Exhibition
John Baldessari
John Baldessari. The End of the Line
Craig Robins Collection
Fundación Malba – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Through November 18, 2024
First South American survey devoted to John Baldessari, the great pioneer of conceptual art. The exhibition features a selection of 45 works, spanning paintings, photographs and installations drawn from the collection of Craig Robins – a friend, promoter, close interlocutor and one of the most important collectors of Baldessari’s work. John Baldessari: The End of the Line reviews 50 years of the artist’s work organized in four thematic groupings. The exhibition highlights Baldessari’s foundational works from the 1960s and 70s; the radical incineration of his own work; his serial approach to photography; and his ongoing exploration of the interplay between imagery and language, between the world of text and that of ideas.
Exhibition
Cao Fei
Tidal Flux
Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
Through November 17, 2024
Museum of Art Pudong proudly announces its third major exhibition of the year, Cao Fei: Tidal Flux, opening to the public from June 22 to November 17, 2024. This exhibition marks MAP’s first solo show dedicated to a female artist and its first major exhibition of moving images and media art since the museum’s inception. For artist Cao Fei, this marks her inaugural large-scale mid-career retrospective in Shanghai, and one of her largest solo exhibitions ever staged globally. This exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of Cao Fei’s nearly 30-year artistic journey. The exhibition delves into themes of time, the body, and technology, encompassing several of Cao Fei’s significant long-term projects. Highlights include her early works during the “Pearl River Delta” period, the exploration of digital and virtual realms in the “metaverse” originating from the RMB City body of work, and her research project HX. Furthermore, the exhibition features seven pieces making their global debut, and thirteen works/series being shown in China for the first time.
Exhibition
Gilbert & George
LONDON PICTURES
The Gilbert & George Centre, London
Celebrating a year since opening, Gilbert & George are thrilled to announce the second exhibition to take place at the Gilbert & George Centre – the ‘LONDON PICTURES’. The largest group of pictures created by Gilbert & George, they offer both a directory of urban human behaviour and a moral portrait of our times. Over a number of years, Gilbert & George stole newspaper posters found across London, filtering and sorting the stories they conveyed by subject matter. More than a decade since they were first unveiled on a global tour, the Centre will present 28 of the 292 pictures from the ‘LONDON PICTURES’ series, many of which have not been seen in the UK previously. Viewing these ‘LONDON PICTURES’ in 2024 will prompt viewers to consider how society has changed and what has remained central to our shared experience.
Exhibition
Nancy Holt
Power Systems
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Through July 27, 2025
Nancy Holt: Power Systems features the most extensive inquiry yet into Nancy Holt’s studies of systems. The exhibition launches in summer 2024 with a presentation of Pipeline, which calls attention to the physical and economic systems powering buildings and to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. Holt visited Alaska in March of 1986 at the invitation of the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, with the hope she might create a work of art in celebration of the region’s beauty. Holt was instead struck by the infiltration of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System through the landscape. In response she made Pipeline, a sculpture made of steel pipes that twist in and out of the gallery, winding down to the floor where one section of pipe leaks—an incessant drip of oil pooling thickly on a white base. Pipeline points to the unchecked audacity and devastating consequences of the energy industry.
Exhibition
Arthur Jafa
Works from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art – MCA, Chicago
Through May 18, 2025
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection surveys the artist’s output over roughly the last ten years through a selection of artworks held in the MCA’s collection, including his videos APEX (2013), Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016), The White Album (2018), and akingdoncomethas (2018). Accompanying the videos are a few key sculptural and photographic works that further underscore Jafa’s unique approach to visual culture and image making, in which the lines between popular and high culture blur and the personal collides with the political.
The exhibition is organized by René Morales, former James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
Exhibition
Take a Breath
Group Exhibition
IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Through March 17, 2025
Take a Breath is a major new exhibition that provides an historical, social, political, and personal examination of breathing – why we breathe, how we breathe and what we breathe – exploring themes of decolonisation, environmental racism, indigenous language, the impact of war on the environment and breath as meditation.
Taking as its starting point the nature of breath and its vital role in our very existence, the exhibition reflects on the social, political, environmental, and spiritual aspect of breathing, tracking this vital act from the impact of post-industrial air pollution to modern-day wars and the effect on environment, health and how we live; to the suppression of protests of voices from different communities, where breath is a symbol of community and resistance; and the use of breath as personal meditation.
Exhibition
Anthony McCall
Solid Light
Tate Modern, London
Through April 27, 2025
In Summer 2024, Tate Modern will present a focused exhibition of immersive works by Anthony McCall. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations that began in 1973 with the seminal work Line Describing a Cone, a key work in Tate’s collection.
