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The Week in Art visit the site
28 Apr-5 May 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Berlin, Bruton, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Taipei, Venice
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Berlin
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| Berlin, Thursday 30 |
Luisa Catucci Contemporary:
Pablo Griss: Dystopian Cartography
new work by the Venezuelan artist – “Griss stages a slow-motion collapse of order. Not a catastrophe with sirens and headlines, but a more intimate undoing” |
opening reception |
| Berlin, Friday 1 |
Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Gülbin Ünlü: Almost Ünlü
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opening reception |
Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Farkhondeh Shahroudi: Widerruf
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opening reception |
Galerie Bastian:
Max Liebermann: A Key to the Garden
the gallery’s first exhibition of the leading Impressionist focusses on his paintings of the gardens of his own summer residence on the west shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee |
first day |
Brutto Gusto:
Johannes Nagel: nature but neater
“Nagel’s work reminds me of storms. The ones that leave you a bit bruised but with a fresh oxyden. Invigorated … I am full of admiration. Do not change a thing” – Morten Løbner Espersen |
opening reception |
Galerie Buchholz:
Yuji Agematsu: Zip: 01-01-2024 – 12-31-2024
Agematsu’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Germany is in two parts, the first featuring a year of “zips” – tiny devotional sculptures made of detritus from New York’s streets inside the cellophane sleeves of cigarette packs |
opening reception |
Capitain Petzel:
Rodney McMillian: In Other Realms
new paintings and sculptures anchored by a film based on a civil rights text against lynching, in the Los Angeles–based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery |
opening reception |
Capitain Petzel:
Stefanie Heinze: Your Mouth Comes Second
“Heinze’s work moves between painting and drawing and is characterized by a distinctive, often fragmentary visual language … in which bodies, spaces, and signs overlap” |
opening reception |
Esther Schipper:
Tauba Auerbach: Easy Assembly
in thirteen pointillist paintings depicting close-up images of soap foams, captured through a microscope, a focus – “on nodes of connection, self-organization and how individual elements refract through one another” |
opening reception |
Esther Schipper:
Celeste Rapone: Hyperarousal
Rapone’s first presentation with the gallery debuts three paintings where she explores “the heated juncture of sensuous stimulation and nervous irritation in narratively dense compositions” |
opening reception |
Luisa Catucci Contemporary:
Pablo Griss: Dystopian Cartography
new work by the Venezuelan artist – “Griss stages a slow-motion collapse of order. Not a catastrophe with sirens and headlines, but a more intimate undoing” |
first day |
| Berlin, Saturday 2 |
Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Gülbin Ünlü: Almost Ünlü
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first day |
Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Farkhondeh Shahroudi: Widerruf
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first day |
| Berlin, Sunday 3 |
Capitain Petzel:
Book Presentation with Readings, Artist Talk, New Works. With Fid Fischer, Sophie Robinson and Mason Leaver-Yap |
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Bruton
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| Bruton, Saturday 2 |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Angel Otero: Agua Salada
in an expansion of his practice, Otero’s UK debut presents deeply personal work completed during a residency at the gallery in Somerset, translating his fascination with process, materiality and time into sculptural installations and moving image |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Angel Otero: Agua Salada |
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Frankfurt
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| Frankfurt, Thursday 30 |
FILIALE:
Robin Stretz: Provincials
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Hong Kong
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| Hong Kong, Tuesday 5 |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Treasures of a Flourishing Age: The Songde Tang Collection of Ming Porcelain
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Heaven’s Mandate: Giuseppe Castiglione’s Auspicious Lotus for the Yongzheng Emperor
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
MINEO HATA – A Life in Art: Early Buddhist and Ancient Art
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Zoomorphia: Animal Forms in Ancient China | Chinese Art
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
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London
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| London, Wednesday 29 |
Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Lisa Jahovic: Soft Interruptions
the British multidisciplinary artist captures subtle, absurd disruptions – small fractures in the ordinary that reveal tension, humour, and the poetic instability of everyday life |
