The 22nd Biennale of Sydney Announces 2020 Program Highlights

Aziz Hazara, Bow Echo, 2019. Video still, 5-channel digital video, color, sound, 4 min 17. Produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation. Courtesy of the artist

The Biennale of Sydney will feature works by over 100 international artists across six sites in Sydney. The artist-led exhibition, titled NIRIN, will address themes of sovereignty, healing and transformation, with works by artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tony Albert, Huma Bhaba, Karla Dickens, Arthur Jafa, Zanele Muholi and Laure Prouvost.

February 12, 2020 (Sydney) – The Biennale of Sydney – the third oldest biennial in the world after Venice and São Paulo and largest exhibition of its kind in Australia – has announced the program highlights for its 2020 edition, taking place from 14 March until 8 June 2020. Free and open to the public, the 22nd edition will present a diverse range of contemporary artworks spanning from video and photography to installations and performances, across six different venues in Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Art School.

Under the artistic direction of acclaimed Indigenous Australian artist Brook Andrew, this expansive exhibition of contemporary art and events will bring together the work of more than 100 international artists, many of which have been specifically commissioned for the occasion. Acting as a plural space to gather and to share, to disrupt and re-imagine, it will engage visitors to challenge dominant narratives and propose new futurisms and paths to healing. Titled NIRIN, or edge – a word of Andrew’s mother’s Nation, the Wiradjuri people of western New South Wales, the exhibition will address themes of sovereignty, healing and transformation.

Throughout the 87 days of the exhibition, these projects and ideas will be activated and explored through an interconnected program of free and ticketed events called NIRIN WIR, spanning from the Blue Mountains to La Perouse. NIRIN, meaning edge, and WIR, meaning sky, is a series of activations and creative partnerships with communities, arts organisations and tertiary institutions such as the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Observatory, Parramatta Female Factory and Sydney University. Please see Notes to Editors for detailed artwork highlights as part of NIRIN and programming highlights of NIRIN WIR.

Brook Andrew, Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney explains, “NIRIN is an opportunity to see first-hand how Sydney and Australia is a world stage for arts and culture. It demonstrates how artists have the power to inspire and lead through difficult global times such as environmental catastrophe, urgent states of conflict and reframing histories. There are many turning points in the world right now: come and be a part of this story and immerse yourself, your family and friends in inspiration, change and imagined futures.”

Reflecting on the 2020 edition, Barbara Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Biennale of Sydney said: “The Biennale of Sydney embraces art and ideas of today, welcoming artists and audiences to collaborate, learn, heal and bond together. Through NIRIN and NIRIN WIR, the Biennale invites diverse and often marginalised voices of the world to converge, creating a safe place where people can think and talk about issues that resonate on a local and international level. Under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney highlights the importance of uniting people, stimulating dialogue, cultivating connections, listening and amplifying the voices of artists, from a First Nations-led and artist-led perspective.”

Emily Karaka, Kingitanga ki Te Ao (They will throw stones), 2020. Acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 199 x 277 cm. Courtesy of the artist

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NOTES TO EDITORS

High-resolution images and the full list of creatives by venue may be downloaded here.

NIRIN Highlights

• At the Art Gallery of NSW, Arthur Jafa, recently awarded the Golden Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale, will present the Southern Hemisphere premiere of his seminal work The White Album. Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens will present an immersive installation in the vestibule of the Gallery that is an observation on the disproportional number of Indigenous women in refuges and correctional centres all around Australia.

• Multi-disciplinary artist Joël Andrianomearisoa will present a suite of large-scale, sheer textile works that will transform spaces in both the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

• Pitjantjatjara artist Kunmanara Mumu Mike Williams (1952–2019), a political activist, cultural leader and ngangkari (traditional healer), was invited to participate in the Biennale of Sydney before his passing in March 2019. His vision for the exhibition was a large-scale political protest piece, working with the young men in his community to show to the world that tjukurpa (law) is still strong. Guided by his widow Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin and his lifelong friend and collaborator Sammy Dodd, Mimili Maku Arts has facilitated the execution of the project at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, celebrating the significance of Kunmanara’s words: Kulilaya munuya nintiriwa (Listen and learn from us).

• Gamilaroi/Gomeroi Murri Yinah artist Barbara McGrady delves into her extensive photographic archive to curate her life’s work and re-present it as a kaleidoscopic compendium of Aboriginal contemporary history. Collectively titled Ngiyaningy Maran Yaliwaunga Ngaara-li (Our Ancestors Are Always Watching), a selection of photographs will be presented at Art Gallery of New South Wales and as a major immersive installation at Campbelltown Arts Centre.

• Also at Campbelltown Arts Centre, multi-disciplinary artist and member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation Adrian Stimson will present video and photographs challenging the colonial project through his performance personas Buffalo Boy, Shaman Exterminator and Naked Napi.

• At Artspace, Peruvian artist Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales will present a recreation of an iconic TV set from the 1960s Latin TV show ‘Sabado Gigante’ (Gigantic Saturday). In a defiant and expressive process of healing, eight-artist collective Tennant Creek Brio will show a dynamic series of paintings on discarded western objects that draw inspiration from their experiences of small-town Tennant Creek.

• Ghanaian-born artist Ibrahim Mahama will present ‘A Grain of Wheat’ at Artspace, a display of rolled-up medical stretchers that are a result of Mahama’s interest in labour and collective enterprise, and at Cockatoo Island, Mahama will present a large-scale installation of sewn coal sacks, that speak to his investigation of the conditions of supply and demand in African markets.

• Following his announcement as one of the four winners for the 2019 Turner Prize, on Cockatoo Island artist and audio investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan will present Once Removed, an audio-visual work that chronicles the testimony of a young historian, Bassel Abi Chahine.

• Egyptian-born artist Anna Boghiguian will present a bold, new immersive sculptural installation exploring the marginalisation of people and their communities. Gina Athena Ulysse, a feminist interdisciplinary artist from Haiti, presents An Equitable Human Assertion: a site-specific rasanblaj (a gathering of ideas, things, people and spirits).

• Australian artist Tony Albert will also create a space for gathering, sharing and healing in the form of a greenhouse where visitors and families will be invited to write memories and messages on paper imbedded with seeds of native plants; and multi-disciplinary artist from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lisa Reihana will examine the culture and history of Māori and South Pacific Islander peoples in the immersive installation and film Nomads of the Sea.

• Also on Cockatoo Island, Tlingit/Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin will present an excavation of the shadow cast by the Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park to reveal what the land holds beneath the surface. At the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Galanin will also present the video work ‘Tsu Héidei Shugaxtutaan (We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care), Part I and II, 2006.

• At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, interdisciplinary Afghan artist Aziz Hazara will premiere a new video installation Bow Echo investigating the relationship between people and sites of trauma. Turkish artist Erkan Özgen’s video works will deal with the complex questions of war and violence.

• Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar’s deeply personal work What Lasts! (Sarcophagus) – a ceramic sarcophagus sculpted from Umar’s body – was born in the aftermath of opening up about his sexuality and being considered dead by some of his close family members, while USA-based, Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha uses found materials and the detritus of everyday life to create haunting human figures.

• Visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi will present three bodies of work that look at the politics of race, gender and sexuality, and Ainu artist and musician Mayunkiki will present an ongoing project researching traditional Ainu tattooing practices, sinuye, which are banned by Japanese law.

• At the National Art School in Darlinghurst, multi-instrumentalist artist and DJ Hannah Catherine Jones will present a large-scale, immersive audio-visual work using pop-cultural and archival material, poetic motifs and provocative imagery to tell a story of the African diaspora.

• Transdisciplinary artist Andrew Rewald will present Alchemy Garden at the art school, an outdoor interactive community garden he has built from repurposed materials. It will evolve throughout the exhibition period, growing native and non-native edible plants to examine how ethnobotanicals connect people and their actions to place. In collaboration with Canadian academic and artist Randy Lee Cutler, the pair will present Mineral Garden, an installation exploring the secret life of plants and minerals.

NIRIN WIR Highlights

• The 22nd Biennale of Sydney’s program of events includes aabaakwad 2020 NIRIN. Presented with the Art Gallery of Ontario, aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) is centred on informal, in-depth conversations between international First Nations artists, and other artists, curators and scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. The featured artists, curators and thinkers taking part include Wanda Nanibush, Adrian Stimson, Vernon Ah Kee, Lisa Reihana, Biung Ismahasan and more. The event will run at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Cockatoo Island and Sydney Opera House (14–17 March).

• Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian present I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else at the Powerhouse Museum (14 March–8 June). This collaborative work is created using objects from the museum’s collection. Incorporating and disorganising unexpected artefacts such as space satellites, anatomical models and furniture design, the artists make a sweeping arc across themes of grief, the human body and healing. Visitors are invited to view the collaborative installation process from 2–6 and 9–13 March.

• From 27–29 March, the 4ESydney HipHop Festival will light up Cockatoo Island with the power of words. The program amplifies important voices like Rhyan Clapham aka DOBBY, who journeys back to Brewarrina in north west New South Wales to connect to his family’s history in River Story.

• The following week (2–5 April), Bankstown’s iconic poetry slam takes residence on Cockatoo Island for three electrifying nights of spoken word from Western Sydney’s best writer-poets.

• On 29 April, First Nations artists will take centre stage in one of Sydney’s most historic buildings – Sydney Town Hall – to flip the flawed history and debate the question: ‘To cook Cook or not?’ On the 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing in Australia, the all-Indigenous cast will challenge the dominant narrative that the arrival of a British sailor who pillaged his way across the Pacific is a more impressive story than the 60,000 years of continuous history of Australia’s Indigenous people. The event features Wesley Enoch, Brook Andrew, Joel Bray, Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, DOBBY and Ripple Effect, and is supported by The Balnaves Foundation.

• Sovereign Ideas, a special event for 300 Indigenous students from schools across Australia, will also take place at Sydney Town Hall on 29 April. Highlighting the careers of iconoclastic young cultural thinkers and leaders from First Nations around the world, Sovereign Ideas – supported by The Balnaves Foundation and Sydney University – presents an encouraging narrative of possibilities that counter stereotypes and stigmas.

• Stories We Never Tell – presented by Parramatta Female Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield – is a performative walking tour (7–9 May) of the former Parramatta Girls Home; a place where the walls are inscribed with the marks and memories of women. Storytellers will activate the buildings to redefine the space with resilience and celebration. Tours of the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct will also be held every second Tuesday during the exhibition.

• Every Friday throughout the exhibition, Information + Cultural Exchange invites visitors to exercise, dance and make art with elderly and dementia-affected residents of Abel Tasman Village in Chester Hill. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, DJ Black President and Care Manager Sophia Markwell, the program contemplates and honours existence and oblivion (our own).

• From Monday to Friday each week, Rosman Cruises will transport students from Circular Quay to Cockatoo Island for free on NIRIN HAIVETA. Launched in 1947, NIRIN HAIVETA (previously known as Radar) is the “mother” of the Rosman fleet. She remained in continuous service for more than 60 years and has undergone a complete refurbishment for the Biennale of Sydney with Melbourne arts and cultural collective BE. resulting in a vessel that celebrates women’s mark-making through visual representation and interpretation. Every Saturday, NIRIN HAIVETA will also transport Western Sydney residents from Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Island free of charge (bookings essential).

• Sundays are a family day on Cockatoo Island with OUR PATH, a learning program that highlights the excellent educational practices of artists and community leaders in regional NSW. From March to May, visitors can join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, in the learning space in Biloela House for a series of creative workshops, STEM education, cultural practice and yarning. In June, Kempsey-based artist and Dunghutti Elder, Uncle John Kelly, and artist Rena Shein will collaborate with young people and families on a participatory work based on Uncle John’s Dreaming.

• Physical theatre performer and access advocate Sarah Houbolt responds to the streets of Sydney through a personal lens as part of the Biennale’s podcast series available on Spotify from March. Funny and experiential, Sarah layers sound and narrative in a poetic account of what life is like, and what it could be, as she traverses the path between Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace and the National Art School.

• Visitors to the Biennale can also join Aunty Deidre Martin on a guided bushwalk through beautiful Dharawal National Park near Campbelltown, Dharug artist Chris Tobin opens his Blue Mountains Artist Camp on 23–24 May, and Aboriginal guides and storytellers will take guests on a spiritual journey at La Perouse (Guriwal) to learn about the local Indigenous community’s unbroken connection to Country.

About the Biennale of Sydney
Established in 1973, the Biennale of Sydney is the third oldest biennial in the world after Venice and São Paulo and the largest exhibition of its kind in Australia. The Biennale has commissioned and presented exceptional works of art by more than 1,800 national and international artists from more than 100 countries. One of the leading international contemporary art events in the world, the Biennale of Sydney is committed to free access for all and, in 2018, attracted over 850,000 visitors – local, interstate, international, culturally diverse and intergenerational.

Playing an indispensable role in Australia’s engagement with the world, and a meaningful role in the life of the nation, the Biennale presents the most dynamic contemporary art from around the globe in venues across Sydney with exhibitions that ignite and spark dialogue, cultivating connections and inspiring action through meaningful, shared arts experiences.

The 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) exhibition NIRIN will be open – free to the public – from 14 March until 8 June 2020. The full events program for NIRIN WIR is available at www.biennaleofsydney.art/events with tickets on sale from now.

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The Armory Show Announces Armory Live Talks Program, Curatorial Leadership Summit, and On- and Off-site Special Projects for the 2020 Fair

Jeffrey Gibson, She Never Dances Alone, 2019. Video still. Courtesy of the artist

February 5, 2020 (New York).

