The GalleriesNow Newsletter

The Week in Artvisit site

27 Aug – 3 Sep 2024

Openings, events, auctions

John Dilg @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber Zürich		Derrick Adams @ Gagosian at APMA Cabinet Seoul		Koak @ Perrotin Paris
MAMCO, from Memory @ Mamco Geneva		Are the Stones Standing Still @ Staffordshire St London		Misheck Masamvu @ Goodman Gallery New York

Berlin

Berlin, Friday 30

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Beginner’s Mind: Zum 75. Geburtstag von Walter Zimmermann
the gallery stages an exhibition and concert programme to celebrate the birthday of a composer who has been one of the defining figures of the international contemporary music scene since the 1970s

opening reception

Berlin, Sunday 1

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Conversation between Thomas Grötz and Walter Zimmermann

talk

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Concert by Ensemble Adapter

performance

Cologne

Cologne, Friday 30

Galerie Buchholz:
Isa Genzken: 4 Türme, 3 Stelen, Schauspieler und Vollmond

opening reception

Geneva

Geneva, Wednesday 28

Pace, Geneva:
Lee Kun-Yong
in the pioneering Korean performance artist and painter’s first exhibition in Switzerland, seminal paintings and drawings together with photographs of a 1976 performance

first day

Geneva, Tuesday 3

Mamco:
MAMCO, from Memory
before the museum’s three-year renovation begins, an exhibition coordinated by Julien Fronsacq of works from the over-6,000 piece collection – chosen by visitors, Friends, members of the board, partners, and others

opening reception

London

London, Wednesday 28

Goodman Gallery:
Irapuru
a group exhibition looking at practices that present beauty from within contexts of sociopolitical complexity and struggle.

first day

London, Thursday 29

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Grace Weaver: Flowers
in an exhibition of new paintings by Weaver, sixteen large-scale canvases all focussing on “the flower”

opening reception

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers
in the London-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery new paintings of staged and hand-made dolls blur the boundary between imaginary and real, animate and inanimate

private view

Staffordshire St:
Are the Stones Standing Still
in an “exhibition-cum-symposium”, curator Dinosaur Kilby has invited UK-wide collaborative groups to produce a banner as a statement of intent – about now and about the future

opening reception

Workplace:
Jacob Dahlgren: When Anxieties Become Form
new and reimagined sculpture and installation by the Swedish artist show how he recontextualise everyday objects “revealing beauty in the ordinary”

opening reception

London, Friday 30

David Zwirner:
Sosa Joseph: Pennungal: Lives of women and girls
new paintings by the Indian artist, a masterful colourist and storyteller, in which figures from her South Indian family and milieu combine with motifs from the natural world

opening reception

London, Saturday 31

Hauser & Wirth:
Sensory Art Workshop: Hospital Rooms. Digital Art School

special event

Serpentine North Gallery:
Saturday Talks: Liz Stumpf on Judy Chicago: Revelations

talk

London, Monday 2

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Embodied Forms: Painting Now
new works by seven artists who reconfigure the relationship between subjectivity and the body – with Carolina Aguirre, Dean Fox, Olga Grotova, Michael Ho, Effie Wanyi Li, YaYa Yajie Liang and Eva Helene Pade

private view

London, Tuesday 3

Gagosian Shop, London:
Howard Hodgkin
the current Shop takeover examines Hodgkin’s diverse interest – antiquities, design, food, literature, travel, painting – “I collect for the same reason that I eat too much – I’m one of nature’s shoppers”

first day

Pace, London:
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello: Entre El Día Y La Noche
the first solo UK exhibition – and the largest one to date – of the Cuban artist shows new paintings and works on paper that symbolically explore cyclical journeys, both through time and within the self

opening reception

New York

New York, Saturday 31

Halsey McKay Gallery:
Matthew Kirk

first day

New York, Tuesday 3

Findlay Galleries:
Charles Neal: Fragments and Traces

first day

Goodman Gallery:
Misheck Masamvu: Exit Wounds
“When I get into colour, I realise that this is a deeper space, and I realise that I must travel within it… I can feel, I can hear, I cannot be stopped” – Masamvu

first day

Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
Philip Guston: Room, Sea & Sky
an exhibition examining Guston’s significant, and often-overlooked, printmaking practice

first day

Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Friday 30

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Summer Discoveries: Abstract Works Palm Beach
the second part of the gallery’s “Summer Discoveries” series “invites viewers to explore a vibrant exhibition of mid-century modern and contemporary abstract works”

first day

Paris

Paris, Saturday 31

Perrotin Marais:
Koak: Lake Margrethe
the San Francisco-based artist’s first major European exhibition is “the most personal exhibition I’ve created in a long time” – Koak

