Thomas Demand
Mirror Without Memory
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Through January 30, 2022

The first Russian exhibition by the artist Thomas Demand, with contributions from filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge and architects SANAA.

Cyprien Gaillard
MAM Screen 014: Cyprien Gaillard
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Through January 16, 2022

This fourteenth MAM Screen program showcases the video works of Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980 in Paris, currently based in Berlin), who works in a range of media including film, video, photography, collage, installation and performance. 2010 winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize and winner of Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (The Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Artists) 2011, Gaillard gained wide attention for his 2011 solo show The Recovery of Discovery at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and has continued to carve out an international niche for his practice that in Japan, has included the Aichi Triennale 2010, and French Window exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in 2011. MAM Screen 014 focuses on Gaillard’s videos, presenting a carefully curated selection of six works.

Astrid Klein
Odyssey, Cologne
Through January 14, 2022

In the second phase of the exhibition series Odyssey, two works by Astrid Klein are presented under the title Sehnsucht. Klein, known for her large scale collages, paintings and room filling installations, is showing the neon sculpture Untitled (follow your bliss), 2021 created for the exhibition and a painting from 1989 from the series of “White Paintings”. For Klein, both works are related to the hero’s journey, more precisely to the second phase, the archetype of the orphan.

Odyssey invites viewers to question their own journey and the emotions and phases associated with it. With the help of twelve internationally renowned artists, the exhibition series is dedicated to a different form of experience every two month.

Barbara Kruger
Body Language
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Through February 1, 2022

For the Gardner’s Ann H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Barbara Kruger created Body Language, a striking and provocative image of two overlapping bodies, using a detail from Titian’s painting Diana and Actaeon. By overlaying the image with text, Kruger invites us to reconsider the representation of women, power, and sexuality and to reflect on the art historical concept of “gaze.”

David Lamelas
Life As Activity: David Lamelas
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York
Through December 18, 2021

The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Life as Activity: David Lamelas, an exhibition marking the artist’s first solo show in New York in more than a decade. It focuses on Lamelas’s experimentation with film and his examination of identity and narrative fiction in light of his ongoing insistence that his artistic practice has always, in one way or another, been grounded in his sense of himself as a sculptor. The exhibition brings together sculpture, film, and photography made across many decades and locations to center this aspect of Lamelas’s artistic practice.

Jon Rafman
An Involuntary Trace: Jon Rafman
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Through January 9, 2022

In this solo show the Canadian artist invites us to reflect on the limits of memory, technological nostalgia and the influence of today’s technology on who we are. You, the World and I is the fourth episode in An Involuntary Trace, the exhibition cycle which the This is Jackalope collective has been curating in Room A throughout 2021.

Rosemarie Trockel
Thinking in Dark Times
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Through February 28, 2022

Starting in September 2021, the activities of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in the urban space will be expanded by the new “n.b.k. Billboard” series. The large presentation surface is located at the intersection of Friedrichstrasse and Torstrasse, just a two-minute walk from n.b.k. and embedded in a central and bustling part of the city. Works by international contemporary artists will be presented here every six months, specially conceived for the large-format surface, and inviting visitors and passers-by to engage with the aesthetic and social implications of contemporary art as well as with the urban environment. The program opens with a work by Rosemarie Trockel.

Kara Walker
A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Through January 16, 2022

Throwing open the doors to her personal archive that she has closely guarded for the past twenty-seven years, Kara Walker (b. 1969) presents hundreds of drawings from her studio. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt displays these treasures together with brand-new works by the world-famous American artist, following the show's first presentation at Kunstmuseum Basel. The show will travel to the De Pont Museum, Tilburg in early 2022.