LONDON.- This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace immerses visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. The Edwardians: Age of Elegance explores the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles, global travels and spectacular royal events. The first Royal Collection Trust exhibition ever to explore the Edwardian era brings together more than 300 items – almost half on display for the first time – including fashion, jewellery, paintings, photographs, books, sculpture and ceramics. Visitors will see works from the Royal Collection by many of the period’s most celebrated names, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent, Olive Edis, Philip de László, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and Edwar ... More
ESPOO.- Arte Povera – A New Chapter explores the work of women artists inspired by the Arte Povera movement, which emerged in Italy in the 1960s. The exhibition celebrates the power of modest materials through the work of more than 20 international artists. In addition to showcasing contemporary creators, it also features artists who were active during the early days of the movement. The exhibition creates an international context for the concurrent retrospective of Karin Hellman, which opens at EMMA at the same time. Both exhibitions will be on view at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art from 9 April 2025 to 1 February 2026. The Arte Povera movement emerged in late 1960s Italy as a reaction against the increasingly commercialised art market. The name of the movement translates directly as "poor art", referring to the materials used by its artists. By employing unadorned, everyday and discarded materials, the artists sought to bring artistic practice closer to daily life. Arte ... More
Swarovski crystal figurines up for bid include this Marvel The Incredible Hulk, vibrant green, 4 ¾ inches, with box (Estimate: $600-$850).
BROOKLYN, NY.- SJ Auctioneers’ online-only Jewelry, Silver, Glass Art, Fashion & Toys auction set for Sunday, April 27th, is jam-packed with close to 300 lots of sterling silver flatware services and other sterling objects; Ralph Loren and Polo handbags; dazzling jewelry pieces; colorful Herend and Swarovski figures; vintage pens; vintage toys; and decorative accessories. The auction showcases items by famous name designers and makers, including Tiffany & Co., Buccellati, Gorham, Georg Jensen, Reed & Barton, Gucci, Cartier, Pomellato, Schofield Silver, Mappin & Webb, Steuben, Miguel Berrocal, Royal Vienna, Del Conte, Patek Philippe, Orrefors, Montblanc, Daum, Baccarat, S.T. Dupont, Bvlgari, Meissen, Matchbox, Hubley and Dinky Toys. Bidding is available online now, at LiveAuctioneers.com. Pre-bidding is also available, meaning for those who are unable to attend the online auction, they can still leave their bids now. The auction ... More
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, the largest exhibition ever held in Spain dedicated to this great artist pioneer of abstraction. The show, sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, Strategic Trustee of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from 1997, and organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in collaboration with the Museum, celebrates Helen Frankenthaler's revolutionary art through a chronological journey that follows her prolific career over six decades. Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules contextualizes the painter's creative output through the lens of artistic affinities, influences, and friendships. Comprising thirty of Frankenthaler's poetic abstractions created between 1953 and 2002, the exhibition also features select paintings and sculptures by some of her ... More
STUTTGART.- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is presenting the comprehensive solo exhibition ‘Katharina Grosse - The Sprayed Dear’ in the Kunstgebäude starting 11 april 2025. Three custom created works will be on display in the domed building with the golden stag alongside sculptural works from her early oeuvre that have never been shown before. With the title, the artist refers to the landmark of the extraordinary exhibition venue and plays with the English word ‘deer’ for ‘stag’ - and the English term ‘dear’ for something cherished. Katharina Grosse is one of the most significant contemporary artists. She lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand. Grosse paints her immersive images, executed in spray technique, radically across objects, architecture and entire landscapes. For the Great State Exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2025, she has engaged deeply with the architecture of the iconic central building on Schlossplatz, transforming it into a vibrant, colour-saturated ... More
SANTANDER.- Centro Botín kicks off its exhibition programme with the show Maruja Mallo: Mask and Compass. Paintings and Drawings from 1924 to 1982, which presents over ninety paintings by the artist – as well as drawings – which trace her entire career from the magical realism of her early years to the geometric and fantastical configurations of her later works. From 12 April to 14 September 2025, on the second floor of Fundación Botín’s art centre in Santander, visitors can discover this comprehensive retrospective of one of the most outstanding and unique figures of the Generation of ‘27, the influential group of artists and writers based in Madrid that included Rafael Alberti, Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, the writer Rosa Chacel, and the philosopher María Zambrano. The personal and heterogeneous artistic production of Maruja Mallo (Viveiro, Galicia, 1902 ... More
