“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
ROXANNE JACKSON: UNKNOWN GIANTS
Anton Kern Gallery presents UNKNOWN GIANTS by Roxanne Jackson at WINDOW (91 Walker Street), an exhibition that transforms the gallery’s street-facing windows into an immersive, life-size diorama, inviting viewers into the artist’s meticulously crafted and imagined world.
January 10 - March 1, 2025
RINUS VAN DE VELDE
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Rinus Van de Velde at Goethestraße 2/3 and Bleibtreustraße 15/16 in Berlin. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Berlin spaces.
January 17 - February 22, 2025
MY MAMA TOLD ME YOU WAS A PROBLEM, BITCH: ALVARO BARRINGTON
MASSIMODECARLO is delighted to present My Mama Told Me You Was a Problem Bitch, the second solo exhibition by London-based artist Alvaro Barrington in Milan. Barrington explores the layers of Black identity, simultaneously confronting the challenges of hypervisibility and social invisibility.
January 15 - February 15, 2025
CALIFORNIA
Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce California, a group exhibition featuring new work by multigenerational artists with deep connections to the American West Coast. This presentation centres on paintings and sculptures that find resonance and inspiration in California's landscapes, cultures, and histories.
January 23 - March 8, 2025
SIMPHIWE MBUNYUZA: UMTHONYAMA
David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce UMTHONYAMA, a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculpture by Simphiwe Mbunyuza.
January 16 - February 22, 2025
SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE AND PATTI SMITH: CORRESPONDENCES
CORRESPONDENCES is an ongoing collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, spanning over a decade and traversing diverse geographies, histories, and natural environments. The presentation at kurimanzutto marks the first time this body of work is shown in New York and in a gallery setting.
January 16 - February 22, 2025
BELLA FOSTER AND BLAIR SAXON-HILL: STILL LIVES
Shanghai—Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to announce the duo exhibition Still Lives, featuring works by Bella Foster and Blair Saxon-Hill. Still Lives highlights the evolving nature of still life painting, emphasising individual expression and emotional depth.
November 22, 2024 - February 8, 2025
SUBLIME SIMULACRA
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Sublime Simulacra, a group exhibition curated by Andy St. Louis. Featuring works by Kim Yun Shin, Kim Chang Euk, Hong Soun, and Scott Kahn, the exhibition speculates on the potential for landscape paintings to generate shifts in the ways that images mediate our experience of the natural environment.
January 22 - March 15, 2025
ANDREY SAMARIN: ARCHETYPAL IMAGES
Nino Mier Gallery is delighted to present Archetypal Images, Andrey Samarin’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first presentation in Brussels. Samarin, who is in his early twenties, was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. Due to the escalating threat of war, Samarin was forced to flee his homeland two months after Russia’s invasion, embarking on a perilous journey through the dense forests of Ukraine in the dead of night.
January 18 - February 28, 2025
ROGER-EDGAR GILLET: DINNER PARTY
Petzel is pleased to present Dinner Party, an exhibition of paintings by Roger-Edgar Gillet (1924–2004), the French artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Organized in partnership with the artist’s estate, this group of works traces Gillet’s oeuvre following his breakthrough experimentations with figuration in the early 1960s.
January 16 - February 22, 2025
EMILIANA HENRIQUEZ: WARM BLUE VELVET
Half Gallery Annex in New York is pleased to present Warm Blue Velvet, a recently completed series by artist Emiliana Henriquez.
January 8 - February 5, 2025
ETSU EGAMI: MELODY
KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present MELODY, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Etsu Egami. The show marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Germany. MELODY features six new, visually complex paintings that contain a series of portraits reduced to broad, translucent brushstrokes.
January 17 - February 23, 2025
VIRGINIA OVERTON: PAINTINGS
White Cube is pleased to present Paintings, Virginia Overton’s exhibition of new body of work that continues her exploration of spatial relationships between architecture, sculpture and the body.
January 17 - February 22, 2025
ACAYE KERUNEN: NEENA, AAN UTHII
Pace is pleased to announce Acaye Kerunen: Neena, aan uthii, the artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition features a new body of sculptures, sound installations, and performance that interlace living forms of knowledge embedded within Ugandan communities. Translated from Alur as See me, I am here, this show marks Kerunen’s debut presentation with Pace since joining the gallery’s program in 2022.
January 15 - February 22, 2025
FRANCIS PICABIA: ÉTERNEL RECOMMENCEMENT / ETERNAL BEGINNING
Hauser & Wirth Paris is pleased to present Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning, an exhibition of over 40 post-war artworks by Francis Picabia. This is the first major solo exhibition exclusively exploring Picabia’s unique final period, created after his return to Paris in 1945 until the year before his death in 1953
January 18 - March 12, 2025
MARIE LAURENCIN: WORKS FROM 1905 TO 1952
Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side is pleased to present 'Marie Laurencin, Works from 1905 to 1952', Marie Laurencin's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
January 9 - February 22, 2025
NORITOSHI MITSUUCHI: STAR DUST
VILLAZAN is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition by Noritoshi Mitsuuchi, "Star Dust", at VILLAZAN Project Space in Madrid. This showcase features his vibrant, color-filled works with bold brushstrokes that evoke the whimsical perspective of childhood. In this new collection, stars take center stage, serving as the unifying theme across most of the canvases, with each piece offering a glimpse into the artist's boundless imagination.
January 23 - March 1, 2025
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO: TO STEP BEYOND
Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents the significant solo exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto: To Step Beyond, organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua. This major presentation features painting and sculpture spanning the Italian artist’s groundbreaking practice from the early 1960s to the present, illuminating the radicality of his evolving oeuvre.
January 16 - March 29, 2025
SIGRID SANDSTRÖM: DUSK
Perrotin Tokyo is pleased to present Dusk by Swedish artist Sigrid Sandström, which marks the artist's first solo exhibition in Japan and second with the gallery.
January 17 - March 22, 2025
BENNETT MILLER
Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition in Paris of new prints by Bennett Miller.
January 15 - February 22, 2025