Regen Projects is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Frieze Los Angeles from Saturday, March 2 – Sunday, March 3, with preview days beginning Thursday, February 29. Visit us at Booth B04 to view a presentation of works by gallery artists.⁠

Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Georgia Gardner Gray, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Marilyn Minter, Rebecca Morris, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Daniel Richter, Sable Elyse Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, James Welling, Alberta Whittle, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.⁠

Frieze Los Angeles 2024

Booth B04

Santa Monica Airport

3027 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, 90405

Preview:

Thursday, February 29 – Friday, March 1

Public Days:

Saturday, March 2 – Sunday, March 3

Click Here to access the gallery's Online Viewing Room.

Image: Daniel Richter, Frouble, 2024. Oil on canvas, 91 3/4 x 68 1/8 in (233 x 173 cm)

Regen Projects is pleased to announce representation of Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle. The artist will debut her first exhibition with the gallery from March 16 – May 18, 2024.

“I am so thrilled Regen Projects will be working with Alberta Whittle,” Shaun Caley Regen said. “I was lucky to meet her in Glasgow in 2022, and her warmth, intelligence, and vision for her work were immediately palpable. Likewise, when I first saw Alberta's paintings I was taken by their remarkable newness. They are joyous, dynamic, and ebullient in their embrace of craft, folklore, and heritage. There is a freedom in her practice in all the media she embraces, that sends a message of hope amongst the harsh realities of our times, in particular legacies of racism, colonialism, and patriarchy worldwide. Alberta parses all of this and unravels it beautifully, offering an alternative vision and paths to navigate this moment.”

Click here to read the press release for Learning a new punctuation for hope in times of disaster, which presents a suite of new paintings and sculptural works by Whittle, as well as the North American debut of Lagareh – The Last Born, 2022.

Image: Still from Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born, 2022. Single channel video, running time: 42 minutes 39 seconds.

Congratulations to Kevin Beasley, recipient of the 28th Heinz Award for the Arts!⁠

The Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation presents six awards annually to individuals making exceptional contributions to the Arts, the Economy, and the Environment, with two recipients in each category.⁠ ⁠"I have a belief that histories are not only written through language but even more importantly inscribed, collected and gathered through objects, ephemera, and places we encounter,” Beasley explained, upon the occasion of the award. “Whether it’s the texture of a weathered surface or the accumulation of stuff, the presence and existence of our activities and ultimately our lives is evidenced by what we leave behind, from footprints to legacy.”⁠

Photo: Joshua Franzos⁠

Congratulations to Sable Elyse Smith on receiving a 2023 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship!⁠

The Fellowship supports 15 artists working in a variety of media over a five-year period.⁠ Smith, whose work "complicates our understanding of prison and how we name, identify, and locate violence," plans to reach new audiences outside of the traditional art world as a 2023 Fellow.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist © 2023 Tommy Kha⁠

Join us at Regen Projects on Saturday, February 18, 2023, from 12:30–2 pm, to celebrate two recent monographs: Jack Pierson: Less and more and Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was. Pierson and Larner will be on site to sign copies of their publications, which will be available for purchase at the gallery.

RSVP here.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Frieze Los Angeles 2023 from February 18–19, 2023, with Preview days beginning Thursday, February 16. Visit us at Booth B3 to view a presentation of works by gallery artists representing a variety of media, styles, and techniques.

Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley
, Walead Beshty, Elliott Hundley, Anish Kapoor
, Liz Larner
, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson
, Daniel Richter, Sable Elyse Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans
, Gillian Wearing, 
James Welling, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.

Frieze Los Angeles

Booth B3

Santa Monica Airport

Santa Monica, CA

Preview:

Thursday, February 16

Friday, February 17

Public Days:

Saturday, February 18

Sunday, February 19

Click here for more info.

Image: Anish Kapoor, Spanish Pagan Gold, Green to Black Mist, 2019

To celebrate the closing of Theaster Gates's landmark survey exhibition Young Lords and Their Traces, the artist and his musical collaborators—The Black Monks—will give a series of impromptu gospel and soul chant performances at the New Museum from February 3–5.

Friday, February 3, 11 am – 4 pm
Saturday, February 4, 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday, February 5, 11 am – 3 pm

Click here to learn more.

At 6 pm on Thursday, January 19, 2023, art historian Lars Bang Larsen will give a lecture to celebrate the release of the catalogue published to accompany Rachel Harrison: Sitting in a Room, a presentation of the artist's work across media at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, currently on view through February 12, 2023.

Click here to learn more.

Theaster Gates is the subject of the latest episode of A brush with…, a podcast from The Art Newspaper hosted by Ben Luke. In this episode, Gates discusses his influences—including writers, musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work.

Listen to the episode here.

Photo: Lyndon French

Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel is a platform for Serpentine’s program throughout the summer. Responding to Gates’s multidisciplinary practice using space, architecture, sculpture, and material, guest curator Bianca A. Manu has partnered with the artist and the Serpentine curatorial team on a live program centered around ideas of the sacred. The Serpentine Pavilion 2022 will host performances by The Vernon Spring, The Choir of the London Oratory, Moses Boyd, Corinne Bailey Rae, and the Black Monks alongside workshops by Mud Gang Pottery CIC, and a tea ceremony by Keiko Uchida. View the full schedule of events.

Image: Notes from The Vernon Spring in the Serpentine Pavilion 2022, Black Chapel, designed by Theaster Gates. Hosted on Saturday, June 11, 2022 as part of the Serpentine Summer Programme 2022. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Curator Orly Rabi hosts two gallery talks corresponding with Doug Aitken: Flags and Debris, the artist's solo exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Wednesday, August 10, 12:00 pm

Wednesday, August 31, 12:00 pm

Image: Doug Aitken, Nowhere/Somewhere, 2020

Anish Kapoor is the subject of an in-depth profile in the August 22, 2022 Issue of The New Yorker. Written by Rebecca Mead, the article takes readers behind the curtain of dual exhibitions of Kapoor’s work at Gallerie dell’Accademia and Palazzo Manfrin in Venice, both on view through October 9, 2022.⁠

Read Rebecca Mead's full article.

Photo: Alex Majoli / Magnum for The New Yorker; Art works © Anish Kapoor / ARS.⁠

Sable Elyse Smith is featured in T Magazine in the article 'The Artists Taking on Mass Incarceration,' online today and on newsstands Sunday, August 21.⁠ ⁠

Read Adam Bradley's full article.

Photo: Tommy Kha⁠

Watch Liz Larner in conversation with Curator-in-Residence Douglas Fogle at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. The discussion took place as part of the annual Summer Series: Featured Artists and Conversations at Anderson Ranch.

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Portrait: Tim Power⁠

Join Marilyn Minter, Anna Katz, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and artist John M. Valadez for What’s so Real About Photorealism?, a critical dialogue workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

This workshop will reexamine Photorealism and to trace its lineages in art of the present day—lineages that have zigged and zagged as the status of the photograph has undergone radical shifts and re-imaginings in the realms of fine art, technology, and everyday life. Topics include trompe l’oeil; the pose; representation of people of historically marginalized identities; visual codes of taste and class; and the permeation of personal cameras in everyday life. 

The workshop takes place in Schermer Meeting Hall and consists of lectures and discussion. Register here. 

On the occasion of the exhibition Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was, join poet, playwright, and performance artist Ariana Reines and poet Carmen Giménez Smith for an intimate in-gallery program at Walker Art Center. 

Reines and Giménez Smith will read select poems that uplift, illuminate, resituate, and connect with Liz Larner’s work and artistic practice: “I believe her to be an artist concerned with transformation, who is changed by what she makes, and who intends change for those who really relate, actually relate, in the room, on the sidewalk, to what she has put there,” says Reines of Larner, in an excerpt from the exhibition’s catalogue.

Image: Liz Larner, Bird in Space, 1989

Join Marilyn Minter for a conversation with Beth Gollnick, Curatorial Associate of Photography and Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.⁠
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The event will be live-streamed and will take place in-person at Art on Hulfish, Princeton University Art Museum's new gallery in downtown Princeton, NJ.⁠ Minter and Gollnick will discuss how the artist's work addresses the complex intersection of glamour, desire, and digital editing in media depictions of women's bodies.⁠

Click here to register in-person or online.

Image: Marilyn Minter, Yellow Sparkle, 2007⁠

On Friday, June 17, join Wolfgang Tillmans for a cover signing of Autre Issue 14, "The Body Issue," at Voo Store in Berlin. In addition to Tillmans's cover photo, Issue 14 features a 20 page spread of the artist's photographs and an in-depth interview conducted by the music critic Sasha Frere-Jones.⁠

Friday, June 17, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Voo Store

Oranienstraße 24, 10999

Berlin, Germany

Somewhere between a Western and cinematic tone poem, Matthew Barney’s acclaimed film Redoubt, 2019, has been called by the Los Angeles Times “as much an experience as a film.” Redoubt unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. The characters communicate a mythological narrative through dance, letting movement replace language as they pursue each other and their prey. Join the Momentary for a showing of Redoubt alongside a visit to its current exhibition A Divided Landscape.

Free, tickets required. Reserve your spot online or by calling Guest Services at (479) 657-2335.

Image: Redoubt, 2019, production still; photo: Hugo Glendinning⁠

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel from Thursday, June 16 – Sunday, June 19, 2022, with VIP Preview beginning Tuesday, June 14. Visit us in Hall 2.1, Booth P6 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists including Doug Aitken, Kader Attia, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Theaster Gates, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Sergej Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Daniel Richter, Sable Elyse Smith, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel. 

ART BASEL 2022
Messe Basel

Hall 2.1, Booth P6

Messeplatz 10

Basel, Switzerland

Private Days:

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 11 am – 8 pm Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 11 am – 8 pm

Vernissage:

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 5 pm – 8 pm

Public Days:

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 11 am – 7 pm Friday, June 17, 2022, 11 am – 7 pm Saturday, June 18, 2022, 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, June 19, 2022, 11 am – 7 pm

BASEL UNLIMITED

Hall 1, Booth U1

Andrea Zittel
A–Z Personal Uniforms, 2nd Decade: Fall/Winter 2003–Spring/Summer 2013, 2003–2013

In addition to the gallery's display, Regen Projects is proud to present a special installation by Andrea Zittel for this year's Art Basel Unlimited sector. 

Opening (by invitation only):

Monday, June 13, 3 pm – 8 pm

Unlimited Night:

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 7 pm – 10 pm

Image: Kevin Beasley, Heartland, 2022

As part of Zurich Art Weekend, Liz Larner is in conversation with Professor Catherine De Wolf, Assistant Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at the ETH Zürich. The discussion is introduced by Daniel Baumann, Director Kunsthalle Zürich. 

This talk takes place in person at schwarzescafé, on the first floor of Löwenbräukunst and will be livestreamed here.

Image: Liz Larner, X, 2013

To mark the opening of the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel designed by Theaster Gates, the artist and Sir David Adjaye OBE will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine. The conversation will explore their work in art, architecture, urbanism and space-making. 

Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2022 designed by Theaster Gates © Theaster Gates Studio. Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy: Serpentine.

This panel discussion brings together artists, conservationists, and activists to discuss how the recovery of wildlife and ecosystems can support global objectives for biodiversity, climate, and people. It will explore the role of large mammals in triggering the recovery of ecosystems around the world, the impact of reforestation in urban areas, and the ways art can engage living ecosystems and invite viewers to participate in the protection of the natural world. 

Participants include artist Doug Aitken, who explores environmental conditions through photography, sculpture, multichannel video, sound, and immersive installation; Karl Burkart, Deputy Director of One Earth and formerly the Director of Media, Science & Technology at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation; Elise Van Middelem, a Creative Brand Strategist and founder of SUGi, which is a global network that creates ultra-dense biodiverse forests; and biologist Carly Vynne, whose innovations in ecosystem mapping has led to the preservation of species all over the world. The panel is moderated by independent curator Temple Shipley. 

Admission is free | RSVP here

Image: Doug Aitken, migration (empire), 2008, still

"From these and other wide-ranging materials, Kevin Beasley creates multilayered works that, even when they’re abstract, have much to say about history and identity."

Read Miguel Morales's interview with Kevin Beasley in T Magazine. 

Photo: Aundre Larrow

Tulane’s Newcomb Art Department presents the 2022 Sandra Garrard Memorial lecture with Catherine Opie. Join Opie on Thursday, April 21 from 6 – 7 pm in Freeman Auditorium. 

Photo: Heather Rasmussen

The Akron Art Museum in Akron, OH will present a screening of Catherine Opie's 2017 film The Modernist as part of the Photo-Graphic Architecture Symposium. Follow the link below for a full schedule of events and more information. 

This panel discussion brings together a range of artists and advocates to discuss the multithreaded hydra that is plastics pollution and how we can get our hands around it. Participants include Melissa Aguayo, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Reusable LA coalition and US Coordinator for Break Free From Plastic; installation artist and sculptor Liz Larner, whose deep, research-based practice explores problems such as the pervasive and exponential presence of plastic in the world; artist Hugo McCloud, whose mixed-media works addresses issues of class, labor, geopolitics, and the environmental impact of plastic; and Erica Montelongo, a local climate justice and youth advocate, artist, and community composter working to support communities that are the most impacted by pollution and climate change. The panel is organized and facilitated by activist and organizer Calla Rose Ostrander. 

Watch here

Portrait: Tim Power

Catherine Opie will speak about the built environment at SCI-Arc on Wednesday, April 6 at 6 pm. The lecture will take place in-person in the WM Keck Lecture Hall and will additionally be livestreamed via Vimeo. Parking and admission are free. No reservations are required.

Photo: Dustin Aksland

In this special iteration of The Broad’s Un-Private Collection series, Broad collection artist Elliott Hundley, renowned poet Anne Carson, and Carson’s collaborator Robert Currie team up with Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts (Grand Arts). Students and faculty at the school will participate in theater workshops, field trips to The Broad and Hundley’s studio, and backdrop and prop-making sessions to develop and stage Carson’s “Pinplay,” a reimagining of Euripides's Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, through the lens of Hundley’s artwork the high house low!, 2011, which is on view at The Broad in the exhibition Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade through April 3, 2022. Following the play performance, Hundley, Carson, and Currie will be in conversation with the Grand Arts students to discuss collaboration and the process of making the play.

The event will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube from 2 – 3:30 pm PT. 

Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin will show their video work and present details of their amusement park in Ohio in a three-part series of screenings and discussions as part of the PAF Spring Olomouc festival, which takes place taking place from March 25 – 26 at the Flora Olomouc Exhibition Center. 

Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin: Screening and Discussion

Friday, March 25, 10:30 – 12 pm

Saturday, March 26, 8 – 9:30 am

Saturday, March 26, 3:55 – 5 pm

Lawrence Weiner will be honored tomorrow at the Oskar Kokoschka Award Ceremony 2022 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Weiner was selected by a ten-member jury to receive the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, one of Austria’s most important prizes for visual arts, awarded every two years with an endowment from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research. The jury selected Weiner for ‘his unmistakable formal language, which oscillates between the poetic and the political.’ The prize will be awarded posthumously to Weiner and received by his family.

Pictured here, the artist adapted his text-based installation Smashed to pieces (in the still of the night) for the façade of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

On the occasion of her exhibition at The Current in Stowe, VT, join Catherine Opie for a virtual artist lecture on Thursday, March 10 beginning at 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET. 

Image: Untitled #4 (Swamps), 2019

On the occasion of his current exhibition, Tres sonetos, Abraham Cruzvillegas will activate his sculptures, named for three sonnets by Mexican poet Concha Urquiza, with a rhythmic recitation of Urquiza's poems at Regen Projects beginning at 7 pm. 

Image: Camécuaro 3, 2022

On the occasion of Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was at SculptureCenter, Rachel Harrison will join Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, for a discussion of Larner’s work. 

This program will be held in person from 2–3:30 pm at an off-site location at the end of Dutch Kills Street, New York, around the corner from SculptureCenter’s exhibition space. Visit SculptureCenter before or after the program to view Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was. Directions to the off-site location will be provided by staff at SculptureCenter’s front desk if needed.

Capacity is limited and RSVP is required. Please email caque@sculpture-center.org to reserve a seat.

Image: Liz Larner, xiii (caesura), 2014–15

Regen Projects, Lisson Gallery, Marian Goodman, and 303 Gallery today mourn a great artist, Dan Graham, who sadly died this weekend in New York. His influence over the past half century as a writer, photographer, architect, sculptor, filmmaker, and performance artist is widely felt in the contemporary art world, with many of his groundbreaking endeavours in video, installation, and audience participation—including such legendary and confrontational works as Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975) and Public Spaces/Two Audiences (1976)—among the first and most enduring examples ever created in those fields.

Despite his recent disavowal of Conceptual Art as a term, he was one of its earliest pioneers through early text-based works, typographic wall pieces and schematic poems, not to mention the seminal illustrated magazine essay, Homes for America (1966). He exhibited the work of his peers Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson at the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he was briefly the curator and director, before showing alongside these and many other Minimalists and Conceptualists during the 1960s and 70s. 

The main focus of Graham’s art since the late 1970s was an ongoing series of public architectural installations, which he called pavilions, derived from geometric forms and rendered in plate glass, two-way mirror, and steel armatures. Graham intended his pavilions to function as punctuation marks, pausing or altering the experience of physical space, providing momentary diversion for romance or play, or else as places to delve into other activities, like reading or viewing videos. These deceptively simple structures recall many of the artist’s earlier experiments with perception, reflection, and refraction, but depart from them in their non-gallery setting as long-term additions to the landscape.

Graham had an encyclopedic sphere of references and wrote about everything from Dean Martin and rock music to astrology and urban architecture. He is survived by his wife, the artist Mieko Meguro. His wit, generosity, and irascibility will be sorely missed by all who knew him. Our deepest sympathies are with his family and friends.

Image: Dan Graham with Slightly Curvaceous, 2012

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Frieze Los Angeles from Thursday, February 17 – Sunday, February 20. Visit us in Booth C3 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists.

Preview:

Thursday, February 17, 10 am – 7 pm (invitation only)

Friday, February 18, 11 am – 8 pm

Public Days:

Saturday, February 19: 11 am – 7 pm

Sunday, February 20: 11 am – 6 pm

Extended gallery hours: 

Thursday, February 17 – Sunday, February 20, 10 am – 6 pm

In conjunction with the fair, the gallery will present a focused selection of works from its in-person presentation for Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition from February 15 – 20. To access our viewing room, register here.

Featuring works by gallery artists including:
 

Doug Aitken, Kader Attia, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, John Bock, Theaster Gates, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Sable Elyse Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ryan Trecartin, Gillian Wearing, James Welling, and Andrea Zittel

Photo: Joshua White

Join Rachel Harrison at Regen Projects this Wednesday, February 16 at 7 pm for a conversation with LAXART director Hamza Walker on the occasion of her current exhibition, Caution Kneeling Bus. Capacity is limited. Click here to RSVP. 

Serpentine Gallery has released details of its twenty-first Serpentine Pavilion commission, designed by Theaster Gates. Opening to the public on June 10, Black Chapel draws inspiration from the architectural typologies of chapels and the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, England. A single source of light coming from an oculus creates a sanctuary-like setting for reflection and conviviality as the Pavilion once again becomes a platform for live performances and public convenings.

“Coming out of Covid, I thought how nice it would be to have a place of quietude. It’s a place for people to be with their thoughts and rest, a sacred chapel where you can sit and be reflective. It should give you the ability to touch your inside self," Gates told The Guardian. 

Designed with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates, Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion 2022 is part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project by the artist taking place in London in 2021 and 2022. 

Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel designed by Theaster Gates. Design render, interior view. © 2022 Theaster Gates Studio, Courtesy Serpentine

Regen Projects congratulates Sable Elyse Smith on her inclusion in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: The Milk of Dreams, taking place from April 23 – November 27, 2022. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the exhibition will take place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale, bringing together 213 artists from 58 countries. 

Photo: Andrea Avezzù

Join Catherine Opie and writer Rebecca Solnit for a virtual conversation as part of the Artists on the Future series from Stanford Arts. Moderated by interim Senior Associate Vice President for the Arts, Matthew Tiews, the conversation will be streamed live via Youtube beginning at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET. ⁠Watch here.

Stanford University is the home of interdisciplinary thinking that catalyzes innovation. Artists on the Future is a conversation series that pairs world-famous artists with cultural thought leaders from various fields to talk about issues vital to our society. These public events bring those working at the highest levels of human expression, creative thinking, and aesthetic impact into our deepest national conversations.

In the latest episode of Artforum's Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists series, Ryan Trecartin and filmmaker-novelist Dennis Cooper talk about theme parks and haunted houses, the pain of producing first drafts, and what it means to make a life in art right now. 

The artist, whose installations and sculptures run from microscopic to immense, is having a midcareer survey at SculptureCenter, her largest exhibition since 2001. Follow the link to read Karen Rosenberg's review of Liz Larner: Don’t Put It Back Like It Was in The New York Times. 

Photo: Cathy Carver

Congratulations to Sable Elyse Smith, who is among 63 artists selected to participate in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, co-organized by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards. This will be the eightieth iteration in the long-running series of annual and biennial exhibitions launched by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1932. The 2022 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from April 6 – September 5, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through October 23, 2022.

