“In the dynamic world of contemporary art, a select few talents emerge each year, captivating audiences with their unique perspectives and innovative creations. These five artists: Vanessa Raw, Sylvia Ong, Jason Ho, Amanda Ba, and Eliene Boerma are redefining the boundaries of art with their thought-provoking works. Here’s why they deserve your attention.”
– Tom Smith
MICHAEL HILSMAN: MAN, WATER, FLOWERS, FIRE
Almine Rech announces “Man, Water, Flowers” by the artist Michael Hilsman. He works with a recurring lexicon of familiar motifs – cacti, fruit, flowers, blankets, scissors, hammers and loose teeth all feature commonly – which he deploys as potential plot points around his paintings.
April 19 - May 25, 2024
STROKES AND TEXTURE: NAVIGATING THROUGH THE ABSTRACT
VILLAZAN is pleased to announce Dennis Schikora and Eline Boerma's first duo exhibition with the gallery in Madrid. The exhibition features a series of never before shown abstract paintings that explore the expression of ideas.
April 18 - May 11, 2024
KLARA KRISTALOVA: BEAST
Perrotin announces “Beast”, Klara Kristalova's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. “Beast” invites us to plunge into Kristalova’s enigmatic universe. Reality blends with fiction: human or animal heads and masks rub shoulders with hybrid beings, with unusual distortions of scale.
April 13 - June 1, 2024
THEASTER GATES: BLACK MYSTIC
Gagosian presents “Black Mystic”, an exhibition by the artist Theaster Gates. Made with roofing material of bitumen-infused polyester mats known as torch down, these complex, collage-like compositions of layered and juxtaposed color bear the marks of flame and tar used to bind them together.
April 13, 2024
JULIAN CHARRIÈRE: PANCHRONIC GARDENS
Perrotin is pleased to present “Panchronic Gardens”, Julian Charrière’s first solo exhibition. The artist will showcase new sculptures alongside signature works, such as the video work “And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire” and “Panchronic Garden”.
April 13 - June 1, 2024
FABIEN ADÈLE: BLUSH
In continuity with the artist’s second solo exhibition at Shanghai, Almine Rech Paris is pleased to present “Blush” by Fabien Adèle. A sense of expectation is created. The artist often produces several versions of the same composition, so that he can adapt to what happens on the canvas.
April 13 – May 4, 2024
THE NEW SCHOOL OF PARIS THROUGH ITS PIONEERING WOMEN (1945-1964)
Perrotin presents a historical exhibition on the New School of Paris movement, featuring never-before-seen works from private collections and foundations.
April 13 – May 23, 2024
HERNAN BAS: THE FIRST AND THE LAST
Perrotin is delighted to present “The First and the Last”, Hernan Bas’ sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. Taking inspiration from various sources, such as the recent case of a tourist caught carving his name on the Colosseum in Rome, the artist captivatingly explores the absurdities of existence as well as their poignant beauty
April 13 – June 1, 2024
VIVIAN GREVEN: WHEN THE SUN HITS THE MOON
Perrotin is pleased to announce “When the Sun Hits the Moon”, Vivian Greven's inaugural solo exhibition featuring a new suite of paintings. When a composition snags her attention, Greven returns to it over and over again, often working in titled and numbered series.
April 13 – May 23, 2024
STICKYMONGER: EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE
Ross + Kramer is pleased to present “Everything Makes Sense”, Stickymonger’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Central to the exhibition are three large scale shaped canvases representing the artist herself.
April 12 – May 25, 2024
THOMAS LEROOY: THE GIFT
Nino Mier Gallery is thrilled to present the first solo exhibition of Thomas Lerooy entitled “The Gift“. In the presentation, Lerooy seamlessly blends high and low aesthetics in his portraits of women and animals, partially occluded by objects and abstract forms.
April 12 – May 11, 2024
MÒNICA SUBIDÉ: SUNRISE
Nino Mier Gallery announces the exhibition “Sunrise“ by the artist Mònica Subidé. A selection of drawings and paintings made in my new studio in the forest, where I try to talk about my experience in solitude with nature.
April 12 – June 8, 2024
OSCAR MURILLO: MARKS AND WHISPERS
Gagosian announces “Marks and Whispers”, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Oscar Murillo, opening at the gallery’s Rome location. Murillo is known for expansive canvases, constructed from stitched-together elements, which incorporate elements of gesture, text, and studio detritus.
April 12 - June 15, 2024
GÜNTHER UECKER: ARC OF LIGHT
Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents Günther Uecker’s monumental Lichtbogen paintings to New York with “Arc of Light”. The presentation follows the debut of the series at Lévy Gorvy, Paris, in 2020. Lichtbogen constitutes a dramatic development in the German master’s eight-decade practice with an unprecedented, large-scale body of work.
April 11 - May 4, 2024
YVES KLEIN AND THE TANGIBLE WORLD
Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents “Yves Klein and the Tangible World”, an exhibition devoted to the engagement of the body in the visionary French artist’s oeuvre. His Anthropométries and Peintures de feu exemplify this ethos, possessing traces of living flesh and imprinted memories of fire, water, earth, and air.
April 11 – May 25, 2024
JAMES TURRELL: LIGHT OF THE PRESENCE
Gagosian is pleased to presents “Light of the Presence”, a pairing of two works from Glass Series (2001–) by James Turrell. Glass Series resonates with Roden Crater, a vast artwork that reconceives the landscape of the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona as a controlled environment for the contemplation of the light and space of the sky.
April 11 – May 25, 2024
GIOELE AMARO: MISSING FIGURES
Almine Rech announces “Missing Figures”, Gioele Amaro’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Throughout the show, Amaro teases us with perpetual almost-meetings. Domed structures that call to mind Byzantine iconography glow suggestively, as if the missing subjects might return any second.
April 11 – May 18, 2024
IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD, DON’T YOU KNOW THAT YET
Gagosian is pleased to announce “It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet” by the artist Jim Shaw. His works depict world events, pop-cultural phenomena, and alternative, quasi-mystical realities. Shaw has also turned to his own life—particularly his unconscious mind—as a source of surreal imagery.
April 11 - May 18, 2024
GEORG BASELITZ: A CONFESSION OF MY SINS
White Cube is pleased to present “A Confession of My Sins“ by the artist Georg Baselitz. The exhibition features large-scale paintings and a selection of works on paper in which the artist, now 86, surveys the past six and a half decades of his practice.
April 10 – June 16, 2024
BE SURE TO NEVER GET TO WHERE YOU ARE GOING
Carl Kostyál is delighted to present “Be sure never to get where you are going”, an exhibition of new paintings by Jordy Kerwick. His depiction of king cobras, tigers and feather-maned unicorns create a narrative of unabashedly playful contemporary folklore.
April 10 – October 21, 2024