Diana Thater | Orange County Museum of Art
Join acclaimed Orange County Museum of Art collection artist Diana Thater in conversation with the museum’s CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman on Sunday August 3rd as they discuss the importance of time, what it means to perform with and for an artwork, memory, and human nature.
Thater was recently awarded a Milestone Grant from the Trellis Art Fund, adding to an impressive list of accolades.
Jonny Niesche | Broadsheet
Photo: Courtesy of Gucci and Truls Blaasmo
by Gitika Garg
Sydney artist Jonny Niesche spent a decade in New York’s electronic music scene before returning to home and turning his attention to art – at the age of 30.
“I helped my parents renovate their house and sell it, and just out of the blue, I decided to do a painting on the For Sale sign,” Niesche says. “It looked like a big canvas, so I just attacked it – and loved it.”
Since then, Niesche’s hyper-colourful abstract paintings have been exhibited across the world, from Los Angeles and Vienna to London, and most recently, at the Munich Opera Festival.
A musical sensibility still runs through his work. When recording music, “you’re creating a sonic landscape,” Niesche says. “You can push sounds really far back, or to the right and the left. It’s like constructing an audible image. "I think of painting in a very similar way. Warmer colours come forward, colder colours go back. Sharp images come forward. Blurriness goes back.”
Jonny Niesche
July 19 - September 7, 2025 | GW Contemporary, Laguna Beach
GW Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition features works by Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Gary Lang, Heather Hutchison, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Matthew Allen, Will Cooke, Jan Maarten Voskuil, and Line Busch.
Simryn Gill
July 19 –August 23, 2025 | 1301SW, Sydney
Stolon Press, Strainers, 2025 (detail view)
Live feed, a modest and preliminary collaboration between a publisher and chef, asks us to consider our need for daily nourishment. How do goods and foodstuffs reach the shop and the table, what are the distances travelled, and the means and processes that make this possible? What do we do with this fresh or aged or packaged or processed produce to make it palatable and consumable? What do we talk about over the meal?
Preparing two shared meals five weeks apart, Chui Lee Luk attempts to lay bare the hierarchies of cooking and eating. The first meal is made from just-harvested and picked produce, the second from fermented, pickled, sprouted and growing ingredients. In the interim between meals, her processes will be visible in the space.
Alongside, Stolon Press present their recent series of prints, Strainers (2025), made from cardboard boxes collected from shops around their neighbourhood in Sydney. In Small talk (2025-), they use a ledger typewriter as a poultice, drawing out memories of dinner table conversations and informal thoughts.
Stolon Press is an art and publishing collective whose work sits somewhere between art and book, image and text. In 2024, they published Shallow (Simryn Gill, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, and Selene Yap) and Hustle Culture (Tom Melick). Their forthcoming titles include new pocket books by Quentin Sprague, Trent Walter and Soucho Yao, and an Urdu translation of Hustle Culture by Nusra Qureshi. Recent exhibitions include the Lahore Biennale and Flat earth, with Khaled Sabsabi and Elisa Taber, at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
Chui Lee Luk is a chef who has run various restaurants in Sydney. Most notably, she was the chef and owner of the legendary French restaurant, Claude’s, for nearly a decade. She is also the author of the cookbook, Green Pickled Peaches.
Diana Thater | MCA Santa Barbara Art Awards
The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s Art Awards honor and recognize individuals or organizations that have made a significant impact on the arts and culture of the region.
Diana Thater is awarded this honor alongside composer Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and artists Gabriela Ruiz and Manjari Sharma.
Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation art. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while critically examining the structures of mediated reality. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior sciences, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative works directly engage their surroundings, producing an intricate relationship between time and space.
Ana Prvački
March 15 – October 5, 2025 | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
Berlin-based artist Ana Prvački has conceived four site-specific performative pieces for this year's exhibition, The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth.
The work takes inspiration from the goddess Flora and involves a live trail through Chatsworth's Garden and Park. With particular reference to the Ludi Florales or Games of Flora, the ancient Roman festival that honored the goddess of flowers, vegetation and fertility, Prvački leads her viewers into a realm of playfulness and wonder.
Intersections of science, folklore, spirituality, and human connection emerge in Prvački’s conversations with nature.
This first film, above, focuses on her findings on and around Flora.
Ana Prvački's second film is set in the historic Kitchen Garden at Chatsworth House.
