“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
LEELEE KIMMEL: THE WIND AND THE SHORE
Almine Rech is pleased to present “The Wilds and the Shore”, Leelee Kimmel's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Leelee Kimmel continues in the refinement of a certain sort of abstract painting. But that word seems uneasy, correct but subtly off. What sort of refinement is this, or elaboration, or even “study”
May 7 - June 15, 2024
RACHEL GARRARD: ELEMENTS OF SPACE
Nino Mier Gallery is thrilled to announce “Elements of Space”, the solo exhibition by artist Rachel Garrard. Produced with natural rock pigments, the works fuse earthly elements with less tangible states of consciousness and perception, bridging the external world with internal landscapes.
May 18 - June 29, 2024
KYLE STAVER: ERZÄHLERIN
Nino Mier Gallery is thrilled to present “Erzählerin”, the second solo exhibition by New York-based artist Kyle Staver. The presentation will feature clay reliefs as well as a series of new oil paintings that estrange and intensify canonical fairy tales, leaning into the humor and preposterousness of tropes found in such stories while also tapping into their brutality.
May 18 - June 29, 2024
SPACES BETWEEN THE LINES
Pace announces a duo exhibition of work by Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin, co-curated by Kwade and Arne Glimcher. This show will place works by Kwade, including two new large-scale sculptures, in dialogue with a selection of paintings and works on paper by Martin.
May 18 - June 29, 2024
DANICA LUNDY: BOOMBOX
White Cube is pleased to present “Boombox”, an exhibition of new paintings by Danica Lundy. Employing shifting perspectives, merging images and manipulating proportions, a poetic framework for these typically quotidian scenes emerges in which the familiar makes room for the uncanny.
May 15 - June 29, 2024
WALKING ALONG COLORFUL PATHS
VILLAZAN is pleased to announces the group exhibition featuring works by internationally recognized artists Elvira Fustero Lopez, Jason Ho and Ross Taylor ranging from abstract expressionism to abstract landscapes.
May 16 - June 7, 2024
YVES SCHERER: AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Carl Kostyál announces “As it is in Heaven”, an exhibition by Swiss-born, New York based artist Yves Scherer. He creates immersive environments that combine personal narratives with fan fiction to offer the viewer an often romantic lens or perspective on the self, relationships and the everyday.
May 16 - June 8, 2024
XENOBIA BAILEY
Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to present “Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk: The Second Coming” by the artist and cultural activist Xenobia Bailey. This landmark presentation explores her signature method of crochet, featuring some twenty recent and historic works that comprise an immersive installation.
May 15 - June 15, 2024
NAN GOLDIN
Gagosian announces an exhibition of photographs by Nan Goldin. The black-and-white images commemorate Goldin’s closest friends, members of Boston’s transgender community. Goldin depicted them in a shared apartment and at one of her favorite places, The Other Side, the city’s most prominent drag club and one of the only queer spaces that existed in Boston at the time.
May 14 - June 22, 2024
GREGOR HILDEBRANDT
Perrotin announces “Kraniche Ziehen Vorüber (Cranes Passing By)” by Berlin-based artist Gregor Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt's evolving practice, which has drawn from rich cultural references, including music, literature, and film, presents through the analog nature of the materials, triggering our memories and nostalgia, offering viewers a synaesthetic experience.
May 14 - June 29, 2024
LORIEL BELTRÁN: TO NAME THE LIGHT
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce “To Name the Light” by the Miami-based and Venezuelan-born artist Loriel Beltrán. This exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s fully illustrated catalogue, including an essay by curator Katherine Rochester.
May 14 - June 22, 2024
ILLUSIVE PLACES
Pace presents “Illusive Places: Thomas Chapman, Alejandro Garmendia, Louis Jacquot, Lucy Mullican, Milko Pavlov”, a group show curated by Cy Schnabel. These five artists use landscape as a point of departure to create nuanced approaches to subject matter, form, and content.
May 11 - June 15, 2024
RONI HORN
The acclaimed New York-based artist Roni Horn, awarded the Joan Miró Prize in 2013 and known for her conceptually oriented work in diverse media, presents her first solo exhibition in Menorca. Although varied in medium, all works derive from longstanding themes that have propelled Horn’s ongoing poetic study on the protean nature of identity, meaning and perception.
May 11 - October 27, 2024
CHILLIDA IN MENORCA
On the occasion of ‘Eduardo Chillida 100 years’ and in collaboration with the Estate of Eduardo Chillida, ‘Chillida in Menorca’ celebrates the artist’s profound connection with the island through a major presentation of sculpture and works on paper, including several created during his time in Menorca.
May 11 - October 27, 2024
OVER THE RIDGES AND THROUGH THE PASSES
Almine Rech presents “Over the Ridges and through the Passes”, Gwen O’Neil's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Acknowledging that the fiery sunsets and hazy glow associated with Los Angeles are largely the result of air pollution, O’Neil’s paintings are as foreboding as they are dazzling.
May 11 - June 14, 2024
DANIEL ARSHAM: TOKYO 3024
NANZUKA announces Daniel Arsham’s solo exhibition "Tokyo 3024". This exhibition marks the fourth solo show at our gallery following the art project collaboration with The Pokémon Company from 2020 to 2023.
May 10, 2024
THE WORLD OF IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE
Pace is pleased to announce an exhibition by teamLab in New York. “The World of Irreversible Change” will be projected on a large, freestanding, black-painted wall in a darkened gallery space. Animated figures move throughout the panoramic village scene, which will change with the time of day and weather in New York.
May 10 - August 16, 2024
ISA GENZKEN: WASSERSPEIER AND ANGELS
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to announce the exhibition “Wasserpeier and Angels“ by Isa Genzken. The representation of Genzken’s complex assemblage in the city brings her work into a contemporary context, confronting sociopolitical themes that are still relevant today.
May 9 - July 27, 2024
ALEX PRAGER: WESTERN MECHANICS
Lehmann Maupin present “Western Mechanics” by the artist Alex Prager. The exhibition debuts a new body of photographic works that eschew linear narrative and instead focus on the presentation of emotionally charged vignettes. Her photographs, rich in cultural references and historical allegory, offer multiple entry points into evocative and imaginative worlds.
May 9 - June 22, 2024
HARMONY KORINE: AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER PART II
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present “‘AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER“ by the artist Harmony Korine. The exhibition’s acid-hued oils display an unprecedented fusion of Korine’s painting and filmic practices. These hallucinatory works, like his films, blur the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ in ways that simultaneously attract and repel viewers with their hypnotic, otherworldly atmosphere
May 9 - July 27, 2024