As announced today by Carol Vogel in The New York Times, Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut will be installed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. The work will be the artist’s largest pollen installation to date, measuring approximately 18 by 21 feet, and will imbue the space with an intense luminosity and presence. The installation, organized by Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture of the MoMA, will be on view January - February 2013.
Sean Kelly announces that we will be exhibiting at the inaugural edition of the Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island in New York. We look forward to welcoming you to the fair, where we will present a carefully selected group of new and important works by gallery artists. Our booth (Stand B25) will feature a major early multi-panel glass work by Joseph Kosuth, new sculptures by Los Carpinteros, Iran do Espírito Santo, Antony Gormley, Wolfgang Laib and Peter Liversidge, a new work by Terence Koh, and photographs by James Casebere, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alec Soth and Frank Thiel.
The Kunstmuseum Thun will present the first institutional solo exhibition of Los Carpinteros in Switzerland. The exhibition, titled Silence Your Eyes, will feature both major historic works by the artists alongside a group of new works on paper. Silence Your Eyes focuses on Los Carpinteros' characteristic use of representational objects to critically engage politically and culturally restrictive systems with a masterful and elegant sense of irony. By means of disruptions and exaggerations, the installations and drawings combine inherent inconsistencies into something new.
The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany will mount a spectacular installation by Antony Gormley especially created for the institution. Titled Horizon Field Hamburg, the installation divides the space in two by creating a secondary floor suspended 25 feet in the air, thus inviting the viewer to interrogate their relationship to and interaction with space. As Gormley explains: "There is a double bind here. We have a real choice of how we wish to participate... We can stay in an underworld or climb skywards. Both scenarios put the human subject into a dynamic position of jeopardy." Horizon Field Hamburg, which will be on view from April 27 through September 9, 2012, will provoke an experience of re-orientation and re-connection with walking, feeling, hearing and seeing.
The Hamburger Bahnhof will present Anthony McCall's first solo museum exhibition in Germany. Titled Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture, this major exhibition will transform the museum, formerly a spacious railway station, into an immersive black box featuring McCall’s solid-light installations. Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture is curated by Henriette Huldisch and will be on view from April 20th through August 12th, 2012. The exhibition will be accompanied by a forthcoming catalogue, which will feature an essay written by noted art historian Noam Elcott.
Los Carpinteros will be delivering a lecture at the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto, Canada on April 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm. The lecture, presented by Prefix and Latin American-Canadian Art Projects, is part of the seventh season of the Urban Field Speakers Series, an international lecture series that brings together an array of global and local participants who offer unique perspectives on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city.
Sean Kelly announces that Peter Liversidge has begun a year-long collaboration with Low, a highly-regarded band from Duluth, Minnesota. The partnership will culminate in a new set of proposals written for the musicians.
Idris Khan will be at The University of Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery to talk about his work and The Devil's Wall, which is currently on view at the institution. A reception will be held from 5:30pm and the artist's talk will begin at 6pm.
Marina Abramović is the subject of a solo exhibition opening at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC) in Milan, Italy. The exhibition, entitled The Abramović Method, will feature an eponymously-titled body of new work. The exhibition will be accompanied by a two volume catalogue; the first volume will detail the history of Abramović's performances in Italy while the second will focus on the exhibition itself. The Abramović Method is curated by Diego Sileo and Eugenio Viola.
Sean Kelly announces the development of a new 22,000 square foot space at 475 10th Avenue in a historic 1914 building. The two story gallery, designed by award-winning architect Toshiko Mori, will be the first of its kind in this rapidly developing neighborhood adjacent to the Hudson Yards development. Sean Kelly will open the new gallery in the fall of 2012 with a series of events culminating in its inaugural exhibition.
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has announced that it is the recipient of a $500,000 gift from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The gift will be used to help support CCS Bard’s 20th Anniversary Next Decade campaign, which aims to raise funds over the next ten years to maintain the school’s internationally-renowned, world-class faculty and research and exhibition center, while reducing the financial burden on its students. In recognition of this gift, one of the three principal galleries in CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art will be named The Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery. The official naming took place on March 17, 2012, at the start of CCS Bard’s 20th anniversary year calendar.
The Jewish Museum will present American painter Kehinde Wiley in conversation with journalist and Today Show contributor Lola Ogunnaike on Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 pm. Kehinde Wiley will discuss his latest series, The World Stage: Israel. Currently on view at The Jewish Museum, The World Stage: Israel showcases vibrant large-scale portraits of Israeli youths, each embedded in a unique background inspired by Jewish ceremonial art, as well as works selected by Wiley from the Museum’s collection.
