Roni Horn, You are the Weather, 1994—1995 64 C-printed photographs and 36 gelantine-silver prints 26.5 x 21.4 cm / 10 7/16 x 8 7/16 in ea Installation view, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 1996 February 25 – May 25, 2009 Roni Horn is an American artist who has been making work since the 1970s. Horn worked through the legacy of minimalism yet developed her own concerns with memory and identity, and this is her [...]
Installation view April 1-25, 2009 COMMA focuses entirely on the commissioning of new work providing exceptional opportunities for artists to experiment and expand their practice in relation to the particular nature of Bloomberg SPACE. Twenty of today’s most outstanding established and emerging international artists have been invited to create new work, installations and architectural interventions in a fast paced succession of exhibitions created in response to Bloomberg SPACE and seen there for the first [...]
April 3 – May 23, 2009 New paintings, a site-specific wall-painting and functional furniture by the Monchengladbach-based artist Lars Wolter.
Alexander Rodchenko, Popova’s Studio, 1924 Private collection © A Rodchenko & V Stepanova Archive February 12 – May 17, 2009 The Russian Revolution was accompanied by a remarkable period of artistic experiment known as Constructivism, which questioned the fundamental properties of art and asked what its place should be in a new society. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, explored more collective ways of working, and [...]
Installation view February 6 – March 28, 2009 Jonathan Stephenson / Rocket presents the first ever solo exhibition in London of the iconic Danish artist Ib Geertsen. He has just celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Geertsen has been painting for over 70 years. This exhibition celebrates his work of the last four decades when it expanded to include mobile sculptures, screenprints, furniture and public design projects. He has even designed the livery of a Copenhagen bus [...]
Installation view January 29 – March 7, 2009 Thomas Dane Gallery announces Glenn Ligon’s second exhibition at the gallery. Entitled “‘Nobody and Other Songs”, the show will feature a video work, two neons and a suite of photogravures. The video, “The Death of Tom,” is based on the final scene from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Edwin S. Porter’s 14-minute silent film made for the Thomas A. Edison studio in 1903. Shot on 16 mm black [...]
Klaus Staudt Weiss-Graue Modulation 2, 1978 157 x 80 x 7cm February 5 – March 7, 2009 Bartha Contemporary is pleased to announce the forthcoming group exhibition of works by Hartmut Böhm (DE 1938 – ) Walter Leblanc (BE 1931 – 1986) and Klaus Staudt (DE 1932 – ). The exhibition will showcase selected works from the 1960s to the present day. Routed in the tradition of geometric abstraction all three artists played a [...]
Installation view December 5, 2008 – January 24, 2009 A solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Charles Christopher Hill (b. 1948).
January 10 – February 15, 2009 MOT International founder Chris Hammond interviews artist Thomas Kalthoff. “One cold April afternoon in Cologne I spent a few hours at the studio of an artist I had recently been introduced to. We drank coffee and ate large slabs of gateau whilst discussing painting, Palermo and the Cologne scene in the 1980’s and 90’s. All the while I was flicking through a large pile of photographs of the [...]
Installation view with painting by Richard Schur October 10 – November 22, 2008
Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, 2007 Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm October 4, 2008 – January 11, 2009 Also be sure to check out Heimo Zobernig at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France, October 31 – December 11, 2008
Gavin Turk, The Air of Change, 2008 Jar and air from 1968 October 18, 2008 — January 10, 2009 Participating artists: Larry Bell, Toby Christian, Cedric Christie, Susan Collis, Clem Crosby, Matthew Deleget, Sebastien Delire, Ceal Floyer, Sayshun Jay, Clay Ketter, Mary Lemley-Miller, Simon Liddiment, Werner Reiterer, Perry Roberts, Gerwald Rockenshaub, Rona Smith, John Tremblay & Gavin Turk; Sound performance by Andy Cox, Lance Martin & Dave Ros.
Robert Irwin, Black³, 2008 Tergal voile, light construction, framing materials and paintings (urethane paint and lacquer on aircraft honeycomb aluminum) Dimensions variable. Each painting: 60 x 60 in.; Edition of 3 September 17 — October 19, 2008 For his exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard, Irwin has created two new installations. On the ground floor, Black³ features a series of floor-to-ceiling parallel scrim material panels, which the viewer must navigate, thereby altering the perceptual [...]
Installation view September 6-28, 2008 Supplement Gallery is a series of 6 solo exhibitions. Each exhibition will be accompanied by an editioned work by the artist that exists in dialogue with the show. For its fifth exhibition Supplement presents a new work by Rob Lye. For The Hand You Have Been Dealt Lye has explored the workings of an artist led gallery space. Lye’s practice involves the use of non-linear narratives, he is interested [...]
August 1 —September 27, 2008 First solo show by Slade 07 graduate, with minimal three-dimensional paintings which are influenced by aspects of furniture design and which explore colour and materials.
Matthias Hoch, Rotterdam #23, 2007 C-print on diasec, 150 x 186 cm, edition of 6 June 13 — July 26, 2008
Helge Ernst, Ramloese august, 1950 Oil on canvas, 65 x 88 cm April 11 — May 31, 2008 In Denmark ‘Konkret’ is used widely as a term to describe art that is geometrically-based – art that is not figurative nor Cobra expressionistic abstraction. The Danish ‘Konkret’ artists have never been as widely acknowledged as their Cobra colleagues, so this show offers a reassessment of their distinct form of abstraction which finds many echoes in [...]
April 2 — May 10, 2008 Painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan came to prominence in the late 1960′s as one of the major theoretical and practical proponents of the avant-garde Mono-ha (Object School) group. The Mono-ha school of thought was Japan’s first contemporary art movement to gain international recognition. It rejected Western notions of representation, focusing on the relationships of materials and perceptions rather than on expression or intervention. The artists of [...]
March 5 — April 12, 2008
Kenneth Martin, Rotary Rings (1st Version) 1967 Brass, 425 x 170 mm October 6, 2007 – January 13, 2008 Constructed Works brings together two of Britain’s key post-war abstract artists, Kenneth Martin (1905-1984) and Mary Martin (1907-1969). In the first joint public-gallery exhibition since 1971, the show presents a focused body of work by each artist, highlighting the correspondences and differences between their practice. Living and working together, they continually exchanged ideas, although rarely [...]
