Archive
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David Byrd: Bad jobs can produce very good pictures
October 30, 2024 - January 10, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by David Byrd (1926 – 2013) coinciding with the release of Volume 1 of the late American artist’s catalogue raisonné. Occupying the third floor gallery, this presentation aims to illuminate the interconnections between Byrd’s paintings, drawings, and assemblage sculptures,... Read more -
Yuli Yamagata: Ghosts Don't Wear Watches
October 30, 2024 - January 10, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce the Brazilian artist Yuli Yamagata’s (b.1989, São Paulo) third solo exhibition in New York. The artist’s latest exhibition, her most ambitious to date, features new fabric paintings, ikebana and mixed media sculptures (including a motorcycle, a mobile, and a fountain), functional chairs and... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
September 4 - 26, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce a special presentation of new works by Ellen Berkenblit, featuring 10 gouaches with colorful Kozo paper collage elements, and a large-scale oil painting. Berkenblit recently began integrating pieces of Kozo paper into her gouache compositions. The behavior of this paper - made from... Read more -
Hein Koh: Hope Springs Eternal
September 4 - October 19, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Hope Springs Eternal, Brooklyn-based artist Hein Koh’s first exhibition at Anton Kern spanning the first and second floor galleries. The exhibition will foreground a new series of works depicting cyclopean figures: one-eyed beings who observe but cannot speak. The characters are full of... Read more
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Margot Bergman: Rogues Gallery
September 4 - October 19, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman’s fourth solo exhibition in New York. This latest exhibition brings together a selection of paintings spanning thirty years of her practice, to examine the misfit energy that imbues her portraits of imaginary subjects. Since the 1950s, Margot Bergman (b.... Read more -
The Campus | Inaugural Exhibition
June 29 - October 27, 2024 Inaugural Exhibition Curated by Timo Kappeler Saturday, June 29th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024 341 NY-217, Hudson, NY 12534 Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto are pleased to present the inaugural exhibition at their new shared space, The Campus, in Claverack, NY. Embracing a collaborative... Read more -
Marepe: Peripheral Vision
May 29 - August 9, 2024 In his first New York solo exhibition in ten years, Brazilian artist Marepe returns to the gallery with a new body of work that celebrates life in the periphery of mainstream culture. Working in the countryside region of Bahia, at a remove from the major art centers of São Paulo... Read more -
Andrew Sim: Two pink birds with a gold nest
May 29 - August 9, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Andrew Sim’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s 55th Street location, and to officially welcome them to our artist roster. In Two pink birds with a gold nest, the Scottish artist presents twelve new paintings with motifs ranging from hairless werewolves to winged... Read more
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Aliza Nisenbaum: New Paintings and Drawings
May 4 - June 28, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery presents four recent small-scale paintings and four watercolors by Aliza Nisenbaum, all of which depict familiar subjects in intimate moments of repose. This selection of work deviates from her current exhibition at the Metropolitan Opera House and recent survey at The Queens Museum, both of which featured... Read more -
Jim Lambie: Liquid Head: Body and Soul
April 11 - May 18, 2024 For his tenth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Glaswegian artist Jim Lambie transforms the gallery into a dynamic and fluid environment filled with a multitude of optical sensations. Liquid Head: Body and Soul will open Thursday, April 11 and continue through May 18, 2024. In Liquid Head: Body and... Read more -
Bendix Harms: WHY ME?
April 11 - May 18, 2024 The sixth exhibition by German artist Bendix Harms at Anton Kern Gallery presents twelve portrait paintings. The subjects range from Andy Warhol to Mike Tyson, from Mamon, the cat, to a self-portrait with blackbird. They are the result of the artist’s constant interrogation of the world. Why is at the... Read more -
Erik van Lieshout: René Daniëls, 2021
February 24 - April 27, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present Erik van Lieshout’s film René Daniëls (2021). The screenings will begin at 10am and repeat on the hour until 5 pm. René Daniëls (b. Eindhoven, 1950) is one of the most renowned Dutch painters of the late twentieth century. In 1987 his career... Read more
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Elene Chantladze
February 22 - April 6, 2024 Dual exhibitions at kaufmann repetto and Anton Kern Gallery survey the different aspects of Georgian artist Elene Chantladze’s practice. At kaufmann repetto, a span of works that include landscapes, portraiture, and still life exemplify her sensitive registers of mark-making and uses of unconventional materiality. The singular point of view in... Read more -
Brian Calvin: Onwards
February 22 - March 29, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Onwards, Brian Calvin’s eighth solo exhibition in New York. Spanning the first and second floor galleries, the artist presents 17 new paintings in a variety of scales, and 50 framed pencil drawings extracted from a 2022 sketchbook that he filled by making one... Read more -
David Shrigley & Tal R: The Notebook
January 11 - February 17, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce The Notebook, David Shrigley and Tal R’s first two-person exhibition together. Occupying the first and second floor galleries, the artist duo presents a combination of new unique works on paper, which developed from their conversations and artwork exchanges over the past six months.... Read more -
Leo Mock: Blocking your sun
January 11 - February 17, 2024 For his first exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Blocking your sun, Leo Mock presents 16 oil paintings made over the last year, to be shown on the gallery’s third floor. The exhibition will include eight paintings from the artist’s “pie face” series, in which the familiar features of a cloudy... Read more
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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 -
Aliza Nisenbaum: The Three Divas of Traviata at Gallery Met, curated by Dodie Kazanjian
The Metropolitan Opera, New York September 15, 2023 - August 26, 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 -
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
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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
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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
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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 -
Julie Curtiss: Somnambules
September 8 - October 22, 2022 …Green, how I want you green Big hoarfrost stars come with the fish of shadow that opens the road of dawn. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches, and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers… –Romance Sonámbulo, Federico García Lorca, 1928 Somnambules is... Read more
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MERLIN JAMES: FAR AND NEAR
September 8 - October 15, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to host two simultaneous presentations of the work of Merlin James, featuring new works among paintings from various points over the last four decades of his practice. James has created an expansive solo exhibition entitled FAR AND NEAR for the gallery’s third floor space, and... Read more -
Photographic Pictures
curated by Anne Collier June 30 - August 26, 2022 Julie Becker, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Lloyd Foster, Luigi Ghirri, Joseph Grigely, Hervé Guibert, Leslie Hewitt, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Judy Linn, Marlo Pascual, Jack Pierson, Sabine Reitmaier, Melanie Schiff, Jiro Takamatsu, Lew Thomas, and Wolfgang Tillmans Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Photographic Pictures, an exhibition curated by... Read more -
Eberhard Havekost
Third Floor Viewing Room June 30 - August 26, 2022 Read more -
Portraits and Interiors
Mike Silva May 6 - June 18, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present British painter Mike Silva’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition features eleven new oil paintings depicting domestic interiors and portraits of men. Each painting is based on a photograph selected from the artist’s personal archive. By bringing these images, and the... Read more
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On the Edge of a Precipice
Hein Koh May 6 - June 18, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is thrilled to present Hein Koh’s first exhibition at the gallery, On the Edge of a Precipice, on the third floor. The show consists of new paintings, drawings, and a hand-painted bronze sculpture. Cast in the largest scale of bronze by the artist to date, the... Read more -
Frank Diaz Escalet
May 6 - June 18, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Frank Diaz Escalet works on the second floor. The project has been conceived in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and kaufmann repetto (Milan). As part of this joint programming, a solo show of his work is also... Read more -
SPEED LIMIT
Nathalie Du Pasquier March 9 - April 23, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present SPEED LIMIT, Nathalie Du Pasquier’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. As done previously in the third floor gallery, the artist now exercises her masterful understanding of color and space to transform the first and second floor galleries into a dynamic trail of... Read more -
Margot Bergman
March 9 - April 23, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Margot Bergman’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, now bringing focus to the artist’s collaborative paintings created between the mid-1990s and 2010. During this pivotal period of her practice, Bergman appropriated paintings that she discovered in Chicago thrift shops, and overpainted the strangers’... Read more
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Mining
Marcus Jahmal January 13 - February 26, 2022 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present Marcus Jahmal’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Mining, on the third floor. Jahmal is a self-taught painter, born and raised in Brooklyn, with familial roots in Louisiana and Texas. Jahmal’s paintings are surreal, symbological narratives that exist as documents of our current... Read more -
Chris Martin
January 13 - February 26, 2022 Chris Martin’s fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery takes place on the first floor, presenting eleven new paintings. Five line the entrance, leading viewers into the back atrium where five eleven foot paintings are hung, creating a chapel-like experience. One small painting, a tribute to the late Lance De... Read more -
Drawings
