Oliver Osborne
‘German Afternoons’
5 July – 27 August 2022
Kurfürstenstraße 24/25 & 156, Berlin

Tanya Leighton

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2021
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Altered Future

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Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Winter Sun

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Tanya Leighton, Berlin

‘Winter Sun’
December Viewing Room
2020

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Andrew Kuo
‘TMI’
24 August – 24 September
Preview: Saturday 20 August, 5–8pm
4654 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles

Sky Hopinka
‘Kicking the Clouds’
Saturday 20 August, 7:30pm
4654 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles

Oliver Laric
10 September – 22 October
Kurfürstenstraße 24/25, Berlin

Arrange Whatever
Pieces Come Your Way
1 October – 5 November
4654 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles

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Sam Anderson

Breathing Water, Drinking Air
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf

12 August 2022 – 25 June 2023

Lunch Hour
Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles

13 July – 13 August 2022

Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles

18 September 2022

Antonio Ballester Moreno

What Can Be Seen From Here, curated by Alfredo Puente
Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León, Spain

24 April – 31 July 2022

Math Bass

A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzanning, Meza-9
David Zwirner, New York

9 September – 15 October 2022

Plants Now!
Vielmetter, Los Angeles

16 July – 26 August 2022

Publication: World of Art: Contemporary Painting
Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames & Hudson

Pavel Büchler

Signs of Life
Moravian Gallery, Brno

21 September 2023 – 31 March 2024

Ora et lege: The Palace of Concrete Poetry, curated by Monika Čejková
The Writers' House of Georgia, Tbilisi

9 September – 9 October 2022

Hotovo
Moravian Gallery, Brno

24 September 2021 – 23 September 2022

Alejandro Cesarco

Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Contemporary Art
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick

8 December 2022 – 4 June 2023

Alejandro Cesarco / Daniel Gustav Cramer
Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris

3 September 2022

David Diao

Publication: ‘David Diao: Painting and Document’
Stéphane Mroczkowski and Alexandra Pignol, published by mare et martin

Aleksandra Domanović

Untitled (In my Feelings)
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
2022

Future Bodies from a Recent Past
Museum Brandhorst, Munich

2 June 2022 – 13 January 2023

Spatial Affairs
Ludwig Museum, Budapest

29 April 2021 – 31 August 2023

Sean Edwards

Solo exhibition
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

22 September – 12 November 2022

British Art Show 9
Plymouth

8 October – 23 December 2022

British Art Show 9
Manchester

13 May – 4 September 2022

Kate Mosher Hall

The American Friend, Downs and Ross, New York

16 September – 22 October 2022

The Painter’s New Tools
Nahmad Contemporary, New York

22 June – 24 September 2022

Sharon Hayes

What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?
Museum für moderne Kunst, Weserburg

19 November 2022 – 23 April 2023

To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

6 October 2022 – 26 February 2023

Shifting the Silence
SFMoMA, San Francisco

9 April – 5 September 2022

Sky Hopinka

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
January 2023

Kicking the Clouds
Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
Saturday 20 August, 7:30pm

The sun comes in whenever it wants
LUMA, Arles

13 April – 30 October 2022

Memories of Movement
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

9 February 2022 – 8 January 2023

Esteban Jefferson

Fire Figure Fantasy
ICA, Miami

12 May – 30 October 2022

Matthew Krishanu

The Kingfisher’s Wing (curated by Tom Morton)
GRIMM, New York

21 July – 19 August 2022

Oliver Laric

Solo exhibition
Fondation Cartier, Paris
2023

Solo exhibition
Musée de la romanité, Nîmes
Summer 2023

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2022

Post Capital
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

17 September 2022 – 15 January 2023

Reference Festival
Selfridges, London

14 July – 14 October 2022

Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today
MOSTYN, Wales

25 June – 25 September 2022

The Dream of Ulysses
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island

30 April – 16 October 2022

Jonas Lipps

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2023

Bruce McLean

Black Garden Paintings
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

25 June – 2 October 2022

Oliver Osborne

German Afternoons
Tanya Leighton, Berlin

5 July – 27 August 2022

Dan Rees

Publication: World of Art: Contemporary Painting
Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames & Hudson

