What’s On: 05.12 – 18.12.2011

M-KOS bi-weekly pick ‘n’ mix from Montréal, Quebec City, Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Hyacinthe, Toronto, Lethbridge, Vancouver, New York, Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Fe, Mexico City, Bogota, São Paulo, London, Dublin, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan, Brescia, Madrid, Copenhagen, Malmö, Athens, Debrecen, Vilnius, Damascus, Mumbai, Seoul, Taipei, Melbourne, and Sydney. For Biennales&Triennales, see M-KOS’s previous post

Montréal

Sophie Jodoin: I felt a cleaving in my mind
at Battat Contemporary,
through 17 December 2011
 
 
 
 

Image (detail) courtesy of the artist and Battat Contemporary
 

Maha Mustafa & Ibrahim Rashid: A Moment before You Close Your Eyes
at MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels),
through 10 December 2011.

Ibrahim Rashid “Night Vision #4” (2010) C-print. Courtesy of the artist
 

Quebec City

Pablo Rasgado: Fantômes
at La Chmbre Blanche,
through 18 December 2011
 

Image courtesy of the artist
 

Saint-Jérôme

Marc Séguin: La foi du collectionneur
at Musée d’Art Contemporain Des Laurentides,
through 12 February 2012
 

Marc Séguin “I love America and America loves me – part 4” (2008) oil and coyote on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Mike Weiss Gallery, NY.
 

Saint-Hyacinthe

Simon Bilodeau: Le Monde est un Zombie
at Expression,
through 23 December 2011
 
 
 

Simon Bilodeau “Le Monde est un Zombie” (2011) Courtesy of the artist.
 

Toronto

Derek Sullivan
at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects,
through 23 December 2011
 

Derek Sullivan “Peg Rail #3 – An idea folded into time. An idea folded into space” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
 

Blown Up: Gaming and War
at Interaccess,
through 17 December 2011

Artists: Harun Farocki, Wafaa Bilal, Mohammed Mohsen

Harun Farocki. Still from “Serious Games I: Watson is Down” (2010) Two-channel video installation (color, sound). 8 min. MoMA, New York. Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds, 2011. © 2011 Harun Farocki.Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.

Brenden Fernandes: Encomium;
Young & Giroux: Andersson
at Diaz Contemporary,
through 7 January 2012
 
 

Invitation image – courtesy of Diaz Contemporary
 

Lethbridge

Kyla Mallett: Helping Yourself
at Southern Alberta Art Gallery,
through 8 January 2012

Kyla Mallett “How to See and Read the Aura (detail)” (2010) 1 lightjet print and 44 UV-sensitive screen prints. Courtesy of the artist. © Kyla Mallett. Photo by Scott Massey
 

Gareth Long: Never Odd Or Even
at Southern Alberta Art Gallery,
through 8 January 2012
 

Gareth Long “Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Invented Desk for Copying [Version One]” (2007) Plywood. Courtsy of the artist. © Gareth Long
 

Vancouver

Divya Mehra: The Party is Over
at Artspeak, through 28 January 2012
 

Divya Mehra “The Pleasure of Hating” (2011) digital c-print. Courtesy of the artist and Artspeak
 

Tonik Wojtyra: Paragraph of Possibility
at Access Gallery,
through 17 December 2011

Image courtesy of the artist and Access Gallery
 

New York

Jim Hodges
at Gladstone Gallery
through 23 December 2011

Jim Hodges “Untitled” (2011) Mirror ball and water. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
 

Leslie Hewitt: Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight
at D’Amelio Terras,
through 23 December 2011
 

Leslie Hewitt “Untitled (Magnitude)” (2011). Courtesy of the artist and D’Amelio Terras
 

Justin Matherly: Readjusting my commitment to a greater legibility, or substance thinking and substance extended
at Bureau,
through 18 December 2011

Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau
 

Allison Schulnik: Mound
at ZieherSmith,
through 17 December 2011
 

Allison Schulnik “Flower Mound” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and ZieherSmith
 

Ohad Meromi: Stand Like a Sculpture
at Harris Lieberman,
through 17 December 2011
 

Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Harris Lieberman
 

Loretta Fahrenholz: Implosion
at Reena Spaulings Fine Art,
through 18 December 2011
 

Loretta Fahrenholz “Implosion” (2011) Film still. Courtesy of the artis and Reena Spaulings Fine Art
 

Minneapolis

Absentee Landlord
at Walker Art Center,
through 29 July 2012

Curated by John Waters

Artists: Mike Kelley, Carolee Schneeman, Robert Gober, Richard Artshwager, Jack Pierson, Willem de Kooning, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cameron Jamie, Sturtevant, John Currin, Gregory Green, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Karlheinz Weinberger

Installation view. (left) Wolfgang Tillmans “The Cock (kiss)” (2002);
(right) “Shoestring Potatoes Spilling From a Bag” by Claes Oldenburg.
Photo by Stephen Maturen. image via The New York Times

 

