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Counterpoint @ Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

The Week in Art27 Feb-5 Mar 2024

Openings, events, auctions

Daniel Dezeuze @ Templon Paris		Aaron Spangler @ Rusha & Co. Los Angeles		Calvert Coggeshall @ Lincoln Glenn New York
Cao Jigang: Skypath @ Bluerider ART Taipei		Creatures & Masks @ Fabian Lang Zürich		As the Sharp Narrative Fades, A Revealing Map Emerges. Part 1 @ Gallery Chosun Seoul

Berlin

Thursday 29

Under The Mango Tree:
Brinda Dudhat: Symbiosis
Dudhat’s textile works are presented for the first time in Germany, embodying a translation of traditional craftwork into contemporary visual abstraction

opening reception

Friday 1

Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Mukenge/Schellhammer: Forward flight – Flucht nach vorn
an exhibition titled after the German idiom of a time of danger where which the only solution is nonetheless to throw oneself headfirst into a threatening situation

opening reception

Galerie Barbara Thumm:
George Bolster: 200 Billion Suns
“his works detach from a present, and imagine several future possibilities, aimed at one outcome, wonder”

opening reception

Saturday 2

Under The Mango Tree:
Co-Creating a Future

talk

Brussels

Thursday 29

Templon:
Jan Van Imschoot: La danse du mal insaisissable
the Flemish painter unveils his latest work, an exploration of evil through the ages based on museum masterpieces and archives

opening reception

Bruton

Thursday 29

Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
In Conversation: Clementine Keith-Roach, Ella Walker and Katy Hessel

talk

Geneva

Tuesday 5

Mamco:
Tishan Hsu
Hsu’s sculptures, wall pieces, silkscreen prints and videos explore the relationship between technology and the human body

opens

Mamco:
Paul Thek
curated by Valérie Da Costa in collaboration with Françoise Ninghetto, an exhibition taking a fresh look at the work of the unique figure of US counterculture – with sculpture, painting, drawing, and engraving from the early 1960s to the late 1980s

opens

Mamco:
Erica Pedretti
“Pedretti’s hanging objects form the core of the MAMCO exhibition, which looks back at the artist’s experimentation with different materials in the latter half of the 1970s, along with her interest in the hybridization of beings and shapes”

opens

Mamco:
Paul Neagu
in tribute to an artist who preferred to stay out of the limelight, a substantial body of Neagu’s engravings and drawings produced for the Rivolta gallery in Lausanne, alongside archive documents from the Rivolta family – curated by Elisabeth Jobin

opens

London

Tuesday 27

Christie’s London:
First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online
auction: Tue 27 Feb – Tue 12 Mar

auction starts

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Adam Pendleton: These Gestures Towards You
“abstraction is not to replicate the known, but rather to give opportunity for the unknown, for the unimagined, for the unrealised” – Adam Pendleton

opening reception

Wednesday 28

Annka Kultys Gallery:
Joe Cheetham
large-scale oil paintings in the artist’s first solo exhibition in London

opening reception

Felix & Spear:
James Faure Walker – Watercolours: Painting with Light
“you survive the snares, temptations, ordeals, the false prophets, and somehow you get to the painting in the end, but it’s not the painting you expected” – James Faure Walker

opening reception

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Edward Burtynsky: New Works
iconic photography documenting the intersection between nature and industry, coinciding with Burtynsky’s major retrospective at the Saatchi Gallery

opens

JGM Gallery:
Yoi
works from the Munupi Arts & Crafts Association, located along Melville Island’s north-western coastline, north of Darwin

private view

Thursday 29

Ab-Anbar:
Mohammad Ghazali: Trilogy: Then…
black-and-white photographs from 2009 to 2024 by the Iranian Tehran-based artist reveal the underlying tensions shaping his city’s identity

opening reception

Ab-Anbar:
Martin Cordiano: In Side Out
new perplexing sculptures which examine the essence of space in Cordiano’s first exhibition at the gallery’s project space

opening reception

Addis Fine Art:
Selome Muleta and Youssra Raouchi

opens

Alice Amati:
Danielle Fretwell: Shallow Invitations
Fretwell’s debut solo exhibition showcases her obscured still lifes and veiled canvases, exploring deception and uncertainty

