Almine Rech now represents Christopher Le Brun

June 3, 2025

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of British artist Christopher Le Brun, in conjunction with Lisson Gallery and Albertz Benda.

The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne from 18 October to 15 November, 2025. The gallery will present works by Christopher Le Brun at Art Basel, Basel, June 2025.

Sir Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, UK) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture, and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. Since 1990 he has served as a Trustee of major British institutions at Tate, National Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and was a founding Trustee of the Royal Drawing School. He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours.

"There aren’t any reasons for painting. That’s what is special about it. It doesn’t need justification. It’s essential that it is not used for other purposes. All the things which will, as it were, take away from what is mysterious about it."

— Christopher Le Brun

His work is in many museum collections including Tate, London, UK; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen, China; British Museum, London, UK; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Whitworth, Manchester, UK; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, US; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, US. Le Brun’s public sculptures include Union (horse with two discs) at the London Museum, UK; City Wing on the site of the original London Stock Exchange, UK; and The Monument to Victor Hugo in Saint Helier, Jersey, UK.

photo: Maureen M. Evans

Lindsay Adams now represented by Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce representation of Lindsay Adams.

Lindsay Adams, born in 1990 in Washington, D.C., is a visual artist whose practice is focused on painting and drawing. Employing her educational foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, her work systematically engages with precise critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of the complex fabric of social dynamics. Lindsay received BAs from the University of Richmond in both International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy and Spanish, she has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as a reflection of self, exploring personal and collective histories and the role imagination plays in mining the complexities and nuances of life. Her current body of work is a conceptual investigation of the balance between the known and the possible, examining themes of place, liberation, expanse, and freedom. Each mark intuitively invites a dialogue between reality and dreaming, as she mines through layers of gesture and color to build worlds. Adams alternates between abstract and representational forms, employing formal techniques that highlight the physicality of paint and the delicacy of gesture. In this way, she weaves multiple paintings within one, crafting a rich tapestry informed by interconnected experiences that invites reflection on the boundlessness of dreaming. Her work highlights her interest in constructing imagined ecologies—spaces in which rhythmic gestures and dynamic hues engage in a continuous dialogue.

Lindsay Adams had her inaugural exhibition with the gallery at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles in January 2025. On joining the gallery, Adams said, “I’m honored to join Sean Kelly Gallery, a program committed to vision, creativity, and artists who continually push the boundaries of their practice. This marks a pivotal moment for me—an opportunity to deepen the questions I’m asking, expand the scope of the work, and grow within a dynamic community that challenges and inspires.”

Lindsay Adams is represented by Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles in collaboration with PATRON Gallery, Chicago.

photo: Ray Abercrombie

GalleriesNow Partners with London Gallery Weekend as Official Navigation Partner

May 29, 2025

GalleriesNow is delighted to announce its partnership with London Gallery Weekend (LGW) as the official navigation sponsor for this year’s event (6-8 June 2025).

This collaboration brings together London’s premier gallery platform with the capital’s most significant contemporary art weekend to create an enhanced experience for art enthusiasts across the city.

“London Gallery Weekend showcases everything we love about the city’s art scene” said Tristram Fetherstonhaugh, co-founder at GalleriesNow, adding “being their navigation partner lets us help people discover exhibitions and events they might never have found otherwise”.

In the days running up to the event as well as for the weekend itself, the GalleriesNow app will serve as the event’s comprehensive digital companion, featuring all participating galleries’ exhibitions and events in one seamless platform.

The collaboration features a fully branded experience within the GalleriesNow app, including:

• Integrated LGW routes that guide visitors through carefully curated gallery trails across London
• Specialised bookable events calendar showcasing opening receptions, artist talks, and other events
• Complete exhibition listings from all participating Weekend galleries

The GalleriesNow app is available to download for free on iOS and Android platforms.

Participating galleries will also feature on the GalleriesNow Summer London Gallery Map with LGW.

Glasgow International announces Helen Nisbet as Festival Director

May 28, 2025

Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art, has announced Helen Nisbet as its new Director. Nisbet will assume the post from summer 2025 ahead of the 11th edition of the festival, which takes place from Friday 5 to Sunday 21 June 2026.

Nisbet takes over the role from previous Director Richard Birkett. Her artist-led practice, which emphasises solidarity and representation, will build on Birkett’s open and embedded artistic and organisational vision for Glasgow International which saw the festival team work in close partnership with Glasgow-based and international artists and organisers to produce an acclaimed edition in 2024.

