Having nearly reached the end of this long chain of events that constituted 2011, M-KOS took a moment to review the past 12 months with a few invited art professionals, to reveal some of their most memorable exhibitions. Do you agree with their choice or have more to suggest? Come share with us which exhibitions have captured your thoughts the year.
Happy Holidays!
Iliana Antonova | Montréal, Canada | silverflag.org
Independent curator, arts writer and co-founder/director of Silverflag
– STRAIT-JACKET at Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto (26 Sept 2009 – To be determined)
– Valérie Blass: Petit Losange Laque Veiné at Parisian Laundry, Montréal (13 Jan – 5 Mar 2011)
– Modernism in Miniature Points of View at The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (22 Sept 2011 – 8 Jan 2012)
– Berlinde De Bruyckere / John Currin at DHC / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal (30 June – 13 Nov 2011) See our review >> BDB | JC
– Thérèse Mastroiacovo: Situation – Auto Duration at Galerie Clark, Montreal (10 March 2011- To be determined)
Anne-Sophie Dinant | London, UK | southlondongallery.org
Associate curator, South London Gallery
– Trisha Brown at Serralves, Porto (26 Mar – 1 May 2011)
– Anri Sala at Serpentine Gallery, London (1 Oct – 20 Nov 2011)
– Paul McCarthy: The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship at Hauser & Wirth, London (16 Nov 2011 – 14 Jan 2012)
– Museum of Parallel Narratives, In the Framework of L’Internationale at MACBA, Barcelona (14 May – 2 Oct 2011)
– Arte Povera International at Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Turin (9 Oct 2011 – 19 Feb 2012)
Karl England | London, UK | karlengland.com
Artist, co-director of Sluice Art Fair
– Painthing on the Möve: Albert Oehlen at Thomas Dane Gallery, London (11 Oct – 19 Nov 2011)
– Ida Applebroog at Hauser & Wirth, London (17 Mar – 30 Apr 2011)
– Good To See How Busy You’ve Been at Quare, London (24 – 27 Feb 2011)
– Bill Woodrow at Waddington Custot Gallery, London (23 Mar – 3 May 2011)
– Matt Golden: More Bit Parts in Little Theatres at Bischoff + Weiss, London (25 Feb – 2 Apr 2011) Karl’s best choice!
Sebastian Kaempf | New York , USA
Architect
– Ryoji Ikeda: the transfinite at the Park Ave Armory, NY (10 May – 11 Jun 2011)
– Maurizio Cattelan: All at the Guggenheim Museum, NY (22 Nov 2011 – 22 Jan 2012) See our review >>
– Cy Twombly Photographs at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich (6 Apr – 10 Jul 2011)
– Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
(4 May – 7 Aug 2011)
– Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception at MoMA, NY (8 May – 1 Aug 2011)
Yam Lau | Toronto, Canada | yamlau.com
Artist
– Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977 at Dia: Beacon and CCS Bard, NY (25 Jun – 31 Oct 2011)
– Agnes Martin: The ‘80s: Grey Paintings at The Pace Gallery, NY (16 Sept – 29 Oct 2011)
– Alexandre David: Moving Around at YYZ, Toronto (8 Jan – 2 Apr 2011)
– Alexander Calder’s Visual Poetry: Mobiles and Stabiles at Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY
(25 Mar 2011 – 15 Apr 2012)
– Franz Erhard Walther: Art as Action at Dia Art Foundation, NY (2 Oct 2011 – 13 Feb 2012)
David Liss | Toronto, Canada | mocca.ca
Director and chief curator of Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
– It Is What It Is at National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
(5 Nov 2010 – 17 Apr 2011)
– Illuminations, the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
(4 June – 27 Nov 2011)
– Big Bang at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (6 Nov 2011 – 22 Jan 2012)
– Jesper Just at Musee d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), Paris, France.
(21 October 2011 – 31 Jan 2012)
– Sobey Art Award at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (17 Sep – 8 Jan 2012)
2011 winner: Daniel Young & Christian Giroux.
