KATHARINA WULFF – OH MASCULIN
2023-06-05Works by Katharina Wulff.
Opposite – Eine Frage, 2018
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2023
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
ULLA WIGGEN – VISIONARY MACHINERIES
2023-05-29In 1963, Ulla Wiggen started to make meticulous gouache paintings on gauze depicting electronic components, circuit boards, and the insides of computers. Although rendered with a quasi-objective accuracy and loosely based on real components, her diagrammatic representations are, in fact, fantastical interpretations; from a technical standpoint, the circuits are incoherent and non-functional. A few years later, Wiggen began using acrylic paints on panels and slowly increased the size of her works. But despite these changes in scale and medium, her content remained firmly within the sphere of technological portraiture.
Opposite – Sfinx, 1969
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2023
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
DEVON TURNBULL – OJAS: HIFI LISTENING ROOM DREAM NO. 1
2023-05-22Presented in London for the first time, the Brooklyn-based speaker sculptor and sound guru, Devon Turnbull, aka OJAS – introduces HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1, a free, drop-in experience for all to surrender to the act of listening, with rare intention, to recorded and live music. Featuring a high-performance, handmade sound system composed of a wall of brutalist speakers, a turntable, a series of amplifiers and seats typically reserved for meditation, this site-specific acoustic setting creates a transformative environment to absorb and reflect. Described by Turnbull as a “shrine to music”, each week a varied, curated programme of recorded tracks is presented, from unreleased music to all-time favorites across a range of mediums including vinyl, analogue tape and more.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2023
Lisson Gallery
67 Lisson Street
NW1 5DA
London
SARAH CUNNINGHAM – CRYSTAL FOREST
2023-05-15Lisson Gallery presents its first solo exhibition by British painter Sarah Cunningham exploring psychological spaces and multifaceted landscapes that the artist composes within her layered and generative canvases. This new body of paintings, including a major triptych and large-scale works, alongside smaller panels – focusses on Cunningham’s abstract forays into kaleidoscopic environments and imagined forest clearings, which she constructs over time through layer after layer of gesture and radiating bursts of light, line and colour.
Opposite – I Will Look Into The Earth, 2023
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2023
Lisson Gallery
67 Lisson Street
NW1 5DA
London
RICHARD NAM – TERRIBLE LIZARDS
2023-05-08Nam’s Terrible Lizards present a variety of ancient, monstrous creatures that used to roam the earth two-hundred-thirty million years ago. Through scenic and portraiture gestures, Nam explores these ruling reptiles across both tranquil and apocalyptic landscape, some in motion and others anthropomorphized. Although there are skeletal remnants of dinosaurs around the world, an exact image and how dinosaurs looked and behaved is still a mystery. Inspired by his obsession with paleontology and the history of the earth, Nam creates scenes of how he envisions the time when lizards were in charge.
Opposite – Gallimimus in Desert, 2023
Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023
Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles
IGNASI ABALLÍ
2023-05-08In the exhibition, which also emanates from the idea of error, the relationship between the concept of one’s own failure and that of defeat is at least as peculiar. The inherent nature of failure makes it impossible to correspond to the reality of defeat. Practically, defeat cannot exist as an entity in its own right; it can consequently only be seen as the result of a process that presupposes realization. Thus, the previously rejected paintings can never be considered as defeats per se, since they, not fully realized, belong to the realm of failure. They hence depend directly on the non-completion of a process and are therefore exempt from presenting any result, expressing any judgment or comment, positive or negative. The essence of failure is on no account synonymous with the concept of defeat, just as giving up during a game of chess excludes its sporting result. Whereas a defeat leads to checkmate and thus to the end of the game, the act of failing translates the chess game into a situation deprived of consequences. A defeat marks, in other words, a conclusion, a negative conclusion, but a conclusion nonetheless, it embodies a process that has reached its logical end. On the contrary, the nature of one’s own failure implies a dysfunction that disrupts the project in its course and development, thereby preventing any conclusion.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2023
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria
