Art
The Hypeart Guide to Frieze Seoul 2025
SummaryThe 2025 edition of Frieze Seoul welcomes over 120 presenting galleries with a joint booth by P21 and Gallery Vacancy, as well as NANZUKA UNDERGROUND's star-studded presentation featured on the fairgroundsStandout satellite shows include Antony Gormley's Inextricable at White Cube, the Nude, Flesh and Love group show at Jason Haam, the inaugural exhibition at Frieze House Seoul and the debut installation for Maison Margiela's "Line 2" projectLee Bul's monumental retrospective at Leeum Museum of Art, Adrián Villar Rojas' The Language of the Enemy at Art Sonje Center and the 13th edition of Seoul Mediacity Biennale are among the museum highlightsFrieze Seoul is back in full swing, now in its fourth edition. Running through September 6 at COEX in Gangnam, the 2025 fair delivers a hefty...
Guillermo del Toro Takes His Treasured Horror Collection to Auction
SummaryHorror maestro Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with Heritage Auctions for a three-part sale of relics from his infamous 10,000-piece cabinet of curiositiesThe first installment of the Bleak House auction will start on September 26 with hundreds of concept artworks, memorabilia and artifacts up for grabsFrom his early Cronos to his most recent Frankenstein - which earned a near 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival - Guillermo del Toro has secured the title as the "godfather of modern Gothic." Offscreen, his love for the occult, monstrous and macabre manifests as a two-story residence in suburban Los Angeles, with over 10,000 artworks, books and artifacts collected over a lifetime. Sure, tons of creative big shots have skeletons in the closet, but del Toro's infamou...
Max Siedentopf and Gentle Monster’s HAUS NOWHERE Unveils “More Is More”
SummaryGentle Monster's HAUS NOWHERE has unveiled its first art project created in collaboration with Namibian-German artist and director Max Siedentopf"More Is More" is now on view in Seoul, Dosan, Shanghai and ShenzenEven if you've never heard of HAUS NOWHERE, you know HAUS NOWHERE. The Gentle Monster brainchild behind this massive, two-faced cyborg for the eyewear label's Margiela collab or Nudake's crossaint-clad Shainghai store, the experimental project is on a mission to rewrite the rules of retail.For the launch of its new Seoul outpost, HAUS NOWHERE has unveiled its first major artwork, "More Is More," created in collaboration with artist and director Max Siedentopf. Lauded for his surreal, hyperrealistic sculptures, Siedentopf pushes the brand's "space unlike any other" mantra int...
ICA Miami to Host Largest Survey of Joyce Pensato
SummaryICA Miami will bring together over 60 works by the late American painter, Joyce PensatoPensato is widely recognized for her abstract compositions featuring iconic cartoon charactersThe exhibition will kick off during Miami Art Week in DecemberThis December, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami will host a monumental exhibition on the late, seminal American painter Joyce Pensato. Bringing together over 60 works across five decades, the survey signals the artist’s largest presentation yet that offers viewers an insightful look into the artist’s extensive practice that traces her earlier methods of gestural abstraction to her popular compositions comprised of black and white figuration. The namesake exhibition will highlight Pensato’s early Batman drawings from 1976, oil paintings ...
Rashid Johnson’s “Dutchman” Returns to New York’s Russian & Turkish Baths
SummaryAcclaimed artist Rashid Johnson is bringing his adaptation of Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" (1964) back for a limited run of performancesThe performance's themes of race, violence and assimilation are heightened by its unusually immersive choice of venueRashid Johnson's "Dutchman" is making a highly-anticipated return to the Russian & Turkish Baths for a five-night run, starting September 24. Debuted 2013, the seminal Performa-commissioned performance marked the artist's directorial debut, setting him on a path beyond visual art. Over a decade later, he revisits Amiri Baraka's 1964, Obie-winning portrait of race and sexuality with renewed urgency.Baraka premiered his "Dutchman" in at the storied Cherry Lane Theatre in 1964, with its 2007 revival catching the attention of one Johnson...
Petra Collins Opens ‘fangirl,’ Her First Museum Show
SummaryDaelim Museum in Seoul is currently presenting fangirl, the inaugural museum presentation by Canadian photographer Petra CollinsWith over 500 works on view, spanning photography, video, installation, archival material and editorial projects, the showcase offers an in-depth survey of Collins' lush universeAcclaimed photographer and director Petra Collins has opened the doors to her first large-scale solo exhibition at the Daelim Museum in Seoul. Now on view through December 31, fangirl presents a sweeping, 500-piece dive into the evolution behind one of fashion's most beloved image-makers.Collins' name has become shorthand for a certain mood: opulent, cinematic, surreal and entirely seared with the raw interiority of youth. The self-taught photographer came onto the scene at 15, post...