SPECIAL PROJECTS
For its 2020 edition, The Armory Show is pleased to announce four Special Projects. These include a presentation of Dawoud Bey’s Harlem U.S.A., 1975-1979, organized and exhibited by Sean Kelly; an installation by For Freedoms; a live performance from artist Jeffrey Gibson in Times Square; and Mel Kendrick’s Sculpture No. 4 (1991), presented by David Nolan Gallery.

Dawoud Bey | A 33-work photography series, Harlem, U.S.A., 1975-1979, presented by Sean Kelly

Adjacent to its presentation in the Galleries section (Booth 501), Sean Kelly, exhibiting at The Armory Show for its 19th consecutive year, will present the entire suite of photographs from Dawoud Bey’s iconic Harlem, U.S.A., 1975-1979. The presentation marks the first time in forty years that this historically important series has been on view in New York. This body of work debuted at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979 as the artist’s first solo exhibition. Growing up in Queens, Bey began photographing Harlem whilst still a teenager. His black and white photographs capture subjects Bey encountered on the street, and depict the variety of Harlem’s street life and its residents: the barber, the patrician, the church ladies, the stylish youth, and the elderly, amongst others. These sensitive compositions convey the dignity and respect Bey brings to the subjects he depicts, an approach that has characterized the artist’s work from the very beginning and continues to inform his ongoing visualization of collective experience and history.

For Freedoms | An installation of banners depicting nationwide initiatives of the not-for-profit organization For Freedoms, created site specifically for The Armory Show

For Freedoms, a national collective for creative citizenship founded in 2016 by artists Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas, presents over 200 feet of wall vinyl featuring images that illustrate three key past projects. This installation, spanning The Armory Show’s Promenade (linking Piers 90 and 94) highlights the impact of these art initiatives — raising awareness of the crucial role their projects have in the art community, and also the importance of the organization to a broader audience.

The first initiative featured in the installation is the collective’s Four Freedoms photographs, a series that transforms Norman Rockwell’s interpretations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’ (freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear), and imagines what such liberties might look like in a contemporary context. In their final form, this selection from over 86 photographic compilations attempts to reflect the immeasurable diversity of American identities today.

For Freedoms is also showcasing imagery from four years of its artist-designed billboard projects. These continue the long history of artists using mass media and artistic experimentation to present civically engaged art that sparks conversations and resonates with all Americans. Artists who have participated in For Freedoms’ billboard projects include Marilyn Minter, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Gran Fury, Felix Gonzales-Torres, and Alfredo Jaar. Since its founding in 2016, For Freedoms has collaborated with over 200 artists on nearly 300 billboards in all 50 States, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

The final component of the installation is the Freedom Quilt, which is comprised of portraits, names, and self-defined freedoms that have been shared by participants at various For Freedoms events. In partnership with organizations and institutions such as the Sundance Institute, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), For Freedoms asks us to weave our collective freedoms — speaking to our fears, dreams, and desires.

Jeffrey Gibson | A live performance by Jeffrey Gibson, featuring Sarah Ortegon, presented in partnership with Times Square Arts, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Roberts Projects, and the Brooklyn Museum

Building upon The Armory Show’s partnership with Times Square Arts last year, and to fête Jeffrey Gibson’s various projects throughout New York City — including Times Square Arts’ ‘Midnight Moment;’ the Brooklyn Museum’s When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks; Armory Live’s ‘Jeffrey Gibson in conversation with Eugenie Tsai;’ and Gibson’s work on view at The Armory Show at Kavi Gupta Gallery (Booth 609) and Roberts Projects (Booth 710) — Jeffrey Gibson has conceived of a live dance performance by Sarah Ortegon that brings to life the central figure in his Midnight Moment work, She Never Dances Alone (2019). This one-time performance for Armory VIPs and the public will be followed by a viewing of She Never Dances Alone on Saturday, March 7 from 11:30 to midnight at Duffy Square at 46th and Broadway. A multi-channel video created specifically for the screens of Times Square, She Never Dances Alone is Gibson’s celebration of the Indigenous matriarchy, centering on the jingle dress dance — an intertribal powwow dance traditionally performed by women to call upon ancestors for strength, healing, and protection. As Sarah Ortegon, an acclaimed jingle dress dancer and Miss Native American USA 2013–14, performs in various embellished, handmade dresses, the swaying colors, textures, and patterns pop against a black background and fold into kaleidoscopic abstractions. Ortegon’s image multiplies within each screen and across the plazas, creating the impression that many women have come together to dance over Times Square. The video ends with a close-up of Ortegon’s face after she has stopped dancing, calming her breath as she stares intently ahead — and at the people watching from below.

Mel Kendrick | Sculpture No. 4 (1991), presented by David Nolan Gallery

A preeminent American sculptor, Kendrick’s practice has involved the use of cast bronze, concrete, a variety of woods, rubber, resin, as well as investigations with cast paper. Kendrick addresses philosophical, conceptual, and fundamental questions around sculpture: namely, the relationship between the object as we experience it and the clearly evident means by which it was created.

The work on view, Sculpture No. 4 (1991), is one of the largest and most important from a series of black wood sculptures from the 1990s. As is typical of Kendrick’s wood sculptures, this work is made from a single block of wood, painted in black, and then cut in sections that are subsequently reassembled into a 9-foot-tall, free-standing hybrid form. Guided by the essential properties of his chosen material, the naturally occurring character of wood defines the direction of the artwork; its exploration of negative and positive space; and the relationship to the body and the viewer. The process and playful approach to form and movement unfolds in an obsessive yet direct way that allows the viewer to examine the internal logic, geometric order, and organic aspects of the work.

For Freedoms (Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery of For Freedoms), Four Freedoms, 2018. Photograph installation view. Courtesy of the artists and of the gallery.

CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
On Thursday, March 5, the third annual Curatorial Leadership Summit (CLS), chaired by José Carlos Diaz (Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum), will assemble prominent national and international curators from leading institutions for a daylong program of closed-door discussions, taking place on-site at The Armory Show. The talks will explore and debate issues such as cultural appropriation, censorship, and identity politics. Confirmed attendees include curators, arts administrators, and leadership from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Bass Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, to name a few.

The invitation-only CLS program will culminate with a public talk at 3:30pm that features a conversation between curator Maura Reilly and artist Rhonda Lieberman; it will kick off the acclaimed Armory Live public talks program.

ARMORY LIVE
The 2020 edition of Armory Live will convene a diverse group of prominent individuals—from artists, writers, and curators, to entrepreneurs and creative practitioners — for a four-day program of conversations staged in the Armory Live Theater on Pier 94. The Armory Live program, open to all Armory Show attendees, will host a cast of critical thinkers sharing the stage for a series of panels aimed at investigating the pressing social and political challenges faced by the art world today.

Thursday, March 5
3:30pm | In Conversation: Curatorial Leadership Summit’s Public Talk
Closing the Curatorial Leadership Summit and kicking off the Armory Live programming, curator Maura Reilly (Independent curator; previously: Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutional affiliations) will be in conversation with artist Rhonda Lieberman in an open-to-the-public talk.

Friday, March 6
12:30pm | In Conversation: Cultural History, Collectivism, and Censorship
Artist Jeffrey Gibson in conversation with Eugenie Tsai (John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum).

2pm | Panel: Architecture, Institutions, and Climate Change
Moderated by Daniel A. Barber (Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design). Participants include Legacy Russell (Associate Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem), Pedro Gadanho (Harvard University Loeb Fellow 2020; previously: founding Director of the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology in Lisbon), and José Esparza Chong Cuy (Executive Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture).

4pm | Panel: Representation, Body Politics, and Mass Incarceration
Moderated by Renuka Sawhney (Senior Development Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice). Participants include Dread Scott (artist), Helena Huang (Project Director at the Art for Justice Fund), Nicole R. Fleetwood (Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University), Insha Rahman (Director of Strategy and New Initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice), and Jesse Krimes (artist and Art for Justice Fellow).

Saturday, March 7
12:30pm | In Conversation: The Artist/Collector Relationship
Collector Jarl Mohn in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Liz Glynn.

2pm | In Conversation: Art and Luxury
Artnet News editor-in-chief Andrew Goldstein speaks with fashion designer (and Creative Director of fashion label Sies Marjan) Sander Lak regarding the crossover of two industries that share more than just values.

4pm | Panel: Can Data Help Make the Art World More Equitable?
Moderated by Julia Halperin (Executive Editor of Artnet News). Panelists include Camille Morineau (Curator and Founder of AWARE), Taylor Whitten Brown (PhD candidate in Computational Sociology at Duke University), and Gamynne Guillotte (Director of Interpretation and Public Engagement at the Baltimore Museum of Art).

Sunday, March 8
12:30pm | Panel: Institutional Storytelling and Revisionist Histories
Moderated by Anne Ellegood (Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles). Participants include Rita Gonzalez (Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Tomashi Jackson (artist), Asma Naeem (Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art), and Enrico Riley (artist).

2pm | In Conversation: Truth, Fiction, and Memory
Writer and editor Kimberly Drew in conversation with artist Howardena Pindell.

4pm | Panel: Funding Creative Change: Artists, Neighbors, and Community Transformation
Moderated by Deana Haggag (President and CEO of United States Artists). Participants include Kemi Ilesanmi (Executive Director of the Laundromat Project), Victoria Rogers (Trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Creative Time), and Hank Willis Thomas (artist and co-founder of For Freedoms).

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The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s essential art fair, and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. Staged on Manhattan’s Piers 90 and 94, The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the international art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.

Fair Dates
VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days
Thursday, March 5–Sunday, March 8, 2020

Hours
Thursday, March 5, 12—8PM
Friday, March 6, 12—8PM
Saturday, March 7, 12—7PM
Sunday, March 8, 12—6PM

The Armory Show Announces 2020 Platform Presentations, Featuring Large-scale Artworks by Seven Artists, Curated by Anne Ellegood

Tulee Hall, Eves’ Mime Ménage, 2019. Two-channel video (color, sound): oil, acrylic, and collage on board; acrylic, resin, papier-mâché, aquarium pebbles, wood, metal, carpet. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone West, Los Angeles

January 28, 2020 (New York) – The Armory Show announced today the artists and galleries participating in Platform, the curated section of the fair staging large-scale artworks and installations across Piers 90 and 94. The 2020 edition of Platform is organized by Anne Ellegood, the recently appointed Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Platform features work by Charlie Billingham (presented by Morán Morán), Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg (presented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery), Trulee Hall (presented by Maccarone West), Edward and Nancy Kienholz (presented by L.A. Louver), Christine Wang (presented by Night Gallery), Marnie Weber (presented by Simon Lee Gallery), and Summer Wheat (presented by Shulamit Nazarian).

This year’s Platform section, entitled Brutal Truths, considers how genres of satire, caricature, and the grotesque have endured through time—and are being taken up by contemporary artists as sharp tools of social critique. At a global moment of heightened sociopolitical unrest, artists’ keen observations and sharp wit serve to illuminate the perils of critical social issues and to encourage civic engagement. The 2020 Platform presentations impart a dose of levity while simultaneously underscoring the need for artists to have the ability to interpret recent cultural and political events in their work in a free and unfettered manner. This year’s projects argue for art as a catalyst for public discourse, and offer viewpoints that utilize humor, exaggeration, and the outlandish to emphasize the urgency of the issues they highlight.

“For centuries, artists have acted as incisive social critics, and there seems to be no better time to call attention to contemporary artists who draw upon these traditions with fresh insight and formal ingenuity. Given the current, deeply partisan political climate; the gamesmanship and unpredictability of international relations; an impeachment trial of the president underway; and what will surely be the least civil presidential campaign in American history on the horizon, it seems a perfect moment to focus on this theme,” remarks 2020 Platform curator Anne Ellegood. “I’m excited about the range of projects that will be included in the Platform section, from an important, large-scale sculpture from the 1980s by Ed and Nancy Kienholz called The Caddy Court that asks tough questions about the power of the Supreme Court, to the surreal and humorous social critique offered by works of several young artists.”

Including a range of mediums — painting, sculpture, wall murals, and video — the projects are arranged across both piers, activating diverse spaces throughout the fair with humor and dynamism, and presenting hard truths about the current state of affairs.

Presentation details

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York, Los Angeles) will present Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s This Is Heaven (2019), a video work by the collaborative duo that explores themes of lust, greed, and personal evolution and regression. The surreal landscapes and visceral characters in Djurberg and Berg’s films at once seduce and disgust the viewer. Their practice explores the shadows of the human subconscious in an effort to challenge perceived moralities. This installation will include sculpture, stop-motion film, and sound to create an immersive experience that speaks to the emotional tension, sexual impulse, and violence inherent in us all. Location: adjacent to Champagne Lounge, Pier 94.

The 2020 Town Square will feature Edward and Nancy Kienholz’s revered installation The Caddy Court (1986-1987), presented by L.A. Louver (Los Angeles). The pair are known for their assemblage installations that comment on sexism, abuse of power, and racial violence in bold and often disturbing ways. In The Caddy Court, the artists utilize a 1978 Cadillac complete with an interior cabinet of curiosities that includes taxidermy, historic books, an American flag, and a gavel. Intended by the artists to travel the country imitating the original function of the US Supreme Court, which traveled from state to state operating as a circuit court, there could not be a more potent time for this work to be experienced and considered widely, as the Supreme Court currently faces one of its most controversial benches and consequential dockets in memory. Location: Town Square, Pier 94.

Morán Morán (Los Angeles) will present a new installation of stenciled wall paintings along with several figurative paintings hung on top by British artist Charlie Billingham. In the tradition of William Hogarth and other great British satirists, Billingham’s work reinterprets satirical prints of the late 18th- and early 19th- century through a contemporary lens. His figures are disassociated from their original context and take on a sublime narrative of their own. Billingham’s specific attention to coloration and texture, paired with the gestural hand apparent in the work, allows the figures to billow and flow across the canvas. Location: East End, Pier 94.

