Duo Exhibition
Pakui Hardware | Inflammation – Biennale Arte 2024
The Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice
Pakui Hardware will represent Lithuania at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, together with the works by modernist Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, opening on Saturday, 20 April 2024. The immersive joint exhibition of Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė will address the ‘inflammations’ currently affecting humanity and the world. The Lithuanian pavilion is organized by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (commissioner: Arūnas Gelūnas) and curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia. The installation’s architecture will be made by Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora.
Solo Exhibition
Tarik Kiswanson | Prelude
Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Tarik Kiswanson—the winner of the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Prize—produces sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his practice. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, his various abstract works examine subjects related to memory, heritage, birth, loss, and belonging. His oeuvre can be seen as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes such as refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
Solo Exhibition
Laure Prouvost | Oui Move In You
ACCA, Melbourne
Continuing the annual ACCA International series of solo exhibitions by influential artists on the international stage, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Oui Move In You, a major solo exhibition by French artist Laure Prouvost. Encompassing new commissions and a survey of existing work over the past decade, the exhibition will transform ACCA’s unique architecture into a labyrinthine and other-worldly environment, introducing Australian audiences to the imaginative, absorbing and frequently absurdist hallmarks of Prouvost’s diverse artistic practice. Acknowledging the radical, experimental, and pathfinding figures who came before her, Oui Move In You conceptually explores the roles and legacies of grandmother and grandfather, the maternal spaces of mother and child, and contemporary social spaces in which humans commune with the natural world. The exhibition is composed as a celebration of liberation and imagination, the sensual and sensuous, being and belonging, care and connection.
Solo Exhibition
Paul Pfeiffer | Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Surveying twenty-five years of the multi-disciplinary practice of artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii; lives in New York), Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom will celebrate a pioneering artist known for his incisive work that interrogates ideas of spectacle, belonging and identity. Inspired by televised sporting events and popular entertainment, Pfeiffer’s work deconstructs our fascination and obsession with celebrity culture, unpacking how collective consciousness is shaped and manipulated through his masterful editing of found footage. In tracing the global trajectory of image circulation, Pfeiffer demonstrates how desire, heroism and worship operate as part of the mechanisms of art, religion, politics, and nationhood. Bringing together more than thirty works and debuting a new commission, Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is the first retrospective of the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice.
Solo Exhibition
Julie Mehretu | Ensemble
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Presented at Palazzo Grassi from 17 March 2024 to 6 January 2025, “Ensemble” is the largest exhibition of Julie Mehretu’s work to date in Europe. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection, with Julie Mehretu, the exhibition brings together a selection of more than fifty works, between painting and printmaking, that the artist produced over the timespan of 25 years, including several of the artist’s recent paintings from 2021-2024. Presented over two floors of Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition unites 17 works from the Pinault Collection, as well as loans from international museums and private collections.
Solo Exhibition
Laure Prouvost | IN THE MIST OF IT ALL, ABOVE FRONT TEARS
De Pont Museum, Tilburg
This spring, De Pont will present a compelling and immersive exhibition by Laure Prouvost, in which the artist welcomes visitors into a surreal, absurdist and poetic world of her own making. In IN THE MIST OF IT ALL, ABOVE FRONT TEARS, social engagement and the limitless power of imagination find expression through video, sculpture, performance, textile and text. In an entirely unique manner, Prouvost conveys a hopeful and liberating message concerning themes such as ecology, the female body and migration.