Rirkrit Tiravanija: (the intellects take leave) →

Rirkrit Tiravanija
November 5 - December 20, 2025 | Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

In his latest solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in Brussels, Rirkrit Tiravanija presents recent works that build upon an ongoing body of work referencing Canadian American artist Philip Guston’s paintings on American newspapers in the 1970s. Using tree lacquer and oil, Tiravanija adapts the concept for contemporary times by painting on editions of The New York Times that feature Donald Trump’s election and inauguration. The series reflects his broader practice which is grounded in relational aesthetics and approaches art as a catalyst for social commentary and change.

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Jorge Pardo at Petzel, New York →

Jorge Pardo
October 30, 2025 - January 10, 2026 | Petzel, New York

Jorge Pardo, Untitled, 2025
Oil and metallic paint on canvas, stretched over birch and engraved
73 1/4 x 73 1/4 x 2 3/8 in
186 x 186 x 6 cm

With vibrant paintings, hanging sets of pendants and new floor lamps, Pardo builds upon his interest in fusing machine and hand-made media to create works that are paradoxically bound to conditions of time, memory, and space.

Referring to his paintings as “artworks to think with,” Pardo uses a procedural approach he has developed over the past half decade. He overlaps far-spanning art historical sources digitally, which converge and intersect as vertices of light, color, and form to arrive at final images through a process of estrangement and dissociation. This allows him to forge unexpected affinities between seemingly disparate works, starting with the entirety of Monet’s Haystacks and intersecting them with the interventions of conceptually-informed artists like Michael Asher. Pardo feeds such influences—compositions by Monet, Asher, Joan Mitchell, Wayne Thiebaud, and others—through a mechanized order of operations, appropriating these images while disassembling them altogether. With the digital drawing complete, vectorized outlines are laser-etched on to canvas and hand-painted with an effervescent palette of marigold yellows, pearlescent blues, and mossy greens.

Similarly, Pardo’s hanging pendants and floor lamps draw upon both Monet’s Haystacks and Warhol’s Shadows. Armed with architectural software, the artist machines these mythical lighting effects so tangled in art historical discourse. The resulting lightworks slice, abstract and restructure the interior light of Monet and the exterior saturation of Warhol’s shadows onto laser-cut planes of painted acrylic sheeting. For the floor lamps, Pardo has used over 50 Shadow paintings as his palette, assigning colors to each lamp. Unique, organic shapes emerge from the floor through acrylic that the artist warps with heat.

In addition to the exhibition, Pardo has invited an ensemble of artists, curators, writers, psychoanalysts, scientists, and thinkers to give brief lectures instead of each painting’s titles as ephemeral stand-ins. The lectures will take place on December 13, 2025, with more details forthcoming.

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SUPERFLEX in Down Deep: Living Seas, Living Bodies →

SUPERFLEX
October 20 - November 22, 2025 | State Art Gallery, Sopot

SUPERFLEX, Hunga Tonga (2021), video; 22 minutes (video still)

On the shores of the Baltic Sea, overlooking the Bay of Gdańsk, artists from Poland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, Australia, the United States, Chile, India, South Korea, and the Caribbean have gathered for this group exhibition. The State Art Gallery’s unique location in Sopot provides a natural context for reflecting on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual connection to the ocean. The international group of artists broadens this perspective, opening up space for diverse interpretations and sensibilities. Here, water becomes a connecting thread—a common denominator that weaves together artistic practices emerging from diverse cultures and contexts.

The project’s partners are the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Gdańsk, whose knowledge and experience enrich the exhibition’s artistic dimension with a scientific perspective and reflection on the condition of the oceans.

Central to the exhibition is the question of what it means to become ocean, to return our human bodies to the immense body of water that covers over two-thirds of the Earth. Scientists have long been investigating the watery origins of life on our planet, initially including tide pools and hot springs as possibilities. Modern research has hypothesised that life originated near deep sea hydrothermal vents, as the chemicals found in these vents and the energy they provide could fuel the many reactions needed for the evolution of life.

Down Deep begins from this hypothesis of life’s oceanic origins at least 3.5 billion years ago to consider our innate connectivity to the water and, by extension, how we came into being and continue to exist as a collective species. In this, the exhibition moves against the philosophical, religious, and techno-industrial lineage of anthropocentrism that continues to divide us from our environments and which was furthered by the advent of modern science and agriculture, with its embedded intent to tame, categorise and contain the world around us. If we were to relinquish the binds of this human exceptionalism, how might we understand ourselves within a larger body of enveloping life and start to exist in communion with the deep and profound rhythms of the ocean?

