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Jenny Saville's first Austrian solo exhibition opens at ALBERTINA Museum |
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Jenny Saville, Byzantium, 2018. Oil on canvas, 194,3 × 239,1 cm. The George Economou Collection © Jenny Saville / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025. Photo: Mike Bruce. Courtesy Gagosian.
VIENNA.- The renowned English artist Jenny Saville (born 1970) has been exploring the tradition of body paintings in her oeuvre for more than three decades, with her figures occupying a position between idealization and deconstruction. She draws inspiration from art history to create painting that is characterized by corporeality, carnality and the interplay of new and old media. Saville is one of the most important representatives of the Young British Artists and was the only figurative painter to take part in the legendary exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1997. “This year, the Albertina Museum is dedicating a total of six solo exhibitions to women. It starts with the solo show by Jenny Saville, which is also being shown in a museum exhibition for the first time in Austria and Germany. The artist offers a new perspective on the human body, drawing inspiration from old masters such as Leonardo and Titian, but also from modern greats such as Schiele, Bacon and ... More |
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| Boetti's "Aerei" series takes flight in London: Rare works unveiled at Ben Brown Fine Arts |
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Pharrell Williams curates "FEMMES" at Perrotin, celebrating Black womanhood through art |
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Pace announces inaugural exhibitions at its new space in Berlin |
Alighiero Boetti, Aerei, 1989, Ink on photo paper laid down on canvas, 3 parts, 99 x 66 cm. (39 x 26 in.) each / 99 x 198 cm. (39 x 78 in.) total.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts London opened Alighiero e Boetti: Embellishing the Sky, taking place from 19 March to 23 May 2025. Organised by curator Elena Geuna in collaboration with architect and cartoonist Guido Fuga and supported by the Archivio Alighiero Boetti in Rome, this extraordinary show offers a rare opportunity to experience one of the most defining, visually striking, and conceptually rich series by Boetti: the Aerei. Comprising works seldom seen and united for the first time in London, the exhibition is an invitation to witness the radical vision of one of the 20th century’s most evocative and innovative conceptual artists. Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) remains a pivotal figure in contemporary art, his career charting a shift from Arte Povera’s material interrogations in the 1960s to a broader exploration of conceptual and collaborative practices. Renouncing the idea of a singular artistic identity, he adopted ... More |
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View of the exhibition ‘FEMMES curated by Pharrell Williams’ at Perrotin Paris, 2025. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of all the artists and Perrotin © ADAGP, Paris, 2025.
PARIS.- Perrotin presents FEMMES, a group exhibition curated by Pharrell Williams, showcasing nearly 40 artists. It ambitions to spotlight these luminaries while advocating for greater visibility and equity—inviting everyone in. From G I R L in 2014 to FEMMES today, the title is now plural and translated into French, with a focus on the multifaceted nature of Black womanhood. FEMMES reflects Pharrell’s eclectic taste and unique aesthetic equation, weaving together influences orbiting around diverse creative poles. It pays homage to the ground laying work of African American art’s tutelary figures Betye Saar and Carrie Mae Weems, alongside revered African matriarchs Seyni Awa Camara and Esther Mahlangu. Exploring textile art—traditionally tied to women’s labor and historically marginalized in art history—FEMMES highlights the intricate narratives embedded in fabric, ... More |
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Robert Nava, Vampire, 2024 © Robert Nava, courtesy Pace Gallery.