We will be exhibiting at the Armory Show (Booth 501, Pier 94). We look forward to welcoming you to the booth, where we will present a carefully curated selection of new and important works by Marina Abramović, Los Carpinteros, James Casebere, Leandro Erlich, Antony Gormley, Laurent Grasso, Callum Innes, Idris Khan, Peter Liversidge, Nathan Mabry, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alec Soth, Frank Thiel and Kehinde Wiley.
Terence Koh’s oeuvre employs a diverse range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance and the internet (Koh’s web presence is his longest continuous artwork to date). Originally working under the alias asianpunkboy, Koh designed zines and custom-made books, quickly cultivating a dedicated following. By 2004, Koh was creating work under his real name and had developed a public persona of enigmatic behavior—the artist wears only white, lives in an all white environment, writes in a cryptically poetic way and is intentionally unclear on such basic biographical details as his date of birth and his childhood home.
The New York Times Magazine has commissioned Khan to create a new body of work for their new issue, on newsstands Sunday, March 4th. Khan's photograph London Eye, London, 2012 graces the cover of the issue; to view the cover and the contents of the magazine digitally, please visit The New York Times website.
James Casebere and Leandro Erlich will be featured in Lifelike, an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition, which is curated by Siri Engberg, highlights an international selection of artists whose practices engage commonplace objects and situations to create effects that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal. Lifelike opens on February 25th and will be on view through May 27, 2012. A Walker-produced catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
The University of Chicago will host Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition: Anthony McCall 1970-79, 2001—, a special two-day event featuring works by Anthony McCall on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm.
The University of Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery will present the first UK showing of Idris Khan’s new installation The Devil's Wall, which draws inspiration from rituals and practices of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that is one of the pillars of Islam and is undertaken by millions of Muslims each year.
The ninth annual Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival (RAFF) will feature both Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present and Rebecca Horn's Moon Mirror Journey. The focus of this year's festival is revolutionary artists.
The Rubin Museum of Art will host the US premiere of Just Trial and Error: Conversations on Consciousness, a film featuring Antony Gormley. Just Trial and Error presents insights on topics including the human brain, global consciousness, perception, the role of the internet and the space that art occupies.
Anthony McCall will visit The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., engaging in a conversation with the The Phillips Collection's Curator at Large, Klaus Ottman, as a part of the museum's Art as Experience focus, which emphasizes the importance of experience and interpretation and highlights artists whose works are phenomenological, experiential and site-responsive.
Marina Abramović will be included in a group exhibition at the Smart Museum in Chicago and, in conjunction with the Chicago Humanities Festival, will deliver a lecture that coincides with the exhibition's opening.
A central question within the work of Anthony McCall is how to represent time now that the age-old tropes of skull, scythe and hourglass have had their day. In considering the artist’s expansion of the means of time’s depiction, an expansion that rested on his development of a new graphic language, art historian Anne Wagner’s lecture aims to bring into view McCall’s engagement with memory and loss.
Sean Kelly now represents Nathan Mabry in New York. Born in Colorado in 1978, Los Angeles-based Mabry has quickly established himself as a powerful young voice on the West Coast art scene with an impressive and critically acclaimed body of work that primarily includes sculpture and work on paper.
The captivating new HBO feature-length documentary, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, will have its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition. The film, from first-time director Matthew Akers, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes portrait of Abramović, following the artist in the momentous year leading up to her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010.
Sean Kelly and D.A.P. ARTBOOK will host gallery artist James Casebere as he signs copies of his new monograph, James Casebere: Works 1975-2010, at Sean Kelly on Tuesday, December 13th from 6 to 8pm. The monograph will be available for purchase at the event.
Please come and visit us at Booth B17 in the Miami Beach Convention Center where we will have a carefully curated selection of new and important works by Marina Abramović, Los Carpinteros, James Casebere, Leandro Erlich, Iran do Espírito Santo, Antony Gormley, Laurent Grasso, Callum Innes, Joseph Kosuth, Peter Liversidge, Robert Mapplethorpe, Julião Sarmento, Alec Soth, Frank Thiel and Kehinde Wiley.
This time-themed exhibition features artists who consider how time is made visible through performed acts, unique measuring systems, and other uncommon means. Curators Joseph Whitt and Terri C. Smith see these aforementioned phenomena as jumping off points for an exhibition that explores how artists address the shape of time.
