Memorable Exhibitions 2014 [Updated!]

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For the occasion of our fourth annual survey, M-KOS again invited a telling selection of art professionals to share their most Memorable Exhibitions: art works, performance, events and other moments of this past year. Since this fascinating diversity of choices resonated differently with each individual, there are no ‘Best’ rankings on this list, or other particular order. Hopefully some entries will be debatable, so you may join us in debating this year’s listings, refute the listed as forgettable, or suggest any other must see art in the comment section below. Continue reading “Memorable Exhibitions 2014 [Updated!]”

Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai “Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party” at White Conduit Projects, London

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Shino Yanai, “Screen Memories”, detail, single channel video installation (HD, color, sound) [11’50”] 2012. Courtesy the artist & White Conduit Projects, London

Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai
Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party

16 November – 28 December 2014
at White Conduit Projects, London

White Conduit Projects opens its central London location at 1 White Conduit Street N1 on 15th November 2014. It will be showcasing Japanese artists and designers alongside British and international artists in a programme of innovative exhibitions across a variety of media.

The inaugural exhibition entitled Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party is an ambitious project showing works by two artists, Andro Semeiko from Georgia and Shino Yanai from Japan.

Semeiko has exhibited in various group and solo shows in England. This time he will produce work based on the history of the neighbourhood of the gallery, referring to knightly quests and cycling in Islington. Semeiko’s projects often feature knights. – “These clanking, forlorn knights, in their tragicomic search to find something authentic in this synthetic universe. Never perceiving that their mistake is to look for authenticity elsewhere, when it can already be found in their own purposeful, yet hopelessly misdirected quest.” (JJ Charlesworth) Continue reading “Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai “Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party” at White Conduit Projects, London”

Oli Sorenson: La Société de la Place des Spectacles at POPOP Gallery, Montréal

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Oli Sorenson
La Société de la Place des Spectacles

4 – 13 December 2014
at POPOP Gallery, Montréal

Vernissage: Saturday 6 December 2014, 14h – 17h
Performance: Saturday 6 December 2014, 16h

“[…] the very means of damaging these monitors in a performative context, to leave these marks will give exclusive properties to each of them: products of mass consumption will be transformed into unique objects …” (O. Sorenson)

Lodged under the signs of paradox, Oli Sorenson’s performance entitled La Société de la Place des Spectacles is presented on December 6th at 4 pm in Montreal’s Belgo Building. This performance taps right at the heart of spectacular fervor, while investing in the denial his own representation by continuing his series of “revisited works.” This corpus, triggered by a will to comment on the existing work of other creators as much as mass-produced objects, is here explored under the logic of destruction. Strangely, Sorenson’s exercise in transfiguration aspires to restore a stamp of uniqueness onto already original creations. Continue reading “Oli Sorenson: La Société de la Place des Spectacles at POPOP Gallery, Montréal”

“Confusion in her eyes that says it all” at Maria Stenfors, London

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Confusion in her eyes that says it all. Installation view. Courtesy Maria Stenfors, London

Confusion in her eyes that says it all

7 November – 13 December 2014
at Maria Stenfors, London

Artists: Tamsin Casswell, Jennifer Douglas, Hans Rosenström

Confusion in her eyes that says it all brings together three artists who each in turn explore perceptions of intimacy and communication, deceptive illusion and control. Humble, everyday materials are transformed, creating new narratives and spaces that draw us in and make us question the nature of experience. Hereby, the exhibition examines the unique perspective an individual experiences at a particular moment in time, and the altered perceptions evoked by an artwork. Continue reading ““Confusion in her eyes that says it all” at Maria Stenfors, London”

Opportunities: Call for submissions / Appel de dossiers, SKOL, Montréal

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Image courtesy SKOL, Montréal

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SKOL, Montreal

Deadline: 17 November 17 2014

SKOL is now accepting submissions for its 2015-2016 programming year.