BERLIN.- Pace announced the inaugural exhibition at its new space in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood marking a major milestone for the gallery’s presence in Europe. Reverse Alchemy: Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava brings together works on paper by three artists of different generations who have transgressed and disrupted the language of figuration: Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Nava. Anchored in Dubuffet’s “anti-cultural” celebration of art brut, this exhibition focuses on the medium of paper to explore how these artists perform a reverse alchemy, transmuting the gilded surfaces of “high art” back into its base elements—the raw, crude, and unhewn matter of mark-making—dismantling and exploding the figure in the act of rendering it. On view from May 2 through June 14, the exhibition inaugurates Pace’s new chapter in Berlin by reflecting on the outsized and profoundly disruptive influence of Dubuffet on both the history of art and the ... More |
| Paper and wood: Group exhibition highlights varied approaches to drawing and print |
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LACMA showcases Zheng Chongbin's fusion of ink and light in "Golden State" |
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Dynamic Duos: The Art of Working in Pairs to opens at The New York Public Library |
Josh Smith, Untitled, 2019. Monotype on Plike paper. Unique. Sheet 36 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. © Joshe Smith.
VIENNA.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting Zeichnungen und Drucke / Drawings and Prints, a group exhibition exploring different approaches to drawing and print, demonstrating the range and richness of these mediums on various types of paper and wood. Works on paper by the gallery artists Joe Bradley, Carroll Dunham, Shara Hughes, Tobias Pils, Ugo Rondinone, Tschabalala Self, Steven Shearer, and Josh Smith are presented. In addition, three pencil drawings on birchwood by the invited Mexican-Swiss artist Alex Hank are on view. In his drawing practice, Joe Bradley (b. 1975 in Maine, ME, US) uses such unorthodox materials as scraps of cardboard, loose paper, and even sticky notes. One aspect of his practice that remains constant is his emphasis on process: the intuitive movements of the artist’s hand, as well as the effects of material, memory, and environment. Though vaguely familiar and reminiscent of children’s drawings, comic book sketches, cave paintings, and ideograms, the image ... More |
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Zheng Chongbin, Golden State, 2024, courtesy of the artist, © Zheng Chongbin, photo: Zhang Hong.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Zheng Chongbin: Golden State, which spotlights artist Zheng Chongbin’s explorations of water, light, movement, and California’s natural landscape. Zheng Chongbin: Golden State marks the artist’s largest solo presentation in the U.S. to date and the first major showcase of his work with colored pigments. Over the past four decades, Zheng has cultivated a unique practice that engages the driving concepts and aesthetics of the L.A.-based Light and Space movement alongside East Asia’s tradition of ink painting, fusing seemingly disparate practices into signature painting and video techniques. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years and draws inspiration from the region’s distinctive atmosphere, environmental effects, and rich ecologies. Where previous presentations have contextualized his practice in the canon of Chinese ink painting alone, LACMA’s exhibition situates Zheng as a di ... More |
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Gilbert & George, The Ten Commandments, 1995. Offset lithograph. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection © Gilbert & George.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dynamic Duos: The Art of Working in Pairs opened at The New York Public Library. Challenging ideas of the singular creative genius, this exhibition features prints, photographs, and illustrated books dating from the mid-sixteenth century to the present that are the creative expression of not one but two artists. Artistic duos are often regarded as a phenomenon of modern and contemporary art. Collaboration has long, however, been an important part of how art was made. Printmaking in particular is a medium that from its beginnings has frequently relied on the hands of two separate artists working together on the same printing plate to achieve a unified visual effect. Dynamic Duos pulls back the curtain on this history to demonstrate how modern notions of co-authorship have their origins in earlier times, especially the practice of some printmakers who by the sixteenth century had begun acknowledging their ... More |
| Amy Sillman's "Oh, Clock!" opens at Ludwig Forum Aachen, exploring painting's timeless evolution |
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A new exhibition from Pera Museum on its 20th anniversary: Marcel Dzama's Dancing with the Moon |
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Major retrospective by Dutch artist Daan van Golden, on show at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam |
Amy Sillman, UGH for 2023 (Torsos), 2023-24. Courtesy of the artist.
