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Our pick of this week's top new openings — from Bridget Riley's optical illusions in London to a very special 80th birthday celebration

Channa Horwitz
at Lisson Gallery, New York (10th Avenue)
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jan 19, 18 - Feb 24, 18

The visually complex and systematic works of Channa Horwitz (1932 – 2013) aim to represent motion across time through structured, linear progressions. The first exhibition of her work at Lisson Gallery will feature the artist’s seminal series, Sonakinatography, which was drawn from a proposal called ‘Suspension of Vertical Beams Moving in Space’ that was rejected for inclusion in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibition ‘Art and Technology’ in 1968. The proposal graphically describes the movement of magnetically suspended beams and was later developed into the rules and systems of eight that Horwitz subsequently become known. Read more >

Robert Irwin
at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Park La Brea - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan 23, 18 - Apr 21, 18

Robert Irwin, one of the pioneers of minimalist sculpture and installation art since the late 1960s, will produce a major new project for Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, on view January 23 to April 21, 2018. In keeping with his experimental approach to light, space, and the phenomenological experience of the viewer, Irwin has re-imagined Sprüth Magers’ modernist interior as an immersive, site-conditional installation, several years in the making. Read more >

Andreas Gursky
at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
London, UK
Jan 25, 18 - Apr 22, 18

Hayward Gallery reopens in January 2018 with the first major UK retrospective of the work of acclaimed German photographer Andreas Gursky. Gursky, known for his large-scale, often spectacular pictures that portray emblematic sites and scenes of the global economy and contemporary life, is widely regarded as one of the most significant photographers of our time. Driven by an interest and insight into ‘the way that the world is constituted’, as well as what he describes as ‘the pure joy of seeing’, Gursky makes photographs that are not just depictions of places or situations, but reflections on the nature of image-making and the limits of human perception. Read more >

Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings 2014-2017
at David Zwirner, London
Mayfair - London, UK
Jan 19, 18 - Mar 10, 18

David Zwirner is pleased to present recent work from the last four years by British artist Bridget Riley, her third solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning three floors of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will include wall paintings and works on canvas as well as a group of related studies that focus on two themes: works in black-and-white and the disc. The works on view both extend and rework the artist’s previous investigations of these motifs in new ways. Read more >

Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows
at Victoria Miro, London (St George Street)
Mayfair - London, UK
Jan 19, 18 - Mar 24, 18

Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Jules de Balincourt continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological landscape. In Troubled Eden, 2017, a snaking river, encroached upon by signs of human activity, is worn like a shift dress by a figure with a sharp fringe and an assertive, red-carpet stance. Read more >

The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind
at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
Bruton, UK
Jan 20, 18 - May 07, 18

Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to announce ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind’, curated by Adam Sutherland. This ambitious survey exhibition explores the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural. The presentation features over 50 international artists and creatives, as well as works on loan, by artists working from the 1500s to the present day, including Paul McCarthy, Beatrix Potter, Carsten Höller, Laure Prouvost, William Holman Hunt, Read more >

Dieter Roth: Paper
at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
Jan 19, 18 - Mar 03, 18

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is delighted to stage a presentation of works focused on the medium paper by legendary German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 – 1998). Curated by Björn Roth, ‘Dieter Roth. Paper’ offers a unique window into the artist’s explorations and expansions of the medium. Read more >

James Turrell: The Elliptical Glass
at Häusler Contemporary, Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
Jan 26, 18 - Mar 24, 18

Häusler Contemporary Zürich is pleased to present for the first time James Turrell’s new light work «Elliptical Glass» along with historical projections from 1968. With these two groups of works that embrace fifty years of the artist’s oeuvre, it becomes clear how skillfull he uses light as a material to show vision itself. James Turrell James Turrell is considered one of the most important international artists of our time. Read more >

Georg Baselitz
at Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Jan 21, 18 - Apr 29, 18

In celebration of Georg Baselitz’s 80th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an extensive exhibition to him. A focused retrospective will bring together many of the most significant paintings and sculptures he has created during the last six decades. The juxtaposition on an equal footing of key works dating from all phases of Baselitz’s career will demonstrate the uniquely inventive richness of his oeuvre’s form and content. Read more > 

Alex Prager
at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jan 18, 18 - Mar 17, 18

Lehmann Mapuin is pleased to present an  exhibition of new work by Alex Prager. The Los Angeles-based artist returns to Hong Kong with her signature style of theatrical and meticulously staged photography and film, as well as her first exhibited sculpture. In her most recent series, Prager manipulates scale and dimension to challenge our understanding of the boundary between fiction and reality. Read more > 

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