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4654 W Washington Blvd, LA

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Math Bass

Roses are Red
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

6 September – 21 October 2023

Next Door
Yuz Museum, Shanghai

27 April – 7 October 2023

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Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames & Hudson

Pavel Büchler

Signs of Life
Moravian Gallery, Brno

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

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Tanya Leighton, Berlin

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ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz

24 March – 25 September 2023

David Diao

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Aleksandra Domanović

Elmgreen & Dragset: READ
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague

16 November 2023 – 22 April 2024

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GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo

2 February – 28 May 2023

Sean Edwards

FOR WHAT WE HAVE
Cardonald, Hillhead, and Ibrox Libraries, UK

1 July – 30 September 2023

anywhere in the universe
The Common Guild, Glasgow

28 January – 30 September 2023

Gerasimos Floratos

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

7 September – 21 October 2023

Next Door
Yuz Museum, Shanghai

27 April – 7 October 2023

Kate Mosher Hall

The Reminder
Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

9 June – 19 August 2023

Sharon Hayes

Screening: Ricerche: Two
Contemporanea International Film Festival, Turin

13 – 17 October 2023

It’s Human Nature?
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

2 September – 19 November 2023

Comizi d’Amore
Georg Kargl, Vienna

8 September – 14 October 2023

(Wahl-) Familie, Die, Wir, Sind
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg

14 July – 5 November 2023

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Art on the Underground, Transport for London
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The land describes itself
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri

8 March – 4 August 2024

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
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Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
Friday 22 September 2023, 7:30pm

Under the Moon, Beneath the Flowers
Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles

9 September – 14 October 2023

Lore
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

11 February – 24 September 2023

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Sara Issakharian

The Jewish Museum, New York

17 May – 15 September 2024

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Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
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UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles

6 October – 11 November 2023

Esteban Jefferson

May 25th, 2020
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London

7 October 2023 – 14 January 2024

Matthew Krishanu

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
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Camden Art Centre

12 April – 23 June 2024

Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

7 October 2023 – 28 January 2024

Life Is More Important Than Art
Whitechapel Gallery, London

14 June – 17 September 2023

Oliver Laric

All Crescendo, No Reward
Zabludowicz Collection, London

28 September 2023 – 4 February 2024

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Kunstverein Wolfsburg Germany

26 August – 5 November 2023

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Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes

21 April – 31 December 2023

Oliver Osborne

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Fondazione ICA Milano
2025

Dan Rees

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

Jimmy Robert

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Moderna Museet, Malmö
1 April–3 September 2023

Elif Saydam

Solo exhibition
Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

17 October – 14 December 2024

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Kunsthal Thy, Denmark
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Eviction Notice
Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Toronto

1 October – 30 December 2023

Die Wissen
TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck

8 July – 8 October 2023

Publication: Elif Saydam: TWO CENTS
Edited by Annette Hans and Elif Saydam, published by Mousse

John Smith

Small World
13th Taipei Biennial, Taipei City

18 November 2023 – 24 March 2024

Atlas of Modernity. Exercises
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
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Studio for Propositional Cinema

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

Marianne Wex

Serial Tendencies
SETAREH, Düsseldorf

1 September – 15 October 2023

The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

3 May 2023 – 3 March 2024

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

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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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