AACHEN.- Amy Sillman's "Oh, Clock!" has opened, marking the New York painter's first major solo exhibition in the German-speaking world. The show, on display in Aachen, offers a deep dive into Sillman's decades-long exploration of painting, both on and beyond the canvas. Visitors encounter a wide range of her work from the past decade, including paintings, drawings, digital animations, and large-scale installations. A unique element of the exhibition is Sillman's curatorial intervention within the museum's collection. She has selected and arranged works from the Peter and Irene Ludwig collection, displaying them on walls she herself painted, creating a dialogue between her own art and historical pieces. Sillman's approach to painting is characterized by its experimental nature. She incorporates techniques and ideas from collage, film, and music, building on the artistic and intellectual climate of 1970s New York. While acknowledging the commercial aspects of painting, Sillman draws inspiration ... More |
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Marcel Dzama, Blue rook #1, 2016. Steel and industrial enamel paint, 166 x 74 x 74 cm © Marcel Dzama. Courtesy of the Artist and David Zwirner.
ISTANBUL.- On its 20th anniversary, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum presents Marcel Dzama, one of the distinctive names in today's art world, with his first solo exhibition in Turkey. The exhibition titled Marcel Dzama: Dancing with the Moon - With a little help from his friend Raymond Pettibon, brings together the artist’s works across a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, drawings, and film, offering art enthusiasts an opportunity to engage with Dzama’s multifaceted world. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition presents Dzama’s explorations on the themes of misgovernance, misuse of our environment, and destruction caused by wars, and can be visited until August 17. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is bringing together art enthusiasts with Marcel Dzama, an artist renowned for pursuing a unique path in his artistic practice and his distinctive creative vision, with his first solo exhib ... More |
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Daan van Golden, Two Paintings, 1966. Lacquer on linen panel. Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam © Photography Tom Haartsen
ROTTERDAM.- A chequered tea towel, a piece of wrapping paper, an image in a newspaper or a blurred photograph: for painter Daan van Golden (1936-2017), these were not meaningless images, but serious subjects for his art. With great concentration, he reproduced existing patterns or discovered beauty in the serendipitous moments he captured on camera. This makes Daan van Golden one of the most idiosyncratic artists the Netherlands has ever known. The exhibition Daan van Golden. The Original at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam presents an overview of his extraordinary oeuvre. On display are the meditative paintings that made Van Golden world-famous, alongside the many photographs, collages and graphic works that are often inextricably linked to them. The concept of originality takes on a whole new meaning: it is no longer a matter of creating something new, but of seeing the beauty in what is already there. The museum is celebrating the life and work of Daan van Golden ... More |
| First exhibition of wildlife art opens at Nelson-Atkins |
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KM21 presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Mohammed Sami |
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Exhibition explores art's role in understanding a melancholic age |
Carl Rungius (German, 1869 – 1959). Morning Mist (Harlow Triptych), ca. 1930. Oil on canvas, 47 x 70 ½ inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, © Estate of Carl Rungius.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- For the first time in its 90-plus year history, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City presents masterworks from a group of late 1800s/early 1900s artists who established a vision of wildlife and wilderness that continues to resonate today. Survival of the Fittest: Picturing Wildlife and Wilderness, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art features 50 paintings created by a group of painters known today as the Big Four that influenced generations of wildlife in the 20th and 21st centuries. These international painters were Carl Rungius (American, born Germany, 1869 – 1959), Richard Friese (German, 1854 – 1918), Wilhelm Kuhnert (German, 1865 – 1926), and Bruno Liljefors (Sweden, 1860 – 1939). The exhibition opened March 22 and closes Aug. 24. “Wildlife art is an important and popular category within art history stretching back centuries, yet mainstream art museums have often ignored it,” said Julián Zugazagoit ... More |
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Mohammed Sami, Beautiful Exile, 2018, photo Hadrien de Croy, courtesy the artist, Modern Art, London and Luhring Augustune, New York.