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Fiona Banner in 'PUSH THE LIMITS 2: culture strips to reveal war' →

Fiona Banner
October 27 - February 1, 2025 | The Fondazione Merz, Turin

Fiona Banner, Pranayama Organ, 2021

The Fondazione Merz in Turin presents the second edition of PUSH THE LIMITS, an exhibition project that deepens its ongoing exploration of contemporary language and creativity. Bringing together artists from diverse generations and backgrounds, the exhibition highlights those who make the challenge and transformation of imposed or perceived boundaries central to their artistic practice.

PUSH THE LIMITS 2 culture strips to reveal war, offers an encounter with the practices, languages, and research of 19 artists – Heba Y. Amin, Maja Bajević, Mirna Bamieh, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Rossella Biscotti, Monica Bonvicini, Latifa Echakhch, yasmine eid-sabbagh/Rozenn Quéré, Cécile B. Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Jasleen Kaur, Katerina Kovaleva, Teresa Margolles, Helina Metaferia, Janis Rafa, Zineb Sedira, Nora Turato. They will be presenting new works, others already created or recontextualized specifically for the spaces of the Fondazione.

Curated by Claudia Gioia and Beatrice Merz, open from 27 October to 1 February, 2025, the project stems from the idea of art as regeneration and the ability to formulate thoughts and words where the urgency issues of the present seem instead to push toward repetition and resignation to immobility.

The title, PUSH THE LIMITS 2 culture strips to reveal war, seeks to underline the attitude of art to push itself constantly to the limit in order to shift the axis of thinking, perception, and discourse, to introduce new solutions and interpretations of our time. In this second edition, the exhibition deepens its role in the face of official narratives, which attempt to normalise the devastating consequences of conflict and destruction, and the silence of politics. “Means and ends are intertwined, and the result is that we no longer understand what the ends are,” explain the curators.

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Stolon Press’s 'Hustle Culture' screened at 'Of Mountains and Seas' at Asia Now, Paris →

Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick)
October 25, 5:30-8:00pm | Asia Now 2025, La Monnaie de Paris

Stolon Press, Hustle Culture (video and publication), 2024
Single-channel video, 1:00:36
Commissioned by Lahore Biennale Foundation
Made possible with the support of Creative Australia

Complementing Lahore Biennale Foundation’s presentation of artworks in the Monnaie de Paris, Asia Now also presents a video program from Of Mountains and Seas, the 2024 edition, featuring video commissioned by the Lahore Biennale Foundation from Bani Abidi, Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick), Niamat Nigar, Fazal Rizvi, and Zheng Bo, as well as works by Gidree Bawlee. The program, like the works on view throughout the Monnaie de Paris, offer a vision of ecological awareness from Asian perspectives. Powered by the French Embassy to Pakistan.

Stolon Press’s Hustle Culture is a record made of the daily life around three bird baths placed under a chaste tree and a tamarind tree, in a small garden, in a small town in Malaysia. The visitors to the baths vary—sunbirds, fantails, swallows, an occasional tailorbird, maybe even a kingfisher or oriole, a toad, as well the neighborhood’s fat cat. The baths are washed and refilled regularly; sometimes there are no visitors at all, save for a floating feather; the camera is too slow or too fast, too impatient, or badly positioned. Instead of a story or plot, there is rhythm, fluttering, and a daily patterning. The video is accompanied by an eponymous publication produced with typists in Lahore.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija: In Aliens We Trust →

Rirkrit Tiravanija
October 20 - November 22, 2025 | Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled (the savage detectives) (or the chorus that includes, the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances.), 2025

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s works have always defied notions of singular authorship, not only when they are shaped by the gathering of people, their agency and interactions. In his highly citational practice, art history is understood as something generative: by way of reenacting, making use of and copying existing artworks, both his own and by other artists, Tiravanija continues to destabilize the status of the discrete object and expand the capacities of the readymade (the readymade not merely as a physical object, but also as a formation of preconceived ideas and sets of practices that are readily available in society). Some of Tiravanija’s earliest works, as well as most recent ones, can be read as counter-motions to the commodification of life, critiquing the dichotomies that Western taxonomic knowledge systems have constructed: Nature/Culture, Human/non-human, Artwork/Artifact, Civilized/Savage.