Manuel Mathieu Confronts Rage in ‘Bury Your Masters’ Exhibition
SummaryMathieu is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, drawing, ceramics and installationHis compositions are biomorphic, harnessing an abstract yet fluid appearance that yield subtle hints of figuration. In September, London’s Pilar Corrîas gallery will stage the second solo exhibition of Manuel Mathieu. Hailing from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, drawing, ceramics and installation. His compositions are biomorphic, harnessing an abstract yet fluid appearance that yield subtle hints of figuration. For the show, entitled Bury Your Masters, Mathieu holds in a quiet rage as each work probes the state of an unfair reality. More precisely, he “excavates inherited legacies (familial, political and spiritual) to question an...
‘Breathless in Glowing Air’ Captures Beauty Before It’s Lost
SummaryNew York-based publisher Pomegranate Press is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Breathless in Glowing Air, a massive group exhibition staged at London's 10 14 galleryOn view through September 19, the exhibition presents work by 62 photographers documenting the overlooked beauty of the everydayPomegranate Press is ringing in double digits and to celebrate, the indie imprint has mounted Breathless in Glowing Air, a 100-piece look back on a decade-long devotion to contemporary image-making.With no singular theme confining the curation, the group show captures the moments that might otherwise slip through the cracks. It anchors itself in the paradoxically enduring beauty of life at its most fleeting: the touch shared between two lovers that lasts a lifetime, roadside dust kicked up ...
New Aperture Book Chronicles Tyler Mitchell’s Decade of Defiance
SummaryTyler Mitchell's early career survey monograph, Wish This Was Real, is now available for pre-order via ApertureSpanning 272 pages, the book delves deep into a decade of Mitchell's practice, featuring a gamut of photographs alongside video and sculptural worksWith a Gagosian solo, European tour and the Superfine Met catalogue in-hand, 2025 is proving to be a banner year for Tyler Mitchell, the 30-year-old artist who has already established his voice as one of the most defining amongst this generation of photographers.Now, Mitchell is adding another notch to his belt with his second monograph, Wish This Was Real, published by Aperture. The 272-page book gathers a decade of Mitchell's practice, venturing within and beyond his acclaimed photographic practice, and into realms of video an...
Paul Insect’s Cut-Out Eyes Take Over Underdogs Gallery
SummaryThe presentation will highlight 22 new and original works that feature Insect’s signature collage-style compositionsAccompanying the exhibition is the launch of two limited editions inspired by original works from the showLisbon’s Underdogs Gallery will soon launch the first solo exhibition of renowned contemporary artist, Paul Insect. Entitled Broken Vision, the presentation will highlight 22 new and original works that feature Insect’s signature collage-style compositions that blend abstraction and figuration in a flurry of vivid colors. Insect was a prominent figure in Britain’s 1990s graffiti scene who developed a district visual language of portraits with cut-out eyes that feature heavily-layered visuals comprised of bold shapes and human characteristics reminiscent of caricatu...
Ana Benaroya Burns an ‘Eternal Flame’ at NYC’s Flag Art Foundation
SummaryBenaroya is known for her surrealist reimagining of feminine bodies across multiple mediumsThe exhibition will kick off on September 17 at NYC's Flag Art FoundationAna Benaroya ushers in a vibrant collection of figurations as part of an upcoming solo exhibition called Eternal Flame at New York City’s Flag Art Foundation. Benaroya is known for her surrealist reimagining of feminine bodies across multiple mediums including paintings, works on paper and monotypes. The new collection of paintings feature a company of ripped women set against colorful backdrops with the artist probing unconventional definitions of femininity in both art historical and contemporary culture contexts. One of the highlights is a painting entitled “Heat Wave” that depicts two towering female figures with spar...
Lee Moriarty Unmasks a Softer Side of Luchadores in ‘Balance’
Following his breakout presentation at NADA Miami last winter, Lee Moriarty returns with Balance, his debut solo exhibition, opening at Night Gallery on September 27. Curated by Adam Abdalla, the eight-piece presentation turns the spotlight away from the ring and onto the off-duty lives of luchadores, trading high-flying bravado for introspective moments of repose and reflection.Taking cues from his own lucha libre career, having studied the technical llave style in Mexico, Moriarty approaches his subjects with an insider perspective, and through this dual vantage, grapples with themes of identity, performance and what he calls the “underexplored duality within the lives of pro wrestlers.”In Balance, Moriarty taps into the tension of in-between states – armor and vulnerability, spectacle a...
