Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 6.00 pm

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 5010557 Berlin, Germany

Hamburger Bahnhof will host an artist talk with Wolfgang Tillmans and Boris Mikhailov, who have engaged with each other’s work since the 1990s. Their conversation will explore the intersections and contrasts in their practices, offering reflections on each other’s work and a shared artistic language.

This talk serves as an introduction to an upcoming exhibition at the YermilovCentre in Kharkiv, Ukraine, programmed by RIBBON—a platform dedicated to supporting historic and contemporary Ukrainian arts and culture. Given Kharkiv’s significance as the birthplace of the Kharkiv School of Photography, the exhibition will focus on photography as a medium. Both Mikhailov and Tillmans have continually pushed the boundaries of photographic art, making this exhibition a compelling exploration of the medium’s potential and its role in contemporary art and activism.

The event is free to attend.

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image: Portraits of Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans

20 – 23 February 2025

Stand B9

Santa Monica Airport
3027 Airport Avenue
Los Angeles, USA

Open by invitation only:
Thursday 20 February: 10am – 7pm
Friday 21 February: 11am – 1pm

Open to the public:
Friday 21 February: 1pm – 7pm
Saturday 22 February: 11am – 7pm
Sunday 23 February: 11am – 6pm

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Selected Press

Frieze, Billy Cotton’s Top Picks from the Frieze Viewing Room: Merlin James, 13 February 2025

Frieze, Frieze Los Angeles 2025: A Celebration of Creative Resilience and Community Rebuilding, 12 February 2025

image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 235, 2017, inkjet print mounted on Dibond in artist’s frame

The Sonics of Self Determination
Faber Lecture

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 5:00 – 7:00 pm EST

A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
USA

Building on over a decade of audio investigations and sonic research, Abu Hamdan will explore how sound can be used as a tool to repurpose and reorient struggles for autonomy and justice.

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Listening with Politics with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Thursday 13 February 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 pm EST

Creative Time – CTHQ
59 E 4th St, Floor 7
New York, NY 10003
USA

Reflecting on one year since the founding of Earshot, an organisation using sound for the defence of human and environmental rights, this talk will focus on Abu Hamdan's latest project Zifzafa and use it to explore the concept and the struggle for a sonic self-determination.

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image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifzafa, 2024, still from virtual reality audio platform

Monday, 10 February, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

E.22, Main Lecture Theatre
ECA Main Building

Edinburgh College of Art
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland

Anne Hardy will deliver an artist talk at Edinburgh College of Art on Monday, 10 February, as part of the School of Art's Monday Lectures series.

This public lecture series features leading national and international artists and thinkers, exploring innovative, practice-led research. The series critically examines new dimensions of contemporary art while rearticulating the processes and practices associated with established artistic media.

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image: Anne Hardy, Being (Immaterial), 2023-2024. artists' clothes, rusted wire, shells, welded steel, jesmonite, jewellery, cast concrete, bronze, pewter, white metal, dried plant, earth

6 February – 15 June 2025
Opening week: 6 – 9 February 2025

Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Kalba, Al Madam and various locations across the Emirate of Sharjah

Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz

Olivia Plender is participating in Sharjah Biennial 16: To Carry, which will feature works by more than 190 participants, including over 200 new commissions, presented across the Emirate of Sharjah.

‘The constellation of diverse methodologies that the five curators have gathered offers audiences the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking dialogues bridging the local context with global narratives about identity, movement, change and collectivity. By centering the act of carrying, Sharjah Biennial 16 offers a space for imagining new collective futures while recognising the weight of shared histories and experiences.’ – Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation.

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Felipe Baeza has been announced as one of the winners of the 2025 Vilcek Foundation Prizes in Visual Arts alongside Guadalupe Maravilla, Selva Aparicio, and Jeffrey Meris.

The Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts are awarded in recognition of artists under 40 whose work demonstrates exceptional creativity and outstanding potential.

The Vilcek Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation for the arts and sciences. The foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek,
immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia.

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Selected Press

Hyperallergic, Immigrant Artists Receive $250,000 From the Vilcek Foundation, 17 February 2025

image: Felipe Baeza in his studio, courtesy the Vilcek Foundation

31 January – 22 March 2025

La Casa Amarilla
Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Curated by: Alicia Chillida

Entre Volcanes is the title of Hannah Collins’s presentation at the 12th Lanzarote Biennial. This ongoing project explores the Mexican volcano Paricutín (in Purépecha, Parhíkutini, meaning "place on the other side"), on which the artist has been working in situ for the past two years. For the Biennial, Paricutín enters into dialogue with the volcanic landscape of the Canary Islands.

The project reflects on themes of ecology, sustainability, and the future of the Earth, while also exploring the mythical significance of fire and the observation of the sky, connecting Lanzarote and Michoacán. An accompanying essay by Collins, inspired by 19th-century European travel literature, delves deeper into these themes and could serve as a prologue to the project’s exhibition.

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opening: Wednesday, 29 January, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Curated by John Douglas Miller, Gary Schneider, and Alex Sainsbury.

This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his work was largely unknown to a broader art world. Now it is widely admired for its austere elegance and emotional charge. Eyes Open in the Dark concentrates on his later work, when his emergence from a debilitating depression in 1976 brought about a new expansiveness. 

As well as lifetime prints it will include prints of little-known works specially prepared by Gary Schneider, working closely with the artist’s Estate.

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Selected Press

Ocula, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz: More Than and Less Than Lovers, Will Ferreira Dyke, 14 February 2025

The Guardian, Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures, Mee-Lai Stone, 12 February 2025

The Guardian, Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark Review – Five Stars, Adrian Searle, 30 January 2025

The Guardian, ‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar, Lanre Bakare, 28 January 2025

The Observer, Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – visions of a vanished world, Sean O’Hagan, 2 February 2025

The Art Newspaper, Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle, Ben Luke, 31 January 2025

Dazed Digital, The dA-Zed guide to Peter Hujar, Sam Moore, 29 January 2025

AnOther Magazine, A Deep-Dive into Peter Hujar’s Vast London Retrospective, Will Ferreira Dyke, 31 January 2025

TimeOut, Things to do in London this weekend, 10 February 2025

Hero, Peter Hujar’s retrospective, Led Zeppelin and a Greek tragedy, 7 February 2025