Art

LA-based conceptual artist, Awol Erizku has unveiled Quaquaversal, his latest exhibition with Ben Brown Fine Arts. Building on Erizku’s ongoing engagement with Hong Kong, this bold showcase comprises paintings, neon installations as well as a newly unveiled series of bronze sculptures. The pieces expand on the artist’s dialogues on materiality, symbolism and cultural intervention while celebrating the African diasporic identity.In this exhibition, the artist deconstructs and reconstructs cultural motifs from music, popular culture and sports, creating nuanced narratives that favor Afrocentric perspectives. A standout feature is the series of five bronze sculptures depicting Egyptian Queen Nefertiti fused with various objects, reflecting ongoing debates about cultural sovereignty and the co...

Beers London is set to unveil a new exhibition entitled The Horizon Pulled Me Close by Mexican artist Myrna Quiñonez. Born in Sinaloa and now based in Bristol, Quiñonez reimagines familiar and uncanny landscapes in a suite of lush paintings. Infusing technical traditions with a 21st century flair, the artist navigates the shifting terrain between memory, technology and the very idea of place.The exhibition draws on landscapes from the artist’s past – the River Wye, the shores of Cornwall to the Los Mochis in Sinaloa – yet these places dissolve into liminal spaces that are both everywhere and nowhere at once. Fragmented and harmonious, these deconstructed scenes hint at a disconnection to the natural world, equally attending to a desire to return to nature and our increasingly digitized rel...

A new, lovesick group exhibition has landed at Lodovico Corsini in Brussels. Curated by artist and writer Charlie Fox, Flowers of Romance surveys the work of nearly two dozen artists, tracing through love’s many faces. Following the presentation of Day earlier this fall, Act Two or Night delves into the messiness of heartbreak and obsession, inviting us to explore the darker side of desire.Beneath the Oliver Leith's never-ending soundtrack, the gallery transforms into a hallucinatory landscape – soft grass carpets the floor while pink-tinted windows bathe the space in a sickly sweet glow. From snarling dog puppets to photographs steeped in the acidic and evocative, the exhibition transcends into viewers a dream state, mirroring the seductive and sinister power of love."I wanted to make a d...

Ziping Wang is days away from making her Berlin debut with Act Normal, a new solo exhibition at Peres Projects. Known for her intensely fragmented and kaleidoscopic paintings, Wang explores the complexity of modern visual culture, offering a much-needed meditation on the age of information overload.The exhibition welcomes viewers into the artist’s delightfully graphic world. The old and new become one in an interplay of brand logos, children’s toys, old master still lifes and Chinese decorative motifs, all of which are overlaid atop a hand-painted transparency grid. Christened by the smooth touch of a digital brushstroke, this interplay of cultural signifiers highlights a fascination with the deceptive malleability of images, exploring the blurred lines between reality and its digital rein...

Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara has unveiled a new suite of paintings and drawings at BLUM's Shibuya outpost. The latest showcase is notably inspired by Nara's large-scale sculptures, as well as the cutouts French artist Henri Matisse embarked on at the end of his life.I Draw the Line presents Nara's familiar wide-eyed characters in loose gestural strokes, accompanied by haiku-like phrases in both English and Japanese, from "CHEER FOR YOU" to "WE ARE OUTLAWS YES!" Each composition is created on found wood panels, a medium that the artist favors for its familiarity and ease of use, as he looks to emphasize utilizing sustainable practices and the unexpected effects that wood grain adds to his subjects. While his work can at times be meticulous, such as his richly detailed painting, Midnight V...

Sang Woo Kim makes his solo debut in London with The Seer, The Seen, spanning both of Herald St’s locations. Through an evocative presentation of self-portraits and pigment transfer works, Kim confronts race, identity and individuality with unflinching honesty, exploring what it means to see and be seen.Born in South Korea and raised in the UK, Kim’s work reflects the tension of navigating two worlds. His self-portraits are anchored by several sets of searching eyes—some meeting the viewer, others looking beyond. For Kim, reclaiming this gaze becomes an act of defiance, a way of untangling the threads of racism and fetishization that shaped his time in England. Methodological and, at times, obsessive, these works transform his image from a site of consumption into one of resistance, giving...