David says… “This show acknowledges the depth, scope and quality of Canadian artists. This is one of the largest contemporary art prizes in the world. Too bad the Turner Prize gets more coverage in Canada than the Sobey”
Howard McCalebb | Berlin, Germany | dadapost.com
Artist, director of Dada Post
– Ghost Shadows at Elga Wimmer P C C, NY. (8 Sep –
1 Oct 2011)
– Emma Twiggy (aka Andrius Savickas): porn.exe at Dada Post, Berlin (19 Apr 2011)
– After the Death of Painting at Dada Post, Berlin (15 Oct – 13 Nov 2011)
– World Congress of DAMTP (Data Miners & Travailleurs Psychique) at Alytus Biennial 2011, Alytus, Lithuania (22 – 28 Aug 2011)
Janice McLaren | London, UK | photonet.org.uk
Head of education & project, The Photographers’ Gallery
– Anri Sala at Serpentine Gallery, London (1 Oct – 20 Nov 2011)
– Gabriel Kuri: Before Contingency After the Fact at South London Gallery, London (29 Sept – 27 Nov 2011)
– Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 at ICA, London (26 Nov 2011 – 23 Jan 2012)
– Taryn Simon at Tate Modern (25 May 2011 – 2 Jan 2012)
– Phillippe Parreno at Serpentine Gallery, London (25 Nov 2010 – 13 Feb 2011)
M-KOS / Miwa Kojima | Montreal, Canada | m-kos.net
Managing editor of M-KOS
– John Bock: Monsieur et Monsieur at the 7th Montréal Biennale (1 – 31 May 2011) See our review >>
– Phyllida Barlow: Rig at Hauser & Wirth, London (2 Sept – 22 Oct 2011)
– Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern, London (19 Jan – 25 Apr 2011)
– Richard Serra: Junction / Cycle at Gagosian Gallery, NY (14 Sept – 26 Nov 2011)
See our review >>
– Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment at The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (20 Oct 2010 – 13 Mar 2011)
M-KOS / Oli Sorenson | Montreal, Canada | olisorenson.com
Artist, editor of M-KOS
– Christian Marclay: The Clock at Paula Cooper Gallery, NY (21 Jan – 19 Feb 2011)
– Marcel Dzama: Behind Every Curtain at David Zwirner Gallery, NY (17 Feb – 9 Mar 2011)
– Jim Hodges at Gladstone Gallery, NY ( 5 Nov – 23 Dec 2011)
– Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks Gallery, NY (12 Feb – 16 Apr 2011)
– Hiraki Sawa: O at James Cohan Gallery, NY (17 Feb – 26 Mar 2011) See our review >>
Serge Murphy | Montreal, Canada | sergemurphy.com
Artist, guest curator for the International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie-St-Paul 2012
– Pascal Grandmaison: Half of the Darkness at Casino du Luxembourg, Luxembourg (20 Jan – 1 May 2011)
– Carol Wainio at Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (26 Feb – 2 Apr 2011)
Serge says… “Canada’s top painter, also the craziest and cleverest at the same time.”
– Fernand Leduc at Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montréal (15 Oct – 19 Nov 2011)
– Nul si découvert (Void if Removed) at FRAC, ÃŽle de France, Paris (9 Jun – 7 Aug 2011)
– Tourner autour at Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal (8 Jun 2011- 6 Aug 2011)
Artists: Sylvie Cotton, Guy Pellerin, Jean-Benoît Pouliot
Renée Pfister | London, UK | reneepfister-consultancy.com
Art consultant
– Richard Serra Drawing – A Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (13 Apr – 28 Aug 2011)
– Nancy Spero at Serpentine Gallery, London (3 Mar –
2 May 2011)
– Watercolour at Tate Britain, London (16 Feb – 21 Aug 2011)
– Hyung Koo Kang: The Burning Gaze at Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (14 Oct –
25 Dec 2011)
– Harriet Murray: Anomaly Island at Campbell Works, London (25 Nov – 11 Dec 2011)
Hana Sakuma | Kobe, Japan | Hana’s profile >>
Artist, independent curator, arts writer
– Hiroshi Sugimoto: Origins of Art at MIMOCA Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan (29 May – 21 Aug 2011)
– ARS 11 – Changes your perception of Africa and contemporary art at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (15 Apr – 27 Nov 2011)
– Christian Boltanski: Chance at French Pavilion, the 54th Venice Biennale (4 Jun – 27 Nov 2011)
– Matsuzakaya Collection: Kosode at Matsuzakaya, Nagoya, Japan (5 Mar – 10 Apr 2011)
– Kaza Ana/Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (8 Mar – 5 Jun 2011)
Ben Street | London, UK | thebenstreet.blogspot.com
Independent curator, art historian, co-director of
Sluice Art Fair
