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The Week in Art 24-31 May 2022 |
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Gallery NewsShopDaily Diary Diary: openings, events, auctions |
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Amsterdam |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Reflex: Iris Schomaker - I Wish I Were A River Schomaker’s new body of work interrogates the space between abstraction and figuration on a quest to transform complexity into clarity |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
Under The Mango Tree: line to line. BECOMING. The art cosmos of Saurabh Narang … between physics and mysticism “every inch of his works is painted with utmost care. It seems, as if nothing is left to chance in his paintings, drawings and digital prints, and nevertheless, they are full of life, colour and surprise” - Sara Troester Klemm |
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Bruton |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth Somerset: Henry Moore. Sharing Form a major exhibition of works by Moore, curated by Hannah Higham of the Henry Moore Foundation in collaboration with the artist’s daughter Mary Moore |
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Bucharest |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Anca Poterașu Gallery: Iulian Bisericaru: Zoom In, Zoom Out curated by Marie Maertens, works by Bisericaru in a unique collaboration with guest artist and composer Romain Poirier |
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Florence |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
Tornabuoni Arte: Alberto Biasi |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Christie’s Hong Kong: 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Sun 22 - Thu 26 May) |
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Christie’s Hong Kong: Parallel Universe: NFT Evening Sale auction: Thu 26 |
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Sotheby’s Hong Kong: CHINA / 5000 YEARS auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Thu 19 - Tue 24 May) |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
Christie’s Hong Kong: 20th Century Art Day Sale auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Sun 22 - Thu 26 May) |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Christie’s Hong Kong: Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy auction: Sat 28 (viewing: Sun 22 - Sat 28 May) |
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Sunday 29 | |||||||||
Christie’s Hong Kong: Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings auction: Sun 29 (viewing: Sun 22 - Sat 28 May) |
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Monday 30 | |||||||||
Christie’s Hong Kong: Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction: Mon 30 (viewing: Sun 22 - Sun 29 May) |
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Christie’s Hong Kong: Celestial Brilliance - The Wang Xing Lou Collection of Imperial Qing Dynasty Porcelain auction: Mon 30 (viewing: Sun 22 - Sun 29 May) |
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Tuesday 31 | |||||||||
Gagosian: Louise Bonnet: Onslaught new paintings by Bonnet in her first exhibition in Asia - “there are all these rules about openings in the body, about things leaking out. That’s interesting to me - the body out of control” - Bonnet |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Bartha Contemporary: Hadi Tabatabai: Recent Works recent “Thread Paintings” by Tabatabai |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
50 Vyner: Spring/Summer Show: Béton Brut presents Benni Allan ‘Low Collection’ - M.A.H presents ‘The Pavilions’ |
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Almine Rech: Lily Stockman: A Green Place “Stockman’s paintings plumb what it means to experience life on a planet where time telescopes depending on one’s place in it and one’s frame of reference” - Elizabeth Buhe |
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Almine Rech: Michael Kagan: It Lasts Forever the first solo exhibition of American artist Kagan at the gallery’s London space |
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Hanina Fine Arts: Liberté: Salon de Mai |
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Simon Lee Gallery: Michelangelo Pistoletto new and recent works by Pistoletto - a series of mirror paintings that reflect on themes of captivity, isolation and restriction at a fractured moment in contemporary history |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Annka Kultys Gallery: Kate Bickmore |
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Cob Gallery: Tomas Harker, Jack Jubb, Mia Middleton and Caroline Zurmely: Apotrope |
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David Gill: Platinum a special Platinum Jubilee exhibition to celebrate the anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II |
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Michael Werner Gallery: Peter Saul: New Work new paintings and works on paper by the eminent American painter |
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Modern Art Bury Street: Eva Rothschild: Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope new work by Rothschild - human-scale and painted pale green, yellow and pink - carrying a fresh vulnerability and inviting a more direct encounter with the body than their predecessors might have |
