Peter Krauskopf, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
Walter Storms Galerie in Munich presents a solo exhibition of the work of Peter Krauskopf.
Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today, Daimler Collection, Berlin, Germany
The exhibition showcases works representing varying conceptual trends from the 1960s up to the 1990s alongside pictorial and media statements by more recent exponents.
Ellsworth Kelly: Black and White, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Ellsworth Kelly is among the most important protagonists of colour field painting. His paintings, in large format for the most part and consisting usually of several panels, are an impressive interplay of form, colour and space.
Gilbert Hsiao: Filter, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Gallery Sonja Roesch is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of work on paper by Gilbert Hsiao. Hsiao has been exploring the mechanics of visual perception since the 1980s.
Josef Albers: Biconjugates, Kinetics, and Variants, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Waddington Custot Galleries, in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, are pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Josef Albers, dating from 1931 to 1958. The exhibition includes early monochrome paintings from his Biconjugates and Kinetics series, as well as Variants , dating from the late 40s to 50s.
Jason Hoelscher: Recent Paintings, Temporary Gallery Berlin, Germany
Temporary Gallery Berlin is pleased to exhibit Jason Hoelscher: Recent Paintings, a series of works that Hoelscher calls "short attention span paintings for short attention span culture". Combining the quick-glance semiotics of corporate iconography with the gestalt read of 1960s minimalism, Hoelscher's latest series of paintings incorporate areas of raw, unprimed canvas that play off of the highly-finished painted areas, exploring the range of contrasts between constructed flatness and literal flatness.
Aslanidis + May | Sonic Network No. 9, dr. julius | ap, Berlin, Germany
dr. julius | ap is pleased to announce a cooperation of Australian painter John Aslanidis and Berlin-based British musician Brian May. This will be the first vision + sound installation ever in the gallery of the New Concrete.
Ted Stamm: Paintings
September 24 - October 29, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to present the exhibition Ted Stamm: Paintings, an overview of paintings, works on paper, street interventions, and other materials by the late NYC-based abstract painter. Prior to his unexpected death from heart failure in 1984, Stamm created a substantial, mature body of work that was at once responsive to the past, indicative of his time, and prescient of the future.
Tomma Abts, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
A slow and rigorous production process is a distinguishing feature of Tomma Abts’ work. Although she follows a predetermined method in her painting, applying purely geometrical shapes to a classic 48 x 38 cm portrait format in layer after layer of oil and acrylic paint, her painting is far removed from serial production.
Manfred Mohr and Jan van Munster, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
Works by Manfred Mohr (left) and Jan van Munster. June 17 – September 11, 2011 Galerie Linde Hollinger in Ladenburg, Germany, presents Manfred Mohr: Works from 1977-2011 and Jan van Munster: Neon.
Art & Stars & Cars, Daimler Art Collection, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Installation view. May 10 – September 25 2011 The first special exhibition of the Daimler Art Collection to be held in the Mercedes-Benz Museum (built by UN Studio), which first opened its doors in 2006, showcases key exhibits from the collection as well as new work commissioned by renowned international artists in various thematic stages – integrated into the company’s history on a floor area of 16,500 m². The exhibition will also include numerous works [...]
Martin Creed, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Martin Creed, Work No. 1209, 2011 Emulsion on wall dimensions variable April 29 – June 25, 2011 On occasion of Gallery Weekend, Johnen Galerie proudly presents the exhibition Paintings by Martin Creed. The works on view, as all other works by the artist who is well-versed in media as diverse as photography, sculpture, film, and music, range between plain and generally understandable structures, and happenstance. The ‘genius’ creator steps back by – at least theoretically [...]
Julian Jackson: Aura Studies, Galerie Kaysser, Munich, Germany
Julian Jackson, Aura Study 2 Oil on prepared paper 26 x 22 inches May 12 – June 30, 2011 “Aura is often defined in near mystical terms as the halo or penumbra of colored light surrounding an individual in a field of radiant energy. The colors of the aura are imagined to correspond to the individuals’ personal Chi, or life force. The works in this exhibition are from an ongoing series of paintings and works [...]
Manfred Mohr: parallelResonance, Galerie [DAM], Berlin, Germany
Installation view. April 30 – June 8, 2011 ParallelResonance is the 4th cycle of artwork, which Manfred Mohr produced as a software artwork, beside a series of pictures. In the series Mohr is exploring in his characteristically straight forward forms and colours the tension fields between the shifting black and white lines and plaines. The changing colours of the background range in pastel-coloured shades. Beside the software pieces the exhibition also features large-scale and small [...]