Staring at a metal object on the gallery’s floor are two hairy figures, face to face, who seem to have escaped an ethnological diorama. Mimicking the Spider-Man posture of professional golfer Camilo Villegas, the life-sized sculpture portrays Rirkrit Tiravanija and artist friend Udomsak Krisanamis rendered as prehistoric creatures—almost human. Effigies have appeared in Tiravanija’s work before (infamously, he has even employed a doppelganger), while others of his self-portraits incorporate artifacts as proxies for the artist’s body, negotiating the meaning of its absence or presence. Lying between the two figures is a steel comb, an almost exact replica of the one Marcel Duchamp first conceived as an artwork at 11 a.m. on February 17, 1916. Art historians have debated the original purpose of this particular model, but what’s certain is that it was not designed to comb human hair. 

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A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration →

Judy Ledgerwood | Hyperallergic

Judy Ledgerwood, "Golden Hour" (2025), oil on canvas, 84 × 96 inches

by John YauIt was immediately apparent when I walked into Gray Gallery’s spacious, living room-like uptown space that the dimensions of the four paintings in Judy Ledgerwood’s exhibition were determined by those of the walls on which they hung. A single work occupied two of the walls, while two equally sized canvases held a dialogue on the third.

Ledgerwood’s manipulation of formal structure within individual works accelerated my appreciation of her play with dimensions, from the skewed linear grid of unequal triangles occupied by a hand-drawn trefoil in “Vitamin C” (all works 2025) to the vibrant opticality of different trefoils, some of them mirrored, dispersed across a monochromatic ground in “Crepuscolo.” Hung on opposite walls, this pairing made me look more closely at how each of the four paintings talked to each other as well as held their own ground.

I have always thought of Ledgerwood as a consummate painter who transformed the rigidity of Pattern and Decoration’s reliance on repetition into a mode of improvisation and surprise. The eye-opener was the manner in which she undid the movement’s decorous decorum into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar. This goes back to Willem de Kooning’s ostentatious nudes and their trace of misogyny, which Ledgerwood also upends. The quatrefoils and trefoils we see in her paintings are comical evocations of female genitalia, a bad boy’s graffiti on a bathroom wall. I once compared them to “Henri Matisse’s cut-outs […] romanced by anthropomorphic cartoon mice.” And yet, what we see is not vulgarity, but the frank celebration of female sexuality. I am reminded of something the painter David Reed once said to his dealer, Nicholas Wilder: “My ambition in life is to be a bedroom painter.”

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Judy Ledgerwood Installation Inaugurates Chicago's Newly Refurbished Blue Line Racine Station →

Judy Ledgerwood
October 10, 2025 | CTA Blue Line Racine Station, Chicago

Judy Ledgerwood’s new permanent, site-specific installation is open now at the CTA’s newly renovated Blue Line Racine Station. The Racine stop renovation is part of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)’s multi-year project to make the Blue Line Forest Park Branch fully accessible. Composed of 704 unique, hand-made ceramic tiles, Ledgerwood’s new public artwork, titled Flowers for the Blue Line Racine Station, spans 40 feet of wall space from floor to ceiling, wrapping around the station’s north and west walls to greet commuters as they enter.
 
Conceived over two years ago, the project was realized in collaboration with Ingrid Harding, Chief of Production at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory in Munich, Germany—a producer of fine porcelain and terracotta majolica since 1747. Each tile was hand-formed in red terracotta and finished with low-relief textures and vibrant polychrome majolica glazes. Ledgerwood designed sixteen distinct tile forms and spent months refining the clay body and glazes, treating each tile as an individual painting.

Judy Ledgerwood joins previous artists commissioned to create artworks for stations, including Theaster Gates (Red Line station at 95th Street in 2018) and Nick Cave (Green Line Garfield station in 2018). “Nothing gives me greater joy than to have the opportunity to tap the talents of a local artist to enrich the transit riding experience and add yet more art to one of our rail stations,” said CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr. “With each new piece of public art added to one of our facilities, we are not only beautifying the space but we’re also celebrating and contributing to the surrounding the community.”