– Fred Sandback at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
(25 May – 14 Aug 2011)
– Tony Tasset: Judy at Leo Koenig Project Space, NY
(12 May – 18 Jun 2011)
– Treasures of Heaven at the British Museum, London (23 Jun – 9 Oct 2011)
– Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds in Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London (12 Oct 2010 – 2 May 2011)
– Anne Truitt: Works from the Estate at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (10 Oct – 19 Nov 2011)
Adam Thomas | London, UK | supplementgallery.co.uk
Co-curator, Supplement Gallery
– Three Penney Opera at S1 Artspace, London (16 Jul – 27 Aug 2011)
– We Will Live, We Will See at the Zabludowicz Collection, London (7 Jul – 14 Aug 2011)
– Ian Law at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (14 Oct – 19 Nov 2011)
– Cara Tolmie at Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair 2011, London (3 – 16 Oct 2011)
– Abstracted Instant at David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (18 – 21 Aug 2011) Artists: Adam Thomas in collaboration with Deimante Prišmantaite and Richard Sides
Image credits: [top from left] Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, NY; Blinky Palermo, Coney Island II, 1975. Collection Ströher, Darmstadt, Germany. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Couresy Dia Beacon: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Les Deux, 2007. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin [middle from left] Ron Terada, It Is What It Is, It Was what It Was, 2008. Collection NGA, Ottawa. © Ron Terada. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. Photo by Scott Massey; Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds, 2010 © Ai Weiwei. Courtesy Tate, UK; Gabriel Orozco, My Hands Are My Heart 1991. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, NY © Gabriel Orozco [Bottom from left] Maurizio Cattelan, All, 2011. Courtesy artist and Guggenheim Museum. Photo by M-KOS; Anri Sala, Answer Me, 2008. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth © Anri Sala; Nancy Spero, Artaud Painting: Then There Will Be… 1969. Courtesy Estate of Nancy Spero and Galerie Lelong
[Iliana Antonova] Valerie Blass, Femme Panier, 2010, Permanent collection of Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy Parisian Laundry.
[Anne-Sophie Dinant] Paul McCarthy, Train, Mechanical, 2003–2009. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alex Delfanne
[Karl England] Matt Golden, more bit parts in little theatres, 2011, installation view. Courtesy Bischoff + Weiss Gallery, London
[Sebastian Kaempf] Ryoji Ikeda, the transfinite, 2011. Courtesy Park Avenue Armory © Ryoji Ikeda
[Yam Lau] Agnes Martin, Untitled #3, 1983. Courtesy Pace Gallery
[David Liss] Daniel Young & Christian Giroux, Mr.Smith, 2011. Courtesy Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. © Daniel Young & Christian Giroux
[Howard McCalebb] work by Christian de Lutz (After the Death of Painting). Courtesy artist. © Christian de Lutz
[Janice McLaren] Taryn Simon, Auszug aus Kapitel I, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, 2011. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. © Taryn Simon
[M-KOS / Miwa Kojima] Phyllida Barlow, RIG: untitled; stagechairs, 2011. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Peter Mallet
[M-KOS / Oli Sorenson] Jim Hodges, Untitled, 2011. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery.
[Serge Murphy] Carol Wainio, Plumage, 2011. Courtesy Galerie René Blouin. Photo by Guy L’Heureux
[Renée Pfister] Harriet Murray, Anomaly Island, installation view, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Campbell Works
[Hana Sakuma] Simabuku, Kaki and Tomato, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Air de Paris, Paris.
[Ben Street] Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Seven-part Right-angled Triangular Construction), c. 1982/2010. Installation view Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo. Photo Vicente de Mello, courtesy Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo
[Adam Thomas] Cara Tolmie at Frieze Project 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Frieze Foundation.
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