In the works SexyTime Rock Variations and Eves’ Mime Ménage (both 2019), Trulee Hall crafts a multimedia, absurdist installation where claymation, CGI, and live-action film is accompanied by painting and sculpture that repeat and mirror motifs like the hyper sexualization of the female body and the intersection of the fantastical and the grotesque. Presented by Maccarone West (Los Angeles), this installation explores the uncanny and the ludicrous inherent in heteronormative gender roles. Location: West End, Pier 94.

Queens-based artist Summer Wheat will debut a 16-foot-long painting titled Sand Castles designed specifically for The Armory Show 2020. The work depicts a community of women in acts of labor and leisure; a beach scene featuring women bathing, fishing, cracking crabs, swatting flies, sunbathing, and eating strawberries. Wheat allows acrylic paint to ooze through fine wire mesh, causing figures to emerge and dance upon lush, fiber-like surfaces that coalesce into a type of heroic history painting. Presented by Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles), Wheat’s mural-like painting critiques the ways in which women’s labor is often unacknowledged or given lesser status, and elevates the quotidian experiences of woman and their ability to collaborate and rely upon one another. Location: Entrance of VIP Lounge, Pier 90.

Marnie Weber has explored the realms of the grotesque, carnivalesque, and absurd in narrative sculptural tableau, paintings, collage, and performance since the 1990s. Creating fantastical landscapes, her work references mythological traditions while simultaneously taking up topical themes, resulting in a mode that has been described as “contemporary grotesque.” Weber will present two sculptures as part of the Platform section, Log Lady & Dirt Bunny (2009) and Pig Host sculpture (2009), both of which feature animal-human hybrids that probe the darker sides of human behavior. Presented by Simon Lee Gallery (London, New York, Hong Kong). Location: Champagne Lounge, Pier 94.

San Francisco-based painter Christine Wang’s bold and raucous “Meme Paintings” will also be included in Platform. Combining often-appropriated images and overlaying with text, Wang takes up a wide range of subjects—from women’s rage to the inexcusable denial of the realities of climate change—in her highly satirical and disturbingly funny paintings. Presented by Night Gallery (Los Angeles). Location: Center, Pier 90.

About Anne Ellegood

Anne Ellegood has been Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), since September 2019. Previously, she was Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, from 2009-2019; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Associate Curator at the New Museum, New York. Recent exhibitions include the Hammer’s biennial of Los Angeles artists, Made in L.A. 2018, the first North American Jimmie Durham retrospective (2017);  and Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology (2014). Ellegood has organized numerous solo shows, including those on Diana Al-Hadid, Eric Baudelaire, Kevin Beasley, Shannon Ebner, Latifa Echakhch, Charles Gaines, Yunhee Min, John Outterbridge, Tschabalala Self, Frances Upritchard, and many others.

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The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s essential art fair, and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. Staged on Manhattan’s Piers 90 and 94, The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the international art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.

Fair Dates
VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days
Thursday, March 5–Sunday, March 8, 2020

Hours
Thursday, March 5, 12—8PM
Friday, March 6, 12—8PM
Saturday, March 7, 12—7PM
Sunday, March 8, 12—6PM

Art Paris 2020 | A 22nd Edition Dedicated to the New French Art Scene and the Iberian Peninsula

January 14, 2020 (Paris) – Art Paris is pleased to announce its 22nd edition as it returns to the Grand Palais from April 2—5, 2020. In the 20 years since its founding, Art Paris has established itself as Paris’s major spring fair for modern and contemporary art. Bringing together more than 150 galleries from over 20 countries – from the post-war to the contemporary period, Art Paris is a place for discovery, placing special emphasis on the European scene, whilst exploring the new horizons of international creative hubs, whether in Asia, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America. This year, the fair will showcase a two-fold “Focus” – turning to both the French contemporary art scene and the emerging Iberian art hubs, specifically Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid and Porto. In parallel, the “Solo Show” sector will be dedicated to monographic exhibitions, while “Promises” pursues its support to young and emerging galleries.

New participants make up 31% of the 2020 selection, which is marked by the arrival of Parisian galleries including Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Galerie Sator and Caroline Smulders in association with Karsten Greve. From an international standpoint, five countries will be represented for the first time: Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, the Ivory Coast and Turkey. Contributing to the Iberian Peninsula contingent are 12 galleries from Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and Porto. The Asian scene will affirm its presence, with 5 galleries from South Korea including 313 Art Project, Gallery Simon, Gallery H.A.N., Mo J Gallery and Gallery SoSo. Works by African artists will be on show in the Main Sector, at ARTCO Gallery (Aachen/Le Cap) and Niki Cryan (Lagos), as well as in the “Promises” sector with 31 Project (Paris), Galerie Véronique Rieffel (Paris/Abidjan) and Septieme Gallery (Paris), all of which are participating for the first time. The Middle Eastern scene will also be present with a special focus at Galerie Brigitte Schenk (Cologne), presenting works by Halim al Karim (Iraq), Tarek Al Ghoussein (Kuweit) and Abdulnasser Gharem (Saudi Arabia), whose installation The Safe was one of the highlights of Art Basel 2019’s Unlimited sector.

An Overview of the French Art Scene: Common and Uncommon Stories
Each year, in support of the French scene, Art Paris invites a curator to engage critically and historically with a selection of projects by French artists presented by participating galleries. In Common and Uncommon Stories, director of the Bourse Révélations Emerige and guest curator Gaël Charbau brings together the work of 22 artists, most of which were born in the 1980s, responding to the notion of the narrative and the ambiguous interplay between singularity and universality in storytelling. He has also been invited to write a text presenting each artist and their work.

Selected French artists: Henni Alftan (Galerie Claire Gastaud), Léa Belooussovitch (Galerie Paris-Beijing), Abdelkader Benchamma (Galerie Templon), Jérôme Borel (Galerie Olivier Waltman), Damien Cabanes (Galerie Eric Dupont), Claire Chesnier (Galerie ETC), Rémi Dal Negro (Galerie Eric Mouchet), Elsa & Johanna (Galerie La Forest Divonne), Roland Flexner (Galerie Nathalie Obadia), Laurent Gapaillard (Galerie Daniel Maghen), Jennyfer Grassi (Galerie Eva Hober), Kubra Kadhemi (Galerie Eric Mouchet), Gabriel Leger (Galerie Sator), Caroline Le Méhauté (H Gallery), Anita Molinero (Galerie Thomas Bernard), Anne et Patrick Poirier (Dilecta), Baptiste Rabichon (Galerie Paris-Beijing), Louis-Cyprien Rials (Galerie Eric Mouchet), Kevin Rouillard (Galerie Thomas Bernard), Edgar Sarin (Dilecta), Hervé Télémaque (Galerie Rabouan Moussion), Paul Vergier (H Gallery).

Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula
Following its extensive survey of the Latin American scene in 2019, Art Paris turns to the Iberian Peninsula, bringing light to Spanish and Portuguese art from the 1950s to the present day. 25 galleries will be presenting works by a selection of 77 artists – from modern masters to contemporary artists. In parallel, projects including a video programme, site-specific installations, and conferences at the Instituto Cervantes and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris will highlight the creative effervescence flourishing in this part of Southern Europe.

A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of the Spanish and Portuguese art scenes
Spread across the various sectors of the fair, the participating galleries will constitute a historical and contemporary journey delving into the various Spanish and Portuguese art scenes.

Representing the Spanish scene, Galeria Marc Domènech (Barcelona) will be paying tribute to historical figures connected with the Surrealist movement, such as Julio González, Óscar Domínguez and Joan Miró, while Galerie Andres Thalmann (Zurich) will be showcasing Joan Hernández Pijuan, one of the major Spanish artists of the last thirty years, known for his uniform colour compositions. Freijo Gallery (Madrid) will be looking back at the generation of artists who lived and worked in Madrid in the 1970s, with conceptual artist Mateo Maté, Ramón Mateos, one of the founders of the El Perro collective, and Darío Villalba, whose hybrid works address questions of identity and marginality. Michel Soskine Inc. (Madrid) will be dedicating a solo show to Antonio Crespo Foix, featuring the artist’s sculptures made of bamboo, horsehair, wool and wire – recreating a surreal natural world tinged with poetry. The analysis of the relationship between history and politics, between art and power and between public space and collective memory acts as a common thread between the works of Cristina Lucas and Fernando Sánchez Castillo, who will be presented side by side at Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid).

As part of the Portuguese showcase, São Mamede (Lisbon) will be celebrating two modern masters: the architect and painter Nadir Afonso (1920—2013), a pioneer of Kinetic Art known for his geometric cityscapes and who worked closely with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer; and Manuel Cargaleiro (born 1927), a painter and ceramicist close to the École de Paris. Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Paris/Lisbon) will be dedicating its stand to three major figures of the contemporary Lisbon scene: Michael Biberstein (1948—1978), Rui Moreira (born 1971) and Miguel Branco (born 1963), who borrows from art history to create paintings, drawings and sculptures that explore the animal kingdom and notions of scale.

Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris/Brussels) will be presenting works on paper by Jorge Queiroz, whose unique and teeming personal universe lies midway between figuration and abstraction, while Galería MPA (Madrid) will be presenting the hybrid works of Rui Toscano, whose use of the evocative power of images and sounds examines cultural representations and collective memory. Best known for her numerous exuberant sculptures and installations created by accumulating everyday objects, Joana Vasconcelos will be the focus of La Patinoire Royale – Galerie Valérie Bach (Brussels)’s display.

A Monumental Installation at the Front to the Grand Palais
A site-specific installation presented by Portuguese artist Marisa Ferreira, Lost Future (2020) takes its inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin (1925) – an urban development project for Paris comprised of 18 cruciform glass skyscrapers placed on an orthogonal grid of streets interspersed with green spaces. The plan, which was never implemented, envisioned demolishing the Marais neighbourhood as a way of solving issues of dilapidated and unhealthy housing, illness and overpopulation – thereby giving place to what Le Corbusier called the “city of tomorrow”, a symbol of European modernity and of the industrial era. Directly referencing this emblematic project, the cross-shaped column imagined by Marisa Ferreira evokes the gap between the utopian ambitions of the 1970s and the current property boom that pays no heed to the history and identity of cities such as Porto and Lisbon.

“Solo Show”: A Showcase of 20 Monographic Exhibitions
Since 2015, Art Paris has encouraged the presentation of monographic exhibitions – a key moment in artists’ careers – by inciting galleries to present specific single artist-focused projects. The 2020 edition will feature around 20 solo shows distributed throughout the fair. Highlights will include a site-specific project by South African artist Roger Ballen (Caroline Smulders in association with Karsten Greve, Paris); a mini-retrospective of British artist – best known for his colourful “puddle” paintings – Ian Davenport (Luca Tommasi – Arte Contemporanea, Milan); and a rare ensemble of works by major Cuban artist Jesse A. Fernández at Galerie Orbis Pictus (Paris).

“Promises”: A Sector for Young Galleries and Emerging Talents
Purposefully placed at the very heart of the Grand Palais, “Promises” will host 14 young galleries from Abidjan, Brussels, Lima, Lisbon, Rome, Sofia, Marseille and Paris, many of which will be exhibiting at Art Paris for the first time this year. The galleries will explore rarely represented art scenes, from Europe – in particular Bulgaria at Structura Gallery (Sofia); Africa, with 31 Project, Galerie Véronique Rieffel (Paris/Abidjan) and Septieme Gallery (Paris); and Latin America, represented by Galerie Younique (Lima/Paris) and 193 Gallery (Paris). The galleries will each be presenting between one and three emerging artists – and benefit from financial sponsorship from the fair. 2020 Selection: 193 Gallery (Paris), 31 Project (Paris), Galerie Ariane C-Y (Paris), Art Sablon (Brussels), Galerie Bessières (Chatou), Double V Gallery (Marseille), Galeria Foco (Lisbon), H Gallery (Paris), Galleria Anna Marra (Rome), Galerie Véronique Rieffel (Abidjan), Ségolène Brossette Galerie (Paris), Septieme Gallery (Paris), Structura Gallery (Sofia), Galerie Younique (Paris/Lima).

Paris in the Spring
Over the past few years, Paris has been reasserting its place as a capital of the arts. The 2020 VIP programme will invite guest collectors and art professionals to discover the city’s very best spring art events. Highlights will include: Christo et Jeanne-Claude – Paris ! at the Centre Pompidou; Erwin Wurm at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie; Cindy Sherman – A Retrospective (1975-2020) at the Fondation Louis Vuitton; Giorgio de Chirico. La peinture métaphysique at the Musée de l’Orangerie; Ulla von Brandenburg at the Palais de Tokyo; James Tissot (1836-1902), l’ambigu moderne at the Musée d’Orsay; Picasso poète at the Musée national Picasso-Paris; and the much-anticipated opening of La Fab. d’agnès b pour l’art contemporain.

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About Art Paris 2020
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
www.artparis.com

Opening Preview (by invitation only)
Wednesday, April 1 | 6 pm – 10 pm

Opening Hours
Thursday, April 2 | 11.30 am — 8 pm
Friday, April 3 | 11.30 am — 9 pm
Saturday, April 4 | 11.30 am — 8 pm
Sunday, April 5 | 11.30 am — 7 pm

Admission fee | 28€/14€ (for students and groups)
Catalogue | 20€

Conferences
Barcelona – Madrid: present – future
Instituto Cervantes
7 rue Quentin Bauchard, 75008 Paris
2 April 2020 | 6 – 7.30 pm | Free admission
Turning to the evolving Barcelona and Madrid art scenes, the panel discussion will be moderated by Carolina Grau, guest curator of Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula, with the participation of Sabrina Amrani, gallery owner and president of the Madrid Galleries Association; Nimfa Bisbe, art collections director of La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona; Joana Hurtado Matheu, director of the contemporary art centre Fabra i Coats, Barcelona; Manuela Villa Acosta, in charge of events programming at Matadero – centre for contemporary creation, Madrid; and Alex Nogueras, gallery owner and president of the Barcelona Galleries Association.

