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22 November – 17 December 2022
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22 November – 17 December 2022
Kurfürstenstraße 156, Berlin

‘Heart View Knot Bird’
23 November 2022 – 7 January 2023
4654 W Washington Blvd, LA

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14 January – 25 February 2023
4654 W Washington Blvd, LA

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28 January – 25 February 2023
Kurfürstenstraße 24/25, Berlin

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Sam Anderson

Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles

13 November – 18 December 2022

Breathing Water, Drinking Air
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf

12 August 2022 – 25 June 2023

Math Bass

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

Alejandro Cesarco

The Ongoing Story
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan

18 November 2022 – 9 February 2023

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

blinking last and laughing first
Rumpelstiltskin, New York

30 October – 18 December 2022

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

Aleksandra Domanović

A leap into the Void
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo

2 February – 28 May 2023

Pattern Recognition
Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany

10 December 2022 – 5 March 2023

Untitled (In my Feelings)
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
2023

Log Into Our Sea
Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts, New Taipei City

28 October – 30 December 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

British Art Show 9
Plymouth

8 October – 23 December 2022

Sharon Hayes

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

19 November 2022 – 23 April 2023

Paint the Protest
Off Paradise, New York

27 October 2022 – 27 January 2023

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

6 October 2022 – 26 February 2023

Sky Hopinka

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin

21 January – 25 February 2023

Current Speed: Sky Hopinka
Speed Art Museum, Louisville

11 November 2022 – 19 February 2023

Memories of Movement
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

9 February 2022 – 8 January 2023

Award: 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Sara Issakharian

Behold mother, I make all things new
Tanya Leighton, Berlin

22 November – 17 December 2022

Esteban Jefferson

CCA Goldsmiths, London
October 2023

Matthew Krishanu

Playground
Niru Ratnam, London

10 November 2022 – 14 January 2023

Oliver Laric

Solo exhibition
Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes
Summer 2023

Expect the Unexpected
Kunstmuseum Bonn

15 February – 27 May 2023

Post Capital
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

17 September 2022 – 15 January 2023

Afterimage
MAXXI L’Aquila

2 July 2022 – 19 February 2023

Jonas Lipps

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2023

Oliver Osborne

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles

8 March – 8 April 2023

Dan Rees

Solo exhibition
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
March 2023

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

Jimmy Robert

Solo exhibition
Moderna Museet, Malmö
Spring 2023

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

Performance (curated by François Piron)
Centre National de la Danse, Paris-Pantin

9 March – 7 May 2023

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

All dressed up and nowhere to go
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

28 October 2022 – 15 January 2023

Elif Saydam

Eviction Notice
Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Toronto
2023

ENTER_NATURE
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

26 November 2022 – 22 February 2023

Elif Saydam / Tom Hardwick-Allan
Lady Helen, Berlin
Opening Saturday 24 September 6–9pm

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

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

John Smith: Introspective (1972 – 2022)
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

1 October – 1 December 2022

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

Studio for Propositional Cinema

Notice to the Reader.
Tanya Leighton, Berlin

22 November – 17 December 2022

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

Marianne Wex

*A Spectrum of seeing/Perfect Documents,
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

23 March – 17 September 2023

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

Field, Force, Surface, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong

19 November – 24 December 2022

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Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson, Billetterie, 2019

Oil on linen, 182.9×304.8 cm, 72×120 in, Unique

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

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Esteban Jefferson, Petit Palais, 2019

2-channel video, 15 minutes 22 seconds, Unique

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Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

White Columns is pleased to announce ‘Petit Palais’ the debut solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Esteban Jefferson.

Jefferson’s exhibition, presented as a mise-en-scene staged on a faux marble floor, comprises four recent paintings and a two-channel video work. The exhibition centers around Jefferson’s ongoing consideration of the Beaux Arts-style rotunda of the Petit Palais museum in Paris.

Working from his own photographic sources and video footage – shot during repeated visits to the museum - Jefferson has created a complex body of work centered around issues of race, identity and the legacies of colonialism, whilst simultaneously interrogating the methodologies of display and the institutional narratives within the museum itself.

Jefferson’s paintings describe the liminal space of the museum’s lobby with all of its institutional ‘clutter’: video screens, computer terminals, reception desks, public signage, and visitor stanchions. His paintings focus upon and privilege the serendipitous visual ‘encounters’ between the museum’s employees and visitors and two sculptural busts of African subjects that are on permanent display at the margins of the rotunda. (The museum’s wall labels for the busts identify neither their maker nor their date of creation, suggesting only a generic title ‘Buste d’Africaine’ and that they are possibly from the late 19th Century.)

Formally Jefferson’s paintings oscillate between areas of provisional mark-making and areas of intense, almost hyper-realistic focus. The process of their making remains fully evident. This aesthetic ‘push-pull’, a sense of being simultaneously in- and out-of-focus is echoed and amplified in the hand-held, ambient documentary video footage Jefferson presents alongside the paintings. About ‘Petit Palais’ Jefferson has stated that one of his intentions is:

“ … to open up a dialogue with the museum, to rethink the way the busts are presented, moving them into a more central space, with updated and more fully-researched labels … As it is now, the busts occupy the position they always have: kind of art, kind of decor, valuable but not treated as having the same value as everything else in the museum. The irony to me is that the busts are, in my opinion, the most interesting works on display in the Petit Palais.”

Working both within and around the established histories of painting Jefferson has embarked on a highly ambitious and rigorous project, one that simultaneously explores and expands the limits of the medium, in turn creating a truly idiosyncratic and aestheticised form of institutional critique.

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Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais

14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020, White Columns, New York

Installation view

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