Nisbet’s appointment coincides with other key appointments within the Glasgow International Festival team: Pelumi Odubanjo (Curator) and Martel Ollerenshaw (Festival Manager). They join existing staff Siobhan Carroll (Open Programme Convenor), and Poi Marr (Curator).

Every two years Glasgow International presents an array of artists’ projects across Glasgow by international artists and those based locally, amplifying the city’s identity as a vibrant and distinctive centre for artistic production, presentation and cultural organising. These projects are selected through an open call by an invited panel of international and local artists, curators and producers and the Glasgow International Programme team. The open call for submissions to be part of Glasgow International 2026 closed on 26 May.

photo: Christa Holka

Art Basel, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+ announce partnership to launch Art Basel Qatar in Doha

May 20, 2025

Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, and leading Qatari organisations Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), a major investor in sports, culture, entertainment and lifestyle, and QC+, a strategic and creative collective specialising in cultural commerce, today announced a one-of-a-kind partnership that will include the launch of a new fair of modern and contemporary art in Qatar.

Debuting in Doha in February 2026, Art Basel Qatar will embed itself in Qatar's vibrant cultural landscape and the dynamic arts ecosystem of the MENA region, providing an unparalleled platform to showcase leading galleries and artistic talent from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and further afield. The inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar will be held in M7 creative hub and the Doha Design District in downtown Msheireb, in proximity to world-renowned landmarks including the National Museum of Qatar.

photo courtesy of Art Basel

Annely Juda Fine Art announces move to 16 Hanover Square

May 15, 2025

Annely Juda Fine Art will be moving to 16 Hanover Square in the autumn of 2025, after 35 years on nearby Dering Street. The move not only celebrates the gallery’s near 60-year legacy in London, it will also provide a new space to cultivate and showcase their roster of both eminent and early-career artists. The new space will continue to be led by co-Directors David Juda – who founded the gallery with his mother Annely in 1968 - and Nina Fellmann, who has been with the gallery since 2003.

The inaugural exhibition in the Hanover Square space this autumn will be a series of recent work by one of the gallery’s longest standing represented artists; David Hockney. Combining both paintings and iPad drawings of the night sky from Hockney’s Normandy studio, this is the first time Hockney’s ‘Moon’ series (2020 – 2023) will be shown as a group in the UK.

Annely Juda Fine Art will take over the lease on the whole Grade II listed Georgian townhouse on Hanover Square, with two large floors of exhibition space including an exceptional former ballroom with a glass-domed ceiling. The gallery will also include a dedicated spotlight area for new and emerging artists.

Founded in 1968 by Annely Juda (1914 – 2006) and her son David Juda, Annely Juda Fine Art has been instrumental in introducing and promoting modernist movements, including Russian Constructivism and De Stijl, to the international art world from its London home for nearly 60 years. The inaugural exhibition in 1968, ‘Now Open: Important Paintings of the 20th Century and Young Artists’ set the tone for a legacy of showcasing definitive works of the 20th Century alongside groundbreaking contemporary art – something they continue to platform through new voices such as Nicola Turner whose large-scale work will debut at Art Basel Unlimited this June and whose solo exhibition will be at the gallery in 2026.

photo: Hugo Glendinning

Timothy Taylor announces representation of Lauren Satlowski

May 14, 2025

Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the representation of Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Satlowski (b. 1984) in London and New York. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of the artist’s work in New York this October.

With her seductive photorealist oil paintings featuring uncanny still lifes and object studies, Satlowski investigates themes of perception, memory-both personal and collective-and the aesthetics of consumer culture. Drawing on the visual language of commercial photography, cinema, and 17th-century vanitas painting, her compositions offer ambiguous arrangements of found objects in glossy, hermetic spaces that suggest enigmatic narratives. Accumulated during travel or picked up along the course of daily life, some of the depicted objects are organic and ephemeral-flowers, beans, spiders, and scorpions-but many have an uncertain relationship to time, including plastic and otherwise fabricated knickknacks. Satlowski selects objects that might function as potent associative vessels for the viewer-dolls, ornaments, perfume, masks, hotel shampoo-photographing them in inscrutable configurations before painting them in preternaturally vivid detail. She is compelled by the notion of the souvenir and the idea that an object might be a proxy for experience, conjuring-and quietly interrogating-feelings of longing and nostalgia.