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Cristina de Miguel: Dissolving
de Miguel’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery exposes her emotional, fragmented approach to painting

opening reception

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill:
Screening: Douglas Gordon. Film as Raw Material

special event

GRIMM:
Saskia Noor van Imhoff: Mineral Lick
the UK debut of the acclaimed Dutch contemporary artist features natural found objects and an awareness of land as a repository of knowledge

private view

Maximillian William:
INDEX: Emii Alrai / Richard Maguire / Hannah Regel. ARCHIVAL GHOSTS

special event

Modern Art Helmet Row:
Walter Price: Pearl Lines
presented across both of the gallery’s London locations, new paintings and sculpture featuring Price’s psychologically charged domestic interiors

private view

Ordovas:
Gauguin and the Contemporary Landscape
paintings exploring the enduring influence and appeal of nature, featuring Paul Gaugin, Peter Doig and Mamma Andersson

opens

Robilant+Voena, London:
Antoine Roegiers: The Flames of Vanity
an overview of more than a decade of the Belgian-born painter’s most significant paintings and video works, in his first solo exhibition in the UK

private view

Workplace:
Max Boyla: Crying like a fire in the sun
new paintings and installations exploring the spiritual and cultural resonances of the sun – opening on this year’s leap day, 29 February

opening reception

Friday 1

Modern Art Bury Street:
Walter Price: Pearl Lines
presented across both of the gallery’s London locations, new paintings and sculpture featuring Price’s psychologically charged domestic interiors

opens

Skarstedt:
Jeff Koons: Paintings, 2001 – 2013
mural-sized paintings from 2001-2013 in this solo exhibition of the American artist, including works from the Easyfun-Ethereal, Popeye, and Antiquity series

opens

ZÉRUÌ:
Gillies Adamson Semple: Eighty Seven Steps

opening reception

Saturday 2

IONE & MANN:
Love-in-a-Mist: Alice Kemp and Yuichiro Kikuma

special event

Rodeo:
Liliana Moro: In No Time

opens

Tuesday 5

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Vasarely/Agam: In Pursuit of Op
works by the two pioneers, celebrating their enduring legacy and ground-breaking contributions to the Op Art movement

opens

Shtager&Shch:
The Highest Degree of Human Wisdom
“want to feel better? How about taking a good dose of art? The four artists in this show are all fighting for the belief that there is a better future, but the route there is unclear” – exhibition curator, Alistair Hicks

private view

Los Angeles

Tuesday 27

Christie’s Los Angeles:
Andy Warhol Screen Tests

opens

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Catherine Goodman. New Works
all new and predominantly abstract works in the London-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Jason Rhoades. DRIVE
Hauser & Wirth dedicates an entire gallery at its Downtown Arts District location to a year-long exploration of Rhoades’ art via the subject of cars and car culture

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
RETROaction (part two)
curated by Homi K. Bhabha, Kate Fowle, Charles Gaines and Ellen Tani, a 30th anniversary exhibition looking back at Gaines’ seminal “Theater of Refusal” and continuing the investigation of its resonances today

opening reception

Rele:
Mapping Structures: Across Worlds

opens

Sotheby’s Los Angeles:
Iovine and Young Center for High School Education Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
auction: Tue 27

auction

Wednesday 28

Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Vincenzo De Cotiis: Crossing Over
the first LA-based solo exhibition of the Italian artist presents “an exploration in search of places that I have seen and spaces that exist in my imagination” – De Cotiis

opening reception

Perrotin Los Angeles:
Izumi Kato
to inaugurate the gallery’s Los Angeles location, a survey of the Japanese artist’s recent practice in his West Coast exhibition debut

opening reception

Babst Gallery:
By Her Hand
historical works by Hans Joerdaens II, Anthony Van Dyck, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Uemura Shoen, alongside contemporary female artists Marcelle Hanselaar, Sylvia Maier and Susana Wald