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin presents Silent Studio by Dutch artist Mark Manders, now on view through March 16, 2025. The exhibition weaves together over 20 works from the past three decades, culminating in a poetic reflection of imagination, identity and the elusive nature of time.Manders’ practice exists at the intersection of language, sculpture and fiction, defined by continuous experimentation. His long-standing project Self Portrait as a Building serves as the conceptual backbone of this approach, transforming traditional self-portraiture into a metaphorical structure that evolves with each exhibition.Taking cues from his personal studio as both a physical and conceptual space, the show explores the narrative potential of sculpture as sturdy materials such as bronze, s...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced plans for the latest installment of the ongoing Projects series, showcasing the work of self-taught artist Marlon Mullen on view from December 14, 2024, through April 20, 2025. Known for his lush and playful paintings, Mullen often looks to the glossy covers of art books and magazines as his subject matter, transforming text and image into rich compositions.Born and based in Richmond, California, Mullen has spent the last 40 years working out of the NIAD Art Center, a progressive art studio for artists with developmental disabilities. While his practice began in printmaking, Mullen shifted focus to painting in the late 2000s when the studio began receiving steady donations of art publications.The exhibition will feature 25 paintings spanning th...

South Korean artist Joung Young-Ju presents a slice of Seoul to the UK through a new solo exhibition at Almine Rech. Housed at the gallery's London location, Way Back Home comprises of a series of large-scale paintings of Korean shanty towns that appear photographic from a distance, but reveal intensely detailed compositions created on traditional hanji paper.Dating back to the third century and sourced from indigenous mulberry trees, hanji paper is revered for its durability and water absorbency. The paper is often used in the construction of Korean homes and served as both the material and conceptual foundation to Young-Ju's warm cityscapes, which she builds up by crumpling up small hanji fragments that she finishes on the canvas with acrylic paint. Young-Ju purposefully omits the presen...

Color, light and geometry collide in the ethereal work of Icelandic-Danish artist, Olafur Eliasson. For nearly 30 years, Eliasson has explored the limits of perception through playful artworks that invite his audiences to reflect on our relationships with each other and the natural world. Like his iconic Tate Modern installation, Eliasson's latest interventions react to the cavernous halls of MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, his first museum solo exhibition in Los Angeles.Produced in collaboration with Getty’s larger science-focused PST ART initiative, OPEN presents a series of large-scale optical devices that respond to onlookers, providing dazzling sensorial experiences that address concepts of embodiment, perception and participation.The exhibition opens with Eliasson's Kaleidoscopic Towers,...

CART Department is an emerging platform that celebrates the intersection of art and car culture through curated content, collaborations and events. CART Department, in collaboration with West Coast Customs, recently launched the Art Car Series at the 2024 LA Auto Show, featuring 10 standout cars designed by renowned artists and cultural leaders. The event runs through December 1 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.Notable vehicles include Keith Haring’s painted 1983 Buick, Virgil Abloh’s Project Geländewagen and the deconstructed Maybach from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s "Otis" music video. These pieces embody a rich narrative of creativity spanning art, music and contemporary culture. Moreover, West Coast Customs complements the Art Car Series with its own custom builds, featuring vehicles lik...

Dubai-based designer Roham Shamekh is set to debut his latest collection Pharrell’s Echoes at this year's edition of Design Miami, running from December 4 through 8. The series of sculptural pieces reimagines the canonical theme of the last judgment with a modern twist, drawing inspiration from the genius of  Pharrell Williams.As the title suggests, Pharrell’s Echoes looks to the artist’s multidisciplinary impact as a lens to explore ideas of judgment, redemption and humanism. With Pharrell as a muse and metaphor for artistic disruption, the collection embraces the spirit of today’s creative landscape where the boundaries between art, music and fashion have become increasingly blurred.The collection features a set of white resin-cast chairs, their backrests embossed with the contours of a ...