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The Week in Art
28 February – 7 March 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Rinus Van de Velde @ Galerie Max Hetzler London		Eddie Martinez @ Capitain Petzel Berlin		Sarah Dwyer @ Fabian Lang Zürich
Bianca Walker @ T293 Rome		Jakob Jørgensen @ HB381 New York		Balthus @ Luxembourg + Co. London

Berlin

Friday 3

Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16:
Jinn Bronwen Lee / André Butzer
alongside the exhibition at the Goethestraße space a double exhibition of the two artists’ paintings in dialogue

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45:
Thomas Struth: Unbewusste Orte / Unconscious Places
a comprehensive look at Struth’s streetscape photographs, with more than thirty, mostly analogue black and white, photographs from the very beginning of his artistic career

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
André Butzer: Kirschmichel
paintings and drawings by Butzer, shown in conjunction with the double exhibition of paintings by the artist and Jinn Bronwen Lee at the Bleibtreustraße 15/16 space

opening reception

Saturday 4

Capitain Petzel:
Eddie Martinez: Supernature
drawing inspiration from a wide-range of sources, from popular culture to Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, the Brooklyn-based artist has his first solo exhibition at the gallery

opening reception

Dallas

Saturday 4

Meliksetian | Briggs:
Meg Cranston. A Line Has Two Sides

opening reception

Dubai

Tuesday 28

Perrotin Dubai:
Jeremy Demester: XXI
the first solo exhibition in Dubai of the French-Beninese artist, gathering unveiled works

opens

London

Tuesday 28

Bermondsey Project Space:
Buoyed
for one night only – “a watery exploration of queer bodies and a queer exploration of water bodies”

opening reception

Christie’s London:
20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Wed 22 – Mon 27 February)

auction

Christie’s London:
The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Wed 22 – Mon 27 February)

auction

Christie’s London:
Contemporary Edition: London
auction: Tue 28 Feb – Tue 14 Mar
(viewing: Tue 7 – Mon 13 March)

auction starts

David Zwirner:
Josef Albers: Paintings Titled Variants
an exhibition focusing on Albers’s breakthrough Variant/Adobe series, inspired in part by the art, architecture, and landscapes that he encountered during visits to Mexico and the American Southwest

opens

David Zwirner:
Black Mountain College: The Experimenters
works from a group of artists whose careers developed around the renowned liberal arts school that in the 1930s and 1940s became, as the writer Amanda Fortini recounts, “the site of a genius cluster”

opens

Mazzoleni:
OLD BOND ROOM: works from the Mazzoleni collection

opens

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Colour is Light on Fire: Sam Francis Works on Paper
in celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth, works from four pivotal decades of his career – “colour is light on fire. Each colour is the result of burning, for each substance burns with a particular colour” – Francis

opens

Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Gerasimos Floratos: Compass

opens

Wednesday 1

Almine Rech:
Mehdi Ghadyanloo: The Untold Stories
Ghadyanloo’s paintings combine minimalist themes with a surrealist aesthetic

opens

Almine Rech:
Paul de Flers: Black Island
“de Flers’ paintings convey a lost paradise, with a stormy, intoxicating atmosphere. By means of merging colors and blurry edges, the scenes propose the viewer as witnessing an intimate moment, through a window misted with memory” – Milena Oldfield

opens

Christie’s London:
Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
auction: Wed 1
(viewing: Wed 22 – Tue 28 February)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
The Now Evening Auction
auction: Wed 1
(viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March)

auction

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
auction: Wed 1
(viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March)

auction

Thursday 2

Bermondsey Project Space:
Is It Funny Yet?
a one day exhibition by Georgie Earnshaw – “a collection of satirical, autobiographical, pieces exploring sexual harassment. Expect drag mug shots, bejazzling and a voyeuristic video installation”

opening reception

Christie’s London:
Prints and Multiples
auction: Thu 2 – Thu 16 Mar
(viewing: Tue 7 – Thu 16 March)

auction starts

Lisson Gallery:
Julian Opie: OP.VR@LISSON/London
new works, including the UK premiere of a virtual reality experience – the first time the gallery has presented a VR work – as well as a fast-paced dance sequence, life-size and large-scale portraits, and landscapes and architectural works