Often, Satlowski’s compositions feature refracted light. Channelling dramatic illumination through trinket prisms, plastic picture frames, Ziploc bags filled with water, scotch tape, and panes of glass, she plays with notions of transparency, illusion, and reflection. In this way, her scenes possess an intensely psychological dimension. Throughout the work, conflicting qualities-pleasure and fear, harmony and tension-are held together.

photo: Chantal Anderson

lbf contemporary now represents Lawrence Perry

May 13, 2025

LBF Contemporary announces the representation of London-based painter Lawrence Perry. Perry's debut solo exhibition 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' closed in February, 2025.

Lawrence Perry (b. Singapore, 1999) graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. The London-based artist paints uncanny scenes loaded with a psychological charge and heavy dose of wit. Drawing from film, mythology, literature and fashion, Perry creates scenes that feel familiar yet surreal, interacting with the emotional states of the figures that populate them. Each painting is packed with subtle nuance and contradiction, leading to an uneasy environment in which the viewer is invited to question the psychological states of his characters or the authenticity of their narrative. Highlights of recent exhibitions include ‘After the Past’ at /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, 2023 (Solo); ‘Don’t Tell The Boys’ at /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, 2022 (Solo); The Bomb Factory Residents Show, The Bomb Factory Covent Gardens, London (Group). Lawrence first came to the public eye in 2016 when his work as an in-house artist for an anti-Brexit lobbyist group was picked up by British GQ, and since featured in Alessandro Michele’s A/W 2020 campaign for Gucci, ‘Gucci, The Ritual.’

photo: Isaac Lamb

Tallinn Photomonth 2025 announces its main programme

The 8th edition of Tallinn Photomonth, Estonia’s contemporary art biennial, will take place from 5 September to 31 October, 2025, activating sites across the capital. This year’s main programme features three exhibitions, each shaped by distinct curatorial approaches to image-making in an increasingly visual world. Opening the programme at Kai Art Center is a duo exhibition by Estonian artists Tanja Muravskaja and Sirje Runge. Other exhibitions include a public installation of photographic works in Tallinn’s urban space and a collaborative exhibition of Estonian and Finnish photographic artists at Hobusepea and FOKU galleries.

“The main programme of this year’s Tallinn Photomonth presents three distinct exhibitions, each exploring the evolving significance of photography in a world saturated with images. Photography permeates everyday life, yet art offers a space for reflection—an opportunity to cultivate visual literacy, which has become a crucial tool for navigating our image-driven world,” explains Kulla Laas, director of the biennial.“ Across its 2025 edition, Photomonth highlights the medium’s potential to elicit emotional, philosophical, and political resonances, inviting audiences to engage photography not only as a technology of representation but as a catalyst for new ways of seeing and sensing.”

Public art has become a defining feature of Tallinn Photomonth. This year’s exhibition in public space, curated by Kati Ots (Estonia) and Trine Stephensen (Norway), explores how photography can operate not only as a visual image but as a sculptural element that shapes space and intervenes in our experience of it. In an urban environment saturated with an overwhelming amount of stimuli, the project seeks ways in which art can offer moments of relief and open new perspectives on what we see and experience daily.

For the first time, the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU) collaborates with the Finnish Association of Photographic Artists (VTL) as part of the biennial. The joint exhibition, presented across Hobusepea and FOKU galleries, brings together works by artists from both countries, selected by a binational jury of professionals. The exhibition poses the question of what photography means within contemporary art today, highlighting how artists continue to challenge and expand the medium’s conceptual and material boundaries. From experimental techniques to unconventional formats, the exhibition offers a cross-section of urgent themes and approaches currently shaping photographic practices in the region.

The collaboration aims the long-term exchange between Estonian and Finnish artists working with photography, focuses on co-creation and shared curatorial approaches. The exhibition will be accompanied by a regional gathering and public panel discussion for professionals in the field. The initiative will continue in Finland in 2026.

In addition to the main programme, Tallinn Photomonth will host an expansive satellite programme and a series of public events designed to deepen engagement with photography and visual culture. The full list of participating artists and the extended programme of the biennial will be announced in the coming months.

Alison Saar awarded the Driskell Prize

May 12, 2025

Alison Saar has been awarded the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History by the High Museum of Art. Saar is the 20th recipient of the annual award, and is recognized for her significant contributions to visual arts that honor and center African American experiences. She will receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds to use toward the furthering of her artistic practice, and will be celebrated at the Driskell Prize Gala at the High on Saturday 20 September.