Join Catherine Opie on Thursday, January 20 beginning at 7:30 pm PT / 10:30 pm ET for a virtual conversation with Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, moderated by Los Angeles Times arts columnist Carolina Miranda. Presented by The Broad, the conversation will explore Opie’s practice of representing contemporary built landscapes and often overlooked communities.

Her series monument/monumental, 2020, is currently on view at the Broad in the exhibition Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade, on view through April 3.

Siddhartha Mitter profiles Kevin Beasley, one of the artists invited to participate in Prospect New Orleans, who transformed an overgrown plot of land in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward into a community garden, which he unveiled last month. Follow the link below to read the full article in The New York Times. 

Photo: L. Kasimu Harris for The New York Times

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach from Thursday, December 2 through Saturday, December 4. Visit us in Booth E10 to view our presentation of works. The gallery will also present a focused selection of works from its in-person presentation for OVR: Miami Beach, opening for VIP Preview on November 29. 

Art Basel Miami Beach
Booth E10
Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach, FL

VIP Preview:
Tuesday, November 30, 11 am – 8 pm

Wednesday, December 1, 11 am – 8 pm

Vernissage:
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 4 pm – 8 pm

Public Days:
Thursday, December 2, 11 am – 7 pm
Friday, December 3, 11 am – 7 pm

Saturday, December 4, 11 am – 6 pm

Featuring works by gallery artists including:

Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, John Bock, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Theaster Gates, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Sergej Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Daniel Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, James Welling, and Sue Williams.

Henry Art Gallery welcomes Catherine Opie as its 2021 Monsen Photography Lecture speaker. This annual lecture brings key makers and thinkers in photographic practice to the Henry. The series is designed to further knowledge about and appreciation for the art of photography.

This lecture will also be live-streamed on the Henry’s YouTube channel.

Photo: Heather Rasmussen

Join a virtual conversation between internationally recognised American artist Doug Aitken and exhibition curator Rachel Kent as they share insights on the 2021/2022 Sydney International Art Series exhibition Doug Aitken: New Era. Hear directly from the artist on his fascination with motion and velocity, interdisciplinary collaborations and his love of music. The artist and curator will also reflect on their pre-pandemic travels together in California which informed the exhibition and its publication.

Friday, October 29, 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET / Saturday, October 30, 11 am AET

Purchase tickets: $12 | $10 Members

Image: Still from NEW ERA (detail), 2018

In anticipation of the debut of Wolfgang Tillmans’s first full-length album, Moon in Earthlight, presented at his upcoming exhibition Concrete Column at Regen Projects, the artist will join Hamza Walker to discuss these new developments in his practice and the role that music, and the collective experience of listening to it, has played in his career.

Thursday, October 28, 7:30 pm

REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA

Tickets are free with advance registration. Register here. 

The Otis College of Art and Design Fine Arts Department invites you to attend a virtual conversation between artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken and Fine Arts Chair Meg Cranston as part of the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series.

Thursday, October 28, 7 pm PT / 10 pm ET

Free | RSVP here

Featuring speakers Tina M. Campt, Theaster Gates, Thelma Golden, Saidiya V Hartman, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Arthur Jafa, Simone Leigh, Okwui Okpokwasili, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, and Bradford Young, this event is a celebration of Tina M. Campt’s new book A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, and of contemporary artists’ attempts to shift how we interact with visual culture by reclaiming discomfort, refusal, and the work of feeling alongside one another. 

Wednesday, October 20, 10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET

Magazine's Megan O'Grady profiles Glenn Ligon for T Magazine's "The Greats" issue, on newsstands October 17: "For over 30 years, the artist has been making work that speaks to American history — ambiguous, open-ended, existentially observant. At a time in which the fundamentals of fact and fiction are being questioned, his art captures the truth of a culture in decline." Read the full profile here. 

Portrait by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont

Congratulations to Theaster Gates, who has been announced as the winner of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art by the Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation. Of its decision, the jury stated:

"By awarding the Kiesler Prize to Theaster Gates, the jury is acknowledging a concept artist who does not work inside the established architectural system or art world but who has found agency through his highly unusual and idiosyncratic practice. His artistic approach is characterized by transdisciplinarity, respect, inclusion, and participative processes. The most important objectives of his work are social change, spatial transformation, and empowerment. By imbuing this work with both an impressive aesthetic value and a social agenda, he has found a meaningful role for contemporary architecture. In this way, Theaster Gates connects Frederick Kiesler’s historic position with the urgent questions of our time.”

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel from Friday, September 24 – Sunday, September 26, 2021. Visit us in Hall 2.1, Booth R6 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists including Doug Aitken, Kader Attia, Matthew Barney, Walead Beshty,Theaster Gates, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Sergej Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Daniel Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ryan Trecartin, Gillian Wearing, James Welling, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.

ART BASEL 2021​
Messe Basel

Hall 2.1, Booth R6

Messeplatz 10

Basel, Switzerland

Preview:

Tuesday, September 21, 11 am – 8 pm
Wednesday, September 22, 11 am – 8 pm
Thursday, September 23, 11 am – 7p m

Vernissage:

Thursday, September 23, 2 pm – 7 pm

Public Days:
Friday, September 24, 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, September 25, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, September 26, 11 am – 7 pm

BASEL UNLIMITED

In addition to the gallery's display, Regen Projects is proud to present a special installation by Lari Pittman for this year's Art Basel Unlimited sector. For more information, click here.

First Choice VIP:

Monday, September 20, 3 – 8 pm

Preview VIP:
Monday, September 20, 6 – 8 pm

OVR: BASEL

Concurrent with the in-person fair, Regen Projects will present these works in a digital presentation for Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms. To access our viewing room, use your Art Basel account or create a user profile here. 

VIP Preview:

Tuesday, September 21, 11 am CET – Thursday, September 23, 2 pm CET

Public Days:

Thursday, September 23, 2 pm CET – Sunday, September 26, 12 midnight CET

During this year’s Art Basel, Schaulager presents Catasterism in Three Movements, a new work by Jonathan Bepler and Matthew Barney. The performance includes a new symphonic composition by Jonathan Bepler, to be performed as a premiere by the Basel Sinfonietta, while Matthew Barney has collaborated with dancers K.J. Holmes and Sandra Lamouche on new choreography. Holmes and Lamouche will reprise and expand on their roles in Barney’s recent film Redoubt, 2018. The three-act performance will take place at Schaulager, where artwork by Barney and by the 19th-century American painter Albert Bierstadt will be on view. The project continues the series of commissioned works that Laurenz Foundation, Basel, has initiated and enabled since its founding, alongside the major exhibitions at Schaulager.

Tickets: CHF 37 | CHF 18 students

Image: Matthew Barney, Elk Creek Burn (detail), 2018

In celebration of the release of his artist's book Skipholt, join John Bock for a book signing on Saturday, September 18 from 2 – 4 pm at Buchhandlung Walther König in Berlin. ⁠For more information and to RSVP, click here. 

The book combines over 150 video stills from Bock's film Skipholt, shot in Iceland in 2005, each accompanied by a corresponding drawing. Structured like a logbook tracing the expedition of the protagonist, played by the artist, the book is at the same time an art object. Packed along with it in a corduroy bag are useful provisions for a journey across the sea, volcanic plains, and glaciers. ⁠Purchase here. 

On Saturday, September 18, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi will present Doug Aitken's film Flags and Debris, in continuous loop from 10 am to 6 pm. Shot during a period of lockdown in 2020, the film is against the backdrop of an unrecognizably empty Los Angeles, where members of the LA Dance Project, draped in textile works by Aitken, move ghost-like throughout the city. Admission to the event is free. 

Image: Flags and Debris (still), 2021

Lawrence Weiner’s 1973 film A First Quarter is presented by e-flux Video & Film as part of An Other Cinema, a program curated by Lukas Brasiskis.
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“A First Quarter adopts the principles of Nouvelle Vague cinema as its role model. Simultaneous realities, altered flashbacks, plays on time and space are all components of the form and content of the film.…The dialogue consists entirely of the work as it is spoken and read, built, enacted, written, and painted by the players. As the scenarios build, they appear as tropes, one after another." —Alice Weiner⁠
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Image: Still from A First Quarter, 1973

Regen Projects is thrilled to be a founding member of the new Los Angeles chapter of Gallery Climate Coalition, a non-profit organization providing information, tools, and strategies aimed at developing a meaningful and industry-specific response to the growing climate crisis. As patrons of the Gallery Climate Coalition, we are participating in the goal of collectively reducing the carbon footprint of California-based art organizations by 50% over the next ten years. Learn more about the organization and how to get involved by following the link below.

Photo: Christopher Norman

Join Sergej Jensen for an artist lecture this Wednesday, September 8 at 6 pm on the occasion of his exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, which is on display through October 3, 2021.
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For the Bienal de São Paulo, Silke Otto-Knapp has created a series of medium- and large-format paintings that form a kind of setting, both in terms of their subject matter and their arrangement inside the pavilion. Continuing her investigations into theatrical space, the chosen themes range from performers in motion to backdrops painted onto large canvases. The paintings rest on panels or function as folding screens and autonomous structures.

In each of the scenes, the idea of continuous rehearsal carries a sense of suspended movement. The motion exists not only in the action of the choreographic and/or theatrical subject itself but also in the way the public moves around the work. Meanwhile, the human-sized painted landscapes portray an artificial nature that contrasts with the vegetation surrounding the pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, creating a dualistic setting. 

Image: Stack, 2020

Join Willem de Rooij on Thursday, August 26, for a book presentation with writer Carl Haarnack and Zippora Elders, co-curator of sonsbeek20→24, where de Rooij’s work is currently presented. Through artistic research and appropriation, de Rooij’s installation and the newly published catalogue reflect on the genealogy and reception of images through the work of Pierre Verger, a 20th century photographer and ethnologist. ⁠⁠
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The publication consists of photographs and newly commissioned essays by Karin Amatmoekrim, Ayrson Heráclito, Philippe Pirotte, Richard Price, Willem de Rooij, and Gloria Wekker, each of which engages with the figure of Pierre Verger as well as the history and present of multiethnic Suriname, the hierarchies of the gaze, and the role of anthropology, both in Verger’s era and today.⁠⁠
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The conversation takes place at 6 pm at Showroom Arnhem in the Netherlands.

The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five visually extravagant films created by artist Matthew Barney that blasted its way into the art world nearly 20 years ago and has had a lasting impact ever since. Its influence can be found in film, video, art, media, commerce, theater, and more. Barney himself performs characters as diverse as a satyr, a magician, and even the infamous murderer Gary Gilmore. Filmed over eight years, from 1994–2002, the films themselves are a grandiose mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology, creating an intensely private universe where symbols and images are layered and interconnected. Created for the big screen only and unavailable for many years, The Cremaster Cycle is a unique, must-see experience, guaranteed to leave you awestruck and mystified in a glorious way. 

PROGRAM

Cremaster 4,1,5, & 2

Saturday, August 21

Tickets

Duke of York's Brighton, 1:15 pm

Fact Liverpool, 4 pm

The Gate London, 4 pm 

Hackney London, 4:30 pm

Ritzy London, 4:30 pm

Cremaster 3

Sunday, August 22

Tickets

Ritzy London, 2:20 pm

Duke of York's Brighton, 2:45 pm

Hackney London, 3:30 pm

The Gate London, 3:45 pm

Fact Liverpool, 5:45 pm

Image: Production still of CREMASTER 1, 1995. Photo: Michael James O’Brien

Join Theaster Gates for a conversation with Louise Bernard, founding director of the Obama Presidential Center Museum, on the subject of art and democracy in relation to the exhibition ‘The Obama Portraits,’ currently on display at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

3 pm PT / 5 pm CT

Online

Free | Register here

Photo: Rankin

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition from July 27 – August 1, 2021 with a presentation dedicated to paintings and watercolor collages by Los Angeles-based German artist Silke Otto-Knapp. 

VIP Preview:

Tuesday, July 27

Opening at 8 am PT / 11 am ET / 5 pm CET

VIP & Members Preview:

Wednesday, July 28

Opening at 8 am PT / 11 am ET / 5 pm CET

Public Days:
Thursday, July 29 – Sunday, August 1

Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, The Departure, 2021

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Gallery Weekend Los Angeles with INHERENT FORM, a rooftop sculpture exhibition featuring works by Walead Beshty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Theaster Gates, Dan Graham, Rachel Harrison, Elliott Hundley, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Manfred Pernice, and Lawrence Weiner. 

INHERENT FORM

Regen Projects Rooftop
July 28–August 1, 2021

Gallery hours:  Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am–6 pm; Sunday, 12–6 pm

Opening reception: Thursday, July 29, 6–8 pm | RSVP
 

Read more about the citywide event here in a recent New York Times article by Jori Finkel.

For more information about the citywide event, including a map of participating art spaces and a schedule of events, click here.

Across two days, First Sense: Biennale Danza 2021, the 15th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, will host non-stop screenings of videos and films of every genre, size, and format. This will be a field to explore with an eye to the future, starting with the filmed contributions of the artists invited to the Festival, through the works of established directors, and ending with experimental and still artisanal visions. 

FILM SCREENINGS: PROGRAM 3

Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

July 25, 2021, 2 pm

Tickets

Image: Still from Flags and Debris, 2021

Join guest faculty artist Catherine Opie for a conversation with Helen Molesworth and Christina Quarles. Anderson Ranch features 60-minute presentations by distinguished faculty members and visiting artists on Sunday and Tuesday evenings from June through September. These insightful talks dive into inspiration, the creative process, and more.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

6–7 PM PT / 7–8 pm MT

Online or in-person with advance registration

Free

Photo: Heather Rasmussen

Presented in conjunction with Matthew Barney: Redoubt at the Hayward Gallery, The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five visually extravagant films created by artist Matthew Barney that blasted its way into the art world nearly 20 years ago and has had a lasting impact ever since. Its influence can be found in film, video, art, media, commerce, theater, and more. Barney himself performs characters as diverse as a satyr, a magician, and even the infamous murderer Gary Gilmore. Filmed over eight years, from 1994 to 2002, the films themselves are a grandiose mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology, creating an intensely private universe where symbols and images are layered and interconnected. Created for the big screen only and unavailable for many years, Cremaster Cycle is a unique, must-see experience, guaranteed to leave you awestruck and mystified in a glorious way. ​

PROGRAM

Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

Picturehouse Central, London

Saturday, July 17, 2021, 5 pm BST

Cremaster 4,1,5 & 2

£15.20–17.20 | Tickets

Sunday, July 18, 2021, 4 pm BST

Cremaster 3

£15.20–17.20 | Tickets

Saturday, July 24, 2021, 5 pm BST 

Cremaster 4,1,5 & 2

£15.20–17.20 | Tickets

Sunday, July 25, 2021, 4 pm BST

Cremaster 3

£15.20–17.20 | Tickets

Image: Production still of CREMASTER 1, 1995. Photo: Michael James O’Brien

Catherine Opie has been appointed departmental chair of the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles, beginning September 1. Her appointment comes after nearly four years of service by artist and professor Andrea Fraser. Opie, who joined the UCLA Department of Art faculty in 2001 and currently leads the photography program, will continue teaching while serving as department chair. 

The sixth gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, Invisible Bridges consists of a conversation between Kader Attia and Stefania Pandolfo (medical anthropologist, Berkeley, CA) and includes selected screenings of “fragments” of Kader Attia’s 18-channel video installation Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015, currently exhibited as part of Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia at BAK. 

PROGRAM
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Reserve tickets to attend online or in person

9:30 am PT / 6:30 pm CEST

Opening words of welcome: Wietske Maas

9:45 am PT / 6:45 pm CEST
Conversation and Screening

Join Nasher Sculpture Center for a virtual studio tour with Elliott Hundley and curator Catherine Craft. The two will discuss Hundley’s work Alas!, 2011, featured in the current exhibition Nasher Mixtape, along with his current body of work as he leads us through his Los Angeles-based studio.

July 14, 2021

12 – 12:45 pm

Virtual Event

Advance registration required

$5 | free for members

Photo: Max Knight

John Bock has created stage designs for ‘Berlin Story: A re-imagining of Story,’ based on the experimental 1963 dance by Merce Cunningham, which is celebrated for its use of indeterminate structure and chance procedures. Carrying the torch of Robert Rauschenberg, the production’s original stage designer, Bock offers ready-made constructions and variable artworks for the dancers to interact with. ⁠⁠

Dance On Ensemble: Making Dances – Dancing Replies

Presenting Berlin Story. A re-imagining of Story // Deep Song // Everything/Nothing // never ending (Story)

radialsystem

Berlin

Saturday, July 10, 2021

€14–18 | Tickets are available here
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Image: John Bock and Dance On Ensemble in 'Story.' Photo: Jubal Battisti⁠⁠

Co-organized by Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kader Attia, and Anselm Franke, The White West: Whose Universal? is an attempt to engage the overlaps between metaphysical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism. In this first part of the conference, Norman Ajari, A. Dirk Moses, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Françoise Vergès examine the politics of remembering and forgetting, ongoing attempts to decenter and recenter white futurity, and how the postwar decoupling of fascism from imperialism forecloses a decolonial critique of white supremacy. Register here

PROGRAM

Saturday, July 10

5 pm
Welcome: Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kader Attia, and Anselm Franke

5:30 pm
Decolonial Iconoclasm
Presentation: Norman Ajari

The Afterlife of Fascism after Trump
Presentation: Nikhil Pal Singh

A Leap of Imagination

Presentation: Françoise Vergès

Human Progress and the Conceit of “Western Civilization”
Presentation: A. Dirk Moses

9 pm
Panel discussion with all participants

Image: Rajkamal Kahlon, detail from Die Völker der Erde/People of the Earth, 2017–2021

Join the Hayward Gallery for a live-streamed conversation about the choreography of the hunt and animal-human relations in Matthew Barney's latest film. Dancer and choreographer Eleanor Bauer and writer Filipa Ramos take a closer look at Redoubt, which features in the exhibition Matthew Barney: Redoubt at the Hayward Gallery. Bauer discusses her choreography for Redoubt and her performance as one of the two dancers who accompany Diana on her epic wolf hunt, while Ramos draws on her research into artists' cinema, animals, and ecology.

Choreographing Redoubt

June 28, 2021

3 am PT / 11 am BST

Online via Zoom

Tickets: £5 | free for students and members

Image: Production still, Redoubt, 2018. Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Realized in the framework of the multi-part project Fragments of Repair and taking place on Thursday, June 24, 2021, the fifth gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s The Object’s Interlacing (2020), followed by a conversation between Souleymane Bachir Diagne (philosopher New York/Dakar) and Wayne Modest (material culture curator and researcher, Amsterdam/Rotterdam).

PROGRAM

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Buy tickets to attend online or in person | €0 – €6,00

Introduction by Maria Hlavajova

8:30 AM PT / 5:30 pm CEST  

Screening: The Object’s Interlacing

8:40 AM PT / 5:40 pm CEST

Coversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Wayne Modest 

10 am PT / 7 pm CEST

It is with great pleasure that Regen Projects welcomes two new directors to our team: Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski.

Before joining Regen Projects, Barcena was Assistant Curator and Manager of Publications at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has worked on exhibitions with Gala Porras-Kim, Anna Maria Maiolino, Adrián Villar Rojas, Mona Hatoum, Liz Deschenes, Erin Shirreff, Jim Hodges, and Elliott Hundley, as well as publications and public programs with many others.

Dudzinski previously worked at Gagosian, Cherry and Martin, and Sadie Coles HQ. She has worked closely with artists and international collectors for over a decade.

We are thrilled to welcome Bryan and Stephanie and they look forward to seeing you here at the gallery. Follow the link below to read more about the new hires in ARTnews.

Join the Portland Art Museum for its second Arnold Newman Distinguished Lecturer in Photography 2021 program with artist Catherine Opie for a discussion on her work in the Ansel Adams In Our Time exhibition.

Ansel Adams In Our Time: Catherine Opie

June 17, 2021, 6 – 7:30 pm PT

Register on Zoom or join on Facebook Live

Image: Untitled #1 (Yosemite Valley), 2015⁠⁠

BOMB Magazine x Artsy present BOMB 40th Anniversary Gala & Auction featuring works by artists including Louise Lawler, Trenton Doyle Hancock, William Wegman, Sanford Biggers, Fred Tomaselli, Richard Prince, Dorothea Rockburne, Cindy Sherman, Damián Ortega, Walead Beshty, and Lawrence Weiner.

Bidding on the auction is open exclusively on Artsy and will close on June 22 at 5:00 PM ET.

Image: Walead Beshty, Blind Collage (Seven 180º Rotations, Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles, California, Sunday, November 8, 2020), 2021 (detail)

Printed Matter + Artsy are thrilled to present Printed Matter's Spring Benefit Auction featuring more than seventy artworks from contemporary artists in support of the organization's work on behalf of artists' books and publishing. Funds raised in this benefit auction will play a critical role in Printed Matter's rebound from lost revenue due to the Covid pandemic, and will help ensure that Printed Matter will continue to thrive into the future.

Browse lots and place bids before the sale closes on Tuesday, June 15th, at 12pm EDT.

Image: Elizabeth Peyton, Flower Ben, 2003 (detail)

Wolfgang Tillmans will give a lecture on his artistic practice in the Main hall of Trafó as an accompanying event of the solo exhibition Your body is yours at Trafó Gallery.