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Rinus Van de Velde
Van de Velde’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and in the UK – “I depict a life I never had. For me, daydreaming is more important than what happens in reality. After all, you can experience so much more in your mind than you can in reality”

opening reception

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Mind & Materials
works by Marc Vaux, Roman Opalka, Andrea Gregson, John Wigley, Lee Maelzer, Peter Abrahams, Mathew Weir, David Connearn and Michael Roberts in an exhibition curated by Roberts

opens

Simon Lee Gallery:
Serge Attukwei Clottey: Crossroads
in his inaugural exhibition with the gallery, new and recent multidisciplinary work by Clottey exploring the relationship between his Ghanaian identity and Western culture

private view

Simon Lee Gallery:
Helena Foster: To See Beyond Seeing
new paintings on canvas, paper and copper by the Nigerian born, London based artist explore unconscious fate in everyday reality

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
auction: Thu 2
(viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March)

auction

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Lynda Benglis
“[looking at the work] we experience something in our bodies that is proprioceptic; we experience it in our whole body – you feel what you see and you are ‘charged’. It’s an exchange of energy” – Benglis

private view

Friday 3

Bermondsey Project Space:
Not The Minor Character
this one day exhibition by Tabitha Rose Owen and Jess Routley – “an invitation to unsaid things; imagined, confessed, desired, remembered, or ignored”

opening reception

Christie’s London:
Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
auction: Fri 3
(viewing: Wed 22 February – Thu 2 March)

auction

Luxembourg + Co.:
Balthus: Under the Surface
the first exhibition of Balthus in the UK since the 1968 Tate Gallery retrospective, focuses on his engagement with “surface” as both a material and a psychological quality

opens

Modern Art Bury Street:
Richard Tuttle: Village V
the first of two consecutive exhibitions forming a large-scale solo presentation of both new and historical work by Tuttle restages one of his installations exploring the relation between sculpture and drawing

private view

Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St:
Ian Cheng

opens

Saturday 4

GRIMM:
Close
curated by Russell Tovey, an exhibition of works by Ellen Altfest, Jean Claracq, Lenz Geerk, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Ulala Imai, Fiza Khatri, Xie Lei, Aubrey Levinthal, Jean Nipon, Paula Siebra, Hugh Steers, Alexandria Tarver and Salman Toor

opens

Tuesday 7

Unit London:
Tyler Hobbs: Mechanical Hand
Hobbs’ first solo exhibition with the gallery reveals another side of his practice – paintings on canvas and works on paper alongside characteristic digital pieces

opens

Unit London:
Within + Without
twelve contemporary artists – working within the historically gendered mediums of textiles and ceramics – explore powerful representations of our inner and outer worlds

opens

Los Angeles

Saturday 4

CJG2:
Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas: Freedom Portals
work by the two Los Angeles-based artists – collaborators and practitioners of the West African Ifá religion – “is equal parts devotional and metaphorical in nature and should be viewed in response to the contemporary moment”

opening reception

Munich

Thursday 2

Walter Storms Galerie:
INVENTUR II: Tim Freiwald
new works by Freiwald in the final part of this changing exhibition

opening reception

New York

Tuesday 28

David Richard Gallery:
James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting: From Bay Area Abstract Expressionism to New York’s Downtown Scene
a survey of the artist’s lifelong commitment to painting

opens

David Richard Gallery:
Robert Swain: The Perception of Color
new paintings by the New York-based artist, organized in pairs related to each other by size, compositional arrangement and color pallets, to examine the perception and understanding of color

opens

Wednesday 1

Christie’s New York:
Latin American Art Online
auction: Wed 1 – Tue 14 Mar

auction starts

Christie’s New York:
Modern Collector: Design, Tiffany Studios, and Property from a Pacific Island Connoisseur
auction: Wed 1 – Wed 15 Mar

auction starts

Petzel:
KP Brehmer: Welt im Kopf [World in Mind]
curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, this is Brehmer’s first solo presentation in the US since 1976 and features seminal and previously unexhibited artworks, including drawings, prints, paintings, films, and objects

opens

Thursday 2

Christie’s New York:
The Collection of Thomas & Doris Ammann: Online
auction: Thu 2 – Tue 14 Mar
(viewing: Fri 3 – Thu 9 March)

auction starts

Peter Freeman, Inc.:
Matt Mullican: Sunday, August 9, 1908
a new series of paintings and drawings – “I was interested in depicting / The parts of that world that / Support life in the pictured world” – Mullican

opens

Friday 3

Galerie Buchholz:
Marcus Behmer

opening reception

David Richard Gallery:
James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting: From Bay Area Abstract Expressionism to New York’s Downtown Scene