Submissions may be for exhibitions or one-off projects such as: interventions, curatorial projects, workshops, master classes, performances, lectures, archive-based researches, fundraising projects, or any combination of these forms within a more ambitious proposal.
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Art Marathon: Feature Art Fair [Slide Show]

Divya-Mehra-GeorgiaSchermanProjects-TO
Ulysses-Castellanos-GeorgiaSchermanProjects-TO
Jacynthe-Carrier-GalerieAntoineErtaskiran-MTL
Raphaelle-de-groot-graff
DavidHanes-BirchContemporary-TO
JessicaGroome-ErinStumpProjects-TO
Mark-Igloliorte-DonaldBrowne-MTL
ColleenHeslin-MonteClark-Toronto
EtienneZack-EquinoxGallery-VA
Beth-Stewart-Battat-Contemporary-MTL
TonyRomano-ClintRoenisch-TO
LizMagor-SusanHobbs-TO
Andrew-Wright-PatrickMikhailGallery-Ottawa
Caroline-Cloutier-NicolasRobert-MTL
Trevor-Gould-Galerie-Hughes-Charbonneau
GillesMihalcean-Statue-2014-LarocheJoncas-MTL
MilutinGubash-GTP-MTL
Jon-Sasaki-JessicaBradley-TO
OlgaChagaoutdinova-GTP-3
Feature-Fair-view

Divya Mehra, The Bitch Blues (where does the divide begin?) 2014 at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Ulysses Castellanos, SN393 (Frances Farmer) 2014 at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Jacynthe Carrier at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal

Raphaëlle de Groot at Galerie Graff, Montréal

David Hanes, Aware No 453 (that room), 2014 at Birch Contemporary, Toronto

Jessica Groome at Erin Stump Projects, Toronto

Mark Igloliorte, Untitled (Bird Cage) 2010 at Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal

Colleen Heslin at Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

Etienne Zack, Units, 2014 at Equinox Gallery, Vancouver

Beth Stewart, Interior (V.S.); Interior (F.S.); Interior (I.C.) 2014 & Untitled, stanchion, 2014 at Battat Contemporary, Montreal

Tony Romano, Tear at the Party, 2014 at Clint Roenisch, Toronto

Liz Magor, Mademoiselle Raymonde, 2014 at Susan Hobbs, Toronto

Andrew Wright, Disused Twin Lens Camera (crack missing), Sepia Version, 2014 at Patrick Michail Gallery, Ottawa

Carolin Cloutier at Nicolas Robert, Montreal

Trevor Gould, Pierrot, 2014 (left) & A Trick of the Eye, 2014 at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal

Gilles Mihalcean, Statue, 2014 at Laroche/Joncas, Montreal

Milutin Gubash at Galerie Trois points, Montreal

Robb Jamieson, Failed Art, 2011 at Laroche/Joncas, Montreal

Fair view (Olga Chagaoutdinova at Galerie Trois Points, Montreal)

View from the fair

All photos by M-KOS.

Feature – A new OFF fair for Toronto

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Feature Art Fair, VIP opening on 22 October 2013. Photo by M-KOS

Feature premiered its four-day fair on 23 October, as a somewhat smaller yet more sophisticated alternative to the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF). The TD Bank sponsored event showcased no more than two dozen Canadian galleries, cherry picked by Montreal based AGAC (Association des Galeries d’Art Contemporain) to present some of the most forward thinking artists in the region. Inside the main rehearsal spaces of the Canadian Opera Company – a free-standing 10,000 square feet interior in a historic building of downtown Toronto – each exhibitor presented a maximum of three artists, laid out within wide-angled walls that blurred the threshold between the fair corridors and gallery booths. Feature’s limited selection did however reflect the country’s main cultural hubs by keeping to contemporary galleries from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, with the exception of Patrick Mikhail in Ottawa.