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Pi Artworks: Vuslat: Silence |
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Skarstedt: Marco Pariani: Inflatables new paintings by the New-York-based artist in his first solo presentation in London and with the gallery |
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Sotheby’s London: The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg auction: Thu 26 - Tue 31 May (viewing: Fri 27 - Tue 31 May) |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
Christie’s London: The Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling auction: Fri 27 (viewing: Thu 19 - Thu 26 May) |
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Flowers Gallery, Cork Street: William Crozier: A Heightened Vision of Nature (1977-1980) “everything I paint comes from what I have seen... The miraculous must be seen to appear, the ordinary must be transformed into the extraordinary eternal” - Crozier |
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The Photographers' Gallery: Nicholas Hughes: The Sound of Space Breathing |
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Zabludowicz Collection: Futures Elsewhere Film Programme: Part One |
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Tuesday 31 | |||||||||
Bermondsey Project Space: Artists from The Curwen Gallery with Hannah Battershell, Clare Bigger, John Brokenshire, Chloe Fremantle, Brendan Hansbro, Sarah Holliday, Thirza Kotzen, Alison Neville, Michèle Noach, Bill Pryde, Robin Richmond, Lee Sellers, Robin Spalding, Richard Walker, Henry Walsh |
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Nahmad Projects: LUCIO FONTANA: I TAGLI |
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Thaddaeus Ropac: Martha Jungwirth: All Will Fall new oil paintings by the award-winning Austrian artist, in an exhibition spanning both gallery floors |
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Unit London: Thrush Holmes: What’s it all for? Holmes’ first solo exhibition with the gallery continues his drive to push the limits of a familiar yet specific motif |
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Unit London: Vanguards a group exhibition providing visibility and recognition to artists who share distinctive and pioneering voices |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
parrasch heijnen gallery: Christine Howard Sandoval: the green shoot that cracks the rock the gallery’s first exhibition with Vancouver-based Howard Sandoval features her architectural drawings, sculptures and experimental film |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Steve Turner: Bianca Fields: In My Bag a solo exhibition by Kansas City-based Fields featuring new paintings of screaming animals that the artist considers stand-ins for the psyche of her six-year-old self |
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Steve Turner: Terron Cooper Sorrells: Dama new complex and colorful paintings by the Chicago-based artist conveying spirituality, culture and ritual as inspired by three African traditions from Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Mali |
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Melbourne |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Tolarno Galleries: Elizabeth Willing: Forced Rhubarb “food is the catalyst Elizabeth Willing uses to translate the ineffable body, to reflect on the performance of eating, and facilitate multisensory experiences” |
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Milan |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Modern and Contemporary Art auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Fri 20 - Sun 22 May) |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Modern and Contemporary Art auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Fri 20 - Sun 22 May) |
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Monaco |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth Monaco: Paul McCarthy. Pirates Stew Pot an exhibition to mark the twentieth anniversary of McCarthy’s “Pirate Project” - one of his most important bodies of work |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Gagosian West 24th St: Nam June Paik: Art in Process: Part One “there is no way to know in advance, because life has no “fast-forward” or “rewind” buttons. So, you go step by step, and if you make a mistake you try to correct it with another” - Paik |
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Sotheby’s New York: The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Sat 21 - Mon 23 May) |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Christie’s New York: The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part One auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Fri 20 - Wed 25 May) |
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David Richard Gallery - Chelsea: Heather McGill: Invisible Bloom the debut of McGill’s newest body of work |
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Sotheby’s New York: Aboriginal Art auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Tue 24 May) |
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Sotheby’s New York: Belle Époque Splendor: The Discerning Eye of a Collector auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 May) |
