10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
In New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, London, Montreal, Paris, Athens, Mexico City, and Baku...
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Sep 23, 2015
Andisheh Avini
at Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 East 64th Street
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Sep 24, 2015 - Oct 31, 2015
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Andisheh Avini, the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition will take place at the gallery’s Upper East Side location at 118 East 64th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, from September 24 through October 31, 2015. Andisheh Avini’s practice thrives on the juxtaposition of patterns, materials and East/West influences, employing the ensuing collisions to challenge the symbolic implication of imagery and to explore the visual experience of memory. read more...
David Adjaye Selects
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Sep 25, 2015 - Jan 03, 2016
This focused exhibition in the gallery for African art complements Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye on the first and second floors of the Modern Wing (Galleries 182–184, 283–285). Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, architect David Adjaye readily draws from, and is inspired by, the rich formal and material innovations of African art and design. He chose and commented on the works highlighted in this installation, discussing their shapes, textures, materials, and histories, as well as charts their points of intersection with his own creative interests and processes. read more...
Do Ho Suh
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Cleveland, OH, USA
Sep 25, 2015 - Jan 10, 2016
This exhibition surveys recent work by internationally-renowned artist Do Ho Suh. Suh creates architecturally scaled, fabric installations informed by his personal experiences, that recreate specific domestic spaces where he has lived, including his childhood home (a traditional hanok-style Korean house), a house in Rhode Island where he lived as a student, and his apartment in New York. Suh weaves translucent structures made of monochrome polyester, at once architectural, and ephemeral, inviting viewers to wander through their dreamlike interior passageways (often complete with details such as light switches and door handles). read more...
Time / Image
at Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Sep 25, 2015 - Dec 12, 2015
Time / Image explores the interrelationship of time and thought in contemporary art. Curated by Amy L. Powell, curator of modern and contemporary art at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and former Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow at Blaffer Art Museum, Time / Image opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. read more...
Theo Eshetu: Constellations
at Tiwani Contemporary
London, UK
Sep 25, 2015 - Oct 31, 2015
Tiwani Contemporary now represents Theo Eshetu and we are delighted to announce his first solo exhibition in the UK. Considered one of the most influential media practitioners of the contemporary era, the London-born Ethiopian artist is known for his pioneering work across TV, film and video. Since the 1980s, Theo Eshetu has combined the formal components of film with anthropological ideas to examine the notion of culture itself. read more...
Roy Meuwissen: LAT. 17°33′13″N LONG. 99°24′37″W
at Darling Foundry
Montreal, QC, Canada
Sep 24, 2015 - Nov 29, 2015
The news and various artistic languages that recount it make up the subject matter of Roy Meuwissen’s LAT. 17°33′13″N LONG. 99°24′37″W. Basing his work on two student protests that turned tragic in Mexico, in 1968 and 2014, the artist superimposes historical events and anecdotes to present a cold and incisive report on silencing politics directed at young people, directly reminiscent of Québec’s Maple Spring. The first art history anecdote directly linked to these tragedies refers to artist On Kawara’s 1968 residency in Mexico, and his legendary tear-off calendar-style “Date paintings” series. read more...
A Brief History of the Future
at Musée du Louvre
1e - Paris, France
Sep 24, 2015 - Jan 04, 2016
This exhibition—one of the most anticipated at the Louvre in 2015—is based on the book by Jacques Attali of the same name (Une brève histoire de l’avenir), published in 2006. Pluridisciplinary, it brings a number of contemporary artists into a dialogue with noteworthy works from different eras, retracing in the present an account of the past conducive to a clearer view of the future. The viewing itinerary is organized around four themes, each featuring works commissioned from contemporary artists: the ordering of the world, the great empires, the expansion of the world, and the polycentric world we live in today. read more...
Davide Balula
at Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Athens, Greece
Sep 24, 2015 - Dec 19, 2015
Gagosian Athens is pleased to present new work by Davide Balula. This will be his first exhibition in Athens and with the gallery. Balula harnesses all forms of natural matter (solid, liquid, gas, fire), as well as manmade structures and systems (architecture, virtual networks) to generate paintings, sculptures, photographs, performances, and site-specific interventions. He engages these forces to fuel contingent artistic gestures. read more...
Proceso Pentágono Group
at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo
Mexico City, Mexico
Sep 26, 2015 - Feb 07, 2016
The aim of the exhibition is to show for the first time the output of the Proceso Pentágono Group, a collective characterized by its critical and radical attitude towards state policies during the 1970s and early 1980s in Mexico. Their work was defined by research and experimentation, and as part of the “Los Grupos” (The Groups) movement in Mexico, combined non-object art and action art. The work of Proceso Pentágono presented a critique of the cultural and artist system in the country, developing a strategy of resistance with works that address issues relating to the socio-political sphere, placing emphasis on repression in Latin America and Mexico. read more...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
at YARAT Contemporary Art Centre
Baku, Azerbaijan
Sep 24, 2015 - Jan 08, 2016
YARAT Contemporary Art Centre presents The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a group show bringing together recent and new work that explores the ways in which networked images of bodies and characters structure and transform viewers’ identities. The exhibition is co-curated by Suad Garayeva, Curatorial Director at YARAT and Michael Connor, Artistic Director of Rhizome at the New Museum in New York. Working across a range of media, international artists Neil Beloufa, Hannah Black, Camille Henrot, Parker Ito, Bunny Rogers, Jasper Spicero and Lu Yang each examine themes of ownership, visual identity and the relationship between a society and their images. read more...