Exhibition
Anthony McCall
Split Second
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Through November 10, 2024
Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Museum’s program devoted to artistic practices of the moving image, the Film & Video Gallery will host the radically abstract, film-based work of Anthony McCall. In clear dialogue with the works of Richard Serra and Lucio Fontana in the Museum Collection, this exhibition will feature the premiere of a single new work, Split Second (Mirror) IV (2024), alongside the historic projection piece Miniature in Black and White (1972) and a series of photographic prints.
Publication
Reinhard Mucha
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space
Edited by Sprüth Magers in cooperation with Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Luhring Augustine, Lia Rumma Gallery
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, March 23, 2023
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space is an artist book which can be considered as Reinhard Mucha’s personal oeuvre catalogue. It comprises two volumes in a slipcase and is based on Reinhard Mucha's so-called portfolio books that he created for himself over the years, relating his photographically documented works to one another both formally and aesthetically. Nearly 800 reproductions as well as detailed image and work information provide unprecedented, comprehensive insight into both his work and understanding of sculpture. Also published for the first time are 19 letters and texts by Mucha further elucidating his artistic thinking.
Exhibition
Senga Nengudi
Dia Beacon, New York
Through early 2025
Dia Art Foundation will present a long-term exhibition of work by Senga Nengudi, which will open at Dia Beacon on February 17, 2023. Sculptures and room-sized installations made between 1969 and 2020, including recent acquisitions for Dia’s permanent collection, will be on display. This long-term exhibition of Nengudi’s work will be accompanied by a performance program and publication, revealing the multiplicity of her practice.
Exhibition
Pamela Rosenkranz
Spill Retina
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Through November 10, 2024
Pamela Rosenkranz’s artistic practice spans a variety of mediums, including objects, sculptures, works on paper, conceptual paintings, (light) installations, and video works. She investigates scientific and sociocultural systems that profoundly impact humans and their environment. Through her interdisciplinary approach, which incorporates elements from the natural sciences, neurology, art history, literature, and biorobotics, she reflects on the interactions and consequences of an anthropocentric worldview on the entire habitat. Rosenkranz has developed a unique visual language that highlights fluid transitions and blurs the boundaries between culture and nature, humans and animals, humans and machines, and physical and digital realities. For her first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin, the artist will create a new site-specific installation at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.).
Exhibition
Ed Ruscha
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA
Through October 6, 2024
Ed Ruscha has consistently held up a mirror to American society by transforming some of its defining attributes – from consumer culture and popular entertainment to the ever-changing urban landscape – into the very subject of his art. In 1956, Ruscha left Oklahoma City to study commercial art in Los Angeles, where he drew inspiration from the city’s architectural landscape – parking lots, urban streets, and apartment buildings – and colloquial language.
As his first comprehensive, cross-media retrospective in over 20 years, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN traces Ruscha’s methods and familiar subjects throughout his career and underscores the many remarkable contributions he has made well beyond the boundaries of the art world. The exhibition includes his early works produced while traveling through Europe, his installations – such as the Chocolate Room and the Course of Empire presented at the Venice Biennale in 1970 and 2005, respectively – and his ceaseless photographic documentation of the streets of Los Angeles beginning in 1965.
Exhibition
Ed Ruscha
Works on Paper
Hall Art Foundation, New York
Through December 1, 2024
The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Ed Ruscha to be held at its galleries in Reading, Vermont. The show begins with a group of Ruscha's seminal black-and-white photographs from 1962 and presents over a dozen works on paper that span five decades of his career. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has explored the role of language in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and bookmaking by using the meaning and formal qualities of words as his principle subject matter.
Exhibition
Nora Turato
IN SITU #1 – I hear you, I hear you.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Through August 31, 2025
The Stedelijk launched IN SITU, a new series in the mezzanine of the new building. A new generation of artists has been commissioned to create experimental works for one of the museum's largest intermediate spaces.
For her new work, Turato examines the impact of language on our self-image, expression, and identity—from how we learn to speak as children to how we constantly adopt the words of others. By combining language and typography, she questions how much control we truly have over how we communicate. For her site-specific work, Turato is developing a custom-made typeface and a script for her own monumental moving billboard. She explores how rhythm, pronunciation, design, and typography influence the power, ambience and character of language.
Exhibition
Marcel van Eeden
Art Today – Drawings and Animations
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Through October 6, 2024
Like hardly anyone else in contemporary art, Marcel van Eeden gives the medium of drawing cinematic qualities, opening a window into a very vividly portrayed past. Based on photographs from magazines, newspapers, books and catalogues, all printed before his birth in 1965, he explores a time that took place without him, but into which he puts himself and literally “draws”. In several groups of drawings, Marcel van Eeden takes us into the past of his adopted home of Zurich, which we explore as if on a city walk – from the modern Bellevue tram stop past the Polybähnli, across Lake Zurich to Picabia and Miró in the Kronenhalle. In the style of pulp fiction, he develops a highly exciting story about cultural loot and Eduard von der Heydt's world art collection, which was to form the basis of the Zurich Rietberg Museum.
