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, 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 [...]
Kurt Schwitters, Mz 371 bacco, 1922 Collage of cut and torn, printed, handwritten, tissue and coated papers on paperboard The Menil Collection October 22, 2010 – January 30, 2011 The German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) remains one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. In the years following the First World War he coined the term “Merz,” in reference to his ambition to “make connections …between everything in the world.” Hoping to unify [...]
Josef Albers Color study for “Homage to the Square”, no date Oil on blotting paper Josef and Anni Albers Foundation December 16, 2010 – March 6, 2011
John Aslanidis, Sonic Fragment No. 42, 2010 Oil and acrylic on canvas 66 x 81 cm November 3 – 27, 2010 Since the 1990s, John Aslanidis has been exploring the relationship between sound and vision. In each painting, Aslanidis uses colour and line to create chromatic intensities that resemble the experience of listening to music. Aslanidis is interested in portraying an “optimistic vision”. Aslanidis describes this new series of work as “sonic currents”. He explains: [...]
Albert Weis, Flexion, 2010 October 29, 2010 – March 27, 2011 The Daimler Contemporary is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition ‘Minimalism and Applied II. Contemporary art in dialogue with 20th century architecture and design’ at Daimler Contemporary. Over the last ten years, the Daimler Art Collection has developed a focal point in the field of constructive, conceptual and minimalistic tendencies from the 1920s to the present day. A particular interest was taken here in [...]
Anselm Reyle, Untitled, 2010 Mixed media on canvas, acrylic glass 72(h) x 61(w) x 18(d) cm October 9 – November 10, 2010 Kukje Gallery is pleased to present Anselm Reyle in his first solo exhibition in Korea. Widely heralded as a new vanguard in contemporary German art, Reyle’s work explores themes of appropriation and abstraction. Setting him apart from other his contemporaries, Reyle exploits the myriad visual vocabularies that have defined 20th century art. Reyle’s work [...]
Marietta Hoferer, Big C-9, 2010 Tape on paper September 7 – October 16, 2010 German-born, New York-based Marietta Hoferer will present a selection from four recent bodies of works on paper for her first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. Hoferer makes drawings that create luminous and beguiling optical effects through the refraction of light on their surfaces. Although the drawings begin with a preconceived structure of precise grids, the artist deliberately invites the interaction of [...]
Installation view September 10, 2010 Participating Artists: Dieter Balzer, Surya Gied, Geka Heinke, Veronike Hinsberg, Gilbert Hsiao, Pierre Juillerat, Jan Klopfleisch, Dirk Rathke, David Rhodes, Nikola Richard, Giles Ryder, Andreas Schmid, Elisabeth Sonneck, Tim Stapel, Bastian Vogel
Pierre Juillerat, B_76.5215, 2009-2010 Lacquer and acrylic dispersion on canvas 220 x 170 cm September 2 – October 3, 2010 The solo exhibition alpha floor of Swiss painter Pierre Juillerat is a consistent continuation of the New Concrete and Constructive Art program by dr. julius | ap. Juillerat‘s work expands the range of the artists represented by dr. julius | ap with a strictly geometric painting position. In most cases, Juillerat‘s paintings show stripe and [...]
Works by: Manfred Mohr, Josef Linschinger Dora Maurer, Karl-Heinz Adler Karl Gerstner, Vesna Kovacic July 31 – October 30, 2010 Participating Artists: Karl-Heinz Adler, Rita Ernst, Karl Gerstner, Hans-Jörg Glattfelder, Wolfgang Körber, Vesna Kovacic, Josef Linschinger, Dora Maurer, Manfred Mohr, Marcello Morandini, Axel Rohlfs
Installation view June 30 – August 20, 2010 Curated by Josiah McElheny Participating Artists: Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Wenzel Hablik, Walther Klemm, Josiah McElheny, Eileen Quinlan, Heather Rowe, Robert Smithson, Katja Strunz, Bruno Taut This exhibition began with a question: is it possible for a particular aesthetic form or structure to express both abstract concepts and political ideals? A brief, yet formative moment in history suggests that it might be. Just after World War I, [...]
June 26 - July 31, 2010
MINUS SPACE is delighted to present the first installment of the Brussels, Belgium-based Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art's (CCNOA) most recent initiative 30/30 – Image Archive Project (IAP).
