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The Week in Art
31 January – 7 February 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Hicham Berrada @ kamel mennour Paris		Barry Flanagan @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin		Jon Rafman @ Sprüth Magers London
Alexander Lindsay @ Stephen Ongpin Fine Art London		John Evans / John O’Connor @ Pazo Fine Art Kensington, MD		Zanele Muholi @ MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris

Berlin

Friday 3

Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße:
Barry Flanagan: Imaginary Solutions
sculptures, film stills and works on paper from five decades of Flanagan’s work

opening reception

Bucharest

Thursday 2

Mobius Gallery:
Andrei Costache: Honey Drops Tripping Through My Veins
Costache’s first exhibition in Romania combines sculptural elements and digital prints to create a multi-dimensional, immersive experience

opens

Hong Kong

Tuesday 31

Gagosian:
Uncanny Valley
curated by Yang Zi, with new works by Owen Fu, Jiang Cheng, Li Hei Di, Li Weiyi, Nabuqi, Song Yuanyuan, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Haiyang, Wang Xiaoqu, Wang Xingwei, and Zhang Zipiao

opening reception

Kensington

Saturday 4

Pazo Fine Art:
Sim Buhls
collages by John Evans and drawings by John O’Connor, both of whom re-work the stuff of the everyday until something new materializes

opens

London

Tuesday 31

Bermondsey Project Space:
The Other Checkbox: We Belong
a collective exhibition of works created by the “The Other Checkbox” community – funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation – that explores otherness, feelings of belonging, and representation of diverse ethnic groups in London

opens

Hauser & Wirth:
Günther Förg. Tupfenbilder
an exhibition of the final series of works by this prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer, photographer – and one of the most significant German artists of the postwar generation

private view

Richard Saltoun:
Antigone: Women in Fibre Art
a group show focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, shown alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, as well as new work by Anna Perach and Egle Jauncems

opens

Unit London:
Mauro C. Martinez: RateMySetup
Martinez takes over both floors of the gallery with an immersive presentation of his multimedia practice visualising how hierarchical structures can seep into even the most decentralised digital spaces

opens

Wednesday 1

Alison Jacques:
Linder | Hannah Wilke
an exhibition pairing, for the first time, these two internationally renowned artists, recognised as pioneers, provocateurs and radical feminists

private view

Bermondsey Project Space:
The Other Checkbox: We Belong

opening reception

Cob Gallery:
Night, Light.
bringing together artists who explore the night time, as antithesis to the traditions of daytime painting, and exploring a painterly relationship to the night

opens

The Mayor Gallery:
Not Bronze
a celebration of 20th Century sculpture by artists who use unconventional means of making, including found objects, junk scrap metal, Plexiglas, fibreglass, mirror, latex and resins

opens

October Gallery:
Transvangarde: Pushing Boundaries
painting, works on paper, sculpture and photography by artists including El Anatsui, Aubrey Williams, Zana Masombuka, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Jordan Ann Craig – artists who push the boundaries of their work to engage critically with the present

private view

Thursday 2

Hollybush Gardens:
Altoon Sultan

private view

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Lines of Empathy
works on paper by seventeen mid-career and established artists working in Britain today, in an exhibition exploring empathy as the act of reaching out into someone else’s experience

opens

Pontone Gallery:
Tim Wright, Raffaele Rossi, Massimo Giannoni, Clive Head

opens

Friday 3

Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.:
Gretchen Bender: Image World
work by the late artist, who gained renown in the 1980s as a key observer of the effects of capitalist society and mass media on the human experience

opens

Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.:
Jon Rafman
Rafman’s first exhibition at the London gallery harnesses the creative potential of machine learning, continuing his long-standing practice of investigating the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness

opens

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art:
Alexander Lindsay: The Light I Saw
Lindsay creates monumental landscape photographs of great detail, clarity and beauty, capturing and printing, from his studio in Fife, wilderness regions of the world beyond the edges of human influence

opens

Victoria Miro:
Grayson Perry: Posh Cloths
the London part of a two-exhibition presentation of Perry’s work – the other in Venice later in February – features a selection of textile pieces including new tapestries

opens

Waddington Custot:
Modern & Contemporary
contemporary works in dialogue with 20th Century masterpieces, with pieces by artists including David Batchelor, Patrick Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport, Hans Hartung, Landon Metz, Manolo Millares, Jedd Novatt, Mimmo Paladino, Pablo Picasso

opens

Saturday 4

Modern Art Helmet Row:
The Moth and The Thunderclap
curated by Simon Grant, a global mix of over forty artists from modernism to the present day showing how they reflect an indeterminate psychological space where nature and culture collide, often filtered through their experience of landscape