Fiona Banner in Frith Street Gallery le Molière Pop-Up in Paris →

Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press
October 10 - 26, 2025 | Frith Street Gallery le Molière, Paris

To coincide with the art fair weeks in London and the French capital, Frith Street Gallery is presenting a special pop-up exhibition featuring Fiona Banner alongside other artists from the gallery’s roster at 40 rue de Richelieu in the 1st arrondissement, the site of the last residence of the great 17th century writer Molière.

Frith Street Gallery le Molière is located by Jardins du Palais Royal and a short walk from major cultural landmarks such as the Louvre, the Bourse de Commerce, Collection Pinault and the new Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.

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FullCircle Presents Diana Thater: ArtCenter’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner (A special conversation with the artist) →

Diana Thater
Saturday, October 4, 2–3 p.m. | ArtCenter, Pasadena

Portrait of Diana Thater with Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, 2016 (Kenya). Photo by T. Kelly Mason.

Diana Thater (MFA ‘90 Fine Arts/Painting) has been at the forefront of her medium since her graduation from ArtCenter in 1990. Her work in film, video and installation has been internationally recognized. In her 35-year career, she has been the subject of 92 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 200 group exhibitions. She has produced eight monographs and has received numerous fellowships, grants and awards including her most recent award - The Trellis Art Prize - announced in July of this year. Thater has just returned from a shoot at Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny. The film and video shot on location will become a large-scale permanent outdoor installation commissioned for the new LACMA campus. Tonight she will preview this new project, as well as some of her recent work, and will discuss her wide range of interests and inspirations. Her presentation will be followed by a Q&A.

*A private reception will precede the presentation from 1–2 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, Hillside Campus (ArtCenter FullCircle Members Only)

ArtCenter College of Design, Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103

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What Was the Pictures Generation? →

Jack Goldstein | ArtNews

Jack Goldstein, Untitled, 1981

by Howard Halle

In the United States, the 1970s were known as the malaise decade, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the white middle class had fled the Five Boroughs along with manufacturing and shipping, leaving a tax base that slipped into a death spiral even as the cost of services and social programs increased. But of all the years during that benighted era, 1977 marked a nadir in the city’s fortunes: On the night of July 13–14, a blackout plunged New York into darkness, precipitating a widespread outbreak of looting and vandalism; the following month, David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, was arrested for a 12-month killing spree that left eight people dead; and during coverage of the World Series that October, a helicopter camera brought us the spectacle of a block being consumed by fire next to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, where landlords had been burning down abandoned buildings to collect insurance money.

Unnoticed amidst this civic unraveling was a group exhibition titled “Pictures,” which opened in September of 1977 at Artists Space, one of several nonprofit galleries that had sprung up to cultivate emerging talent. Featuring just five artists (Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Philip Smith) working variously in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and film, the exhibit focused on how mass media and popular culture had transformed the general understanding of imagery through its transmission by photographs, movies, and television. While “Pictures” attracted the attention of only a slice of an art world that was small and localized compared with now, the show, and a generation of artists attached to its name, proved to be an inflection point for art through the rest of the century and into our own.

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Ana Prvacki in Gabriele Münter Prize Exhibition →

Ana Prvacki
September 27 - November 16, 2025 | Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz

Ana Prvacki, Bunny Ears, 2022

The Gabriele Münter Prize is the only art prize in Europe that is awarded exclusively to female visual artists over the age of forty. The prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, was created because female artists in this age group are significantly underrepresented in important awards. The Gabriele Münter Prize offers an effective opportunity at national level to highlight, promote and honour the outstanding achievements of contemporary female visual artists living in Germany. The prize is named after the painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) – one of the most important female artists of modernism. Her example is still an encouragement for female artists today.

The 2025 Gabriele Münter Prize was awarded to Iranian-German artist Parastou Forouhar. An accompanying exhibition at the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz displayed Forouhar’s works, together with the works of the five other finalists Esra Ersen, Else Gabriel, Ana Prvački, Annegret Soltau and Hoda Tawakol.

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Petra Cortright: NOBLEcurve →

Petra Cortright
September 27 - November 1, 2025 | Interval, London

‍Cortright’s rich and beautifully formed artworks from her solo show at Interval, London, the inaugural exhibition at the space, were created in response to a series consigned works for the show from Interval’s old master gallery collaborators Rafael Valls and Sam Fogg, featuring 17th and 18th century Dutch and Spanish floral still life paintings by Gaspar Pieter Verbruggen II, Jan Van Os, José de Arrelano, alongside the 15th century manuscript pages: A kneeling patron before the Virgin and Child, from the Elmhirst-Courtanvaux Hours, The Annunciation to the Virgin from a Book of Hours and a leaf by The Master of the Budapest Antiphoner.