Georg Baselitz January 13 - February 26, 2022 A drawing is always naked. — Georg Baselitz For the first time in its twenty-five-year history, Anton Kern Gallery is dedicating a solo exhibition to the work of Georg Baselitz. A painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsman, Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists, with a distinguished career... Read more -
Francis Upritchard
Wetwang Slack November 18 - December 18, 2021 The exhibition of New Zealand-born and London-based artist Francis Upritchard brings together large stone and bronze sculptures, painted glass vessels, and works on paper, presented in a museological display. Drawing from the history of figurative sculpture, craft traditions and design, blended with references from literature and history, Upritchard pushes these... Read more
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Tausendmal Du
Ellen Gronemeyer November 3 - December 18, 2021 For her second exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Berlin-based artist Ellen Gronemeyer chose nineteen paintings: sparkling, densely painted, with turbulent surfaces, dark yet luminous compositions. Their motifs have slowly grown out of layers of heavy paint, and the viewer can discern not just shapes and figures but also fields of... Read more -
Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu
Yuli Yamagata September 10 - October 23, 2021 Public Opening: September 10, from 6 - 8 PM Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu, the Brazilian artist Yuli Yamagata’s first solo exhibition in New York. Yamagata’s concept for the exhibition is activated in two parts and across two geographic venues. Part one is hosted at... Read more -
Anne Collier
September 10 - October 23, 2021 Public Opening: September 10, 6 — 8 PM Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Anne Collier. This will be Collier’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past two decades Anne Collier has developed a complex body of... Read more -
Tales of Manhattan
A 25th Anniversary Exhibition July 8 - August 20, 2021 On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the gallery, we are excited to present a group exhibition celebrating the past, present, and future of Anton Kern Gallery with Tales of Manhattan, featuring: Pawel Althamer • Nobuyoshi Araki • Alvaro Barrington • Margot Bergman • Ellen Berkenblit • John Bock... Read more
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Houses of Content
Bendix Harms May 20 - June 26, 2021 The fifth exhibition by German artist Bendix Harms at Anton Kern Gallery presents sixteen new paintings. Painted over the last year and a half in his studio in Østerfælden, the artist’s farm in the north of Denmark, they are the outcome of the life shared with his wife Mari, Mamon... Read more -
New Paintings and One Film
Wilhelm Sasnal April 8 - May 15, 2021 March 26th, 2021—The eighth exhibition by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern Gallery presents sixteen paintings and one film. Known as a painter of individual, lucidly formulated images (rather than of explorations in theme and variation, or in process) and a maker of films that speak a measured and... Read more -
Carousel
Alessandro Pessoli April 8 - May 15, 2021 “In this new cycle of works, I tried to find a balance between drawing and painting. I looked for solutions on how to create, in the same image, the lightness of the drawing sketched into the shapes and the stratification of the painting, which is full of memories. These are... Read more -
Text Drawings
David Shrigley March 9 - April 3, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present a recent group of Japanese ink drawings by David Shrigley. Each of the twenty works, rendered in brushy black all-caps lettering against a neutral background, delivers a message from the artist. Similar to Shrigley's well-known Signs and News series, the text drawings are... Read more
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Montrose VA 1958-1988
David Byrd February 25 - April 3, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition David Byrd: Montrose VA, 1958 – 1988. The opening date, February 25th, coincides with the late-artist’s 95th birthday. The exhibition centers around Byrd’s original manuscript, of the same title, chronicling his observations during his thirty-year career in the psychiatric ward... Read more -
Maquette and Paper Pulp Works
Nicole Eisenman February 25 - April 3, 2021 Nicole Eisenman’s “Maquette” premiered 2018 at FIAC in Paris, the year after the artist’s monumental “Sketch for a Fountain” at Skulptur Projekte Münster had received much attention. Inspired by the fountain yet distinctly different, “Maquette” consists of four bronze bathers in varying positions of repose extending a classical theme to... Read more -
11
January 12 - February 20, 2021 Sometimes the original beckons for a sequel…Two years after the success of our group exhibition 10, we are pleased to follow up with 11, featuring eleven artists whose work we think scores a perfect ten. Spanning a variety of media-film, installation, painting, collage, drawing, mixed media, and photography-the artists and... Read more -
Twilight Proximity Corpus
John Bock January 12 - February 20, 2021 In his tenth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German sculptor and performance artist John Bock presents twenty-five new 3D collages. While constructed out of simple materials, these works contain the entire Bockian universe. The exhibition will run through February 20. Twilight Proximity Corpus gathers a group of illustrious characters: Klaus... Read more
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NOW ON VIEW AT 16 EAST 55TH STREET
December 9 - 23, 2020 Read more -
Cups
Margot Bergman November 19 - 30, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to introduce a special group of works on paper by Margot Bergman, created between the 1980s – 1990s. Historically, teacups and other tabletop vessels have been depicted as static objects within a still life composition. In Bergman's works, the common cup is recast as the... Read more -
Waiting
Brian Calvin October 29 - December 5, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Waiting, Brian Calvin’s seventh solo exhibition in New York. Faces abound, energizing the first and second floor galleries with hyperbolic color, mosaic eyes, and varnished lips. The cool neutrality of their expressions brings an equal and opposite force; a stillness to the space.... Read more -
Year Unknown
Jim Lambie October 29 - December 5, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Jim Lambie: Year Unknown on the gallery’s third floor. The exhibition features new metal boxes and sunglasses sculptures, and is a decidedly intimate one, with small scale pieces and titles that make connections to personally significant cities and streets. Lambie’s work often references... Read more
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SQUARE ONE
Julie Curtiss at 198 Allen Street, New York, NY, 10002 October 20 - 31, 2020 In lieu of a long-planned solo booth at FIAC this year, Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Julie Curtiss: Square One, a reconceived exhibition on view to the public from October 20 - October 31. In a year of extraordinary challenges, the title echoes the global reset we are... Read more -
Boy Walking and Cinnamon: Sculptures and Painting
Tal R September 9 - October 24, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Danish artist Tal R, entitled Boy Walking and Cinnamon: Sculptures and Paintings. The exhibition will consist of fifteen paintings and twelve bronze sculptures and will open September 9, running through October 24, 2020. Tal R is best known... Read more -
Flora
Aliza Nisenbaum September 9 - October 24, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Aliza Nisenbaum: Flora, an exhibition of new works on paper on the gallery’s third floor. Nisenbaum is best known for her portrait paintings, which are fundamentally studies about intimacy. She spends many hours getting to know her subjects: sitting with them in person,... Read more -
New Drawings
Lothar Hempel July 7 - 19, 2020 I probably invent these people as much as a writer creates his characters, I twist or understate, I'm tender or cold, I see everything, but I'm blind in one eye. I only have a pencil and watercolors, but my memories and my inner projector are powerful instruments. All of these... Read more
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The Human Touch, 1935-1945
Weegee June 29 - August 21, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of vintage photographs by the American photographer Weegee (b.1899 - d.1968). Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was born in the Eastern European town of Zolochev, in present-day Ukraine. In 1909, at age ten, he and his family emigrated to New York City... Read more -
Old Technology
June 29 - August 21, 2020 After months of living through screens, we are thrilled to open our doors again and present art as it is meant to be seen: in person. Old Technology, a group exhibition, embraces materiality and invokes the joy of the tactile. It celebrates the analog and the exhilaration felt in the... Read more -
Message From My Room
Nathalie Du Pasquier June 2 - 30, 2020 Pace Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, and A Palazzo Gallery Co-Present Three Solo Exhibitions of Nathalie Du Pasquier in June Pace Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, and A Palazzo Gallery are pleased to present three concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Nathalie Du Pasquier this June. Pace Gallery’s online exhibition Spaces Between... Read more -
Lockdown Drawings
May 26 - June 7, 2020 Online Exhibition Only. Read more
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Incelesbian
Nicole Eisenman February 20 - March 28, 2020 Nicole Eisenman’s fourth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery presents 24 paper pulp drawings from a body of new works created in collaboration with renowned Dieu Donné workshop in Brooklyn. Dieu Donné is a non-for-profit institution that has long served the artist community through a collaborative approach to creating artworks using... Read more -
Sistergarden
Ellen Berkenblit February 20 - March 28, 2020 Ellen Berkenblit’s eighth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Sistergarden, populates the main space with eleven large-scale paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Each face emerges from a velvety abyss with unbridled intensity and a noticeable shift in palette. The artist’s signature electric colors now merge with earth... Read more -
Drawings
Andy Warhol February 20 - March 28, 2020 Read more -
Samba In The Dark
curated by Fernanda Arruda, Patricia Pericas, and Nessie Pope January 14 - February 15, 2020 Samba In The Dark is inspired by a well-known Brazilian protest song, Apesar de Você (In Spite of You), written and recorded in 1970 by Chico Buarque at the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1984). The song unapologetically criticizes the Generals’ repressive government with powerful, metaphorical lyrics. Although... Read more
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The Great Perhaps
Richard Hughes November 7 - December 21, 2019 “I go to seek the great perhaps” were the last words of French philosopher François Rabelais. An optimism pervades this sentiment: a sense of wonder in the unknown and the beyond. This forms the core of Richard Hughes’ fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, a mature and evolutionary turn... Read more -