private view |
Frith Street Gallery:
John Riddy: Winter Landscape
new photographs of London by Riddy – “both a description of place and a kind of social survey” |
private view |
| London, Thursday 30 |
Annely Juda Fine Art:
Alan Charlton
“I have continued to use 4.5 cm as the module and the paintings are always grey. I use these two constant elements to discover different ways of making the paintings” – Charlton |
private view |
Annely Juda Fine Art:
Yuko Shiraishi: Brief Encounter – Gazebo
“for this project – another in my Imaginary Architecture series – I chose to explore iridescent clouds, sometimes known as “rainbow clouds”, a meteorological phenomenon characterised by vibrant, colourful bands appearing on thin, semi-transparent clouds” |
private view |
Benjamin Rhodes Arts:
Richard Kenton Webb: Passion Drawings & English Iconoclasm
“a book / exhibition of 24 drawings about love … an intensely sensitive suite of drawings inspired by the Passion of Christ and dedicated to all outsiders” |
opening reception |
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market:
Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul)
“curated by Brian Griffiths, the exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending his longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional” |
private view |
Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Lisa Jahovic: Soft Interruptions
the British multidisciplinary artist captures subtle, absurd disruptions – small fractures in the ordinary that reveal tension, humour, and the poetic instability of everyday life |
first day |
Frith Street Gallery:
John Riddy: Winter Landscape
new photographs of London by Riddy – “both a description of place and a kind of social survey” |
first day |
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
Genuine Fake Premium Economy
moving image, photography, and painting and assemblage in a group exhibition of three emerging artists whose practices interrogate ideas of class, inheritance and assumed values through representational media |
private view |
LAMB:
Sophie Smorczewski: Sown in Slumber
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opening reception |
LBF Contemporary:
Rob Ball: Everything Beautiful is Far Away
“the title of Rob Ball’s exhibition offers a compelling way into a fifteen-year photographic journey that includes over 100 seaside resorts, from the damp, neon-lit promenades of Blackpool to the fading ‘Doo-Wop’ motels of Wildwood, New Jersey” |
private view |
Larkin Durey:
Habib Hajallie: Black & Blue
Hajallie’s first solo exhibition with the gallery uses portraiture to examine the internal landscape of loss and celebrate pioneering Black cultural figures, family members, and his own experience as a British man of Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery:
Ken Price
presented with Matthew Marks Gallery, sculpture and drawing – including works on view in London for the first time – in an exhibition of the influential and relentlessly inventive LA-based artist |
opening reception |
Luxembourg + Co.:
To the Sound of (Moving) Pictures: a screening programme of short artists’ films exploring the use of notation in moving image across times |
special event |
Lychee One:
Qian Qian: The Fountains of Enceladus
ten watercolor works on panel, developing Qian Qian’s concept of a “practice-based cosmology”, not a representation of a world already known, but a landscape of consciousness – unstable, generative, and not yet fully understood |
opening reception |
NORITO:
Soryun Ahn: Arbers Aly
“Ahn continues to summon the ordinary, the anonymous, and the ghostly within the urban landscape of her everyday life in the UK” |
opening reception |
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Nengi Omuku: We Were Like Those Who Dreamed
new paintings exploring the politics of green spaces in urban centres and questioning the power structures that govern climate catastrophe – proposing the garden as a radical symbol of equality and inclusiveness |
private view |
Ronchini:
Shara Mays: Runaway
large-scale, vibrant, abstract paintings exploring movement, displacement, and survival in Mays’ first solo exhibition at the gallery |
private view |
SETAREH:
Gregor Gleiwitz: Dis-Appearance
in his distinctive painterly practice, Gleiwitz constructs pictorial worlds in which the grotesque, the mythological, and the everyday coexist |
opening reception |
Saatchi Yates:
Studio Iron
presented with Isamaya Ffrench |
private view |
South London Gallery:
Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados
the Brazilian artist presents new paintings against a large mural painted directly onto the gallery walls – “magical environments … populated by mythical characters, animals and imaginary beasts” |
opening reception |
South London Gallery Fire Station:
Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves
monumental new sculptures, the British Nigerian artist’s largest works to date, are finished with a metallic glaze that reflects the body, and shown alongside a film produced in Ọṣun-Ọṣogbo, a sacred site of the Yoruba fertility goddess Osun |
opening reception |
| London, Friday 1 |
David Gill:
Barnaby Barford: We Are Where We Are