Gilbert Hsiao, Quiet Fire, 2010 Acrylic on wood, 70 cm x 70 cm June 10 – July 25, 2010 dr. julius | ap is pleased to announce Gilbert Hsiao: Light Noise, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Berlin-based artist. Hsiao will present a suite of new acrylic paintings on irregularly-shaped wooden panels. For more than twenty years, Hsiao has explored the mechanics of visual perception. His paintings of the past decade are characterized [...]
Rafael Ferrer, Exterior installation Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1969 June 8 – August 22, 2010 El Museo del Barrio is proud to announce that Retro/Active, The Work of Rafael Ferrer, the first solo exhibition in a museum to examine the breadth and depth of the artist’s influential production over the last 55 years, will be on view June 8 – August 22, 2010. The travelling retrospective, curated by Deborah Cullen, [...]
Installation view April 6 – May 22, 2010 Sperone Westwater is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Otto Piene’s historical Light Ballet sculptures and Fire Paintings from 1960 to 1967. Piene created these works during the prime years of the ZERO movement, which he founded with artist Heinz Mack (and later Günther Uecker) in Düsseldorf in 1957. Reacting to the personally charged post-war expressionism in Germany, the ZERO group banished psychological expression in their [...]
May 1 – June 5, 2010 Terry Haggerty has in recent years become known to a wide audience, due to numerous exhibitions and his spectacular wall installations, most recently at the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium, CCNOA in Brussels, or Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In what is now his third individual show at Kuttner Siebert Galerie, Terry Hagerty shows his newest works, which represent the logical development of what has always characterized his painting. The [...]
May 8 - June 12, 2010
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Hartmut Böhm: Graphic Systems, Prints 1965-1975. This is the Berlin-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City and it will feature ten silkscreen prints produced between 1965 and 1975.
Melitta Nemeth, Verborgene Farben II, 2009 Acrylic on aluminium, 70 x 70 cm April 30 – June 5, 2010 Melitta Nemeth, born 1974, lives and works in Budapest, Hungary where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. With her latest work, the series Verborgene Farben [Hidden Colours], she attempts to expand the boundaries of painting in relation to its two-dimensionality and the use of colour, light and reflection. Highly precise geometric shapes cut out [...]
Monika Brandmeier, Sachverhalt, 2006 (detail) Wood, paint, steel rod, tin April 18 – June 20, 2010
Installation view Photo: Alistair Overbruck April 11 – June 27, 2010 SYSTEM MIT ÜBERRASCHUNGEN “Böhm verbirgt nichts, verschleiert nichts und breitet alles unmittelbar vor dem Besucher aus, doch die eigenwillige Verbindung von rigoroser Ordnung und ständiger Wandelbarkeit, Muster und Variation, Volumen und Leere aktiviert den gesamten Raum und ist schließlich von einer ausgesprochen kathartischen Wirkung.” –Gregory Volk, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, 2000
Rosa M Hessling, Amplidao Interior V, 2006 Pigment/Enamel on Aluminum 50 x 70 cm April 9 – May 29, 2010
Sarah Morris, Small Flat Jumbo [Clips], 2010 Household gloss paint on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm March 24 – April 30, 2010 Gallery Meyer Kainer announces “It’s All True” an exhibition of new works by Sarah Morris, labeled after an unfinished documentary film by Orson Welles. “It all gets back that there is no inside or outside, you’re just a part of it. There is no periphery. There is no being on the edge. You’re in [...]
Marietta Hoferer, Big C-9 (detail), 2010 Pencil and tape on paper, 60 x 60 inches March 6 – April 11, 2010 Marietta Hoferer’s luminous pencil and tape drawings also employ rigorous formal technique but with an entirely different outcome. Hoferer begins her process by laying out a grid in pencil on paper, and then adds layers of tape that shift in tonality over time. The results are shimmering geometric patterns that appear defined by logic [...]
George Rickey, Diptych – The Seasons, 1956 Stainless steel and polychrome February 18 – March 20, 2010 Marlborough Gallery announces that a major exhibition of works by George Rickey will open at Marlborough Chelsea, 545 West 25th Street, on February 18 and continue through March 20, 2010. Twenty-four important indoor and outdoor works from Rickey’s personal collection and now held by the George Rickey Estate will be exhibited in the first floor gallery. George Rickey [...]
Charlotte Posenenske, Vierkantrohre Serie D, 1967 (Reconstruction 2009) March 12 – May 30, 2010 The initial exhibition at Daimler Contemporary in 2010 will show major 1960s trends in German abstract art from the Daimler Art Collection: Constructivism, Zero, Minimal Art, Concept and Seriality. Starting with 1950s predecessors – such as Josef Albers, Norbert Kricke and Siegfried Cremer – the show considers abstract art developments in the cities of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Stuttgart, Berlin and Munich, [...]