Based in Los Angeles, Alison Saar is widely celebrated for her sculpture, installation and mixed-media works, which tell stories about the African American experience through references to American history, literature and mythology. Her works have been featured in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including at the High, which presented one of her first solo museum exhibitions, “Fertile Ground,” in 1993. She has work in collections at renowned institutions including the High, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. In 2024, she was selected by the International Olympic Committee and the city of Paris to create “Salon,” a sculpture commissioned in honor of the 2024 Olympic Games, which is now permanently displayed in the Charles Aznavour Garden on the Champs-Élysées. Her installation “Soul Service Station” was featured as part of Desert X 2025 in Coachella Valley, California.

“Saar’s work delves deeply into the histories of the African diaspora and its artistic traditions, exploring how they influence and connect to cultural identity today. Her sculpture ‘Tobacco Demon’ has been a fixture in our galleries for decades,” said High Museum of Art Director Rand Suffolk. “We are honored to recognize her distinguished practice and myriad contributions to African American art with the 2025 Driskell Prize.”

The artist’s work is currently on view at L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, as part of an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 50th anniversary.

Alison Saar: Sweet Life opens at Galerie Lelong in Matignon, Paris, on Thursday 15 May.

photo: Nicholas Lea Bruno

David Zwirner announces representation of Yu Nishimura

May 6, 2025

David Zwirner is pleased to announce the representation of Japanese artist Yu Nishimura. Zwirner currently has a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Nishumura on view at their East 69th Street gallery in New York. This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in the United States, and the body of work on view was inspired by Nishimura’s recent trip to his hometown of Yokodai, where he spent his formative childhood and early teenage years in the 1990s. The artist also works with Sadie Coles HQ in London and Crèvecœur in Paris.

Combining traditional oil and tempera techniques with visual impulses borrowed from avant-garde postwar Japanese photographers, Nishimura’s multilayered paintings are steeped in everyday sources such as street photography, anime, and the diverse landscapes and built environments of the artist’s home country. Built up from dreamlike arrangements of simplified, semiblurred forms, his portraits and urban scenes achieve a stark sense of contemporaneity through their evocative palettes and spare and graphic compositional approach—yet at the same instant, they appear to exist in a nebulous realm of melancholic reminiscence that documents the passage of time.

David Zwirner states: "When my daughter Marlene introduced me to Yu Nishimura’s work, I was immediately intrigued. Yu manages to blend contradictory forces—namely the rigor of modernism with what I would call his own take on neo-romanticism. His works get under your skin. His sophisticated paint handling reflects a deep investigation of the genre, yet his voice is entirely contemporary. I’m excited to welcome Yu to the gallery and look forward to presenting his art to new audiences.

Yu Nishimura (b. 1982) was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and he continues to live and work there today. In 2004, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Tama Art University, Tokyo, where he studied oil painting.

photo: Takashi Homma for MARFA

Ames Yavuz inaugurates London gallery

May 1, 2025

Ames Yavuz is pleased to present Ellipsis by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, inaugurating the new London gallery at 31-33 Grosvenor Hill. The 2,600 sq. ft ground floor space in the heart of Mayfair is the gallery’s first European base, and will feature an expansive new programme in 2025, including renowned contemporary artists from the gallery roster and beyond.

With galleries in Singapore (2010), Sydney (2019) and London (2025), Ames Yavuz embraces its diverse cultural background through a strong international focus and perspective. The gallery’s vision is underpinned by robust curatorial practices that form the core of our program and foster intercultural discourse on a global scale.

Representing a wide range of multidisciplinary artists across continents, Ames Yavuz aims to challenge, inspire, and reclaim through art. The gallery provides a platform for transformative and compelling artistic voices who bring care and attention to the most urgent conversations of our time, and celebrates storytelling with authenticity, innovation and wit.

photo: Eva Herzog

Yancey Richardson now represents Tania Franco Klein

April 22, 2025

Yancey Richardson is pleased to announce its representation of Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein. Known for her visually evocative and conceptually intricate photographic series that explore emotion, psychology and subjectivity as social constructions, Franco Klein brings an innovative and incisive new voice to the gallery’s roster. Her work will be included in New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging, the 40th anniversary edition of the Museum of Modern Art, New York’s celebrated New Photography series, scheduled to open in September of this year.