opening reception

HB381:
Jakob Jørgensen: Take Root
new monumental steel sculptures by the Danish contemporary artist and designer

opening reception

Perrotin New York:
Nikki Maloof: Skunk Hour
new paintings and drawings in the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery – “Maloof’s paintings are a vision of the world as seen through the eyes of a singular artist’ – Gabrielle Schwarz

opens

Perrotin New York:
Sophia Narrett: Carried by Wonder
Narrett’s first exhibition with the gallery – the debut of slow and meticulous embroidery, often interrogating experiences of womanhood and made in response to the increasingly fast pace of contemporary media

opens

Perrotin New York:
JR: Les Enfants d’Ouranos
JR’s newest series explores the tensions between the visible and invisible – images of children impacted by global conflict and living in refugee camps, instilled with transcendence and the opportunity to command influence and create a new world

opens

Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Fri 3 – Thu 16 Mar
(viewing: Sat 4 – Tue 14 March)

auction starts

Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Fri 3 – Wed 15 Mar
(viewing: Sat 4 – Wed 15 March)

auction starts

Saturday 4

David Richard Gallery:
Robert Swain: The Perception of Color

opening reception

Fergus McCaffrey:
Reinhard Pods: Works from 1979 – 2022

opens

James Cohan, 52 Walker St:
Shinichi Sawada: Messengers
spanning two decades of work, an exhibition of sculptures by the self-taught ceramicist – organized in partnership with Jennifer Lauren Gallery

opening reception

James Cohan, 52 Walker St:
Simon Evans™: Room to Live
text-based collages of poetic handwritten phrases, drawings, and images often scavenged from the detritus of everyday life, created by Simon Evans™ – the collaboration between artists Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan

opening reception

Tuesday 7

Christie’s New York:
Art of Collecting: A Pacific Island Connoisseur of Art and Design
auction: Tue 7
(viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 March)

auction

Paris

Thursday 2

David Zwirner:
Franz West
an exhibition surveying sculptures, works on paper, and installations produced between the late 1970s and early 2000s, including a significant and rarely seen group of early Passstücke (Adaptives)

opens

Saturday 4

Galerie Max Hetzler:
William N. Copley: AUTOEROTICISM: Paintings from 1984 and related works
“through the iconography of Parisian imagery, and the car, Copley plays a game of multiple pictorial dimensions and presents a series of stories happening simultaneously, using an inventive compositional technique of painting pictures within pictures”

opening reception

Rome

Tuesday 28

Richard Saltoun:
decentering in Ceramics
curated by Giulia Pollicita, an exhibition of eight female artists that celebrates the symbolic, political, social, and identitarian power of ceramics

opens

Friday 3

T293:
Isabella Ducrot: Il Miracoloso
three religiously-themed and bigger-than-life works on paper alongside six small-scaled variations of the Descent of the Holy Spirit – “the connection with the divine … happens also inside the gallery”

opening reception

T293:
Bianca Walker: Communion
house paint on drop cloth paintings explore the history of colonization and whiteness as opposed to the “other” in the first solo exhibition in Europe by the New-Orleans based artist

opening reception

Stockholm

Saturday 4

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Tommy Hilding: Inversion
“Hilding’s paintings portray an ambivalence and rootlessness that exist in our time. He challenges chronology and reverses concepts with a language that is playful yet urgent”

opening reception

Vienna

Thursday 2

Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Polyurethane Objects
three of the polyurethane installations that are a hallmark of their work – “we can say that the ordinary object that escapes conscious notice, although we use it everyday, captures our attention in the context of a museum and acquires new meaning”

opening reception

Zürich

Wednesday 1

Fabian Lang:
Sarah Dwyer: Off Kilter
Dwyer’s first solo exhibition in Continental Europe – “there is a refusal to come down either side of the abstraction- figuration fence because I enjoy the confused middle-ground where there is potential for suggestion, deception and cheekiness” – Dwyer

opening reception + talk

Saturday 4

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
Verne Dawson: Fête Galante
“what first struck me about Verne Dawson’s recent paintings – having followed his work for years – is an increased sense of painterly freedom” – Barry Schwabsky

opening reception + talk

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Mimi Smith @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles		Maria Thereza Alves @ Alfonso Artiaco Naples		Chair de Temps @ Bigaignon Paris
MOTHERS @ Badr El Jundi Madrid		Wanapati Yunupiŋu @ Tolarno Galleries Melbourne		Joy Gerrard, Paula Rego @ Cristea Roberts Gallery London