materials which express a sense of motion and direction

private view

Claas Reiss:
Dan Linden: eavesdropping
new paintings by the British artist

private view

Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Joe Tilson: Breaking the Rules
as a lifelong dedicated and subversive printmaker, this major exhibition focuses on Tilson’s graphic work, revealing a continuum in his preoccupations, inspirations, philosophy, and methods

private view

Grove Gallery:
Alison Jackson: The Crown
the Bafta and multiple-award-winning artist marks the coronation by exploring private moments of the royal family through her trademark tongue-in-cheek photographs

opens

Marlborough:
Joe Tilson: Modest Materials and A-Z Box of Friends and Family
two complimentary exhibitions marking the artist’s 95th birthday

private view

Pace, London:
Keith Coventry: City Racing
both celebrated and new works as Coventry continues to use art to explore the gritty realities of urban life

opening reception

Pace, London:
Nathalie Du Pasquier: LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD
immersive, bespoke designs transform the gallery space with works inspired by modernist architecture and furniture

opening reception

Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St:
Sabine Moritz: Heart Of Drought

opens

Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Sabine Moritz: Under The Skin

opens

Skarstedt:
Radical Abstraction
Joe Bradley, Wade Guyton, Charline von Heyl, Jacqueline Humphries, Albert Oehlen, Marco Pariani, Steven Parrino, Richard Prince, Amy Sillman, Rudolf Stingel, Sue Williams and Christopher Wool – twelve artists who push the boundaries of abstract painting

private view

Timothy Taylor:
Leon Kossoff: After Poussin
prints reflecting the reality of post-war life in London yet created in response to the Baroque paintings of Poussin

opens

Workplace:
Robin Megannity: Call of the Void

opening reception

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix:
Silvia Infranco: Taking Care
in her first exhibition in the UK, Infranco explores humans’ interactions with nature and plants – curated by Marina Dacci

private view

Friday 28

Maureen Paley:
Maaike Schoorel: Fulcrum
paintings that traverse an indefinable space between abstraction and figuration

private view

Maureen Paley Studio M:
Maaike Schoorel: Fulcrum

opens

Saturday 29

October Gallery:
Golnaz Fathi in conversation with Sussan Babaie, Professor of Islamic and Iranian Arts at The Courtauld Institute of Art

talk

Tuesday 2

Lisson Gallery:
Matter as Actor
curated by Greg Hilty, an exhibition across both gallery locations of pieces by artists who work with mutable matter – including Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, D Harding, Irmel Kamp Syowia Kyambi, Richard Long …

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Matter as Actor

opening reception

Los Angeles

Saturday 29

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Carla Jay Harris: Flight
new photo-based works by Harris, whose search for understanding and belonging has made stories of mythology a central theme throughout her work and tapped into a sense of kinship

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Chris Engman: Prism
“a prism breaks light into its constituent parts, revealing colors invisible to the human eye. It allows us to see, in other words, what is present but not perceived. This show is titled ‘Prism’ in part for its vibrant colors.”

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Dawoud Bey: Pictures 1976 – 2019
Bey’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles surveys photography series spanning five decades

opening reception

Steve Turner:
Robert Pokorny: Inside Out
“these portraits are not meant to depict one person in particular but rather are pictures of us all” – Pokorny

opens

Steve Turner:
Vincent Cy Chen: Xenogenesis
luminescent sculptures, inspired by Buddhist iconography, that blend primordial and futuristic themes

opens

Steve Turner:
Bradley McCrary: The Water Will Catch Us
vibrant paintings of empowered queer figures in nature empower

opens

Madrid

Thursday 27

Badr El Jundi:
Processing the past & digesting the future

opens

Naples

Wednesday 26

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Amy Sillman: Temporary Object
“demonstrates that a painting can be understood as an unfolding temporal event that happens at various speeds” – Joshua Decter

opens

New York

Tuesday 25

David Richard Gallery:
Arlington Weithers: Organic: Imagery and Processes Inspired by the Natural World
exuberant, colorful, and abstract paintings by Weithers in his first solo exhibition with the gallery and first in the city since 2006

opens

Wednesday 26

Di Donna:
Man Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921-1939
in collaboration with Timothy Baum, an exhibition of seventy rare and vintage silver prints including self-portraits and prints of Man Ray’s circle of artists and intellectuals