June 5, 2021, 7 pm 

Entrance fee: 1000 HUF | Purchase tickets here

Photo: Daniel Buchholz

A talk to present Phaidon’s beautifully printed monograph that presents a compelling visual narrative of Opie’s work since the early 1980s — the most comprehensive book on her work to date. For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America.

Created in close collaboration with the artist, Catherine Opie surveys her entire career and is organised along three themes that feature prominently in her practice: People, Politics, and Place. Within each thematic section, her work is presented non-chronologically, in order to tease out connections between series from across her oeuvre. The result is a dynamic visual narrative that, taken together, forms a full picture of her artistic vision, displaying the breadth and scope of her work.

Image: Untitled #2 (Inauguration Portrait), 2009

In a live-streamed conversation, the artist discusses his practice and current exhibition, Redoubt, with Hayward Gallery Senior Curator Cliff Lauson. Barney shares insights into the ideas behind his latest film, set in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, and its relationship to the series of imposing and intricate sculptures, engravings and electroplated copper plates in the exhibition. 

Tuesday, June 1, 3 am PT / 11 am BST

£5 | Free for members

Online event

Book a ticket

Image: Production still, Redoubt, 2018; photo: Hugo Glendinning

In the light of current times, the Foundation is broadening its field of exploration to include ecological issues through a series of online and live conversations “Word of Makers: facing the ecological crisis.” Artists, scientists, and searchers are invited to question today’s world and create new narratives to draw more desirable futures. Kader Attia, visual artist, and François Gemenne, professor at Sciences-Po Paris with a specialization in environmental geopolitics, will discuss the impact of climate change on migratory flows as well as upon the notions of sovereignty and social democracy.

Word of Makers facing ecological emergency: Kader Attia & François Gemenne

Thursday, May 27, 2021

10 am PT / 7 pm – 8 pm CEST

Register here

Photo: Camille Millerand

On Sunday, May 23, the School of Visual Arts, New York will celebrate the class of 2021 with its 46th annual—and second virtual—commencement exercises. SVA President David Rhodes will recognize some 1,000 degree candidates from the College’s 31 undergraduate and graduate programs and Marilyn Minter, renowned visual artist and longtime MFA Fine Arts faculty member, will serve as the event’s keynote speaker.

The 2021 School of Visual Arts commencement exercises will be broadcast online on Sunday, May 23 at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET on sva.edu/commencement and Facebook Live.

Photo: Ryan McGinley

American artist and influential teacher Lari Pittman discusses his paintings and his reflections on the Los Angeles art world in this conversation with art historian David J. Getsy. Pittman and Getsy discuss the struggles to address issues of sexuality, gender, and the decorative in the 1970s. They also explore the artistic and political legacies of this moment and Pittman’s ongoing investigation into these issues in his career as an artist.

The conversation is organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The event is being held online in English at 9 am PT / 6 pm CET, and will include a Q&A with the speakers after their conversation. Register here.

Image: How Sweet the Day After This and That, Deep Sleep is Truly Welcomed (detail), 1988

Regen Projects congratulates Glenn Ligon and Theaster Gates on their induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters! Twenty-nine new members and four honorary members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters by vote of the existing membership. Membership in the Academy is limited to 300 architects, visual artists, composers, and writers, and the honor of election is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. The public is invited to join us in recognizing the new members during the virtual 2021 Ceremonial, which will be presented on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 4 pm PT / 7 pm. ET. Watch here. 

Photos (from left): Paul Mpagi Sepuya; Rankin Photography

Join Elliott Hundley, curator of Make-Shift-Future, for a virtual conversation with Bryan Barcena, assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and featured artist Eric-Paul Riege on the occasion of the exhibition. The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.

Friday, May 14, 2021

12 pm PT / 3 pm ET / 7 pm GMT

Watch here

Join Liz Larner and Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer Museum, for a virtual conversation and walkthrough of Larner's exhibition, As Stars and Seas Entwine, on view at Regen Projects through May 22. The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 5 pm GMT

Watch here

A central strand of Frieze New York 2021 programming is the Tribute to the Vision & Justice Project and its founder, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Associate Professor at Harvard University). As part of the Tribute, Professor Lewis has conceived and will moderate a panel discussion between Wynton Marsalis, Ava DuVernay, Franklin Leonard, Carrie Mae Weems, and Theaster Gates, supported by PRADA. This panel will offer a rare chance for leaders across disciplines to reflect on the opportunities and challenges for Black cultural production. 

Tribute to Vision & Justice Project Talk with Prof. Sarah E. Lewis, Ava DuVernay, Carrie Mae Weems, Franklin Leonard, Theaster Gates, and Wynton Marsalis

Thursday, May 6, 2021

11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET

Register here

Join a special online screening of Theaster Gates’s Dance of Malaga, 2019, on White Cube Online. Gates's film addresses complex and intertwining issues of race, territory and inequality in the United States since the end of the Civil War. The film premiered in 2019 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris and toured to Tate Liverpool, UK.

Screening: Theaster Gates, Dance of Malaga, 2019
Saturday, May 8, 2021

10 am PT / 1pm ET 

Register here

Image: Theaster Gates, still from Dance of Malaga, 2019

Taking place on Sunday 2 May 2021, the second gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, The Body’s Legacies, Part 2: The Postcolonial Body consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s eponymous work (video, 2018, 48 min.), followed by a conversation between Olivier Marboeuf (writer, critic, and curator, Paris) and Ruth Wilson Gilmore (abolitionist scholar and activist, Lisbon). 

This is the second gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, a hybrid off- and online series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums around the theory and practice of “repair,” streamed from BAK, Utrecht, La Colonie/La Dynamo de Banlieue Bleues, Pantin, Paris, 17 April–1 August 2021. 

The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body tackles police violence and racial body politics in postcolonial France. Throughout the work four decolonial thinkers and activists—among whom Marboeuf—share thoughts around the subject of the individual and collective racialized body. The exchange pivots around a concrete, devastating instance of racially motivated police aggression where a young man of Congolese descent, Théo Luhaka, was assaulted by police officers following a race-based identity check in a Parisian banlieue in 2017. Weaved through personal recollections, philosophical perspectives, and sociological scrutiny, there emerges an unambiguous account of present-day police brutality and institutional racism. This powerful testimony of systemic oppression of Black lives draws a straight line from historical colonialism into the present and throws into crisis the self-congratulatory western narrative of progress and reason that has led to contemporary democracy with its supposed all-encompassing equity.
 

Tickets

Regular ticket: €4*
Student ticket: €2
Solidarity ticket*: free

This is an online program, accessible via Zoom and bakonline.org. Buy your tickets via BAK’s ticketshop here.

Theaster Gates will speak as part of the Spring 2021 edition of Race to Justice, a series of public talks organized by the University of California Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures inviting leading activists, creatives, and thinkers to confront racism in America and guid us towards racial equality. Gates will present a virtual talk on Thursday, April 29 at 5 pm PT. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize winner and UC Santa Barbara professor of Black Studies. Register at the link below. 

Photo: Sarah Pooley

Join San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for an online conversation between artist Theaster Gates and Grammy Award‒winning musician Corinne Bailey Rae. The U.K.-based singer appears as a key performer in Do you hear me calling? Mama Mamama or What Is Black Power? one of the featured works in the exhibition Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith (through May 23). Gates will screen an excerpt from this piece during the program. The free, online event takes place on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 12 pm PT. Register via the link below.

Image: Theaster Gates, Do you hear me calling? Mama Mamama or What Is Black Power?, 2018 (still)

Join FILM at LACMA for a screening of the stand-alone special “Arts Education” from KCET’s Emmy award-winning arts and culture documentary series Artbound on Tuesday, April 27 from 7–8:30 pm PT. 

"Arts Education" explores the value that arts education provides for all young people and communities as a foundation for an inclusive and economically vibrant society. Developed in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the film features young poets from local organization Get Lit and professional artists that include Catherine Opie, Vijay Gupta, Hector Tobar, Debbie Allen, and Chloe Arnold sharing personal stories of how the arts have helped create a sense of belonging.

For more information and to RSVP, follow the link below.

Celebrate 10 years of Arts and Public Life with Directors' Cut: Theaster Gates, Jacqueline Stewart, and Adrienne Brown in Conversation on Thursday, April 22, 5 pm PT / 7 pm CT. 

In Year 10, Arts + Public Life Directors reflect on a decade of neighborhood-based arts production that catalyzed ambitious physical transformations and intentional programmatic expansion on Chicago’s South Side. Theaster Gates, Jacqueline Stewart, and Adrienne Brown are joined by Tracie Hall to unpack ten years of leadership and stewardship as the Directors of Arts and Public Life. Register below.

The artist will be joined in conversation by art history professor Darby English, author of the catalog essay “A Way Beyond Art” for the 2019 Whitney Museum exhibition Rachel Harrison Life Hack. Harrison and English will discuss her work Pretty Discreet, in the Hirshhorn collection, as it first appeared in the 2004 exhibition Latka/Latkas at Greene Naftali, in addition to her more recent installations.

11:50 am EDT | Zoom broadcast opens
12 pm EDT | Rachel Harrison in conversation with Darby English

Image: Pretty Discreet, 2004

On Saturday 17 April 2021 BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht is proud to present the online opening program of Fragments of Repair (17 April–1 August 2021), a multi-part project convened by BAK with artist Kader Attia and decolonial forum La Colonie, Paris. Broadcast live from BAK in Utrecht and La Dynamo de Banlieue Bleues in Pantin, Paris, and streamed via Zoom and on the BAK website.

The opening program includes conversations, lectures and presentations by artist Kader Attia (Berlin); BAK general and artistic director Maria Hlavajova (Utrecht); art historian and BAK research associate Sven Lütticken (Utrecht); BAK curator Wietske Maas (Utrecht/Berlin), philosopher Catherine Malabou (Paris), political philosopher Achille Mbembe (Johannesburg), and political theorist, feminist, and decolonial activist Françoise Vergès (Paris).

The opening program is free of charge, but registration is required: please sign up here. For more information on the project Fragments of Repair, see here.

PROGRAM 
Saturday, 17 April 2021, 13.30–18.00 hrs 
(All times are Central European Summer Time/CEST and South African Standard Time/SAST)

1:50 pm CEST / 4:50 am PDT
CONVERSATION
Kader Attia, Maria Hlavajova, and Wietske Maas

5 pm CEST / 8 am PT

CONVERSATION
Kader Attia, Françoise Vergès, Catherine Malabou, and Achille Mbembe, moderated by Sven Lütticken

Image: Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015

In this month’s episode of 'Under the Cover,' Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco talks with April cover artist Jack Pierson about the work Silver Jackie (1991), Mark Morrisroe, and his coming of age in Miami. 'Under the Cover' is a monthly web series that talks with the artists whose work is featured on Artforum's cover.

Theaster Gates (Artist and Founder of Rebuild Foundation) and Zach Cahill (Interdisciplinary Artist and Curator) explore notions of space, need, desire, cultural legacy and labor relations through the lens of the Hardware installation at University of Chicago’s Gray Center. Throughout their discussions, Theaster and Zach will reflect on the ways in which the installation functions as a surrogate for reimagining the world of artistic practice. The program is presented in partnership with Rebuild Foundation. Follow the link below to register.

Image: Halsted Hardware Store, Chicago. Photo: Chris Strong

In his artistic work he is concerned with how the art system influences the production of art and how the works that emerge from it can in turn influence it. He joins the Department of Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts on April 7, 2021 at 10 am PT / 6 pm CET as part of its spring 2021 public talk series, which takes place via Zoom. 

Catherine Opie has always explored community and identity through photography. From her early portraits of her friends in San Francisco to her own family, to high school football players, to her recent work traveling throughout America during the pandemic, she becomes a bearer of witness with her camera. She believes it is the artist's civic duty to participate in this political moment in history and to create change through their voice. On Monday, April 5 at 2:15 pm PT / 5:15 pm ET, Opie will present the inaugural talk for the John A. Cooper Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Image: Untitled, 2020

David Rimanelli profiles Jack Pierson's Silver Jackie, 1991, which is featured on the cover of the April 2021 issue of Artforum. 

On the heels of America’s most recent transfer of presidential power, Opie joins Hirshhorn associate curator Anne Reeve to revisit her 2009 series and discuss the role of photography in both creating and undoing our sense of self-hood—as both individuals and citizens.

6:50 pm EDT | Zoom broadcast opens
7 pm EDT | Catherine Opie in conversation with Anne Reeve 

Image: Heather Rasmussen

Arthur Lubow profiles Christina Quarles for W Magazine. 

Photo: Damien Maloney

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel OVR: Pioneers with a presentation dedicated to American sculptor Liz Larner focusing on thirty years of her dynamic practice. 

To explore the digital presentation on our website click here.

VIP Preview:

Wednesday, March 24 – Thursday, March 25

Public Days:

Thursday, March 25 – Saturday, March 27

Image: Liz Larner, X, 2013. Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Anish Kapoor will be in conversation with psychoanalyst and author Sudhir Kakar tomorrow, March 20 on the occasion of Around the World in a Day: Psychoanalysis & Art — a journey into the creative process. Presented by the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO), the one-day series brings artists and psychoanalysts together in conversation. The online event begins at 7:45 am PT / 2:45 pm GMT. Register and view the full schedule of events at the link below.

Image: Rectangular Mirror, 2019

Artist Glenn Ligon, whose work draws on literature and history to explore race, language, desire, and identity, joins Pulitzer Prize-winning author and critic Hilton Als to discuss the ways in which art can engage and rethink the most urgent issues of our time. Free registration for the lecture via Zoom here. 

Image: Self Portrait at Eleven Years Old, 2004

Twenty-nine new members and four honorary members will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its virtual award ceremony on May 19 at 7 p.m. EST. Membership in the Academy is limited to 300 architects, visual artists, composers, and writers who are elected for life and pay no dues. The new members were elected by vote of the existing membership. The honor of election is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.

Photos: Rankin and Jackie Neale

On March 6, 2021, Catherine Opie will present the ninth annual Keynote Lecture for the Medium Festival of Photography. The Keynote Lecture anchors the yearly Medium Festival and is a signature highlight of our annual programming. In addition, Opie will present an exclusive virtual studio tour as well as a candid conversation with Leah Ollman for VIP pass holders.

2:00PM - VIRTUAL STUDIO TOUR WITH CATHERINE OPIE

4:00PM - KEYNOTE LECTURE WITH CATHERINE OPIE (OUTDOOR SCREENINGS AT ART PRODUCE AND THE PHOTOGRAPHERS EYE GALLERY)

5:30PM - VIP COCKTAIL HOUR WITH CATHERINE OPIE + LEAH OLLMAN (VIP PASS HOLDERS)

Image: Untitled #8 (Swamps), 2019

The Berlin Biennale is pleased to begin preparations for the 12th edition with the curatorship announcement. The 12th Berlin Biennale takes place in 2022.

For over two decades, Kader Attia has worked with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice. It allows him to investigate the dialectic between destruction and repair, in which repair is understood as a way of cultural resistance as well as a means for a society or a subject to reappropriate their history and identity. Raised in France and Algeria, Kader Attia studied philosophy and art in Paris and Barcelona; today he lives and works in Berlin and Paris. In 2016, Kader Attia founded La Colonie in Paris’ 10th arrondissement as a space for the exchange of ideas and discussions focusing on decolonization, not only of people but also of knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Driven by the urgency of social and cultural reparation, it aims to reunite what has drifted apart or been broken. Since March 2020, La Colonie has been closed to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2021, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin hosts the fourth part of a conference series initiated by Kader Attia, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Giovanna Zapperi entitled The White West.

Director Gabriele Horn and the team of the Berlin Biennale warmly welcome Kader Attia.

Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in FIAC's Online Viewing Rooms with a presentation featuring a curated selection of artworks in various media by gallery artists. Concurrent with the online fair, Regen Projects will be open by appointment at our gallery, with a special exhibition featuring highlights from our viewing room. To speak with or to make an appointment with a sales director please click here. 

To explore the digital presentation on our website click here.

VIP Preview:

Tuesday, March 2 – Thursday, March 4

Public Days:

Thursday, March 4 – Sunday, March 7

Doug Aitken

Kader Attia

Theaster Gates

Elliott Hundley

Anish Kapoor

Liz Larner

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Raymond Pettibon

Christina Quarles

Daniel Richter

Sue Williams

Image: Catherine Opie, Untitled #4, Richmond, Virginia (monument/monumental), 2020

Friday, February 26 at 3 pm IST

Saturday, February 27 at 1:30 am PT

Register here

Anish Kapoor has succeeded in transforming the cool, conceptual, and minimal approach to sculpture by adding lyricism, metaphor, and the heat of the primordial. Objects spill out from their own parameters, yet they also stand serenely as in meditative focus as if for ritual. Typically, the sculptures appear abstract, with Kapoor's intention to promote self-reflection made most obvious when using mirrored surfaces. He does not wish to present a prescriptive idea, but instead to create an environment within which people themselves can consider meaning. As the viewer becomes part of the sculpture, each work speaks of the confined individuality of a single body, but also of the expansive inclusiveness of a shared place. His sculptures paradoxically entwine esoteric philosophy with sensual everyday experience. In this session, one of India’s greatest artists talks about his life and work with his friend Homi K. Bhabha.
 

Photo: Jillian Edelstein

The South London Gallery (SLG) is delighted to unveil artist Lawrence Weiner’s work, AT A DISTANCE TO THE FOREGROUND, 1999, installed on the gable end of the SLG’s Fire Station annexe. AT A DISTANCE TO THE FOREGROUND is the first permanent public artwork by Lawrence Weiner in London.

The work’s installation on the Fire Station follows that of another work by Weiner, ALL IN DUE COURSE, that was temporarily shown on the façade in 2014 as part of his solo show at the SLG of the same name, signalling the transition of the then semi-derelict building into a beautifully renovated annexe for the SLG.  The idea of acquiring the work for the SLG came about before lockdown and social distancing had even been considered in the UK, so the contemporary resonance of the work is both coincidental and poignant.

Photo: Andy Stagg

Sculpture Milwaukee has announced that its 2021 exhibition will be co-curated by artists Theaster Gates and Michelle Grabner. The show will launch in June 2021 and run through autumn of 2022. Now in its fifth year, Sculpture Milwaukee is one of the largest annual outdoor exhibitions to focus on contemporary sculpture and public art practices. The works selected by Gates and Grabner will be explored through programming and educational initiatives. 

“We’re excited about the new ways in which Gates and Grabner will shape the exhibition,” said Sculpture Milwaukee's Board Chair, Wayne Morgan of Baker Tilly. Adding, “Theaster Gates, and Michelle Grabner are two influential artists and educators who make their home in the American Midwest where they have dedicated themselves to supporting artists and the artistic imagination in local, regional, and national cultural communities. They will bring their unwavering spirit towards building Sculpture Milwaukee's 2021 exhibition, sharing their vision and foregrounding artists and artwork from around the world."

Photo: Sara Pooley

Join the New Museum for a conversation with artist Theaster Gates in dialogue with Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum. This is the first program in a series of artist conversations highlighting the practices of artists participating in the New Museum exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. This program will be presented via Zoom, register for this online program here.

Image: Still from Gone Are the Days of Shelter and Martyr, 2014

Friday, February 19, 2021

2 pm PT / 5 pm ET / 10 pm GMT

Advance registration required

Join Doug Aitken for a conversation with Max Hollein, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the occasion of Aitken's exhibition Flags and Debris, on view at Regen Projects from January 16 – March 13, 2021. 
 

Artforum at Sotheby’s: Grief and Grievance at the New Museum

Thursday, February 18, 2021, 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET

Register here

In partnership with Artforum, join artist and associate professor of Performance Studies at New York University Malik Gaines in conversation with curators Naomi Beckwith and Massimiliano Gioni, and artists Theaster Gates and Julie Mehretu, honoring Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) and presented at the New Museum with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. 

Image: Still from Gone Are the Days of Shelter and Martyr, 2014

Thursday, February 18

Midnight GMT / 7 pm EST / 4 pm PST

Celebrate three decades of Frieze with Anniversary Sessions, a three-day online festival bringing together some of the leading voices in art and culture since 1991. 

Image: Production still, Redoubt, 2018. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Join the New Museum on Tuesday, February 16 for a curatorial roundatble in celebration of the opening of Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum, Glenn Ligon, artist, and Mark Nash, Professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. This conversation will convene all four curatorial advisors to discuss the exhibition, its genesis and development alongside the advisors’ friendships and professional relationships with Okwui Enwezor. Please register via Zoom for this online program here.

Image: Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, 2020

Keynote speaker Theaster Gates discusses the coalescence of art, craft, architecture, and urban planning in his artistic practice for the Hawai'i Contemporary Art Summit on Friday, February 12 at 12 pm PT / 10 am HST. 

Photo: John R. Boehm

Liz Larner joins Hirshhorn associate curator Anne Reeve to discuss her current thinking, ongoing practice, and the artist’s role in facing our charged and changing times. Watch it here. 

Photo: Laure Joliet

Debuting February 9 on HBO, Black Art: In the Absence of Light offers a vital and illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost African American visual artists working today. Directed by Sam Pollard, the film shines a light on the extraordinary impact of curator David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, Two Centuries of Black American Art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on generations of Black artists who have staked a claim on their rightful place within the 21st-Century art world. Interweaving insights and context from scholars and historians, along with interviews from a new generation of working African American curators and artists including Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald, and Carrie Mae Weems, the documentary is a look at the Contributions of Black American artists in today’s contemporary art world. 