1979-1994
Chris Martin November 7 - December 21, 2019 Take the L train to Grand Street and walk a few blocks over to Graham Avenue. Head to the building with a vacant looking green storefront, and enter the magic that is Chris Martin’s studio. Occupying the space since 1984, it is an institution of history, of paint, of making.... Read more -
One Night Only
Ellen Berkenblit October 24, 2019 Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her work is included in the public collections of the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art,... Read more -
Coreografías
Aliza Nisenbaum September 13 - November 2, 2019 New York, July 12, 2019—For her New York gallery debut at Anton Kern Gallery, Mexican-born and New York-based activist and painter Aliza Nisenbaum will present Coreografías, a new body of individual and group portrait paintings. All works are the results of the artist’s participation in a variety of group and... Read more
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WirrWarr
September 13 - November 2, 2019 Read more -
Family Album
Margot Bergman June 26 - August 16, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery is excited to welcome back Chicago-based artist Margot Bergman for her second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Family Album, Bergman presents recent paintings and photographs. Margot Bergman (b. 1934) has sustained an active painting practice in Chicago since the 1950s and honed a peerless style of... Read more -
As The Plane Was Reaching Cruising Altitude
Nathalie Du Pasquier June 26 - August 16, 2019 In Nathalie Du Pasquier’s first exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, the artist presents an installation of colorful geometric works on paper and monochromatic wooden objects, using the floorplan of the gallery as a field for her composition. Juxtaposing two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional constructions, the artist examines the relationship between pictorial... Read more -
Wildlife
Julie Curtiss April 25 - June 15, 2019 Wildlife marks Paris-born, New York-based artist Julie Curtiss’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. New York City, nature, and tropes of femininity inspire Curtiss’ subversive and wildly imaginative paintings, sculptures, and gouaches. Rockaway Beach, Chinatown, East Village hair salons, and Upper West Side shops are the urban jungle through which... Read more
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FLUFF WAR
David Shrigley April 25 - June 15, 2019 In his seventh solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, entitled FLUFF WAR, British artist David Shrigley presents a large-scale kinetic sculpture, two neon sculptures, and 100 new drawings. As visitors approach the gallery, they are greeted by a two-part magenta neon sign bearing contradictory instructions: one reads “WEAR SHOES” and... Read more -
7 Bangers
Dan McCarthy March 15 - April 20, 2019 For his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York artist Dan McCarthy presents a series of new sculptures entitled 7 Bangers. Seven Bangers Artist Statement This group of seven ceramic sculptures titled Seven Bangers was started in 2016. The Bangers are a linear extension of the Facepots... Read more -
David Byrd
February 7 - March 9, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with New York painter David Byrd, and our representation of the David Byrd Estate. We will introduce Byrd’s work with a selection of portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings ranging from 1952 - 2009. Byrd’s style bears influence from different art... Read more -
BEER
Erik van Lieshout February 7 - March 9, 2019 “Conflict is my talent.” -Erik Van Lieshout For his second solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Erik Van Lieshout will debut his new film, Beer, which documents the inner controversies that surrounded his acceptance of the prestigious Heineken Prize in 2018. The footage shot over the course of the year... Read more
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Uptown Campus
Robert Janitz December 13, 2018 - January 26, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery and CANADA are pleased to present their first solo exhibitions with Robert Janitz. Uptown Campus will open at Anton Kern Gallery, on Thursday, December 13th; and College Robert Janitz at CANADA opens Friday, December 14th. Robert Janitz’ seemingly simple shapes belie a meticulously built contemplation on painting.... Read more -
re-kapito
Manfred Pernice December 13, 2018 - January 26, 2019 Manfred Pernice was born in 1963 in Hildesheim, Germany. He studied at the Institut für Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig from 1984 to 1987 before moving to Berlin to study at the Universität in 1993. His sculpture and installation borrow from the utilitarian visual language of architecture, shipping containers, and commercial... Read more -
Dead + Juicy
John Bock October 31 - December 1, 2018 For our eighth exhibition with German artist John Bock, Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Dead + Juicy, a film and sculptural installation commissioned by The Contemporary Austin, which premiered at the museum in 2017. Now staged in New York, the film will run alongside a series of re-envisioned... Read more -
The Clock Unlocked
Ellen Berkenblit September 12 - October 20, 2018 When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in... Read more
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frNMEz
Matthew Monahan September 12 - October 20, 2018 In frNMEz, Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan presents a new group of freestanding sculptures and paintings on aluminum. Known for his mastery of both traditional and industrial materials, Monahan’s new works reflect a physical and mental tug of war with the history of figuration. For this show Monahan pushes beyond... Read more -
I , Photography
Nobuyoshi Araki July 12 - August 31, 2018 I, Photography presents four distinct bodies of work by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. The exhibition takes its title from a phrase in the opening manifesto of Sentimental Journey, a document of the intimate and mundane moments of his honeymoon. In the spirit of that text, the four series of photographs... Read more -
The Party
Curated by Ali Subotnick July 12 - August 31, 2018 Inspired by Blake Edwards’ 1968 film The Party, this exhibition, curated by Ali Subotnick, explores the comedic impulse in contemporary art. The show is haunted by the spirit and rampant absurdities of the film, which has become a cult classic for Peter Sellers’ performance as disaster prone Indian actor Hrundi... Read more -
SANKT RUFUS
Bendix Harms May 24 - June 30, 2018 In 2016, German painter Bendix Harms moved from Hamburg to Østerfælden - a farm in the North of Denmark. This was the territory of Rufus, a cat who had been ruling over the property for the last 16 years, and with whom Harms formed an instantaneous and strong bond. For... Read more
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Pots
Francis Upritchard May 24 - June 30, 2018 For her third exhibition at the gallery, Francis Upritchard presents a new series of clay pot sculptures that are the result of her residency at Lux Art Institute this past winter in Encinitas, CA. Upritchard is an adept collaborator and these works are evidence of a natural chemistry between artist... Read more -
Anne Collier
April 12 - May 19, 2018 “Anne Collier remakes women as they have been photographed by others… not so much in her own image, but in an image that questions the image.” (Hilton Als) Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Anne Collier. This will be... Read more -
Chris Martin
March 1 - April 7, 2018 For his third exhibition at the Anton Kern Gallery, Chris Martin presents a number of new, large-scale paintings, inspired by the gallery’s two-story atrium and the artist’s new upstate painting studio. Chris Martin is something of a New York institution. His Brooklyn studio floor radiates with years of glitter traces... Read more -
Sarah Jones
March 1 - April 7, 2018 In Jean Cocteau’s post war film Orphée (1950) there is a beguiling moment when the then modern day Orpheus, standing in front of a full length framed mirror in his room, slides his hand through his own reflection. This once hard glassy impermeable surface becomes viscoelastic, transmutes into liquid; the... Read more
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A Valentine's Day Show
Nicole Eisenman February 15 - 24, 2018 Nicole Eisenman’s A Valentine’s Day Show consists of two dozen drawings and three new paintings, all made from life depicting the artist’s friends in the pastoral seaside setting of Fire Island. The show originated with Eisenman’s desire to present and share a rather private body of work with a large... Read more -
10
January 12 - February 14, 2018 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present 10, a group show on the gallery’s third floor featuring ten painters whose work we rate at 11. Spanning multiple generations, each artist selected creates intimate works that are immersed in a variety ofmodes of painting. Historic work from Jeanne Mammen (1890 –... Read more -
frozen
Ellen Gronemeyer January 11 - February 24, 2018 For her first solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Berlin-based painter Ellen Gronemeyer presents a group of new paintings that portray youthful characters, children, and the occasional animal in a topsy-turvy world of whirring colors and improbability. Captured alone or in friendly groupings, and often engaged in various stages of... Read more -
Too Nice Too Long
Lara Schnitger November 16 - December 23, 2017 For her solo exhibition Too Nice Too Long, Los Angeles-based artist Lara Schnitger (Dutch, b. 1969) transforms Anton Kern Gallery into the headquarters of “Suffragette City,” her traveling hybrid procession-protest piece that draws inspiration from occult rituals and uses unabashed graphic design and boundarypushing sculpture to champion women’s rights. With... Read more
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Oral Heart
Lothar Hempel November 16 - December 23, 2017 German artist Lothar Hempel named his recent exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery after a poem of his, “Oral Heart.” Like the poem that initiated an expanding body of the artist’s writing, the show is an amalgamation of image ideas. Paintings, sculptures and drawings are the sparkling fragments of a dynamic... Read more -
Against Me
Alessandro Pessoli October 12 - November 11, 2017 In his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Italian-born and Los Angeles-based artist Alessandro Pessoli presents Against Me: new paintings, ceramics, and sculptural installations that include self-portraits, references to traditions of Italian painting, and even handmade bows and arrows. In addition to the main exhibition, the artist will create... Read more -
Brian Calvin
September 7 - November 7, 2017 In his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the California-based painter Brian Calvin presents a new body of work featuring tightly-cropped portrait paintings, colored pencil drawings, and anthropomorphic wooden sculptures. Among the new group of paintings, the artist introduces tondos (circular shaped canvases), whose cropping eliminates any sense of... Read more -
Drawings by Mike!