ceramic assemblage sculptures and large-scale drawings by the British artist, exploring “how we are coping a quarter of the way through the 21st century – a time marked by psychological overload, acceleration and a pervasive sense of inertia” |
first day |
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market:
Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul)
“curated by Brian Griffiths, the exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending his longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional” |
first day |
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
Genuine Fake Premium Economy
moving image, photography, and painting and assemblage in a group exhibition of three emerging artists whose practices interrogate ideas of class, inheritance and assumed values through representational media |
first day |
LBF Contemporary:
Rob Ball: Everything Beautiful is Far Away
“the title of Rob Ball’s exhibition offers a compelling way into a fifteen-year photographic journey that includes over 100 seaside resorts, from the damp, neon-lit promenades of Blackpool to the fading ‘Doo-Wop’ motels of Wildwood, New Jersey” |
first day |
Larkin Durey:
Habib Hajallie: Black & Blue
Hajallie’s first solo exhibition with the gallery uses portraiture to examine the internal landscape of loss and celebrate pioneering Black cultural figures, family members, and his own experience as a British man of Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage |
first day |
Lisson Gallery:
Ken Price
presented with Matthew Marks Gallery, sculpture and drawing – including works on view in London for the first time – in an exhibition of the influential and relentlessly inventive LA-based artist |
first day |
NORITO:
Soryun Ahn: Arbers Aly
“Ahn continues to summon the ordinary, the anonymous, and the ghostly within the urban landscape of her everyday life in the UK” |
first day |
No.9 Cork Street:
Lehmann Maupin: Anna Park: Hot Honey
new large-scale charcoal works in the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK “centers on female protagonists who both inhabit and unsettle the archetypes of the vixen and the bombshell” |
first day |
No.9 Cork Street:
Artwin Gallery: Almagul Menlibayeva: Contested Cosmos: Women, Myth, and Technology across Central Asia
curated by Diana Kudaibergen, the Kazakh artist works with video, Al-driven cyber textiles, photography, and immersive sound to create a contemporary, technological, and philosophical world where water, myth, and the feminine intersect across Central Asia |
first day |
Palmer Gallery:
Carolina Aguirre: It murmurs
Aguirre’s first solo exhibition at the gallery is an immersive installation of sculpture, painting, film, and audio exploring “the intersections of body, land, memory and migration through the construction of mythopoetic landscapes” |
private view |
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Nengi Omuku: We Were Like Those Who Dreamed
new paintings exploring the politics of green spaces in urban centres and questioning the power structures that govern climate catastrophe – proposing the garden as a radical symbol of equality and inclusiveness |
first day |
Raven Row:
London’s Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981–1986, Four Corners Books |
book launch |
Ronchini:
Shara Mays: Runaway
large-scale, vibrant, abstract paintings exploring movement, displacement, and survival in Mays’ first solo exhibition at the gallery |
first day |
Saatchi Yates:
Studio Iron
presented with Isamaya Ffrench |
first day |
South London Gallery:
Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados
the Brazilian artist presents new paintings against a large mural painted directly onto the gallery walls – “magical environments … populated by mythical characters, animals and imaginary beasts” |
first day |
South London Gallery Fire Station:
Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves
monumental new sculptures, the British Nigerian artist’s largest works to date, are finished with a metallic glaze that reflects the body, and shown alongside a film produced in Ọṣun-Ọṣogbo, a sacred site of the Yoruba fertility goddess Osun |
first day |
DES BAINS:
Heurtebise
curated by Riccardo Greco and titled after the chauffeur-angel in Cocteau’s Orphée, this exhibition presents “a space in which bodies, objects and images are held in states of latent tremor, suspension and return” |
private view |
| London, Saturday 2 |
Ab-Anbar:
The Judge’s Quarters: Panel Discussion |
talk |
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
Artists’ Talk: Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison and Jasmine Gregory in conversation |
talk |
Palmer Gallery:
Carolina Aguirre: It murmurs
Aguirre’s first solo exhibition at the gallery is an immersive installation of sculpture, painting, film, and audio exploring “the intersections of body, land, memory and migration through the construction of mythopoetic landscapes” |
first day |
DES BAINS:
Heurtebise
curated by Riccardo Greco and titled after the chauffeur-angel in Cocteau’s Orphée, this exhibition presents “a space in which bodies, objects and images are held in states of latent tremor, suspension and return” |
first day |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Friday 1 |
Perrotin Los Angeles:
Kyungmi Shin: My Fantasy‘s Burdens
