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The Week in Art visit the site

27 May-3 Jun 2025

Openings, events, auctions
Boissy-le-Châtel, Cologne, Hong Kong, Hove, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, Reykjavík, Seoul

Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II @ South London Gallery London		Josh Sperling: Big Picture @ Perrotin Los Angeles Los Angeles		Maria Antelman: Conjurer @ Yancey Richardson Gallery New York
Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books @ Bigaignon Paris		Push Me, Pull You @ Thomas Dane Gallery Naples		The Weight of Lightness @ Bluerider ART London London

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Boissy-le-Châtel

Boissy-le-Châtel, Sunday 1

Galleria Continua Les Moulins:
Pascale Marthine Tayou: Tchâm : Confidences

opening reception

Cologne

Cologne, Wednesday 28

Sotheby’s Cologne:
Modern and Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Wed 28 May-Thu 5 Jun
(viewing: Wed 28 May-Thu 5 Jun)

auction starts

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Friday 30

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Inkspiration: Chinese Paintings Online
auction: Fri 30 May-Tue 10 Jun
(viewing: Wed 4-Sat 7)

auction starts

Hove

Hove, Saturday 31

Maureen Paley Morena di Luna:
Behrang Karimi: Child in Time
Karimi’s first exhibition at the gallery space in Hove – “these are works that developed in the studio like weeds pushing through concrete – unexpected, organic”

opening reception

London

London, Tuesday 27

County Hall Pottery:
Improvisational making: Masterclass with Ian McDonald

special event

London, Wednesday 28

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Paul Thek: Seized by Joy. Paintings 1965–1988.
curated by Kenny Schachter and Jonathan Anderson, paintings, works on paper and a previously unseen notebook of sketches and writings spanning three decades of the American artist’s career

private view

London, Thursday 29

Alma Pearl:
Margarita Gluzberg: Implicate Factory Outlet
new abstract drawings on paper and a sound installation from the birdsong recording series, explore consumerism, nostalgia, beauty and desire

private view

Bluerider ART London:
The Weight of Lightness
Cao Jigang. Angela Glajcar, and Bay Tang Jiaxin – three internationally acclaimed artists who explore the dual natures of paper – lightness and weight, fragility and resilience, simplicity and complexity

opening reception

Emanuel von Baeyer:
Phantomsequor
featuring works by Arthur Poujois, Sofya Shpurova, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Thomas Pellerey Grogan, Issi Nash, Eva Yates, and Archie Fooks-Smith

opening reception

Lisson Gallery:
Finding My Blue Sky
spanning inside and out of both London spaces, over twenty diverse artists in an ambitious group exhibition curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif – “the show is my love-letter to London, a city that I have continually returned to over the last four decades”

opening reception

October Gallery:
Aubrey Williams: Dr. Hew Locke OBE, RA, Dr. Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani and Dr. Indie A. Choudhury

talk

South London Gallery:
Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II
an explosive new immersive sculptural installation covers the gallery in the American artist’s first solo exhibition in a London institution

opening reception

Unit:
Rex Southwick: To Distraction
“Rex’s works offer a dialogue between escapism and the often-overlooked reality of maintaining that escape”- Catherine Loewe, curator

private view

London, Friday 30

South London Gallery:
Leonardo Drew in conversation with Ekow Eshun

talk

London, Tuesday 3

Gagosian Shop, London:
Rick Lowe
coinciding with his Art Basel Unlimited presentation, new works on paper by Lowe – “ densely worked, layered compositions … that link painterly forms with geometric motifs”

first day

Kearsey & Gold:
Filippo Antonello: Aufheben
curated by Roxane Hemard with spatial design by Thomas Brewin – “these works are not so much made as metabolised” – Maria Catalano

private view

Sprüth Magers:
Gala Porras-Kim: The categorical bind
“Porras-Kim’s drawings, paper marbling works and sculpture explore the transformation – and possibly emancipation – of objects throughout time”

opening reception

THE TAGLI:
Telepathy and the Unseen
a group exhibition of ten artists who explore “the invisible processes that shape how we perceive and relate”

first day

sketch:
Aurélia Jaubert

first day

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday 31

Perrotin Los Angeles:
Josh Sperling: Big Picture
Sperling’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast presents new paintings as well as modular benches and framed mirrors in his first US move into functional design

opening reception

Philip Martin Gallery:
John Joseph Mitchell
new oil-on-panel paintings by the New Jersey-based artist whose paintings consider subject matter and interiority

opening reception

Milan

Milan, Wednesday 28

Sotheby’s Milan:
Modern and Contemporary Art
auction: Wed 28
(viewing: Fri 23-Tue 27)

auction

Naples

Naples, Tuesday 27

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Push Me, Pull You
curated by Jenni Lomax, an exhibition with works by Hurvin Anderson, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Matthew Krishanu, Bice Lazzari, Francis Offman, Pinot Gallizio, Amy Sillman, and Caragh Thuring

first day

New York

New York, Tuesday 27

Colnaghi:
Colnaghi X Carlo Bella: Power Figures
in a joint exhibition with Carlo Bella, important museum-quality historical African and Native American artworks are shown alongside Old Master Paintings and works from Greco-Roman Antiquity

first day

New York, Thursday 29

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Lucia Wilcox: LUCIA
“vividly hued and wildly imaginative Surrealist works from 1939 to 1949” in the gallery’s first exhibition of the work of the celebrated late artist

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
Yooyun Yang: Uncommon Sight
in the Korean artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, new paintings “depict the space between the real, the imagined and what she describes as the ‘visual error’ experienced when something is not as it first appears”

opening reception

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Maria Antelman: Conjurer
Antelman’s first exhibition with the gallery presents a “unique approach to photography in which her lyrical and experimental approach to imagery and montage is combined with a sculptural sensibility”

opening reception

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Maria Antelman: Conjurer

tour

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Jenny Calivas: Self-Portraits While Buried
combining photography and performance, Calivas’ debut exhibition with the gallery presents works featuring her partially or almost completely submerged in the landscape

opening reception

New York, Friday 30

Galerie Buchholz:
Lutz Bacher: Into the Dimensional Corridor

opening reception

New York, Saturday 31

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
In Conversation: Maria Antelman and Jenny Calivas with Katerina Stathopoulou

talk

Paris

Paris, Tuesday 3

Bigaignon:
Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books
part of the gallery’s annual curatorial invitation, photographs by the American artist – “a contemplative look into the personal library of … the twentieth-century Italian painter renowned for his quiet and precise still life compositions”

opening reception

Reykjavík

Reykjavík, Friday 30

BERG Contemporary:
Still Life
an exhibition of works by Dieter Roth, Haraldur Jónsson, Hákon Bragason, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Marta Skoczeń, Páll Haukur, Rósa Gísladóttir, and Steina & Woody Vasulka

first day

Seoul

Seoul, Tuesday 27

Esther Schipper, Seoul:
Conversations II
the second instalment of the gallery’s Conversation series features Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung, who “engage in a dialogue through the language of contemporary art rooted in tradition, creating meaningful new expressions”

first day

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Amsterdam, Baku, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Salisbury, Stockholm, São Paulo, Tokyo, Zürich

Merikokeb Berhanu @ Esther Schipper Berlin		Martin Wickström: Tänd dina eldar @ Galerie Forsblom Helsinki		Pietro Consagra. A Breathable Landscape. Sculptures 1964-1966 @ Sprovieri London
Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles		De Maria, Fontana, Judd, Manzoni, Merz, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Serra, Warhol @ Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu Paris		Group Show @ Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse Zürich