“In considering who to launch Interval with, and working in line with our mission to connect contemporary artists with historic artworks in the project space, Petra Cortright was a perfect choice. We had both relished collaborating with Petra on her beautiful digital art commissions for Daata and The Bass Museum back in 2018 — with my curation, and Jacob creating the sound for her videos. Interestingly, those video artworks also sourced historic floral paintings. Our next goal was to find the most fitting historic artworks to present alongside Petra’s work, and happily, Rafael Valls and Sam Fogg were delighted to work with us! And here we are now…” – David Gryn

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Pae White in 'Natural Mystics' →

Pae White
September 27, 2025 - January 31, 2026 | The Warehouse, Dallas

Art is never reasonable. It is not logical and has no utilitarian value. In a world obsessed with efficiency, the role of the artist is to introduce friction. The artists in Natural Mystics employ magical and otherworldly thinking that gum-up the works and create this productive friction. Drawing from both the Rachofsky and the Hartland & Mackie / Labora Collections, the exhibition gathers works made in the shadow of the wreckage of empirical reason, at a time when the systems we were taught to trust have proven to be unreliable narrators of the present moment. The artists in the exhibition do not offer solutions, nor do they turn away from the present moment’s poverty and exhaustion. Instead, they turn upward and inward. Across a variety of media—from paintings to aquariums—they work from places beneath language and beyond the reach of consensus. In an age intoxicated by data and driven to rationalize every impulse, these artists choose instead to listen…to dreams, to omens, to the quiet murmur beneath the noise. Theirs is a different kind of rigor: one that resists legibility, that honors opacity, that draws from what cannot be charted. This is a queer knowledge-making. It does not justify itself. It offers ephemera as evidence.

As Natural Mystics unfolds, the artists reckon with the world on different terms: intuitive, embodied, non-linear, organic. They operate as seers, not because they foretell the future, but because they feel and share what has been buried and what is becoming—climate collapse, algorithmic control, new understandings of the body, the disenchantment of life. These artists draw power from ancestral memory, the natural world, and ecstatic vision. What they offer is not escape, but spell work: gestures that resist commodification and truths that cannot be graphed. Here, art is not a mirror held to the world, but a portal—something to pass through and be changed by.

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ArtCenter Chair Diana Thater Honored Amidst Loss and Renewal →

Diana Thater | Pasadena Now

ArtCenter College of Design will present its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Diana Thater on Saturday, September 27 in Pasadena, honoring a career defined by vision and resilience.

Thater, chair of ArtCenter’s Art Department since 2024 and a faculty member since 1995, experienced profound upheaval when the Eaton Fire devastated her home, studio, and three decades of creative work in Altadena last January.

“I have no concept of home. I sort of lost it, and I haven’t refound it yet. I don’t know where I’m going to be living. I don’t know. I don’t know a lot of things. So everything’s kind of up in the air for me right now,” Thater said, reflecting on the loss. “We lost everything, including our studio and all of our work.”

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Diana Thater: Peonies at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena →

Diana Thater
September 20 - November 9, 2025 | ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena

Diana Thater, Peony (2020); Installation: 4 flat monitors, media player; Edition of 1 + 1AP (video still)

A special presentation of acclaimed artist, educator, writer, curator and alumna Diana Thater's work Peonies will be on view in the College's Mullin Transportation Design Center. The work, presented on one large video monitor, is a still life of a bouquet of flowers filmed over the course of 12 hours and presented in one minute.

Thater will receive the College’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 ArtCenter Awards ceremony on Saturday, September 27, 2025.

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Angela Bulloch in Die Linie at Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna →

Angela Bulloch
September 19 - March 8, 2026 | Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna

The exhibition Die Linie explores the line as a fundamental element of the visual arts. Moving between subjective gesture and constructive precision, it takes on countless roles: it structures surfaces and defines form, traces contours and boundaries, separates and connects. It documents time and space, describes reality, creates illusion, and captures the imaginary. In the infinite variety of its concepts, functions, and material forms, the line has much to reveal—about its time, its artists, and their concerns.

