Read The Guardian's latest feature by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, where the artist expands on his groundbreaking work mapping Syria's Sednaya Prison through the testimonies of survivors. The article highlights Abu Hamdan's innovative use of sound and memory to document the harrowing conditions faced by detainees.

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The Guardian, ‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 11 December 2024

image: ‘Sednaya must now be used to serve the thousands of lives which were imprinted by it’ ... people gather outside the prison on 9 December 2024. Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025

Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG

Wolfgang Tillmans is featured in the group exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain, London, which includes a new version of his Buchholz & Buchholz Installation. Originally created in 1993, this installation is a detailed reconstruction of Tillmans's first solo exhibition at the gallery Buchholz & Buchholz, where he first experimented with a non-hierarchical presentation style, displaying photographs, photocopies, and magazine page reproductions spread across the entire exhibition space.

The work offers a vivid portrait of its era, capturing the cultural zeitgeist following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It features images of the artist’s friends, techno DJs, musicians, and ravers in sweat-drenched T-shirts, their pupils dilated from ecstasy – a snapshot of the first Love Parades and early Gay Pride events in Germany and England. These photographs reflect the collective yearning to dismantle entrenched social and political structures, celebrating freedom and connection.

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Buchholz + Buchholz Installation 1988 - 1992, 1993 / 2024

15 November 2024 – 6 January 2025

Lenbachhaus
Munich, Germany

Curated by Elisabeth Giers and Matthias Mühling

Currently on display at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the installation Build from Here (Video Room), (2024) creates a dialogue between video images and music, and illustrates Tillmans's interest in the relationship between sound and movement. The video combines tracks from the album Build From Here (released April, 2024) with footage shot in Fire Island, Tokyo, Berlin, New York and Stuttgart.

The work focuses on ideas of fluidity, connectivity, movement and the permeable nature of human relationships. Material existence and transience are placed in a tense dynamic. The presence of the body in space is juxtaposed with the immensity of the cosmos. Related feelings are expressed in the song lyrics. The film attaches utmost importance to the intricacies of our existence, its material and political realities as well as its immaterial and unfathomable mysteries.

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Build from Here (Video Room), 2024 (video still)

14 November 2024, 7.00 pm

Lenbachhaus
Luisenstraße 33, 80333 Munich, Germany

The launch of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin’s new edition, Edition 46: Wolfgang Tillmans, will take place at Lenbachhaus Munich on 14 November 2024, at 7 pm.

An introduction will be given by Matthias Mühling, Director of Lenbachhaus Munich, and Michael Ebert, Editor-in-Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

This will be followed by a conversation between Wolfgang Tillmans and Mareike Nieberding, Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

A reception with music by DJ Benjamin Röder will follow.

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image: Portrait of Wolfgang Tillmans. Photo: Julia Sellmann

Saturday, 9 November 2024 4 – 5 pm

at Studio M
Rochelle School
7 Playground Gardens
London E2 7FA

This event marks the final day of his exhibition
In the Sharp Gust of Love

Free tickets available here

Seb Patane (b. 1970, Catania, Italy) lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include Glee, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK (2021); Vauxhall Ever Green, Hudson Yards, New York, USA (2020); Vorrei Regnare, Palazzo Vigo, Riposto, Italy (2017); As Unreal as Everything Else, Museo Civico, Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy (2015); La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France (2011); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2009); So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (2008); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2006).

James Cahill (b. London, UK) lives and works in London. He received a degree in Classics and English at Magdalen College, Oxford, a master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Courtauld Institute, and a PhD in Classics from Cambridge University in 2017. Cahill is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London. Selected writings include contributions to Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, The London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. Selected publications include: Flying Too Close to the Sun, Phaidon Press (2018); The Classical Now, Elephant Publishing (2018), with Michael Squire and Ruth Allen; Tiepolo Blue, Sceptre (2022).

We are pleased to announce that Lawrence Abu Hamdan has been selected for the 2024 TIME100 Next List 2024, recognising the world’s emerging leaders shaping the future.

In his profile written by Sumayya Vally, she highlights Lawrence as an artist and audio investigator whose work reveals the unseen and makes accessible what bureaucracies often obscure. Through his sonic investigations and installations, Lawrence expands the definition of art, becoming a historian, forensic investigator, and activist. His recent founding of the nonprofit Earshot continues his mission of giving a voice to silenced entities and uncovering the truth.

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image: Portrait of Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Photo: Farah Al Qasimi

19 – 28 October 2024, 10.00 am – 3:30 pm

Virginia Robinson Gardens
1008 Elden Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
United States

This exhibition is the first of its kind by an artist at the historic Beverly Hills estate and botanical gardens of Virginia and Harry Robinson, as well as Hooper Schneider’s first major public intervention in the City of Los Angeles in over a decade.
Max Hooper Schneider has responded to the site with a series of sculptural and environmental interventions throughout the gardens and estate structures. For Hooper Schneider, the Robinson Gardens mimics the unique ecological, cultural, and urban landscape of Los Angeles.

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image: Max Hooper Schneider, Dendrite Bonsai (Reef), 2023, copper electroplated fruits and fan coral and wooden shrub assemblage, 77 x 40 x 61 cm - 30 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 24 in

19 October – 17 November 2024

Foreningen Trykkeriet
Fjøsangerveien 70A
5068 Bergen

Gardar Eide Einarsson’s presentation at Trykkeriet consists of silkscreens and Japanese woodblock prints produced in collaboration with Mokuhanga master Shoichi Kitamura in Kyoto. This marks the second collaboration between Kitamura woodblock studio and Trykkeriet.

The production and exhibition is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council, the Municipality of Bergen, the Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo, Sasakawa Foundation, Abraham Odfjells stiftelse and Trykkeriet.

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Eide Einarsson will be in conversation with Lotte Konow Lund on Saturday, 19 October 2024, at 6.00 pm.

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