Sunday, November 09, 2025

'Fluxuriös!' at Dresden's Archive of the Avant-Garde celebrates the radical spirit of Fluxus

Exhibition view “Fluxurious! Art and Anti-Art from the 1960s to the 1990s” © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Photo: Alexander Peitz.
DRESDEN.— With the exhibition ‘Fluxuriös! Art and Anti-Art from the 1960s to the 1990s,’ the Archive of the Avant-Garde – Egidio Marzona (ADA) at the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) is presenting a new exhibition from 8 November 2025 dedicated to one of the most uncompromising artistic movements of the 20th century. Fluxus and Action Art broke with conventional art forms, bringing together everyday life, communication, and sheer playfulness in spectacular fashion. The Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona (ADA) of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) is showing around 90 works from its own collection. The exhibition features international pioneers such as George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Charlotte Moorman, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Takako Saito and Wolf Vostell. Through their experiments and performances, these artists dissolved the boundaries between art and daily existence, challenging, and ultimately reshaping the art world. The exhibition captures the movement’s kaleidoscopic spirit. But it also goes beyond that, probing the complexities of archiving and presenting Fluxus. What ties these disparate artworks together? Which motifs and materials keep resurfacing? Can Fluxus even be defined as a single category? By grouping the works thematically and focusing on their humour and irony, the exhibition invites visitors to explore these questions. Small objects and the cards typically used to provide instructions for performances are playfully and colourfully displayed. Visitors are invited to become active and have the opportunity to explore Robert Watts' Fluxus cards, Ben Vautier's art-historical questions or Wolf Vostell's “310 Ideas T.O.T.”. The show is complemented by graphic works such as “Fluxers”, a portfolio containing twelve different pieces published by the author, critic and curator Henry Martin (1942‑2022), and the portfolio “7 childlike uses of warlike material...
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David Zwirner celebrates Joan Mitchell's centennial with rare works from 1960-1965

NEW YORK, NY.— David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Joan Mitchell that focuses on the years 1960 to 1965, a brief but critical juncture in the artist’s development. Capping off a yearlong celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth, this presentation is curated by Sarah Roberts, Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and brings together a significant group of works from public and private collections, as well as that of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. During these years, Mitchell spent many weeks each summer and fall living on a sailboat and exploring the Mediterranean from a home base along France’s Côte d’Azur with her companion, painter Jean Paul Riopelle, and her works from this period are inflected by these voyages and the sites of the Mediterranean. Back in her Parisian studio, Mitchell drew on the experience of looking out at the water, horizon, and rocky coasts, resulting in paintings that depart
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Pace Gallery celebrates 65 years with Agnes Martin's radiant Innocent Love series in New York

NEW YORK, NY.— Pace is presenting an exhibition of paintings from Agnes Martin’s Innocent Love series at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from November 7 to December 20, this is the final show organized as part of Pace’s 65th anniversary year, celebrating an artist who has been integral to the gallery for much of its history. The presentation features 13 canvases created by Martin in the later years of her life—between the late 1990s and early 2000s—in which she took up new experimentations with the phenomenological possibilities of color to express the unbridled imagination of childhood. This exhibition is accompanied by a new collection of Martin’s writings from Pace Publishing. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a progenitor of Minimalism, Martin pursued a vision of pure truth and beauty through her practice. Using mathematical calculations, she forged meticulous
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Christie's New York presents property sold to benefit the Clooney Foundation for Justice

NEW YORK, NY.— Christie's announced a selection of contemporary artworks will be sold to benefit the Clooney Foundation for Justice, across both auction and private sales. Three works will be auctioned as a dedicated group during the Fall Marquee Week in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale, the final live auction of the week, taking place on Thursday, November 20th. The selection consists of three works: Study by Flora Yukhnovich, Study for Troupes, Backstage I by Caroline Walker, and Stage by Ulala Imai. The private selling selection will include an outstanding example by Roni Horn. Amal Clooney remarks, “We are delighted to be partnering with Christie's and this talented group of artists to benefit the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Each artist brings a clear vision and a singular voice to their work; we are humbled by their generosity and thankful for their support of our work to wage justice in defense of free speech and women's rights.” George Clooney remarks,
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Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles debuts Flora Yukhnovich's sensual and explosive 'Bacchanalia'