BERLIN.- YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhi- bition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career, all of which aim to achieve peace together. The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world. The works invite collective actions of repair, healing, cleaning, mending, wishing, imagining, and dreaming. Before entering the exhibition, visitors are invited to engage in a moment of self reflection through Cleaning Piece (1996). Piles of local river stones are arranged, prompting visitors ... More
Nathalie Du Pasquier, simple, 2019, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Kerlin Gallery.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Saint Fairy Anne. For Saint Fairy Anne, Nathalie Du Pasquier presents recent paintings within a custom exhibition design of colourful painted zones. Across both the canvases and the installation that houses them, bold shapes and linear motifs create dynamic compositional arrangements, blending still life with architectural forms and flat planes of colour. Taking a fluid and porous approach to traditional distinctions between ‘fine’ and ‘decorative’ arts, Du Pasquier is interested in “how display changes perception, how coloured coloured walls influence the paintings, [and] how the viewer enters a mood”. Complimenting these recent works, Saint Fairy Anne includes a 1998 still life, natural things and a plyer. Here, objects appear oversized and floating in space, bestowing an almost talismanic ... More
HAMBURG.- Exactly 50 years after his disappearance at sea, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is mounting a retrospective exhibition of the fascinating work of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975). Ader is regarded as a seminal figure for subsequent generations of artists – a so-called »artists’ artist«. Legendary among insiders, his 16mm films, slide installations, photographs and videos, along with never-before- seen early works and documentary material can now be discovered by a wider audience in an exceptional and extensive retrospective. Bas Jan Ader’s oeuvre can be described as at once melancholy and absurd, emotional and conceptual, simple yet complex. He made a profession ... More
Installation view.
SALZBURG.- The exhibition Der letzte Tag ist der schlimmste (The Last Day is the Worst) presents works by Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth, created over the last five years. The paintings on view reflect her distinctive visual language while highlighting subtle variations within her practice. Discernible figural elements emerge in some works, while others remain more resolutely rooted in abstraction. This periodic engagement with figuration highlights the fluidity of Jungwirth’s approach, wherein structure and intuition are held in delicate balance. For the artist, impressions of the world around her trigger the fleeting inner impulses that guide her practice. This most recent series of works relates to the turbulent developments in current world affairs, and the exhibition’s title references an article recently published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which reported on the dire conditions of a Ukrainian mortar unit. ‘My works are recordings of my ... More
Robert Falk (1886–1958), Leningrad Landscape. Moika. Sun, signed. Executed in 1939. Oil on canvas, 65.5 by 81 cm.Estimate: 120,000-180,000 GBP.
LONDON.- MacDougall’s announces the upcoming École de Paris & Other Masters sale on Drouot.com. The online auction is now open for bidding until 24th April 2025. The sale features 150 lots of paintings, works on paper, objects and icons from distinguished private collections. Leading the sale is a superb Sorcière Tho de Cao Bang, Haut-Tonkin, 1933, by A. Iacovleff (Lot 8, 400,000-600,000 GBP). This monumental work was painted by the artist upon his return from the Citroën expedition in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Far East in 1931-1932. Exhibited during the artist’s lifetime at Galerie Charpentier in 1933, the work was previously in the collection of his sister, the opera singer Alexandra Iacovleff, and Victor Tanguy, a renowned French general and a major collector of Iacovleff oeuvre. Another important offering is Toys by S. Sudeikin (Lot 6,120,000-180,000 GBP). The ... More
Installation view. Photo: Sandra Maier.
VADUZ.- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein brings the vibrancy and poetry of the street into its exhibition spaces. The exhibition On the Street spotlights how artists since the 1960s have explored public space, questioning and appropriating it and opening up new spaces of meaning. With performative and situational works, it also invites visitors to experience the public space around the museum in a new way. The history of modernism is intimately linked to the ‘neutral’ space of art: the ‘white cube’. Especially since the 1960s, however, artists have been consciously breaking away from this concept. Abandoning the protected institutional setting, they take to the street as a site for radical and poetic actions or as a source of inspiration for their work. Redrawing the boundaries of art, this stance has also redefined the relationship between private and public space. The exhibition takes a closer look at these diverse relationships, between art, public space, museum practice and li ... More
Sophie Heinrich, ohne Titel, 2023, 80 x 60 cm. Leimfarbe auf Leinwand, zweiteilig.