Artists Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture for the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, February 4 at 4 pm PT/6 pm CT. The lecture is free and will be delivered online via Zoom. Register here.

Image: Installation view of The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, June 1-November 24, 2013.

Sky Arts is to invest £300,000 in the culture sector with the appointment of five new Sky Arts Ambassadors: Booker prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo, dance artist and choreographer Akram Khan, sculptor Anish Kapoor, conductor Charles Hazlewood and Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nadia Fall. Their challenge? Find, inspire and support the next generation of talent at a time when opportunities are scarce. Each ambassador will be given £30,000 per year for two years to create their own bursary scheme to nurture up and coming writers, dancers, artists, musicians and theatre-makers across the country. The new Sky Arts Ambassador programme is part of our commitment to support artists and make the arts more accessible for everyone.

Doug Aitken, Station to Station, 2015

New Frontier 2021

Sundance Film Festival

Sunday, January 31, 2 pm PT

Venture into the 2021 programs new online platform to discover immersive works and chat with fellow Festivalgoers in a communal space. Accessible via computers and VR headsets, there are many things to explore in New Frontier, and the deeper you go, the richer your experience will be.

Regen Projects is pleased to feature our current exhibition of new work by Doug Aitken on galleryplatform.la. Conceived over the last 10 months, a time of profound change in the face of the pandemic, the works on view form an ecosystem of interconnected mediums. Each plays off the other, creating a choreography of images, language, and sound. At heart, the works are a portrait of a society moving toward the future. 

Image: Installation view of Doug Aitken Flags and Debris at Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Mutina for Art is pleased to announce that the This Is Not a Prize 2020 award has been assigned to artist Silke Otto-Knapp (Osnabrueck, 1970).

This Is Not a Prize is not just an annual award but also Mutina’s commitment to support a future project of the selected artist: from an exhibition to a collaboration with an international institution, a publication or the production of a new artwork.

Silke Otto-Knapp has been selected by the Mutina team, by its CEO Massimo Orsini and by the curator of Mutina for Art Sarah Cosulich, following a consideration on the importance and visibility that painting has recently reacquired. This year This Is Not a Prize wishes to recognize an international protagonist like Otto-Kapp, who with painting has brought forward in time an excellent and coherent path of great historical-artistic relevance. Despite belonging to the mid-generation, Silke Otto-Knapp can already be defined an “artists’ artist” for her reference role both on the level of practice and expression as well as of language and conceptual research.

Photo: Sharon Lockhart

Kader Attia in conversation with Ralph Rugoff

Saturday, December 12 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 7 pm CET

Advanced registration required 

Join us for a virtual conversation with Kader Attia on the occasion of his debut Los Angeles exhibition, The Valley of Dreams, currently on view at the gallery. Attia will be joined by Ralph Rugoff, Director of London's Hayward Gallery, which organized the first survey of Attia's work in the UK, The Museum of Emotion, in 2019. 

Click here to register

Regen Projects is pleased to present Amalgam, a selection of artworks for Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach that speak to our present moment. This diverse grouping is unified by an approach to verbal or visual form that presents the unitary as the fragmented, the whole within the detail, and the sum within the parts. Loosely referencing the title of Theaster Gates’s 2019 exhibition at Palais de Tokyo and Tate Liverpool, Amalgam also has inspired this compendium. Literally an amalgam is the union of disparate objects merged into something new, a chemistry that mixes and blends.

Concurrent with the online fair, Regen Projects will be open by appointment at our gallery, with a special exhibition featuring highlights from our viewing room. To speak with or to make an appointment with a sales director please click here. 

To explore the digital presentation on our website click here.

VIP Preview:

Wednesday, December 2 – Thursday, December 3

Public Days:

Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 6

Doug Aitken

Kader Attia

Walead Beshty

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Theaster Gates

Elliott Hundley

Anish Kapoor

Liz Larner

Glenn Ligon

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Christina Quarles

Daniel Richter

James Welling

Andrea Zittel

Image: Glenn Ligon, Study for Debris Field #29 (detail), 2018

Artist Doug Aitken presents Flags, a new body of work that he has been developing over the last six months. The online premiere will be followed by a short conversation with Jefferson Hack. Join them on December 1, 2020 at 10:30 am PT via Zoom. Register here. 

Flags is a series of handmade wall hanging works, forms created out of fabric cut from the artist's clothes and collaged into words, sentences and abstractions. The works explore language that create a new topography of ideas of the future. The artworks contemplate themes of our relationship to the landscape around us and the coexistence of the natural and man-made worlds. They investigate how the individual synchronizes with the present and how we are moving into the future as both individuals and as a society.

Image: Still from Flags, 2020.

Rethought, Restored, Regifted, Remade: A Conversation on Reconnecting with Everyday Life

Sunday, December 6, 12 – 1 pm

More

Join The Bass for a virtual panel conversation with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, currently featured in The Willfulness of Objects exhibition. Moderated by writer and activist Tom Healy, Cruzvillegas is joined by special guest Elena Reygadas, who is regarded as one of the most important figures in the Mexican gastronomic scene. Photo: Zachary Balber. 

Black visual arts are enjoying a renaissance in the 21st century. For this panel, we assembled five of the nation’s top African American arts museum directors and curators for a thought provoking conversation. From Jacob Lawrence to Bennie Andrews, the black visual arts archive has been challenged to properly document the lives and careers of African American visual artists. The panel The “Art” of Black Visual Archives: Who Has Them? Where Are They? examines the importance of preserving and telling the history of black artists and how important archives in the world of the visual arts are. Moderated by The Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden, the conversation includes Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation Founder Theaster Gates; Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont; Perez Art Museum Miami Director Franklin Sirmans; and New York University Academic Director and Professor Deborah Willis. The panel also features a Q&A session with questions from The HistoryMakers ArtMakers Advisory Committee.

This 90-minute program is scheduled to stream on YouTube and Facebook Live at 12:00 noon EST on Thursday, December 3, 2020 as the third installment of The HistoryMakers 20@2020: 20 Days and 20 Nights Convening and Celebration.

VAMA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: James Welling
Thursday, November 12, 06 pm PT

Online via Zoom

Free & open to the public

James Welling is an American photographer known for his mysterious color photographs. For 20 years Welling was Area Head of Photography ay UCLA and he presently is a lecturer at Princeton University and lives in New York. Welling's museum exhibition Choreograph, multilayered photographs of dance and architecture, opened last month at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. Welling received his MFA from Cal Arts where he studied with John Baldessari. After graduating from Cal Arts he turned to photography and for 44 years he has worked with the elemental materials of the medium - light, subject, process, color - to fashon a personal vision that is continuously evolving. His latest work, Archaeology, recently exhibited at Regen Projects in Hollywood, takes a deep dive into the sculptures, architecture and objects of ancient Greece and Rome. For this show, Welling invented two new color photographic processes using gelatin, colored dyes and oil paint to create evocativere recollections of antiquity.

Theaster Gates has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded every year to people who have made a significant contribution to architecture but are not architects. This includes people who have helped improve the quality of design and influence the delivery of the built environment in a more sustainable way, those involved in its promotion and management, and those who nurture the interests of future generations. Image: Still from Gone Are the Days of Shelter and Martyr, 2014.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel OVR:20c with Written on the Wind, a presentation of seminal works by gallery artists produced in the 1980s and 1990s. To access our viewing room, use your Art Basel account or create a user profile for the website here.

VIP Preview:

Wednesday, October 28 – Thursday, October 29

Public Days:

Friday, October 30 – Saturday, October 31

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Richard Prince

Gillian Wearing

Lawrence Weiner

Sue Williams

Andrea Zittel

Image: Catherine Opie, Mitch, 1994

Join the Moody Center for the Arts for a Zoom conversation with Catherine Opie, States of Mind: Art and American Democracy artist and Marcellina Melvin and Andy Keller of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute this Thursday, October 22 at 6 pm. The conversation will explore the impact of the current political climate on mental health and will be led by the Moody's Executive Director Alison Weaver. Register for this free event at the link below. Image: Catherine Opie, Untitled #6 (Political Collage), 2019.

Mattew Barney, River of Fundament, 2014

3rd Industrial Art Biennial in Labin

Teatrino/Circolo 

Labin, Croatia

Monday, October 19, 3 pm

Wednesday, November 4, 3 pm

Wednesday, November 18, 3 pm

Matthew Barney's 2014 film River of Fundament will screen at the 3rd Industrial Art Biennial in Labin, Croatia. Conceived in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, the film takes the form of a nontraditional opera inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings. Photo: Production still by Hugo Glendenning.

Regen Projects is pleased to present recent works by James Welling on galleryplatform.la. These photographs by Welling picture the human figure as represented in Classical Greek and Roman statuary. Employing experimental techniques, Welling breathes new life and mystery into the stone subjects he captures. His ability to alchemize light into energy and life in effect serves to bridge the gap between past and present, living and inanimate. These photographs make up a selection of Welling’s current exhibition, Archaeology, on view at Regen Project through October 31. Photo: Evan Bedford.

A4D has programmed a series of weekly talks with internationally recognized artists to help inspire art students to get out and vote. On Tuesday, October 13 at 5 pm PT Christina Quarles will give an overview of her work and speak about the significance of voting and political engagement. 

This Monday, October 5, Catherine Opie will be in conversation with Mark Robbins, President of American Academy in Rome, as part of the academy's Conversations/Conversazioni series. Opie will discuss her work around community and home, as well as her recent road trip across the US. Join them over Zoom at 3 pm PT. For more information and to register, follow the link below. Image: 'Untitled #12 (Wall Street)' (detail), 2001.

Kim Gordon interviews Lawrence Weiner for the October 2020 issue of Interview Magazine. Photo: Matthew Tammaro. 

The landmark tenth season of the Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century television series—the longest-running television series on contemporary art—features twelve artists and one collective, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border. 'London,' the season 10 premiere featuring Anish Kapoor, John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, and Christian Marclay, airs Friday, September 18, 2020 at 7 pm PT on PBS in the United States and online at Art21.org. 

As a pillar of Los Angeles’s art community and one of its primary beacons to the world since 1970, Margo Leavin’s exemplary career indelibly marks not only the ongoing LA museum and gallery scene, but also the city’s now-cemented stature as an internationally vital node for contemporary art. Shaun Caley Regen sits down with Leavin in an exclusive two-part interview to discuss the genesis and legacy of her influential art space. Follow the link below to read Part 1 of the interview. Image: Installation view, Andy Warhol – Mao, My Mother and Other Friends, Margo Leavin Gallery, West Hollywood, 1975.

Regen Projects presents an online solo exhibition of new baseball works by Raymond Pettibon on galleryplatform.la. This focused selection draws from a broader range of drawings currently on view at the gallery from September 12 – October 31.

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Pettibon’s distinctive style combines pen and ink figuration with hand-inscribed text and collage elements to create incisive works that probe the deeply embedded dualities of American culture. The deep well of sources and influences from which he draws — everything from comics, sports, world history, American politics, film noir, literature, and surf culture — coalesce into a lyrical rapture of high and low. His remarkable aesthetic is the result of the brazen approach Pettibon takes to drawing, unconcerned with the slipshod markings and concomitant blots, smears, and retracings that appear in its wake. This outwardly crude manner is underwritten by technical and linguistic mastery — an interplay that has made Pettibon’s work an emblem of countercultural disaffection since he emerged on the art scene in the early 1980s. Image: Installation view, Pacific Ocean Pop, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

Catherine Opie with Lyle Rexer

Friday, September 11, 10 am PT

Register here

Catherine Opie will join critic, curator, and writer Lyle Rexer this Friday, September 11 for a virtual conversation at 10 am PT (1 pm ET) hosted by The Brooklyn Rail as part of the publication’s virtual talk series ‘The New Social Environment.’ Photo: Dustin Aksland for the New York Times.

100 cover stars, 100 unique stories to tell: it’s the extraordinary project for Vogue Italia’s September issue featuring 100 covers and as many protagonists, who differ vastly in terms of age, ethnicity, profession, and lifestyle. Showcased side by side, with no filter, embracing diversity, beauty and hope. 

(At Home) on Art and Participation: Artist Talk with Doug Aitken

Wednesday, August 26, 11 am PT

Free

Advance registration required | Pre-register here

Artist Doug Aitken joins Hirshhorn curator-at-large Gianni Jetzer for an exploration into his genre defying practice that reimagines participation in art. Photo: Ami Sioux. 

In Conversation: Doug Aitken and Douglas Fogle

Wednesday, August 19, 2:30 pm – 4 pm PT

Free with registration

Join artist Doug Aitken and writer and independent curator Douglas Fogle as they discuss migration (empire). The speakers will revisit the film’s commission by Fogle for Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International in 2008. Additionally, they will speak about the process of creating the film as well as its continued relevance today. Image: Still from migration ("empire" linear), 2008.

Theaster Gates, Dance of Malaga,' 2019

Haus der Kunst

Munich, Germany

Thursday, August 6, 9:15 pm

10 € | Reservations required

Image: Still from Dance of Malaga, 2019.

Christina Quarles in Conversation with Helen Molesworth

Thursday, August 6, 3 pm PT

Pre-register with Zoom here

Photo: Daniel Dorsa.

Regen Projects is pleased to present Best's Method for Creative Design, a new series of fifteen self-portraits by Abraham Cruzvillegas inspired by the drawing methods of artist and filmmaker Adolfo Best Maugard.

In 1929, Best devised a manual for basic drawing lessons to be used in public schools in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Reducing drawing to its essentials, Best's system allowed its practitioners to compose any possible representation with easy, smooth, and synthetic gestures. This method, forged from Best's lifelong research into popular arts and crafts and comprising all art from all times, has served as a generous gift to children and adults alike. Follow the link below to visit the viewing room. Image: 'Best’s Method for Creative Design 15,' 2020.

Silke Otto-Knapp in Conversation with Helen Molesworth

Thursday, July 30, 3 pm PT

Pre-register with Zoom here

Artist Talk: Catherine Opie

Thursday, July 23, 4 pm PT

Plug In ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to join us on Thursday, July 23 at 6PM CT for an online Artist Talk by Catherine Opie. The talk will begin with a screening of Opie’s The Modernist after which Opie will discuss her career from the early 1990s until today focusing on her most recent works, The Modernist (2017) & Swamps and Political Collages (2019). The talk will be followed by a Q+A moderated by Nasrin Himada. Photo: Heather Rasmussen. 

Christina Quarles weighs in on the art world in Kelly Crow's 'Brief Oral History of a Tumultuous Year' for WSJ. Magazine. Photo: Joanna Neborsky. 

Catherine Opie documents her time spent at home for Nadja Spiegelman's piece for The New York Times. Photo: Catherine Opie. 

Every week, Walker Art Center is going live on Instagram with artists from around the world! In conversation with Walker curators, they’ll discuss the issues that matter right now.

On July 11 at 2 pm CT, Walker Art Center executive director Mary Ceruti speaks with Liz Larner, an artist whose work is central to our understanding of sculpture in the 21st century. Joining from her studio in Los Angeles, Larner will discuss some of the key ideas that have occupied her focus, including the relationship between object and viewer, stability and power, and material and form, as well as how she might be thinking and working differently in this moment.

Photo: Laure Joliet

Parrish Art Museum

Livestream conversation

Friday, July 3, 5 pm ET

Registration required

Join Adjunct Curator David Pagel in a live-stream conversation with artist Elliot Hundley, whose work is featured in Telling Stories: Reframing the Narratives — a robust online exhibition of work by eight contemporary artists who transform their unique personal histories into participatory dramas — as they discuss Hundley’s dense, complex scenarios that mimic the deluge of information in the digital age. Register at the link below. 

Catherine Opie will lead a four-day virtual workshop from July 7 – 10 alongside Helen Molesworth and Nicole Eisenman as part of Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s Summer workshop series. With a focus on ‘Portraiture and Figuration,’ the four-day seminar will consist of studio visits, artist talks, and readings aimed at deepening participants’ understanding of contemporary art practice. The workshop opens with an exclusive artist talk and Q&A by Opie with Molesworth moderating and culminates in an Art Throwdown by the instructors. Visit the link below to learn more and to register.

Image: Catherine Opie, Pig Pen, 1993. 

T Magazine spotlights Christina Quarles in the article Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color. Read about Quarles's practice in the artist's words following the link below. 

Image: Oh Dear, Look Whut We've Dun to Tha Blues (detail), 2020.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in the second iteration of Art Basel's Online Viewing Room from Friday, June 19 – Friday, June 26, with VIP Preview beginning June 19. Our presentation features a curated selection of artworks in various media by gallery artists, focusing on new works made during the COVID-19 pandemic, some works included in museum shows that were closed due to the pandemic, and a few works that speak to the current climate and recent protests against systemic racism in America and elsewhere. To browse available works and make inquiries, visit the link below. 

Concurrent with the online fair, Regen Projects will be open by appointment at our gallery, with a special exhibition featuring highlights from our viewing room. To speak with or to make an appointment with a sales director please click here. 

To explore the digital presentation on our website click here.

VIP Preview:

Wednesday, June 17 – Friday, June 19

Public Days:

Friday, June 19 – Friday, June 26

Doug Aitken

Matthew Barney

Walead Beshty

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Theaster Gates

Rachel Harrison

Alex Hubbard

Elliott Hundley

Toba Khedoori

Liz Larner

Glenn Ligon

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Christina Quarles

Daniel Richter

Gary Simmons

Wolfgang Tillmans

Gillian Wearing

Lawrence Weiner

James Welling

Sue Williams

Andrea Zittel

Image: Theaster Gates, Some Remember Sock Hops, Others Remember Riots, 2020.

Regen Projects is pleased to present How to Live? A–Z West 2000–2020, an exclusive online exhibition surveying the past two decades of Andrea Zittel’s career. Bringing together sculpture, furniture, objects, textiles, uniforms, ceramics, paintings, works on paper, and tilework, the selection of works presented reflects Zittel’s ongoing aesthetic inquiry into what it means to exist and participate in culture today. Visit the viewing room via the link below. Image: Installation view of A–Z Wagon Stations, 2011. Photo: Lance Brewer.

Regen Projects is pleased to be part of galleryplatform.la, which launched today with an artist visit with Christina Quarles. Follow the link below to watch Quarles run through her daily rituals in the studio, including what she’s listening to, her gravitation towards the ‘alien’ matter of acrylic paint, and what it means to paint bodies and interactions today. 

Regen Projects is pleased to present Archaeology, an exclusive online exhibition of new photographs by James Welling, from May 12 – June 20, 2020. The experimental techniques Welling employs in this suite of images reflects his long-standing interest in the history and technological processes of the photographic medium. Follow the link below to visit the online presentation. Image: Erechtheion. Western facade. Sacred olive tree, karyatids and old temple of Athena Polias in foreground, 2019.

On view from January 25 – August 9, 2020 at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Standard Deviations marks Walead Beshty’s first solo museum display in the German-speaking world. Regen Projects is pleased to host an exclusive digital presentation of this milestone exhibition, which reopens May 12. 

Presenting several new works by Beshty for the first time, Standard Deviations places particular emphasis on the artist's current output. A portion of the exhibition is also dedicated to surveying Beshty's notable early works, such as his photograms — which first brought him to international attention — as well as works from his well-known FedEx series.

The exhibition in Winterthur was curated by Lynn Kost and created in collaboration with MAMCO Geneva. To commemorate the co-presentation, a new, comprehensive monograph will be published by Koenig Books. Photo: Reto Kaufmann. 

Abraham Cruzvillegas has created a playlist of songs related to his first exhibition at Regen Projects, Autodestrucción 1, in 2012. Cruzvillegas based the playlist on music he had in heavy rotation while researching the show, which gravitated around themes of self-destruction, intolerance, and individual identity. Cruzvillegas wrote a story to accompany the exhibition, which you can read here. Titled Zazoucos, the playlist travels through historical identifications, from the Zoot-Suited Pachucos of North America to the Zazous of Nazi-occupied France. Listen now on Spotify! 

Kader Attia presents an online lecture as part of BPA Talks, a series organized by Berlin Program for Artists at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Attia discusses alternative structures for artistic exchange and speaks about La Colonie, the space he founded in Paris to serve as a public forum for artistic thought and discussion. The talk is available to watch through May 31, 2020 by following the link below.

Read Andrea Zittel's personal essay 'Silent Spring' in the May/June 2020 issue of Artforum. Photo: Andrea Zittel.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce its participation in galleryplatform.la, coming May 15. For updates, subscribe to the newsletter at galleryplatform.la and follow @galleryplatform.la on Instagram.

Doug Aitken joined Larry Perel on KCRW to discuss artmaking, society, and nature during our period of isolation. Listen to the segment, and watch a short video, at the link below. Photo: Lance Gerber. 

Home, a new documentary series from Apple TV+, offers viewers a never-before-seen look inside the world’s most innovative homes. Season 1, episode 2 features Theaster Gates, who revitalizes inner-city social spaces in Chicago to create a new sense of home for his overlooked community.

Claire Voon profiled Christina Quarles for Artsy. Read the full piece at the link below.