In her dramatically staged photographs that blend together references to contemporary film, photography and social theory, Franco Klein creates psychologically charged spaces where self-understanding is linked to an awareness of the collective gaze. A key emphasis within her work is the contemporary experience of being oversaturated by images and information alike, with an understanding of how this experience shapes our perception of the world and even fuels our anxieties. Just as the pace of historical change continues to accelerate, so too do the characters in Franco Klein’s photographs seem to alter their interiority in response to the shifting world around them. The malleability of identity is further expressed by Franco Klein serving as both model and subject in many of her series, in which she embodies new personas that each respond to the experience of being seen.

For Franco Klein’s most recent and on-going series, Subject Studies: Chapter I, she photographed 106 people of different ages and backgrounds, each within the same group of scenes, to highlight how people instinctively profile and assign meaning based on appearance alone. In Mercado de Sonora, she photographed her mother and grandmother as an extended form of self-portraiture to capture the ways in which beliefs are passed down from generation to generation. The photographs in the series’ Break In Case of Emergency, Proceed to the Route and Positive Disintegration each in their own way address forms of social isolation, psychological exhaustion and the breakdown of communication that have become consistent features of our moment in history.

Born in 1990 in Mexico, Tania Franco Klein received her BA in Architecture from Centro Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City and her MA in Photography from the University of Arts London. She was the recipient of the Artproof Schliemann Award supporting Artist Residencies in Arles, France and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Getty Center, Los Angeles and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. Her first publication Positive Disintegration (2019) was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award. Franco Klein lives and works between Mexico City and the United States.

photo: Kovi Konowiecki

Jack Shainman Gallery announces representation of the Estate of Faith Ringgold

April 17, 2025

Jack Shainman Gallery is honored to announce representation of the Estate of Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) and the Anyone Can Fly Foundation. The gallery is planning an exhibition dedicated to Ringgold’s work in November 2025 at its new flagship location in Tribeca, New York.

Over the course of six decades, American artist, author, educator and organizer Faith Ringgold became one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, one whose impact and influence continues to be seen in the political art of young Black artists working today. Restlessly creative and formally ambitious, Ringgold worked in a variety of media and modes - from quilts and paintings to performance and children’s books - to create an incisive and unflinching narrative about the historical sacrifices and achievements of Black Americans.

The extraordinary body of work that Ringgold created was born out of her political consciousness and activism of the 1960s and 1970s in Harlem, New York. She fused together her own unique style of figurative painting with a bold and innovative approach to the language of protest to create many of the most substantial artworks of the Civil Rights era. Ringgold’s desire to overcome the largely white, art historical tradition led her to search for forms more suitable for the exploration of gender and racial identity, forms she found during her travels abroad in the 1970s, first to Europe and then to Africa.

The soft sculptures, masks and unstretched canvases adorned with sewn fabric borders - inspired by Tibetan thangkas and which Ringgold called 'tankas' - were the result of these exploratory trips and each would influence the creation of her story quilt paintings of the 1980s and 1990s. Regularly combining her autobiography with scenes and episodes from the collective history of Black life in America, the story quilts are disarmingly intimate yet historically grand - they demonstrate the fundamental relation between the personal and the political that Ringgold's art always understood.

Gallery founder Jack Shainman states, 'It is an absolute privilege to be able to represent the Estate of Faith Ringgold and the Anyone Can Fly Foundation and to do our part in helping to further cement the legacy of an artist who played such a significant role in shaping the culture of American art. Faith Ringgold's work touches on themes that continue to be relevant to our current social and political climates, perhaps more so now than they have since their creation and I could not be more proud to have the opportunity to continue to give her and her work a platform.'

'Faith Ringgold’s life and work has been the source of inspiration, hope and guidance for so many, whether that be in the arts or the world of organizing and activism,' said Michele Wallace, daughter of Faith Ringgold. 'Jack Shainman Gallery’s long history of supporting Black American artists, while also helping to grow the institutional awareness and embrace of their work, aligns with Faith’s efforts and the mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation. We could not have imagined finding better partners to help us deepen the legacy of Faith Ringgold.'

photo: Meron Menghistab. Courtesy of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Annely Juda Fine Art announces representation of Nicola Turner

April 16, 2025

Annely Juda Fine Art has announced representation of artist Nicola Turner, commencing with a major installation at Art Basel Unlimited in June 2025, followed by her first London solo exhibition in 2026.