Frank Badur: Mostly Red + Works on Paper, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Frank Badur, #11-10, 2011 Oil and alkyd on canvas 16 x 20 inches May 12 – June 25, 2011 Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the opening of Mostly Red + works on paper, an exhibition of new work by Berlin-based artist Frank Badur. Badur’s gracefully intuitive minimalist compositions draw his viewers into their subtlety with a delicate interplay of surface and color. Veils of reds are laid down in bands of varying widths [...]
Donald Judd, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Installation view May 6 – June 25, 2011 David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Donald Judd drawn from the artist’s seminal 1989 exhibition held at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany. Brought together from international public and private collections, this will be the first time these particular works have been exhibited together in a group of this size since Judd’s 1989 installation. The exhibition, which will span both of the gallery’s [...]
Gerhard Mantz: Les Essences de l’Abstraction, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, Germany
Gerhard Mantz, Amarige, 2010 Pigmented ink on canvas 140 x 190 cm, 55 x 87 inches April 2 – May 27, 2011
Manfred Mohr: parallelResonance, DAM, Cologne, Germany
Installation view March 23 – April 21, 2011 ParallelResonance is the latest series of Manfred Mohr and the software pieces are exhibited for the first time internationally at Gallery [DAM] Cologne. parallelResonance is the 4th cycle of artwork, which Manfred Mohr produced as a software artwork, beside a series of pictures. In the series Mohr is exploring in his characteristically straight forward forms and colours the tension fields between the shifting black and white lines [...]
Frank Hülsbölmer: Photokinetics, or A Short Guide to the Construction of Meaning, WiE Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Frank Hülsbömer, constructivists vacation March 5 – April 9, 2011 Can geometrical forms be something else from what they actually are? If yes, could they serve as basis for a new vade mecum apt to instruct us on how to construct meaning? This last question is the leading theme of A short guide for the construction of meaning, the exhibition presenting the new works of Berlin based artist Frank Hülsbömer. Using photography and video as [...]
About Painting, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Foundation, New York, NY
Rupert Eder, ANIMUS, 2008 Oil on canvas 63 x 47 inches March 1-22, 2011 Schaltwerk-Kunst, Hamburg, presents the exhibition: About Painting at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Foundation in New York. The exhibition features work by four artists: Joe Barnes, Rupert Eder, Jon Groom, and Ivo Ringe, and it is curated by Joe Barnes.
Treffpunkt, Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Installation view. January 28 – February 26, 2011 Hamish Morrison Galerie is delighted to start its 2011 programme with the group exhibition Treffpunkt. The show brings together several of the gallery’s artists, drawing overlooked connections between them and illustrating the ways in which different traditions and ideas collide within their practices. Judy Millar’s (NZ) paintings seem, at first glance, to have their roots in Abstract Expressionism. However, Millar’s gestural marks are in fact a means [...]
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work 1983 – 2010, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Bridget Riley, Arcadia 3 (wall painting), 2009 Graphite and acrylic 68 x 147 inches February 12 – April 16, 2011 Bridget Riley may be best known for her optical black and white paintings – now synonymous with the 1960s – but in the stunning colour work that followed she continued her exploration of perception through the relationship between structure and colour. Galerie Max Hetzler is proud to present a small retrospective of this major British [...]
László Ottó: Bilder des Anfangs, dr. julius, Berlin, Germany
Work by László Ottó February 18 – March 26, 2011 dr. julius | ap is pleased to present “Bilder des Anfangs” [Images of the Beginning] by Hungarian artist László Ottó, an exihibition which features recent paintings made from various shades of black pigment. The artist writes: “As a European my work is western, but at the same time I am consciously relating to East thought. Existential questions of life and death are the subject of [...]
Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure
February 5 - March 12, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure. This is the Australian artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and it will feature a new site-specific painting installation.
Rupert Eder: Flip Flop, Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
Work by Rupert Eder February 4 – 25, 2011 We are delighted to announce our second solo show by German painter Rupert Eder (*1968). He will be exhibiting a group of new paintings on linen and works on paper. Eder’s development as an artist is marked by continual, persistent engagement in his work with the conditions and possibilities of painting and the development of an unmistakable, unique formal language involving color, form and composition. The [...]