opens

Monday 6

Bermondsey Project Space:
TEEF

performance

Tuesday 7

Bermondsey Project Space:
Hysterical Social

special event

Los Angeles

Thursday 2

Hauser & Wirth:
Rita Ackermann. Vertical Vanish
Ackermann’s first exhibition with the gallery on the West Coast unveils a new body of large-scale oil paintings that synthesize line, color and form

opens

Hauser & Wirth:
Zeng Fanzhi
monumental abstract landscapes in the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by the renowned Chinese artist

opens

New York

Tuesday 31

Lisson Gallery:
Future Shock
across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber

opens

Lisson Gallery W 24th St:
Future Shock
across both NYC spaces, collaborations, key early works, and recent pieces by Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Borna Sammak, Trevor Shimizu, Martin Syms, Julia Wachtel, Marnie Weber

opens

Wednesday 1

Acquavella Galleries:
less: minimalism in the 1960s
sculptural works by nineteen preeminent artists associated with minimalism

opens

Thursday 2

Gagosian West 21st St:
Cy Gavin
new paintings which transmute subjective responses to specific places into expansive works with striking palettes and fluid brushwork in Gavin’s first exhibition with the gallery

opening reception

Tina Kim Gallery:
Tania Pérez Córdova: Precipitation
two new bodies of work from Pérez Córdova – sculptures developed using artificial leaves, and blown glass referencing the rhythms of breathing patterns

opens

Paris

Wednesday 1

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Zanele Muholi
the first retrospective in France dedicated to the internationally renowned South African photographer and activist whose work documents and celebrates the Black LGBTQIA+ community

opens

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie:
Cédrine Scheidig: de la mer à la terre
the French-Caribbean photographer explores the personal narratives of diasporic youth in the process of self-discovery, while reflecting on political subjects including the colonial past, cultural hybridity, modern masculinity and migration

opens

Friday 3

Galleria Continua:
Nikhil Chopra: Fire

opening reception + preformance

Galleria Continua:
Moataz Nasr: Retour d’Egypte

opening reception

Galleria Continua:
Manuela Sedmach: Nunca pare der ver “N’arrête jamais de voir”

opening reception + talk

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois:
Aplatitudes!
Valerio Adami, Evelyne Axell, Matthew Brannon, Alain Bublex, Robert Cottingham, Antoine de Margerie, Gilles Elie, Bertrand Lavier, Emanuel Proweller, Peter Stämpfli, Emilio Tadini, Hervé Télémaque, William Wegman explore the concept of “aplat” in painting

opens

kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi:
Liam Everett: The sun is their drum
“while his work clearly engages with the history of abstract painting, Everett does not think of it as abstract, but as almost painfully literal” – Jonathan Griffin

opening reception

kamel mennour, r. du Pont de Lodi:
Le Salon de musique
Baya, John Cage, Eugène Carrière, Valentin Carron, Latifa Echakhch, Douglas Gordon, Petrit Halilaj, Vassily Kandinsky, Alicja Kwade, Bertrand Lavier, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Man Ray, Judit Reigl, Robin Rhode engage with the visual potentialities of sound

opening reception

kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts:
Hicham Berrada: Vestiges
“an exhibition of alternative arrangements of chemical elements, or as an alternative ecological trail – a vision of a parallel world in which earthly matter is organised quite differently” – Alexandra Khazina

opening reception

Saturday 4

Art: Concept:
Giuseppe Gabellone
“a process of landscape synthesis that Gabellone accomplishes by trying to find a balance in an environment that unfolds between sculpture, painting and architecture” – Lorenzo Benedetti

opens

Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais:
Enchan-Temps: Inhabiting the Earth – Intimate Archaeology
the first in a cycle of three exhibitions around space, time, environment, and enchantment

opens

Seoul

Thursday 2

Lehmann Maupin:
Reflections and Refractions
an exhibition uniting painting and sculpture by Helen Pashigian and Kim Taek Sang to explore the universalizing possibilities of light, space, and sensory immersion

opens

Zürich

Thursday 2

Lullin + Ferrari:
Mirjam Blanka Inauen: A Beautiful Blue Substance Flows Into Me

opening reception

Lullin + Ferrari:
Minimal Shift

opening reception

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Marc-Antoine Fehr: Opera
familiar and key motifs from Fehr’s work form a new pictorial world of natures mortes, genre scenes and landscapes

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Eccentric Spaces @ The Artist Room London		Gillian Ayres @ Galería Marlborough Madrid		Je suis la chaise @ Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris
T J Wilcox @ GAVLAK Palm Beach		Isa Genzken @ Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz		Hayoon Jay Lee @ Hollis Taggart New York