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Nick Goss: Isle of Thanet
Goss’s first solo show in Paris, and with the gallery, takes an historic part of the South-East UK as its jumping-off point to examine what life is like when living on an island

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Katherina Olschbaur: Sweet Expulsion
“Olschbaur’s paintings remind us that just as we are subjects of history’s calculating production, we are also bound to its immense disorder — its cosmic unrest” – Mara Hassan

opening reception

Semiose:
Présence Panchounette surréaliste ? Mon œil !
“change life” stated Rimbaud. “Transform the world” suggested Karl Marx. Surrealism never lost sight of these two imperatives. “Et tout a fini dans le décor,” Présence Panchounette would have added” – Jérôme Duwa

opening reception

Paris, Tuesday 3

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Aurélie Gravas: My Virgin Skin on Yours
Gravas’ first solo exhibition with the gallery – “it’s this free, spontaneous symphony that is the foundation of Aurélie Gravas’s painting” – Boris Bergmann

opening reception

Templon:
Pierre et Gilles: Nuit électrique
the duo’s latest exhibition demonstrates their longevity, their role as portraitists of an era, and their place as pioneering explorers of LGBTQIA+ questions

first day

Seoul

Seoul, Friday 30

Perrotin Seoul:
Jason Boyd Kinsella: Ghost in the Machine
the Canadian artist’s work deals with representation of the human mind and psychology – “breaking down traits and personalities into geometric units, defining individuality through various shapes, colors, and sizes”

opening reception

Seoul, Tuesday 3

Barakat Contemporary:
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Zifzafa

first day

Gagosian at APMA Cabinet:
Derrick Adams: The Strip
Adams’s debut exhibition in Korea presents new work drawn from display windows at beauty supply stores, presented in the David Chipperfield–designed headquarters of the renowned Korean beauty company Amorepacific

opening reception

Mai 36 Galerie x Paik Hae Young Gallery:
HARMONY
in collaboration with Paik Hae Young Gallery, an exhibition of works by Kim Hyung Dae, Chung Hyun, Lee Hye Min, Michel Pérez Pollo, Thomas Ruff, Albrecht Schnider, Markus Saile, Choi Young Wook, and Cho Yong Ik

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber x P21:
Sam Falls
in the American artist’s first exhibition project in Seoul he “seeks to explore the open atmosphere and enter a symbiotic relationship with the environment”

opening reception

Tokyo

Tokyo, Saturday 31

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Naoya Hatakeyama: Tsunami Trees
in his first solo exhibition at the gallery in eight years, the internationally acclaimed artist shows works which examine the relationship between nature, cities, and photography

opening reception

Zürich

Zürich, Wednesday 28

Christophe Guye Galerie:
In Conversation: A Photographic Dialogue Between Japan and Korea
ten Japanese and Korean artists, all known for their unique approach to photography – with Hiroshi Sugimoto, Rinko Kawauchi, Risaku Suzuki, Yoshinori Mizutani, Syoin Kajii, Bae, Bien-U, Jung Lee, Jun Ahn, Ina Jang, A Mi Yoon

opening reception

Zürich, Thursday 29

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Leiko Ikemura: Cosmic Mom
new painting, sculpture, drawing, and film by the internationally renowned artist – showcasing the new direction of her decades-long developed series “Girls”

opening reception

Zürich, Friday 30

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Wyatt Kahn: Signs
this group of important new paintings by the New York-based artist “glows with restrained color … a major leap forward for the artist”

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Wyatt Kahn in conversation with Elke Buhr

talk

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
John Dilg: Planet on the Prairie
“Dilg portrays the inscape of his subjects with the sober acquiescence of our secular time, where we must confront the planetary scale harm we are causing” – Yuki Higashino 

opening reception

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Valérie Favre: Temps contre Temps, a taste of freedom
four never-before-exhibited series from the Swiss artist and winner of this year’s Meret Oppenheim Prize

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Nahom Teklehaimanot @ Addis Fine Art Addis Ababa		Tetsumi Kudo @ Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong		Ksenia Dermenzhi @ BEERS London
Chroma @ Nohra Haime Gallery New York		Jürgen Schadeberg @ Bonne Espérance Gallery Paris		Cole Lu and Djordje Ozbolt @ Each Modern Taipei