Jimmy Robert

touch. Politiken der Berührung (The Politics of Touch) EMOP European Month of Photography, Amtsalon, Berlin
2023

Horizons Olfactifs
Fondation Espace Écureuil pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse
2023

Solo exhibition
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Fall 2022

Still Alive
5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan

30 July – 10 October 2022

Portrait of a Movement
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid

9 April – 9 October 2022

Elif Saydam

Solo exhibition
All Stars, Lausanne
2022

Award: Catalogues for young artists
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung

John Smith

Street Life: The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

12 November 2022 – 5 March 2023

Instantly! Street Photography in Vienna
Museen der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria

19 May – 23 October 2022

Atlas of Modernity. Exercises
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
1 October 2021 – Ongoing

Studio for Propositional Cinema

Fabulist Manifesto (At Play)
Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf

30 June – 20 August 2022

The Camera of Disaster
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

3 April – 25 September 2022

Publication: Myths and Manifestos
Published by Kunstverein München and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

Marianne Wex

Fun Feminism
Kunstmuseum, Basel

24 September 2022 – 26 March 2023

Publication: ‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’
Edited by Alona Pardo, published by Prestel Publications

Hiroka Yamashita

YES YOU CAN : The Strength of Life through Art WHAT Warehouse of Art, Tokyo

6 August – 16 October 2022

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Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Installation view

Press release

Pavel Büchler

(Honest) Work

13 May – 12 July 2015, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Ikon presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition to date by Pavel Büchler. Born in Prague in 1952 and based in this country since the 1980s, Büchler is renowned as an influential teacher and figure in the international art scene.

Büchler’s exhibition at Ikon involves a wide range of media including text, found objects, obsolete technologies and appropriated digital material, characteristically combining philosophical scepticism with a smart sense of humour that draws attention to the fundamentally strange nature of everyday life.

Visitors experience a new work by Büchler immediately on arrival at Ikon, Inside Watt (2010), comprising a text extract from Samuel Beckett’s Watt (1953) set in the style of a book page and applied to the front doors. The transition from inside to outside, and vice versa, is made through a veil of text, superimposed on what is visible beyond. Büchler’s intervention on the doors is telling, as they are the means by which visitors move between the public realm and dedicated art space, raising issues of access to art, its role in society and a tendency to exclusivity in our art worlds.

The perpetual outsider status projected onto the main protagonist in The Castle (2005), a key work in this exhibition, corresponds to an anxiety that is often engendered by cultural institutions. Involving a large installation of loudspeakers based on a 1920s design by Marconi, the work proclaims a quotation from Kafka’s The Castle: “You are not from the Castle, you are not from the village, you aren’t anything. Or rather, unfortunately, you are something, a stranger, a man who isn’t wanted and is in everybody’s way …”

Broadcast through the antique sound system, the words recall street propaganda announcements as they insist that integration is impossible, that the stranger will always remain on the outside. On the other hand, Fly (2009), involves an illuminated fire exit sign and the sound of a fly buzzing inside. There is no yearning for admittance, but rather this is an innocent creature desperately trying to get out.

Ikon’s exhibition also features a number of found objects and small sculptures such as Il Castello (2007), consisting of two found pencils, and Cannon (2014), made from a billiard ball and postcard. Most of these are fortuitous combinations, brought together to create “semantic short circuits”,resulting in visual puns that are funny, subtle and subversive. Similarly the artist’s fascination with wordplay is made more explicit in his ongoing series Honest Work (2011–), unique letterpress prints made from old fashioned printing blocks. Quotations from Karl Marx to Edgar Allan Poe, from Barnett Newman to Joseph Kosuth, are sources of inspiration, as well as coincidences found within and between alphabets and numerical systems. These letterpress works constitute a bookend of an extraordinary survey, a kind of variety that conveys rare artistic ingenuity.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, including texts by Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller and Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Director. In addition Pavel Büchler has made a new limited edition, titled "Honest Work (Silence)" (2015), available exclusively at Ikon, it is a letterpress work on Arches 88 paper, 34 × 50 cm, edition of 26, priced £720.

This exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation.

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