DUSSELDORF.- In the exhibition Minimal Motion by Nora Schattauer and Taiyoh Mori, two artistic positions encounter each other that differ in their materiality and methodology, but are deeply connected in their sensitive approach to processes of visibility and transformation. Taiyoh Mori’s works are characterized by extreme reduction. His drawings and objects demand concentrated observation in order to experience the subtle interplay of medium and light. Sometimes there are only delicate lines on paper, other times subtle engravings in glass that cast thin shadows on the background. Light and drawing merge into a flowing unity. By deliberately avoiding expressive gestures or striking forms, he creates a fragile field of tension between the visible and the invisible, between materiality and the ephemeral. His works invite us to slow down our perception and engage with minimal shifts in space. This creates an intense closeness ... More
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Galerie Karsten Greve presents Loïc Le Groumellec's meditative paintings COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve announces Écritures, mégalithes et cupules II, Loïc Le Groumellec’s 12th solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition presents a large selection of new paintings and works in ink and gouache on paper. In continuation with his previous work, the artist investigates notions of the sacred and spiritual in painting through a minimalist aesthetic. The exhibition’s title Écritures, mégalithes et cupules describes the three elements that characterise Le Groumellec’s paintings: writing, images of megaliths, and physically rendered cup-shapes. The artist arranges these parts in multi-panelled displays, most often in form of the triptych. Thereby, he achieves a captivating conglomeration of contextual references and visual motifs. Cupules (2023) is up-to-date the most prominent manifestation of Groumellec’s recently introduced motif: The painting ... More
Kresiah Mukwazhi's first New York solo show imagines celestial sanctuary at kaufmann repetto NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto presents Kresiah Mukwazhi’s first solo exhibition in New York, opening concurrently with her show in the Milan gallery. The exhibition Nyika irikure nezuva – a Shona expression meaning “a land far from the sun” – introduces a new body of work that imagines a space of freedom and protection, drawing on celestial symbolism to explore the tension between expression and repression, visibility and concealment. If the Milan presentation, titled Ndakangavara, reflects the artist’s engagement with transformation and survival in the face of societal expectations, Nyika irikure nezuva turns its gaze upward. Inspired by the feminine associations of the Moon and the masculine energy of the Sun, the series envisions a distant terrain — the nocturnal sky as a sanctuary. The Earth’s satellite, long connected to women’s menstrual cycles and emotional rhythms, ... More
Siena and the Renaissance: A selling exhibition at Christie's NEW YORK, NY.- Sienese artists revolutionised the art of painting over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, imbuing paintings – whether large polyptychs, small-scale devotional works or manuscript illuminations – with a sense of drama, emotion, movement and narrative detail that had never before been seen. In recognition and celebration of this artistic brilliance which changed art history, Christie’s is holding an online private selling exhibition Siena and the Renaissance from 11 April to 11 July, which will showcase a curated selection of works in different media and trace the profound impact of this new approach to painting among Sienese artists from the mid-14th to the early 16th centuries, with prices from £35,000. Select highlights will be on view in London at the Christie’s Salon from 14 to 28 April. Further opportunities to view highlights will be available during the Classic ... More
Layr exhibits works by Leah Ke Yi Zheng VIENNA.- The first thing a viewer might notice about Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Leibniz’s Machine (2024) is that, like all her canvases, it’s not rectangular. The painting’s frame is a bit skewed, a little off, and points to something outside itself that we barely notice, a clandestine convention: that almost all paintings are rectangular. The second thing we grasp, if it wasn’t the first, is that we’re looking at technology – albeit technology circa 1694, when the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz completed his stepped reckoner, the first mechanical calculator, which would have profound effects on navigation, natural science and commerce; this beautiful, highly paintable object, which here seems almost to be transforming into a kind of tiered landscape, is a part of the roots of our modern, finance- and tech-centric world. Yet money and technology today are virtually abstractions, ... More
