John Baldessari – Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 6)

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Publication

John Baldessari: Catalogue Raisonné
Volume Six: 2011–2019

The sixth and final volume of this exceptional catalogue raisonné project features over 360 works made by John Baldessari (1931–2020) between 2011 and 2019. Baldessari continues his longstanding tradition of borrowing from iconic motifs of classic and modern art history, as well as appropriating images from everyday found sources. 

With essays by Michael Auping, Philipp Kaiser and David Platzker.

Published by Yale University Press and Marian Goodman Gallery
Patrick Pardo (research editor) and Robert Dean (editorial director)

Price: 200€ (excl. shipping)

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Bock – Djordjadze – Gaillard – Scheibitz – Trockel – Wekua – STUDIO BERLIN
Exhibition

STUDIO BERLIN
Group Exhibition
Berghain, Berlin
Through May 2, 2021

In the exhibition STUDIO BERLIN, the Boros Foundation is showing works by over 100 contemporary artists who live and work in Berlin. On display are national and international positions from the fields of photography, sculpture, painting, video, sound, performance and installation. The venue of the exhibition organized by the Boros Foundation is the Berghain, including the Panorama Bar, the column and the adjacent hall.
Darboven – Hanne Darboven – Der Regenmacher
Exhibition

Hanne Darboven
Hanne Darboven – Der Regenmacher
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
Through March 21, 2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

The MKM is dedicating a solo exhibition to conceptual art icon Hanne Darboven (1941–2009). On show are four major work cycles from the Ströher Collection, comprising some 2,000 individual works and easily filling the 6 meter high walls of the MKM.
They are exemplary of Hanne Darboven’s thought and work, whose centre is the writing and making visible of time as a possibility of experiencing and coping with reality. Her serial sequences of sheets become a physically tangible storage medium for time, current events and her own biography.
Demand – House of Card

Photo: Thomas Demand, robin, 2020 © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition

Thomas Demand
House of Card
M – Museum Leuven, Leuven
Through April 18, 2021

In the fall of 2020, the Belgian museum M Leuven presents a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work, focusing on his relationship to architecture. The starting point of the show at M is his ongoing series of Model Studies, in which the concept of the model itself is key. The Model Studies deal with the relationship between Demand’s work and that of other artists, architects and (fashion) designers, such as John Lautner, SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa), Hans Hollein and – in more recent works – Azzedine Alaia or Gio Ponti.
Gaillard – Cyprien Gaillard

Photo: Installation view Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Photo: Sangtae Kim

Exhibition

Cyprien Gaillard
Atelier Hermès, Seoul
Through January 17, 2021

A solo exhibition by French artist Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980) brings 2020 to a close. The laureate of the 2010 Prix Marcel Duchamp is recognized for his unique perception of the contemporary world, at the crossroads of civilization and nature and of subculture and the sublime.

Exhibition made possible thanks to the support of the Fondation d'enterprise Hermès.
Gursky – Andreas Gursky

Photo: Andreas Gursky / VG Bild-Kunst

Exhibition

Andreas Gursky
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig – MdbK, Leipzig
2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig in 1955, the same year his family fled to West Germany and later settled in Düsseldorf. The connection to Leipzig was never severed but it is only this autumn that the internationally celebrated artist will finally be honored with a retrospective of his work in his native city at the Museum der bildenden Künste.
Jenny Holzer – Jenny Holzer im Kolonnadenhof der Alten Nationalgalerie
Exhibition

Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer im Kolonnadenhof der Alten Nationalgalerie
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
On view through at least 2022

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

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.
Astrid Klein – ASTRID KLEIN. DASS VOLLKOMMENE LIEBE DIE FURCHT AUSTREIBE (THAT PERFECT LOVE DRIVES OUT FEAR)
Exhibition

ASTRID KLEIN. DASS VOLLKOMMENE LIEBE DIE ANGST AUSTREIBE (THAT PERFECT LOVE DRIVE OUT FEAR)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Collection+ I Gallery 27 and Wall east staircase
July 21, 2020–January 17, 2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

Astrid Klein (born 1951) is one of the most important voices in German post-war and contemporary art. Thanks to a generous grant from the Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation, five of [her] works were acquired in 2019 for the Sammlung Moderne Kunst at the Pinakothek der Moderne. Now boasting a total of seven exhibits, Munich’s collection of key photographic works and collages from Klein’s oeuvre of the 1970s and 1980s are going on show for the first time. A large-scale installation by the artist will also be on display: formed of gunshot-pocked mirrors, the work confronts visitors with their own distorted reflection as they make their way up to the first floor.
Jean-Luc Mylayne – Van Gogh inspires: Jean-Luc Mylayne
Exhibition

Jean-Luc Mylayne
Van Gogh inspires: Jean-Luc Mylayne
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
September 11, 2020–February 14, 2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.