THE HAGUE.- This spring, KM21 presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Mohammed Sami (1984, Iraq). In his monumental, enigmatic and evocative paintings, Sami explores how unreliable and vulnerable memory can be. In KM21, Sami is showing a selection of works that have not been displayed before, including the new work Fire Exit. Where is the emergency exit? A dark cloud drifts over strips of fluorescent lights. In the far distance a green sign emerges in the darkness. Or are we looking at a motorway, or even an aerial bombing? Mohammed Sami’s work is never clear-cut. And that is equally true of his monumental painting Fire Exit. Sometimes the ambiguity is in the composition, which is slightly off, an object that seems out of place or shadows that might possibly reveal something. Although he never paints figures, Sami succeeds in making the human presence tangible. A presence that gets under your skin. We feel the uncanny in Sami’s interiors, haunted landscapes and emotional ... More |
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Leonid Šejka, Kutija (Box), 1966/68. Oil, acrylic on wood, 27,5 × 16 × 14,5 cm Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Photo: Bojana Janjić / MoCAB.
GRAZ.- The exhibition Future of Melancholia explores the role that art can play in furthering our understanding of the future. It is evident that we are living in complex times that can bolster elegiac and melancholic sentiment. Melancholy stands for the mood of our time, both globally and regionally. It also enables us to think about inner and outer circumstances, deepening our understanding for our relationship to our psychological, social, and natural environments, and also looking at “other” possible worlds. When we consider the shared experiences of such different countries as Serbia and Austria, which have been connected by a long history of both pleasures and sorrows, then we think again and again of such contradictory set of ideas as the preservation, restoration and prolongation of the status quo contrasted with a nonetheless existent faith in progress and a better future that also entails an element of the utopian. This leads to a diffuse mood of melancholy and nostalgia f ... More |
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 Kunstkammer at Lismore Castle Arts
LISMORE.- In 2025 Lismore Castle Arts celebrates 20 years by presenting an exhibition dedicated to the theme of Kunstkammer, curated by art historian & writer Robert O’Byrne. With artists Aurél, Monster Chetwynd, Dorothy Cross, Urs Fischer, Marie Foley, John Gerrard, Graham Gingles, John Kindness, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Alice Maher, Ed Miliano, Patrick O’Reilly, Edward Rollitt, Sasha Sykes, Joseph Walsh. Kunstkammer is a form of museum in which strange or rare objects are exhibited together, also known as a Cabinet of Curiosities. Once widespread throughout Europe, these private museums were renowned for featuring a broad range of objects, including Arteficialia (products of man) and Naturalia (products of nature) together with scientific instruments, clocks and automaton. Priceless works of art were shown alongside strange curiosities, antiquities ... More ArtCenter College of Design presents Devin Troy Strother: Dancing in the Dark
PASADENA, CALIF.- ArtCenter College of Design is presenting Dancing in the Dark—the first major solo exhibition at a nonprofit institution dedicated to the work of Los Angeles artist and ArtCenter alumnus Devin Troy Strother. Spanning two locations, ArtCenter’s Hillside Campus (March 22 – July 26) and South Campus (March 22 – June 21), the exhibition offers an unprecedented and comprehensive look at Strother’s adventurous body of work. Visitors to the exhibition will see a selection of major works produced during the past decade, including large scale paintings featured in the spacious Williamson Gallery (Hillside Campus); recent and new video works presented at the Mullin Gallery (South Campus); and installations that also serve as platforms for performances to be staged throughout the run of the exhibition. Speaking about the exhibition, Strother ... More Amélie Bertrand's art blends history and digital culture at Semiose
PARIS.- When George Clemenceau wrote this letter to Claude Monet, he was 55 years old and the painter 56. I don’t know if Monet replied, nor whether he actually went to Marseille. Nothing prevents us however from imagining the scene: the two men meeting somewhere on the docks, it was mid-May and the days were lengthening. Perhaps they had a drink on a café terrace, delighted to be away from the hustle and bustle of Paris life. In a few hours, they would set off to admire the wonders of Antiquity…Today, we could push this fiction even further by re-enacting it more than a century later. All the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence, deep fakes and filters of all kinds, have accustomed us to improbable remakes of scenes from pop culture to the point where they have become a genre in their own right: Harry Potter in Berlin, Breaking Bad in Sicily… In the same way, we’d ... More Latvian National Museum of Art opens Viktor Timofeev's largest solo show