Lisbon and Porto: the reasons behind an artistic revival
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris
54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris
3 April 2020 | 6 – 7.30 pm | Free admission
In recent years, Lisbon and Porto, Portugal’s two largest cities, have undergone a salient artistic and cultural renaissance. In a country where the lack of financial means acts as a catalyst for both the best and the worst, the necessity to come up with new solutions became an essential focus following the country’s economic and social crisis ten years ago. Lisbon and Porto, although deeply immersed in the country’s institutional and financial instability, continuously assert their open and cosmopolitan outlook. The two cities boast a unique creative dynamic with their local artists and art scenes – one that has caught the eye of the international art world.
In partnership with the French delegation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Art Paris will be presenting a debate addressing the artistic vitality of Lisbon and Porto and seeking to better understand how these two cities have become two of the most interesting cultural destinations today.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Miguel Magalhães, director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, with Guilherme Blanc, deputy mayor of Porto in charge of culture; João Pinharanda, cultural advisor at the Portuguese Embassy, Paris; Catarina Vaz Pinto, deputy mayor of Lisbon in charge of culture; and Penelope Curtis, director of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

List of exhibitors 2020
193 Gallery (Paris) • 31 Project (Paris) • 313 Art Project (Paris/Seoul) • Galerie 8+4 – Paris (Paris) • A Galerie (Paris) • A&R Fleury (Paris) • A2Z Art Gallery (Paris/Hong Kong) • AD Galerie (Montpellier) • Aedaen Gallery (Strasbourg) • Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid) • Alzueta Gallery (Barcelona) • Galerie Andres Thalmann (Zürich) • Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona) • Galerie Ariane C-Y (Paris) • Artco Gallery (Aachen/Cape Town) • Artkelch (Freiburg im Breisgau) • Art Sablon (Brussels) • Arts d’Australie – Stéphane Jacob (Paris) • Art to Be Gallery (Lille) • La Patinoire Royale – Galerie Valérie Bach (Brussels) • Galerie Cédric Bacqueville (Lille) • Galerie Ange Basso (Paris) • Galerie Belem/Albert Benamou, Barbara Lagié, Véronique Maxé (Paris) • Galerie Renate Bender (Munich) • Galerie Berès (Paris) • Galerie Claude Bernard (Paris) • Galerie Thomas Bernard – Cortex Athletico (Paris) • Galerie Bert (Paris) • Galerie Bessières (Chatou) • Galerie Binome (Paris) • Bogéna Galerie (Saint-Paul-de-Vence) • Brisa Galeria (Lisbon) • Ségolène Brossette Galerie (Paris) • Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery (Paris) • Galerie Capazza (Nançay) • Galerie Chauvy (Paris) • Galerie Chevalier (Paris) • Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto) • Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland) • David Pluskwa (Marseille) • Galerie Michel Descours (Lyon/Paris) • Dilecta (Paris) • Galeria Marc Domènech (Barcelona) • Galerie Dominique Fiat (Paris) • Double V Gallery (Marseille) • Galerie Dutko (Paris) • Galerie Jacques Elbaz (Paris) • Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris) • Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris) • Espace Meyer Zafra (Paris) • Galerie ETC (Paris) • Galerie Valérie Eymeric (Lyon) • Feichtner Gallery (Vienna) • Flatland (Amsterdam) • Galeria Foco (Lisbon) • Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea (Rome) • Freijo Gallery (Madrid) • Galerie Pascal Gabert (Paris) • Galerie Claire Gastaud (Clermont-Ferrand/Paris) • Galerie Louis Gendre (Paris/Chamalières) • Gimpel & Müller (Paris) • Galerie Michel Giraud (Paris/Luxembourg) • Gowen Contemporary (Geneva) • Galerie Philippe Gravier (Paris/Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies) • H Gallery (Paris) • Gallery H.A.N. (Seoul) • Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) • Galerie Eva Hober (Paris) • Huberty & Breyne Gallery (Brussels/Paris) • Galerie Hurtebize (Cannes) • Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Paris) • Galerie Koralewski (Paris) • Espace L & Brisa Galeria (Geneva) • Galerie La Forest Divonne (Paris/Brussels) • Galerie Lahumière (Paris) • Galerie La Ligne (Zurich) • Lancz Gallery (Brussels) • Alexis Lartigue Fine Art (Paris) • Anna Laudel (Istanbul/Düsseldorf) • Galerie Jean-Marc Lelouch (Paris) • Françoise Livinec (Paris/Huelgoat) • Galerie Loft (Paris) • Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo (Barcelona) • Galerie Daniel Maghen (Paris) • Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts (Budapest) • Mark Hachem Gallery (Paris) • Galleria Anna Marra (Rome) • Maurice Verbaet Gallery (Knokke Heist/Berchem) • Galerie Minsky (Paris) • Galerie Modulab (Hagondange/Metz) • Galerie Moisan (Paris) • Mo J Gallery (Seoul/Busan) • Galerie Lélia Mordoch (Paris/Miami) • Galería MPA (Madrid) • Galerie Najuma (Fabrice Miliani) (Marseille) • Galerie Nec – Nilsson et Chiglien (Paris) • Niki Cryan Gallery (Lagos) • Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris/Brussels) • Galerie Oniris (Rennes) • Opera Gallery (Paris) • Galerie Orbis Pictus (Paris) • P gallery sculpture (Athens) • Galerie Paris-Beijing (Paris) • Galerie Perahia (Paris) • The Pigment Gallery (Barcelona) • Galerie Polaris (Paris) • Galerie Provost Hacker (Lille) • Galerie Rabouan Moussion (Paris) • Raibaudi Wang Gallery (Paris) • Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (London) • Red Zone Arts (Frankfurt am Main) • Galerie Richard (Paris/New York) • Galerie Véronique Rieffel (Paris/Abidjan) • J.-P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie (Strasbourg) • São Mamede (Lisbon) • Galerie Sator (Paris) • Galerie Brigitte Schenk (Cologne) • School Gallery/Olivier Castaing (Paris) • Septieme Gallery (Paris) • Gallery Simon (Seoul) • SIRIN Copenhagen Gallery (Frederiksberg) • Galerie Slotine (Paris) • Galerie Véronique Smagghe (Paris) • Caroline Smulders & Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris) • Michel Soskine Inc. (Madrid/New York) • Gallery SoSo (Heyri) • Space 776 (Brooklyn) • SPARC* - Spazio Arte Contemporanea (Venice) • Structura Gallery (Sofia) • Galerie Tamenaga (Paris/Tokyo/Osaka) • Templon (Paris/Brussels) • Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea (Milan) • Galerie Traits Noirs (Paris) • Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris) • Galerie Univer/Colette Colla (Paris) • Un-Spaced (Paris) • Galerie Vallois (Paris) • Galerie Sabine Vazieux (Paris) • Viltin Gallery (Budapest) • Galerie Wagner (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage/Paris) • Olivier Waltman Gallery (Paris/Miami) • Galerie Esther Woerdehoff (Paris) • Wunderkammern Gallery (Rome/Milan) • Galerie XII (Paris/Los Angeles/Shanghai) • Galerie Younique (Lima/Paris) • Galerie Géraldine Zberro (Paris) • Galerie Zink Waldkirchen (Waldkirchen).

Image credits:
Image 1. Raphaël Denis, Fahrenheit-Stack #14, 2019. Ink and burnt wood, 43 x 33 x 23 cm. Courtesy of Galerie Sator.
Image 2. Hassan Hajjaj, Afrikan Boy Sittin’, 2013. Photography. 136 x 94 x 6 cm. Courtesy of 193 Gallery.

Archivio Conz Presents "Pause: Broken Sounds/Remote Music. Prepared Pianos From The Archivio Conz Collection" at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Ann Noël, Untitled, 1989/2001. Piano, color paint, paper labels, 110 x 115 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the Archivio Conz.

From January 15—19, 2020, the Berlin institution will showcase a selection of 24 “prepared pianos” by major avant-garde artists from the 1970s to the early 2000s commissioned by Italian collector and patron Francesco Conz.

January 7, 2020 (Berlin) – The Archivio Conz, in collaboration with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, has announced Pause: Broken Sounds/Remote Music. Prepared pianos from the Archivio Conz collection – a five-day event and exhibition showcasing avant-garde artists’ “prepared pianos” selected from Italian collector and patron Francesco Conz’s collection. From January 15—19, 2020, the KW main exhibition space will be the stage for performances, tying the artworks to various contemporary approaches and explorations on sound.

Selected from a collection of over 65 “prepared pianos,” the 24 works in the exhibition are deeply tied to the history of the Archivio Conz. Under the direction of Stefania Palumbo and chief curator Gigiotto Del Vecchio, the Archivio Conz is dedicated to presenting and preserving the archive and publishing project of Francesco Conz (Cittadella, 1935 – Verona, 2010) – a significant patron and collector of Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, ZAJ, Concrete Poetry, and Lettrist works. First acquainted with the Viennese Actionism and New York avant-garde movements in the early 1970s, Conz grew personally engaged with the artists and their creative process. Turning his home in Asolo, Italy, into an international meeting place for artists to live and work, he spent the next thirty years working with more than 120 artists, commissioning and producing the over 3,000 works that constitute the Archivio today.

Building on John Cage’s first artistic exploration of the medium at the end of the 1930s, the “prepared pianos” are commonly understood as pianos altered by placing objects between or on the strings. Throughout the years, a wide range of artists have manipulated the instrument – moving beyond the alteration of sound to fully rethink the structure and form of the piano as a privileged place for artistic creativity. The selection of pianos in the exhibition includes works by Robert Watts, Carolee Schneemann, Jack Hirschman, Ay-O, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Dorothy Iannone, among many others.

The exhibition leans on the piano’s many facets – as a symbol of the virtuosity of Western music, but also as an object deeply rooted in society, culture, and the visual arts. Pursuing Francesco Conz and the artists’ exploration of the boundaries between art and music, the presentation traces the historical roots and motivations that led artists to openly attack an emblem of Western musical tradition, thereby unveiling its social undertones. In doing so, it also examines the ways in which artists sought to extend common understandings of music – deconstructing the traditional bond between music and noise; integrating and amplifying the visual dimension of musical performances; and turning performers and audiences into protagonists of a creative sound happening.

The resulting visual environment – one that is at once architectural and evocative of sound – rethinks the exhibition space as a platform for further explorations into contemporary art and sound. For five days, Pause: Broken Sounds/Remote Music will be activated through a series of performances examining various approaches to sound – extending it through poetry, movement, and musical experimentation. The program will notably include American visual artist and musician Charlemagne Palestine’s minimalist interpretations; a “instrumental conversation” recording session by Sky Walking; German musicians Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin) and Konrad Sprenger’s esoteric approaches to music; a vocal exploration of sound by English poet Angharad Williams; and a choreographed piece by Croatian visual artist and dance maker Nina Kurtela.

Artists include: Ay-O | Robert Ashley | George Brecht | Mark Brusse | Henri Chopin | Philip Corner | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Esther Ferrer | Bernard Heidsieck | Geoffrey Hendricks | Jack Hirschman | Dorothy Iannone | Allan Kaprow | Arrigo Lora-Totino | Walter Marchetti | Steven McCaffery | Carolee Schneemann | Larry Miller | Joe Jones | Alison Knowles | Ann Noël | Raša Todosijević | Benjamin Patterson | Nam June Paik | Robert Watts
With performances by: Nina Kurtela; Charlemagne Palestine; Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger; Sky Walking; and Angharad Williams.

Benjamin Patterson, Piano d’oiseaux tropical, 1989. Piano, bamboo stool, artificial plants and fruits, oil paint. 185 x 260 x 115 cm. Courtesy of the Archivio Conz.

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Events Program

Nina Kurtela
24 moments
15 January 2020, 7—9PM
16–19 January 2020, 11AM—7PM
Ongoing performance

Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger
Modular Organ System VII
16 January 2020, 6–9PM
Performance

Charlemagne Palestine
aaa gggangg gggustationn a Conz archive soundd tastingg
17 January 2020, 8.30PM (doors open at 8PM)
Concert

Angharad Williams
Eraser
18 January 2020, 6PM
Performance

Sky Walking
Free Improvisation
19 January 2020, 4–7PM
Performance

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About the Archivio Conz
First assembled in the Palazzo Baglioni in Asolo and later between Verona and the “Secret Museum,” located in the mountains outside of the city, the Archivio Conz is the collection of Francesco Conz holding more than 2,000 artworks and over 1,000 personal belongings – typically referred to as “fetishes”. With contributions by major international figures – Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Carolee Schneeman, Emmett Williams, Joe Jones and Allan Kaprow among many others – the works range from relics of performances, ephemera, drawings, painting and photographs, to music machines, poems, sculptural works, and genre crossing creations.
Under the direction of Stefania Palumbo and chief curator Gigiotto Del Vecchio, the Archivio collection houses over sixty so-called “prepared pianos”, including those of Raša Todosijević and Milan Knížák; Joe Jones’s numerous “Music Machines”; a collection of repurposed fridges by Geoffrey Hendricks and Allan Krapow among many others.
www.archivioconz.com

Pause: Broken Sound/Remote Music. Prepared pianos from the Archivio Conz collection.
Opening: Wednesday, January 15 | 7PM
16—19 January 2020
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy Announces the Representation of Art Paris 2020

Art Paris 2019, Grand Palais © Marc Domage

April 2—5, 2020, Grand Palais
Opening Preview: Wednesday, April 1 | 6—10 PM

December 16, 2019 (Paris) – A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy is pleased to announce its international PR representation of Art Paris, as the fair returns to the Grand Palais from April 2—5, 2020. In the 20 years since its founding, Art Paris has established itself as Paris’s major spring fair for modern and contemporary art. Bringing together more than 150 galleries from over 20 countries – from the post-war to the contemporary period, Art Paris is a place for discovery, placing special emphasis on the European scene, whilst exploring the new horizons of international creative hubs, whether in Asia, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America.

