Sarah Ortmeyer at Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art

Sarah Ortmeyer will participate at the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art. The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) is an international biennial with a European focus and a strong regional profile, founded in 2016. Taking the rich history of Riga and the Baltic states as its underlying framework, the Biennial highlights the artistic landscape of the wider region and creates opportunities for artists to enter into dialogue with the cultural, historical and socio-political context of the city and its geographic surrounds. May 6 – October 11, 2020.

Douglas Gordon at Hauser & Wirth, New York City

Hauser & Wirth presents ‘The Bride of God,’ a group exhibition inaugurating its new building, designed by Selldorf Architects, at 542 West 22nd Street in the West Chelsea Arts District. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the exhibition takes its title and inspiration from Daniel Paul Schreber’s 1903 book ‘Memoirs of My Nervous Illness,’ a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis that has inspired countless analysts, intellectuals, and artists. Including modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installations, and video works, as well as an array of vernacular photographs, objects, and films, ‘The Bride of God’ will unfold throughout the galleries of both the new building and the adjacent former Dia Center for the Arts building. Douglas Gordon is part of this exhibition. May 2 – July 30, 2020.

Dor Guez at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Work by Dor Guez is on show at the group exhibition ‘Worlds Without End’ at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition displays a rich and diverse series of visual stories centered around the concept of borders. The existence of local and international borders has many histories with a current increase most recently seen as a result of Brexit. Borders tend to be the location of international trouble spots. Political turbulence and displacement of people as well as the drive towards an ever-increasing economic globalisation creates a complex contradiction. On the one hand we see a utopian vision of open borders, while on the other, a rising populist push towards border fortification.  Another consideration is the creation of psychological frontiers known as borderisation – the mindset that borders create which further exacerbates the strain on cultural and social conditions. April 30 – August 02, 2020.

Matan Mittwoch at FRAC Normandie, Rouen

Matan Mittwoch is part of the group exhibition ‘La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction’ at the FRAC Normandie in Rouen, France. The exhibition displays contemporary abstract photography and is part of the Festival Normandie Impressionniste. April 25 – August 30, 2020.

Douglas Gordon at Giacometti Foundation, Paris

Douglas Gordon’s solo exhibition ‘The Morning After’ is on show at Giacometti Foundation in Paris, France. The Giacometti Institute gives carte blanche to the contemporary artist Douglas Gordon. His work on the distortion of time and the tension between opposite forces (life and death, good and evil, blessed and damned, captive or free, etc.) share common ground with Giacometti’s questioning on the human condition. Taking hold of the characteristics of the domestic space occupied by the Giacometti Institute, Douglas Gordon imagines a dialogue between his work and Giacometti’s work. For the occasion, the artist has made a series of original works never exhibited before that will be presented with some sculptures and drawings by Giacometti that are little-known or have never been shown previously in public. April 24 – June 21, 2020.

Simon Fujiwara at Calouste Gulbenkain Museum, Lisbon

Simon Fujiwaras’s works ‘New Pompidou’ (2014) and ‘Rebekkah’ (2012) are on show at the group exhibition ‘Infinite Sculpture. From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan’ at Calouste Gulbenkain Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. This exhibition brings together sculptures by contemporary artists and casts from the collection of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, analysing the relevance of the casting technique in current artistic practices and exploring its infinite possibilities. Casting has been a way to make copies from other artworks, from life, from nature, from buildings, in the past and in the present. Casting in plaster still happens, but the exhibition has many more modern technologies on show, including 3D printing. April 24 – September 07, 2020.

Shilpa Gupta at Ala Scaligera, Isole Borromee

The group exhibition ‘Fantastic Utopias’ displays art work by Shilpa Gupta at Ala Scaligera at the Rocca di Angera on Isole Borromee, Italy. On display are the works of 15 international artists who, in their diversity, give rise to unexpected and perhaps even magical images and objects, both seductive and frightening at the same time, able to take us to alternative universes far removed from verosimilitude. The fantastic, relegated to the world of childhood ever since the 19th century, has become the means to break with conventions and imagine what seems impossible and unknown. Each of these works uses the fantastic to talk of fantastic utopias into which society and its idiosyncrasies are transformed. These artists testify to how imagining an alternative reality offers the first step towards reaching it. The exhibition has come about from the premise that in our post-real world, in which conflicts and political and environmental crises seem to follow each other in rapid succession, the fantastic and its representations have returned to being at the centre of contemporary reflections. Phenomena and trends such as the worldwide success of Harry Potter, the Oscar for the film The Shape of Water (2017) or TV’s obsession with Game of Thrones (2011–2019) are the proof of this. With the aim of escaping reality, we dream of being surrounded by magical creatures, we live thinking about monsters and battles between dystopian worlds, as though the secularisation of society were to lead to the need to imagine ourselves in other worlds. In collaboration with Galleria Continua.  April 20 – September 27, 2020.

Douglas Gordon at Dundee Contemporary Arts

Douglas Gordons solo exhibition ‘k.364’ is on view at Dundee Contemporary Art in Dundee, Scotland. This exhibition focuses on Gordon’s major film installation ‘k.364‘ and marks the premiere of this work in a public gallery in the UK. The film features two Israeli musicians of Polish descent (Avri Levitan and Roi Shiloah) traveling to Poland from Berlin by train. Shown on multiple screens and with layered audio, the film follows the two men through a desolate landscape in a country whose tragic and violent history is barely resolved for them. Gordon films the musicians on this personal journey, isolating intimate moments when their passionate love of music seems to move between them. Leaving Berlin, they first travel through Poznań, home of the celebrated Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. The journey concludes with the musicians’ performance, at the Warsaw Philharmonic concert hall, of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major (also known as Mozart’s Köchel Composition k.364, from which the title of this piece is derived). This work is an intimate document of the relationship between individuals and the power of music, against the subtly drawn backdrop of a dark and unresolved social history. April 11 – July 19, 2020.

Thomas Hirschorn at Espace culturel associatif de la Mairie de Saint-Chamand, Avignon

Thomas Hirschhorn’s solo exhibition ‘20 ans ‘Deleuze Monument” is on show at Espace culturel associatif de la Mairie de Saint-Chamand in Avignon, France. April 4 – June 30, 2020.

Adel Abdessemed at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Adel Abdessemed is part of the exhibition ‘Crossing views’ at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris that is presented parallel to a retrospective of Cindy Sherman. ‘Crossing Views’ displays a selection of works from the Fondation’s Collection which was chosen in collaboration with Cindy Sherman. Echoing her work, the exhibition is centered on the theme of the portrait and its interpretation through different approaches and media: painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation. The exhibition brings together around twenty French and international artists, of different generations and backgrounds. It includes around sixty works, many of which have previously never been on display at the Fondation. April 2 – August 31, 2020.