Elsewhere

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.

Special Presentation
Pakui Hardware to Participate in the Performa Biennial 2025
carlier | gebauer congratulates Pakui Hardware, who will participate in the Performa Biennial 2025, alongside Lina Lapelyte who will represent Lithuania for this year’s Pavilion Without Walls. For their first ever performance piece, Pakui Hardware will stage an artificial intelligence-led “therapy session structured as a Classical Greek drama.”

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

Solo Exhibition
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom at MCA 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.

Solo Exhibition
Laure Prouvost | WE FELT A STAR DYING
Kraftwerk, Berlin
Laure Prouvost’s new commissioned installation WE FELT A STAR DYING with LAS Art Foundation, opens on Thursday, 20 February 2025 at Kraftwerk Berlin. In this new commission, Laure Prouvost explores quantum phenomena and their sensitivity to cosmic and planetary forces. 2025 marks a century since quantum physics became established, and today its applications are predicted to enact a paradigm shift in our world. Following two years of research and rare access to a quantum computer, Laure Prouvost presents a multi-sensory new work with LAS. The commission begins with the question: “How could we sense reality from a quantum perspective?” Prouvost draws video, sound, scent, sculpture and scenography together into a fluid installation tuned to the highly sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum computers. It merges Prouvost’s playful ways of shifting audience perception with the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, aiming to bring audiences into the emerging world of quantum technologies.

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 Exhibition
Julie Mehretu | A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia , Sydney
Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory at MCA Australia charts an explosively experimental period in Mehretu’s art and includes more than 80 works by the artist, including significant loans from public and private collections. The exhibition features 36 paintings completed by the artist between 2017 and 2024 alongside several major new painting cycles completed in 2023 and 2024. Many works are presented to the public for the first time, including Mehretu’s most recent TRANSpaintings (2023–2024), while over 50 etchings, drawings and works on paper, from the mid-1990s to now, offer a retrospective of the foundational role of drawing and printmaking in the artist’s practice. Curated by Suzanne Cotter, MCA Australia Director, with Jane Devery, MCA Australia Senior Curator, Exhibitions, Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory charts the artist’s continually evolving investigations into the possibilities of abstraction and its vocabulary of mark-making, from her earliest works on paper to her experimental printmaking, and most recently, the TRANSpaintings series which encourages visitors to experience painting in an entirely new way. Among the exhibition’s highlights are Femenine in nine (2023–2024), a cycle of exuberant black paintings inscribed with iridescent gestural marks. Named after the 1974 musical composition by Julius Eastman, they offer a visual and sonic meditation on conditions of darkness and instability that define the contemporary moment. Also featured are the TRANSpaintings, seven of which are presented for the first time. Supported by the sculptures Upright Brackets by Berlin-based sculptor Nairy Baghramian, these freestanding paintings are physically and visually dynamic and propose an experience of painting as both embodied and participatory.

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.