Portland

To Make A Frame
at Fourteen30 Contemporary,
through 11 December 2011

Artists: Glen Baldridge, Walead Beshty, Mike Bray, Brendan Fowler, Alex Hubbard

Walead Beshty “Gelatin Silver Contact Print (Los Angeles, California, February 27th 2011, Iford Multigrade Fiber)” (2011) B/W fiber based photographic paper. Courtesy of the artist and Fourteen30 Contemporary

Los Angeles

Channa Horwitz & Michael Müller: Falling Off a Cliff
at François Ghebly Gallery,
through 17 December 2011

Michael Müller “New York Sketch” (2011) pencil, spray paint, acrylic on paper. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebly Gallery
 

Pae White: Here Today
at 1301PE Gallery,
through 22 December 2011

Pae White “Ashen Roses, There (detail)” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and 1301PE Gallery
 

Michael Decker: Adult Roman Numeral Thirty
Steve Turner Contemporary,
through 17 December 2011

Michael Decker “Trichome (detail)” (2011) Found glass bowls, cement and wood. Courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner Contemporary
 

Pasadena

Roland Reiss: Personal Politics – Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s
at Pasadena Museum of California Art,
through 8 January 2012

Curated by Kate Johnson

Roland Reiss “The Dancing Lessons: Relative Scale and Relevant Motion” (1977) Mixed media. Collection of Bernice E. Levine

Santa Fe

Agitated Histories
at SITE Santa Fe, through 15 January 2012

Artists: Michael Cataldi, Sam Durant, Eric Garduño & Matthew Rana, Deborah Grant, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoshua Okón, Geof Oppenheimer, Charlene Teters & Jay Rosenstein, Mark Tribe

Yoshua Okón “Octopus (2011) Film still. four-channel video projection. Courtesy of the artist

Arlene Shechet: The Thick of It
at James Kelly Contemporary,
through 28 January 2012
 

Arlene Shechet “All at Once (detail)” (2011) glazed & fired ceramic, glazed fire brick, steel. Courtesy of the artist and James Kelly Contemporary
 

Mexico City

Txema Novelo: Hey Man / Amen
at Yautepec,
through 17 December 2011
 
 

Image courtesy of the artist and Yautepec
 

Bogota

Nicolas Robbio: La razón del equilibrio
at Nueveochenta,
through 16 January 2012
 

Nicolas Robbi “Sin titulo” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and nueveochenta
 

São Paulo

Manuel Caeiro: Lurixs na Baró
at Galeria Baró,
through 20 December 2011
 

Manuel Caeiro “Up Side Down” (2011) Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Baró
 

London

Paul Noble: Welcome to Nobson
at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street,
through 17 December 2011
 

Paul Noble “Welcome to Nobson (detail)” (2008–10) Pencil on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
 

Ian Pedigo: Dragged Fondly Into The Woods
at Rokeby,
through 17 December 2011
 

Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Rokeby
 

Jeff Wall
at White Cube, Mason’s Yard,
through 7 January 2012
 

Jeff Wall “Ivan Sayers, costume historian at the University Women’s Club, 7 December 2009. Virginia Newton-Moss wears a British ensemble c. 1910, from Sayers’ collection” (2009) Lightjet print. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube
 

Laura Oldfield Ford: Transmissions From A Discarded Future
at Hales Gallery, through 14 January 2012
 

Laura Oldfield Ford “Transmissions from a Discarded Future #10 (detail)” (2011) Digital print on Tyvek. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery
 

Jennifer West: Heavy Metals: Iron and Zinc
at Vilma Gold, through 8 January 2012
 

Jennifer West “Heavy Metal Sharks Calming Jaws Reversal Film” Film still. (2011) Super 8 print transferred to HD video with sound. Courtesy of the artist and Vilma Gold
 

Dublin

Elodie Pong
at Mother’s Tanksation,
through 17 December 2011
 

Elodie Pong ” After the Empire (detail)” (2011) HD Video. Courtesy of the artist and Mother’s Tankstation
 

Paris

Henrik Samuelsson: Speaking in Toungues at Shitty Hotels
at Galerie Laurent Godin, through 7 January 2012

Henrik Samuelsson “Speaking in Tongues at Shitty Hotels” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Laurent Godin
 

Richard Fauguet: Selon Arrivage
at Art : Concept,
through 7 January 2012
 
 
 

Richard Fauguet “Sans Titre (detail)” (2011) modeling clay on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept
 

Brussels

Shahin Afrassiabi: Active Principles and Forms of Life
at MOT International, through 21 January 2012

Shahin Afrassiabi “Snow White 001” (2011) cardboard, pine, filler, dowl, acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and MOT International
 

Alicja Kwade – Mischa Kuball – Mitzi Pederson
at Twig Gallery,
through 23 December 2011

Alicja Kwade “Teleportation (Art-Deco Nachttischlampe)” (2011) detail. Courtesy of the artist, Johann König, Berlin and Twig Gallery
 

Amsterdam

Homo Ludens – Act II
at Motive Gallery, through 24 December 2011

Artists; Lonnie van Brummelen, Marian Castillo Deball, Heman Chong, Irene Kopelman, Laurent Montaron, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Roy Villevoye

Lonnie van Brummelen “Run Away Films” (1997) Blow up from 8mm to 16 mm, silent 2.50mins. Courtesy of the artist and Motive Gallery
 

Mapping the Horizon
at Upstream Gallery,
through 7 January 2012

Artists: Frank Ammerlaan, Marc Bijl, Marinus Boezem, Luis Camnitzer, Ger van Elk, Jeroen Jongeleen, Noor Nuyten
 

Marinus Boezem “Della Scultura & La Luce” (1985) Paper, linen, plastic. Courtesy of the artist and Upstream gallery.
 