LOS ANGELES, CA.— Taking inspiration from art historical genres ranging from French rococo and Italian baroque to abstract expressionism, British artist Flora Yukhnovich creates paintings that celebrate materiality and process through shifting, chimerical forms, while seducing the viewer with elusive glints of content and meaning. For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and debut with Hauser & Wirth, Yukhnovich presents a new series of large-scale canvases prompted by the centuries old theme of Bacchanalia. In these canvases, lush, swirling brushstrokes evoke the dynamism and intense corporality of both ancient and contemporary hedonism, a past of satyric excesses and a present of consumerism and popular culture glut. In ‘Bacchanalia,’ Yukhnovich explores the frontier at which excess—as a concept, and as a visual and material conceit—begins to obscure rather than illuminate. Her compositions,
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Sotheby's to auction rare wines from the private cellar of Jörg G. Bucherer

LONDON.— Sotheby’s will present an exclusive online auction of wines from the personal collection of Jörg G. Bucherer (1936–2023), offering a rare glimpse into the private cellar of the man who transformed his family’s watch and jewellery retail business into an international powerhouse. Drawn from his meticulously maintained cellar in Switzerland, the sale comprises 221 lots – more than 2,270 bottles, 71 magnums, and two double magnums – with a combined estimated value exceeding £875,000. Open for bidding from 10 to 24 November, the auction offers collectors an exceptional opportunity to acquire stellar classics from Bordeaux, Burgundy, and beyond. Bordeaux highlights encompass much sought-after mature vintages of all five of Bordeaux Left Bank’s First Growths, double magnums of Petrus and a case of Lafleur 1990 amongst others. Burgundy leads with nine
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Ephemeral architecture and memory collide in Carlos Bunga's largest installation to date

LISBON.— CAM presents the largest and most complex installation to date by Carlos Bunga (b. 1976), one of Portugal's most internationally renowned artists, born in Porto and currently living and working in Barcelona. Entitled Habitar a Contradição (Inhabit the Contradiction), the exhibition, curated by Rui Mateus Amaral, artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), originates from one of Bunga's surrealist drawings—A Minha Primeira Casa Foi Uma Mulher 1975 (My First House Was a Woman 1975) (2018)—which evokes the journey of the artist's mother, pregnant, from Angola to Portugal in 1975, fleeing the civil war to save her two-year-old daughter and her unborn son. Working, as usual, with fragile and temporary materials—cardboard, paint and adhesive tape—the artist has created a monumental forest of cylindrical shapes of different sizes for the CAM's Nave, evoking architectural columns and tree trunks, alongside several other sculptures, some
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The last Gordon Murray S1 LM remaining for sale to be auctioned at amfAR's Las Vegas benefit gala

LAS VEGAS, NEV.— Gordon Murray Automotive and RM Sotheby’s return to Wynn Las Vegas at amfAR’s benefit gala on Nov. 21, to unveil one of the most exclusive offerings in modern automotive history: S1 LM Chassis #1. The S1 LM showcases the essence of Professor Gordon Murray’s six decades of design mastery and debuts Special Vehicles, a new division devoted to crafting the most exclusive driver-focused cars ever built by the British marque. The S1 LM redefines Professor Gordon Murray’s enduring principles of lightness, return to beauty, and driving perfection. An evolution of the legendary McLaren F1 LM design, the S1 LM brings Professor Gordon Murray’s masterpiece into the modern era with the use of exotic lightweight materials, advanced powertrain technologies, and three decades of engineering refinement. “For many collectors, the
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Kin Museum revisits a landmark 1965 exhibition