It is a sensual and surprising meditation on the intelligence of gardens. Blending gentle humor with ecological insight, the film explores how gardens are not only sites of cultivation but also of deep resourcefulness and imagination.
With a focus on soil as a living, breathing body—hot, steamy, and craving cover—Prvački draws poetic connections between fertility, gravity, and the intimate choreography of growth.
This is gardening as performance, as philosophy, and as provocation.
Prvački’s next short film for Chatsworth unfolds in the high moors above the house, where the landscape becomes a stage for a quiet yet powerful ritual.
Set within a large bronze circle, the film loops like a meditation, round in form and spirit. Here, love, nature, humans, animals, power, and the heavens revolve in a gentle orbit.
The camera glides in seamless motion, capturing the ancient land. The result is a poetic, circular vision of interconnectedness, where everything belongs to everything else.
Jessica Stockholder
July 10 - August 2, 2025 | Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Made of Three Elements by Jessica Stockholder. Photo credit: Josef Woodard
Building A Collection: 2008-2025 features a selection of notable works from the permanent collection of the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, added in the 17 years of bold and vibrant leadership of retiring Director Judy L. Larson.
Building a Collection showcases a curated selection of significant works acquired between 2008 and 2025, celebrating not only the Museum’s evolving holdings but also Larson’s profound and lasting influence. Each work on view reflects meaningful relationships cultivated with artists, donors, and community members.
Diana Thater | ArtCenter College of Design
The Trellis Art Fund provides financial support to artists who demonstrate a trajectory of excellence, regardless of career stage, age, education, location, or commercial representation.
Each year, The Trellis Art Fund award grants to artists who reflect a consistent, engaged practice. The Trellis Art Fund has a particular interest in artists from historically underrepresented groups, as well as those working outside the commercial art market.
This grant recognizes artists who have demonstrated a trajectory of creative excellence over the course of their career. Their work embodies a sustained professional commitment, as well as an engaged and evolving practice over time.
This award is an acknowledgment of an artist’s sizable contribution to their area of focus. As such, it’s intended to provide them with the additional resources to plan their future pursuits.
Diana Thater | ArtCenter College of Design
The Alumni Awards celebrate the talent, service, and influence of ArtCenter alumni.
The ArtCenter Alumni Awards are an annual recognition bestowed by the College with input from internal stakeholders and the college’s global alumni community.
SUPLERFLEX
July 3 - December 1, 2025 | Esplanade Solidarność, European Union Parliament, Brussels
Photographer: Alexis HAULOT. Copyright: © European Union 2025 - Source : EP
SUPERFLEX’s new installation of One Two Three Swing! is presented by The Office of the Commissioner for Europe and International Organisations of the Brussels-Capital Region (CEOI) and its partners as a call to unity and dialogue in a time of conflict and polarization.
As Denmark assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union this July, a powerful new artwork by the internationally acclaimed artist collective SUPERFLEX will be unveiled in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Stemming from a Memorandum of Understanding between the CEOI and the European Parliament, the installation is the result of a curatorial collaboration between The Artists’ Parliament, Creator Projects, and SUPERFLEX which will transform the Esplanade Solidarność into an engaging space for reflection, connection, and collective action. Designed as both a public installation and a symbolic intervention, the artwork aims to spark awareness, provoke dialogue, and reawaken a shared sense of responsibility.
One Two Three Swing is part of The Artists’ Parliament’s program, a public space exhibition project curated by Joël Benzakin and Jeanne Mouffe to mark the rotating presidencies of the Council of the European Union. The chosen European contemporary artists represent their country with an exhibition on the Esplanade Solidarność in front of the European Parliament and following the calendar of the rotating presidencies.
One Two Three Swing! is co-curated by Simon Friese, director of Creator Projects. Creator Projects aims to foster impactful art projects that enrich public space. Based in Denmark and working globally, Creator Projects partners with visionary artists, cities, and institutions to realize bold, thought-provoking works in public environments.
Supported by The Jamil Collection; Albarrán Bourdais; Family Wandt, Château de Fontaine; MTAB; and a private supporter
Pae White
June 29, 2025 - January 4, 2026 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pae White, Pantone Pony #284, 1997
Women’s size 10 cowhide shoes
Dimensions variable
Exploring the intertwined themes of theater, performance, and museum display—ranging from props, stages, and pedestals to actors, impersonators, avatars, and the ghostly image of the audience itself—this exhibition presents works from MOCA’s permanent collection. Through sculpture, video, photography, painting, and archival materials, Fictions of Display foregrounds performance strategies that permeate museum spaces and its modes of presentation.