Shin’s debut exhibition with the gallery presents paintings and ceramics which examine Asian-American diasporic identity and foreground the cultural, economic, and scientific legacies of colonial trade |
opening reception |
| Los Angeles, Saturday 2 |
Philip Martin Gallery:
Katy Cowan: Tape Drifts and Figures Reach
new wall-mounted, hand-painted sculptures as Cowan transforms regular studio items through the process of casting to examine their nature and how we look at and think about them |
opening reception |
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Melbourne
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| Melbourne, Saturday 2 |
Tolarno Galleries:
Guruwuy Murrinyina & Djurrayun Murrinyina: Guwarguwarmirri – Colours of the Rainbow
“expanding the palette beyond the template of four primary Yolŋu colours – black, red, yellow and white – allows the story to come alive … an old song in a fresh key” – Will Stubbs |
opening reception |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 28 |
The Painting Center:
Mary Crenshaw: Inhale
Crenshaw’s portraits of immigrants and cigarette stubs, in thrifted picture frames, explore themes of displacement, resilience, value, and disposability |
first day |
The Painting Center:
Perri Neri: Caught Looking
“an intimate series of portrait paintings born from a radical shift in practice and a contemporary experiment in collaboration” |
first day |
| New York, Thursday 30 |
Hauser & Wirth Wooster Street:
Allison Katz. Outta the Bag
the Montreal-born, London-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York “proposes painting as a medium uniquely capable of holding disparate registers within a single, shifting field of vision” |
opening reception |
Hirschl & Adler:
Julie Heffernan: Nutmeg’s Curse
new paintings – dramatically scaled roses, peonies, daisies, tulips, and poppies erupt beyond the canvas – engaging the Old Masters to address contemporary preoccupations with the self, the body, and ecological anxiety about the fate of the natural world |
first day |
Nicola Vassell Gallery:
Virginia Chihota: Kutera mutsara / Hearing Inner Lines
new works on paper and large-scale canvases in Chihota’s first solo presentation with the gallery – “a fluid exchange between media … to explore profound questions of being, belonging, and the mutability of self” |
opening reception |
The Painting Center:
Mary Crenshaw: Inhale
Crenshaw’s portraits of immigrants and cigarette stubs, in thrifted picture frames, explore themes of displacement, resilience, value, and disposability |
opening reception |
The Painting Center:
Perri Neri: Caught Looking
“an intimate series of portrait paintings born from a radical shift in practice and a contemporary experiment in collaboration” |
opening reception |
Tina Kim Gallery:
Pacita Abad: Door to Life
including the debut of the artist’s double-sided ‘qamariya’ paintings – referencing the traditional stained glass windows of Sanaa – the exhibition brings together multiple bodies of work that comprise the holistic ‘Door to Life’ series for the first time |
opening reception |
| New York, Friday 1 |
The Foundation of ART NYC:
Song E Yoon: Shift
“working fluidly between painting and installation [Song E Yoon] investigates the relationship between material and immaterial, visible, and invisible dimensions” |
first day |
| New York, Tuesday 5 |
Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park:
Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit
curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Othello’s first solo outdoor exhibition in the city presents large-scale bronzes and new totemic redwood sculptures exploring ritual, spiritual, and healing objects from Western and Central Africa |
opening reception |
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Paris
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| Paris, Thursday 30 |
Sobering Galerie:
Spring Crush
with Isidore Bishop-Sauve, Kate Lewis, Jean Bosphore, Loïc Burzotta, Craig Cameron-Mackintosh, Mirko Leuzzi, Alejandro Asensio, Thomas Andréa Barbey, and Saree Robinson |
opening reception |
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Taipei
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| Taipei, Friday 1 |
Bluerider ART at Breeze Center:
Hans Kotter: Butterflies of Light
“through the interplay of light, mirrored surfaces, and diverse materials, Kotter employs optical phenomena to generate striking visual effects … guiding viewers into a mesmerizing perceptual journey” |
first day |
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Venice
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| Venice, Monday 4 |
Victoria Miro Venice:
Flora Yukhnovich: Egg
new paintings, in dialogue with a site-specific wall painting, based on “myths, Biblical accounts and fairy tales, with an emphasis on stories detailing fantastical conceptions and births” |
private view |
| Venice, Tuesday 5 |
Victoria Miro Venice:
Flora Yukhnovich: Egg
new paintings, in dialogue with a site-specific wall painting, based on “myths, Biblical accounts and fairy tales, with an emphasis on stories detailing fantastical conceptions and births” |
first day |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
London, Los Angeles, Naples, New York, Palm Beach, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tisbury, Tokyo, Venice