Theaster Gates is featured in FIRSTHAND, a documentary series from WTTW Chicago which explores the personal, firsthand perspectives of Chicago residents whose lives have been affected by coronavirus. Gates talks about the pleasure as well as the hardship of working in isolation and discusses how he came to team up with the denim label Citizens of Humanity to create 1,000 masks for the Chicago Food Depository: ‘When it became evident that this virus was going to have a significant impact, it meant that I would have to shift significantly how I work. And I knew that I wanted to spend a portion of that time being selfish and enjoying the isolation in a way … But the other part felt like I would have to also figure out how I could be of service, and the service part was a bit more complicated.’ Watch the video at the link below.

For many artists, staying indoors means hunkering down with work and research. Kader Attia has shared with us a glimpse into his studio practice, which involves a huge table on which he spreads out all of his source materials and collage elements, allowing him to get to work arranging, reflecting, making associations, and rearranging again. Pictured is an example of his research on modern architecture's genealogy, from dispossession to reappropriation: The body as an architecture. 

Further reading: Kader Attia on Facing the Enormous Challenges of the Coronavirus Pandemic via Artnet News

Nich McElroy profiles Andrea Zittel and A – Z West for Vogue. Follow the link below to read the full article. Photo: Nich McElroy.

Elizabeth Peyton is among the artists who have contributed artwork to show their gratitude to New York City's healthcare workers. Tyalor Dafoe wrote about the effort for Artnet News. Follow the link below to read the article. 

Catherine Opie's moving tribute to the late John Baldessari appears in the April 2020 issue of Artforum. Follow the link below to read her rememberance. Image: Catherine Opie, John, 2013.

Fi Churchman profiled Catherine Opie and her latest exhibition, Rhetorical Landscapes, for the April 2020 issue of ArtReview. 

Kenya Barris discusses Glenn Ligon's 2014 work Double America 2 for The New York Times segment 'The African-American Art Shaping the 21st Century.' 

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in the first iteration of Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms from Friday, March 20 to Wednesday, March 25, with VIP Preview beginning March 18. To browse available works and make inquiries, visit the link below. Image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Ushuaia Lupine (b), 2010.

VIP Preview:

Wednesday, March 18 – Friday, March 20

Public Days:

Friday, March 20 – Wednesday, March 25

Doug Aitken
Kader Attia
Matthew Barney
Walead Beshty
Theaster Gates
Rachel Harrison
Alex Hubbard
Elliott Hundley
Sergej Jensen
Anish Kapoor
Liz Larner
Marilyn Minter
Catherine Opie
Silke Otto-Knapp
Raymond Pettibon
Jack Pierson
Lari Pittman
Daniel Richter
Gary Simmons
Wolfgang Tillmans
Gillian Wearing
Lawrence Weiner
Sue Williams
Andrea Zittel

Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner joined each other last February at Regen Projects for a conversation moderated by Dagny Corcoran. The discussion was held on the occasion of the exhibitions Catherine Opie: Rhetorical Landscapes and Lawrence Weiner: ON VIEW, which run from February 27 – May 2, 2020. Follow the link below to watch a digital recording of the conversation. 

Ted Loos profiles Christina Quarles as an artist who is reinvigorating traditional figure painting, and looks ahead to her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, opening April 4. Follow the link below to read the full feature. Photo: Erik Carter. 

Robert R. Shane reviewed In the Waiting Room, Silke Otto-Knapp's solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society, for the Brooklyn Rail. Read the review at the link below.

“One of Europe’s top ballet companies” (The New York Times), Ballet Vlaanderen, known locally as Royal Ballet of Flanders, celebrates its 50th anniversary with a Joyce debut. Top-notch dancers perform Akram Khan’s Kaash, merging contemporary and Kathak dance with set design by Anish Kapoor. Photo: Filip Van Roe.

Mirage Gstaad

Gstaad, Switzerland

Saturday, February 29, 12 pm

Elevation 1049 invites you to SONG MIRROR, a new musical performance composed by Doug Aitken to be performed live by six vocalists from the Los Angeles Master Chorale inside Mirage Gstaad. The composition of SONG MIRROR takes simple yet enigmatic everyday words and phrases like "Is anyone listening,” "you know more than I know” and “sunset" and transforms them into layered vocals that are hypnotic and sublime. This new artwork reflects everyday language and phrases that have been abstracted into beautiful and transcendent music that surrounds and envelops the listener. Free shuttles will be available from 11:15 -11:45am from Gstaad train station to Mirage Gstaad, and back after the performance.

War Requiem is one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century. Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the timeless ritual of the Latin Requiem Mass. The result is a passionate outcry against man's inhumanity to man. Joining the production team as designer and making his English National Opera debut is the Turner Prize-winning artist and designer Wolfgang Tillmans. Chien Wen-pin, Artistic Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), conducts this new co-production, along with Daniel Kramer's contemporary staging, seeking to examine and process the grief of the incomprehensible loss of life from wars past and present, and offering hope for the future. For tickets and more information, follow the link below. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith.

Barbican Centre

Frobisher Auditorium 1

London, UK

Thursday, February 20, 7 pm

£10 | £5  for Members

Join the acclaimed US photographer Catherine Opie as she discusses her work chronicling queer subcultures, urban transformation and American popular culture with art historian and academic Jonathan D. Katz at the Barbican Centre on Thursday, February 20, 2020. For tickets and more information, follow the link below. Image: Football Landscape #17 (Waianae vs. Leilehua, Waianae, HI), 2009.

Trustees Theater

Savannah, GA

Wednesday, February 19, 6 pm

Join SCAD deFINE ART 2020 honoree Marilyn Minter as she shares her unconventional process and speaks to her experience of navigating the art world as a radical woman artist. This event is free and open to the public and is presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2020, the university’s program of exhibitions, lectures, and performances held February 18 – 20 at university locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Photo: Nadya Wasylko.

Matthew Barney: Redoubt

A special screening and Q&A in collaboration with Regen Projects

Paramount Theater at Paramoun Pictures Studios

Saturday, February 15, 6 pm 

Join us at 6 pm in the Paramount Theater at Frieze Los Angeles, to see the new film by acclaimed artist and director Matthew Barney. The screening will be followed by a Q&A at 8 pm with Matthew Barney and Shari Frilot, artist, filmmaker and Curator of the New Frontier program at Sundance Film Festival. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

A-Z West will feature A-Z West Containers—handmade ceramic bowls that serve all eating and drinking functions. Andrea Zittel began using containers in daily life in the early 1990s and they continue to serve as the sole dinnerware used at A-Z West. A-Z West Works support the general sustainability of A-Z West including access to collective resources for the local community and help generate income for artists local to the High Desert, where employment and means of financial support are limited.

Gary Simmons: Backdrop Project, 1993 – 2020
Co-presented by Regen Projects and Metro Pictures
Paramount Studios Backlot
Los Angeles, CA

February 14 – 16

In 1992, motivated by an interest in Black authorship and self-fashioning, Gary Simmons set up a portable photo studio with painted 'backdrop' paintings at Harlem’s Rucker Park basketball courts and the African Street Festival in Brooklyn, offering free Polaroids to those he photographed. The thirteen paintings that served as portrait backdrop were shown alongside the almost 850 instant photos at Metro Pictures in 1993. Simmons revives the project for the 2020 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, and will offer complimentary photographs to select participants during the run of Frieze Los Angeles. Image: Gary Simmons, Nubian Queen, 1993.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Frieze Los Angeles from Friday, February 14 through Sunday, February 16. Visit us at Booth C7 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists. Image: Doug Aitken, electric eden (aerial pools with red), 2019 (detail).

Frieze Los Angeles

Paramount Pictures Studios

Los Angeles, CA

Invitation Only Preview:
Thursday, February 13

Friday, February 14

Public Days:
Saturday, February 15 (11 am – 7 pm)
Sunday, February 16 (11 am – 6 pm)

Doug Aitken

Matthew Barney

Walead Beshty

Theaster Gates

Alex Hubbard

Elliott Hundley

Liz Larner

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Christina Quarles

Daniel Richter

Gary Simmons

Wolfgang Tillmans

James Welling

Andrea Zittel

Bar Laika by e-flux

Brooklyn, NY

Thursday, February 13, 9 pm

To And Fro. Fro And To. And To And Fro. And Fro And To, 1972, 1:00 minute

Mortal Sin, 2000, 03:30 minutes
Blue Moon Over, 2001, 05:14 minutes
Deep Blue Sky, 2002, 06:35 minutes
Inherent In The Rhumb Line, 2005, 07:25 minutes
Turning Some Pages, 2007, 05:00 minutes
Gyroscopically Speaking, 2010, 05:00 minutes

Join Lawrence Weiner and Molly Nesbit for a special screening program of moving-image works made between 1972 and 2010 that extend Weiner's signature conceptual and language-based practice into cinematic and digital realms. Image: Still from Inherent In The Rhumb Line, 2005.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall

The New School

New York, NY

Thursday, February 13, 6:30 – 8 pm
Free
 

Join Aperture and Parsons School of Design to celebrate Aperture magazine’s 'Spirituality' issue, guest edited by artist Wolfgang Tillmans, with a conversation between Tillmans and Michael Famighetti, editor of Aperture magazine. 

Please note, this event is at capacity. There will be a stand-by line for those who did not RSVP. 

Image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Shaker rainbow, 1998.

Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt

Directed by John Bock and Lars Eidinger, with stage and costume design by John Bock

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
February 12 – March 8

Directed by John Bock and Lars Eidinger with set and costume design by John Bock, Peer Gynt is an interdisciplinary project somewhere between theatre, fine art and performance. Ibsen’s text serves as a starting point for an exploration of modern identity situated somewhere between the stage and the internet, character and actor, origins and self-creation, filter bubble and reality. Photo: BENJAKON, 2020.

Catherine Opie is the Los Angeles 2020 guest editor of Whitewaller. Follow the link below to read her introduction to the issue. Photo: Heather Rasmussen. 

Spring Place

Beverly Hills, CA

Monday, February 10, 6 pm

RSVP

Gary Simmons joins Heidi Zuckerman for a fireside chat to discuss his multi-faceted career spanning across painting and installation. Grab a drink and learn how Simmons is taking the most recent iteration of Desert X by storm. The conversation starts at 6pm in the Library. Image: Installation view of Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, Desert X 2019. Photo: Lance Gerber.

Conceived and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans and published in association with the exhibitions Rebuilding the Future at IMMA, Dublin and Today Is The First Day at WIELS, Brussels, this richly illustrated artist's book explores the latest developments in Tillmans's work over the last three years. Today Is The First Day spans the artist's multifaceted approach to image-making, video, performance, music and political activities, presenting newly commissioned texts from contributors including novelist Olivia Laing, historian Brian Dillon, curator Catherine Wood, and geologist Dr. David Chew, each of whom illuminate a different aspect of Tillmans's work.

The Menil Collection

Houston, TX

Friday, January 31, 6 – 7 pm

Free

American artist Glenn Ligon delivers an Artist Talk on occasion of the Menil’s recent acquisition of his work, Untitled (Orpheus and Eurydice). Ligon discusses the concept of America in his work, from his text-based neon sculptures that illuminate words, phrases, and sentences to his highly textured language-based paintings that draw their content from American history, popular culture, and literary works by writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Genet, among others. Image: ‘Untitled (Orpheus and Eurydice),’ 2013.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Atlanta, GA

Thursday, January 30, 7 – 9 pm

Free with RSVP

On the occasion of the opening of Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation, please join Daisy Desrosiers, Associate Curator, and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, for a conversation on January 30, 2020 followed by an opening reception. This program is free and open to the public. However, registration is required. Image: Courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved. Photo: Isaac Sutton.

Fondation Francès

Senlis, France

Saturday, January 25, 6:00 pm

RSVP

On the occasion of the closing of Kader Attia's exhibition Mémoire de l'Oubli at Fondation Francès, the artist will be joined in conversastion by Art History professor and art critic Philippe Dagen at Fondation Francès on Saturday, January 25, 2020. Image: Syrian Shells, 2015.

Read Robert Abele's review of Matthew Barney's film Redoubt for the Los Angeles Times. Follow the link below for the full article. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Matthew Barney: Redoubt

Nuart Theatre

Los Angeles, CA

January 24 – January 30

Daily screenings: 2:20 pm | 5:10 pm | 8 pm

Tickets

An artist Q&A follows the 8 pm screening on Friday, January 24. Tickets available here.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce the Los Angeles premiere of Matthew Barney's new film, Redoubt. The film will screen at the Nuart Theatre from January 24 – 30, 2020. In addition, the artist will be joined by writer Maggie Nelson for a Q&A following the 8 pm screening of the film on January 24. For tickets and information, follow the link below.

Redoubt loosely adapts the classical myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt and of nature, and Actaeon, a hunter who trespasses on her privacy and is punished. The first new film in several years by internationally acclaimed artist, writer and director Matthew Barney unfolds as a series of hunts in the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s spectacular Sawtooth Mountains. Anette Wachter, a real champion sharpshooter, is cast as Diana, and the director himself plays a grizzled mountain man known as The Engraver. The characters communicate a mythological narrative through dance, letting movement replace language as they pursue each other and their prey. By layering classical myths, cosmological myths, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world, the film creates a complex portrait of the American landscape. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

As the World Economic Forum marks its 50th Annual Meeting, it celebrates the enduring contributions to society of exceptional artists. On the occasion of the 26th Annual Crystal Award, it celebrates the leadership of artist Theaster Gates, choreographer Jin Xing, actor Deepika Padukone and artist Lynette Wallworth. The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from 21-24 January 2020, under the theme, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.” Photo: Sara Pooley. 

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Theaster Gates: Black Madonna at Kunstmuseum Basel, this book illuminates the working methods and concepts underlying the project through pictorial reportage and new essays. Edited by Josef Helfenstein & Daniel Kurjakovic with contributions by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Daniel Kurjakovic, and Theaster Gates. 

Outsider Art Fair Talk: Just Don't Call it Practice!

Marilyn Minter, Lonnie Holley, and Laura Hoptman, moderated by Bill Arning

New Museum

New York, NY

Tuesday, January 14th, 7 – 9 pm

Free | Register here

Outsider Art Fair New York will host a panel discussion on Tuesday, January 14th, Just Don't Call it Practice!, moderated by Bill Arning, with panelists Lonnie Holley (artist and musician); Laura Hoptman (Executive Director of the Drawing Center, New York); and Marilyn Minter (artist). This event is free and open to the public. Image: Marilyn Minter, Pop Rocks, 2009.

Opening Reception and Artist Talk

The Renaissance Society
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Saturday, January 11, 5 – 8 pm

Join artist Silke Otto-Knapp for an opening reception of the exhibition In the waiting room from 5 – 8 pm on Saturday, January 11, 2020. In conjunction with the opening, Otto-Knapp will discuss her work with the exhibition’s curator, Solveig Øvstebø, at 6 pm.

Artists on Artists: Christina Quarles on The Foundation of the Museum
The Geffen Contemporary

Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, January 9, 7 pm

Christina Quarles makes expressive, gestural works that reference the history and techniques of painting, but also smartly test its limits. Her dynamic compositions often feature feminine tropes that reference domestic space—fabrics, patterns—alongside polymorphous and ambiguous figures arranged in contorted positions. Playing with the identity of the figure to expand the potential for representation in her work, Quarles explores the genre of figurative art as it has been captured in The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection by artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Join her at 7 pm on Thursday, January 9, 2020. Photo: Daniel Dorsa.

Created in close collaboration with the artist to accompany Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels at the National Portrait Gallery, London (October 3, 2019 – January 5, 2020), this monograph surveys the work of the American painter with a particular focus on the last decade of her practice, while positioning Peyton’s work within the context of historic portraiture. The catalogue, now available for purchase at Regen Projects, contains texts by Lucy Dahlsen, Nicholas Cullinan, and Thomas Crow.

Christina Quarles is the artist's first monograph, published on the occasion of her exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield (October 19, 2019 – January 19, 2020). Now available at Regen Projects, the catalogue comprises a new essay by Andrew Bonacina, Chief Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield, and an in-depth conversation between Quarles and art historian David J. Getsy.

In Conversation: Elizabeth Peyton

Ondaatje Wing Theatre

National Portrait Gallery

London, UK

Friday, December 13, 7 pm

£10 | £8 concessions and Gallery Supporters

Elizabeth Peyton talks to curator Lucy Dahlsen about her current exhibition, Aire and Angels. The talk is part of the programme of events complementing Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels. Image: Portrait at the Opera (Elizabeth), 2016. 

Artist's Talk with Theaster Gates
Global City Auditorium

Museum of Liverpool

Liverpool, UK
Thursday, December 12, 4:30 – 6:30 pm

On the occasion of Theaster Gates: Amalgam, opening December 13, 2019 at Tate Liverpool, hear Theaster Gates discuss his career and art practice. During this talk, the artist will share his thoughts about his ongoing artistic endeavours on questions of land ownership, displacement, and race. Gates will be talking with professor Michael Ralph and British fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner. Got a question for Theaster Gates? Take part in the audience Q&A — your chance to talk to the artist. Photo: © Palais de Tokyo, 2019.

The University of California Los Angeles announced that its first endowed chair in the art department will be a photographer: Catherine Opie, the Los Angeles artist whose sumptuous images have long investigated sexual and gender identity, as well as identifiable aspects of the Southern California landscape, and who has been a member of the art faculty at UCLA since 2001. The endowment comes courtesy of a $2-million donation from Lynda and Stewart Resnick, owners of the Wonderful Co. and prominent arts patrons. Read more at the Los Angeles Times. Photo: Jay L. Clendenin.

Rachel Harrison Life Hack gallery talk series
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
November 18 – January 8

In conjunction with Rachel Harrison Life Hack, Rachel Harrison invites artists and writers to speak about the works on view and to offer their unique perspectives on her wide-ranging practice for this series of in-gallery talks. Image: Rachel Harrison, I'm with Stupid, 2007.

Upcoming Events: 

Paul Chan on Rachel Harrison, or What Is Non-Salvific Art
Monday, December 9, 7 pm

Ottessa Moshfegh on Rachel Harrison
Wednesday, December 18, 7 pm

Alex Kitnick and Laura Cottingham on Rachel Harrison
Monday, January 6, 7 pm

Dance of Malaga, 2019

Grand Ballroom, M28

Miami Beach Convention Center

Miami Beach, FL

December 5 – 8

Theaster Gates's film Dance of Malaga, 2019, will be on view at Art Basel Miami Beach as part of the fair’s inaugural Meridians sector, which is dedicated to ambitious, monumental projects that push the boundaries of a traditional art fair layout. This latest video by Gates is a monument to the people of Malaga Island, Maine, a meditation on love and race in America, and a continuation of the artist's exploration of race, territory, inequality, and sexuality in the United States. 

My Body My Choice?

Marilyn Minter, Nandipha Mntambo, and Alex Natale, moderated by Catherine Morris

Art Basel Miami Beach

Thursday, December 5, 1 – 2 pm

Marilyn Minter will be in conversation with Nandipha Mntambo and Alex Natale from 1 – 2 pm on Thursday, December 5, 2019. Art Basel’s Conversations series presents stimulating panel discussions on topics concerning the global contemporary art scene. Prominent members of the international artworld – artists, gallerists, curators, collectors, architects, critics, and many other cultural figures – each offer unique perspectives on producing, collecting, and exhibiting art. Conversations is programmed by Edward Winkleman, author and private dealer. Photo: Ryan McGinley.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach from Thursday, December 5 through Sunday, December 8. Visit us in Booth E12 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists. Image: Liz Larner, ix (subduction), 2019.

Art Basel Miami Beach
Booth E12

Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami, FL

Meridians opening:
Tuesday, December 3 (4 – 7 pm)

Preview:

Wednesday, December 4 (11 am – 8 pm)

Vernissage:

Thursday, December 5 (11 am – 3 pm)

Public Days:

Thursday, December 5 (3 – 8 pm)
Friday, December 6 (12 – 8 pm)
Saturday, December 7 (12 – 8 pm)
Sunday, December 8 (12  – 6 pm)

Kader Attia
Walead Beshty
Theaster Gates
Rachel Harrison
Alex Hubbard

Elliott Hundley

Sergej Jensen
Anish Kapoor
Liz Larner
Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon
Jack Pierson
Lari Pittman
Christina Quarles
Daniel Richter

Gary Simmons
Wolfgang Tillmans
Gillian Wearing
Lawrence Weiner

Sue Williams

Andrea Zittel

Lari Pittman Artist Walk-throughs: Catherine Opie

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA

Thursday, December 5, 6 pm

Free

Catherine Opie will present an informal, 45-minute gallery talk discussing specific works in the exhibition Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence. Image: Installation view of Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane. 

Artist talk and book launch with John Bock
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Wednesday, December 4, 7:30 pm

In conjunction with John Bock: AuraAroma Ω-Beule at Kunsthalle Mannheim, Edition Cantz will publish a catalog and artist's book co-designed by John Bock. On the occasion of the catalogue's release, Bock will sit down with curators Sebastian Baden and Antonella B. Meloni to discuss his work latest projects. Join them on December 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm. Image: Performance view of John Bock, LiquiditätsAuroAromaPortfolio, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany, 1998. Photo: Knut Klaßen.