Featured artists: Eleanor Antin, ASCO, Ana Barrado, Math Bass, Joseph Beuys, Mark Bradford, Brassaï, Nancy Brooks Brody, Colette, Fiona Connor, Tania Pérez Córdova, Guy de Cointet, Raúl De Nieves, Lukas Duwenhögger, Thomas Eggerer, Victor Estrada, VALIE EXPORT, Ali Eyal, Peter Fischli, Dan Flavin, Robert Gober, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Félix González-Torres, Joe Goode, Dan Graham, Yaron Michael Hakim, Lyle Ashton Harris, Evan Holloway, Christian Holstad, Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Brian Jungen, Tadeusz Kantor, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Martin Kippenberger, Terence Koh, Louise Lawler, An-My Lê, William Leavitt, Charles LeDray, Nikki S. Lee, Sherrie Levine, Los Carpinteros, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Ana Mendieta, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Senga Nengudi, Kayode Ojo, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Silke Otto-Knapp, Roxy Paine, Giuseppe Penone, Sondra Perry, Julia Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Monique Prieto, Reynaldo Rivera, Beverly Semmes, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Catherine Sullivan, Atsuko Tanaka, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cosima von Bonin, Marnie Weber, Johanna Went, Pae White, Hannah Wilke.
Fictions of Display is organized by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, with Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant.
Charlene Von Heyl
June 29 - Fall, 2025 | Germantown, New York
Charline von Heyl, Black Flowers, (2023). Courtesy the artist and Sky High Farm 2025 Biennial.
Sky High Farm’s inaugural biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END, signals the start of a new chapter for the organization as it expands to a new 560-acre farm. Curated by the farm’s founder and board president, artist Dan Colen, and named after an artwork by its first staff member and farmer who passed away in 2014, the exhibition explores the connection between local ecology, history, and industry in the Hudson River Valley and their ties to New York City. Standouts include Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ billboard work Untitled (It’s Just a Matter of Time), installed on 24 billboards along the Hudson River from Troy to the New York Harbor; Anne Imhof’s industrial water containers that form a labyrinth, which holds other artists’s work; and Rudolf Stingel’s largest mirrored floor installation, serving as a pedestal for other works, including Pia Camil’s fountain made from joined dead apple trees that guides water into Imhof’s containers. Rooted in the farm’s community-centered mission to tackle issues like nutrition security and systemic injustice, the exhibition shows what can happen when art, agriculture, and activism come together, combining the transformative work of artists with the impact of a justice-oriented organization.
Ann Veronica Janssens
June 28 - October 26, 2025 | The Campus Upstate, New York
An abandoned school building, now repurposed as a cultural exchange platform, The Campus aims to foster community and promote dialogue in Upstate New York, with many of the featured artists connected to the area. Owned and operated by a coalition of prominent galleries—Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto—the group is presenting their second annual exhibition, which spans 35 rooms and the nearby grounds. This year’s exhibition features 30 solo and duo full-room installations, along with focused group presentations of painting, sculpture, photography, and ceramics.
Saturday June 28, 5-7pm | 1301PE
Join us Saturday June 28 for a book release and panel discussion for Microinternational with Jan Tumlir, Frances Stark, Brian Kennon and Kevin Hanley.
Microinternational is a comprehensive catalogue documenting a performance project that emerged from the interactions of a shifting group of artists in Los Angeles. Active between 1993-1999 and organized by Kevin Hanley and Jonathan Kroll, Microinternational included Kai Althoff, Casey Cook, Francesca Gabbiani, Michael Krebber, Anja Medved, Carlos Mollura, Dave Muller, Frances Stark, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Cosima Von Bonin among its many participants. This book chronicles an otherwise forgotten “art group” and their projects within the nascent art scene of 1990s Los Angeles.
Includes historical texts by Kevin Hanley and Jonathan Kroll, complemented by new texts from Deidrich Diederichsen, Kevin Hanley, Frances Stark, and Jan Tumlir.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
June 27 - October 19, 2025 | The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Lenfest Center of the Arts
Curated by Rattanamol Singh Johal, Homage: Queer Lineages on Video presents works by seven contemporary artists selected from the Akeroyd Collection who use moving images to pay tribute to cultural figures and histories that have been formative, if often (but not always) overlooked.