Berlin

Daniel Richter: 10001NACHT
at Contemporary Fine Arts,
through 17 December 2011
 

Daniel Richter “WOW” (2011) Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Contemporary Fine Arts
 

AA Bronson: Queer Spirits and Other Invocations
at Esther Schipper,
through 17 December 2011

Curated by Frédéric Bonnet
 

Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper
 

Miklos Onucsan: Unfinished Measurements
at Galeria Plan B,
through 17 December 2011

Miklos Onuscan “I Re-place the Horizontal of the Water” (2011) detail from installation view. Soil, spirit levels. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Plan B
 

Milan

Massimo Bartolini: Basements
at MDC, through 17 December 2011
 
 

Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and MDC
 

Becky Beasley: The Outside
at Francesca Minini,
through 14 January 2012
 

Exhibition view. Courtesy of the artist and Francesca Minini
 

Brescia

Eva Marisaldi: Democratic Psychedelia
at Galleria Massimo Minini,
through 5 January 2011
 
 

Exhibition view. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Massimo Minini
 

Madrid

James Welling
at Galería Marta Cervera,
through 23 December 2011

James Welling “6236” (2008) Inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Marta Cervera
 

Hiraki Sawa: Things Go Around
at Maisterra Valbuena,
through 14 January 2012

Hiraki Sawa “For Saya” (2011) two-channel video on two LCD monitors in customized wooden box. Courtesy of the artist and Maisterra Valbuena
 

Copenhagen

Runo Lagomarsino: OtherWhere
at Nils Stærk,
through 17 December 2011

Runo Lagomarsino “OtherWhere” (2011) 168 postcards and stones, 6 painted wood table. Courtesy of the artist and Nils Stærk
 

Malmö

Magnus Thierfelder
at Elastic Gallery, through 28 January 2012
 
 

Magnus Thierfelder “Stand Still” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and Elastic Gallery
 

Athens

Anselm Reyle: Meissen Debris Acropolis
at Gagosian Gallery,
through 16 December 2011

Anselm Reyle: Meissen Debris Acropolis, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
 

Debrecen

Orshi Drozdik: The Other Venus
at MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts,
through 8 January 2012
 

Image courtesy of the artist
 

Vilnius

Žilvinas Landzbergas and Jaime Pitarch
at Vartai Gallery,
through 7 January 2012

Žilvinas Landzbergas “Sunset” (2011) Insallation view. Courtesy of the artist and Vartai Gallery
 

Damascus

Hilda Hiary: Impulses
at Ayyam Gallery,
through 31 December 2011
 
 

Hilda Hiary “Spit” (2011) Mixed Media on Canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery
 

Mumbai

Rana Begum: The Folded Page
at Amirita Jhaveri,
through 31 December 2011
 
 

Rana Begum ” No 268″ (2011) Paint on powder-coated aluminium. Courtesy of the artist and Amirita Jhaveri
 

Huma Mulji: Twilight
at Project 88, through 4 January 2012
 
 

Huma Mulji “Ode to a Tubelight (detail)” (2011) Courtesy of the artist and Project 88
 

Seoul

Minouk Lim: Liquide Commune
at PKM Gallery,
through 16 December 2011

Minouk Lim “Portable Keeper” (2009) Video still. Single-channel HD video with sound. Courtesy of the artist and PKM Gallery
 

Taipei

Ai Weiwei Absent
at Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
through 29 January 2012

Ai Weiwei “Coca Cola Vase” (2009) Han dynasty vase (202BC-220AD) and industroal paint. Courtey of the artist and Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Lisson Gallery, London; Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne
 

Melbourne

Adam Lee: And They Build for Themselves Kingdoms
at Tristian Koenig Gallery,
through 10 December 2011
 
 

Adam Lee “The Golden Bull (After Kiefer)” (2011) Oil an synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Tristian Koenig Gallery
 

Gabriella Mangano & Silvana Mangano: Shapes for Open Spaces
at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
through 17 December 2011

Gabriella Mangano & Silvana Mangano “Monument for Sea” (2011) Single-channel HD digital video. Courtesy of the artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery

Sydney

Tokujin Yoshioka: Waterfall
at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation,
through 17 December 2011

Tokujin Yoshioka, Waterfall installation at SCAF. Photo by Paul Green. Courtesy of the artist and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
 

Shaun Gladwell: Riding with Death – Redux
at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney,
through 17 December 2011

Shaun Gladwell “I Also Live at One Infinite Loop” (2011) HD digital video. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery