Exhibitions

Current

John Bock: PARA-SCHIZO, ensnarled
October 26 - December 16, 2023 After a five-year hiatus, German artist John Bock is returning to New York to inaugurate his eleventh exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery with a 'lecture' (performance) on the night of the opening. Bock’s universe is a bold, even daring synthesis of different genres including sculpture, performance, and film. In it,... Read more

Sarah Jones: Gazing Ball
October 26 - December 16, 2023 'A labyrinth is an ancient device that compresses a journey into a small space, winds up a path like a thread on a spool. It contains beginning, confusion, perseverance, arrival and return.' - Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (2013) Sarah Jones’ new and recent work considers the medium of... Read more

Aaron Fowler: Bigger Than Me 2: THE MECCA
WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street) November 3 - December 31, 2023 'The experience is a celebration for the culture that has been a big part of shaping who I am as an individual and creator: HIP HOP. This year marks the 50th year of its existence and the 35th year in my life. HIP HOP has inspired me to do whatever... Read more

Aliza Nisenbaum: The Three Divas of Traviata at Gallery Met, curated by Dodie Kazanjian
The Metropolitan Opera, New York November 9, 2023 - November 1, 2024 Now on display at the Metropolitan Opera House are four new paintings by Aliza Nisenbaum for Gallery Met, curated by Dodie Kazanjian. Over the course of a year, in anticipation of this exhibition, the artist was granted unparalleled access to the Opera’s backstage and the three Prima Donnas who were,... Read more

Past

Marcus Jahmal: Interiors
September 7 - October 21, 2023 Anton Kern Gallery is excited to present Marcus Jahmal’s exhibition, Interiors, on the first and second floors of the gallery at 16 E 55th Street. The exhibition is a decisive evolution for the artist, as he continues to mine his innate understanding of color and image to create the content... Read more

Eberhard Havekost: Paintings 1998-2016
September 7 - October 21, 2023 A survey exhibition of paintings from 1998 to 2016 in memory of Eberhard Havekost, accompanied by a Fanzine publication with new texts by Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Museum of Art; Barry Schwabsky, art critic, art historian, and poet; Fabrice Hergott, Director of... Read more

Martino Gamper: I am many moods
June 7 - August 9, 2023 Recently Martino Gamper has been in a very good mood, making over 700 hooks and vases which form a loose family of functional objects. This exhibition at Anton Kern is Design in an art gallery. Form follows function is a principle of design which suggests that the shape of an... Read more

Tondo
June 7 - August 9, 2023 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Tondo, a group exhibition organized by Patricia Pericas, director at Nara Roesler, New York, which brings together paintings, sculpture, film, and drawings, all of which share in their exploration of the long-standing, and circular, art form. Artists on view include: Georg Baselitz, Brian... Read more

Ellen Berkenblit: Norton
April 21 - May 26, 2023 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Ellen Berkenblit’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, spanning the first and second floors. This latest hometown presentation of oil paintings and gouache works on paper highlights the artist’s continual engagement with the physicality of painting and her sophisticated understanding of color. Positioned... Read more

Lara Schnitger: 10 Feet High and Rising
April 21 - May 26, 2023 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Lara Schnitger’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring larger-than-life dancing sculptures, heroically-posed fabric collages, and a series of portraits inspired by songs. In the new works, the artist draws from her personal biography, social history, current events, and pop culture to reflect... Read more

Alessandro Pessoli: Pluto is my Master
March 9 - April 15, 2023 The title of my show, Pluto Is My Master, connects with the symbology that characterizes Pluto, the god of the underworld and afterlife in Greek mythology. In the Roman translation of the myth, Pluto was also the god of wealth because of the minerals and the seeds that sprout on... Read more

Lloyd Foster: Double Double
Second Floor Gallery March 9 - April 15, 2023 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Double Double, Lloyd Foster’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, spanning both the second floor gallery at 16 E 55th Street and WINDOW at 91 Walker Street. Lloyd Foster (b. 1990, lives and works in New York) is the son of Ghanaian immigrants... Read more

Alvaro Barrington
Oh Sandy, why did you leave me all alone January 12 - February 25, 2023 Familiarity as information Digital communications Ideology is the mechanism that harmonize the principles that you want to think you hold and what advances your material interest You ask me what time it is and I tell you how to make a watch I hate when People cant decenter themselves while... Read more

Teresa Farrell, invited by Alvaro Barrington
Permeation Quirk Activation While Getting Hoodwinked In The Wrackzone (not recommended) January 12 - February 25, 2023 On the gallery’s third floor, Anton Kern Gallery is excited to present Teresa Farrell: Permeation Quirk Activation While Getting Hoodwinked In The Wrackzone (not recommended). Invited by Alvaro Barrington as a continuation of their long collaborative process and numerous joint exhibitions, both shows relate to the devastation wrought by Hurricane... Read more

Paweł Althamer: Polish Sculpture
October 27 - December 17, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is delighted to announce the Polish artist Paweł Althamer’s first gallery exhibition in the United States. After 30 years of exhibiting throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia and participating in numerous international biennial shows, as well as in Documenta and Skulptur Projekte Münster, it is nothing short of... Read more

Marcel Odenbach
October 27 - December 17, 2022 In his eighth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German artist Marcel Odenbach allows the viewer a precise glimpse into his multi-faceted practice. The exhibition consists of a video installation entitled Tropenkoller ( tropical frenzy) and a wall-papered environment that includes two large paper collages and a set of silkscreen prints.... Read more

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