Exhibition
Marcel van Eeden
The Villa
Villa Flora, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Through January 5, 2025
In The Villa, created for the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, the artist examines the history of Villa Flora including the famous collector couple Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser and connects it with his own artistic universe. In his series and large-format drawings, Van Eeden investigates historical events that date from before his birth, over the years creating a monumental artistic project that links his own existence with the flow of time—resulting in the paradoxical coupling of romantic personalization and melancholic distance.
Exhibition
Kara Walker
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA
Through May 2026
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler.
Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners
Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious
by
Kara E-Walker.
Kara Walker has long been recognized for her incisive examinations of the dynamics of power and the exploitation of race and sexuality. Her work leverages expressions of fantasy and humor to confront troubling histories and dominant narratives, repossessing control in the process. Inspired by a wide range of sources, from antique dolls to Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower, Walker’s new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society. The presentation marks the first time that SFMOMA has commissioned an artist to create a site-specific installation for the Roberts Family Gallery.
Exhibition
Walter Dahn
Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024
Haus Mödrath, Kerpen
October 20, 2024–August 31, 2025
Walter Dahn’s solo exhibition Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024 at Haus Mödrath provides a comprehensive insight into the artist’s work from 1986 onwards. As one of the protagonists of Mülheimer Freiheit in the early 1980s, Dahn became primarily known as a painter. Yet the exhibition deliberately begins after this period and sheds light on Dahn’s expanded concept of painting and his widely ramified system of references to (pop) culture as well as intellectual history. A central focus is on works with a clear reference to music. A catalog with texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oliver Tepel is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Exhibition
Thea Djordjadze, Rosemarie Trockel
limitation of life
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
November 12, 2024–April 27, 2025
The Lenbachhaus will present a collaborative work by the artists Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze. Djordjadze was Trockel’s student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1998 to 2001 and the two have maintained a close artistic relationship ever since, realizing numerous joint projects and exhibitions. In their exhibition at Lenbachhaus, the artists want to delve into the conception of beauty and challenge established aesthetic conventions, taking inspiration from reflections by the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud’s opening lines from “Une saison en enfer” (1873) provide a leitmotif for the artists’ approach: “One evening I sat Beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter and I reviled her.”
Exhibition
Barbara Kruger
No Comment
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
November 29, 2024–April 21, 2025
As a critical observer of popular culture, feminist, and conceptual powerhouse Barbara Kruger – one of the most influential artists of our time – grapples with power dynamics, late capitalism, and media overload in the most comprehensive presentation of her work in Denmark.
No Comment surveys Kruger’s digital productions of the past two decades: her signature text and image ‘paste-ups’; large-scale, vinyl wall and floor installations; multi-channel films and soundscapes.
Exhibition
Mire Lee
Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
October 8, 2024–March 16, 2025
Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor announce that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures which use kinetic, mechanised elements to invoke the tension between soft forms and rigid systems. Her new site-specific work for the Turbine Hall will be open to the public from 8 October 2024 to 16 March 2025. This will be the first major presentation of Lee’s work in the UK.
Exhibition
Martine Syms
Total
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
October 16, 2024–February 9, 2025
In her first survey in France, Syms invites visitors into a total work of art engaging with the theater of the everyday and the roles we play in it. Engaging with both the idea of a survey and the “total” found at the bottom of a receipt, the show reconstructs the space of a shop and conflates it with the spaces of the museum and the artist's personal studio. With early works alongside newly produced objects, Total traces the artist's long-standing interest in images and their effect on reality, how they impact the ways in which relationships form, and how they're embedded in the construction of identity, or the “fictioning of self.”
Exhibition
Drawing the Unspeakable
Group Exhibition
Towner, Eastbourne
October 5, 2024–April 27, 2025
Drawing the Unspeakable explores the universal language of drawing – a medium that renowned broadcaster David Dimbleby and his daughter, the artist and writer Liza Dimbleby, have long recognised as a powerful tool for expressing the inexpressible Featuring over 200 works, the exhibition is an in-depth exploration of human experience through art. The exhibition brings together a diverse array of pieces that challenge the boundaries of speech, translating the unspeakable into the visual realm. Through these drawings, artists navigate themes of disaster, war, displacement and destruction, mental and physical illness, loss, grief, birth and family, dreams, memories, and imagination.