For its 22nd edition, the fair will showcase a two-fold “Focus” – turning to both the French contemporary art scene and the emerging Iberian art hubs, specifically Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid and Porto. In parallel, the “Solo Show” sector will be dedicated to monographic exhibitions, while “Promises” pursues its support to young and emerging galleries.

A Overview of the French Art Scene | Common and Uncommon Stories
Each year, Art Paris invites a curator to engage critically with a selection of projects by French artists presented by participating galleries. In Common and Uncommon Stories, director of the Bourse Révélations Emerige and guest curator Gaël Charbau brings together the work of 21 artists, most of which were born in the 1980s, responding to the notion of the narrative and the ambiguous interplay between singularity and universality in storytelling.
The selection highlights notably artists including Abdelkader Benchamma (Galerie Templon), Anita Molinero (Galerie Thomas Bernard), Elsa & Johanna (Galerie La Forest Divonne), Louis-Cyprien Rials (Galerie Eric Mouchet), Jennyfer Grassi (Galerie Eva Hober), Baptiste Rabichon (Galerie Paris-Beijing) and Ugo Schiavi (Double V Gallery), among others.

Focus | Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula
Following its extensive survey of the Latin American scene in 2019, the “Focus” sector turns to the Iberian Peninsula, bringing light to Spanish and Portuguese art from the 1950s to the present day. Some 24 galleries will be presenting works by a selection of 74 artists – from modern masters (Manuel Cargaleiro, Joan Miró, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) to contemporary artists (Miguel Branco, Jorge Queiroz, Cristina Lucas, Jaume Plensa, Rui Toscano, and more). In parallel, projects including a video programme, installations, and conferences at the Instituto Cervantes and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris will highlight the creative effervescence flourishing in this part of Southern Europe.
Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula is curated by Barcelona-based independent curator Carolina Grau.

Solo Show
Since 2015, Art Paris has encouraged the presentation of monographic exhibitions – a key moment in artists’ careers – by inciting galleries to present specific single artist-focused projects. The 2020 edition will feature around 20 solo shows distributed throughout the fair. Highlights will include a site-specific project by South African artist Roger Ballen (Galerie Caroline Smulders in association with Galerie Karsten Greve); a mini-retrospective of British artist – best known for his colourful “puddle” paintings – Ian Davenport (Galleria Luca Tommasi - Arte Contemporanea); and a rare ensemble of works by Jesse A. Fernández at Galerie Orbis Pictus that will reveal the versatile talent of this major Cuban artist.

Promises | A Section for Young Galleries and Emerging Talents
Purposefully placed at the very heart of the Grand Palais, “Promises” will host 14 young galleries from Abidjan, Brussels, Lima, Lisbon, Rome, Sofia, Marseille and Paris, many of which will be making their international debut at Art Paris this year. Founded in the last six years, the galleries will each be presenting between one and three emerging artists – and benefit from financial sponsorship from the fair.

The 2020 list of exhibitors and program will be released in January 2020.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Gaël Charbau | Guest Curator | Common and Uncommon Stories
An independent curator and art critic, Gaël Charbau founded the contemporary art journal Particules in 2003. Artistic director of the Universcience (Palais de la Découverte and Cité des Sciences, Paris) and the director of the Bourse Révélations Emerige – supporting emerging artists working in France and which he co-founded in 2014 – he also acted as artistic director for the Nuit Blanche 2018. He regularly organizes exhibitions throughout Europe and Asia and works with a wide range of institutions, programs and patrons including the Palais de Tokyo, La Friche Belle de Mai, the Audi talents program and the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès.

About Carolina Grau | Guest Curator | Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula
Carolina Grau has been working as an independent curator specializing in contemporary art for the past two decades. She has produced exhibitions for a wide range of institutions in France, Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Spain, working both with established and emerging artists. Grau was the co-founder and co-curator of the Bienal de Jafre (Spain, 2003—2015) and associate curator at the Arquipélago Centro de Artes Contemporáneas (Azores) in 2017. In 2019, she curated the mid-career retrospective of Spanish artist Angela de la Cruz at CGAC Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and is currently working on the solo exhibition of Portuguese artist Vasco Barata for the MAAT (Lisbon).

About Art Paris 2020
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
www.artparis.com

Opening Preview (by invitation only)
Wednesday, April 1 | 6PM–10PM

Opening hours
Thursday, April 2 | 11.30AM—8PM
Friday, April 3 | 11.30AM—9PM
Saturday, April 4 | 11.30AM—8PM
Sunday, April 5 | 11.30AM—7PM

The Armory Show Announces Participating Exhibitors and Themed Curatorial Sections for the 2020 Edition

Works by Ai Weiwei at Deitch Projects, The Armory Show 2019. Photograph by Teddy Wolff

178 exhibitors from 31 countries will once again convene in Midtown Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94 for a 2020 edition featuring an expanded curatorial program and 30 first-time exhibitors.

December 12, 2019 (New York) – The 2020 edition of The Armory Show, taking place March 5–8, will welcome 178 exhibitors from 31 countries, convening in Midtown Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94.

The upcoming edition will see 120 returning exhibitors, including 303 Gallery (New York), Sean Kelly (New York, Taipei), Victoria Miro (London, Venice), Galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels), and Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp). In addition, 30 exhibitors will debut at the fair and 28 will re-join, among them Brooke Alexander (New York), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin), Carbon 12 (Dubai), Carpenters Workshop Gallery (New York, London, Paris, San Francisco), Chambers Fine Art (New York), Gagosian (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Le Bourget, Basel, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong), Garth Greenan Gallery (New York), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (London), Kasmin (New York), Simon Lee Gallery (London, New York, Hong Kong), Barbara Mathes Gallery (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), and Richard Saltoun (London).

Nicole Berry, Executive Director of The Armory Show, remarks: “With more than a quarter century of tradition in Manhattan, The Armory Show is New York’s most storied art fair, and an essential opportunity for international and national galleries to connect with a key North American audience of collectors, curators, and institutions. We have created a comprehensive platform for serious and ambitious presentations by galleries of all sizes, reaches, and years of experience—from global powerhouses to regional leaders and those just beginning to gain recognition. We are proud that many galleries who started at The Armory Show have gone on to achieve incredible success in the industry.”

The Essential New York Art Fair

The 2020 edition will feature many notable thematic and solo-artist presentations within Galleries, the fair’s core section. Presentation highlights include: 

• At Simon Lee Gallery (London, New York, Hong Kong), an exploration of painting’s two-dimensionality, providing exceptional interpretations of medium and material by artists such as Donna Huanca, Claudio Parmiggiani, and Toby Ziegler

• An installation of collages by the late multi-hyphenate artist Jonas Mekas, presented by APALAZZOGALLERY (Brescia)

• A survey of sculptures and drawings by Mel Kendrick at David Nolan Gallery (New York)

• A presentation of works by or inspired by the pioneering multimedia artist Hannah Wilke at Ronald Feldman Gallery (New York)

• At Jeffrey Deitch (New York, Los Angeles), an interactive installation comprising new paintings and sculptures by Austin Lee

A Place for Discovery

Highlighting the fair’s role as an important platform for bringing emerging galleries to the forefront, Presents welcomes nine first-time exhibitors this year. Highlights from the Presents section include:

• At Carbon 12 (Dubai), Philip Mueller’s skillful paintings that allude to ancient mythology and his contemporary renditions on historical timelines, connecting fiction to reality

• A pairing of new and recent work by Kay Hofmann and Jennie C. Jones—two artists of different generations who have each made important contributions to the histories of figuration, Minimalism, and abstraction—at Patron (Chicago)

• A solo presentation of newly made paintings by Australian-Malaysian artist Abdul Abdullah at Yavuz Gallery (Singapore)

• At Antoine Levi (Paris), a dual-artist presentation of Francesco Gennari and Evan Gilbert, two artists of different generations whose practices engage with the duality of the self and self-representation

• A multimedia, performative presentation by Mella Jaarsma and Jompet Kuswidananto at Baik + Khneysser (Los Angeles), exploring the relationship between the personal and the body politic 

The Gramercy International Prize recipient is Kai Matsumiya (New York), which will stage a solo presentation of sculptural works by Pedro Wirz. Once again, the esteemed jury included Stefano Basilico, Collector and Advisor; Clarissa Dalrymple, Independent Curator; Nicole Klagsbrun, Owner and Founder, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery; Andrea Rosen, Owner and Founder, Andrea Rosen Gallery; and Lisa Spellman, Owner and Founder, 303 Gallery. 

Expanded Curatorial Program

The 2020 edition will feature an expanded curatorial program, and for the first time in the fair’s history, an entire pier will be devoted to curator-led initiatives—with Pier 90 encompassing Perspectives, the Focus section, and a selection of Platform projects.

Perspectives, the newest exhibitor section, will be dedicated to historical material viewed through a contemporary lens, bringing together both established and emerging exhibitors. Curated in its inaugural year by Nora Burnett Abrams (Mark G. Falcone Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), Perspectives: Past as Present will demonstrate a range of projects evocative of the fair’s early years, when exhibitors offered daring, gritty, and even whimsical presentations. Highlights include:

• A survey of works by Jana Vander Lee at Inman Gallery (Houston), celebrating the acclaimed fiber artist’s instrumental role in bringing the medium into the mainstream fine art field in the 1970s and 1980s

• Works by Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Robert Indiana, and Giulio Paolini at Barbara Mathes Gallery (New York), presenting classicism—in its ruptured form—as a vital source for contemporary artists

• A five-decade survey of work by Pierre Soulages at ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN (London)

• At Susan Sheehan Gallery (New York), a presentation of works by Vija Celmins, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Ed Ruscha that were produced by female-led print studios in the mid-1980s, highlighting the groundbreaking legacy of female printmakers

• A presentation of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson at ACA Galleries (New York), exploring early works from the artist’s oeuvre that merged deeply personal and universally shared experiences of community and history

Focus, organized by Jamillah James (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), will consider the ways in which artists construct a version of reality or self where the boundaries between fact and fiction are indistinct. Taken as a whole, Focus: Another time, another place is an open-ended proposition that asks how history functions when the present is constantly accelerating, and how much agency individuals or communities have in narrating their experiences and making new worlds. Highlights include: 

• A unique pairing of work by Cynthia Daignault and David Korty at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), where both artists reinvigorate a breadth of art historical movements by placing them in conversation with contemporary issues such as climate change and rapid advancements in technology

• At Jack Bell (London), a presentation of works by Lavar Munroe, who draws on the memory of crude graffiti murals from his community in Nassau, Bahamas, to create vivid, energetic images and portraits that confront systems of oppression in contemporary society

• At The Pit (Los Angeles), reflections on the histories and cultures of Mesoamerica and Latin America by Tamara Gonzales, who merges her self-created archetypes with traditional Peruvian Shipibo patterns to create modern totems in search of a new purpose

• At Spinello Projects (Miami), an installation by Agustina Woodgate focused on the contemporary equation of time and money, depicting current economic measures of labor and value as a process of disintegration

Platform, a curated section offering artists the opportunity to realize large-scale installations and site-specific work, is organized by Anne Ellegood (Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles). Large-scale projects will address how techniques of satire and caricature have been used historically in art and literature as sharp tools of social critique. The full list of participating artists and galleries will be announced in early 2020.

Armory Arts Week

As the marquee event during Armory Arts Week, The Armory Show, with its extensive VIP Program, will unfold during a week of museum and gallery openings city-wide—reaffirming the position of Armory Arts Week as New York’s most important arts week and a destination for both regional and international collectors, artists, and museum leaders.