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
Pat Steir. Painted Rain
showing for the first time in LA in over three decades, this exhibition showcases Steir’s synthesis of conceptual art, figuration and abstraction in a suite of new canvases

opening reception

Rusha & Co.:
Aaron Spangler: Stung by a Lie I Believe
Spangler’s debut solo presentation with the gallery features his monumental, monochromatic carved wooden sculptures which reinterpret traditional bas-relief techniques

opening reception

Thursday 29

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Sean Kelly Gallery at Frieze Los Angeles 2024: Awol Erizku

opens

Sotheby’s Los Angeles:
Damien Hirst: Forever & Always
the iconic British artist contemplates life, death and the human condition

opens

Friday 1

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
In Conversation: Catherine Goodman and Jenelle Porter

talk

L.A. Louver:
Closing Ceremony – A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING

special event

Steve Turner:
Jon Key: Elsewhere
new spontaneous and vulnerable paintings in this solo exhibition, exploring the artist’s tripartite identities of Southerness, Blackness and queerness

opening reception

Steve Turner:
Carlos Martiel: Body of Work
new performance, photography, sculpture, drawing, installation and jewelry works by the Cuban-born, New York-based artist

opening reception

Steve Turner:
Carlos Martiel, Vaciamiento

performance

Saturday 2

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Yrneh Gabon: Spirit Leads Me

special event

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
June Edmonds: Meditations on African Resilience

special event

Gallery Luisotti:
Hollywood: John Divola and Robert Cumming
curated by Divola, an exhibition of two artists working with the artificiality of film studio sets and continuity stills

opening reception

Melbourne

Friday 1

Tolarno Galleries:
Rosemary Laing: swansongs
“this truth to recycled materials provides a further level of insight into swansongs: life’s waste coalesces with life’s losses. The time has come to work with what remains and that which survives” – Victoria Lynn

opening reception

Naples

Saturday 2

Alfonso Artiaco:
Giulio Paolini: Dall’Italia
“here there are echoes and memories of authors, distant relatives of this new (or old) season of mine. A mini tour in six rooms: a world that is less vast yet more beautiful” – Paolini

opening reception

New York

Tuesday 27

Public Art Fund:
Clifford Prince King and Lyle Ashton Harris

talk

Wednesday 28

Christie’s New York:
Modern Collector
auction: Wed 28 Feb – Tue 12 Mar

auction starts

Thursday 29

D’Lan Contemporary:
Uwankara Uṯuḻu: All Together
exhibiting the work of the Aboriginal-owned Spinifex Arts Project, passing sacred knowledge on to a new generation of artists

opening reception

Lincoln Glenn:
Calvert Coggeshall: Chromatic Harmony
abstract oil-on-canvas works by the late artist and interior designer

opening reception

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery at Frieze Los Angeles 2024

opens

Robilant+Voena, New York:
Tristano di Robilant: Milestones
Murano-glass sculptures created with Andrea Zilio alongside glass monotypes made in Gokarna, India, in Tristano di Robilant’s first solo exhibition with the gallery

private view

Friday 1

Christie’s New York:
Outsider Art
auction: Fri 1
(viewing: Fri 23 – Thu 29 February)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Curated
auction: Fri 1
(viewing: Fri 23 – Thu 29 February)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
My Friend, Fernando Botero: The Salomón & Rosita Lerner Collection
auction: Fri 1
(viewing: Sat 24 – Thu 29 February)

auction

Saturday 2

D’Lan Contemporary:
Uwankara Uṯuḻu: All Together

special event

Tuesday 5

Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Changing Landscapes of Female Artists
Anita Shapolsky Gallery presents the work of Linda Stein in Gallery One, and the group show “The Previous Female Generations” in Gallery Two

opening reception

Christie’s New York:
Latin American Art Online
auction: Tue 5 – Fri 15 Mar

auction starts

Sotheby’s New York:
Design
auction: Tue 5 – Tue 12 Mar
(viewing: Tue 5 – Tue 12 March)