Artist Talk with Glenn Ligon

de la Cruz Collection

Miami, FL

Monday, December 2, 7 – 9 pm

Free with RSVP

The event will begin with a cocktail reception at 7 pm followed by an artist talk by Glenn Ligon at 8 pm on Monday, December 2, 2019. Hosted by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz. Free public access. Seating is first come, first served. RSVP required. Image: Debris Field (Red) #1, 2018.

AuTOIconstrucion: A performance by Abraham Cruzvillegas

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

Paris, France

Thursday, November 28, 7:30 – 9:30 pm

Part of the exhibition YOU: Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, AuTOIconstruction is an evening of art and poetry, inviting volunteers to read aloud together from texts written by Abraham Cruzvillegas as he builds a sculpture from recycled materials collected in the museum, which will then be destroyed in front of the public during this same event. The performance will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, November 28, 2019. Photo: Benjamín Matte.

MoMA's Forums on Contemporary Photography presents a lecture and panel on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 6 pm. The upcoming session will examine the formative links between photographic history, science, and the humanities, as traced from the rise of industrialization to our present digital world through a series of contemporary responses. The point of departure for this forum is the publication of Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image (1844–2018), an anthology of texts, edited by Walead Beshty, reflecting the transformations in the production and distribution of mechanically reproduced imagery from the late-19th century to the present. 

The featured speakers for this forum are Walead Beshty; David Campany, writer and independent curator; Noam Elcott, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of Art Humanities, Columbia University; artist LaToya Ruby Frazier; artist Cameron Rowland; and artist Christopher Williams.

This event is by invitation only, but we are very pleased to present a recording of the forum, which will allow remote friends and colleagues to hear the conversation. Image: Installation view of Picture Industry, curated by Walead Beshty, June 24 – December 15, 2017 at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Chris Kendall.  

Celebrate a distinguished contemporary artist whose work is represented in the museum’s collection during this annual program honoring James Speyer, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute from 1961 to 1986. This year, join us for an enlightening lecture by artist Rachel Harrison, followed by a gallery viewing of her work and seated dinner in the Modern Wing.

Please note that this event is only open to current Sustaining Fellows. Registration is required. Image: Pablo Escobar, 2010.

Andrea Zittel Public Lecture

Studio Art Hall

Pomona College

Claremont, CA

Tuesday, November 19, 10 am – 12 pm

The Pomona College Art Department is pleased to present an artist talk by Andrea Zittel. This free and public lecture is courtesy of the Anne Abel Pinkel Lectureship in Visual Arts. Image: Parallel Planar Panel (black, red, light grey), 2014.

MCA Benefit Art Auction

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Chicago, IL

Saturday, November 16

Regen Projects artists Theaster Gates, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles, and James Welling are featured in the MCA Benefit Art Auction, taking place at MCA Chicago on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The Benefit Art Auction fuels opportunities for MCA programs and exhibitions that make it one of the museum’s most significant fundraising events. The evening will feature cocktails and viewing, followed by a seated dinner and live auction. Purchase tables and tickets online to attend in person. Online bidding is open now on Artsty.net, where you can bid on silent auction works and enter absentee bids for live auction works. Image: James Welling, 4176, 2015. 

Regen Projects is pleased to announce The Corner of the Table, its first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Hubbard. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 6 pm. Read the full press release at the link below.

Doug Aitken will be honored at ArtCenter College of Design's 13th Annual Alumni Awards Dinner on November 16, 2019. The school is presenting the lifetime achievement award to Aitken (BFA ’91). Read more on Artforum. Photo: Carmen Ellis.

Holland Cotter of The New York Times selects Rachel Harrison Life Hack at the Whitney Museum of American Art as his 'Critic's Pick.' Read the review at the link below. Photo: Charlie Rubin.

Lari Pittman joins Helen Molesworth on an episode of Recording Artists, Lee Krasner: Deal with It. In interviews from 1972, 1975, and 1978, the first-generation abstract expressionist discussed her formation as a painter, the progression of her work, her relationships with fellow artists, and her role as guardian of Jackson Pollock’s legacy. Image: Lee Krasner in the classroom of Hans Hoffman, circa 1938. Photographer unknown. 

Whoever Shows: Strike Uyp th’ Band!

Co-presentation with Performa 19 Biennial

New Museum

New York, NY

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Whoever Shows: Strike Uyp th’ Band! is a staged reading at the New Museum of a collaged collection of excerpts from Raymond Pettibon’s scripts, including those originally produced for videos like The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman ’69 (1989–90), Sir Drone: A New Film About the New Beatles (1989–90), The Holes You Feel, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison, and Batman. Reflecting upon the notion of collaborative work, this assemblage of Pettibon’s fragmentary scripts, scenes, and lyrics attempts to envision personal perspectives and imaginative approaches to the historical past and the edges of society. This event at the New Museum is one of only a handful of select public readings of his scripts that Pettibon has organized over the past several years.

Directed by Raymond Pettibon, the continuous reading will feature an ensemble of artists, musicians, and Pettibon’s friends including Oliver Augst, Mark Beasley, Veronique Bourgoin, Angela Choon, Jonny Cournoyer, Brian D’Amato, Pauline Daly, Marcel Dzama, Ray Farrell, Thomas Fehlmann, Kim Gordon, Sozita Goudouna, David Larsen, Young Kim, Spencer Leigh, Charles Louis-Aristide, David Rimanelli, Sven Sachsalber, Stella Schnabel, Ricky Sepulveda, Frances Stark, Robert Storr, Juli Susin, Dirk Vandenberg, Mitchell Watkins, Mike Watt, Hans Weigand, and Lauren Wolchik.

Image: Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Do you see…), 2015. 

Catherine Opie & Robin Coste Lewis
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal, Canada
Wednesday, November 13, 7 pm

Art Speaks is delighted present a fascinating conversation between artist CATHERINE OPIE and poet ROBIN COSTE LEWIS at 7 pm on November 13, 2019. This candid dialogue will be grounded on ideas that intersect in their work such as feminism, motherhood, identity, representation and the colour blue. Opie and Lewis were both recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships in 2019. Image: Catherine Opie, Untitled #6, 2012.

Screenings of Rock My Religion (1984) and Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty (2004) with an Introduction by Dan Graham

Cinéma Luminor Hôtel de Ville

Paris, France

Friday, November 8, 6 pm

6€

Cinéma Luminor Hôtel de Ville will present two films by Dan Graham on Friday, November 8, 2019. Graham will introduce the program, which includes the 1984 film Rock My Religion and 2004’s Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30. For more information and to reserve tickets, follow the link below. Image: Still from Rock My Religion, 1984.

Lari Pittman Artist Walk-throughs: Silke Otto-Knapp

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA

Thursday, November 7, 6 pm

Free

Silke Otto-Knapp will present an informal, 45-minute gallery talk discussing specific works in the exhibition Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence. Image: Installation view of Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Hirshhorn New York Gala
Artist x Artist
Artists Celebrating Artists Across Generations

Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner will be honored at The Hirshhorn New York Gala on Monday, November 4, 2019. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, our national museum of modern and contemporary art, has asked twenty artists to nominate another artist who influenced their thinking. 

Lucy Ives's cover feature for the November 2019 issue of Art in America unpacks Rachel Harrison's singular career. Read the full article at the link below. 

Arena presents: Everything Is Connected: George Eliot's Life, directed by Gillian Wearing

BBC Four

Sunday, November 10, 9 pm

Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of Victorian novelist George Eliot. Just as Eliot’s novel Middlemarch explored the lives of ordinary men and women, this experimental film is made up of a diverse cast of people from different backgrounds. Image: Still from Everything Is Connected: George Eliot's Life, 2019. 

Screening of Redoubt, 2018, followed by a Q&A with Matthew Barney

Film Forum

New York, NY

Wednesday, October 30, 6:50 pm

$9 members | $15 regular

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Film Forum presents Matthew Barney's newest film, Redoubt, 2018, which will run daily for two weeks beginning October 30, 2019. Join the artist for an opening-day Q&A following the 6:50 pm screening. 

From the boundlessly fertile/febrile imagination of Matthew Barney, creator of the epic CREMASTER cycle. In REDOUBT, the myth of Diana and Actaeon unfolds in Idaho’s majestic Sawtooth Mountains, with Diana played by real-life sharpshooter Anette Wachter. She’s accompanied by two nymphs on a wolf hunt (one, Eleanor Bauer, choreographed the film’s gravity-defying movements); Barney is the Engraver/forest ranger – stealthily etching their movements onto copper plates. Wordless physical action, choreography and spectacular cinematography create a dreamlike logic. The title REDOUBT can refer to both a provisional military fortification, and a defensive, isolated psychological position – both evoked by the film’s setting in a vast Idaho wilderness. “Mr. Barney’s most engrossing film in over a decade… speaks directly to contemporary American themes: the place of the gun, the fate of the environment and the fantasies and paranoias of those who turn their back on constitutional government and American society” (Jason Farago, The New York Times). Image: Production still of Redoubt, 2018. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: The Church of Funk 

Haus der Kunst

Munich, Germany

Saturday, October 26, 7:30 pm

20 € | Reservations required

Join Theaster Gates, Mikel Avery, Yaw Agyeman, Michael Drayton, Ben Lamar Gay and Jeff Parker on Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm for an evening of live music. On the occasion of FUNK, the Black Monks of Mississippi will give ourselves permission to celebrate the multiple roots that lead to the supreme outness - the funky oneness - the Buddha in the room next to Bootsy. If you are not familiar with the funk prepare yourself because you won't escape. The order of service provides a strategy so that the whitest and most German of man will want to lose themselves to the Supreme Order of stank. Come shout with us and shake your funky ass. For more inforation and tickets, follow the link below. 

Published to coincide with the exhibition Rachel Harrison Life Hack at the Whitney Museum of American Art (October 25, 2019 – January 5, 2020), this monograph explores twenty-five years of Rachel Harrison's practice. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. The catalogue includes an in-depth plate section, which doubles as a chronology of Harrison’s major works, series, and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details, and accompanied by short texts. Essays by Elizabeth Sussman, David Joselit, Johanna Burton, Darby English, Maggie Nelson, and Alexander Nemerov cover Harrison’s earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time, these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrison’s own past work. 

Artist Talk: Theaster Gates in Conversation with Hamza Walker

Haus der Kunst

Munich, Germany

Thursday, October 24, 7 pm

Free

On the occasion of the opening of Theaster Gates: Black Chapel, join the artist on Thursday, October 24, 2019 for a discussion with Hamza Walker, Director of LAXART in Los Angeles, with an introduction by the curator of the exhibition, Anna Schneider. 

Rachel Harrison spoke with actor Matt Dillon for the Fall 2019 issue of Interview Magazine. Read the interview at the link below. 

An Evening with Doug Aitken

Bovard Auditorium

University of Southern California

Wednesday, October 23, 7 pm 

Free | Reservations required

Join USC Visions and Voices for an evening with Doug Aitken on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. The Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker’s career-spanning multimedia presentation will touch on architecture, art, public space, the environment, and more. For more information and to RSVP, follow the link below. Photo: Dakota Higgins and Doug Aitken Workshop.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in FIAC from Thursday, October 17, 2019 through Sunday, October 20. Visit us at Booth B13 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists. Image: Daniel Richter, LUCKY LEW, 2019.

Grand Palais

Booth B13

Avenue Winston Churchill

Paris

Vernissage:
Wednesday, October 16 (11 am – 9 pm)

VIP Preview:
Thursday, October 17 (11 am – 2 pm)

Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20 (11 am – 12 pm)

Public Days:
Thursday, October 17 (2 – 8 pm)
Friday, October 18 (12 – 8 pm)
Saturday, October 19 – Sunday, October 20 (12 – 7 pm)

Kader Attia

Walead Beshty

Theaster Gates

Rachel Harrison

Elliott Hundley

Anish Kapoor

Liz Larner

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Raymond Pettibon

Elizabeth Peyton

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Christina Quarles

Daniel Richter

Willem de Rooij

Gary Simmons

Wolfgang Tillmans

Gillian Wearing

Lawrence Weiner

James Welling

Sue Williams

Andrea Zittel

On Content and Method: Current Interests in conversation with Mario Gooden and James Welling

Princeton University

North Gallery, School of Architecture

Wednesday, October 16, 6 pm

This event will bring together architect Mario Gooden and photographer James Welling in discussion with Matthew Au and Mira Henry within the Current Interests exhibition, currently on display in the SoA’s North Gallery. The conversation will focus on notions of “content” and “method” in dialog with Gooden’s formidable book, Dark Space, and Welling’s distinct career of photographic work. Image: James Welling, 8067, 2008. 

Opening Exhibition Lecture » Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Bentonville, AR

Friday, October 11, 7 – 8 pm

Free

Join Marilyn Minter for an opening-night discussion on the exhibition Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today. She will be joined in conversation by artist Miya Ando and curator Joachim Pissarro. Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today is the first exhibition of its kind to explore the complex and varied connections between crystal and art throughout the world, spanning history and geography. The conversation this evening will feature a special discussion around Minter and Ando’s work included in the exhibition, Crystal Swallow, 2006 (Minter) and Tides, 2011 (Ando). Image: Marilyn Minter, Crystal Swallow, 2006. 

Opening Celebrations
Friday, October 11, 7:30 pm

Sonic Musings, Meditations & Testimonies
Saturday, October 12, 11 am

Sonic Soul Session #1: Roller Skating Party
Saturday, October 12, 7 – 11 pm

Theaster Gates hosts his renowned Black Artists Retreat, an annual convening of black visual artists working in many forms, for the first time outside of Chicago. For this year’s retreat, Gates, an Armory Artist-in-Residence, welcomes black artists and allies from Chicago, New York, and beyond for a weekend of communion, celebration, and multi-disciplinary exploration of this year’s theme: sonic imagination. Photo: Andre Wagner. 

Christopher Knight reviews Lari Pittman's Hammer Museum retrospective, Declaration of Independence, for the Los Angeles Times. Read the review at the link below. Image: Untitled #5, 2010. 

Doug Aitken: Artist Talk

Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA

Saturday, October 5, 2 pm

Doug Aitken has earned international acclaim with his groundbreaking work that redefines how we experience art. Defying categorization, he integrates moving images into sculptural and immersive environments and pushes the limits of perception. With a profound knowledge and understanding of the history of 20th-century avant-gardes, experimental music and cinema, and an intimate kinship with the protest movements of the late 1960s, Aitken has invented a unique aesthetic that transforms viewers into collaborators. Join him for a talk on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Photo: Noah Webb.

Catherine Opie told T Magazine's Janelle Zara about her work routine, artistic origins, and an exciting new project. Read the full piece at the link below. Photo: Dustin Aksland. 

Elizabeth Peyton in conversation with Dr. Nicholas Cullinan

Frieze Masters Auditorium

Regent's Park

London, UK

Thursday, October 3, 3 pm

The acclaimed series of Frieze Masters Talks returns to the fair this October. Once again curated by Tim Marlow (Royal Academy of Arts, London) the programme will feature leading contemporary artists discussing the influence of historical art on their research and practice. Join Elizabeth Peyton for a conversation with Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Talks are free to attend with a fair ticket. Photo: Kristian Emdal. 

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London announced Monday, September 30 that it has appointed artist Wolfgang Tillmans as the new chair of its board of directors. Tillmans will be the first artist to lead the board in more than thirty years. Read more on Artforum. Photo: Seth Fluker

What Else Can Art Be? Theaster Gates In Conversation

Royal Institute of British Architects

London, UK

Friday, October 4, 10 am

Advance tickets required

Join Theaster Gates for a conversation with Elvira Dyangani Ose (director, The Showroom) on Friday, October 4 at the Royal Institue of British Architects as part of the 2019 Art and Architecture Summit: New Ways of Seeing: Art & Architecture in a Changing World. From the most innovative new museum spaces, to studios looking to traditional methods for sustainable design, to way the selfie is shaping exhibition making, leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture and technology come together for a day of interdisciplinary conversations about ‘good’ design – and why it matters. Follow the link below for tickets and more information, including a full schedule of events. 

Read Leah Ollman's interview with Lari Pittman, whose work graces the cover of Art in America's October 2019 issue. 

Lari Pittman & Connie Butler

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA

Sunday, September 29, 2 pm

Free | Tickets required

The artist Lari Pittman is joined in conversation by the Hammer’s chief curator, Connie Butler, who organized the artist’s retrospective. A longtime UCLA Department of Art professor and prolific artist, Pittman has influenced generations of artists in Los Angeles and beyond. The conversation will take place at 2 pm on Sunday, September 29, 2019. Image: Lari Pittman, 'Untitled #1,' 2000.

Myths, Guns and Afterimage: Discussion & Screening with Matthew Barney

UCCA Contemporary Art Center

Beijing, China

Saturday, September 28, 1 – 5:30 pm

Schedule:

Exhibition Guided Tour, 1 pm

Roundtable Discussion, 2 pm

Tea break, 4 pm

Film Screening, 4:30 pm

In Redoubt, Matthew Barney showcases the breadth of his personal knowledge and aesthetic framework. His latest creations bring together classical mythology, art history, environmental ecology, dance, cosmology, electrochemistry, and the study of alchemy. How does one begin to interpret this complex web of references, and their refined visual expression? On September 28, 2019, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is honored to invite Matthew Barney, art historian and Redoubt catalogue contributor Molly Nesbit, and UCCA Director and CEO Philip Tinari, to discuss and share the background of the exhibition and the many issues it raises. Image: Matthew Barney, Virgins, 2018.

Walead Beshty: Artist and Writer

SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall

Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, September 25, 7 pm

Artist Talk: Theaster Gates in Conversation with Sarah Douglas and Beth Rudin DeWoody

Stony Island Arts Bank

Chicago, IL

Saturday, September 21, 12 – 1 pm

Join ARTNews Editor in Chief Sarah Douglas in conversation with Theaster Gates and Beth Rudin DeWoody, for a discussion centered around the new exhibition In the Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in the Black Aesthetic on Saturday, September 21, 2019. Organized by Theaster Gates, in collaboration with Beth Rudin DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin, this exhibition shares works by over 20 of today’s most important practitioners within the contemporary art world. Image: Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #88, 2012.

In conjunction with the exhibition Kader Attia / MATRIX 274, a workshop will take place on Friday, September 20 at UC Berkeley in association with the Townsend Center for Humanities, the Critical Theory Program, and the Arts Research Center. The program will reflect on the colonial and postcolonial, the transmission of culture, possession, the ghostly, and repair as an art of tarrying with the irreparable. Event details to be announced; check back for more information.

In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic

Stony Island Arts Bank

Chicago, IL

September 19 – December 29

In partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, Art in America, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Rebuild Foundation is proud to present the exhibition In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic at Stony Island Arts Bank. Organized by Theaster Gates in collaboration with Beth Rudin DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin, this exhibition is anchored by works by Glenn Ligon, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Henry Taylor. For four months, the Stony Island Arts Bank will host these seminal artists along with artist talks, curated walk throughs, public discussions and film series. The exhibition will be on view from September 19 through December 29, 2019. Image: Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #88, 2012.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Elliott Hundley

Claremont Graduate University, Harper Hall

Claremont, CA

Wednesday, September 18, 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Claremont Graduate University Art Department presents the Fall 2019 Visiting Artist Lecture Series featuring Elliott Hundley. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Art Department lobby. Image: Elliott Hundley, Blinded, 2009.

Kader Attia in Conversation with Stefania Pandolfo

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley, CA

Wednesday, September 18, 6 pm

Free with admission

MATRIX artist Kader Attia is joined in conversation by Stefania Pandolfo, a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley. They will discuss Attia’s approach to the concept of repair and healing after physical and psychological injury, particularly in a postcolonial context.

Now available at Regen Projects, Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence presents the incredible detail and complexity of Lari Pittman’s mesmerizing paintings. Published to accompany the Hammer Museum's retrospective of the artist by the same title, which took place from September 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020, the monograph is edited by Connie Butler and includes contributions by Vanessa Arizmendi, George Baker, Donatien Grau, Helen Molesworth, and Duro Olowu. 

Glenn Ligon is featured in the 16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent, opening Saturday, September 14, 2019. Ligon’s contributions to the Biennial pay tribute to US author and activist James Baldwin’s life in Istanbul. One of the works Ligon will present is Sedat Pakay’s filmic portrait of Baldwin in Istanbul, From Another Place, which the artist has subtitled in Turkish for the first time. In two related videos, the artist pairs crowd scenes shot in Taksim Square with music from contemporary experimental musicians. Accompanying these videos are the newest in his America series of neon sculptures. Ligon has installed these using mahyas, strings of lamps or lights strung between minarets on mosques during Ramadan – a departure from his usual medium of neon for the series. The work will change in appearance every two weeks during the exhibition. The biennial runs through November 10, 2019. Image: Untitled (31 Mart 2019), 2019

Andrea Zittel is featured in the 16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent, opening Saturday, September 14, 2019. Personal Plots, Zittel’s work for the biennial, responds to the notions of private property, space and inherited structures of debt and bondage. Zittel – who asks, ‘is space something that can be owned at all?’ – presents a sculpture made of concrete blocks that demarcate human-sized, cell-like spaces. The units recall an office cubicle, a private bedroom, or a cemetery plot. The work points to the way in which space, and its delineation, can be used as a medium for control and alienation while it is more marketed as a source of security, privacy and individualism. The biennial runs through November 10, 2019. Image: Personal Plots, 2019.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce Line Drawing for Shirt and Cloak, the second solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates to be held at the gallery. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6 pm. Image: Analog Branding Studies (detail), 2019. 