Mike Kuchar September 7 - October 7, 2017 New York, August 3, 2017— Mike Kuchar, recipient of the United States Artist award in 1993, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, was born in 1942. His teachers in public school recognized his ability to draw and suggested he attend a high school geared for commercial art because, “fine artists... Read more
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Faces: Painted Reliefs
Nicole Eisenman June 1 - July 7, 2017 New York, May 27, 2017—Coinciding with their large presentation of five over-life-size bathers at Skulptur Projekte Münster in Germany this summer, New York artist Nicole Eisenman presents a concise group of painted reliefs at Anton Kern Gallery. These surprising explorations of improbably shaped forms and color underscore the artist’s aptitude... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
May 25 - July 6, 2017 In her sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York based painter Ellen Berkenblit presents a new body of work that connects her love of textiles to her painting practice. The artist’s clever placement of works across the two gallery spaces creates rhythm and drama throughout the exhibition, while... Read more -
ÄMEN
Bendix Harms May 3 - 27, 2017 ÄMEN is an exhibition of color pencil drawings by German artist Bendix Harms. Known for his thickly spackled and scratched paintings—whose cast of characters include birds, cats, mushrooms and himself—these works on paper open up an animated world in which the gravity and pleasure of life ebb and flow. We... Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal
April 22 - May 20, 2017 April 4 — Anton Kern Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition at 16 East 55th Street with new paintings by the Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. This prescient grouping of works features portraits of prominent politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Marine Le Pen, and former UN leaders: Ban Kimoon, Kofi... Read more
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AKG On The Move
January 31 - April 19, 2017 Week one: January 31 Matthew Monahan Monahan's fractured and embattled figures traverse through time and space, at once confronting us with something ancient and futuristic, earthbound and celestial, dreamlike and tactile, mythic and candid. This intrinsic dichotomy allows us to find ourselves in the ever-present hidden narrative each work possesses.... Read more -
Implosion 20
November 10 - December 22, 2016 Anton Kern Gallery is turning twenty and we celebrate this anniversary with Implosion 20, a group exhibition featuring the work of all 28 artists on roster, as well as works by artists who have shown previously or have had a personal connection to the gallery. In addition, we will present... Read more -
Portraits
Jonas Wood September 8 - October 22, 2016 For his fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Jonas Wood presents a group of portraits that depict his family, close friends, and the artist himself. Through exuberant color, line, and scale, these paintings express the artist’s interpretation of intimate moments from his life, and memorialize figures who are paramount... Read more -
Early Work
Brian Calvin June 30 - August 26, 2016 For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Anton Kern Gallery has invited Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman (b.1934) to present a body of recent portraits. Paired with Bergman’s work is a selection of early drawings and paintings by Brian Calvin (b.1969), from the Popeye series created during his time in... Read more
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Margot Bergman
June 30 - August 26, 2016 For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Anton Kern Gallery has invited Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman (b.1934) to present a body of recent portraits. Paired with Bergman’s work is a selection of early drawings and paintings by Brian Calvin (b.1969), from the Popeye series created during his time in... Read more -
Nicole Eisenman
May 19 - June 25, 2016 For their debut exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, New York artist Nicole Eisenman will present a new body of paintings, a group of drawings and one plaster sculpture. The works range from the monumental to the intimate in size and address day-to-day life in New York City with all its... Read more -
Anne Collier
April 9 - May 14, 2016 In her fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the New York-based artist Anne Collier presents a body of new photographs that expands upon her ongoing inquiry into the nature and culture(s) of photographic images, exploring questions of perception and representation and the mechanics of the gaze. In addition to... Read more -
Women
February 25 - April 2, 2016 Read more
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Expulsion from Paradise Freeze
February 25 - April 2, 2016 For his seventh solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German painter Eberhard Havekost has put together a group of 25 paintings under the title Expulsion from Paradise Freeze. The works in the exhibition fall under two categories, representational and non-representational, however, they are arranged in a way that suggests narrative... Read more -
Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper
January 14 - February 20, 2016 Read more -
Train in Vein
Jim Lambie November 7 - December 19, 2015 For his upcoming solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie will present a colorful new body of sculptures that will inhabit an immersive installation from floor to ceiling. In a cheeky reversal of The Clash’s song Train in Vain, Lambie titles his exhibition Train in Vein to... Read more -
Painted Sculptures
Mark Grotjahn September 10 - October 29, 2015 In his fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, painter and sculptor Mark Grotjahn presents a new body of painted bronzes. This is the first gallery exhibition to further elaborate upon the artist’s 2014 sculpture presentation at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. In a radical act of transformation, Grotjahn... Read more
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Eros Diary
Nobuyoshi Araki July 9 - August 7, 2015 Photography was destined to be involved with death. Reality is in color, but at its beginnings photography always discolored reality and turned it into black and white. Color is life, black and white is death. A ghost was hiding in the invention of photography. - Nobuyoshi Araki, in an interview... Read more -
Three Black Paintings (1992-1996)
Chris Martin July 9 - August 7, 2015 Read more -
Marcel Odenbach
May 28 - July 2, 2015 In his seventh exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German video and collage artist Marcel Odenbach presents five large works on paper along with a group of objects. The eye-catching centerpiece is a portrait of rapper and songwriter Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), surrounded by images of shrubs and trees in urban green... Read more -
New Paintings
Ellen Berkenblit May 28 - July 2, 2015 Berkenblit's practice hovers between representation and abstraction, often presenting the female figure experiencing a realm of imaginative explosion and escape. Through her unpredictable application of paint, she presents private and flirtatious worlds, where girls can be ladies and ladies can be women—or somewhere in between. Her subjects capture a playful... Read more
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David Shrigley
April 16 - May 23, 2015 In his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, British artist David Shrigley presents 78 drawings, two sculptures and one animation. The drawings, ink and acrylic on paper in two distinct sizes, depict a variety of situations involving humans, animals, parts of their bodies and other stuff. The sculptures are... Read more -
The Painter of Modern Life
Organized by Bob Nickas March 5 - April 11, 2015 'The Painter of Modern Life' brings together works by 21 artists, with the 19th century designation of the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire as its mantle (see footnote), including: Nathaniel Axel, Lisa Beck, Sadie Benning, Sascha Braunig, Alex Brown, Mathew Cerletty, Wayne Gonzales, Joanne Greenbaum, Daniel Hesidence, Mamie Holst, Cannon Hudson, Chip... Read more -
I am in heaven
Erik van Lieshout January 15 - February 28, 2015 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to announce Erik van Lieshout’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “I am in heaven.” The Rotterdam-based artist presents new drawings and a large-scale sculptural installation that doubles as a cinema for viewing his new feature film, WORK. Erik van Lieshout, whose background is in... Read more -
1950s Drawings
Andy Warhol November 20 - December 20, 2014 Andy Warhol: 1950s Drawings brings together 150 never before seen works on paper from the late 1940s through 1960. They show Warhol as a skilled draftsman and great experimenter. Using ink and graphite, Warhol investigated the possibilities of the hand-drawn line, and in the course of this developed his characteristic... Read more
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Chris Martin
October 9 - November 15, 2014 It is our great pleasure to announce the representation and first exhibition of New York painter Chris Martin at Anton Kern Gallery. His first show will consist of a selection of new paintings created over the past summer in upstate New York. These works, as the writer Bob Nickas describes... Read more -
Brian Calvin
September 4 - October 4, 2014 For his forth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Brian Calvin presents a group of paintings of faces, closely cropped or just of mouths and lips, as well as figures posing, some reflecting in a mirror. Calvin’s severe framing, along with his carefully scaled compositions, creates a... Read more -
People Like You Find It Easy