Starting from the classical medium of drawing, the exhibition examines the line’s potential to create artistic worlds and to respond, through art, to the world we live in. The focus lies on contemporary positions that transcend traditional genre boundaries, expanding the line into space and presenting it as a medium for reflecting on social and political realities.

Angela Bulloch is featured alongside Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kader Attia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pierre Bismuth, Rosemarie Castoro, Christo und Jeanne-Claude, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Carola Dertnig, Marcel Duchamp, Fred Eerdekens, Amy Feldman, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Lucian Freud, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Antony Gormley, Keith Haring, Alexej Jawlensky, Donald Judd, Birgit Jürgenssen, Reena Saini Kallat, Wassily Kandinsky, Žilvinas Kempinas, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Knoop, Joseph Kosuth, Brigitte Kowanz, Edward Krasiński, Alfred Kubin, Roy Lichtenstein, Constantin Luser, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Vera Molnár, François Morellet, Nick Oberthaler, Helga Philipp, Pablo Picasso, Giulia Piscitelli, Sigmar Polke, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Fred Sandback, Sonia Sanoja, Egon Schiele, Chiharu Shiota, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Andy Warhol.

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Ann Veronica Janssens: For M. at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer →

Ann Veronica Janssens
September 17 - October 31, 2025 | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

For M. is Ann Veronica Janssen’s newest solo exhibition with Galerie Micheline Szwajcer in Antwerp. Janssen’s has worked with Galerie Micheline Szwajcer for over thirty years.

“My projects are often based on technical or scientific facts. The resulting plastic proposition is then akin to a laboratory revealing its discoveries. Cognition, reflexes, meanings and psychology lie at the heart of these experimentations. The spatio-temporal experiences are, in fact, closer to something like hypnosis, but with the will, nevertheless, to return to reality rather than escape from it. By pushing back the limits of perception, by rendering visible the invisible, these experiences act as passages from one reality to another … It’s a question of thresholds between two states of perception, between shadow and light, the defined and the undefined, silence and explosion; the threshold where the image reabsorbs itself.” – Ann Veronica Janssens

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Rirkrit Tiravanija to be included in the 2025 edition of the Singapore Biennale →

Rirkrit Tiravanija
September 15 | Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum

Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Photo: Singapore Art Museum.

Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention presents contemporary art in multiple venues and public spaces, inviting audiences of all walks of life to experience Singapore’s many layers built by all of those who have been a part of its history, collectively creating a city that is as planned as it is full of discovery, surprises and interesting juxtaposition. Curated by Duncan Bass, Hsu Fang-Tze, Ong Puay Khim, and Selene Yap, the Biennale offers Singaporeans an opportunity to reflect on the nation’s historic milestones and shared aspirations while imagining possible collective futures. The Biennale will engage with spaces ranging from pre-colonial and colonial landmarks transformed into public, green areas repurposed for recreation, residential neighbourhoods and lived spaces, to shopping centres that have evolved into social spaces for Singapore’s diverse communities.

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Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness at Gray Gallery, New York →

Judy Ledgerwood
September 10 - November 1, 2025 | Gray Gallery, New York

Twilight in the Wilderness debuts four large-scale canvases that continue Ledgerwood’s career-long exploration of radiant color and architectural scale through a feminist reworking of the painterly grid. 

For over forty years, Judy Ledgerwood has pushed the boundaries of abstraction. Her chromatic language subverts and reimagines historically male-dominated traditions of Color Field painting and Minimalism, transforming visual pleasure into a critical investigation of beauty and representation. Her large scale paintings often appear like textiles, pinned from the top and painted edge-to-edge, and feature repeating quatrefoil patterns rendered with intentional irregularity. These immersive, optically charged compositions envelop the viewer, turning the act of looking into a fully embodied experience of beauty, color, and space. “For me,” Ledgerwood states, “the painting happens between the painting and the viewer.”

Titled after Frederic Edwin Church’s 1863 painting of a sunset, Twilight in the Wilderness presents four new paintings inspired by the drama and color of refracted light just before nightfall. Monumental in scale, these works blaze with hot pinks, golden yellows, burnt oranges, teals, and vivid greens—colors that heighten the works’ radiance and emotional intensity. Of the largest canvas, Vitamin C, art historian and curator Helen Molesworth writes: “A riot of tangled paint strokes, a filigreed layer of beachfront-hotel seafoam on top of an Orange Julius® ground? Whatever grid once held the substrate together has gone all akimbo.” 

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