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Art Marathon: Frieze Sculpture Park / Frieze Masters 2014 [Slide Show]

FL14_SP_Gabriele-De-Santis-(cant-take-my-eyes-of-you)-Frutta-(2-of-2)
FL14_SP_Franz-West-(Sitzwurst)-Faggionato-(2-of-2)
FL14_SP_Yayoi-Kusama-Pumkins(s)-Victoria-miro
FL14_SP_George-Condo-(Reclining-Figures)-Skarsedt-(3-of-4)
FL14_SP_Roelof-Louw-(Holland-Park)-Richard-Saltoun
FL14_SP_Marie-Lund-(Altitudes)-Laura-Bartlett-Gallery-(2-of-3)
FL14_SP_Marie-Lund-(Altitudes)-Laura-Bartlett-Gallery-(3-of-3)
FL14_SP_Seung-taek-Lee-(Ppira)-Gallery-Hyundai
FL14_SP_Martin-Creed-(Work-No.-732)-hauser-and-wirth-(3-of-4)
FL14_SP_Martin-Creed-(Work-No.-732)-hauser-and-wirth-(4-of-4)
FL14_SP_MichaelCraigMartin
FL14_SP_Matt-Johnson-Baby-Dinosaur-(Check-Map-for-galleries)-(5-of-5)
FL14_SP_Caroline-Achaintre-(FourGrwwl)-Arcade-(4-of-4)
FL14_SP_Reza-Aramesh-(Action-127--6-45pm,-3-May,-Ramla)-Leila-Heller-Gallery-(2-of-4)
FL14_SP_KAWS-(Small-Lie)-Gallerie-Perrotin-(1-of-5)
FL14_SP_Kristin-Oppenheim-(Where-did-you-Sleep-Last-Night)-303-Gallery,-greengrassi-(1-of-2)
FL14_Front-entrance-(1-of-5)
FM14_Entrance-(1-of-2)
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FM14_1
FM14_The-Collector---Helly-Nahmad-Gallery-(6-of-7)
FM14_The-Collector---Helly-Nahmad-Gallery-(4-of-7)
FM14_The-Collector---Helly-Nahmad-Gallery-(3-of-7)
FM14_Giulio-Paoline-(casa-di-Lucrezio)-(1-of-5)
FM14_Victoria-Miro-(2-of-2)
FM14_Graciela-Carnevale---espaivisor-gallery-Valencia-(3-of-5)
FM14_Ray-Johnson-(1-of-3)
FM14_Mel-Bochner---Simon-Lee-Gallery-(2-of-3)
FM14_Robert-Morris---Castelli-Gallery-NY-(2-of-4)
FM14_Robert-Morris---Castelli-Gallery-NY-(3-of-4)
FM14_Sol-lewitt-(with-donald-judd-in-background)-Elvira-Gonzalez-Madrid-(1-of-3)
FM14_Joan-Snyder-(Summer)-(1-of-3)
FM14_Francis-Bacon-(1-of-4)
FM14Bridget-Riley---HHH-(1-of-3)
FM14_Giuseppe-Penone-(Propagazione)-Marian-Goodman-(1-of-2)
FM14_Barbera-Kruger-(will)-Skarstedt-(1-of-2)
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Gabriele De Santis, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, 2014 (Frutta, Rome)

Franz West, Sitzwurst 1999–2000 (Faggionato, London)

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin(s) 2014 (Victoria Miro, London)

George Condo, Reclining Figures, 2009–2014 (Skarsedt, London/NY)

Roelof Louw, Holland Park, 1967 (Richard Saltoun, London)

Marie Lund, Attitudes (2013–2014) (Laura Bartlett Gallery, London)

Marie Lund, Attitudes (2013–2014) detail (Laura Bartlett Gallery, London)

Seung-taek Lee, Ppira, 1970s (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul)

Martin Creed, Work No.732, 2007 (Hauser & Wirth (London/NY/Zürich)

Martin Creed, Work No.732, 2007 (Hauser & Wirth (London/NY/Zürich)

Michael Craig-Martin, Scissors (blue), 2013 (Gagosian Gallery) Photo by M-KOS

Matt Johnson, Baby Dinosaur (Apatosaurus) 2013 (303 Gallery, NY/Blum&Poe, LA/Alison Jacques Gallery, London)

Caroline Achaintre, FourGrwwl, 2014 (Arcade, London)

Reza Aramesh, Action 137: 6:45pm, 3 May 2012, Ramla, 2014 (Leila Heller Gallery, NY)