Lawrence Weiner in Conversation with Lotte Konow Lund
Kunstnernes Hus
Oslo, Norway
Friday, September 13, 7 – 8 pm

Free

The conversation will take Weiner's many iconic urban and public installations as a starting point to discuss issues such as language, materials, and conceptual art and look back on the artist's work and career. Widely celebrated for his pioneering role in the development of conceptualism in the 1960s, Weiner continues to be internationally recognized as one of the foremost artists working in America today. The event is free of charge and part of the program Oslo Cultural Night 2019. 

The Donum Estate is delighted to unveil Sonic Mountain (Sonoma), a commissioned site-specific artwork by Doug Aitken. Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) is situated within Donum’s lush eucalyptus grove. Mimicking a wind chime, the installation responds to changes in the surrounding environment and creates patterns of sound as wind moves through it. As a living and interactive artwork, Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) explores the fluidity of time by creating a continuously evolving experience that is activated by the surrounding landscape. Watch a short video at the link below.

Opening-Day Talk: Theaster Gates and Hamza Walker

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN

Thursday, September 5, 7 pm

Free

Join artist Theaster Gates and Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, for a lively discussion about Gates’s practice, the new exhibition Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall, and the artist’s work with archives and collections.

Repairing the Invisible: Kader Attia in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Columbia University

New York, NY

Thursday, September 5, 6 – 8:30 pm

Free with RSVP

Kader Attia will present his film Reflecting Memory (2016, 48 min.), followed by an in-depth dialogue with Souleymane Bachir Diagne about the idea of "repairing the invisible" in his art and how notions of repair emerge in relationship with art, language and memory. Image: Still from Réfléchir la Mémoire / Reflecting Memory, 2016

Unheil

Metropolis Kino

Hamburg, Germany

Tuesday, September 3, 7 pm

John Bock’s Unheil screens at Metropolis Kino in Hamburg on September 3, 2019. The event is part of a screening series coordinated by Deichtorhallen Hamburg in conjunction with the exhibition FUZZY DARK SPOT: Video Art from Hamburg, on view through November 3, 2019. 

Read Emily Watlington's review of Whether Line, Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin's recent solo exhibition at Fondazione Prada, in the September issue of Art in America. Image: Plot Front, 2019

Read Theaster Gates's piece 'Black Progress: Portfolio' for Art in America, featured on the September 2019 cover of the magazine.

Artforum's Ashton Cooper reviews As Below, So Above, Liz Larner's recent solo exhibition at Regen Projects. Read the review at the link below. Image: Firestone, 2019. 

Berlin Story is based on Story, an indeterminate dance piece choreographed by Merce Cunningham and originally performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1963. Dance On Ensemble draws on archival resources in a re-imagining of the piece as Berlin Story, in which Berlin artist John Bock has taken on the role of Robert Rauschenberg, offering ready-made constructions along with other variable and changing art works to engage with. The result, Berlin Story, reexamines and reanimates a dance last presented 55 years ago. 

Silke Otto-Knapp has been selected as one of seven artists commissioned to create a new work for Plug In ICA’s second STAGES biennial, which sets out to activate the City of Winnipeg with temporary public sculpture, installation, and performances. Otto-Knapp will present an 80-foot frieze of figurative and sculptural posters for the biennial, which runs from Friday, August 16 through September 2, 2019. Image: Detail of Schattentheater (Chalk circles), 2017.

Lari Pittman

Schermer Meeting Hall

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Snowmass Village, CO

August 15, 2019, 12:30 pm

Talk: Jacqueline Humphries

Parrish Art Museum

Water Mill, NY

Friday, August 9, 2019, 6 – 7:30 pm

$12 | Free for members, children, and students

Dia Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum host a conversation between Jacqueline Humphries, Rachel Harrison, and Charline von Heyl. Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, will moderate the conversation. Image: Detail of Rachel Harrison, Pablo Escobar, 2010.

Elliott Hundley

Schermer Meeting Hall

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Snowmass Village, CO

August 8, 2019, 12:30 pm 

Sini Anderson's film CATHERINE OPIE B. 1961, commissioned by LACMA Productions, has won the 2019 Vimeo Staff Picks Award at Outfest in Los Angeles. 

Desert X 2019 Artists Nancy Baker Cahill and Gar Simmons: In Conversation

Seattle Art Fair

CneturyLink Field Event Center

Seattle, WA

Friday, August 2, 2019, 3:30 pm

In an exchange moderated by Shamim M. Momin (Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery), the artists will discuss their experiences of working site-specifically for Desert X, among other projects, as it pertains to their very different practices, the presence of the body and physical experience across both analog and digital realms, and the politics of audience engagement. Image: Installation view of Gary Simmons, Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA, February 9 – April 21, 2019. Photo: Lance Gerber.

Walead Beshty is featured in the Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, which opens Thursday, August 1, 2019. Two series by Beshty, Travel Pictures and FedEx, will be on display in gallery A25 of the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya through October 14. Image: Installation view of Travel Pictures [Tschaikowskistrasse 17 in multiple exposures* (LAXFRATHF/TXLCPHSEALAX) March 27–April 3, 2006] *Contax G-2, L-3 Communications eXaminer 3DX 6000, and InVision Technologies CTX 5000, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2018 – 2019.

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced on Wednesday, July 31 that Gary Simmons has been elected to its board of directors. Simmons joins board member Catherine Opie. Read more on Artforum. 

Autorreconstrucción: insistir, insistir, insistir

Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera

Cuernavaca, Mexico

July 27 – October 19, 2019

Building on his working methodology of autoconstrucción, Abraham Cruzvillegas will produce a sculptural installation out of everyday objects at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera in Cuernavaca. The project reprises Cruzvillegas’s collaborations with choreographer Bárbara Foulkes and musician Andrés García Nestitla with activations occurring two Saturdays per month.

Image: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Bárbara Foulkes, and Andrés García Nestitla in the performance Insistir Insistir Insistir at La Pista, Mexico City, Mexico, 2017. Photo: Carlos Altamirano Allende.

Artists on Artists: Liz Larner on Chris Burden

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Los Angeles, CA

Sunday, July 21, 2019, 3 pm

Free | Priority entry for MOCA members

Join Liz Larner for a talk on artist Chris Burden and his work. Larner first encountered Burden and his practice during her time at CalArts, and it was catalyst for her own use of scale and process. Larner’s Corridor Red/Green (1991) is now in visual dialogue with Burden’s iconic Exposing the Foundation of the Museum (1986) in the exhibition The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection. This work is on view for the first time in over a decade as part of the 40th anniversary exhibition, making this Artists on Artists a special opportunity to reflect on his influence on Los Angeles sculpture. 

Redoubt

MASS MoCA

Hunter Center

Saturday, July 13, 2019, 7 pm

$12 advance tickets | $22 day of

Set in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, Matthew Barney’s feature-length film layers classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world, continuing Barney’s long-standing focus on landscape as both setting and subject. Redoubt adapts the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt, and Actaeon, a hunter who trespasses on her and is punished — a story of guns, hunting, and wolves in the wild. Stay for a discussion with the artist and WCMA Director Pam Franks.

In July, 2019 Doug Aitken will present NEW HORIZON, a multifaceted art event that challenges the notion of art in the 21st century. The project is composed of a series of live events across the state of Massachusetts, centered around a stunning reflective hot air balloon and gondola. 

Happenings will take place at a selection of iconic Trustees properties, starting at Long Point Wildlife Refuge in Martha’s Vineyard on July 12, 2019, followed by stops in the greater Boston area, including the Crane Estate in Ipswich, and ending on July 28 in the Berkshires. 

All events are ticketed and require pre-registration. For more information and for a schedule of events, visit the link below. 

Scenic design by Abraham Cruzvillegas will appear in La Guerra Fría, a play by Juan Villoro premiering at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City on Saturday, July 6 and running through September 8, 2019. 

Totally Tuesday Talk: James Welling

Ogunquit Museum of American Art

Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 6 pm

Free with museum general admission.

James Welling will present a talk in conjunction with the exhibition of his film Seascape, currently on view at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. The talk will begin at 6 pm with light refreshments served beginning at 5 pm. 

Regen Projects is pleased to present H.P. (jah allo), an exhibition of new work by Berlin-based artist Daniel Richter. This is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 6 pm. Photo: Marten Elder.

Critical Dialog: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Hip Hop'

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

July 1 – 2, 2019, 9 am – 12:30 pm

Advance registration required

Gary Simmons will be joined by curator Helen Molesworth for a discussions on 'The Work of Art in the Age of Hip Hop.' This dialogue between a curator and an artist toggles back and forth between the history of hip hop and the way it has shaped, changed, and influenced contemporary art. Visit the link below for more information.

Visiting Artist Series: Christina Quarles

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MacLean Center Ballroom

Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 6 pm

Christina Quarles will address students in the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of SAIC's Visiting Artist Series on Wednesday, June 26 at 6 pm in the MacLean Center Ballroom.

Congratulations to Raymond Pettibon, who was presented with a Prix d'Honneur at the 9th International Art Book and Film Fesitival (FILAF) in Perpignan, France on June 22, 2019.

The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman '69 (1989)

Cinéma Castillet, Perpignan, France

Sunday, June 21, 2019, 2 pm

Sunday Night and Saturday Morning (2005) and Repeater Pencil (2005)

Cinéma Castillet, Perpignan, France

Monday, June 22, 2019, 4 pm

Raymond Pettibon in Conversation with Robert Storr

Maison Quinta, Perpignan, France

Saturday, June 22, 2019, 3 pm

Three films by Raymond Pettibon, special honoree at the 2019 International Art Book and Film Festival (FILAF), will be screened at the Cinéma Castillet in Perpignan, France on June 21 and June 22. In addition, Pettibon will discuss his art and films in a conversation with artist, critic, and Yale School of Art Professor Robert Storr on Saturday, June 22 at Maison Quinta in Perpignan. These programs are scheduled in conjunction with the 9th edition of FILAF. 

Director Sini Anderson's short documentary film CATHERINE OPIE B. 1961 wins the HBO Documentary Short Film category at the 2019 Provincetown Film Festival in Provincetown, MA on Tuesday, June 16. View the trailer at the link below. 

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel from Tuesday, June 18, 2019 through Friday, June 21. Visit us in Hall 2.1, Booth R6 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists. 

Messe Basel

Messeplatz 10

Basel, Switzerland

Preview:
Tuesday, June 11 (11AM – 8PM)
Wednesday, June 12 (11AM – 8PM)

Vernissage:
Wednesday, June 12 (4 – 8PM)

Public Days:
Thursday, June 13 (11AM – 7PM)
Friday, June 14 (11AM – 7PM)
Saturday, June 15 (11AM – 7PM)
Sunday, June 16 (11AM – 7PM)

Doug Aitken

Kader Attia

Matthew Barney

Walead Beshty

John Bock

Theaster Gates

Rachel Harrison

Alex Hubbard

Elliott Hundley

Sergej Jensen

Anish Kapoor

Liz Larner

Glenn Ligon

Marilyn Minter

Catherine Opie

Silke Otto-Knapp

Manfred Pernice

Raymond Pettibon

Jack Pierson

Lari Pittman

Daniel Richter

Gary Simmons

Tavares Strachan

Wolfgang Tillmans

Ryan Trecartin

Gillian Wearing

Lawrence Weiner

James Welling

Sue Williams

Andrea Zittel

Performances by John Bock with Frantics Dance Company and Frank Seppeler

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Monday, June 17, 2019, 7 pm

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 7 pm

Friday, June 28, 2019, 7 pm

'On the Notion of the Performative in Contemporary Art'

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Thursday, June 27, 2019, 7 pm

John Bock will perform with Frantics Dance Company and Frank Seppeler on June 17, 25, and 28 at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with his solo exhibition, Im AntliTZ des SchädelapparaTZ. Join him on June 27 for a panel discussion, 'On the Notion of the Performative in Contemporary Art,' with Gabriele Brandstetter and Anna-Catharina Gebbers and moderated by Angela Rosenberg. 

Read Deborah Vankin's feature on Elliott Hundley in the Los Angeles Times in which she discusses Hundley's curatorial debut, Elliott Hundley: Open House, at MOCA and his recent solo exhibition Clearing at Regen Projects.

Congratulations to Lari Pittman, special honoree at the Huntington Library's 6th annual garden party, 'An Evening Among the Roses: Color OUTside the Lines,' in San Marino, CA on Friday, June 7. 

Regen Projects is pleased to announce Clearing, an exhibition of new work by Elliott Hundley. This will be his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 6 pm. Photo: Evan Bedford.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce As Below, So Above, the gallery’s seventh solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 6 pm. Photo: Evan Bedford.

Matthew Barney in Conversation with Molly Nesbit

The Morgan Library & Museum

Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6:30 pm

Join Matthew Barney for a conversation with Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art at Vassar College, about his latest project, Redoubt, which comprises a feature-length film, sculptures, and other media that create a complex portrait of the American landscape. The conversation will be moderated by Pamela Franks, curator of the exhibition Matthew Barney: Redoubt, on view at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut through June 16. A book signing follows the program.

Dance of Malaga
Getty Center

Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 7 pm - 8:30 pm

Free | Advance ticket required

To conclude the Getty Scholar Year Symposium on the theme of monumentality, keynote presenter Theaster Gates—current artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute—will screen his recent film, Dance of Malaga (2019). The film is a monument to the people of Malaga Island, Maine, and a meditation on love and race in America. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the Research Institute's deputy director, Andrew Perchuk. 

Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, and Christina Quarles have all contributed to Sotheby’s ‘Artists for the Hammer Museum,’ supporting the creation of a new Artist Fund at the Hammer. The donated works will be offered across Sotheby’s Evening and Day auctions of Contemporary Art from May 16-17 in New York, with a public exhibition preview in New York at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries from May 3-16.

‘Elliott Hundley: Open House’ will be on view at MOCA Grand Avenue April 14 - September 16. To coincide with the museum’s 40th anniversary, Hundley was invited to curate a group exhibition using the permanent collection. The exhibition will examine the architecture and origins of collage, exploring how the visual and material logic of this technique has informed artists in MOCA’s collection, as well as his own practice.

Congratulations to Catherine Opie on receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship! The award is presented by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in recognition of her achievements in photography.

Congratulations to Elliott Hundley on receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship. The award is presented by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in recognition of his achievements in the fine arts.

Glenn Ligon’s Some Black Parisians, presented in conjunction with Black models: from Géricault to Matisse, consists of 13 large scale neons which highlight the names of some of the models, performers, and writers who appear in important French works of art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
Join Ligon for a conversation with Donatien Grau and Anne Lafont at Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art on Wednesday, March 27 at 6:30pm. 

Featuring Abraham Cruzvillegas, TO MAKE WRONG / RIGHT / NOW embraces the polyvocality of each venue as a repository of enduring histories and the continuum of indigenous knowledge. The venues have been carefully selected for their ties to the curatorial approach and the works this approach has inspired. Collectively, the sites reflect a deep reverence for land, ocean, wahi pana (storied places) and the genealogical ties within Hawaiʻi and the wider Pacific region. The selection of sites extend the Biennial beyond an engagement with contemporary art towards a deeper connection with the histories and stories that are of, and unique to, this place.

The generous new award is funded by a gift from local patrons of the arts Jorge and Darlene Pérez, and reflects their commitment to supporting excellence in international contemporary art, representing diverse artistic perspectives, and drawing attention to remarkable talents. The selection was made by PAMM’s curatorial team in collaboration with The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation and honors experimentation, creativity and promise. It is also a symbol of PAMM’s mission to be a leader in the presentation, study and interpretation of international modern and contemporary art.

For its inaugural exhibition, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery presents Anish Kapoor. Opening Saturday, March 16, the solo exhibition will be on view through August 18, 2019. Image: 'Glisten (Clear/Red to Pagan Gold satin),' 2018.

Matthew Barney is featured in the March issue of Artforum. Read ‘Survivor Syndrome,’ Catherine Taft’s extensive piece on Barney’s new work for his solo exhibition ‘Redoubt,’ which opens today at Yale University Art Gallery. Image: Still from ‘Redoubt,’ 2018.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Savannah, GA
Thursday, February 28
6:00 pm

Lawrence Weiner, deFINE ART 2019 Honoree, will be in conversation at Lucas Theatre for the Arts this Thursday, February 28, at 6:00 pm. Presented by Savannah College of Art and Design, this event is free and open to the public.

Palm Springs Art Museum
Annenberg Theater
Palm Springs, CA
Thursday, February 28
6:00 pm

Join Andrea Zittel and Ed Ruscha at the Palm Springs Art Museum on Thursday, February 28, at 6:00 pm, as they discuss their work and the influence and inspiration they draw from the west, California, and the desert, with Nevada Museum of Art’s JoAnne Northrup and Brooke Hodge, Director of Architecture and Design at Palm Springs Art Museum. The free lecture will be held in Annenberg Theater. Both artists are featured in ‘Unsettled,’ currently on view at the museum through April 30, 2019. Image: 'Prototype For Billboard at A-Z West: Big Rock on Hill Behind House,’ 2011.

Read Jane Ure-Smith's opinion piece in Frieze about Kader Attia's solo exhibition, 'The Museum of Emotion,' currently on view at Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre. Photo: Linda Nylind.

Read Charlie Porter's feature on Andrea Zittel in the Financial Times, which previews the exhibition 'Palimpsest' at Lismore Castle Arts.

Premiere Weekend

Yale University Art Gallery
Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
New Haven, CT

Public Film Screenings
Saturday, March 2
1:30 pm and 6:00 pm

Matthew Barney in Conversation with Pamela Franks
Saturday, March 2
4:00 pm

'Matthew Barney: Redoubt’ opens at Yale University Art Gallery on Friday, March 1. Barney presents his latest work, including a new feature-length film titled ‘Redoubt.' Set in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, the film layers classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world. The premiere weekend includes screenings on Saturday, March 2, at 1:30 pm and 6:00 pm, and a conversation with Barney and Pamela Franks, also on Saturday, at 4:00 pm. Additional exhibition events are listed here. Image: Production still of 'Redoubt,' 2018. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce ‘Land and Sea,’ the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based painter Silke Otto-Knapp to be held at the gallery. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Image: ‘Formation,’ 2019.

Abraham Cruzvillegas in conversation with Thorsten Pinkepank
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Sunday, February 17
2:30 pm

Join Abraham Cruzvillegas at Kunsthalle Mannheim for a conversation with Thorsten Pinkepank tomorrow, February 17, at 2:30 pm, on the occasion of the group exhibition 'Constructing the World: Art and Economy,' part two of 'Construction of the World. Art and Economy - 2008-2018,' extended through Sunday, March 3.

‘Theaster Gates: Amalgam’ opens at Palais de Tokyo on Wednesday, February 20. For his first solo museum exhibition in France, Gates has initiated a project that explores social histories of migration and interracial relations using a specific episode in American history, the 1912 expulsion of a community on Malaga Island in Maine, as his point of departure to address larger questions of black subjugation and the imperial sexual domination and racial mixing that resulted from it. ‘Amalgam’ will be on view through May 12, 2019.

At Frieze Los Angeles, A-Z West will feature A-Z West Containers—handmade ceramic bowls that serve all eating and drinking functions. Andrea Zittel began using containers in daily life in the early 1990’s and they continue to serve as the sole dinnerware used at A-Z West.

High Desert Test Sites is presenting its annual gem/mineral sale—a spectacular array of stones sourced each year from Quartzsite, Arizona—as well as the Scout Book Series and HDTS Postcard Edition. Proceeds from all HDTS sales help fund annual overhead and the running of monthly programs.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Frieze Los Angeles from Friday, February 15 through Sunday, February 17. Visit us at Booth C7 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists.

Frieze Los Angeles

Paramount Pictures Studios

Los Angeles, CA

Invitation Only Preview:
Thursday, February 14 – Friday, February 15

Public Days:
Saturday, February 16 (12 - 7PM)
Sunday, February 17 (12 - 6PM)

Walead Beshty
Theaster Gates
Rachel Harrison
Alex Hubbard
Liz Larner
Glenn Ligon
Catherine Opie
Raymond Pettibon
Jack Pierson
Lari Pittman
Christina Quarles
Daniel Richter
Tavares Strachan
Wolfgang Tillmans
Gillian Wearing
Andrea Zittel

Sherry Lansing Theater, Frieze Los Angeles
Paramount Pictures Studios Backlot
Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, February 17
5:00 pm

Watch the conversation here.
 

Liz Larner was born in Sacramento, California in 1960. She experiments with abstract sculptural forms in a dizzying array of materials, including polychromatic ceramics that evoke the tectonic geologic shifts of the western landscape. An inventor of new forms, Larner’s sculptures are not easy to categorize. They defy easy description by design, as her investigation into new forms favors personal narrative over minimal austerity.

Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright and translator based in New York and known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and new possibilities for the long or book-length form. In addition to being the author of several highly acclaimed volumes of poetry, she is Artforum’s resident astrologist.