TIME Lightbox highlights the newly released publication James Casebere’s Works 1975-2010 in their virtual LightBox. To see the slideshow and read the accompanying article, please visit TIME LightBox.
Marina Abramovic will serve as the Artistic Director for MOCA's annual gala.
The Rubin Museum of Art will present the first US screening of internationally renowned artist Rebecca Horn’s personal retrospective film, Moon Mirror Journey (2011), premiered at the Berliner Festspiele earlier this year.
The SCAD Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works by Kehinde Wiley as part of the much-anticipated reopening of the newly expanded and re-imagined museum. The new, world-class facility will open to the public on October 29, 2011 along with Kehinde Wiley: Selected Works.
In conjunction with a performance of the Texas based band Balmorhea, a video by Peter Liversidge will be debuted at the Bozar Electronic Weekend Festival in Brussels, Belgium.
Works by Laurent Grasso will be included in an exhibition of the Olbricht Collection at La Maison Rouge in Paris, France. Titled memories of the future in reference to Grasso's neon sculpture of the same name (pictured above), the exhibition draws from the impressive collection of Thomas Olbricht, marking the first time the collection has been seen in France.
S.M.A.K. will present the first extensive retrospective of the film-maker and artist Johan Grimonprez.
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma in Mallorca, Spain will present the first solo exhibition of Los Carpinteros in a Spanish museum.
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma in Mallorca, Spain will present the first solo exhibition of Los Carpinteros in a Spanish museum. The exhibition, titled Los Carpinteros, Handwork – Constructing the World: Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, is curated by Daniela Zyman draws from the impressive collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication and will be on view from October 15, 2011 through January 22, 2012.
Wolfgang Laib will be giving a lecture at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. in the Carriage House on Hillyer Court.
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia will present a major retrospective tracing the prolific career of Marina Abramović. Originally conceived by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately fifty works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances along with a new performance installation.
The exhibition features three videos and a series of iconic photographs that span a 40 year career. This intimate survey chronicles the evolution of Abramovic's practice, including works that focus on her exploration of physicality and endurance alongside those that investigate a more spiritual and immaterial fortitude.
Julião Sarmento is part the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture's video project, Commercial Break, which debuted at this year's Venice Bienniale and will be on view for Brooklyn's Bring to Light celebration.
Two Different Tomorrows, the Leandro Erlich exhibition currently on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery, will be discussed at The Review Panel, which is presented by the National Academy Museum & School in partnership with artcritical.com. The Review Panel is an ongoing series moderated by David Cohen, editor of artcritical.com, in which three art critics discuss current exhibitions of contemporary art in New York City.
The exhibition, which focuses on work that alters the viewer's sense of perception and reality through seeking active engagement on both a physical and intellectual level, also includes Belgian artists Ann Veronica Janssens and Lawrence Malstaf.
The film world premiere of Moon Mirror Journey will take place at the 11th international literature festival berlin in Berlin, Germany.
Manchester International Festival and Teatro Real Madrid present the world premiere of a startling new piece for the stage: The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, a biography of the godmother of performance art, re-imagined by visionary director Robert Wilson and performed by Marina Abramovic.
Iran do Espírito Santo is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery of the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Canada.
The last lecture in Laurent Grasso's lecture tour will be held at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France on June 23rd.
Julião Sarmento: 2000 – 2010, originally on view at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, has traveled to Es Baluard, Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma in Mallorca, Spain. The exhibition was curated by Fernando French and will be on view from June 23 through September 25, 2011.
Light Industry and The Artist's Institute will present Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light at Dia:Chelsea, located at 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York.
Rebecca Horn has been awarded the prestigious Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques 2011 from the Académie d’Architecture de Paris.
For the 42nd edition of Art Basel, Sean Kelly will exhibit work that exemplifies the diverse and intellectually driven program for which the gallery is known.
Marina Abramovic, Antony Gormley and Joseph Kosuth will have work featured in exhibitions held in conjunction with this year's Venice Bienniale, which will be on view at various locations around Venice from June 4th to November 27th, 2011.
Joseph Kosuth is the subject of a major solo exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv.
Sean Kelly Gallery will be exhibiting at Art HK 11, the Hong Kong International Art Fair.
A new work by Leandro Erlich is featured in a group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The exhibition, titled Paris-Delhi-Bombay, brings the contemporary Indian art scene into dialogue with the contemporary art scene in France.