auction starts

Paris

Wednesday 28

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Exteriors – Annie Ernaux & Photography
photographs from the MEP collection, conceived with Ernaux and paying tribute to her literary work

opens

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn – Fashion Icon
over a hundred prints from the personal collection of the greatest model of her time

opens

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Iris Millot – The sun comes out at the fork in the road
the winner of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2023 works with photographs, recordings, and fragments of text, to tell the story of her great-aunt Hélène, a former activist in the women’s liberation movement in France

opens

Thursday 29

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois:
Emanuel Proweller: Proweller, un souvenir de soleil
“when my father went to buy equipment from Sennelier, on the shopping list yellows were the majority” – Elisabeth Brami-Proweller

opening reception

Galerie Maria Wettergren:
Margrethe Odgaard: Dear Miaojin
the Danish artist presents a sensorial and poetic exploration of colour and literature, in response to Qiu Miaojin’s epistolary novel

opening reception

Saturday 2

Almine Rech, Matignon:
Heather Day: A Moving Window
Day’s first solo exhibition with the gallery features her large-scale, abstract canvases which evoke the atmospheric light of dawn and dusk

opening reception

Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais:
Enchan-Temps: Susumu Shingu: Le Souffle d’Ici – L’Eau de là [The Breath of Here – The Water Beyond]
curated by Véronique Jaeger, the third in a cycle of three exhibitions dedicated to sustainable development features the Japanese sculptor of water and wind

opens

Galerie Max Hetzler:
On Paper
a group show with artists including Giulia Andreani, Louise Bonnet, André Butzer, Carroll Dunham, Ida Ekblad, Barry Flanagan, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Jake Longstreth, Victor Man, Danielle Mckinney, Albert Oehlen, Adam Pendleton, …

opening reception

Templon:
Atul Dodiya: I know you. I do. O’ stranger
the influential Indian artist showcases a new series of canvases inspired by Bollywood classics

opening reception

Templon:
Daniel Dezeuze: Mesoamerica, Cités Perdues et Derniers Refuges
new sculptures, paintings, drawings, and an installation from one of the founding members of the Supports/Surface group

opening reception

Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais:
Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Edward Enninful
“Mapplethorpe wanted to disrupt the idea of what a portrait is. And I’ve always wanted to disrupt the idea of what fashion is – what people consider as beautiful or not has always been fascinating to me” – Enninful

opening reception

Tuesday 5

Gagosian, rue de Castiglione:
Urs Fischer: Beauty
“beauty is genetic, not aesthetic” – Fischer

opens

Seoul

Wednesday 28

Gallery Chosun:
As the Sharp Narrative Fades, A Revealing Map Emerges. Part 1
an exchange exhibition featuring artists from Seoul and Paris, with Ahn Sanghoon, Min Sunghong, Park Bona, Woo Minjung, Araks Sahakyan, Collectif Grapain, Wendie Zahibo, Réol Pablo, and Yan Tomaszewski

opens

Taipei

Friday 1

Each Modern:
Egan Frantz: American Painting
Frantz’s first solo exhibition in the Chinese region – “not only do I seek out combinatorial surprise with each new work, I’ve done it for long enough that no one expects any less of me. In that sense I am consistent and in that I am free”

opens

Saturday 2

Bluerider ART Taipei · DunRen:
Cao Jigang: Skypath
the renowned artist’s latest works, in a comprehensive exhibition of his forty-year artistic journey

opening reception

Zürich

Thursday 29

Christophe Guye Galerie:
Walking in the Wild – By Bob van Orsouw and Christophe Guye

special event

Fabian Lang:
Creatures & Masks
“like the jester Arlecchino, it is a voice or language that allows one to criticise and ridicule, more deeply and far-sightedly than perhaps without a mask”

opening reception

Lullin + Ferrari:
Bob Gramsma: blank bodies

talk

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Mathilde Denize @ Perrotin Shanghai		Iconic Avedon @ Gagosian Paris		Daniel Gibson @ Almine Rech New York
Vivid Splendor @ GAVLAK Los Angeles		Yoshitomo Nara @ Pace Geneva		Jake Longstreth @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin