HONG-KONG (CHINA)
After years of delays and many counterclaims, the Hong Kong M + Museum has set an opening date of November 12th. The museum, the work of Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron, is set to be one of the main destinations for art in the world and without a doubt one of the most important in the Far East. The inaugural exhibition will be dedicated to the city of Hong Kong and its journey through time.
NEW YORK (USA)
Exhibition: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art. Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously here at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-standing relationships. Whitney Museum New York.
Sept 29, 2021 – Feb 13, 2022
LONDON (UK)
Exhibition: Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty
This year Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the first majorUK exhibition of Woodcuts by leading abstract expresionist, Helen Frankenthaler. Frankenthaler (1928–2011) is recognized among the most important American abstract artists of the 20th century, widely credited for her pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. She experimented tirelessly throughout her six-decade long career, producing a large body of work across multiple mediums. Opening ten years after her death, this exhibition shines a light on the artist’s groundbreaking woodcuts, which appear painterly and spontaneous with expanses of colour and fluid forms. It will reveal Frankenthaler as a trailblazer of the printmaking movement, who endlessly pushed possibilities through her experimentation.
Until April 18, 2022
OXFORD (UK)
Exhibition: Tokyo:Art & Photography
This exhibition is a celebration of one of the world’s most creative, dynamic and thrilling cities. Explore Japan’s capital city through the vibrant arts it has generated over 400 years. It features a wide variety of artworks created in a metropolis that has constantly reinvented itself. Highlights include historic folding screens and iconic woodblock prints, video works, pop art, and contemporary photographs by Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika. With new commissions by contemporary artists, loans from Japan and treasures from the Ashmolean’s own collections, the show provides a fascinating insight into the development of Tokyo into one of the world’s most important cultural hotspots. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Until January 3, 2022
BUDAPEST (HUNGARY – EU)
Exhibition: Gerhard Richter. Truth in Semblance
Opening on 27 August, the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is hosting an exhibition of works by the world-renowned contemporary German master Gerhard Richter, who turns ninety next year. Entitled Gerhard Richter. Truth in Semblance, the show is the artist’s first comprehensive exhibition in Hungary, featuring almost eighty works from Hungarian and international public and private collections, and representing every period of his career. Among the eighty works on display are four larger, multi-part series, making it a total of around two hundred works awaiting visitors. The exhibits range from his iconic photo-paintings of the 1960s, through the colour-rich abstract pieces for which he is perhaps best known, to his most recent, intimate pencil drawings. The latter were produced after his announcement in the autumn of 2020 that he had finished his painted oeuvre – a fact that lends the Budapest show particular significance.
Building A – August 27 – November 14, 2021