KIRUNA.— Sixty years ago, a remarkable art outreach project took place in Kiruna: more than one hundred works by one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century were exhibited at Kiruna City Hall under the title Picasso in Kiruna. The artist was eighty-four-year-old Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), and the works were on loan from Moderna Museet, the Nationalmuseum, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, and private collectors. This unique initiative was undertaken to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the mining company LKAB. What could have been more fitting than to pair the state-owned company—seen as a spearhead of modern society and dominating Kiruna then, as it does now—with the most renowned artist of the avant-garde? Kin Museum of Contemporary Art has borrowed sixteen of the artworks that Moderna Museet made available for the 1965 exhibition, which are now traveling from Stockholm to Sweden’s northernmost municipality for the second time. The works include fourteen gr
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James Cohan unveils Eamon Ore-Giron's vibrant fusion of myth, abstraction, and ancestral memory

NEW YORK, NY.— James Cohan is presenting Conversations with Snakes, Birds, and Stars, a major exhibition of new paintings and mosaic works by Eamon Ore-Giron, spanning the gallery’s 48 and 52 Walker Street locations from November 7 through December 20, 2025. This is Ore-Giron’s third solo exhibition with James Cohan. Conversations with Snakes, Birds, and Stars represents an evolution of Ore-Giron’s ongoing Talking Shit series, which he began in 2017 while living in Guadalajara. In this next chapter, Ore-Giron deepens his artistic dialogue with the iconography of ancient Mesoamerican and Andean cultures while expanding his own pictorial inventiveness. Through bold geometric compositions and radiant color palettes, his paintings and mosaic works conjure the presence of deities such as Quetzalcoatl and Coatlicue and reinterpret artifacts including textiles, jewelry, and pottery—using them as a springboard into new realms of
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EMST Athens revisits Greece's cultural past and future in The Greek Month in London 1975 and Sea Garden

ATHENS.— This November, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) launches its autumn programme with two distinct exhibitions that together illuminate the intersections of history, landscape, and artistic innovation across time and place. The Greek Month in London 1975, 50 Years On—Art at a Time of Political Change reflects the museum’s mission to cultivate creative practices of memory that resist the prevailing culture of amnesia toward the past. By revisiting a pivotal moment in Greece’s post-dictatorship cultural history, the exhibition highlights how key artistic events have shaped the country’s contemporary identity and international presence. In contrast, Sea Garden reflects EMST’s ongoing commitment to supporting emerging Greek curators and new curatorial voices. Winner of the museum’s Open Call for curatorial proposals, the exhibition invites
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timo fahler transforms found objects into mythic symbols of loss and renewal at Sebastian Gladstone

NEW YORK, NY.— Sebastian Gladstone is presenting timo fahler's TERMINAL CLASSIC at the New York gallery. This exhibition gathers a new body of work made between Los Angeles and Amsterdam, during a time of personal upheaval and collective uncertainty. Fahler transforms found objects into images of history and myth, using everyday material to reveal the weight of ancestry, memory, and personal struggle. The exhibition begins with a discarded mattress bedspring found in Los Angeles in 2024. fahler came across it while running, an integral part of his studio practice. For months it leaned on a studio wall until one day it revealed itself as a flag. The thirteen rows of springs became rows of red and white stripes. That act of recognition became the first gesture in this body of work, built from what was discarded and found around Los Angeles. flag was the last piece fahler made in the U.S., a quiet artifact that marks the end of an era for him. From there, the materials began to guide
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Janaina Tschäpe's dreamlike abstractions fill Galerie Max Hetzler with fluid color and memory

BERLIN.— Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting A gush of wind (Atemraum), a solo exhibition of new works by Janaina Tschäpe, her first with the gallery, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, in Berlin. Over the course of three decades, German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe has developed a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, drawing, photography, performance, video art, sculpture, murals and installations. In her paintings and works on paper, Tschäpe presents dreamlike abstract landscapes inspired by the natural world and memory. Balancing fluidity with precision, her work is imbued with a universality that reflects the various topographies she calls home, from Germany to Brazil and the United States. In addition to her exhibited work, Tschäpe produces drawings and sketchbooks as part of her daily practice, continuously transferring her impressions onto paper. These sketches serve not only as a foundational process for her painting, but as an autonomous,
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