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How’s My Painting – Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Mar 1 – Sep 7, 2025

Following the anniversary exhibition INSTALLATIONS FROM 25 YEARS OF THE FALCKENBERG COLLECTION (2019), which was dedicated to installations as the core medium of the Falckenberg Collection, the focus will shift to painting in 2025. In the exhibition HOW’S MY PAINTING?, the medium will be presented comprehensively for the first time with over 100 works from the Falckenberg Collection.

Starting with Werner Büttner, Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger, who stirred up the established art scene of the 1980s with their punk-inspired attitude and, together with their American colleagues of the same age Raymond Pettibon and Mike Kelley, represent the concept of counter culture that has shaped the Falckenberg Collection, the exhibition spans an arc to all varieties of the medium, from panel painting to its installative, deconstructive and conceptual manifestations.

Es ist sehr schön, was du gemacht h… Matthias Bosshart, Urs Frei, Adrian Schiess – Kunst(zeug)haus, CH – Rapperswil

Feb 23 – May 4, 2025

Die Ausstellung mit Werken von Matthias Bosshart (*1950, Eschlikon), Urs Frei (1958, Zürich – 2023, Zollikon) und Adrian Schiess (*1959, Zürich) widmet sich deren künstlerischen Austauschmomenten und Überschneidungspunkten. Charakteristisch für die drei Künstler sind abstrakte, nicht-illustrative Arbeiten. In ihrem Schaffensprozess spielen oder spielten die Handhabung der verwendeten Materialien, die Aussagekraft der entschiedenen Farbigkeit und der Objektcharakter der Bilder eine ausschlaggebende Rolle. Charakteristisch ist ihnen das Ausloten der Grenzen des Mediums Malerei, indem nicht der Abbildcharakter, sondern die Materialität von Farbe im Zentrum steht. Bei allen drei Kunstschaffenden geschieht dies auf individuelle Weise. Doch in der Zusammenschau ihrer Arbeiten werden relevante Gemeinsamkeiten sichtbar

Die Ausstellung schafft einen spannungsreichen Raum, in dem die Kunstwerke der drei Kunstschaffenden das erste Mal gemeinsam präsentiert werden. Zudem handelt es sich um die erste Ausstellung der Arbeiten von Frei nach dessen Tod im vergangenen Jahr. Der Titel der Ausstellung «Es ist sehr schön, was du gemacht h…» ist ein Werkzitat von Bosshart und nimmt Bezug auf ein Video von ihm. Wenngleich das Zitat hier als Ausdruck der Wertschätzung von Bosshart und Schiess ihrem engen Künstlerkollegen Frei gegenüber zu lesen ist, wohnt ihm auch eine provokative Note inne: Was bedeutet dieser allzu häufig leicht daher gesagte Zuspruch? Die Ausstellung, die noch zu Lebzeiten Freis initiiert war, ist eine Bestätigung der Anerkennung dem verstorbenen Freund gegenüber, dessen Werk von beachtlicher kunsthistorischer Bedeutung ist und bleibt.

Von hier aus. Jubiläumsausstellung – Bündner Kunstmuseum, CH – Chur

Feb 22 – Jun 15, 2025

The Anniversary Exhibition “From Now On” focuses on the collection of the Art Museum Graubünden, shows specific peculiarities and develops perspectives for the future. In 1900 the Bündner Kunstverein began with the development of an art collection. In the meantime the collection includes about 8000 works from all fields of fine art from the 18th century up to the present, and reflects the medial diversity of artistic creation. Since its foundation it has been shaped by Graubünden’s specific cultural situation: This includes the influence of the alpine landscape as well as the interplay between emigration and tourism. Artists come and go, carry the exceptional into the world and bring the world to Graubünden. The history of art in Graubünden is characterised by a variety of significant figures and movements that have led to specific focal points. The aspiration is to keep the historically grown collection independent and unique. Therefore the existing priorities will be cultivated and expanded and new accents will be set.

The anniversary exhibition “From Now On” is spread out across the whole museum with both houses (Villa Planta and Extension Building). The highlights of the collection are thereby just as much in focus as the new acquisitions of the past years with which the collection was enlarged. A particular concern of the exhibition is its perspective into the future: “From Now On” does not only mean embedded locally, but also wants to show in what way the museum collection can be extended. For this purpose specific loan requests will be made and works commissioned.

Hommage to Joseph Marioni – Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

Feb 16 – May 18, 2025

Joseph Marioni is internationally regarded as one of the leading figures of Radical Painting, an art movement wholly dedicated to the exploration of color. In September 2024, he passed away at the age of 81. To honor his legacy, the Von der Heydt Museum—home to one of Marioni’s characteristic works—will pay tribute to the painter with a special exhibition.

Born in 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Marioni lived and worked in New York. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe, and is part of several major private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Kolumba Cologne, the Goetz Collection in Munich, and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.

 

Gärna avantgardistisk konst – Schyls donation at RAVINEN, Båstad, Sweden

Feb 1 – May 18, 2025

with works by Donald Baechler, Barton Lidice Beneš, Bärd Breivik, Toshikatsu Endo, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Per Kirkebv, Imi Knoebel, Jiri Kolár, Ted Kurahara, Axel Lieber, Richard Long, Nino Longobardi, Francesco Motolese, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Osipow, Arnulf Rainer, Andres Serrano, Yasse Tabuchi, Leon Tarasewicz, Gabriele Trinchera, Biorn‑Sigurd Tufta, Victor Vasarely, Sverre Wyller and Jules Schyl.

