Exhibition
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Through September 2022
UCCA presents Thomas Demand’s first comprehensive survey in China. Encompassing approximately 60 photographs, films, and wallpapers that span the arc of his career, the exhibition will provide both an overview of the artist’s way of seeing the world as well as a lesson in how we might approach the onslaught of historical events that we consume through the world of images.
Exhibition
Sylvie Fleury
Turn Me On
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin
Through January 15, 2023
The new temporary exhibition programme of Pinacoteca opens with a solo show by Sylvie Fleury entitled Turn Me On. Conceived and produced with the artist specifically for the spaces of Pinacoteca, the exhibition features both existing works and new commissions, in an immersive path exploring the main themes of her research. The project represents Fleury’s most extensive exhibition in Italy to date, and marks a milestone in her thirty-year-long artistic career, influential both to contemporary art history and to emerging practices.
Exhibition
Gilbert & George
The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Through September 11, 2022
Developed exclusively with Gilbert & George by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition brings together existing and new work from the 21st century to look back over a joint career that has courted controversy, challenged the status quo and championed alternative views.
Exhibition
Andreas Gursky
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Through August 14, 2022
Amorepacific Museum of Art will stage Korea’s first major retrospective of Andreas Gursky. Widely regarded as one of the most significant photographers of our time, Gursky is known for his large-scale, often spectacular pictures that portray emblematic sites and scenes of the global economy and contemporary life. The exhibition in Seoul will feature approximately 40 of the artist’s ground-breaking photographs, from the 1980s through to his most recent work, which continues to push the boundaries of the medium.
Exhibition
Nancy Holt
Inside Outside
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Through February 12, 2023
Inside Outside is the first European retrospective of the work of Nancy Holt (1938–2014) and the most ambitious presentation ever of her multifaceted artistic oeuvre. A central figure in the New York art scene, Holt was a pioneer of land art, site-specific installation, video, and conceptual art. She was a member of a circle of artists that included Lucy Lippard, Joan Jonas, Richard Sierra and Robert Smithson, Holt’s partner.
The exhibition includes films and video works, photographic series, concrete poetry, audio works and archive material, drawings, sketches and documentation of her land art work. Three major installations have been recreated, including Ventilation System, a playful sculpture covering several stories indoors and outdoors, in dialogue with the architecture of Bildmuseet.
Exhibition
Axel Kasseböhmer
Museum Schacht IV
Grafschafter Museums und Geschichtsverein, Moers, Germany
Through September 30, 2022
The Grafschafter Museums und Geschichtsverein (GMGV) opens the season at Rheinpreussen Schacht IV with an exhibition of over 20 paintings by Gerhard Richter's student Axel Kasseböhmer, which are on loan from Gallery Sprüth Magers. The majority of the new pieces that have found their home in Shaft IV come from the artist's estate and are accompanied by pieces from Kasseböhmer's collection of mining utensils.
Exhibition
Barbara Kruger
Bitte lachen / Please cry
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Through August 28, 2022
The US conceptual artist Barbara Kruger (*1945) developed a new text installation for the Exhibition Hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie that will occupy the entire floor of the exhibition space. Kruger has been known since the 1970s for her large-format posters featuring sharply worded slogans, which she uses to interrogate common social stereotypes and consumerism from a feminist perspective. As an homage to architect Mies van der Rohe and his famous Berlin building, the essential parts of the architecture will remain untouched by Kruger’s artistic intervention. From a distance, visitors may not even notice the exhibition; only when they enter the building itself they truly become aware of it.
Exhibition
Barbara Kruger
Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA
Through July 17, 2022
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. is a major exhibition devoted to the work of Barbara Kruger, one of the most significant and visible artists of our time. Spanning four decades, this exhibition is the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Kruger’s work in 20 years; it spans her single-channel videos from the 1980s to digital productions of the last two decades, and includes large-scale vinyl room wraps, multichannel video installations, and audio soundscapes throughout LACMA’s campus.
Publication
Michail Pirgelis
Opaque Surfaces
Sprüth Magers and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
The book Opaque Surfaces presents the rich oeuvre of Michail Pirgelis, spanning more than 20 years. It is the artist’s first monograph to focus on works that address the painterly aspect of his sculptural oeuvre and locate them in the context of Land Art, Minimal Art, and Conceptual Art.
Pirgelis sources his material from airplanes, decommissioned carcasses mostly found in the Mojave Desert. However, in a process of meticulous abstraction, he subverts the specificity of the airplane’s husk. His method engages shape and surface head-on, exposing marginal details and working toward the bare aluminum. The artist explores the limits of our understanding of objects and radically expands our experience of the sculptural.
