Elsewhere

Solo Exhibition
Iman Issa | A Game, or So You May Think
The Art Institute of Chicago
We are pleased to announce Iman Issa’s solo exhibition, A Game, or So You May Think, at the Art Institute of Chicago, opening Saturday, 3 May 2025. Iman Issa’s Heritage Studies are displays based on historical artifacts, which attempt to communicate their significance to the present moment. In her process, the objects are altered: Issa changes their materials, scale, and color to a degree that the resemblance between the historic artifact and Issa’s work can be difficult to discern. Despite these dissimilarities, the artist insists on the equivalence of these objects, almost like the equivalence between a photograph and its subject. This exhibition of Issa’s Heritage Studies is the first substantial presentation of these works in the US in a decade. Seen together, they illuminate the artist’s consistent desire to pursue an “art that is not exactly part of the world but is certainly tied to it, revealing of it, and not just because it looks or sounds like it.”

Solo Exhibition
Thomas Schütte | Genealogies
Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
We are pleased to announce Thomas Schütte’s solo exhibition Genealogies at Punta della Dogana, opening on Sunday, 6 April 2025. Genealogies is the first major exhibition of Thomas Schütte in Italy. The exhibition explores the flow of motifs in the artist’s major works, from the 1970s to the present day. Centred around the exceptional group of works belonging to the Pinault Collection (almost fifty sculptures) and accompanied by loans from the artist, as well as around a hundred works on paper, many of which have never been displayed before, the exhibition retraces, in a non-chronological way, the emergence of the forms and their variations, and compares them with the German artist’s practice of drawing, watercolour and printmaking. The exhibition is curated by Camille Morineau, independent curator, and Jean-Marie Gallais, curator at the Pinault Collection.

Solo Exhibition
Pakui Hardware | Thresholds
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Pakui Hardware’s solo exhibition, Thresholds, at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art focuses primarily on the metaphor of the filtering membrane, as well as on biological immunity. Organisms defend themselves by telling foreign objects from their own bodies. By drawing on references to medical imaging, biology and the materiality of the body, the artists explore its limits and vulnerability to outside influence. Thresholds also enters a dialogue with the work of artists such as Zilia Sánchez Domínguez (1926–2024) or Aleksandra Kasuba (1923–2019), who explored relationships between the body, space, and materiality. The work of Pakui Hardware shows that not only does modern art explore the structure of ecosystems, but it also talks about the systems of control and supervision as well as the complex relations between the individual and society.

Solo Exhibition
Paul Graham | Paul Graham
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Currently on view in the Column Gallery, Louisiana presents a focused selection of works by Paul Graham, whose practice centers on subtle moments of everyday life. Paul Graham often works in series, presenting his photographs in carefully considered sequences that are also reflected in his distinctively designed photo books. For this exhibition, all works are installed according to the artist’s own specifications, allowing visitors to experience the images as he intended. Since 2009, the Louisiana has been acquiring works by Graham for its collection – all of them on show as part of this presentation.

Solo Exhibition
Paul Pfeiffer | Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom presents 25 years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle and mass culture. By repurposing the tools and systems of media production—including editing, staging, and outsourcing—Pfeiffer recontextualizes global celebrities such as pop stars, film actors, and athletes to reveal relationships between audiences and icons. As the artist puts it, “who’s using who? Is the image making us, or do we make images?” Whether through televised broadcasts of sporting events, editorial photographs of cultural icons, or the ecstasy of a soccer stadium, Pfeiffer interrogates the consumption of images and culture. For Pfeiffer, the basketball court, the boxing ring, and the stadium not only serve as platforms for grand spectacles but as sites where the body politic—of a nation, of a community, of society—is imagined, defined, and contested

Solo Exhibition
Leonor Serrano Rivas | Del Otro Mundo
Centre d'art Le Lait, Albi
For its inaugural exhibition at 5 rue de l’École Normale in Albi, the art centre Le Lait is inviting Spanish artist Leonor Serrano Rivas for her first solo exhibition in France. Leonor Serrano Rivas’ work often draws on medieval history, a time when science, magic and philosophy were interconnected. Rivas is particularly interested in the transmission of knowledge through the spoken word, songs, interwoven patterns and rituals. The artist combines objects, textiles, performances and videos in a multi-layered narrative, creating a poetic source of knowledge and offering immersive journeys that challenge the visitor’s senses. This exhibition, entitled Del Otro Mundo, makes use of the rich tradition of medieval scriptoriums (scribes’ workshops) and the transmission of knowledge through illuminated manuscripts. For this project led in Albi, Rivas focused on a manuscript from the Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges containing a collection of tropes — phrases that were inserted into the sung parts of the Mass — written around the year 1000. Through the manuscript, she explored the first signs used for musical notation in medieval times as well as the symbolism of its coloured illumination

Biennale Presentation
Lúcia Koch | And All That Is In Between
Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, Jeddah
Lúcia Koch’s installation Air Temperature is now on view at Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, Jeddah until 25 May, 2025. Using translucent textiles with printed gradients, Air Temperature is a labyrinthine installation which experiments with light’s chromatic effects. The work unfolds in multiple diagonals which criss-cross and fill the space. The supple and undulating textiles are constantly animated by air currents and the public’s movements, offering distinct visions according to the hours of the day, and the quality and direction of light. Immersing viewers in curtain panels with hues of red and purple, the chromatic phenomena modulate the architecture and challenge the defined physicality of the site. Optical, tactile, and kinetic, the work serves as a reminder for the passing of time and changes in the atmosphere, highlighting the constant transformation and interaction of light, air, and living entities. The thin textile veils make perceptible the evolution and fissures that occur in the environment, as well as the infinite possibility between light and printed pigments. Air Temperature functions as a gateway between the indoor galleries of the Biennale and the outdoor garden installations, acting as a vibrant intervention in this space of transit.

Solo Presentation
Lúcia Koch | Deep Spaces
Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial
Lúcia Koch’s Deep Spaces (2024) consists of large-scale photographs of empty cardboard boxes, re-imagined as architectural spaces that challenge perception. These images are inserted into existing billboards rented for the duration of the Biennale – on this occasion, the work appears on a screen. Deep Spaces (2024) was conceived for the urban environment of Abu Dhabi and consists of a series of interventions in which photographs are inserted into existing advertising panels in the city centre, rented for the duration of the Biennale. As there’s no obvious message, product or brand depicted, we are asked to question the nature of these images or the reason for their presence.