Turner creates sculptures and site-responsive installations that explore fundamental dichotomies: life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion. Using “dead” materials such as horsehair and wool alongside found objects, her works touch upon the history and “memory” of materials, dissolving boundaries amid the interconnectedness of ecosystems.

With a background in set and costume design, Turner completed an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa University in 2019 and in 2023 founded FORM-ica, an independent collective of artists in her hometown of Bath. She gained attention in 2024 for her site-responsive installation The Meddling Fiend which interacted with the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Courtyard of the Royal Academy, London, for the duration of the Summer Exhibition.

Turner’s works possess an animalistic quality, with tentacle-like elements that weave around and interact with their surroundings, much like a plant reaching for sunlight. Re-purposed antique furniture legs, kitchen bowls and forks, binoculars and clamps become anthropomorphic feet, hands or eyes, giving her freestanding sculptures a precarious, animated presence. The works tend to be dark both literally and metaphorically. Encased in hand-sewn mesh, the materials - once part of living creatures – draw upon Turner’s own experience of loss, bereavement and medical intrusions. This lends her work a visceral, unsettling power, evoking both attraction and repulsion, and inviting new ways of seeing.

photo: Maxwell Attenborough

Perrotin announces representation of the Nancy Graves Foundation

Perrotin is delighted to announce the representation of the Foundation of American artist Nancy Graves (b. Pittsfield, MA 1939 - d. New York, 1995), a trailblazing painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, who pushed the boundaries of each medium establishing herself as one of the most prominent figures of post-minimalism.

The gallery will present Graves’ work in a wide-ranging exhibition at Perrotin New York, which opens on 23 April and is on view until 31 May.

"We are thrilled to present a selection of exemplary and rarely exhibited works from the 1970s and 1980s," says Ylinka Barotto, Director at Perrotin. "Unfolding chronologically, the exhibition will include paintings, sculptures, and little-known archival materials, bringing to the forefront the multi-layered practice that distinguishes Graves as one of the most groundbreaking artists of the second half of the 20th century."

Nancy Graves gained recognition in New York in the late 1960s. In 1969, at the age of 29, she became the youngest artist to be featured in a sensational exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a pivotal moment that launched a successful and influential career spanning over two decades.

photo: Steven Sloman

Almine Rech now represents Hans Op de Beeck

April 15, 2025

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck. The gallery will present Hans Op de Beeck’s work at Art Brussels and Art Basel, Basel 2025. The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view at Almine Rech Brussels in 2026.

Specializing in a wide range of mediums, Op de Beeck creates sculptures, installations, video art, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings, and short stories. Op de Beeck’s work is distinguished by its aesthetic versatility, ranging from minimalist designs to elaborate and exaggerated visuals, all aimed at expressing the core meaning of each piece as clearly as possible.

His thematic focus centers on human relationships with time, space, and society. The artist’s creations often depict imaginary yet familiar settings, characters, and moments, evoking a sense of tragicomic absurdity within the framework of our postmodern lives. Key themes in his art include the disappearance of distances, the disembodiment of the individual, and the abstraction of time—issues that have been shaped by globalization, technological advancements, and changes to our living environments brought about by media and automation.

"Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck is acclaimed for his sculptures, installations, videos, and watercolor works, his highly sophisticated practice creates a surreal liminal space, inviting the viewer to contemplate, reflect, and dream. I’m thrilled to start this collaboration with an artist I admire and reinforcing in this way our involvement with the Belgian art scene, in which we have been present with a space in Brussels since 2008."
- Almine Rech

photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde

KV Duong joins Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

April 9, 2025

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce representation of KV Duong (b. 1980, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). Duong is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background - born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living and working in the UK. His work explores migration and cultural assimilation through personal and ancestral histories.

Duong’s paintings forgo more traditional materials of canvas or linen in favour of latex, which is poured onto wooden board or concrete floor, then dried, painted, stretched and resin-fibreglass coated on the reverse. As a medium, latex bears fetishistic and sensuous connotations, particularly in conversation with queer identity politics, evoking sexual fantasy and intimacy. Yet it is also connected with the rubber industry, referencing the history of rubber plantations under French colonial rule in Vietnam, which lasted from 1887 until 1954. As Duong foregrounds the materiality of his medium – his painting responding to the bubbles, surface impressions, films and ripples that form as latex dries – he asks us to consider the history of exploitation and extraction surrounding the Vietnamese rubber trade.

photo: courtesy of Brave Projects and James Champion