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Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody

Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody
The Broad – May 27 to Oct 08, 2023 Los Angeles (US)

The Broad will present the first-ever museum exhibition in Los Angeles of Keith Haring’s expansive body of work and will feature over 120 artworks and archival materials. Known for his use of vibrant color, energetic linework and iconic characters like the barking dog and the radiant baby, Haring’s work continues to dissolve barriers between art and life and spread joy, all while being rooted in the creative spirit and mission of his subway drawings and renowned public murals: art is for everybody. Curated by Broad curator and exhibition manager Sarah Loyer, the exhibition will explore both Haring’s artistic practice and life, with much of the source material for the exhibition coming from his personal journals.

Ten galleries.

Divided into ten galleries in total, the expansive exhibition will feature the breadth of mediums Haring worked within, including video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and graphic works, as well as representations from the artist’s enormous output of public projects, from the subway drawings to his public murals. Works presented span from the late-1970s when he was a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York up until 1988, just two years before the artist died from AIDS-related illness at the age of 31. Haring’s participation in nuclear disarmament and anti-Apartheid movements are featured prominently in the show, as well as works that take on complex issues that remain crucial today from environmentalism, capitalism, and the proliferation of new technologies to religion, sexuality, and race. In the last gallery, significant works from the late 1980s will be accompanied by framed posters illustrating the artist’s activism within the HIV/AIDS crisis.

The Broad→  221 South Grand Avenue Downtown Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA, USA 90012

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Louise Bourgeois: Imaginary Conversations

Louise Bourgeois:  Imaginary Conversations
The National Gallery – May 06 to Aug 06, 2023 Oslo (Norway)

Refusing to be content with a single, fixed expression or to be confined by a single artistic movement, the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) explored a variety of styles and techniques that few artists can rival. The exhibition “Imaginary Conversations” stages encounters between Bourgeois and other artists. Some of these encounters took place during Bourgeois’s almost century-long life, while others occur across time and space. This is the first major presentation of Bourgeois’s art in Norway in over twenty years.

1940s.

Works from her entire career are presented, from her paintings and prints from the 1940s to the Cells she created in her final decades. “Imaginary Conversations” also allows you to experience artworks by over fifty other artists, including Edvard Munch, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Louise Nevelson, Senga Nengudi, Alina Szapocznikow, Seni Awa Camara, Nan Goldin, Robert Gober, and Rosemarie Trockel. Many of the works are being shown in Norway for the first time ever.

The National Gallery Oslo→  Universitetsgaten 13 Oslo, Norway 0164

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Elizabeth Ohlson “Sexy gay Jesus / migrant pushback”

Elizabeth Ohlson “Sexy gay Jesus / migrant pushback”
European parliament – May 02 to 05, 2023 Brussels (Belgium)

An exhibition of photos by Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson.

On the occasion of the Swedish presidency in the European Council, Member of the European Parliament Malin Björk has invited Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson to show some of her images in the European Parliament.

Ecce Homo in 1998.

Ohlson had her artistic breakthrough with Ecce Homo in 1998 in a Swedish cathedral, in which she showed a series of images of Jesus depicted together with LGBTQI people. The exhibition then toured around the world. However, when former MEP Marianne Eriksson of the Swedish Left Party tried to show Ecce Homo in the European Parliament, she was stopped by the questors, as they found the images too offensive.

Welcome to the opening reception with Elisabeth Ohlson on Tuesday, May 2 at 18h in the JAN 3 Q Area. Drinks and snacks will be served.

Welcome also on Wednesday, May 3 at 13h-14.30h in ASP 1 G 2, when Elisabeth Ohlson will give a lecture about her work. A light lunch will be served.

For visitors who need accreditation to the European Parliament for the events, please send an email to charlotta.narvehed@europarl.europa.eu with your name, date of birth, nationality and passport or ID number.

European parliament Brussels→  Rue Wiertz, 60 1047 Parlement Européen

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Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now

Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now
Guggenheim Bilbao – Jun 27 to Oct 08, 2023

Retrospective exhibition of Japanese artist and writer Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Nagano), a singular voice recovered by the history of art and situated in the place that she deserves, turning her into a global cultural icon. During the last seven decades, Kusama has firmly chased her vanguardist vision, perfecting a unique personal aesthetic and a life-central philosophy. Her work captivates us with unlimited spaces and reflections on the natural regeneration cycles.

Extensive retrospective.

Yayoi Kusama narrates the artist’s life and work history, bringing to the foreground her longing for interconnectedness and the deep questions about the existence that drive her creative explorations. The most extensive retrospective of the artist celebrated in the last decade in Spain with nearly 200 artworks—paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and archive material that document her happenings and performances—the exhibition examines Kusama’s work since her first drawings as a teenager, during World War II, until her most recent immersive installations. Organized chronologically and thematically, the show recreates Kusama’s central themes: Infinity, Accumulation, Radical Connectivity, Biocosmic, Death, and Force of Life, an in-depth view of the obsessive universe of an artist who has been trying for decades to shake up our universe with her work “to cure all humanity.”