The works in the exhibition, all made over the last two decades, explore how lens- and time-based media have enabled artists to articulate desiring and melancholic modes of relationality across generations.
Intervening in commemorative genres of image making—including portraiture and documentary—through performative acts, selective appropriation, and imaginative staging, these works produce and problematize queer forms of kinship.
Artists in the exhibition include Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tony Cokes, Carolyn Lazard, Kang Seung Lee, P. Staff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Jack Goldstein
June 25, 12:30pm | The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jack Goldstein, Untitled, 1984
Acrylic on paper
29 1/4 x 41 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (74.3 x 105.7 x 4.4 cm)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Promised gift of Susan and Larry Marx
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.
This talk on Jack Goldstein is led by Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow.
This free program is not ticketed. All public programs at the Hammer are free and made possible by a major gift from an anonymous donor.
Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press
June 24 - September 12, 2025 | Roberts Institute of Art, London
Developed in collaboration with Focal Point Gallery, In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation brings together over 25 works, some of which have never been shown in a public gallery before, from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation considers translation as an act of movement and transformation. At a time when anything can seem open to interpretation, yet nothing appears to hold the exhibition asks: how do we engage with multiple perspectives without collapsing into relativism? How can we communicate across distances while still recognising differences? How do we engage with others — people, histories, ideas — without assuming full knowledge or easy equivalence?
The works in this exhibition show that to translate is not only to carry something across (the root meaning of the word), but also to expose its limits, its gaps and its generative possibilities. Translation is always partial, always unfinished, and in never being complete, it offers an ongoing commitment to the world and to others.
Petra Cortright
June 21 - October 10, 2025 | Zeughaus Teufen, Switzerland
Petra Cortright looks at the Appenzellerland with a keen feeling for digital aesthetics and the courage to beauty - without ever having been there. The starting point of her new series of works is the image database of Appenzellerland Tourismus AR with more than a thousand photographs that reflect the visual self-image of a region between staging and idyll. The entrance was given to the artist on 1. June 2023. Cortright, one of the most important voices of digital painting, feeds these images into her personal archive of brushes, filters and textures. This results in projections, textile views and, for the first time, works on wood – shimmering, multi-layered compositions that are reminiscent of impressionistic landscapes but are produced purely digitally. Her works are considered a contemporary counterpart to Monet: it paints quickly, directly, with Sofiware instead of paint. What emerges is a radical view of our own - not critically, but lovingly: "For the first time, I cannot make the pictures more beautiful," said Cortright in the zoomcall, "the reality with you is already too beautiful." A plea for beauty – and for a new vision.
Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press
June 17 - August 17, 2025 | Royal Academy of Arts, London
Fiona Banner, 𝐕𝐔𝐋𝐕𝐀 𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐕𝐎 (𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏)
Aluminium from Tornado ZE728, Perspex frame
Framed 26 x 33 x 6.5 cm
2025
Edition of 20
Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works. Over 1,700 fabulous pieces by famous artists and members of the public have been selected by architect Farshid Moussavi RA and her Summer Exhibition committee, including a new editioned work by Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press, alongside works by Tracey Emin and Ryan Gander.
Charline von Heyl
June 14, 2025 - March 2026 | The George Economou Collection, Athens
Across three floors of gallery space, The Giddy Road to Ruin will feature select works from the last several decades. The earliest is an outstanding painting from the George Economou Collection—an emblematic example of the artist’s practice—Untitled (11/93, I) (1993), while the most recent is her first-ever photographic work, Athens, made in 2024.
Charline von Heyl is one of the most significant painters of her generation. Educated in Germany in the 1980s and inspired by both senior artists and contemporaries—including Martin Kippenberger, Rosemarie Trockel, and Michael Krebber, as well as Albert Oehlen, Jutta Koether, and Cosima von Bonin—her work began to carve out new territory, particularly after her move to New York in 1996. While her paintings share the rigor and intensity of theirs, von Heyl’s work eschews irony in favor of a more openly amused humor and a certain nimbleness in the synthesis of mind and hand.
Charline von Heyl: The Giddy Road to Ruin is co-curated by Adam D. Weinberg and Skarlet Smatana, the director of The George Economou Collection, in close collaboration with the artist. A publication with essays by Weinberg and artist Helen Marten will accompany the exhibition.