Installation view February 17 – May 2, 2010 A major retrospective of Franz Erhard Walther’s work From 17 February to 2 May 2010, Mamco will be hosting the most important retrospective devoted to Franz Erhard Walther (1939, Fulda, Germany), one of the artists associated with the museum since its founding. Indeed, Mamco has followed his work for many years. De l’origine de la sculpture, 1958-2009 (On the Origin of Sculpture, 1958-2009) will be the largest [...]
February 7 – April 11, 2010 For the 100th birthday of the philosopher Max Bense, ZKM will present an exhibition showing his international impact on the fine arts and literature, which can be compared to that of Umberto Eco and Marshall McLuhan. The exhibition, which carries forth the ZKM series “Philosophy and Art,” presents Bense as poet and author, scholar of the arts and literature, as well as exhibition curator and publicist. Bense, who was [...]
Anne Appleby, Little Sweet Pea, 2008 Oil and wax on wood, 36.6 36.6 inches Both followers of artist and colour theorist Josef Albers, the American painter Anne Appleby and German artist Kuno Gonschior have a common aspiration of capturing colours, by means of abstraction and through analytical observation of natural experiences. Anne Appleby (born 1954), former Bay area painter, who works and lives in Montana, is often referred to as a Colour Field artist from her [...]
Installation views of exhibition Entwicklungen Clockwise: Manfred Mohr, Anton Stankowsky, Leon Polk Smith, Camille Graeser, Richard Lohse, Manfred Mohr, Kenneth Snelson October 31, 2009 – April 5, 2010 Participating Artists: Camille Graeser, Edgar Gutbub, Heijo Hangen, Matti Kujasalo, Verena Loewensberg, Richard-Paul Lohse, Jan Meyer-Rogge, Manfred Mohr, Aurelie Nemours, Leon Polk Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Jurg Stauble, Anton Stankowski, Norbert Thomas, Martin Willing
Joe Barnes, Red Diptych, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 17.7 x 24.2 cm each Installation at Herz Jesu Kirche, Cologne, 2008 February 5 – March 2010
Terry Haggerty, Recoil, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm January 15 – February 27, 2010 Andreas Grimm Gallery presents a solo exhibition with new works by Terry Haggerty. Haggerty’s interest has “always been… in how we arrive at abstraction”. His works appear to play with the three-dimensional affects of trompe l’oeil and with theories of color in art and design from early in the last Century. They also refer to modern abstract iconography, in [...]
James Turrell, Bridget’s Bardo, 2009 Installation Until April 5, 2010 In collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the American light artist James Turrell has created his largest-ever walk-in light installation in a museum context: an 11-metre-high, “space within a space” structure that covers a floor area of 700 square metres and reaches up to the glass roof of the museum. One of Turrell’s Ganzfeld Pieces, it is a hollow construction divided into two parts. The two [...]
January 23 – February 27, 2010 Dirk Rathke creates objects with painterly materials – wooden frames, canvas and paint – that go beyond the scope of the genre. This Berlin-based artist is part of a young generation that has developed fresh approaches to painting and has distinctive solutions in the geometric-abstract tradition. The relationship between line, area, space and movement is the main emphasis in Dirk Rathke’s artistic exploration. With his room drawings, Rathke explores [...]
December 12, 2009
- January 30, 2010
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce a new exhibition of seven album covers designed by Josef Albers (1888-1976) for Command Records between 1959-1961. The exhibition will also include additional Command Records album covers designed by other artists, such as Charles E. Murphy, Barbara Brown Peters, and Gerry Olin, as well as photographic reproductions of materials from The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation’s archives.
A Letter from the Judd Foundation: November 30, 2009 Dear Friends, I am very pleased to announce the start of the Donald Judd Catalogue Raisonné through the appointment of the Catalogue Raisonné Committee and a Catalogue Raisonné Manager, Katy Rogers. Ms. Rogers, who is currently completing the Robert Motherwell Catalogue Raisonné, will manage the project with the advisement of the committee. The production of a Catalogue Raisonné is a natural extension of our mission to [...]
Francois Morellet, Sphere – trames, 1962 Collection Maximilian & Agathe Weishaupt, Munich November 22, 2009 – January 31, 2010
Installation view November 13 – December 22, 2009 A solo exhibition by the late British artist Jeremy Moon (1936-1973).