ARKO Art Center presents Minibus, Oort Cloud, Fluttering Pages with Insa Art Space SEOUL.- Minibus, Oort Cloud, Fluttering Pages, organized by three collaborative curators and featuring 28 artists, aspires to glance over the cultural legacy left by Insa Art Space (IAS) over its 25 years of existence. IAS, a space that the Arts Council Korea (ARKO) had provided as a means of supporting emerging artists, was indeed a subsidiary of ARKO, but it also had noninstitutional and alternative characteristics that gave it the singular position of being extra-institutional, yet within the institutional framework. Since its foundation in 2000, IAS has organized more than 350 exhibitions and projects and supported artists’ studio practices, art education, art journal publication, video media distribution, and residencies. Among these diverse IAS initiatives, this exhibition is specifically focused on the following three: support for emerging artists, promotion of video media, and publishing ... More
Threads of Life on the Nile: Vibrant Egyptian tapestries unveiled in Berlin BERLIN.- The James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin today welcomed visitors to a vibrant new exhibition, "Threads of Life on the Nile," showcasing the captivating tapestries and batiks from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in Cairo. This special presentation by the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, in collaboration with the renowned Egyptian art center, offers a colorful glimpse into contemporary Egyptian life and the unique artistic practices fostered in a remarkable village project. Admission to the exhibition is free and it will run until November 2, 2025. For over seven decades, the village of Harrania, near the Giza pyramids, has been home to an inspiring initiative founded by the Egyptian architect, potter, weaver, and designer Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911 – 1974). His vision was to establish a school and training center for local children, aiming to revive traditional crafts ... More
Kate Gottgens' haunting "Darkening Dusk" opens at Maruani Mercier Knokke KNOKKE.- Maruani Mercier is presenting Darkening Dusk, the inaugural solo exhibition of South African artist Kate Gottgens, at their Knokke gallery. Recognized for her haunting, dreamlike compositions, Gottgens crafts works that exist in a state of liminality—never fixed, always in flux, and at times elusive. Just as the fading light of dusk blurs the boundaries of day and night, her paintings evoke a sense of transition, where familiarity dissolves into something more fluid, open-ended, and mysterious. Gottgens builds her work from a variety of sourced imagery— anonymous snapshots found at flea markets, family vacation photos, or fragments retrieved from the vast digital archive of the internet. Stripped of their original contexts, these images become the raw material for a process of reconstruction and transformation. This gives rise to landscapes that feel both intimate and unplaceable, ... More
Adams and Ollman presents Peter Gallo's layered collages exploring religion, sexuality, and sacrifice PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman opened Peter Gallo: Gods, Sluts & Martyrs, the artist's first solo exhibition on the West Coast of the United States. The exhibition features paintings and mixed media collages on found objects created over the past decade. Gods, Sluts & Martyrs will be on view at the gallery in Portland, Oregon through May 10, 2025. Gallo's painterly assemblages layer collections of fabric scraps, photocopied imagery, and found materials, including broken chairs, antique cutting boards, rusty baking pans, and old books, into informal compositions—what one critic described as "grunge arte povera." Atop these well-worn materials, each with its own history, Gallo intervenes with a tumult of thick paint, often in shades of red and pink, building up marks sometimes over many years. Like uncanny artifacts from some anterior future, these works contain ... More
Yinka Shonibare's first major African showcase, "Safiotra," opens in Madagascar ANTANANARIVO.- From April 11, 2025 to February 28, 2026, Fondation H invites British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare for a carte blanche entitled Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], marking his first major showcase on the African continent. The exhibition occupies the 2,200 square-meter Fondation H building in downtown Antananarivo. The solo exhibition features artwork spanning 20 years of Shonibare’s career, including The African Library (2018), part of Fondation H ’s permanent collection. This monumental installation comprises 6,000 books wrapped in Dutch wax print fabric, each embossed with the name of a personality who shaped postcolonial Africa. The installation is complemented by a digital interface providing historical and biographical information about these figures. The exhibition presents a series of iconic sculptures by Yinka Shonibare, such as Refugee ... More
Inside the Hans König Collection of Classic Chinese Carpets
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On a day like today, French painter Robert Delaunay was born