KAWS, SMALL LIE, 2013 (Galerie Perrotin, Paris/NY/HK)

Kristin Oppenheim, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? 2013–2014 (303 Gallery, NY/greengrassi, London)

Walking through the Regent's Park

Frieze Masters entrance

Fair view

Coll & Cortes Fine Arts, London

The Collecter at Helly Nahmad Gallery, NY

The Collecter at Helly Nahmad Gallery, NY

The Collecter at Helly Nahmad Gallery, NY

Giulio Paolini, Casa de Lucrezio at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, SF/Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf

Victoria Miro, London

Graciela Carnevale at espaivisor gallery, Valencia

Ray Johnson at Richard L. Feigen & Co., NY

Mel Boucher at Simon Lee Gallery, London

Robert Morris at Castelli Gallery, NY

Robert Morris (detail) at Castelli Gallery, NY

Sol Lewitt with Donald Judd in background at Galeria Elvira Gonzales, Madrid

Joan Snyder, Summer, 1970 at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY

Francis Bacon at Marlborough Fine Art, London

Brigit Riley, Myrrh, 1985 at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione, 1997 at Marian Goodman Gallery, London/Paris/NY

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Will) 1988 at Skarstedt, London/NY

In the lift of Regent's Park tube station...

All photos by Robert Beckinsale except where mentioned.

Art Marathon: Frieze London 2014 #2 [Slide Show]

FL14_M_Damian-Hirst-(Berlin)-White-Cube-(1-of-3)
FL14_M_Damian-Hirst-(Berlin)-White-Cube-(2-of-3)
FL14_Farhad-Moshiri-(Coloured-Knives-on-black)-(1-of-2)
FriezeLondon2014_FionnaBanner_FrithStreetGallery
FL14_M_Jan-DIbbets-(Venetian-Blind)-Konrad-fischer-Galerie-(1-of-2)
FriezeLondon2014_FrancescaPia
FL14_Hans-Peter-Feldman-(bookshelves)-303-gallery-(1-of-2)
FL14_Yto-Barrada-(2-of-2)
FL14_Martin-soto-Climent-(2-of-3)
FL14_Paul-Graham,-Lilly's-Gold-Exchange-(1-of-2)
FL14_M_Marina-Abramovic-(places-of-power,-the-garden-of-maitreya)-Galerie-Krinzinger-Vienna-(1-of-2)
FL14_Alex-Prager-(untitled-Parts)-(1-of-2)
FriezeLondon2014_PaeWhite_greengrassi
FL14_Nicolas-Party-Gregor-Steiger
FL14_General-view
FriezeLondon2014_AntonKernGallery
FL14_Caroline_Achaintre_Arcade
FL14_Enrico-David-(1-of-2)_564
FL14_Gulsun-karamustafa-(2-of-4)
FL14_Karla-Black-(what-to-ask-of-others)-galeria-gisela-capitain-(1-of-3)
FL14_Andreas-Erikson-(1-of-2)
FL14_Standard-Gallery-Oslo-(1-of-5)
FL14_Seung-Taek-Lee--MOT-international-(3-of-4)
FL14_Tonico-Lemos-Auad-(piexes)-Galeria-luisa-strina-(1-of-2)
FL14_Shiela-Hicks---Alison-Jacques-Gallery-(2-of-2)
FL14_Bjarne-Melgaard-(untitled)-(2-of-3)
FL14_Gerald-Machona,-Goodman-gallery-(4-of-5)
FL14_Gerald-Machona,-Goodman-gallery-(3-of-5)
FL14_Galerie-Martin-Jandar-(2-of-2)
FL14_Raster-Warsaw-G23-(1-of-3)
FriezeLondon2014_WorkplaceGallery
FriezeLondon2014_TomoakiSuzuki_CorviMora
FriezeLondon2014_WilfredoPrieto_AnnetGelinkGallery
FriezeLondon2014_NOTFORYOUGaleriePeterKilchmann
FriezeLondon2014_OscarMurillo_DavidZwirner_2
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FriezeLondon2014_RobPruitt_GavinBrownEnterprise
FL14_GregorSchneider_Nursery_KonradFischer
FriezeLondon2014_Wallspace
FriezeLondon2014_AndrewKrepsGallery
FriezeLondon2014__AnaPrada_GaleriaHelgaDeAlvear
FL14_Allen-Ruppersberg-greengrassi
FL14_Matt-Mullican-(Untitled-This-LIfe)-Mai-36-(1-of-2)
FL14_Essex-Street-New-York-H12-(1-of-4)
FriezeLondon2014_DarrenAlmond_GalerieMaxHetzler
FriezeLondon2014_GaleriaEigenArt
FL14_FriezeSounds

