Delve into the vibrant world of contemporary art with a curated selection of exhibitions spanning major cities. From Melissa Huddleston’s experimental paintings in Los Angeles to TingTong Chang’s eclectic installations in Taipei, each exhibition offers unique insights into cultural narratives, artistic evolution, and innovative techniques. Discover diverse themes from mythic landscapes to digital critiques, inviting audiences to explore the intersection of tradition and modernity across global art scenes.

Melissa Huddleston: Primordial Spring

  • When: 25th Jun – 3rd Aug, 2024
  • Where: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
  • Description: The artworks in Primordial Spring employ techniques drawn from historical print and book arts. Using an experimental monoprint approach, paint is applied to a water surface, manipulated, and then transferred onto paper. These paintings are rich with natural movement, featuring vibrant swirls of color that seem to float weightlessly. Huddleston explores paper marbling methods, traditionally linked with European scriptural arts and Japanese suminagashi, reinterpreting them through a feminist lens that challenges their historical categorization as minor crafts or ephemera. Her work boldly merges these traditions with the scale and language of modernist abstract painting worldwide.

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Patterns

  • When: 25th Jun – 2nd Aug, 2024
  • Where: Luhring Augustine Chelsea, New York
  • Description: This multi-generational collective of artists, spanning popular disciplines like painting, weaving, quilt-making, mosaic, and sculpture, features a diverse roster including Tauba Auerbach, Athos Bulção, Lygia Clark, Melissa Cody, Sarah Crowner, Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers (Qunnie Pettway and Loretta Pettway Bennett), Alfred Jensen, Rashid Johnson, Emily Kraus, Kim MacConnel, Jeremy Moon, Rebecca Morris, Ryan Mrozowski, Laura Owens, Richard Rezac, Frank Stella, Philip Taaffe, Cesare Tacchi, Rosemarie Trockel, Juan Uslé, Liu Wei, Jack Whitten, Christopher Wool, and Yves Zurstrassen. Instead of strict adherence to repetitive structures, these artists embrace interruptions and deviations from conventional forms, employing diverse strategies that challenge contemporary methods and encourage new approaches to creation and perception.

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Anselm Kiefer

  • When: 25th Jun – 24 Aug, 2024
  • Where: Gagosian, Athens
  • Description: Kiefer’s landscapes reflect poetic responses to myth, history, and nature, exploring themes of creation, transformation, and the cyclical rhythms of life. His artworks harmonize the luminosity of gold with diverse mediums such as oil, acrylic, shellac, straw, and fabric. By contrasting textures and tones, Kiefer captures the sublime essence of nature and the weight of historical narratives, referencing gold’s symbolic and allegorical significance in sacred icons, ancient legends, and alchemical symbolism involving lead, a central material in his art.

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Jacob Littlejohn: Cosmia

  • When: 25th Jun – 27th Jul, 2024
  • Where: Katlesa, Goldau, Switzerland
  • Description: Jacob Littlejohn approaches landscape not merely as a genre but as a conceptual realm where conscious and subconscious elements converge. His solo exhibition, Cosmia, reworks spatial intervals, rhythm, and perspective to unify earthly realism with supernatural dimensions. Littlejohn’s paintings, richly layered and continually shifting in texture, evoke temporal narratives akin to weathered patinas or celestial phenomena like comet showers. They invite viewers to ponder the tension between the infinitesimal and infinite within a universe depicted as both expansive and immersive.

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Farah Al Qasimi: Blue Desert Online

  • When: 25th Jun – 11th Aug, 2024
  • Where: Barakat Contemporary, Seoul
  • Description: The exhibition showcases Al Qasimi’s recent body of work spanning 2018 to 2023, focusing on cultural hybridity. It includes 19 images, both still and moving, addressing themes of reality, escapism, illusion, and anxiety within a digitalized context. Through photography, video, and performance, Al Qasimi critiques post-colonial power dynamics, gender norms, and cultural preferences in Arab Gulf states. Her exploration spans personal and public spheres, uncovering implicit social norms and values inherent in spaces, moments, and objects.

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TingTong Chang: Little Hell

  • When: 25th Jun – 10th Jul, 2024
  • Where: Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Description: TingTong Chang began his artistic journey using graffiti to satirize societal issues. His postgraduate studies in Europe prompted exploration across various mediums: written word, traditional painting, and immersive installations with sound, light, and electricity. This led to a unique creative approach, blending disciplines in collaborative performances, installations, and elaborate video productions. “Little Hell,” Chang’s debut solo exhibition at Each Modern, highlights his evolution, particularly through tapestries reminiscent of medieval European opulence transformed into elevated paintings.

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Enrique Martinez Celaya: Here To Kneel, Voyagers

  • When: 25th Jun – 8th Sep, 2024
  • Where: Patricia Low Venezia, Venice, Italy
  • Description: The exhibited paintings show complete and incomplete elements: figurative details and natural imagery alongside sketchy seas, architectural motifs, words, and poetic lines. The show’s evocative title suggests vulnerability and humility in displacement, whether from home, culture, or oneself. Symbols like a lion and water, plus references to Venice’s maritime identity, resonate throughout Martínez Celaya’s work. Coinciding with the 60th Venice Biennale theme “Foreigners Everywhere,” the exhibition delves into the psychic and physical aspects of foreignness.

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