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Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Tue 24 May) |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Christie’s New York: The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two auction: Thu 26 (viewing: Fri 20 - Wed 25 May) |
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Hollis Taggart: Audrey Flack: Force of Nature Abstract Expressionist works by the renowned artist, including early never-before-seen works on paper |
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Yancey Richardson Gallery: Bryan Graf: Telepathic Jungle characteristically experimental photographs by Graf using a myriad of predominantly analog processes to explore representation, experience, and sensory perception as filtered through a phenomenology of photography |
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Yancey Richardson Gallery: Sandi Haber Fifield mixed media works by Haber Fifield, challenging the photograph’s privilege as a record of the seen by manipulating images and combining them with drawings to expand their formal and expressive possibilities |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Christie’s Paris: Photographies auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Sat 21 - Mon 23 May) |
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kamel mennour: A Dutch Collection curated by Erik Verhagen - with works by Carl Andre, Alan Charlton, William N. Copley, Ad Dekkers, Richard Long, François Morellet, Merrill Wagner, John Wesley - “what would a Dutch collection actually look like?” |
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Sotheby’s Paris: Important Design auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Wed 18 - Mon 23 May) |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Christie’s Paris: Design auction: Wed 25 (viewing: Sat 21 - Wed 25 May) |
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kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: The Estate of Maryan: Une peinture vérité |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Galerie Frank Elbaz: Eniola Dawodu, Doreen Garner, Ja'Tovia Gary: partus/chorus Gary’s thematic point of departure for this exhibition is the legal doctrine “partus sequitur ventrem”, as instituted during the period of chattel slavery in the United States |
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Rome |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Galleria Anna Marra: BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. The Moroccan Wave curated by Silvia Cirelli - with Amina Agueznay, Yasmina Alaoui, Badr El Hammami, Mohssin Harraki and Fatiha Zemmouri |
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Seoul |
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Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Barakat Contemporary: Nevin Aladağ: Motion Lines the international installation artist’s first exhibition in Korea - “this compound word [motion lines] is describing a vibrant image in which music, form and movement are all combined” - Aladağ |
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Southampton |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth: Ed Clark & Stanley Whitney: On the Path extraordinary watercolors and dry pigment works on paper by the celebrated painters |
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Hauser & Wirth: Camille Henrot a special presentation by the French artist, beginning with an outdoor installation of major bronze sculptures and continuing throughout the season complemented by paintings, many of which will be on public view for the first time |
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Trento |
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Friday 27 | |||||||||
Boccanera: Trust the Artists a group exhibition conceived and curated by Norma Márquez in collaboration with Marte247 Galería and Marte247 ARTFUND |
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Antwerp |
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Sunday 29 | |||||||||
Axel Vervoordt Gallery: Chaos & Order | |||||||||
Athens |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Gagosian: Vera Lutter: Fragments of Time Past | |||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Almine Rech: The Wall: Peter Peri: Night is also a sun | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Almine Rech: Brian Calvin: More | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
dépendance: Peter Wächtler | |||||||||
Mendes Wood DM: Heidi Bucher | |||||||||
Michel Rein: Michele Ciacciofera: Step into life of maybe | |||||||||
rodolphe janssen: Jason Saager: Sky Gardens | |||||||||
Stems Gallery: Figuration Now! | |||||||||
Waldburger Wouters: Elen Braga | |||||||||
Xavier Hufkens Rivoli: Cassi Namoda: Tropical Depression | |||||||||
Xavier Hufkens Van Eyck: Wyatt Kahn: Pile Ups / Cut Outs | |||||||||
Sunday 29 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth: William Kentridge. Weigh All Tears | |||||||||
Wednesday 25 | |||||||||
Pangolin London: Eilis O’Connell: Breadth Becomes Air | |||||||||
Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Darren Flook: Simon Linke | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Bermondsey Project Space: Everything Is Made Of Light | |||||||||
David Zwirner: Suzan Frecon: recent paintings, oil and water | |||||||||
David Zwirner: Mahesh Baliga: Drawn to remember | |||||||||