Sean Kelly wishes to congratulate Gavin Turk on the recent unveiling of Nail, a permanent sculptural commission in London's financial district.
Film screening and Q&A: Monday, May 9 at 8 pm at The New School Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street New York.
Sean Kelly will host a panel discussion at the gallery on Saturday, May 7th from 3 to 5 pm focusing on curatorial models in the 21st century. Panelists will debate the evolving definition of the role of the curator.
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce that the gallery now represents Peter Liversidge. London-based artist Peter Liversidge was born in the UK in 1973. For the past decade, all of his work has started with the conceptually-based practice of creating proposals for performances and artworks across a wide expanse of mediums.
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce that the gallery now represents Alec Soth. Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a native Midwesterner based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Soth made his artworld debut in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with the inclusion of compelling images such as Charles, Vasa, Minnesota from his now iconic series Sleeping by the Mississippi.
Artists and Writers/House and Home will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in an American museum since the 1999 exhibition Fundamental Accuracy presented at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
Kehinde Wiley, whose work is included in the exhibition Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, will discuss his practice, process, and imagery in an engaging lecture and slide show at LACMA.
Marina Abramović will give a lecture at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.,.
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will showcase video works by Laurent Grasso in their Black Box theatre. The exhibition will feature two works, Polair and Les Oiseaux. The exhibition opens on April 4, 2011 and will be on view through July 24, 2011.
The exhibition includes film, sculpture, a performance, drawings and paintings, the works in the exhibition will be shown in Spain for the first time.
Anthony McCall will be included in a group exhibition at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial titled Electric Nights.
Sean Kelly Gallery is pleased to announce that on March 14, 2011, the International Art Critics Association will honor Event Horizon with an award for Best Exhibition in a Public Space in 2010.
Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image explores how technology-based art relates to the human spirit through narrative, performance, music, humor, social and political issues, nostalgia, and the purely sensory.
Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez will be available to sign copies of his newly published book entitled, IT'S A POOR SORT OF MEMORY THAT ONLY WORKS BACKWARD.
Johan will be at the Armory to sign copies of his new book, "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward." Please contact the gallery at info@skny.com to rsvp to the event.
Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s combines sculpture, drawing, photography and dance from Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark daringly created in response to New York City's dereliction.
Marina Abramovic will give an artist talk at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Located at 1 East 78th Street, New York.
Anthony McCall will be giving an artist talk at Tate Modern in London were he will talk in depth about his Oeuvre and his upcoming projects.
A special screening of the film and digital remake of Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone will be shown simultaneously at Tate Modern London.
Column is a ground breaking public artwork by Anthony McCall. Taller than the Blackpool Tower, it will rise from Wirral Waters in Merseyside and be visible across the North West region throughout the Olympic year.
Laurie Anderson's Sharkey's Day will be a part of Green Screen Dreams at the Big Screen Project. Curated by Nat Trotman and in association with 2011 THE ARMORY SHOW.
This year, SCAD deFINE ART will honor Marina Abramović, a pioneer of performance art as a visual art form.
Callum Innes is included in a group exhibition at Tate Britain titled Watercolour.
In conversation with critic and writer Adrian Searle at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.
Internationally acclaimed artist Kehinde Wiley visits the Museum to speak about his remarkable painting, Marechal Floriano Peixoto (from the World Stage: Brazil series), Contemporary Forum's 2009 ArtPick selection.
Sean Kelly Gallery, which represents the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in the Americas, is delighted to inform you of the landmark acquisition of Robert Mapplethorpe art and archival material in a joint acquisition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Michelle Bird, Curatorial Assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Artist Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez.
Anthony McCall's seminal work Line Describing Cone, 1973 is included in the group exhibition Seeing Now: Photography since 1960 at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland.
On October 23rd from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Tehching Hsieh will give a talk in conversation with art critic Lee Weng-Choy, at the Asia Art Archive symposium taking place at the Agnès b. CINEMA!, Hong Kong Arts Center in Hong Kong.
Rebecca Horn has been awarded the highly prestigious 2010 Praemium Imperiale Prize in Sculpture.
Film Forum screens Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE.
Johan Grimonprez's award-winning documentary film DOUBLE TAKE (2009) will be screened at Documentary Fortnight 2010, in the Museum of Modern Art's International Festival of Nonfiction Film, New York (February 17 – March 3, 2010).