Lothar Hempel September 4 - October 4, 2014 Like a futuristic stage impresario, and seemingly without effort, Hempel choreographs figures and objects, matches disparate materials and techniques, and arranges geometric shapes, luminous colors, and sinuous organic lines into paintings and drawings of self-conscious aplomb. The artist applies acrylic, ink, oil, crayon, spray-paint, and pencil to primed, screen-printed aluminum... Read more -
Hephaestus
Matthew Monahan July 2 - August 22, 2014 Read more
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Displayed
Curated by Matthew Higgs July 2 - August 22, 2014 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Displayed an exhibition curated by artist and White Columns’ director Matthew Higgs. Displayed is an exhibition of artworks that, in very different ways, explore the methodologies – both formal and psychological – of display and presentation. Borrowing from the languages of architecture, the... Read more -
Matthew Monahan
May 2 - June 21, 2014 Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan’s sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery presents sixteen sculptures, a set of drawings, two wall-mounted masks, and a single large figure in the back room. Monahan molds his materials, which include aluminum, paper, bronze, plaster, steel, metal leaf, and fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP), in such... Read more -
Lava
Wilhelm Sasnal March 27 - April 26, 2014 Read more -
Sarah Jones
March 27 - April 26, 2014 For her fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, British photographer Sarah Jones presents twenty-one new images from her Cabinet, Vitrine, Rose Gardens, and Horse series. They are immersed in the deep black tone of highly saturated C-prints, many made from black-and-white negatives, and strike a distinct note between straight... Read more
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Dan McCarthy
February 20 - March 22, 2014 For his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York artist Dan McCarthy is presenting new paintings, drawings, and a group of ceramic sculptures called Facepots. Figures and faces are his subject matter; intricate paint-transfer processes channel the artist’s message of directness and supreme verve. The figures seem to... Read more -
Never Alone: Sister of Arp
Lara Schnitger January 9 - February 15, 2014 Sister of Arp is Lara Schnitger’s line of couture. After making fabric sculptures for over fifteen years, which have been shown internationally in museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Magasin 3 in Stockholm, Schnitger has... Read more -
A Week of Films @ Anton Kern
John Bock, Lothar Hempel, Marcel Odenbach, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Shrigley December 14 - 21, 2013 Read more -
Above the point of the glowing silence
John Bock October 25 - December 14, 2013 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce an adaptation of John Bock’s Above the point of the glowing silence (2013), originally performed last June in the Giardino delle Vergini for Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, the 55th Venice Biennale. The installation includes a vitrine displaying sculptural objects that the actress, Lisa Müller-Trede,... Read more
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Marepe
October 25 - December 21, 2013 For his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Brazilian artist Marepe presents a group of seven sculptures made of common objects and put together with great formal rigor and poetic potential. These works achieve a complex layering of references and meanings addressing the linkage between the individual and society.... Read more -
Jonas Wood
September 12 - October 19, 2013 Jonas Wood’s fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery presents a collection of paintings that transform everyday spaces, subjects, and artifacts from his daily life into novel encounters. These energetic new works expose a complex interweaving of personally charged subject matter and locales that imbue the paintings with emotional depth... Read more -
War Dance
Francis Upritchard June 27 - August 16, 2013 For her full-scale New York gallery debut, Francis Upritchard – a London-based New Zealander who represented her country at the 2009 Venice Biennale – stages eight figurative sculptures seemingly engaged in a ritualistic war dance. Quite unlike the traditional fierceness of such stylized warfare however, Upritchard’s figures appear to prepare... Read more -
Shio Kusaka
May 23 - June 22, 2013 For her second exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angles based ceramic artist Shio Kusaka will present 127 porcelain and stoneware pots. Kusaka models ceramic vessels of which no two are the same. Their shapes are simple and usually bottom-heavy or columnar. A choice of palette is enlivened with surface... Read more
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Richard Hughes
April 12 - May 18, 2013 For his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, UK-based artist Richard Hughes has turned the gallery into a stage for a magic dance performed by a street gang of enchanted lamp posts, ice-cream-wafer-like garden walls and broken memorial statues found in the most dilapidated and dark corners of (British)... Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal
February 22 - April 6, 2013 For this fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal has selected a group of paintings and works on paper around the theme of Kodak, the now defunct film and camera manufacturer. Some works make direct references to specific products, advertisements and to Kodak’s founder George Eastman,... Read more -
Signs
David Shrigley January 10 - February 16, 2013 December 18—In this fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, entitled Signs, Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley surrounds a large black gong sculpture positioned in the center of the gallery with a variety of signs, such as flags, scrolls and banners, neon and cast bronze texts, as well as lino-cut and... Read more -
COPY + OWNERSHIP
Eberhard Havekost October 25 - December 15, 2012 For his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German painter Eberhard Havekost has put together a body of 15 paintings under the title “COPY + OWNERSHIP”. The title declares the painter to be both author and consumer of the images he presents. Havekost’s meticulous and confident painting technique and... Read more
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Fired People
Alessandro Pessoli September 14 - October 20, 2012 August 10, New York – For his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Italian artist Alessandro Pessoli has put together a group of painted ceramic sculptures of varying sizes and scale. Largely figurative and richly colored, often combined with bronze or canvas elements, the work radiates with high saturation... Read more -
It's Always Summer on the Inside
Organized by Dan McCarthy July 10 - August 24, 2012 The exhibition’s title is taken from an advertisement for surfing wetsuits from the 1970s. Using an Oneil wetsuit promised that once inside your new second skin, Summer was awaiting. The title itself is comprised of two somewhat contradictory parts: It’s Always Summer and On the Inside, which is unusual in... Read more -
The Butterfly's Evil Spell
Lara Schnitger & My Barbarian July 10 - August 24, 2012 The Butterfly's Evil Spell is a collaboration among the three members of LA based collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade) and sculptor Lara Schnitger. Playing between the dramatic spaces of fantasy and realism, the piece uses a fragmentary Symbolist theater text from 1920 by Spanish playwright... Read more -
Pezzi
Manfred Pernice May 17 - June 30, 2012 Finally, we have (again) become mush in which every gesture and glaring manifestation is only a bubbling mumble, an overcooked pea. Everything special becomes flat and sticky, part of the big mushy soup – which will not only be eaten up – served with a ladle, and you can be... Read more
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Anne Collier
April 5 - May 12, 2012 March 21, 2012, New York—In her third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York-based artist Anne Collier presents a body of recent photographs that amplifies her continuing investigation into questions of perception and representation, the nature and culture of photographic images, and the mechanics of the gaze. Negotiating autobiography,... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
March 1 - 31, 2012 February 15, 2012—In her fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York-based painter Ellen Berkenblit presents a new body of intensely colored, energetic, figurative paintings. Layers of rawness and vulnerability are uncovered from densely built-up images of light, figure and a tangible sense of atmosphere and emotional depth. Berkenblit... Read more -
Sergej Jenson
January 20 - February 25, 2012 December 22, 2011—For his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Danish artist Sergej Jensen will present a new body of paintings. The exhibition will open on Friday, January 20th and continue through Saturday, February 25th, 2012. Jensenʼs work has been exhibited in numerous one-person shows at galleries in Berlin,... Read more -
Spiritualized
Jim Lambie November 3 - December 23, 2011 October 6, 2011—Jim Lambieʼs fifth solo-exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery feels like a living organism with different parts of one body fulfilling a variety of functions while reverberating in bright colors. The galleryʼs white walls are penetrated by several circular multicolored Vortex cut-outs; a large belt sculpture balances on a... Read more
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Suedehead
Lothar Hempel September 15 - October 22, 2011 August 12, 2011—Lothar Hempelʼs ninth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery comprises three sculptures, five aluminum paintings, three diamond-shaped photo-montages, and a set of seven collages. The entire show is framed by the reference made in its title, Suedehead, a term describing an early 1970s subculture in the UK. A... Read more -
Im Schatten der Made