Guggenheim Bilbao→  Avenida Abandoibarra 2 Bilbao, Spain 48001

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Haegue Yang: Several Reenactments

Haegue Yang: Several Reenactments
S.M.A.K. Ghent – April 22 to Sep 10, 2023 Gent (Belgium)

The intriguing and refined approaches of Haegue Yang encompass large-scale sculptures and installations as well as works on paper, photography, video, sound and text. Her works are also distinguished by its formal agility and its capacity to convey various ideas, histories, perceptions and emotions. The central hall of Several Reenactments at S.M.A.K. is occupied by seventeen sculptural units titled Warrior Believer Lover. Version Sonic (2023). These sculptural ensembles are reenactments of her previous multi-part installation Warrior Believer Lover (2011). Constituting a horizontally open sculptural field, Warrior Believer Lover – Version Sonic will be accompanied by Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) among other works by Yang, while the wings on both sides of the hall mirror each other and build a symmetry.

Industrially manufactured.

Yang’s works are primarily composed of industrially manufactured objects, yet possess a remarkable richness due to their artisanal or rigorous arrangements. The ideas of this seemingly oppositional dialectic running through her works, as other notions like abstract and figurative, mechanical and organic, traditional and forward-looking, constantly mirror each other. In response to today’s bold and urgent global issues about migration, identity and community, Yang proposes a discreet yet firm artistic commitment. Excavating from unexpected, even imagined encounters, complex cross-linkages and sometimes contradictory translations of forms, lives, cultures, eras, traditions and practices, she unearths not only shared meanings, but also distils new contemporary entities.

S.M.A.K→ Jan Hoetplein 1 Gent, Belgium 9000

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Hermann Nitsch: Selected Paintings, 1965–2020

Hermann Nitsch: Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020
Pace Gallery – March 17 to April 29, 2023 Ney Work (US)

Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings, photographs, relics, and musical scores by Hermann Nitsch at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York.

Posthumous exhibition.

This will be Pace’s first show—and the first planned posthumous exhibition—dedicated to Nitsch, a founder of the Viennese Actionism movement who died last year at age 83. On view from March 17 to April 29, the exhibition will be accompanied by the premiere of a new performance and installation by artist Miles Greenberg, presented by Pace Live. Performances on March 17, 18, 24, and 25 will complement and speak to Nitsch’s oeuvre, and Greenberg’s presentation, titled Fountain II, will situate Nitsch’s experimental practice within a contemporary context.

Nitsch Foundation.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Pace Publishing, in collaboration with the Nitsch Foundation, will produce the first English translation of Nitsch’s autobiography, an oral history of the artist’s life that he first published in 1995 (second edition 2005, third edition 2018).

Than 60 years.

Over the course of more than 60 years, Nitsch cultivated an intensive practice that spans performance, painting, drawing, printmaking, film, photography, music, poetry, and philosophy. A leading figure of the Austrian avant- garde, Nitsch was a founder of the Viennese Actionism movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The disruptive ethos of this movement brought irreverent performance work to the forefront of Vienna’s art scene in the latter half of the 20th century. A key art historical figure in Europe, Nitsch has been cited as an influence by Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Chris Burden, and other major American artists.

Tragedy in explorations.

Nitsch’s extensive performance work often features nudity, multifarious noises, and enactments of tragedy in explorations of rituals and primordial urges. The artist’s seminal work is the large-scale six-day Orgies Mysteries Theatre, which he began developing in the mid-1950s. For this work, the artist drew inspiration from literature, art, music, and philosophy to produce “a total work of art” that engages all five senses. In the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, Nitsch incorporates substances like blood and meat to elicit intense and varied reactions from viewers.

Orgies Mysteries Theatre.

In summer 2022, an extended version of the 6-Day-Play of the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, first performed in full in 1998, was staged at Austria’s Prinzendorf Castle, which the artist purchased in 1971 and used as a set for his ambitious performances. This extended performance has a strong emphasis on music. Also last year, Nitsch’s 20th Painting Action works, which he first presented in the Wiener Secession in 1987, were shown at Oficine 800 on the island of Giudecca, Venice during the 59th Venice Biennale.

1962 and 2020.

Pace’s upcoming exhibition will bring together works created by Nitsch between 1962 and 2020. Offering a holistic survey of his painting and photography practices. In his paintings, the artist often incorporated splatters and splashes of oil or acrylic sometimes mixed with blood, producing visceral and evocative abstractions through a highly physical and gestural process. Nitsch understood his painting actions as the visual grammar of his theatrical actions, applied to a picture plane. The gallery’s presentation will include a selection of Nitsch’s large-scale paintings as well as two vibrant works on paper that the artist created in 2020—these dynamic abstractions featuring mesmeric plays of color and line speak to Nitsch’s formal explorations in his late career.

singular body of work.

The show will also feature three photo collages that chronicle a so-called Penis Irrigation Action staged in Nitsch’s Vienna apartment over the course of four hours in January 1965. These works reflect the artist’s interest in uniting the mediums of photography, painting, and performance in a singular body of work. Hermann Nitsch: Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020 has been curated by Mark Beasley, Curator and Director at Pace Gallery, Valentina Volchkova, Senior Vice President at Pace Gallery; and Gudrun Marecek, Managing Director of the Nitsch Foundation, Vienna.