Heinz Mack: Early Metal Reliefs 1957-1967, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Heinz Mack, Licht-Glas, 1969 Plexiglas, glass, aluminum, and wood 22 x 27 x 4 inches January 7 – February 19, 2011 Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce the first survey of Heinz Mack’s early metal reliefs (1957 – 1967). Together with fellow German artist Otto Piene, Mack co-founded the ZERO group in 1957, which sought a renewal in art amidst the ruins of post-war Germany. Created in the formative years of ZERO, Mack’s metal reliefs [...]
Daniel Göttin: Objects and Panels II, Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany
Daniel Göttin, White/Silver/White, 2008 Acrylic on aluminum 8 x 32 inches January 13 – February 26, 2011 After the exhibition “Objekte und Tafeln” in 2007 and numerous shows and installation projects that Daniel Göttin had mainly in Japan and Australia, I am glad to be able to show him for the second time with “Objekte und Tafeln II”, this time in my new location at Maximilianstrasse in Munich, from 13. january through 26. february 2011. [...]
Informal Relations: Contemporary Works on Paper, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
December 3, 2010 – January 15, 2011 Informal Relations: Contemporary works on paper curator Scott Grow selected 32 artists from the United States, Germany, Spain and Japan to focus on the diversity of practices within painting and abstraction today. The exhibition’s title refers to kind the “informal relations” artists have with one another, their predecessors, with the modernist tradition, the future, and even with their own work. While works on paper may stand as finished [...]
Ronald de Bloeme: In the Office, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Work by Ronald de Bloeme October 30 – December 4, 2010 Hamish Morrison Galerie is delighted to present a new series of works on paper by Ronald de Bloeme in the gallery’s office space. De Bloeme borrows freely from the worlds of advertising and commercial design. He takes logos that have numbed us with their ubiquity, manipulates them in Photoshop, and then turns the resulting compositions into large-format, glossy paintings that mimic the flatness of [...]
Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal Paintings Since 1960, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Ceremonies at the Side of Pintjun, 1989 Acrylic on canvas 152 x 180 cm November 20, 2010 – March 20, 2011 It is far more than living memory: it is a sensory, non-linear intertwining of past and future, of cause and effect, that distinguishes Australian Aboriginal painting. In Europe these unusual artworks are still largely unknown. The Museum Ludwig will devote attention to them in a large exhibition of approximately fifty paintings [...]
Anton Henning: Apotheosized Abstractions, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Installation view November 12 – December 22, 2010 Brand New Gallery is a new space in Milan dedicated to contemporary art, a cross between a gallery and a center for cultural promotion created by two art historians, Chiara Badinella and Fabrizio Affronti. With its 350 square meters (3.776 sq ft), Brand New Gallery is a platform where artists, curators and collectors can meet and exchange ideas, and where the work of foreign artists known internationally [...]
Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY
Installation view October 2, 2010 – February 13, 2012 Dia Art Foundation presents Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action, opening October 2, 2010, at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. This major exhibition will comprise more than two dozen works by Walther (German, b. 1937), who is internationally recognized for his five-decade-long investigation into the foundations of action, language, and space. Organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond, Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action will remain on view through [...]
Rolf Ricke Collection, Published by Hatje Cantz, 2008
Click to purchase on Amazon Berlin gallerist Rolf Ricke has been unleashing influential American artists like Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Donald Judd, Lee Lozano, Steven Parrino, Richard Serra, Jessica Stockholder, Barry Le Va, David Reed, and Li Trincere on Europe since the 1960s. A 1965 trip to New York opened his eyes to the creative ferment happening there, and inspired him to import the artists themselves, to create new work for his Berlin-based gallery, rather [...]
Hartmut Böhm: Juxtaposition, 5x6x9 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hartmut Böhm Progression gegen Unendlich mit 30°, 1985 Steel, 240 x 190.5 x 8 cm October 29, 2010 – February 20, 2011 Since his beginnings with “Nouvelle Tendence” during the 1960s Hartmut Böhm, is challenging the structures and border zones of Constructive and Concrete Art in his precise and consequent manner for almost 50 years. Böhm is one of the internationally most renowned German artists in this field. His concept is called “Progressionen gegen Unendlich” [progression towards [...]
Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1943-1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Blinky Palermo, Untitled (Totem), 1964 Casein paint on canvas on wood 86 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches Collection Dia Art Foundation October 31, 2010 – January 16, 2011 While Blinky Palermo’s reputation as one of the foremost post-war abstract painters is well established in Europe, his work is rarely seen in North America. Beginning its yearlong tour at LACMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of this German artist [...]