RIGA.- In cooperation with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, from 22 March to 15 June 2025, the most extensive solo exhibition to date by the New York-based Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev, Other Passengers, is presented in the 4th floor exhibition halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, exploring themes of otherness, fragmented identities, readability, and incomprehensibility. The exhibition brings together key motifs of Viktor Timofeev’s artistic practice, forming a unified multimedia installation that includes new paintings, drawings, video works, and a specially composed soundscape, created in collaboration with artist Miša Skalskis (FI/LT). All exposition’s elements intertwine autobiographical references with broader societal processes, developing a socio-critical metaphor in a scenographically structured environment. As visitors ... More London International Creative Competition announces winners of 2024
LONDON.- The London International Creative Competition announced the winners of its 2024 edition, celebrating outstanding creative talent from across the globe. Recognizing innovation and excellence in disciplines such as visual arts, interior design, photography, architecture, and more, LICC continues to highlight visionary work that pushes the boundaries of creativity. This year’s competition attracted over thousands of submissions from more than 84 countries, reflecting the diverse and dynamic nature of the global creative landscape. An esteemed panel of internationally recognized experts and industry leaders carefully evaluated the entries. After rigorous deliberation, LICC is pleased to reveal the Best in Category winners, whose groundbreaking contributions set a new standard of artistic excellence. Aline Martins, Program Director of the competition, shared ... More José León Cerrillo's "vanitas" explores the generative power of the void in new Paris show
PARIS.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko announced the opening of vanitas, José León Cerrillo’s second solo exhibition in Paris. Cerrillo’s artistic practice interrogates the potential of pure abstraction across a diverse range of media, including printed posters, drawings, diagrams, sculptures, installations, and performance. His work conceptualises abstraction as a process of materialisation that inevitably encounters failure—manifesting as voids, absences, or paradoxes that challenge conventional perceptions of abstract form. vanitas, featuring sculptures, prints, and large-scale ceramic works, extends Cerrillo’s ongoing exploration of the void as a generative space for abstraction. It presents one instance in a sequence of variations—one ceramic piece, a torso, and a series of lithographs—each engaging with the recurring motif of absence. If the traditional vanitas composition reflects on mortality ... More New exhibition explores the transformation of printmaking and the rise of Black art at Cleveland's Karamu House
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is pleased to announce the opening of its newest exhibition, Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community, highlighting the role of printmaking at Cleveland’s Karamu House, one of the best-known sites for Black American culture since its opening in 1915. Free to the public, this exhibition brings together more than 60 prints created by Karamu Artists Inc.—a group that included Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles Sallée, and William E. Smith, among others—exploring the groundbreaking role that the graphic arts played at Karamu House. Visitors can view the exhibition beginning on Sunday, March 23, through Sunday, August 17, 2025, in the James and Hanna Bartlett Prints ... More Exhibition celebrates 50 years of Malmö Konsthall
MALMO.- On the 22nd of March 1975, Malmö Konsthall opened its doors for the first time. Discussions surrounding where and when Malmö would have its own space for contemporary art had been ongoing in the city since the 1930s. The opening marked the beginning of the Malmö Konsthall we know today – a dynamic institution that quickly established itself as one of northern Europe’s leading spaces for contemporary art. Five decades later, on the 22nd of March 2025, we celebrate our 50th anniversary with a presentation that honours Malmö Konsthall’s history and showcases a selection of the many fantastic exhibitions that have taken place here. Having now produced close to 600 exhibitions, Malmö Konsthall has served as a platform for both internationally renowned and local artists. Architect Klas Anshelm’s bright, open, and flexible design has provided ... More |
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On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was baptized
March 23, 1609. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 1609 - 5 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette. In this image: Presumed Self-Portrait, ca. 1648, etching, British Museum.
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