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2020 EXHIBITOR LIST

GALLERIES

10 Chancery Lane | Hong Kong
303 Gallery | New York
Brooke Alexander | New York
APALAZZOGALLERY | Brescia
von Bartha | Basel, S-chanf
Josée Bienvenu | New York
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard | Copenhagen
Blain|Southern | London, Berlin, New York
Peter Blake Gallery | Laguna Beach
Peter Blum Gallery | New York
Bortolami Gallery | New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Berlin
Galleri Brandstrup | Oslo
Buchmann Galerie | Berlin, Lugano
Carpenters Workshop Gallery | London, New York, Paris, San Francisco
David Castillo Gallery | Miami Beach
Chambers Fine Art | New York
James Cohan | New York
Cortesi Gallery | London, Milan, Lugano
Cristea Roberts Gallery | London
Galerie Crone | Vienna, Berlin
DC Moore Gallery | New York
Jeffrey Deitch | New York, Los Angeles
Dirimart | Istanbul
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM | Berlin
Van Doren Waxter | New York
Durham Press | Durham, New York
Galerie Eigen + Art | Berlin, Leipzig
Max Estrella | Madrid
Ronald Feldman Gallery | New York
galerie les filles du calvaire | Paris
Eric Firestone Gallery | New York, East Hampton
Galerie Forsblom | Helsinki, Stockholm
Stephen Friedman Gallery | London
Gagosian | New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Le Bourget, Basel, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong
Gavlak Gallery | Los Angeles, Palm Beach
Garth Greenan Gallery | New York
Kavi Gupta | Chicago
Haines Gallery | San Francisco
Hales | London, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery | Chicago
Edwynn Houk Gallery | New York
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery | London
i8 Gallery | Reykjavik
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery | Seattle
INGLEBY | Edinburgh
A arte Invernizzi | Milan
Bernard Jacobson Gallery | London
Alison Jacques Gallery | London
Jahn und Jahn* | Munich
Jenkins Johnson Gallery | San Francisco, Brooklyn
Luis de Jesus Los Angeles | Los Angeles
Kasmin | New York
kaufmann repetto | Milan, New York
Kayne Griffin Corcoran | Los Angeles
Sean Kelly | New York, Taipei
Robert Koch Gallery | San Francisco
Kohn Gallery | Los Angeles
Andrew Kreps Gallery | New York
Galerie Krinzinger | Vienna
Simon Lee Gallery | London, New York, Hong Kong
Galerie Christian Lethert* | Cologne
Josh Lilley | London
Locks Gallery | Philadelphia
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m. | Bologna, Milan, Paris
MAGNIN-A* | Paris
Galerie Ron Mandos | Amsterdam
Philip Martin Gallery | Los Angeles
Mazzoleni | London, Turin
Yossi Milo Gallery | New York
Victoria Miro | London, Venice
Anne Mosseri-Marlio | Basel
Nicodim Gallery | Los Angeles, Bucharest
Carolina Nitsch | New York
David Nolan Gallery | New York
Galerie Nathalie Obadia | Paris, Brussels
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill | Rome
OSL contemporary | Oslo
P420 | Bologna
Paragon | London
Pierogi | New York
Poligrafa Obra Gráfica | Barcelona
Praz-Delavallade | Paris, Los Angeles
PROYECTOSMONCLOVA | Mexico City
R & Company | New York
Repetto Gallery | London
Yancey Richardson Gallery | New York
Roberts Projects | Los Angeles
Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York
Ronchini Gallery | London
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery | New York
Lia Rumma | Milan, Naples
Richard Saltoun | London
Galerie Thomas Schulte | Berlin
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Los Angeles
SETAREH GALLERY | Dusseldorf
ShanghART Gallery | Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore
Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino | Houston
Bruce Silverstein Gallery | New York
Fredric Snitzer Gallery | Miami
Galerie Templon | Paris, Brussels
Two Palms | New York
Axel Vervoordt Gallery | Antwerp, Hong Kong
Vielmetter Los Angeles | Los Angeles
Vigo | London
VISTAMARE | VISTAMARESTUDIO | Pescara, Milan
Wetterling Gallery | Stockholm
Zeno X Gallery | Antwerp

PERSPECTIVES

ACA Galleries | New York
albertz benda | New York
ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN | London
Caviar20* | Toronto
DC Moore Gallery | New York
Hackett Mill | San Francisco
Lyndsey Ingram | London
Inman Gallery | Houston
Ludorff | Dusseldorf
Barbara Mathes Gallery | New York
Montrasio Arte / Km0 | Monza, Milan, Innsbruck
Susan Sheehan Gallery | New York
State* | London
Hollis Taggart | New York
Erik Thomsen | New York
Cristin Tierney | New York

PRESENTS

Addis Fine Art | Addis Ababa, London
El Apartamento | Havana
Edel Assanti | London
Baik + Khneysser* | Los Angeles
Jack Barrett* | New York
Bradley Ertaskiran | Montreal
Carbon 12* | Dubai
Dastan’s Basement* | Tehran
DOCUMENT | Chicago
Anat Ebgi | Los Angeles
Daniel Faria Gallery | Toronto
Fridman Gallery | New York
Halsey McKay | East Hampton
Antoine Levi | Paris
Marinaro* | New York
Microscope Gallery* | Brooklyn
NINO MIER GALLERY | Los Angeles
Shulamit Nazarian | Los Angeles
Patron Gallery | Chicago
RYAN LEE | New York
TAFETA | London
Tiwani Contemporary | London
Ulterior Gallery* | New York
Upfor Gallery | Portland
Voloshyn Gallery* | Kiev
Yavuz Gallery* | Singapore

FOCUS

Aicon Contemporary | New York
Jack Bell Gallery | London
Bockley Gallery* | Minneapolis
C24* | New York
CONNERSMITH. | Washington, DC
CURRO | Guadalajara
Denny Dimin* | New York, Hong Kong
Inman Gallery | Houston
Charlie James Gallery | Los Angeles
Klowden Mann* | Los Angeles
Galerie Kornfeld* | Berlin
Lowell Ryan Projects* | Los Angeles
M+B | Los Angeles
Walter Maciel Gallery* | Los Angeles
Patrick Mikhail Gallery* | Montreal, Ottawa
New Image Art* | Los Angeles
Night Gallery | Los Angeles
Officine dell’Immagine | Milan
The Pit* | Los Angeles
Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani | Milan
Sapar Contemporary* | New York
Carrie Secrist Gallery | Chicago
SMAC Art Gallery | Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg
Sorry We’re Closed | Brussels
Spinello Projects* | Miami
Marc Straus | New York
Tandem Press* | Madison
Steve Turner Contemporary* | Los Angeles
WORKPLACE | Gateshead
Anna Zorina Gallery* | New York
Zürcher Gallery* | New York, Paris

* indicates first time exhibitor

NOTES TO EDITORS

The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s essential art fair, and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. Staged on Manhattan’s Piers 90 and 94, The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the international art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts. 

Fair Dates
VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days
Thursday, March 5–Sunday, March 8, 2020

Les Ateliers Courbet and Thirlwall Design unveil Please Be Seated, a Jacques Tati-inspired Installation Debuting at Design Miami 2019

Paris exhibition of Jacques Tati's Villa Arpel from the movie set of Mon Oncle presented by Domeau & Pérès and Les Films de Mon Oncle (2009) © Benoît Fougeirol

November 26, 2019 (Miami Beach) – Les Ateliers Courbet and Thirlwall Design present Please Be Seated, a capsule installation offering a glimpse at French filmmaker Jacques Tati’s iconic designs in his 1958 film Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the director’s most acclaimed satires on modern design, lifestyle and consumerism. Scheduled in conjunction with the release of Taschen's Jacques Tati: The Complete Work, the installation will debut at Design Miami in December 2019 and be presented subsequently at the New York gallery from January–March 2020. With Please Be Seated, Les Ateliers Courbet introduces to the United States the sole edition of Tati designs ever made, produced by esteemed design studio Domeau & Pérès in collaboration with Jacques Tati’s Estate “Les Films de Mon Oncle.”

The French master craftsmen and design publishers Domeau & Pérès pay homage to Tati’s visionary designs and whims with a limited edition of three visually appealing and completely impractical seats. The “Tati Collection” has been exhibited in European museums and institutions since its 2007 unveiling in Paris with the actual Villa Arpel from the Mon Oncle movie set. The restored Villa was pulled from the archives for the first time since 1958. The collection was also included in the French Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Today, the three seats belong to important public and private collections including that of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

In Mon Oncle, Tati shares his questioning of and satirical perspective on modernism and modern design through the misadventures of his iconic character, the candid and clumsy Monsieur Hulot. Certainly visionary at the time, Tati’s work and ideas feel as relevant today as they were in Mr. Hulot’s 1950s.

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Design Miami 2019
1900 Meridian Street
Between 18th & 19th Streets
Miami Beach USA

Preview Day
By Invitation Only
Tuesday, December 4
Collectors Preview | 12–5pm
Opening Night Preview | 5–7pm

Vernissage
Wednesday, December 5 | 10am–12pm

Public Show Days
Wednesday, December 5 | 12–8pm
Thursday, December 6 | 10am–8pm
Friday, December 7 | 11am–8pm
Saturday, December 8 | 12–8pm
Sunday, December 9 | 12–6pm

About Les Ateliers Courbet

Established in 2013, New York-based design gallery LES ATELIERS COURBET presents a curation program focused on the ongoing craftsmanship and design legacies of the centuries-old manufacturers and contemporary artisans it represents. The gallery’s exhibitions along with its collections of furniture and decorative arts objects, highlight the ongoing dialogues and collaborations between master craftsmen and artists around the world.

While anchored in cultural heritage, Courbet’s selection includes both sought-after works culled from the archives and contemporary pieces.

Since its opening, Les Ateliers Courbet works closely with each studio to place and donate pieces to museums and institutions such as the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Philip Johnson Glass House, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.

While growing its gallery program with institutional collaborations, exhibitions and publications, Les Ateliers Courbet aims to further support its portfolio of master craftsmen and contribute to the ongoing legacy they carry on, through the Editions Courbet – a collection of limited edition pieces created by guest artists, designers, luminaries and handcrafted by Les Ateliers Courbet’s master craftsmen. Its early collaborations have included rug editions by Frank Gehry, Vladimir Kagan and Nepalese weavers, as well as a silverwork edition by Wiener Silber Manufactur and Dutch designer Aldo Bakker.

Les Ateliers Courbet
134 Tenth Avenue, New York 10011
https://www.ateliercourbet.com/

About Thirlwall Design

THIRLWALL is an interior architecture and design practice with offices in Miami and New York and a wide scope of global projects both residential and commercial.

Led by creative director James J. Wall, the firm has garnered recognition from an international clientele over seventeen years for its astute design approach and concepts and its attention to materials and building processes. The team has developed a rich portfolio of interior projects each of which combines idiosyncratic vernacular with clean materiality.

Founder James J. Wall, has honed an acute eye, a layered aesthetic and multicultural knowledge throughout the various countries in which he grew up, studied and lived. After studying painting and sculpture at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris for three years, Wall graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Architect and Design, before moving to Copenhagen where he completed his education at post-graduate program of the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen.

About Domeau & Pérès

Both graduates of France’s legendary institution Les Compagnons du Devoir, master craftsmen Bruno Domeau and Philippe Pérès joined forces in the 1990’s to open the now esteemed atelier Domeau & Pérès in Paris. The atelier has garnered worldwide recognition for the acute design perspective and combined craftsmanship expertise of the two masters – both recipients of France’s honoring title of Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres.

A long-kept-secret destination for their meticulous work and comprehensive expertise, Domeau & Pérès have collaborated with countless luminaries such as Marc Newson, Andrée Putman, Pharrel Williams, and Colette in Paris. The studio works on special commissions for clients including Falcon Jet, Hermès, LVMH, Krug, Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Berluti, the Bridge Club in Bridgehampton, and the Royal Monceau in Paris amongst others.

With guest artists including Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Martin Szekely, Christophe Pillet, Matali Crasset, Pablo Reinoso, and Eric Jourdan, Domeau & Pérès have grown a significant signature collection that belongs to the permanent collection of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld among others.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF ARCHITECTS Complete House of Wine in a Reconverted Historical Building

Reframing traditional notions on renovation by combining two distinct approaches to restoration, the House of Wine acts as a witness to the region’s multifaceted architectural history.

House of Wine (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Laurian Ghinitoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF

November 25, 2019 (Czech Republic) – CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers have announced the completion of the House of Wine, a wine bar and tasting room located in Znojmo, in the heart of the Moravian region. Set in a converted 19th-century brewery and its adjacent technical space added to the structure in the 1970s, the project overlooks a 9th-century chapel and neighboring Gothic church – reflecting the town’s many architectural layers and histories. Merging two spaces with distinct heritages and adopting individual approaches – and understandings – of renovation for each, the architects respond to the respective building’s structural past and function, all the while rethinking conventional notions on restoration.

Restored – and preserved – to retain its original essence, the 19th-century brewery is treated as a heritage site. Rather than architectural, the renovation is functional. The classical rectangular edifice is redefined as a historical exhibition space and wine bar, inviting visitors to delve into the rich history of the Moravian wine culture.

Conversely, preserving only the outer structure of the former technical hall to house an entirely new internal space, the House of Wine reconsiders it as a wide adjustable and void volume. A playful arrangement of organic volumes set on various planes divide this ‘white cube’ into individual spaces, thereby reflecting the scale and atmosphere of traditional wine cellars of the region through several smaller interconnected rooms. This newly-conceived wine bar redefines both the hall’s initial architecture and its function.

Through a complex set of asymmetrical windows, distributed to reflect the division of the interior space into various rooms, the former technical hall opens up to the surrounding views – the neighboring churches, the town, the river valley. Revealing exterior views to a building that has seldom acknowledged them, the windows invite visitors to engage in a dialogue with the region and its landscape – while anchoring this seemingly anachronistic structure as part of the architectural treasures of the town. Encouraging this interaction and reflecting this historical collage, the tone of the façade is a combination of the neighboring buildings’ distinct colors, thereby affirming a sense of architectural and historical belonging.

The House of Wine echoes the original buildings and the town’s history of transformation, while acting as a reminder of the complex interaction between the sociopolitical structures that have marked its architecture. Specifically, the architects draw attention to the technical hall as the expression of the cynicism of the Communist regime – which initially erected this architecturally bare structure at the heart of a historically rich city.

House of Wine (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Alexandra Timpau. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF

Discussing the project, founding architect Ondřej Chybík explains, “The House of Wine challenges traditional notions of restoration of historical buildings. The presence of two distinct structures, each with its own history and original function, inspired us to adopt likewise distinct approaches to renovation. On the one hand, we adhere to a rather orthodox restoration, based on preservation; on the other hand, we embrace a more experimental – and unusual – approach which fully rethinks the initial structure. In doing so, we immerse ourselves in the town’s heritage and landscape, while establishing the House of Wine as a part, a reconciliation and a continuation of its architectural history.”

Concurrently, CHYBIK + KRISTOF are in the process of completing the Lahofer Winery, nestled in the nearby Moravian vineyards of Dobsice. Veering away from any interference with the landscape, the structure echoes the natural slopes of the surrounding terrain, while a colonnade of arches aligns with the rhythm of the vine rows – creating perfect visual symmetry with nature. Featuring an interconnected visitor center, winemaking facility and tasting room, and amphitheater hosting public cultural events, the winery is set to open in the Spring of 2020.