John Bock June 30 - August 12, 2011 Im Schatten der Made (In the Shadow of the Maggot), 2010 74:16 minutes Written and directed by John Bock. With: John Bock, Matti Isan Blind, Heiner Franzen, Friederike Kempter, Adrian Lohmueller, Linnart Schneider. Camera: Rene Gorski Music: Richard Siedhoff Produced by John Bock, Anton Kern Gallery, Museum Tinguely & Universal... Read more -
Nine Faces
Mark Grotjahn May 5 - June 25, 2011 April 20, 2011—Mark Grotjahnʼs third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery is comprised of nine large-scale Face paintings. In an apparent departure from the monochrome Butterfly paintings of his 2007 gallery show, the new works are based on the simple geometric structure of eyes, nose, and mouth. The Face paintings... Read more -
Jonas Wood
February 17 - March 26, 2011 February 3, 2011, New York—Jonas Woodʼ s third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery takes an assertive step forward into the pictorial and psychological-emotional investigation of interior spaces, gently leaving behind the Calder-like vibrant flower still lifes recently shown at the Hammer Museum. Los Angeles-based Wood has put together a... Read more
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Marcel Odenbach
In conjunction with Kimmerich Gallery, NY January 13 - February 12, 2011 December 23, 2010—In his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Marcel Odenbach asks a fundamental question, whether and how an event such as the holocaust can possibly be memorialized. The two works in the exhibition, a 16-minute video projection entitled “Turning Circles” in the main gallery and a single... Read more -
Matthew Monahan
November 23 - December 23, 2010 November 5, 2010, New York – For his fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan will show a combination of new sculpture and drawings. His aggressive but elegant sculptural works, cast in different materials including foam and bronze, manipulate the figure to challenge what we... Read more -
David Shrigley
September 15 - October 30, 2010 August 5, 2010—David Shrigley is a Glasgow-based English artist who uses humor like other artists use clay or paint. It is a material, sometimes a concept, that allows him to engage with a variety of mediums as long as it delivers the liberating punch of laughter. For his forth solo... Read more -
Shio Kusaka
July 15 - August 20, 2010 June 24, 2010—Shio Kusakaʼs first exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery will comprise 100 porcelain and stoneware pots. Kusaka has developed a distinct formal language; her shapes, patterns, colors, and glazing techniques are immediately recognizable. While she cites vessels from 18th-Dynasty Egypt, late-BronzeAge Cyprus, and Yayoi-period Japan among her influences, her... Read more
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Richard Hughes
May 20 - July 3, 2010 May 5, 2010—For his second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, London-based artist Richard Hughes has turned the gallery into a seemingly demolished urban space including derelict foundations of a house, a doorway boarded-up with rotting MDF, and neglected cast-iron Victorian lamp posts. Dozens of tied-together pairs of sneakers flung... Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal
April 8 - May 15, 2010 March 25, 2010—For his fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal has selected a group of paintings organized around topics of personal contemporary life. This selection includes not only pictures of his friends and family but also views of the sea and sky. Parallel to his... Read more -
John Bock
February 27 - April 3, 2010 Opening Reception and Lecture: Monday, March 1 from 5 - 7 pm February 10, New York—The fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery of German artist John Bock includes a two-channel video projection, a squid-powered metal sculpture with video, a group of hanging soft sculptures, and a lecture dance-performance on... Read more -
Anne Collier
January 21 - February 20, 2010 January 6, 2010, New York— For her first full-scale solo exhibition in New York, Anne Collier will present a concise body of recent photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Collierʼs photographic works, which typically incorporate images of found everyday objects, including magazines, record sleeves, jigsaw puzzles, used books, analogue... Read more
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Brian Calvin
December 10, 2009 - January 16, 2010 December 9, New York—A group of paintings by L.A.-based artist Brian Calvin, making a subtle turn from his previous work, will be on view for his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery through January 16, 2010. After establishing himself as a painter of “pausing-as-an-activity,” Calvin now, in this new... Read more -
Michael Joo
October 22 - December 5, 2009 Four years after the artistʼs last oneperson exhibition at The Bohen Foundation in New York, Michael Joo presents new large-scale sculptures and paintings in his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery. Joo continues to investigate the symbolical significance of the physical world by engaging with a wide range of... Read more -
Alessandro Pessoli
September 10 - October 17, 2009 July 30, New York—For his forth one-person show at Anton Kern Gallery, Italian artist Alessandro Pessoli has put together a body of work, seamlessly moving between drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture, that places man at its center. With his fragility and his uncertainties, the human being is presented in a... Read more -
Dorothy Iannone
June 25 - August 21, 2009 June 4, 2009, New York—Dorothy Iannone, American-born, Berlin-based painter of explicitly erotic and autobiographical imagery, who in 1961 successfully sued the United States government to release Henry Millerʼs books from the blacklist, and who left for Europe in 1967 after falling madly in love with Swiss artist Dieter Roth, has... Read more
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Lara Schnitger
May 7 - June 20, 2009 April 8, 2009, New York – For her fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angeles-based Dutch artist Lara Schnitger presents a group of her characteristic sculptures along with a dozen textile paintings. Sculptures and flat works alike are carefully constructed from dyed, stitched, and collaged fabric, and wood.... Read more -
Discompleto
Marepe March 26 - May 2, 2009 February 25, 2008, New York—Marepeʼs show entitled “Discompleto” works like a song: it captures body and soul before any meanings of words can penetrate our mind, before we discover the origin of the singer, before we analyze the instrumentation. For his second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Brazilian artist... Read more -
Style & Still
Eberhard Havekost February 12 - March 14, 2009 Read more -
Kats, Nerves, Shadows & Gin
Lothar Hempel February 12 - March 21, 2009 January 28, 2008, New York—Lothar Hempelʼs current solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, comprised of four figurative sculptures, three large diamond-shaped photomontages, and one painting, radiates an air of mystic coolness, generosity and grace. Like a futuristic stage impresario, and seemingly without effort, Hempel choreographs figures and objects, matches disparate... Read more
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1960s Photographs
Araki January 8 - February 8, 2009 December 10, 2008, New York—This first-time exhibition of unknown material from the 1960s by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki will stir up expectations and preconceived notions. Well-known for his diaristic and upfront erotic photography, which he produced with an unparalleled appetite for life from the 1970s on, this vast and unfamiliar... Read more -
Jonas Wood
November 20 - December 23, 2008 October 31, 2008, New York—For his second solo exhibition in New York, Los Angeles-based painter Jonas Wood has put together a group of family portraits, interiors, and still lifes. Wood uses these genres as templates for infusing his work with personal sentiment and meaning. The paintings and watercolor drawings reverberate... Read more -
Matthew Monahan
October 10 - November 15, 2008 September 17, 2008, New York—For his fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan assembled a group of fragmented figurative sculptures filled with mystery, boldness, and grace. Monahan combines glass, foam, honeycomb mesh, and treated paper in a manner that, at times, these elements are lifted... Read more -
Lebenslieben
Bendix Harms September 5 - October 4, 2008 August 1, 2008, New York—For his second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, German artist Bendix Harms has put together a body of paintings and drawings called Lebenslieben or Loves of Life. The exhibition opens September 5 and continues through October 4. A 32-page, fully illustrated catalog will be available.... Read more
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Friends & Family
June 26 - August 8, 2008 June 14, 2008—The premise for “Friends and Family” is simple: each gallery artist was asked to submit one work of art along with a work by an artist friend and an artist family member. All gallery staff was invited to do the same. No editing, no censoring! The result is... Read more -
David Shrigley
May 15 - June 23, 2008 April 15, 2008—In his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley plans to show stretched paintings, sign paintings on wood, two sculptures, and a film. The exhibition opens on Thursday, May 15 and will run through Saturday, June 21, 2008. In addition to the exhibition, Anton... Read more -
Pictures and Paintings
Sergej Jensen April 9 - May 10, 2008 March 22, 2008—A group of quietly beautiful formalist textilebased paintings by Danish artist Sergej Jensen will be on view through May 10th . This is the artist’s second solo show in New York at Anton Kern Gallery. For this exhibition, Jensen — who once described his work as “painting without... Read more -
diary