During the spring, RAVINEN presents a collection of international art from the end of the 20th century. The exhibition is curated by Sune Nordgren, who has made a selection from the Schyl donation. The donation was made as a generous gesture and invitation to the City of Malmö by Karin and Jules Schyl. It contained a large stock portfolio and a studio filled with art by Schyl. Everything was to be sold, and the funds were to be used to buy “original foreign art – preferably avant-garde”. As director of Malmö Konsthall in the 1990s, Sune Nordgren played a decisive role in ensuring that international contemporary art was shown in Skäne.
He was also involved in the art purchases made by the representatives of the Schyls’ donation. The collection now belongs to Malmö Art Museum.

Nichts als die Welt

Dec 14, 2024 – Feb 23, 2025

works by Ingmar Alge (*1971), Marc Bauer (*1975), Maya Hottarek (*1990), Ursula Palla (*1961), Bernhard Sauter (1941 –1997), Christine Streuli (*1975), Cécile Wick(*1954)
curated by Julian Denzler

 

 

All That You See – Kunsthalle, Göppingen

Nov 12, 2024 – Apr 27, 2025


The central themes in the work of painter Giacomo Santiago Rogado (*1979) are perception and seeing itself. His painting enables visual experiences that stimulate and sharpen perception. Rogado’s works encourage us to take a closer look – raising questions about spatiality, three-dimensionality and materiality. In his work, he combines the most diverse traditions of the painterly medium and explores its limits with tools, techniques and materials.

The exhibition ALL THAT YOU SEE provides a comprehensive overview of the painter’s oeuvre and shows works from his various groups of works. The artist’s works will be on display on both levels of the museum – in the Shedhalle, in C1 and in the hall below. An expansive and walk-in installation is also part of the exhibition, with which Rogado continues his key themes: Viewers can walk through the installations and are thus completely surrounded by the paintings. The idea of pictorial space and its expansion thus takes on a new dimension. The panel painting has opened up into the three-dimensional.

A digital encounter with the artist’s work has been created especially for the VR room Playground.

For Joseph Marioni An Exhibtion in memory of the Painter

Nov 1, 2024 – Feb 24, 2025

On September 6, the American painter Joseph Marioni died unexpectedly at the age of 81 in his adopted home of New York. As the son of Italian immigrants, Marioni was well acquainted with European art history. In 1994, we acquired Yellow Painting 1.1982 from a private collection, the first painting that he had exhibited in Germany in the year it was created, in the legendary and highly acclaimed painting room of Cologne painter Günter Umberg. The following year, it was juxtaposed with the sculpture of the standing Ecce homo, created around 1500, which impressively presented the still young concept of the reformed diocesan museum. On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Marioni had the opportunity to view the presentation. He found himself in the cross-temporal and cross-media juxtaposition in a way that he had never experienced before. This was followed by an ongoing and intensive dialog about painting, which we will miss just as much as his hospitality, generosity and warmth of heart. Important milestones in our relationship included the solo exhibition Joseph Marioni – Triptych, which we showed in 1999 immediately after Andy Warhol – Crosses at the old location, the opening exhibition in the new building (2007 – 2008) and the annual exhibition Noli me tangere (2010 – 2011), within which his works formed a common thread. With four selected works from the years 1974, 1982, 1999 and 2017, the exhibition For Joseph Marioni can lay claim to the character of a small retrospective. It provides an insight into the painter’s lifelong struggle for painting as a body of color, color of light.

Concepts of the All-Over – Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

Oct 3, 2024 – Apr 14, 2025

In Concepts of the All-Over, Museum Haus Konstruktiv is presenting a magnificent group show that celebrates the combining of colors, shapes, light and architecture. As the final exhibition to be held in the ewz Unterwerk Selnau building before the museum moves to the Löwenbräukunst site in spring 2025, it is also a homage to the historical industrial structure that has been our home for over two decades. Visitors will be able to experience large-scale works by Carlos Bunga, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Fritz Glarner, Ana Montiel, Reto Pulfer, Christine Streuli and Esther Stocker.

Art 35 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 35 Basel Unlimited

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 34 Basel

Jun 17 – Jun 23, 2003

Art 33 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 2002

Art 32 Basel

Jun 13 – Jun 18, 2001

Art Cologne 2000

Nov 5 – Nov 12, 2000

Art Cologne 1999

Nov 7 – Nov 14, 1999

Art 30 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 1999

Art Cologne 1998

Nov 8 – Nov 15, 1998

Art 29 Basel

Jun 10 – Jun 15, 1998

FIAC Paris 1997

Oct 1 – Oct 6, 1997

Art 28 Basel

Jun 11 – Jun 16, 1997

Art 27 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 1996

Art Cologne 1995

Nov 11 – Nov 19, 1995

Art 26 Basel

Jun 14 – Jun 19, 1995

Art Cologne 1994

Nov 10 – Nov 16, 1994

Art 25 Basel

Jun 15 – Jun 20, 1994

Four Honest Outlaws – Sala Ray Marioni Gordon

published by Michael Fried for the Yale University Press
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists: video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon.
«Four Honest Outlaws» takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, «To live outside the law you must be honest», meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world.
Michael Fried will moderate a symposium «PAINTING NOW: A discussion taking off from the work of Joseph Marioni»,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (USA), December 10, 2011

The Archive in the Worm

Verlag für Moderne Kunst, with essays by Andrés Duprat, Carl Friedrich Schröer and Raimund Stecker.
Published on the occasion of the eightpart transcontinental exhibition in Argentina, Germany and Switzerland.
«Martín Mele lives in a foreign land, it’s uncertain how foreign, how distant or familiar it is. For he has lived abroad for some time, actually forever. …»

Aufsetzpunkt

published by modo Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona from April 7 until June 19, 2011.
with essays by Invar-Torre Hollhaus and Daniela Hardmeier.