Pace Gallery →  510 West 25th Street Chelsea – New York, NY, USA 10001

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Becoming CoBrA

Becoming CoBrA
“Beginnings of a European Art Movement”
Kunsthalle Mannheim – Until May 03, 2023 Mannheim (Germany)

With the exhibition Becoming CoBrA. Beginnings of a European Art Movement, Kunsthalle Mannheim takes a look at the origins, dating back to the 1930s, of one of the most influential avant-garde groups in the 20th century. While the years from 1948 to 1951, during which CoBrA existed as a firmly defined group, have already been the subject of much discussion, the exhibition focuses on the preceding, hitherto little-examined process of the artists’ collective’s emergence. Denmark is the setting in which artists such as Asger Jorn, Ejler Biller, Else Alfelt, and Henry Heerup dealt with essential themes of the later CoBrA group as early as the mid-1930s.

World War II.

In their paintings, sculptures, and graphic works, some of which were created during World War II, they took Scandinavian folk art and mythology or Expressionism as models, experimented with collective approaches to art production, or tried to integrate the playfulness and spontaneity of children’s imagination into their own formal language.

Post-war period.

In the immediate post-war period, the Danes in turn quickly established contact with artists such as Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel or Madeleine Kemeny-Szemere and Zoltán Kemény, who, independently of them, dealt with very similar issues. They met like-minded people, especially in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, with whom they formed the CoBrA group in November 1948.

150 paintings.

In the context of the exhibition, approximately 150 paintings, sculptures, graphics, photographs, textile works, and ceramics, each created before 1949, by later members of the trans-European collective provide insights into the creative cosmos of CoBrA before its founding. They show how, already in the context of World War II and the immediate post-war period, a new avant-garde was formed that stood for peace, international understanding, and a redefinition of artistic modes of production.

Kunsthalle Mannheim→  Friedrichsplatz 4 Mannheim, Germany 68165

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Picasso: Artist And Model – Last Paintings

Picasso: Artist And Model – Last Paintings

Fondation Beyeler – Feb 19 to May O1, 2023 Basel (Switzerland) 

Joining the international commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The Fondation Beyeler will present a selection of ten late paintings in one room concerned with images of artist and model. These highly expressive works created in the last decade of Picasso’s career, attest to the artist’s undiminished creative energy and productivity up to the end of his life. In these paintings, Picasso explores the (self)-image of the artist and the creative act as well as the image of the female body. For contemporary viewers, they also raise questions regarding the representation of women in art today.

Fondation Beyeler→  Baselstrasse 101 Basel, Switzerland 4125

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Georg Baselitz : La boussole indique le nord

Georg Baselitz : La boussole indique le nord

Thaddaeus Ropac – Until May 27, 2023 Paris (France)

La boussole indique le nord is an exhibition of recent works by internationally renowned German artist Georg Baselitz. Filling the gallery’s Paris Pantin space, the exhibition brings together five series realised between 2020 and 2021, in celebration of the artist’s 85th birthday. The works on view span Tulips with pared-back compositions and contrasting colours, three series of portraits with vivid palettes, and a series of more melancholy portraits on dark backgrounds. The works on canvas are accompanied by a group of ink drawings. Characterised by an unprecedented integration of fabric and by a transfer method that marks a significant recent development in Baselitz’s technique, the works create, both conceptually and materially, a distinctive universe where the logic of collage coalesces with painting.

For more than 50 years.

According to museum curator Bernard Blistène, Baselitz ‘works from the very conventions of painting, and yet [is] perhaps the painter who has most destroyed these conventions.’ This has been the case since he first inverted a canvas, a compositional play he has now been employing for more than 50 years. In the new works, through previously untried experiments with collage and novel mark-making techniques, it is the conventions of painting’s materiality that Baselitz tests, bringing his innovation up to the threshold of his 85th birthday. Yet the layers of allusion and material, and the destabilisation of representation and narrative that they imply, never alienate the painter from his work. Instead, they serve as an invitation for the viewer to bypass the ‘sterile questions’ of representation within painting. As the artist says: ‘they make it possible for me to realise what I have wanted all my life.’

Thaddaeus Ropac→  69, avenue du Général Leclerc Paris, France 93500

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Red Brick Collection

Red Brick Collection
Red Brick Art Museum – Until Feb 26, 2023 Beijing (China)

Until Feb 26, Red Brick Art Museum will present an exhibition of selected works from its collections that featuring five internationally renowned artists. Including Olafur Eliasson, Huang yongping, Andreas Mühe, Tatiana Trouve and Tony Oursler. A total of 17 pieces, covering installations. Video art, new media and other forms. The show will present several extraordinary scenes of contemporary art in large scale.

Tatiana Trouve

Huang yongping

Andreas Mühe

Andreas Mühe

Red Brick Art Museum→  Hegezhuang Village Chaoyang – Beijing, China

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