Project Team: Ondřej Chybik, Michal Krištof, Ondřej Mundl, Luděk Šimoník, Martin Holý, Roman Koplík, Lenka Vořechovská, Vratislav Zika, Hanka AlGibury, Petr Novák

NOTES TO EDITORS

About CHYBIK + KRISTOF
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architecture and urban design practice founded in 2010 by Ondřej Chybík and Michal Krištof. Operating with 50+ international team members and offices in Prague, Brno and Bratislava, the practice aims at creating bridges between private and public space, transcending generations and societal spheres. Taking into account local histories and environmental specificities, the studio works on a wide array of projects, ranging from urban developments to public and residential buildings. Recent projects include: Gallery of Furniture (Czech Republic), the Czech Pavilion at Expo 2015 (Milan, Italy) and Lahofer Winery (Czech Republic). The studio has been awarded a number of prizes, including the 2019 Vanguard Award from Architectural Record.

T SAKHI Architects Presents WAL(L)TZ: a New Interactive Wall Installation Addressing Social Barriers in Today's Climate

The Beirut and Milan-based architecture and design studio unveils the Lebanese Pavilion for this year’s edition of Abwab – Dubai Design Week’s annual curated platform (11—16 November 2019).

WAL(L)TZ, by T SAKHI Architects. Lebanese Pavilion, Abwab. Dubai Design Week 2019. Photograph by Tessa Sakhi © T SAKHI Architects

November 13, 2019 (Dubai) – Multidisciplinary architecture and design studio T SAKHI Architects unveils WAL(L)TZ, an interactive installation exploring the concept of the wall as a physical and psychological construct, addressing Lebanon’s socio-political climate in recent years. Selected to represent Lebanon as one of this fifth edition’s three national pavilions, the curated project is presented as part of Dubai Design Week’s special project space Abwab, from 11—16 November 2019.

Prompted to reflect on this year’s theme, “Ways of Learning,” and on the way information is shared in their culture, sisters and cofounders Tessa and Tara Sakhi transform the wall into an activator for awareness and sociability. WAL(L)TZ echoes a Lebanese society congested with physical walls, seeded throughout its urban infrastructure and public spaces. Moving beyond its materiality, the project also delves into the wall’s psychological and emotional dimension.

From geographical borders to vestiges of wars and expressions of socio-political and economic apartheid, walls have been used throughout history as tools to control and segregate communities, cities – and countries. Nevertheless, the wall remains the inescapable and main element in architectural endeavours – a precedent which WAL(L)TZ seeks to question.

The pavilion consists of a 15-meter linear wall – one that is overwhelmingly present, yet porous. Seeking to overcome the perception of the rigid structure as a barrier, WAL(L)TZ is crafted in recycled foam, throughout which cracks, “loopholes” and other happenings are playfully interspersed, thereby encouraging audiences to connect and interact through – and in spite of – the wall. The visitor, turned performer, finds himself taking part in a choreographed protest, a reinterpreted “waltz” – one that reflects the voices rising against oppression in Lebanon – and globally – today.

Building on the studio’s socio-cultural engagement to place human interaction at the core of their practice, T SAKHI’s WAL(L)TZ re-appropriates the physical wall and rethinks visitors’ conception and experience of it. Acting as both a mirror and a window onto society, it encourages visitors to see and reach beyond the “wall” – thereby echoing Lebanon’s longstanding tenacity in the face of adversity.

Discussing the project, architects Tessa and Tara Sakhi explain, “WAL(L)TZ represents the act of resilience in overcoming any obstacle and transforming it for constructive change. We see the project as a platform for bodies to reconnect and interact with each other – finally reuniting them.”

In Holidays in the Sun and Lost in Transition, two experimental urban interventions unveiled in Beirut in June 2019, T SAKHI reinterpreted security barriers found throughout the city as stools and spaces for greenery – inviting the local community and visitors to engage in public space, while – and already at the time – pointing to the abundance of barriers blighting Lebanon’s visual landscape.

An interactive performance by choreographer and dancer Jadd Tank will be held on November 13, further activating the wall and blurring the line between visitor and performer. Evoking Lebanese citizens’ dual feelings towards these obstacles and the intense relationship between the bodies and the wall, the performance will be captured by cinematographer and director Dei Al Ayoubi and translated into a short-film – a visual and abstract ode to the people of Lebanon.

WAL(L)TZ, by T SAKHI Architects. Lebanese Pavilion, Abwab. Dubai Design Week 2019. Photograph by Tessa Sakhi © T SAKHI Architects

NOTES TO EDITORS

Dubai Design Week Public Days
11—15 November 2019 | 10AM – 10PM
16 November 2019 | 10AM – 5PM
Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Additional events
Tuesday, November 12 | 4—5.15PM | Panel Discussion: “The Question is What is the Question?” with Tara and Tessa Sakhi (T SAKHI Architects); Brendan McGetrick (Creative Director, Museum of the Future); Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto (ibda design); moderated by Shumon Basar (Commissioner, Global Art Forum) | d3, Main Stage, Building 7, Atrium
Wednesday, November 13 | 12—2PM | Workshop by T SAKHI Architects in partnership with the University of Sharjah, College of Fine Arts and Design | University of Sharjah, College of Fine Arts and Design
Wednesday, November 13 | 4.30—5.30PM | Performance by Jadd Tank | d3, Abwab, Lebanese Pavilion

About T SAKHI
Based in Milan and Beirut, T SAKHI is a hybrid multidisciplinary architecture and design studio cofounded in 2016 by Lebanese-Polish sisters Tessa and Tara Sakhi. Questioning contemporary understandings of identity, memory and living, T SAKHI draws from the emotional and psychological experience of space, often through sensorial synergies. Committed to placing human interaction at the core of its practice, the studio designs both permanent and ephemeral social structures.
From modern residences integrating communal needs to readapted urban security barriers as sites of rest and greenery, T SAKHI’s diverse projects are both playful and interactive. They range from architecture, product design, art objects, installations, scenography and most recently, films and regularly involve collaborations with creatives and craftsmen from all over the world in an aspiration for exchange and dialogue.

About Dubai Design Week
Dubai Design Week is the largest creative festival in the Middle East. The six-day programme covers a range of design disciplines including architecture, product design, interiors, multimedia and graphic design, with the majority of events free to attend and accessible for both industry and the general public.
Key components of Dubai Design Week include the region’s leading design fair, Downtown Design; the Global Grad Show; and Abwab, the curated and interactive project containing original design from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia; alongside an extensive talks and workshop programme.

Save the Date | The Armory Show | New York, 5–8 March 2020

SAVE THE DATE | THE ARMORY SHOW | NEW YORK, 5–8 MARCH 2020

The Armory Show, New York’s premier contemporary and modern art fair, will take place March 5–8, 2020. Led by Executive Director Nicole Berry, the upcoming edition, which marks the fair’s 26th year, will once again be staged in the heart of Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94. The 2020 edition will build upon the success of the 2019 fair with an expanded curatorial program and a more integrated presentation of modern and contemporary artwork. New developments include the debut of a third curated exhibitor section, Perspectives, replacing the Insights section and dedicated to historical material viewed through a contemporary lens. In addition, for the first time in the fair’s history, an entire pier will be devoted to curator-led initiatives, with Pier 90 encompassing Perspectives, the Focus section, and a selection of Platform projects.

Nora Burnett Abrams, Mark G. Falcone Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will curate the inaugural Perspectives section, featuring thought-provoking historical presentations examined through a contemporary theme. Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will curate the Platform section offering artists the opportunity to realize large-scale installations and performances staged across both piers. Jamillah James, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will curate the critically acclaimed Focus section, showcasing today’s most relevant and compelling artworks through solo- and dual-artist presentations. Complementing these exhibitor sections, José Carlos Diaz, Chief Curator, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, will chair the third annual edition of the Curatorial Leadership Summit, convening an international roster of curators for a daylong, closed-door symposium addressing urgent topics in the curatorial field.

Fair Dates

VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days

Thursday, March 5 – Sunday, March 8, 2020

Sunday Art Fair London Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Highlights for the 2019 Edition

3–6 October 2019

The fair welcomes 30 galleries from over 20 international cities, presenting works by young and emerging international artists in its 14,000-square-foot London space.

VIP + Press Preview: Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM | Free Entry
Ambika P3, University of Westminster
33 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Chiara Fumai, Dogaresso Elisabetta Querini, Zalumma Agra, Dope Head, Annie Jones, Harry Houdni and Eusapia Palladino read Valerie Solanas, 2013. Photography, C-type print, 6.8 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Galería Rosa Santos (Valencia)

Sunday Art Fair, London’s international contemporary art fair for young galleries and artists, returns from 3–6 October, 2019 with a selection of 30 galleries from over 20 cities. Marking its 10th anniversary, the fair will affirm its engagement and support of newly established galleries and emerging artists. The selected exhibitors, 16 of which will be participating for the first time, will take over the 14,000-square-foot concrete space of Ambika P3, located in the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering through a curated presentation of solo projects and group shows.

Building on a strong international contingent, the 2019 edition will feature returning and first-time participants from over 10 countries, including Spanish galleries: Bombon Projects (Barcelona) and Rosa Santos (Valencia); Italian exhibitors Renata Fabbri and RIBOT (Milan); Paris-based Galerie Derouillon and PACT; Sperling (Munich) and CHOI&LAGER Gallery (Cologne) from Germany; as well as a significant US representation with False Flag (New York), The Hole (New York), and Over the Influence (Los Angeles).

The fair will also assert its commitment to supporting the local emerging art scene with the participation of UK galleries Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Roman Road (London) and Patricia Fleming (Glasgow), among others.

For the 10th anniversary edition, Sunday affirms its role as a platform for artistic experimentation, thereby encouraging the discovery and promotion of new forms of art:

1)     Rethinking the notion of the booth, galleries and artists will explore the limits of their respective space. Highlights include:

• Annka Kultys Gallery (London)’s “In-Lightment”, a free-standing booth presenting works by Stine Deja, Márton Nemes, Aaron Scheer and Anne Vieux

• Artists Anna Dot and Bernat Daviu’s sloped floor for Bombon Projects (Barcelona), affirming the performative aspect of their practices

• Jonathan Chapline’s grid-patterned walls at The Hole (New York), reflecting the environment used by the artist to generate the 3-D imagery of his works

2)     Several exhibitors will devote their booths to solo presentations. Notable proposals include:

• Femke Dekkers’s “perspective corrections” at Galerie Bart (Amsterdam)

• Dennis Buck’s reflections on artist identity and authenticity at Roman Road (London)

• Building on her work for the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Chiara Fumai will address notions of media misrepresentation in her proposal for Rosa Santos (Valencia)

3)     Showcasing works in a range of mediums, from installations and microarchitecture to sculpture, embroidery and ceramics to digital and video art, presentations will attest to galleries’ and Sunday’s shared engagement to addressing current sociocultural and political themes, including:

• Fragment Gallery (Moscow), presenting works by Pacifico Silano, will approach physical and emotional voids seen through the lens of HIV/AIDS within the LGBTQ community

• Danny Ferrell’s exploration of fantasies and fears of the “Other” through depictions of everyday queer male at PACT (Paris)

• Sarah Margnetti’s focus on the fragmentation and commodification of the body at Stems Gallery (Brussels, Luxembourg)

Jonathan Chapline, Pool House (Dyptich), 2019. Acrylic, flashe on panel, 119 x 152 cm and 89 x 122 cm. Courtesy of The Hole (New York)

This year, Sunday Art Fair will partner with the Glasgow International (GI) Festival 2020, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, for a special exhibition curated by its director Richard Parry. An alternative to the yearly Editions booths, which previously invited UK regional institutions to present dedicated projects, this exhibition will address the theme of “distraction”, a response to the GI’s 2020 festival theme around “attention.” A selection of artists from past and present editions of the festival will consider the seemingly constant sources of distraction, which generate both voluntary and involuntary acts and states of mind. Presented artists include: Laura Aldridge, Michael Fullerton, Andy Holden, France Lise McGurn, Ana Mazzei, Carol Rhodes, David Shrigley, Andrew Sim, Georgina Starr, Tony Swain, Hayley Tompkins, Urara Tsuchiya and Bedwyr Williams. The exhibition will also feature newly made unique works for sale, specifically for the fair.

Young Collectors League, a New York-based initiative founded to drive visibility and sales to emerging and mid-tier galleries, will be offering free advising tours to attendees to assist with acquisitions throughout the course of the fair.

2019 GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS 

Galleries
A.ROMY | Geneva
Galerie Alegria | Madrid
Annka Kultys Gallery | London
Galerie Bart | Amsterdam
Bombon Projects | Barcelona
C+N Canepaneri | Milan
CHOI&LAGER Gallery | Cologne | Seoul
Daniel Benjamin Gallery | London
Galerie Derouillon | Paris
ESP | Toronto
False Flag | New York
Fragment Gallery | Moscow
Galeria Fran Reus | Palma de Mallorca
Jack Barrett Gallery | New York
ltd los angeles | Los Angeles
MKG127 | Toronto
Over the Influence | Los Angeles
PACT | Paris
Patricia Fleming Projects | Glasgow
Renata Fabbri | Milan
RIBOT | Milan
Roman Road | London
Rosa Santos | Valencia
Sid Motion Gallery | London
Sperling | Munich
Stems Gallery | Brussels | Luxembourg
Steve Turner | Los Angeles
Suprainfinit | Bucharest
The Goma | Madrid
The Hole | New York

2019 Partners
Glasgow International Festival 2020 | Glasgow
Young Collectors League | New York
Artsy | Official Online Partner

NOTES TO EDITORS:

VIP + Press Preview (by invitation only)
Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM

Public Days
Thursday, October 3 | 6–9 PM
Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5 | 12–8 PM
Sunday, October 6 | 12–6 PM 

Free and open to the public.

