This Week in Venice

May 11 – November 24, 2019

This Week in Venice: Henry Taylor, Darren Bader, Ryoji Ikeda, Enrico David, and Yun Hyong-keun

Yun Hyong-keun: A Retrospective at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

May 11 – November 24, 2019

Born in 1928 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship...

Lee Ufan at Dia Beacon, NY

May 5, 2019 – May 5, 2020

A pioneer of the Mono-ha movement in Japan, Lee Ufan developed a sculptural practice in the 1960s that explored the tension between natural and man-made materials and the dialogue between object and space....

Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara

April 13 – June 23, 2019

Tramway presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. This immersive installation hosts new and existing textile sculptures which visitors are invited to inhabit and activate...

Zhu Jinshi: Wave of Materials at LACMA, Los Angeles

March 16 – September 15, 2019

Zhu Jinshi's monumental Wave of Materials installation will be exhibited as part of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, an exhibition curated by art historian and critic Wu Hung that examines contemporary Chinese art through the lens of materiality...

Darren Bader & Henry Taylor Selected for the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy

March 7, 2019

In a speech given in the late 1930s, British MP Sir Austen Chamberlain invoked an ancient Chinese curse that he had learned of from a British diplomat who had served in Asia, and which took the curious form of saying, "May you live in interesting times"...

In Conversation: Alma Allen & JB Blunk at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

February 23 – June 23, 2019

Like a blind date, In Conversation: Alma Allen & JB Blunk stages an encounter between two people who never met but whose work and lives share a deep affinity...

Pia Camil & Julian Hoeber in Desert X

February 9 – April 21, 2019

Set in two locations across the U.S./Mexico border (Baja, Mexico and the Coachella Valley, CA), Pia Camil's Lover's rainbow presented at Desert X is conceived as an identical set of rainbows made from painted rebar...

Julian Hoeber's two-part project presented at Desert X functions within the rubric of his Going Nowhere project, an attempt to map aspects of human thought via topology and architecture...

Linder: The Bower of Bliss at Southwark Station, London

November 8, 2018 – October 1, 2019

Art on the Underground will present a major public commission by British artist Linder at Southwark Station, launching on November 8, 2018, and on view until October 2019...

Yoshitomo Nara at Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand

October 19, 2018 – February 3, 2019

Blum & Poe is pleased to announce Yoshitomo Nara's participation in Beyond Bliss, the  inaugural edition of the Bangkok Art Biennale. In response to the curatorial prompt, Nara presents recent large-scale sculptural work representative of a mature and introspective artist now seasoned with a career spanning four decades...

Pia Camil: Telón de Boca at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City

August 11 – December 9, 2018

Pia Camil's first institutional solo exhibition in Mexico, Telón de Boca places her story at tianguis cultural del Chopo, a street market in Mexico City...

Yun Hyong-keun Retrospective at MMCA, South Korea

August 3 – December 16, 2018

Born in 1928 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship... 

Pia Camil: Split Wall at Nottingham Contemporary, UK

July 14 – October 7, 2018

Working with textile installation, ceramics, and video, Mexican artist Pia Camil highlights the shortcomings of consumerism and globalization through works that are playful, interactive, and participatory...

Victor Man: The Chandler at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

June 28 – September 30, 2018

Victor Man's work proposes the continuity of seemingly unrelated images, objects, cultures, historical events, and personal memory. Man's influences are both classical and contemporary...

Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens

May 20 – August 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) has made "Butterfly" compositions since 2002, and the latest to come out of his studio is 50 Kitchens (2013-18), exhibited here for the first time...

Anya Gallaccio at Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, UK

May 5 – November 4, 2018

Following an 18 month period of conservation, Lindisfarne Castle will re-open with a new major site-specific installation by internationally acclaimed artist, former Turner-prize nominated artist, Anya Gallaccio...

JB Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life at Oakland Museum of California

April 21 – September 9, 2018

A broad survey of the lifework of JB Blunk (American, 1926-2002), Nature, Art & Everyday Life brings together over 80 objects to inspire museum visitors to see the beauty of nature and art in the everyday...

Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life at Legion of Honor, San Francisco

April 19 – August 5, 2018

Julian Schnabel's first exhibition at a US West Coast institution in over 30 years, Symbols of Actual Life, will feature new, large-scale paintings, occupying the Legion of Honor's open-air courtyard. Inside, the museum's neo-classical galleries will play host to three series of paintings from the past three decades, rarely seen before by the public...

Linder: Her Grace Land at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

March 24 – October 21, 2018

As the estate's first artist-in-residence, Linder immersed herself in the life of Chatsworth House's 500-year history...

Linder: The House of Fame at Nottingham Contemporary, UK

March 24 – June 24, 2018

The House of Fame is an ambitious exhibition conceived by Linder. At the heart of the presentation is a retrospective of the influential British artist and musician's work, spanning more than forty years of photomontage, graphics, costume, and performance...

Anya Gallaccio at the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia

March 16 – June 11, 2018

Anya Gallaccio is well known for her ephemeral, site-specific installations; temporary works that often comprise materials informed by local industries and economies such as flowers, dirt, chocolate and ice...

Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016 at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

March 6 – November 8, 2018

Anthology 2014-2016 is an installation of thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirely, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely source -- Calvin and Hobbes comic books...

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas at Seattle Art Museum, WA

February 15 – May 13, 2018

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas brings together three generations of contemporary American artists, whose work challenges a Western painting tradition that underrepresents people of color...

Pia Camil: Fade into Black at Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

January 25 – July 15, 2018

SCAD Museum of Art presents Fade into Black, an exhibition by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. In her paintings, sculptures, performances and installations, Camil draws inspiration from the urban landscapes of Latin America and engages with the history of modernism...

Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw at MSU Broad, East Lansing, MI

November 18, 2017 – February 25, 2018

New Year's Eve, 1974. Ann Arbor, Michigan. The sounds of a vacuum cleaner, a coffee can, and a violin. It was an unusual version of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" that was being played by the newly formed proto-punk band Destroy All Monsters...