Elsewhere

Solo Exhibition
Julie Mehretu | KAIROS / Hauntological Variations
K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
This first mid-career survey in Germany presents nearly 100 works expressing the full range of Mehretu’s practice, from her early, urban-inspired line drawings of the 1990s to her most recent, spectacular abstract paintings. Also included is time-based media inspired by Mehretu’s work, such as a music album, documentary, and video work. This first mid-career survey in Germany presents nearly 100 works expressing the full range of Mehretu’s practice, from her early, urban-inspired line drawings of the 1990s to her most recent, spectacular abstract paintings. With a selection of Mehretu’s source material and works on paper, some of which have never been shown before, the K21 exhibition contextualizes the conceptual thinking behind the artist’s work. Organized by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Pinault Collection, following the exhibition Julie Mehretu. Ensemble, presented at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 2024.

Solo Exhibition
Iman Issa | A Game, or So You May Think
The Art Institute of Chicago
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 at the Art Institute of Chicago, 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 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