About Sunday Art Fair

Sunday Art Fair was launched in 2010 by galleries Tulips and Roses (Brussels, Vilnius), Croy Nielsen (Vienna) and Limoncello (London) and is currently directed by curator and writer Thom O’Nions who has been involved with the fair since 2015. Over the past ten years, the fair has established itself as the leading London contemporary art fair committed to supporting young galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Intentionally renewing its participating galleries each year, Sunday Art Fair is committed to presenting them with an opportunity to introduce global collectors to their artists.

Steering away from the traditional booth structure to adopt an open-plan layout, Sunday invites galleries and artists to rethink and appropriate the space, encouraging the dialogue between visitors, gallerists and artists. Free and open to the public, the fair aims to make contemporary art accessible to all, attracting younger audiences and aspiring collectors.

Many significant artists have shown at the fair at turning points in their development, including Laura Aldridge, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Anne Imhof, Christian Jankowski and Amy Yao, among many others.

About Ambika P3 

Ambika P3 is a 14,000-square-foot space beneath Baker Street in London. It was developed from the vast former concrete construction hall for the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering. Built in the 1960s, the site existed as a former concrete testing bunker where both the Channel Tunnel and sections of the British motorway were tested.

Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin announces programme and highlights for the 2019 edition

Friends with Books features over 200 artists and publishers, 12 public programmes and 6 art installations, including new commissions.

September 21–22, 2019

Preview: Friday, September 20, 6–8 PM

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin  | Free entry

Alias art publications, 2019 ; courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin.

September 6, 2019 (Berlin) – Opening on September 20, Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Europe’s leading art book fair committed to the distribution and promotion of artists’ books and associated mediums, launches its sixth edition in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. From September 20–22, 2019, over 200 international exhibitors, ranging from artists to art publishers, will present their publications, reflecting the diversity of today’s art publishing. Free and open to the public, the fair explores all facettes of contemporary art publishing through an engaging programme of lectures, panel discussions, book presentations, performances and art installations, bringing understanding to the discipline and celebrating its resurgence in today’s digital climate.

Exhibitors at Friends with Books will feature contemporary art publications including artists’ books, artist zines, digital publications, limited editions, magazines, conceptual publications, photography publications, textual works and artists’ writings, art theory and criticism, as well as books printed spontaneously on location. Many of these art publications are not widely available or distributed, and may be self-published by artists or in small editions.

Friends with Books 2019 Highlights

For its sixth edition, Friends With Books welcomes for the first time ARTPHILEIN EDITIONS, Lugano; Little Steidl, Göttingen; Ann Noël, Berlin; among others.

Programmes include conversations and presentations with artists such as Erik Göngrich, Marlena Kudlicka, Nanne Meyer, Tamami Iinuma, Caio Reisewitz, and Florian Wüst.

Performances include the artist collective Black Palm and artists Mette Edvardsen, Jeroen Peeters and Lara Salmon. 

The Friends with Books Blog interview features artist Elisabeth Tonnard in conversation with art critic Agnieszka Gratza.

German artist Anne Schwalbe created the annual Friends with Books Artist Poster Edition, titled Wasser, 2019, made from recent photographs of grass taken in Japan. Observing the lines and patterns in nature, Schwalbe photographs her surroundings intuitively. With no reference to location or other narrative aspects, she departs from landscapes into the abstract, thereby allowing her work to become the lines of a poem. Schwalbe is a regular columnist for Zeit Magazin.

The 2019 edition will host a series of curated temporary Art Installations in dialogue with artists’ books and art publications and printed ephemera including:

Japanese artist Tamami Iinuma’s Piece of colonne, Fragment of waves, 2018-19, is an interactive installation with 36 unique artist books of photographs where abstract images appear and disappear meditatively as the pages are turned, recalling the continuously ebbing and flowing of waves or the ‘breath of architecture’. 

Dutch artist Mathilde ter Heijne’s Woman To Go is an ongoing project and archive, featured as an installation of postcard racks holding free postcards with the portrait and biography of an unknown woman who was influential or extraordinary in her time. 

German artist Kathrin Köster’s installation is comprised of two sculptural works, The hammy stage dive, 2018, and newly commissioned legerdemain, 2019, in connection with her new artist book, ex plica, 2019. Constructed with multi-layered fabric and paper upon supporting structures, her works explore how these materials express their own sense of theatricality and movement.

Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka’s installation includes a sculpture and work on paper, both titled unprotected 0 fig. 120°, 2015. Reflecting her interest in Constructivism, Kudlicka focuses on semantic and spatial relations between function, language, structure, contour, shape, and system. A new limited edition commissioned poster velvet mind marble thoughts, 2019, is available for free to the public.

Icelandic artist Egil Sæbjörnsson’s Ugh & Boogar’s Book Corner, 2019 is a newly commissioned installation where children and parents create stories together. The trolls, Ugh and Boogar, encourage fantasy and invention. Sæbjörnsson has created two artist’s books about the trolls’ adventures, When Egill met the Trolls and took them to Venice, 2017, and The Trolls in Hellsinki, 2019.

Czech artist Rudolf Samohejl’s ‘sculptural situation’ features two new works, Life Table, 2019, a sculpture and working ping-pong table, and Rib Cage, 2019. Intended to be shown in public space, his work is activated through unpredictability in an effort to disrupt our everyday habits. Also on view is his newly commissioned artist book Plane Dreams, 2019, a graphic novel.

The Alias reading area features books published by Alias, an independent editorial project based in Mexico City established by Mexican artist Damián Ortega. Alias translates and publishes texts previously not available in Spanish that it considers to be valuable contemporary art references.

Special Thanks: Udo Kittelmann, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Dr. Gabriele Knapstein, Dr. Nina Schallenberg, Fiona Geuss, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Gaby Horn, KW Institute for Contemporary Art; Barbara Wien; Dr. Michael Lailach, Kunstbibliothek Berlin; Claus Due, Studio Claus Due; Virginia Illner, Medialis Druck.

Support: Friends with Books is generously supported in part by Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Sunday Art Fair Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Sunday Art Fair 2017, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of Sunday Art Fair.

Sunday Art Fair, London’s international contemporary art fair for young galleries and artists, returns from 3–6 October, 2019 with a selection of 30 galleries from over 20 cities. Marking its 10th anniversary, the fair will affirm its engagement and support of newly established galleries and emerging artists. The selected galleries, 16 of which will be participating for the first time, will take over the 14,000-square-foot concrete space of Ambika P3, located in the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering, through a curated presentation of solo projects and group shows.

Sunday Art Fair was launched in 2010 by galleries Tulips and Roses (Brussels, Vilnius), Croy Nielsen (Vienna) and Limoncello (London). Over the past ten years, the fair has established itself as the leading London contemporary art fair committed to supporting young galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Intentionally renewing its participating galleries each year, Sunday Art Fair is committed to presenting them with an opportunity to introduce global collectors to their artists. Sunday has acted – and still acts today – as a platform for artistic experimentation, thereby encouraging the discovery and promotion of new forms of art. 

Steering away from the traditional booth structure to adopt an open-plan layout, Sunday invites galleries and artists to rethink and appropriate the space, encouraging the dialogue between visitors, gallerists and artists. Free and open to the public, the fair aims to make contemporary art accessible to all, attracting younger audiences and aspiring collectors.

This year, Sunday will be partnering up with the Glasgow International (GI) Festival 2020, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, for a special exhibition curated by its director Richard Parry. An alternative to the yearly Editions booths, which previously invited UK regional institutions to present dedicated projects, this exhibition will address the theme of “distraction”, a response to the GI’s 2020 festival theme around “attention.” The exhibition will feature unique works for sale by a selection of artists from past and previous editions of the festival.

A New York-based initiative founded to drive visibility and sales to emerging and mid-tier galleries, the Young Collectors League will be offering free advising tours to attendees to assist with acquisitions throughout the course of the fair.

2019 GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS 

Galleries
A.ROMY | Geneva
Galerie Alegria | Madrid
Annka Kultys Gallery | London
Galerie Bart | Amsterdam
Bombon Projects | Barcelona
C+N Canepaneri | Milan
CHOI&LAGER Gallery | Cologne | Seoul
Daniel Benjamin Gallery | London
Galerie Derouillon | Paris
ESP | Toronto
False Flag | New York
Fragment Gallery | Moscow
Galeria Fran Reus | Palma de Mallorca
Jack Barrett Gallery | New York
ltd los angeles | Los Angeles
MKG127 | Toronto
Over the Influence | Los Angeles
PACT | Paris
Patricia Fleming Projects | Glasgow
Renata Fabbri | Milan
RIBOT | Milan
Roman Road | London
Rosa Santos | Valencia
Sid Motion Gallery | London
Sperling | Munich
Stems Gallery | Brussels | Luxembourg
Steve Turner | Los Angeles
Suprainfinit | Bucharest
The Goma | Madrid
The Hole | New York

2019 Partners
Glasgow International Festival 2020 | Glasgow
Young Collectors League | New York
Artsy | Official Online Partner

NOTES TO EDITORS:

VIP + Press Preview (by invitation only)
Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM

Public Days
Thursday, October 3 | 6–9 PM
Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5 | 12–8 PM
Sunday, October 6 | 12–6 PM 

Free and open to the public.

Location
Ambika P3
University of Westminster
33 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS 

About Sunday Art Fair

Sunday Art Fair was founded in 2010 by the galleries Tulips and Roses, Croy Nielsen and Limoncello and is currently directed by curator and writer Thom O’Nions who has been involved with the fair since 2015. The fair is engaged in the promotion of emerging art by supporting both newly established galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Many significant artists have shown at the fair at turning points in their development, including Laura Aldridge, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Anne Imhof, Christian Jankowski and Amy Yao, among many others.

About Ambika P3 

Ambika P3 is a 14,000-square-foot space beneath Baker Street in London. It was developed from the vast former concrete construction hall for the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering. Built in the 1960s, the site existed as a former concrete testing bunker where both the Channel Tunnel and sections of the British motorway were tested.

J. HILL’s Standard Unveils “Hand Drawn Glass” Collection with Artist Nigel Peake at Les Ateliers Courbet, New York

Image of the Nigel Peake collection, Hand Drawn Glass. Photo by Doreen Kilfeather. Courtesy of J. HILL's Standard.

Award-winning crystal glass manufacturer J. HILL’s Standard is pleased to announce they will unveil their third collection of tabletop crystal glassware at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York City, on view from September 17 – October 17, 2019. The series “Hand Drawn Glass,” designed and hand drawn by Irish illustrator Nigel Peake, represents a departure from the traditional rigid cut patterns of crystal glass, exploring an organic approach to form and design. The pieces feature clean, elemental shapes, and cuts that reveal the imprint of the hand.

Known for his paintings and drawings of built and unbuilt landscapes – interpreted in his books, textiles, porcelain and glass, Peake has created a series of three tumblers of various sizes: a carafe, a decanter and bowl. A spontaneous cutting motion captures the fleeting movement of the drawing hand.

The new collection offers an editioned series (four available patterns to choose from) and an open edition (seven available patterns to choose from). Oak-wood lids embellish the various patterns and are signed by Peake as part of the craft process.

Image of the Nigel Peake collection, Hand Drawn Glass. Photo by Doreen Kilfeather. Courtesy of J. HILL's Standard.

A book of drawings and references, titled “Fieldwork,” accompanies the collection. The book illustrates the continuum between inspiration, glass and cut pattern. The artist’s visual occupations materialize in the cut glass. In addition, Peake has designed a pattern sheet from which custom pieces can be individually selected.

Founder of J. HILL’s Standard, Anike Tyrrell, notes “Finding a small book of Nigel’s drawings on Irish landscape inspired the idea for the collection. It was clear his account of the textures and patterns so vivid in nature would look brilliant on glassware.”

J. HILL’s Standard, known for their handmade collectible and award-winning crystal glass, creates special collections – be they bespoke, custom or part of the permanent collections – in collaboration with artists, designers and creatives. The company’s debut collections by Martino Gamper and Scholten & Baijings were shown at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Salone del Mobile 2014. The two collections of glassware have gone on to win many awards and critical praise, including the German Design Council prize for Tabletop in 2016 and the Wallpaper* prize for ‘Best Whiskey Glass.’ The pieces have also been acquired by the Louvre for permanent display in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and in the National Museum of Ireland. Recently, J. HILL’s Standard has collaborated with Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken on a limited collection titled “The Secant Project,” which includes a wall, floor and table light.

NOTES TO EDITORS: 

About J. HILL’s Standard:

J. HILL’s Standard products blend contemporary design and traditional craftsmanship celebrating the progressive and the handmade. They celebrate the dynamism of handmade crystal and explore its inherent qualities whilst challenging the existing understanding of cutting and embellishment. Hand-cut crystal is part of Ireland’s legacy – particularly the area of Waterford. Perfecting an age-old discipline, J. HILL's Standard joins the few remaining master craftsmen in the region to preserve and evolve the artistry of hand-cut crystal. An innovative young family company working from the Atlantic shore of Ireland, they create rare, custom and bespoke pieces alongside functional and singular handcrafted objects. Their interest in exploring the inherent qualities of crystal through both form and semiotic contrasts reveals aspects to its nature that may be overlooked by more traditional methodologies.

About Nigel Peake:

Nigel Peake lives in Paris and County Down. He studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh where he received a RIBA Silver Medal Commendation in 2005. His drawings have been collected in several volumes published by Princeton Architectural Press and Yvon Lambert. His collaborations include the NY Times, Hermès and Flos. His art work has been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, London, and New York.