The catalog is published with texts by Camila McHugh, Nicolaus Schafhausen and a preface by Tenzing Barshee.
Exhibition
Bridget Riley
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Through July 24, 2022
Over a seven-decade career, Bridget Riley (b. 1931) has used color, line, and geometric pattern to explore the dynamic nature of visual perception across paintings, drawings, and screenprints. Selected by the artist and displayed on two floors, the works in this exhibition comprise the largest survey of Riley's work in the United States in twenty years.
Exhibition
Bridget Riley
Looking and Seeing, Doing and Making
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Through August 21, 2022
This exhibition focuses on the twenty-year period that followed a visit Bridget Riley made to Egypt in 1979, which had a profound effect on the development of her color work. Riley has selected paintings from her own collection to provide vital insights into how the working process unfolds through practice. In support of this, the exhibition includes rarely shown preliminary work, drawings and studies, which reveal Riley’s day-to-day life in her studio.
Sterling Ruby, Hex, installation view, Berggruen Arts and Culture, Venice, 2022
© Sterling Ruby Studio. Photo: Andrea Avezzù
Site-specific Installation
Sterling Ruby
Hex, 2022
A Project in Four Acts
Berggruen Arts & Culture, Palazzo Diedo, Venice
Through November 2022
Selected as the first Berggruen Arts & Culture artist-in-residence, Sterling Ruby has created a multi-year installation in Venice, Italy, that debuted on April 20, 2022.
Exhibition
Thomas Ruff
Metaphotography
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain – Saint-Étienne, France
Through August 28, 2022
The MAMC+ is presenting the first exhibition in a French museum by the German photographic artist, Thomas Ruff.
This retrospective covers the forty years of Ruff's career and aims to reveal the way in which the artist tirelessly questions the photographic medium itself, developing a “meta-photography”. Through a selection of seventeen series, including one as yet unseen (Bonfils, 2022) the visit of around one hundred artworks restores a chronology of the various types of imagery and technical processes that he investigates, thus implicitly retracing a history of photography.
Exhibition
Thomas Scheibitz
if seven was five
Kloster Schoenthal, Langenbruck, Switzerland
Through November 6, 2022
The exhibition focuses on the sculptural work of the Berlin-based artist Thomas Scheibitz. Like his paintings, his sculptures are characterized by multi-layered references and opening fields of association. A typographic element or medieval architectural forms, playing cards or art historical motifs: anything can be the starting point of his works, which always undergo a multi-stage transformation process and irritatingly elude unambigous attributions. The exhibition at Schönthal Monastery presents a series of new sculptures in with exemplary works from the last fifteen years.
Exhibition
Frank Stella
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Through October 9, 2022
Last year, Frank Stella won the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize, which brings with it a major exhibition at Museum Wiesbaden. Jawlensky completed the first series of his late work in Wiesbaden, and working in series has also characterized Stella's work from the beginning of his career. In addition, Stella's work is extremely complex, full of literary references and yet neither abstract nor representational in the conventional sense. To this day, he extends painting into space and also conceptually.
Exhibition
Kaari Upson
Never Enough
DESTE Foundation, Athens
Through October 27, 2022
The DESTE Foundation is pleased to announced the upcoming exhibition Never Enough, dedicated to the work of the late Kaari Upson (1970–2021), which includes a wide selection of works ranging from sculpture, drawing, painting and video and spanning the artist's prolific career.
Exhibition
Kara Walker
A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Through July 24, 2022
Kara Walker opens her private archives containing more than 600 drawings that she has carefully kept hidden from the outside world for the past twenty-eight years. De Pont is presenting these unknown treasures, along with brand new works and a series of animation films, in Walker's first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands.
Publication
Walter Dahn
Petrichor
Sprüth Magers and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
Petrichor presents Walter Dahn’s versatile photographic oeuvre of the last 50 years. Photography has played a key role in his work from the very beginning, allowing him to sharpen his eye in recognizing and documenting the beauty of everyday moments. The medium enables him to freeze time, focus on a certain instant, make a political statement or humorously comment on the absurdity of the world.
The catalog is published with texts by Robin Winters, Oscar Perry and Johannes Brus.
Exhibition
Marcel van Eeden
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
September 16–December 11, 2022
Artist Marcel van Eeden is a great admirer of Vincent van Gogh. For this presentation, he takes only one work by Van Gogh as the starting point for his charcoal drawings: the drawing Gasworks, created in The Hague in March 1882. Van Gogh’s drawing is a logical choice for Van Eeden: his native The Hague plays an important role in his work. His apartment is also close to the original location of the now demolished gas factory.