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Henry Gunderson: House Painting and Various Odd Jobs
in his first exhibition with the galley, Gunderson investigates the human psyche through the vocabulary of post-industrial American Pop Art landscapes

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Danielle Orchard: You are a Serpent Who’ll Return to the Ocean
Orchard’s first solo exhibition at Perrotin New York revisits the history of painting to find new possibilities for female representation and embodiment

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Rina Banerjee: Black Noodles
the gallery’s first exhibition with the Indian-American artist brings together archival and new mixed-media paintings evoking colonization, race, gender, commerce, economics, and migration

opening reception

Thursday 27

Barbara Mathes Gallery:
Karen Wilberding Diefenbach: Pastorale
paintings, works on paper, and sculpture inspired by the landscape of Tuscany and human interaction with the natural world

opens

Franklin Parrasch Gallery:
Edith Baumann: Stillness in Motion

opens

Sean Horton:
Ewelina Bocheńska: Gypsy Sun, Desert Moon
“I am more interested in questions than answers, because questions create an open space / open window, an answer is like a closed door” – Bocheńska

opens

Robilant+Voena, New York:
Alighiero Boetti Mappe

opens

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Kehinde Wiley: Havana
featuring new paintings, works on paper and a three-channel film, this body of work is informed by Wiley’s focus on the evolution of Black culture globally

opening reception

Friday 28

David Lewis:
Leah Ke Yi Zheng
new paintings on hand-made, uniquely-shaped stretchers in Zheng’s debut solo exhibition at the TriBeCa gallery

opens

Saturday 29

David Richard Gallery:
Arlington Weithers: Organic: Imagery and Processes Inspired by the Natural World

opening reception

Monday 1

Sotheby’s New York:
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
auction: Mon 1
(viewing: Thu 27 – Sun 30 April)

auction

Tuesday 2

Almine Rech:
Andrea Marie Breiling: SWALLOWTAIL
spray paint paintings inspired by Swallowtail butterflies

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale
auction: Tue 2
(viewing: Thu 27 – Sun 30 April)

auction

Paris

Tuesday 25

Christie’s Paris:
Art contemporain – Vente en ligne
auction: Tue 25 Apr – Thu 4 May
(viewing: Wed 26 April – Thu 4 May)

auction starts

Thursday 27

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Imran Qureshi: Homecoming
Qureshi blends traditional miniature painting with contemporary themes, representing intricate landscapes and layered compositions

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Liza Lou: i see you
large-scale paintings with sequences of circular shapes invite the viewer to a “visual meditation” on color and form

opening reception

Saturday 29

Galerie Frank Elbaz:
Collages: Tomislav Gotovac, Julije Knifer, Mangelos and Mladen Stilinovic
curated by Branka Stipancic, rare works from the 60s and 70s by four influential Zagreb-based conceptual artists – Tomislav Gotovac, Julije Knifer, Mangelos, and Mladen Stilinović

opening reception

Seoul

Saturday 29

Everyday Mooonday:
In Bloom: Seline Burn x Riikka Sormunen

opens

Shanghai

Thursday 27

Lisson Gallery:
Marina Abramović
in her first exhibition with the gallery in China, a new exhibition bringing together works from Abramović’s “Transitory Objects” series, photography from her performances in 1970s, and a film installation

opening reception

Tokyo

Friday 28

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Cerith Wyn Evans “Green Room w/ attendant mirrors…” (tarrying with Kagami-ita)

special event

Vienna

Thursday 27

MEYER*KAINER:
Liam Gillick: Mountains? What Mountains?

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Torbjørn Rødland @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber x Taxa Seoul		Echoes In The Sky @ FOLD London		Digging @ David Nolan Gallery New York
Ptolemy Mann @ Findlay Galleries Palm Beach		Fabrice Hyber @ Fondation Cartier Paris		Erick Medel @ Rusha & Co. Los Angeles