Damien Hirst, Berlin (2014) at White Cube, London

Damien Hirst, Berlin (2014) (Detail) at White Cube, London

Farhad Moshiri, Coloured Knives on Black (2013) at Galerie Perrotin, Paris/NY/HK

Fionna Banner, Pinstripe (2014), Mistah Kurtz - He Not Dead (2014) at Frith Street Gallery, London. Photo by M-KOS

Jan Dibbets, Venetian Blind (2014) at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf/Berlin

Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich

Hans-Peter Feldmann, bookshelves at 303 Gallery, NY

Yto Barrada, Reprendre Casa, Carrières centrales, Casablanca (2013) at Sfeir-Semler, Beirut/Hamburg

Martin Soto Climent at Clifton Benevento, NY

Paul Graham, Lilly's Gold Exchange, Brownsville, New York (2013) at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Marina Abramovic, Places of Power, The Garden of Maitreya (2013)at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin, NY

Pae White Untitled (Editorial) (2006) at greengrassi, London. Photo by M-KOS

Nicolas Party at Gregor Staiger, Zürich

Fair view. Photo by M-KOS

Anton Kern Gallery, NY. Photo by M-KOS

Textiles had a solid presence at this year's Frieze. Caroline Achaintre Befor (2013) at Arcade gallery, London

Enrico David, Untitled (2014) at Michael Werner, London/NY

Gülsün Karamustafa at Rampa, Istanbul

Karla Black, What to Ask of Others at Galeria Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Andreas Eriksson at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

Ann Cathrin November Høibo at Standard (Oslo)

Seung Taek Lee, Untitled (1975–1985) at MOT International, London/Brussels

Tonico Lemos Auad, Peixes (2014) at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

Shiela Hicks Cordes Sauvages/Hidden Blue (2014) at Alison Jacques Gallery, London

Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled (2013) at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NY

Gerald Machona, Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut) (2012) at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg

Gerald Machona, Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut) (2012) (Detail) at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg

Nilbar Güreß at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Slavs and Tatars at Rastar, Warsaw. "Love Letters (No. 7)", 2014 (textile) was aquired as gifts to the Tate Collection by the Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund.

Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Tomoaki Suzuki at Corvi Mora, London. Photo by M-KOS

Wilfredo Prieto at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam. Photo by M-KOS

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich. Photo by M-KOS

Oscar Murillo, Jetlag at David Zwirner, NY/London. Photo by M-KOS

Harun Farocki, Parallel I-IV (2012–2014) at Greene Naftali, NY. It is acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection by the Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund.

Robert Pruitt at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NY. Photo by M-KOS

Gregor Schneider, Nursery at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf/Berlin

Wallspace, NY. Photo by M-KOS

Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY. Photo by M-KOS

Ana Prada at Galerie Helga De Alvear, Madrid. Photo by M-KOS

Allen Ruppersberg, The Barry Thorpe Collection of 20th Century American Music by Allen Ruppersberg 2014 (VOL.1) at greengrassi, London

Matt Mullican, Untitled (This Life) at Mai 36, Zürich

Vern Blosum at Essex Street, NY

Darren Almond at Galeria Max Hetzler, Photo by M-KOS

Olaf Nicolai's Sound installation at Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin. Photo by M-KOS

Frieze Sound

All photos by Robert Beckinsale except where mentioned.