Manfred Pernice February 28 - March 29, 2008 February 8, 2007—In his forth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, German sculptor Manfred Pernice uses geometry to depict the substance of time. One multi-element work occupies the gallery space, made of intersecting planes of precisely shaped sheets of plywood, particleboard or other composite materials. Square, hexagonal, and circular elements... Read more
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Anne Collier
January 23 - February 23, 2008 December 20, 2007—For her first one-person exhibition in New York, Anne Collier has assembled a concise body of photographs depicting familiar objects (such as a sunset poster, a stack of albums, or magazine covers) rephotographed in the artist’s studio. Recognizable as slightly out-dated relics from a recent past, Collier transforms... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
January 17 - February 28, 2008 December 20, 2007—New York-artist Ellen Berkenblit’s third one-person exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery presents a body of black-and-white paintings with the recurring image of a girl in profile. Berkenblit uses this figure as a formal anchoring or starting point to build up densely layered paintings in a wide range of... Read more -
Richard Hughes
November 28, 2007 - January 12, 2008 For his first U.S. solo show, London-based artist Richard Hughes placed a group of incongruous-looking objects throughout the gallery space: stones, paint buckets, wornout shoes, a dirty mattress, rotten barrel planters. The objects may look harmless and innocent, their placement however (a tire slung around a ceiling beam, for example),... Read more -
Dan McCarthy
October 18 - November 21, 2007 October 2, 2007—Stripped naked, all attributes removed, even stripped of all rhetoric surrounding the body, stand the men, women, and couples in Dan McCarthy’s recent body of paintings. For his forth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the New York painter selected a dozen canvases and a group of acrylic-wash... Read more
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Durchblicke (Clear Views)
Marcel Odenbach September 8 - October 13, 2007 A 40-foot long paper-collage panorama by German video artist Marcel Odenbach will be installed in the back space of Anton Kern Gallery. The work is entitled “Durchblicke” which translates as “clear views.” It is Odenbach’s fifth show at the gallery and the second in which he presents collages. Immediately visible,... Read more -
Zensur
Eberhard Havekost September 8 - October 13, 2007 August 3, 2007—For his fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German painter Eberhard Havekost has put together a body of 16 paintings under the heading “Zensur.” Thematically and formally intertwined, the paintings address and demonstrate the suppression of visual information. The show is held together by a systematic obscuring... Read more -
Jonas Wood
July 12 - August 10, 2007 June 28, 2007—For his first solo exhibition in New York, the young Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood has put together a group of paintings and watercolor drawings that complement each other thematically and formally. The subjects are nearly classical, flower still-lifes, interiors, portraits, figures, with a slight twist (both thematically... Read more -
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefeheart), 1985-1995
May 31 - July 6, 2007 May 4, 2007—For the first time in six years, the work of Don Van Vliet, who is best known under his musical moniker Captain Beefheart, will be shown in two New York galleries, Michael Werner and Anton Kern Gallery. The exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery will present 15 paintings and... Read more
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Very Still Life
Charlie Hammond May 31 - July 6, 2007 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of work by Glasgow based artist Charlie Hammond in the United States. Through the use and manipulation of an unlikely range of material – rocks, rags and gingham tablecloths – the artist presents ‘Very Still Life’, a new group... Read more -
The Prismatics
Jim Lambie April 19 - May 26, 2007 April 4, 2007— Jim Lambie’s forth solo-exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery consists of five modified wall tapestries, an assemblage-like floor sculpture and a video. On a closer look, however, and while submitting to the artist’s premise proposed in the exhibition title The Prismatics, the viewer enters a space of optics... Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal
March 8 - April 14, 2007 March 21, 2007—Wilhelm Sasnal’s third solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery consists of a 16 mm film projection, a set of posters (ink on paper), and a group of paintings. All works are held together by the theme of intoxication, which is introduced through the film’s narrative, structure, and atmosphere.... Read more -
Blue Paintings Light to Dark One through Ten
Mark Grotjahn January 19 - February 28, 2007 The title of the exhibition is the most concise description of the works on view: Blue Paintings Light to Dark One through Ten. After Mark Grotjahn’s recent solo show of drawings at the Whitney Museum, this is the first presentation of paintings in New York in four years and his... Read more
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8 1/2 x 11, mit Schisslaveng
John Bock December 6, 2006 - January 5, 2007 “8 1/2 x 11 mit Schisslaveng” John Bock’s current roof installation at Anton Kern Gallery will be moved to a new location in Chelsea, reconfigured and exhibited during the month of December. Bock will combine the roof objects with the spiral staircase into a “forest” of “Decision Trees” and related... Read more -
Attic
Organized by Erin Somerville December 6, 2006 - January 5, 2007 Attic comprises a loose smattering of friends and allies; Brian Clifton, Kate Levant, Jeffrey P. Porterfield, Joshua Smith, Mike Smith and Ned Vena– a collection of artists who each work across a wide array of mediums. Installed a floor above John Bock’s reconfiguring of his recent exhibition, Mit schisslaveng at... Read more -
Enrique Metinides
December 1, 2006 - January 13, 2007 For the first time in New York, a solo show of the extraordinary work of 72 year old Mexican newspaper photographer Enrique Metinides will be on view at Anton Kern Gallery. The exhibition will comprise 35 black & white and color prints and represents a striking cross section of five... Read more -
Sarah Jones
December 1, 2006 - January 13, 2007 In her third solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, British artist Sarah Jones will show a group of photographs that she took during two extended stays at a colony for artists, writers, and musicians. The images, large-scale color prints (48 x 48 inches), take their cue from the austere interior... Read more
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Byrds
Jim Lambie September 7 - October 14, 2006 Read more -
Brian Calvin
September 7 - October 14, 2006 A group of paintings and drawings by L.A. based artist Brian Calvin, making a subtle turn from his previously known work, will be on view for his second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery until October 14, 2006. It has been said that Brian Calvin’s paintings explore the physiognomy of... Read more -
Implosion: Ten Year Anniversary
June 29 - July 28, 2006 Kai Althoff, Nobuyoshi Araki, Georg Baselitz, Ellen Berkenblit, John Bock, Brian Calvin, Angus Fairhurst, Mark Flood, Mark Grotjahn, Bendix Harms, Eberhard Havekost, Lothar Hempel, Georg Herold, Jörg Immendorff, Sergej Jensen, Sarah Jones, Michael Joo, Edward Krasinski, Jim Lambie, John Lurie, Marepe, Dan McCarthy, Adam McEwen, Melvins, Matthew Monahan, Matt Mullican,... Read more -
Robert Altman: I Am What I Am
Organized by Ellen Berkenblit May 18 - June 24, 2006 I Am What I Am brings together previously unseen materials (still photographs, snapshots and other ephemera) culled from American film director Robert Altman’s personal archive by painter Ellen Berkenblit. The exhibition will offer a look at the Altman atmosphere and the director’s interest in behavior (rather than performance), location and... Read more
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Umbrella
Lothar Hempel May 18 - June 24, 2006 Like loosely bound molecules, the elements of Lothar Hempel’s exhibition vigorously interplay. For his sixth solo show at the Anton Kern Gallery, the Cologne based artist brought together a group of figure paintings, collages, and a large sculptural installation including a twelve-foot rowboat. Hempel chose the human body in motion... Read more -
Delete / How to Make a Perfect Ghost
Curated by Michael Clifton March 2 - April 1, 2006 Subtract, obscure, dismantle – through various acts of deletion, artists Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Sergej Jensen, Gedi Sibony and Katja Strunz simultaneously negate and honor the former existence of objects, images and ideas. With formal properties that bear occasional surface resemblance to Constructivism and modernist mark-making, these artists peel back... Read more -
Fuga Verde
Alessandro Pessoli March 2 - April 1, 2006 In his third solo show at the Anton Kern Gallery, Italian artist Alessandro Pessoli departs from his well-established vocabulary of smallscale watercolor drawings. He breaks with familiarity of the paper in favor of large aluminum panes boldly painted with enamel, oil and spray paint. The exhibition, entitled Fuga Verde (“Green... Read more -
Solid As A Rock
Bendix Harms January 19 - February 25, 2006 For his first solo show in New York, German artist Bendix Harms has created a high-spirited body of large-scale paintings, full of enjoyment, anticipation, and melancholy, which will be exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery from January 19 through February 25, 2006. Straightforwardly enough, the show is centered around a painting... Read more
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Painting Flower and Diaries
Nobuyoshi Araki November 17 - January 14, 2005 A group of rarely seen photographs by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki will be on view at Anton Kern Gallery; in particular a body of work entitled Painting Flower, as well as 101 Images Dedicated to Robert Frank and other works selected from the Diaries. The exhibition opens November 17 and... Read more -