Goodman Gallery: Ghada Amer: My Body My Choice | |||||||||
Goodman Gallery: Remy Jungerman: Fault Lines | |||||||||
Grosvenor Gallery: See Them Richards? Paintings by Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) | |||||||||
Grove Square Galleries: David Wightman: Ariel | |||||||||
Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St: Manuel Mathieu: Keeping Things Whole | |||||||||
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row: Vivien Zhang: undo undo undo | |||||||||
Richard Saltoun: Everlyn Nicodemus | |||||||||
Stephen Friedman Gallery: Caroline Walker: Lisa | |||||||||
The Artist Room: William Brickel: Far From Anything | |||||||||
Thomas Dane Gallery: Walead Beshty: Addendum | |||||||||
Unit London: Mauro Martinez: The Last Man | |||||||||
Unit London: Nicolas Holiber: Shape-Shifter | |||||||||
Sunday 29 | |||||||||
Pontone Gallery: Reef Hsu: A Forest Seen From Space | |||||||||
Serpentine North Gallery: Radio Ballads | |||||||||
The Gallery of Everything: Jarvis Cocker‘s Good Pop Bad Pop - The Exhibition | |||||||||
Zabludowicz Collection: 360: Lauren Moffatt | |||||||||
Thursday 26 | |||||||||
HOSTLER | BURROWS: Kari Dyrdal // Donna Green | |||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Evita Tezeno: My Life, My Story | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Nancy Evans: Moonshadow | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Laura Krifka: Still Point | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Milan |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Robilant+Voena, Milan: Stephen Appleby-Barr: Paintings and Drawings | |||||||||
Murnau am Staffelsee |
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Sunday 29 | |||||||||
PULPO GALLERY: Agnes Grochulska: The Outline | |||||||||
Naples |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Thomas Dane Gallery: A Matter of Life and Death | |||||||||
Thursday 26 | |||||||||
HOSTLER | BURROWS: New in the Gallery | |||||||||
Friday 27 | |||||||||
Berry Campbell Gallery: Nanette Carter: Shape Shifting | |||||||||
Hollis Taggart: Bold Marks: The Drawings of Michael West | |||||||||
Hollis Taggart: Albert Kotin: Space Interwoven | |||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Sean Horton (Presents): Corydon Cowansage: Seed | |||||||||
Monday 30 | |||||||||
Halsey McKay Gallery: Matt Kenny: World Trade Center Paintings | |||||||||
Halsey McKay Gallery: Bruce Conner & Adam Helms | |||||||||
Tuesday 31 | |||||||||
Findlay Galleries: Ptolemy Mann – Thresholds II | |||||||||
Palm Beach |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Noah Landfield – Ephemeral Cities | |||||||||
Sunday 29 | |||||||||
GAVLAK: Karen Carson: Faces and Places | |||||||||
Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin: Anselm Kiefer: Hommage à un poète | |||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Almine Rech, Matignon: Eugène Leroy: Mythe | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Almine Rech, Turenne: Hajime Sorayama: CYBER LADIES’ WORLD | |||||||||
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione: Steven Parrino | |||||||||
Galerie Chantal Crousel: Allora & Calzadilla: Antille | |||||||||
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Virginie Yassef: Dogs Dream | |||||||||
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Julien Bismuth: Harlequinades | |||||||||
Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais: Rui Moreira: The Passengers | |||||||||
kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Carte blanche - Camille Henrot, Elizabeth Jaeger & Estelle Hoy | |||||||||
kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Camille Henrot: Le vers dans le fruit | |||||||||
kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: The Estate of Maryan: Une peinture vérité | |||||||||
Perrotin Marais: Nick Doyle: Ruin | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Perrotin Marais: Dwellers Part II | |||||||||
Perrotin Marais: Cristina BanBan | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Tornabuoni Art: Vincenzo Agnetti and Paolo Scheggi: Il Tempio. La nascita dell’Eidos | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Sunday 29 | |||||||||
Fondation Cartier: Graciela Iturbide: Heliotropo 37 | |||||||||
Rome |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
T293: Alexis Ralaivao: Glittering Short Stories | |||||||||
Tuesday 31 | |||||||||
Gagosian: Pat Steir: Paintings | |||||||||
Seoul |
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Thursday 26 | |||||||||
Perrotin Seoul: Susumu Kamijo: Alone With Everybody | |||||||||
Stockholm |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Galleri Magnus Karlsson: Petra Lindholm: Stream | |||||||||
Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Focus On | Anastasia Samoylova | |||||||||
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Rodrigo Valenzuela: Afterwork | |||||||||
Zürich |
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Saturday 28 | |||||||||
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal: Paint-by-Numbers | |||||||||
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse: Chuck Nanney, Joel Otterson | |||||||||
Mai 36 Galerie: Flavio Garciandía: Lo mejor y lo peor | |||||||||
Mai 36 Galerie: When the well’s dry | |||||||||
Mai 36 Galerie: Photography 2022 | |||||||||
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