Maureen Paley

Banks Violette

American Standard

15 March – 15 June 2025
opening: Saturday, 15 March, 5.00 – 7.00 pm

MoCA CT
Westport, Connecticut
USA

This is Banks Violette’s first major US exhibition since 2008, featuring three large-scale works at MoCA CT. Each piece is displayed in its own room, highlighting recurring themes of American culture. Violette’s work examines cultural symbols and notions of impermanence. His drawings depict landscapes and scenes of isolation, while his sculptural works juxtapose industrial materials with intricate detail.

Organised by Pamela Hovland, Robin Jaffee Frank, Lisa Kereszi, Richard Klein, and Kathryn Turley-Sonne.

Banks Violette: American Standard is made possible through the generosity of William and Jodi Felton and Thomas Hoffstetter / The Hofstetter Baron Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.

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image (1) Banks Violette, Not yet titled/(flag), 2007, exhibition view, the bees made honey in the lion’s skull, 2024, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium. Photo: Leslie Artamonow

James Welling

Seminar at ArtCenter College of Design

Tuesday, 11 March 2025 7:15 pm

Los Angeles Times Media Center
ArtCenter College of Design
Hillside Campus
1700 Lida St, Pasadena, CA 91103

James Welling will deliver a lecture as part of the Spring 2025 Graduate Art Guest Lecture Series, organised by Jack Bankowsky.

This event is free and open to the public, RSVP required.

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Currently on view in London:
James Welling and Bernd & Hilla Becher
7 March – 19 April 2025
Maureen Paley & Studio M, London

image: James Welling, Elevation, HUD Headquarters, 2015/2025, UV print on Dibond, 50.8 × 76.2 cm – 20 × 30 in

Wolfgang Tillmans

Weltraum

8 March 2025 – 29 June 2025

Albertinum Museum
Tzschirnerpl. 2
01067 Dresden
Germany

Weltraum marks Wolfgang Tillmans’ first major museum show in Germany in over half a decade. Following extensive retrospectives in the USA and Canada, the exhibition focuses on new works created since 2022.

The starting point for Tillmans’ latest photographic series is, in part, a journey that began in San Francisco, the hub of digital technologies on the US West Coast, and continued through Guam to Southeast Asia. In regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia, he continued his investigation into the material traces of internet corporations and AI companies, observing how these industries intertwine disparate locales into a dense global network.

Weltraum prominently features large-scale images that engage in a dialogue with historical artworks from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) collections, creating a dynamic exchange between present and historical contexts.

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Selected Press

Design Scene, Wolfgang Tillmans Unveils ‘Weltraum’ at Albertinum Dresden, 25 February 2025

image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 234, 2024

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Zifzafa

Thursday, 27 February, 7.00 pm

Wonder Cabinet
Karkafeh Street, Bethlehem
West Bank, Palestine

Lawrence Abu Hamdan presents Zifzafa, a live audio essay exploring sound as both the unintended consequence of wind extraction and a means of resistance against displacement. This performance will take place at Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem.

Artists Busher Kanj Abu Saleh and Amr Mdah will be present in person, with Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Earshot joining via live stream.

Zifzafa is written and performed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, with music composed by Busher Kanj Abu Saleh and performed by Busher Kanj Abu Saleh and saxophonist Amr Mdah. The project is produced by Earshot (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Caline Matar, Fabio Cervi, Adnan Naqvi).

This performance is supported by Alserkal Arts Foundation, which co-produced the first iteration with Festival d’Automne à Paris and L’Art Rue as part of Dream City 2025.

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Tom Burr

In Conversation with David J. Getsy on Scott Burton

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 6.30 – 8pm

SculptureCenter
44 – 19 Purves Street
Long Island City
New York, USA

This conversation between Tom Burr and art historian David J. Getsy explores the intersections and contrasts in queer interpretations of Scott Burton’s (1939–1989) multifaceted contributions to writing, performance, and sculpture from the late 1960s to the 1980s.

Burr has engaged with Burton’s work for over a decade, often in dialogue with key figures like Jean Genet and Chick Austin. Since the late 1980s, Burr’s art has played a pivotal role in reshaping the way sculpture is understood, particularly how it can evoke transient sensations, eroticism, and the tensions inherent in queer thought. His practice often challenges the present moment through evocative objects, ambiguously personal remnants, and images from the past. In addition, Burr’s work frequently engages with sites of queer public life, employing both overt demonstrations and subtle reimaginings of nature and the built environment. Burr’s solo exhibition Addict-Love at SculptureCenter in 2008 further exemplifies these themes.

image: Tom Burr, Sixteen (Blue / Scott), 2024, painted wood panel, powder-coated aluminum panel and hardware, pages from exhibition catalogue Scott Burton Chairs, 1983, blue vinyl sleeve, thumbtacks and nails, 68.6 × 68.6 × 5.4 cm – 27 × 27 × 2 1/8 in. Photo: Guang Xu

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Liam Gillick

RESERVOIRS OF THE IMAGINARY: ARTIST TALK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Homer Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room (Plaza Level)
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269
USA

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST

Reflecting on three key projects from the past 30 years, Liam Gillick will talk about his work related to subjects as varied as the secret life of Robert McNamara, car production in Sweden in the 1970s, and the impossibility of tragedy as genre on streaming platforms. All his work has in one way or another drawn inspiration from post World War II attempts to create new forms of administration in regard to human relationships.

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Making Spaces: Artist Talk with Boris Mikhailov

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

FRIEZE LA

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