Cao Fei
Staging the Era
UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Through June 21, 2021

As a leading member of China’s avant-garde, Cao Fei uses multimedia formats—film, video, virtual reality, and installation—to surreally depict the dramatic social changes of a globalizing China and the state of the individual under such conditions. Cao Fei’s UCCA exhibition, her first major solo show in China, assembles works from different periods of her artistic career and situates her practice within the context of the country’s profound social upheavals.

Cyprien Gaillard
MAM Screen 014: Cyprien Gaillard
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Through September 26, 2021

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.

Cyprien Gaillard
Frankfurter Schacht
Frankfurter Positionen 2021, MMK Museum für Moderne
Open from May 29, 2021, 5:23 am

In the green belt created by the former rampart at the interface between the inner and outer city, between the banking district and the district around the central railway station, in the midst of monuments and memorials, there is an absolutely unspectacular ventilation shaft at the edge of the park. The sculpture only becomes visible as such inside the shaft. A place of intimacy right in the middle of the public space. On the occasion of the 2021 Frankfurter Positionen, the French artist Cyprien Gaillard has created a new work for the Taunusanlage section of the green belt in Frankfurt am Main.

Gilbert & George
Double, Double Helpings, 2021

Gilbert & George have released a set of limited edition plates to benefit their East London neighbours, the Canvas Café, a social enterprise that provides free meals to the homeless and families in need. Each edition is presented as two plates together, BEARDLIGHT & BEARDTOAST from 2021 and ROSY & ON THE BENCH from 2020. The plates, screen-printed fine china and limited to 50 of each set, can be purchased here.

Jenny Holzer
Survival: Men Don’t Protect You Anymore
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Through 2022

International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020, marked the close of the special exhibition Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919 at the Alte Nationalgalerie. The theme of the visibility of women artists remains evident in the public space through the outdoor presentation of Jenny Holzer’s work Men Don’t Protect You Anymore in the Kolonnadenhof (Colonnade Courtyard) in front of the museum.

Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff: afterimages

Works 1989–2020
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Through July 4, 2021

Thomas Ruff: afterimages will be the first institutional solo exhibition of the German artist (born in 1958, Zell am Hamersbach) in South East Asia. It presents excerpts of 15 of the in-between 31 series the artist has produced since his beginnings in 1979. After his retrospective at Haus der Kunst Munich (2012), his recent Japan survey (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2016/17) and his solo show in K20 – Kunstsammlung NRW (2020–21), this exhibition with around 105 works is one of his most comprehensive to date. A new series by Thomas Ruff, entitled Tableaux chinois, based on propaganda photography from a magazine for foreign relations from the PR China and coffee table books on Mao’s life and the history of the great achievements of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s and 1970s, will have its premier in Asia.

Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha: Okla
Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City
Through July 5, 2021

In spring 2021, Oklahoma Contemporary will present Ed Ruscha: OKLA, a landmark survey of work by Oklahoma-raised, world-renowned artist Ed Ruscha, his first-ever solo exhibition in his home state. Focusing on his groundbreaking drawings, prints, books, photos, films and graphic design, the exhibition will include works from all stages of his 60-year career.

Frank Stella
Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Through May 11, 2021

Among the myriad of forms that have appeared in Frank Stella’s work, the star is the most singular, standing out as a stable and immediately identifiable shape in the midst of the complex tangle of abstract, invented forms that the artist has utilized over his long career. Frank Stella’s Stars will be presented both indoors and outdoors, with several monumental works being sited in the Aldrich’s Sculpture Garden.