43143 Jackson Street

Indio, CA

February 9 – April 21, 2019
Open on weekends

Gary Simmons is featured in Desert X, opening Saturday, February 9, with 'Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark,’ 2014-2019, a sculptural installation that serves as both a literal and metaphorical platform for music and performance. The installation will be on view at 43143 Jackson Street in Indio, CA every weekend through April 21, 2019. Image: Installation view of 'Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark' at 'Prospect.3: Notes for Now,' Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015. Photo: Scott McCrossen/ FIVE65 Design.

Alle School of Fine Arts and Design

Addis Ababa University
Thursday, February 7
4:00 pm

Join Wolfgang Tillmans for a lecture at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design at Addis Ababa University tomorrow, February 7, at 4:00 pm, on the occasion of ‘Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile’ opening at the Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Center and Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba on Thursday, February 14, at 6:00. The traveling exhibition, previously shown in Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Johannesburg, will be on view in Addis Ababa through March 31, 2019. Image: 'Greifbar 29,' 2014.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Leslie Cheek Theater
Richmond, VA
Thursday, February 7
6:30 pm
 

Join Glenn Ligon for a talk at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’s Leslie Cheek Theater this Thursday, February 7, at 6:30 pm. Ligon will discuss his practice and highlight one of the museum's recent acquisitions, 'A Small Band,' 2015, currently on view in the Cochrane Atrium. Image: Installation view of 'Glenn Ligon, A Small Band,' Rebuild Foundation, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL, November 8, 2016 – January 31, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay.

'Glenn Ligon: Selections from the Marciano Collection’ opens at the Marciano Art Foundation on Tuesday, February 12. The exhibition, on view through May 5, 2019, is curated by Ligon and features works from the permanent collection that span his career. Free admission tickets through March are now live. Image: 'Double America 2,' 2014.

Join Kader Attia for 'The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism' at La Colonie this weekend. Tomorrow, February 2, Attia opens the symposium at 10:15 am and moderates a series of lectures and discussions. On Sunday, February 3, he is in conversation with Christelle Taraud at 5:15 pm as they screen excerpts from Battlestar Galactica, Westworld, and Starship Troopers. Full program schedule at lacolonie.paris/agenda. La Colonie is a hybrid project space opened by Kader Attia in 2016 that functions as a social forum for political discussion as well as a bar and music venue.

'Mirage Gstaad' opens
46°29’53.4”N 7°17’11.1”E
Gstaad, Switzerland
Friday, February 1
11:00 am

Sunset drinks with Doug Aitken
'Mirage Gstaad'
Saturday, February 2
4:00 pm

Doug Aitken in conversation with Olympia Scarry and Neville Wakefield
The Alpina Gstaad
Gstaad, Switzerland
Sunday, February 3
11:00 am

Doug Aitken’s 'Mirage Gstaad' opens tomorrow, February 1. The installation is accessible from the Gruben and Schönried train stations via hiking trail. On Saturday, February 2, join Aitken for sunset drinks at ‘Mirage Gstaad,’ at 4:00 pm. On Sunday, February 3, he will be in conversation with Olympia Scarry and Neville Wakefield at The Alpina Gstaad, at 11:00 am. View the full Elevation 1049: ‘Frequencies’ opening weekend program below. Image: Rendering of ‘Mirage Gstaad,’ 2019.

'Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion’ opens at Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre on Wednesday, February 13. On the occasion of the opening of his first survey exhibition in the United Kingdon, please join the artist for a talk at the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre that evening, at 7:00 pm. Image: Detail of 'Measure and Control,' 2013.
 

Artist Talk
Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre
London, UK
Wednesday, February 13
7:00 pm

Night of Ideas: 'Facing the Present’

Quai d’Orsay
Paris, France
Thursday, January 31
6:30 pm

Join Theaster Gates and Philippe Descola for a conversation at the Quai d’Orsay this Thursday, January 31, at 6:30 pm, during Night of Ideas: 'Facing the Present.’ To register for this free event, go to lanuitdesidees.com. The conversation will also be livestreamed at twitter.com/francediplo_EN and at facebook.com/france.diplomacy. Image: 'Flat Cosmos on Inflated Precious Metal,' 2017.

Kader Attia talks to the Financial Times about his Algerian heritage, colonialism, and emotion ahead of his solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, opening Wednesday, February 13. Read Guy Chazan’s piece, 'Kader Attia on why we need art to overcome ‘the dark times we live in’,' at ft.com. Attia was photographed in Berlin for the FT Weekend Magazine. Photo: Robbie Lawrence.

International Film Festival Rotterdam

KINO 2
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Saturday, January 26
5:00 pm

Catherine Opie's 'The Modernist' screens at the International Film Festival Rotterdam ⁣tomorrow, January 26, at 5:00 pm. Composed of over 800 black and white still images, it presents a dystopic view of Los Angeles, a city that has figured prominently in Opie’s work over the years. The film is in conversation with Chris Marker’s radical 1962 photo-roman, 'La Jetée,' which utilizes still photography to tell a story of longing, time travel, and the terror of nuclear apocalypse. Image: Still from 'The Modernist,' 2017.

Doug Aitken’s ‘Mirage Gstaad’ opens in Gstaad, Switzerland on Friday, February 1 as part of Elevation1049’s ‘Frequencies’ opening weekend, and will be on view for two years, reflecting and interacting with the mountain landscape over the changing seasons. ‘Frequencies’ is curated by Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry, and produced by Luma Foundation in collaboration with The Store X at The Vinyl Factory. Image: Rendering of ‘Mirage Gstaad,’ 2019.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Beck Building
Houston, TX
Monday, January 28
6:30 pm

Join Abraham Cruzvillegas for a talk at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this Monday, January 28, at 6:30 pm. This event is free.

Raymond Pettibon has collaborated with Dior Creative Director, Kim Jones, for the Dior Winter 2019-2020 Men’s Collection. Photo: Courtesy Dior.

‘Glenn Ligon: To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at.,’ opens at Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery at Georgetown University on Thursday, January 24. Join Ligon for the public opening reception at 6PM that evening. A quote by James Baldwin forms the exhibition’s title and speaks to the show’s central concept, described by Ligon as ‘the invisibility and simultaneous hypervisibility of black people in America.’ The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April 7. Image: ‘Grey Hands #2,’ 1996.

'Christina Quarles: Yew Jumped too Deep, Yew Buried the Lead’ opens at the Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery at Western Michigan University on Thursday, January 17. The exhibition, which features paintings and an expansive presentation of drawings, will be on view through Sunday, March 17. Image: 'Now Top That,' 2016.

University of California Santa Cruz
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108
Santa Cruz, CA
Tuesday, January 15
7:00 pm

Join Glenn Ligon for a talk at the University of California Santa Cruz this Tuesday, January 15, at 7:00 pm. Presented by UCSC’s Institute of Arts and Sciences, this event will be held at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108, and is part of the ‘TRACTION: Art Talks’ series. Free and open to the public. More details at ias.ucsc.edu/events. Photo: David Seidner.

Doug Aitken’s ‘Mirage Gstaad’ opens in Gstaad, Switzerland on Friday, February 1 as part of Elevation1049’s ‘Frequencies’ opening weekend, and will be on view for two years, reflecting and interacting with the mountain landscape over the changing seasons. ‘Frequencies’ is curated by Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry, and produced by Luma Foundation in collaboration with The Store X at The Vinyl Factory. Image: Rendering of ‘Mirage Gstaad,’ 2019.

Congratulations to Gillian Wearing, who was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to art in the United Kingdom's New Year’s Honours list for 2019! Wearing was previously an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Image: ‘Cahun and Wearing,’ 2017.

Watch a conversation with Elliott Hundley discussing his process of collecting images, how it generates his artwork, and how he creates his monumental works. See the Los Angeles-based artist at work in his studio and hear about Hundley's pieces, 'Blinded' and 'the high house low!,' currently on view through Sunday, February 10, in the exhibition, 'A Journey That Wasn't,' at The Broad.

Read Ruth La Ferla's feature on Theaster Gates for The New York Times. Photo: Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times.

Lawrence Weiner and Jonathan Ellery discuss their new book published by Browns Editions, ‘HERE IT IS HERE IT AINT,’ in Weiner’s West Village studio for Randy Kennedy's feature in The New York Times, ‘‘Here It Is’: Two Artists on Their Mind-Stretching Art Book.’ Photo: An Rong Xu for The New York Times.

Tavares Strachan is featured on KCRW Art Talk. Edward Goldman calls Strachan’s exhibition at Regen Projects a must-see and also highlights his recent ‘Enoch’ launch with SpaceX. Click the link to listen, and visit the show through this Saturday. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce 'Untitled (America)/Debris Field/Synecdoche/Notes for a Poem on the Third World,' an exhibition of new work by Glenn Ligon. For this exhibition, Ligon will present a new series of silkscreen paintings based on abstracted letter forms and several neon installations. Read the press release here, and join us for the opening reception on Saturday, January 12, 2019, from 6-8PM. Image: 'Notes for a Poem on the Third World (chapter one),' 2018.

The National Portrait Gallery has announced its forthcoming solo exhibition with Elizabeth Peyton, opening October 3, 2019 and on view through January 5, 2020. Created in close collaboration with Peyton, the exhibition explores the development of her unique portraiture from the 1990s to the present day, presenting works in a range of media, including new portraits exhibited for the first time. Portraits on display will include Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, Frida Kahlo, Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth II, David Bowie, Phoebe Philo, David Hockney, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann, among others. In addition to over 40 works on display in the exhibition, Peyton will become the first artist ever to be given the run of the entire National Portrait Gallery, with a selection of her portraits dispersed throughout the permanent Collection, juxtaposing Peyton’s paintings with historic portraits from the Tudor period onwards. Image: 'Die Walkure (2011 MET Opera) Jonas Kaufmann, and Eva-Maria Westbroek,’ 2011-2012.

Babylon Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Friday, December 15

Works by John Bock and Wolfgang Tillmans will be screened at Babylon Berlin this Friday, December 15 for 'Artists' Film Days,' curated by Isabel de Sena, and part of the Videoart at Midnight Festival '18. Watch Bock’s 'Alice Cooper,' 2001, at 11:00 am, during Screening 1: Art and Part, and Tillmans's 'Fast Lane,' 2018, at 5:30 pm, during Screening 4: Wound for Sound. Free and open to the public. Image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Still from 'Fast Lane,' 2018.

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

Berlin, Germany
Thursday, December 13
5:00 pm

Join Dan Graham this Thursday, December 13, at 5:00 pm, for the lecture performance, 'Dan Graham. Personal Best(s) and Influential Precursors,’ at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, part of the Future Continues Present(s)—“Video Art” Through Time Symposium in conjunction with the Videoart at Midnight Festival ’18. Graham will discuss 'Present Continuous Past(s),' a stage set for a Glenn Branca musical performance at the Kunsthalle Bern, and an unrealized project for local public access cable TV. He will also show three examples of low-tech-pioneer video art by Darcy Lange, Nam June Paik, and Bruce Nauman. Gabriele Knapstein, director of the Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, joins Graham for the event. Image: Installation view of 'New Design For Showing Video,' Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 1995.

Visit Andrea Zittel's High Desert Test Sites pop-up at the Hammer Museum Store, which has been extended through early January 2019. Benefitting High Desert Test Sites, the pop-up features HDTS’s Gem/Mineral Expo, publications, print editions, ceramics, textiles, a new line of ‘A-Z West Works,’ and more by artists from Southern California’s High Desert Community. Photo: Sarah Lyon.

Soho Beach House
Miami, FL
Tuesday, December 4
6:00 pm

Join Tavares Strachan at Soho Beach House tonight, at 6:00 pm, for the launch of B.A.S.E.C. (Bahamas Air and Sea Exploration Center), a new space agency created by Strachan to investigate the synergies of exploration, community, fashion and art. B.A.S.E.C. will be unveiled during the first edition of 'The Northwind Trilogy,' curated by Neville Wakefield, and presented by Code Art Fair and CIFF. Photo: Brooke DiDonato.

Tavares Strachan's ‘ENOCH’ satellite launched into space on Monday, December 3. Watch the launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base below. Strachan partnered with SpaceX, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on this special project dedicated to Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA, who tragically died in a supersonic jet crash in 1967, at the age of 32. Strachan honored his legacy by shooting a satellite containing a 24-karat gold urn featuring a bust of the astronaut into space, metaphorically completing his journey.

The Mini Microcinema

Cincinnati, OH
Sunday, December 2
7:30 pm

'Gillian Wearing: Self Made,' 2010, and 'We Are Here,' 2014, are screening at The Mini Microcinema this Sunday, December 2, at 7:30 pm. Presented in partnership with the Cincinnati Art Museum, this two-part film series, guest curated by Nathaniel Stein, is on the occasion of the exhibition, 'Life: Gillian Wearing,' currently on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum through December 30, 2018. The screening is free with suggested donation, and doors are at 7:00 pm. Image: Still from 'We Are Here,' 2014.

Miami Beach Convention Center

Grand Ballroom
Miami, FL
3:00 pm and 5:00 pm

Join Abraham Cruzvillegas in Miami for ‘Autorreconstrucción: To Insist, to Insist, to Insist…’ performances from Thursday, December 6 through Sunday, December 9. Cruzvillegas is collaborating with Art Basel and The Kitchen to stage the work in the new Grand Ballroom at the Miami Beach Convention Center, at 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm daily. The project is free and open to the public, and doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance. Read the conversation between Cruzvillegas, curator Philipp Kaiser, and The Kitchen’s Executive Director, Tim Griffin, about this project at artbasel.com. Image: Abraham Cruzvillegas, ‘Autoreconstrucción: To Insist, to Insist, to Insist,’ The Kitchen, New York, NY, April 5 – 7, 2018. Photo: Paula Court.

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach from Thursday, December 6 through Sunday, December 9. Visit us at Booth E12 to view our presentation of works.

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami, FL

Preview:
Wednesday, December 5 (11AM - 8PM)

Vernissage:
Thursday, December 6 (11AM - 3PM)

Public Days:
Thursday, December 6 (3 - 8PM)
Friday, December 7 - Saturday, December 8 (12 - 8PM)
Sunday, December 9 (12 - 6PM)

Kader Attia
Walead Beshty
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Theaster Gates
Rachel Harrison
Alex Hubbard
Elliott Hundley
Sergej Jensen
Anish Kapoor
Gabriel Kuri
Liz Larner
Glenn Ligon
Marilyn Minter
Catherine Opie
Silke Otto-Knapp
Raymond Pettibon
Elizabeth Peyton
Jack Pierson
Lari Pittman
Christina Quarles
Daniel Richter
Gary Simmons
Tavares Strachan
Wolfgang Tillmans
Ryan Trecartin
Gillian Wearing
Lawrence Weiner
James Welling
Sue Williams
Andrea Zittel

Congratulations to Christina Quarles, one of Cultured Magazine’s 30 Under 35 for 2019. Read ‘Christina Quarles Upends History with the Brush,’ by William J. Simmons, at culturedmag.com now, and on newsstands next week. Photo: Aubrey Mayer. 

Americas Society
New York, NY
Saturday, December 1
11:00 am

Join Gabriel Kuri at the Americas Society this Saturday, December 1, at 11:00 am, for a panel discussion with Liliane Lijn and Julieta González, moderated by Gabriela Rangel. Image: ‘growth of the middle,’ 2014.

Congratulations to Gillian Wearing, who received an honorary degree from the University of London on November 20, the university’s Foundation Day.

UCLA Arts
Kaufman Hall, 200
Tuesday, November 20
6:30 pm

Join Catherine Opie at the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 20, at 6:30 pm, for ‘10 Questions: What is Work?.’ Presented by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Opie will join Willem Henri Lucas, Alfred Osborne, and Abel Valenzuela for a conversation with Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture, to explore the question, ‘What is Work?.’ RSVP is required for this free event, and space is limited. Image: ‘Diana,’ 2012.

‘Domestic, Houses & Landscapes. Selections from the work of Catherine Opie’ opens at Princeton University School of Architecture on Monday, November 19. Image: ‘Norma & Eyenga, Minneapolis, Minnesota,’ 1998.

Rough Trade East
London, UK
Saturday, November 17
2:00 pm

‘Spoken By The Other,’ a six track EP by Powell Tillmans, is out today on vinyl and on iTunes, Spotify, and download. Join Wolfgang Tillmans at Rough Trade East tomorrow, November 17, at 2:00 pm, for a Powell Tillmans DJ set inspired by the release, followed by a signing. Artwork by Anders Clausen.

Lunder Institute for American Art
Colby College
Waterville, ME
Thursday, November 15
6:00 pm

Join Theaster Gates for a talk at the Lunder Institute for American Art at 6:00 pm tonight. Sharing his ongoing artistic endeavors on questions of land ownership, displacement, and miscegenation, Gates will reflect on how his practice has explored aspects of Maine’s history. A conversation between Gates and Maine-based artists Daniel Minter and Myron Beasley will follow the talk, facilitated by Lee Glazer, director of the Lunder Institute. Free with RSVP. Image: Courtesy of Theaster Gates Studio.

'War Requiem'
English National Opera
London Coliseum
London, UK

Regen Projects congratulates Wolfgang Tillmans on his collaboration with the English National Opera's production of Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem.' The opera juxtaposes the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass.

Just announced: Tavares Strachan has partnered with Space X on a special project dedicated to Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who tragically died in a supersonic jet crash in 1967, at the age of 32. Strachan will honor his legacy by shooting a satellite containing a 24-karat gold urn featuring a bust of the astronaut into space, metaphorically completing his journey. Read Jori Finkel's report in today’s The New York Times and see his solo exhibition ‘Invisibles,’ featuring neon work ‘Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.’, currently on view at Regen Projects through Saturday, December 22.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Boston, MA
Thursday, November 15
7:00 pm

Join Glenn Ligon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, on Thursday, November 15, at 7:00 pm, for 'The Artist’s Voice: Jason Moran with Glenn Ligon.' Ten years ago, Moran created the soundtrack for Ligon’s 'The Death of Tom,' an abstractionist recreation of the final scene of the 1903 silent film 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,' based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The artists will revisit this collaboration in a conversation led by Ligon as well as a screening and live performance. Tickets are free and open to the public. Image: Still from 'The Death of Tom,’ 2008.

Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, November 13
7:30 pm

Theaster Gates and Troy Carter will be in conversation at the Hammer Museum on Tuesday, November 13, at 7:30 pm. Free tickets are required and available at the box office one hour before the program. Photo: Sara Pooley.

Pond Society
No. 2555 - 4, Longteng Avenue
Shanghai, China

‘Ryan Trecartin: Re’Search Wait’S’ opens at the Pond Society in Shanghai on Wednesday, November 7. The solo exhibition, Trecartin’s first in Asia, will be on view through January 20, 2019. Image: Still from ‘The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait’S),’ 2009-10.

Watch SCI-Arc's video feature on Walead Beshty that looks inside his studio and recent exhibition, ‘Equivalents,’ at Regen Projects.

Congratulations to Catherine Opie, who will be honored on Tuesday, October 30 with Agnes Gund, Catherine Gund, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dr. Deborah Willis at the 2018 Aperture Gala, which celebrates photography’s role in expanding our vision of family. Image: ‘Miggi & Ilene, Los Angeles, California,’ 1995.

Please join us for the opening reception of ‘Invisibles,’ an exhibition of work by Tavares Strachan, this Friday, November 2, 6:00–8:00 pm.

Just published! ‘Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018,’ edited and with an introduction by Walead Beshty, is the accompanying catalogue to the extensive exhibition currently on view at Luma Arles through January 6, 2019. Curated by Beshty, the exhibition features works by Dan Graham, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.

Institute of Contemporary Arts
London, UK
Sunday, October 28
4:15 pm

Join Dan Graham at the Institute of Contemporary Arts this Sunday, October 28 for a screening of ‘Rock My Religion,’ 1984, followed by a conversation hosted by John Slyce.

‘Wolfgang Tillmans: Rebuilding the Future’ opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art this Friday, October 26. On view through February 17, 2019, this is Tillmans’s first solo exhibition in Ireland. Image: ‘red lake,’ 2002.

‘The Price of Everything,’ a documentary featuring Marilyn Minter and directed by Nathaniel Kahn, has its theatrical release at select theaters nationwide on Friday, October 26. It is currently playing at Quad Cinema in New York City and premieres on HBO November 12. Additional screening information at thepriceofeverything.com/screenings. Watch the trailer below.

Congratulations to Liz Larner, who was awarded Mutina for Art's 'This Is Not a Prize #3' at a ceremony on the Balcon d’Honneur of the Grand Palais in Paris, France. The committee awarded Larner for her unique sculptural language, which combines an abstract approach with an interest for both formalism and the emotional. 

Regen Projects is pleased to participate in FIAC. Come visit us at Booth B13 to view our presentation of works by gallery artists.

Vernissage:
Wednesday, October 17 (3 - 9PM)

VIP Preview:
Thursday, October 18 (11AM - 2PM)
Friday, October 19 - Sunday, October 21 (11AM - 12PM)

Public Days:
Thursday, October 18 (2 - 8PM)
Friday, October 19 (12 - 8PM)
Saturday, October 20 - Sunday, October 21 (12 - 7PM)

Kader Attia

Walead Beshty

John Bock

Theaster Gates

Dan Graham

Rachel Harrison

Alex Hubbard

Elliott Hundley

Sergej Jensen

Gabriel Kuri

Liz Larner

Glenn Ligon