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London
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| London, Thursday 30 |
Felix & Spear:
Britain Modern: Art Across the 20th Century |
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Luxembourg + Co.:
Jannis Kounellis: To the Sound of Pictures |
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| London, Friday 1 |
Alon Zakaim Fine Art:
MONO/CHROMA |
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Hanina Fine Arts:
Post-War Perspectives |
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| London, Saturday 2 |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Antonio Marras: Caos Calmo |
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FreddieFoulkes Gallery:
Annie Shead: 9,983 Rows |
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General Assembly:
Alina Zamanova: Fallout of Silence |
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Kearsey & Gold:
Notes Along the Way |
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Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Sholto Blissett: Orders of Magnitude |
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Sim Smith:
Dido Hallett: Rumble |
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Sim Smith:
Sung Jik Yang: Still Here |
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| London, Sunday 3 |
Bartha_contemporary:
Lucinda Burgess: Morphosis |
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County Hall Pottery:
2126: A Ceramic Odyssey |
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Hayward Gallery:
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life |
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Hayward Gallery:
Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart |
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Hayward Gallery:
Samuel Laurence Cunnane: Blue Road |
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| London, Monday 4 |
National Portrait Gallery:
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 2 |
Louis Stern Fine Arts:
Mimi Chen Ting: Ties Unbound |
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| Los Angeles, Sunday 3 |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black |
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Naples
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| Naples, Saturday 2 |
Alfonso Artiaco:
Robert Barry: Another Time |
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Alfonso Artiaco:
Glen Rubsamen: Sorry, Wrong Number |
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| Naples, Tuesday 5 |
Thomas Dane Gallery:
Atlante |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 28 |
Susan Sheehan Gallery:
COLOR/FORM |
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| New York, Thursday 30 |
HB381:
Camilla Iliefski & Eva Zethraeus: Shimmering Real: Perception and the Spaces Between |
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| New York, Saturday 2 |
GRIMM:
Letha Wilson: Stone’s Throw |
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GRIMM:
Eric White: Vignettes & Mutations |
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Nagas:
Véronique Wirbel |
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Nara Roesler:
Thiago Barbalho, Antonio Henrique Amaral: Organic Fictions |
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Nohra Haime Gallery:
Valerie Hird: Elemental Ascendant |
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| New York, Sunday 3 |
The Gallery at Soho Grand:
Downtown Lens |
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Palm Beach
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| Palm Beach, Tuesday 28 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Amy Magee |
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Paris
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| Paris, Tuesday 28 |
Sobering Galerie:
Stories at Room Temperature |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Saturday 2 |
LKIF Gallery:
Gema Quiles: The Dancers Inherit the Night |
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Perrotin Seoul:
10 YEARS |
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Shanghai
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| Shanghai, Thursday 30 |
SHENME ART Project & Consultancy:
Tuapennot: I Don’t Understand Why I Have To Follow You |
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Stockholm
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| Stockholm, Saturday 2 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Richard Johansson: In the Shadows of Myself |
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Tisbury
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| Tisbury, Monday 4 |
Messums West:
Yakimono: A Culture of Exchange – The Impact of Japanese Ceramics |
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Tokyo
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| Tokyo, Saturday 2 |
Taka Ishii Gallery:
Reika Takebayashi: A petal falling |
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Venice
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| Venice, Saturday 2 |
Patricia Low Venezia:
Cables of Cobwebs |
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