Paintings
Sergej Jensen October 14 - November 12, 2005 For his first one-person exhibition in New York, German artist Sergej Jensen created a body of paintings, consisting of sewn-together fields of dyed fabric marked with paint, bleach or strips of fabric, of which a group of eighteen will be shown at Anton Kern Gallery from October 18 through November... Read more -
Distilled
Michael Joo September 8 - October 1, 2005 This fall, Korean-American sculptor Michael Joo will inaugurate a large-scale installation entitled Still Lives. As a preview to the unveiling, Anton Kern Gallery will put on a concise presentation of one new sculpture by Joo entitled Distilled, starting September 8, 2005. Distilled is Joo’s fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern... Read more -
Lara Schnitger
September 8 - October 8, 2005 After receiving much attention for her solo shows in Stockholm and The Hague, and for her participation in the Hammer Museum exhibition entitled THING, Lara Schnitger returns to New York with two solo shows next month. Schnitger’s new body of highly eroticized sculptures premieres at Anton Kern Gallery on September... Read more
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Matthew Monahan
June 24 - July 29, 2005 Like entering a Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities, the viewer of Matthew Monahan’s new exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery will be engulfed by a multitude of displays containing a variety of wax figures, paper sculptures, ornamental drawings, and other artifacts. The work was made in the last two years, though... Read more -
Jorg Immendorff
May 19 - June 18, 2005 Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal
May 19 - June 18, 2005 For the first time, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal has created an entire body of work in the United States, of which a dozen paintings and a group of large ink drawings will be on view at Anton Kern Gallery from May 19 through June 18, 2005. Wilhelm Sasnal, who just... Read more -
Dan McCarthy
April 7 - May 14, 2005 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce the third solo show at the gallery of New York artist Dan McCarthy. Dan McCarthy’s recent body of paintings puts a new spin on the traditional theme of beach scenes. The paintings are populated with bathers, on the beach or in the water,... Read more
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David Shrigley
March 3 - April 2, 2005 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo show of Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley. Witty, prolific and darkly humorous, Shrigley’s work pinpoints moments in a disjointed stream of consciousness and reveals an offbeat world. Eccentric moral dilemmas must be faced at every turn. Every situation is simultaneously bizarre... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
March 3 - April 2, 2005 New York artist Ellen Berkenblit will show a group of new paintings in the back room gallery. All works originated during her 2004 Art Production Fund residency at Claude Monet’s estate and gardens in the small French town of Giverny. Berkenblit, ever so New York, however, seemed more taken by... Read more -
Seated Videos, 1977-1997
Marcel Odenbach January 22 - February 26, 2005 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Seated Videos 1977-1997, a survey exhibition of works by German artist Marcel Odenbach. This is the artist’s seventh solo show in New York and the fourth at this gallery. Marcel Odenbach is a pre-eminent video artist who has, since the 1970s, influenced the... Read more -
Marvel
Eberhard Havekost November 18 - December 23, 2004 Read more
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Fieber/Fever: 5 New Paintings and Other Stories
Lothar Hempel November 18 - December 23, 2004 Read more -
John Bock & Bendix Harms
October 16 - November 13, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present John Bock’s fourth exhibition at the gallery. The show is part of a series of curatorial projects that build upon the idea of collaboration. For his current solo exhibition at the ICA in London, he invited artists with similar interests in ‘action’ (Vito... Read more -
Brian Calvin
September 9 - October 16, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition of artist Brian Calvin in New York. He currently lives and works in California. Brian Calvin’s paintings are a continuation of the narrative of the figure in painting; weird and quietly disconcerting, the mischievously witty paintings are a meditation... Read more -
Marepe
June 24 - July 30, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present Sinho, the first solo show of Brazilian artist Marepe in New York. Marepe was born in 1970 in Brazil, and has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since the early 1990s. His work has evolved from a deep relationship to local tradition.... Read more
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John Lurie
May 6 - June 19, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery debut of musician, actor, director and artist John Lurie. For this exhibition, the artist will present a selection of works on paper vibrant in color and somber in tone. 'I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me.... Read more -
antePOP Drawings 1958-1962
Andy Warhol May 6 - June 19, 2004 The Anton Kern Gallery is proud to offer a view into the early work of Andy Warhol (1928 –1987) through an exhibition of drawings from 1958 -1962. The twenty-five drawings on display distinguish themselves from the familiarity of Warhol’s drawings exhibited in recent years; they do not yet fully fit... Read more -
Mental Oyster
Jim Lambie April 1 - May 1, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present Mental Oyster, a new exhibition of artwork by Scottish artist Jim Lambie. Opening April 1st, his third solo show in New York features new sculptural work fabricated from doors, vinyl tape and sequined tube tops. Jim Lambie’s sculpture and installations reference music via... Read more -
Commerzbank
Manfred Pernice February 21 - March 20, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present Commerzbank, a new exhibition of artwork by German artist Manfred Pernice. Opening Saturday, February 21st, his third solo show in New York features a new series of bench-like sculptures. Commerzbank is a collection of objects the artist refers to as Merzbanks for their... Read more
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SCREAM: 10 artists x 10 writers x 10 scary movies
Curated by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton January 15 - February 14, 2004 SCREAM addresses a diversity of horrors influencing today’s contemporary artists – from Slasher films and Halloween traditions to the howl of Black Metal. Matt Greene, Banks Violette and Bjarne Melgaard comb the dark landscapes of Goth, Black Metal and Sadomasochism to frame present-day horrors. For David Altmejd and Dora Longo... Read more -
Paper on Paper
Marcel Odenbach November 20, 2003 - January 10, 2004 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition of work by German artist Marcel Odenbach. For his sixth solo show in New York, he will present new series of collages and watercolors. Marcel Odenbach is widely recognized for his important contribution to video art since the 1970s. As... Read more -
Mark Grotjahn
October 9 - November 15, 2003 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn in New York. Grotjahn will present a series of bold geometric paintings in which the palette is monochromatic, the oil paint is thick and the brush stroke is truly present. The careful layers... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
September 6 - October 4, 2003 For her second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, American artist Ellen Berkenblit will present a series of paintings and recent drawings that incorporate the use of perforated and expanded metal. Painted separately and fused together, the metal assemblage forms a graffiti landscape that is both uniform and trippy. For... Read more
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Edward Krasiński
June 26 - August 1, 2003 Anton Kern Gallery is honored to present the first solo exhibition by Polish conceptual artist Edward Krasinski in the United States. A site-specific installation comprised of hanging mirrors will occupy the gallery’s main space along with a selection of earlier interventions. A blue band of tape, which first appeared in... Read more -
The Melvins
Curated by Bob Nickas May 15 - June 21, 2003 Who? The Melvins. What? Album covers designed by artist-fans of the band, commissioned by a curator-fan of the band. Where? At the gallery of Anton Kern, an art-dealer-fan of the band. When ? May 15th through June Where? At the gallery of Anton Kern, an art-dealer-fan of the band. When?... Read more -
Dan McCarthy
May 15 - June 21, 2003 For his second show at Anton Kern Gallery, American artist Dan McCarthy will present a selection of earlier paintings (1992 to 1994) along with recent canvases of the past year. A new catalogue, featuring reproductions of earlier paintings flanked by the haiku texts of Philip Taaffe, will accompany the show.... Read more -
The Song of the Bird is NONSENSE
Lothar Hempel April 4 - May 10, 2003 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present The Song of the Bird is NONSENSE, the fourth solo show of German artist Lothar Hempel in New York. His intricate installations supplant viewers into scenarios that evoke literature, theatre and cinematic narrative. Hempel’s artwork question the confines between the experience of the... Read more
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T-ów
Wilhelm Sasnal January 16 - February 15, 2003 Anton Kern Gallery is proud to present T- ów, the first solo show of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal in New York. Wilhelm Sasnal’s painting underscores the gaps between reality and representation, memory and fantasy, solidity and intangibility. His work presents a queasy palette akin to the off-kilter print quality of... Read more -