Van Gogh and his love of nature is a special source of inspiration for Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946). Like Van Gogh, in his work he wants to express the connection he feels with nature. The artist chose three works specially for this presentation in the Van Gogh Museum. Each photograph is a unique impression.
Ruff – Thomas Ruff

Photo: Thomas Ruff / VG-Bild-Kunst, 2020. tableau chinois 08, 2019

Exhibition

Thomas Ruff
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Through February 7, 2021

Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) is one of the internationally most important artists of his generation. Already as a student of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in the early 1980s, he chose a conceptual approach to photography. His work, which explores the most diverse genres and historical varieties of photography, represents one of the most versatile and surprising positions within contemporary art. The comprehensive exhibition at K20 focuses on series of pictures from two decades in which the artist hardly ever used a camera himself. Instead, he appropriated existing photographic material from a wide variety of sources for his often large-format pictures.
Ruscha – Ed Ruscha: Travel Log

Photo: Ed Ruscha, That Was Then This Is Now, 2014 © Ed Ruscha

Exhibition

Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha: Travel Log
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma
Through May 30, 2021

(In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.)

Rarely seen black and white photographs from Ruscha’s frequent trips from L.A. to Oklahoma in the 1960s reveal inspirations for his iconic prints and paintings, including images of gas stations, diners and the streets of rural towns like Gallup, new Mexico and Winslow, Arizona. Also featured are color lithographs from his well-known “word paintings” series that mix visual formality with playful language.
Ed Ruscha – 12 Sunsets

From Sunset Blvd, 1966, Ed Ruscha. Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute ©️ Ed Ruscha

Project

Ed Ruscha
12 Sunsets

Starting in 1966, Ed Ruscha mounted a motorized camera on the back of a pickup truck and drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. He methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street and returned again and again with his team to repeat this procedure over the next 55 years.

The resulting archive is a collection of more than half a million images – most of which have never been seen, not even by Ruscha himself. Using artificial intelligence and computer technology, the Getty analyzed and digitized more than 60,000 negatives. Click on the image to travel back in time and explore one of Los Angeles’ most iconic streets.

You can learn more about Ed Ruscha, and his archives at the Getty Research Institute’s website.

Frank Stella – Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
Exhibition

Frank Stella
Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
September 20, 2020–May 9, 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.
Cao Fei – Cao Fei
Exhibition

Cao Fei
Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art – UCCA, Beijing
March 12, 2021–June 6, 2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

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.
Gilbert & George – Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition

Photo: Gilbert & George, BEARDARY, 2016 Courtesy Gilbert & George

Exhibition

Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
February 12–May 16, 2021

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, events and talks are subject to change.

Gilbert & George have been creating art together now for over half a century. Their outstanding body of work is still as explosive as it is significant. The SCHIRN is dedicating an extensive retrospective to the visually powerful and sometimes provocative universe of this eccentric, London-based artist duo, showing works from 1971 until 2019. As both subject and object of their own work, Gilbert & George form a complete artistic unity that draws no distinction between art and life. As “living sculptures,” they embody their art and are both topic and focal point of their large-format collages and screened pictorial worlds. Their work revolves around death, hope, life, fear, sex, money, and religion. These are also soci­etal issues, which they depict in all their contra­dic­tions: at once joyful and tragic, grotesque and serious, surreal and symbolic. The duo deal with every­thing that makes us uneasy. Their goal, however, is not to shock, but rather to make visible what is happening in the world, according to their motto “Art for All”.
Klein – Neuhängung
Exhibition

Neuhängung
Group Exhibition
Schloss Bellevue, Berlin
January 2021

Lamelas – David Lamelas

Photo: David Lamelas, Señalamiento de Tres Objetos (Signalling of Three Objects), 1968

Exhibition

David Lamelas
CGAC – Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Santiago De Compostela
July 2–October 3, 2021

In light of recent developments involving the coronavirus (COVID-19), the opening, talks and events may be subject to change. 

The exhibition at the CGAC is Lamelas’ first career retrospective in Spain. It will show the evolution of his work through different stages, from the early sixties in Buenos Aires to the present moment, and will focus on two important issues: his relationship with Galicia (his parents emigrated from Manzaneda and Ponte Caldelas during the Civil War) and the importance of drawing in his artistic practice throughout his whole career.
Ruscha – Ed Ruscha: Okla

Photo: Ed Ruscha, Trademark 7, 1962 © Ed Ruscha

Exhibition

Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha: Okla
Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma
February 18–July 5, 2021

(In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.)

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.
Walker – A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be

Photo: Kara Walker, Barack Obama as Othello “The Moor” With the Severed Head of Iago in a New and Revised Ending by Kara E. Walker, 2019. © Kara Walker

Exhibition

Kara Walker
A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
June 5–September 19, 2021

(In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.)

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 Kupferstichkabinett Basel displays these treasures together with brand-new works by the world-famous American artist in her first extensive solo exhibition in Switzerland.