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Miron Schmückle, Cosmic Attractors I, recto, 2023, Watercolor, Indian ink, genuine stone pigments, Polychromos crayons and pitt graphite on cotton cardboard 153 x 219 cm, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Courtesy the artist and Setareh Düsseldorf, Photo: Joachim Schulz

ART CITIES: Frankfurt-Miron Schmückle

The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is among the singular protagonists of contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Ceaușescu, already as a …

Michael Dean, Unfuckingtitled (!) (FULL EMPTY), 2023, Reinforced concrete and oil paint on sack cloth, 65 x 180 x 15 cm, 25 5/8 x 70 7/8 x 5 7/8 in, © Michael Dean, Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM

ART CITIES: Paris-Michael Dean

Borrowing instruments and strategies from the practices of the sculptor, the writer and the typographer, British artist Michael Dean investigates the relationship …

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Continuous Reenactments”, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kirsi Halkola

ART CITIES: Helsinki-Haegue Yang

Dividing her time between Germany and Korea since the mid-1990s, Haegue Yang has been gathering inspiration from a wide range of social, …

Exhibition view “Ceramics”, Galerie Mikael Andersen- Copenhagen, 2023, Courtesy Galerie Mikael Andersen

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Ceramics

Holdings illustrate the continued endurance of ceramics alongside works exemplifying movements that sought to release the medium of clay from its functional …

Antony Gormley, Resting Place, 2023, Terracotta, 244 figures, dimensions variable, © Antony Gormley, Courtesy the artis and White Cube Gallery

ART CITIES: London-Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley is acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His …

Selma Selman, Motherboards, performance 2023, KRASS Kultur Crash Festival, Hamburg, photo: Mario Ilić, © & Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES: Berlin-Selma Selmane

Selma Selman’s artistic process echoes the older tradition of a polymath artist ethically synthesizing technological and ecological tools to resolve the conflicts …

Left: Guillaume Bresson, Sans titre, 2022, Gouache on paper prepared in acrylic, 83, 5 x 64 x 5 cm (32 7/8 x 25 3/16 x 1 31/32 in), © Guillaume Bresson, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Photo Right: Guillaume Bresson, Sans titre, 2022, Gouache on paper prepared in acrylic, 83, 5 x 64 x 5 cm (32 7/8 x 25 3/16 x 1 31/32 in), © Guillaume Bresson, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES: Paris-Guillaume Bresson

Considered one of the leading figures in figurative painting, Guillaume Bresson is known for his resolutely contemporary scenes, reinvesting a mode of …

Yoshitomo Nara, Title TBC, 2001, colored pencil and pen on paper 4-3/4" × 10-1/4" (12 cm × 26.1 cm, © Yoshitomo Nara, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES: Geneva-Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara is a pioneering figure in contemporary art whose signature style, which expresses figures in a range of emotional complexities from …

Tom Friedman, Body Dream, 2022, Colored pencil on paper, 44 x 56.38 inches, 111.8 x 143.2 cm, © Tom Friedman, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman is a conceptual artist known for his meticulously fabricated work, including sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and installation. Friedman investigates the …

Neo Rauch, Feldzeichen, 2023 (detail). © Neo Rauch/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, and David Zwirner

ART CITIES: Hong Kong-Neo Rauch

Widely celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters working today, Neo Rauch has gained international acclaim for richly colored and …

Cole Sternberg, by reason of the high hills, 2023, acrylic, pigment print, and watercolor on satin cloth, 65 x 88 in, 165.1 x 223.5 cm, © Cole Sternberg, courtesy the artist and Praz-Delavallade Gallery

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Cole Sternberg

Cole Sternberg’s practice contemplates humanity’s existential quandary: that of being hopelessly destructive, yet forever and inevitably linked with nature. Through varied media …

Nari Ward, Balance Fountain, 2013-2014, Wheel barrow, window balances, mango seeds, Aluminet shade cloth, broken mirror, 62.99 x 72.83 x 22.44 inches, 160 x 185 x 57 cm, © Nari Ward. Installed with: Nari Ward, Groundin' Visible, 2023, Copper, darkening patina, bricks, 2.5 x 75 x 117 inches, 6.4 x 190.5 x 297.2 cm, © Nari Ward. Photo by Daniel Kukla. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES: London-Nari Ward

Emerging alongside a notable group of African-American artists who rose to prominence in the ‘90s, Nari Ward’s massive and tactile approach to …

Left: Gary Hume, Wild Horses One 2023, Enamel paint on aluminum in two parts, 114⅛ × 94⅛ inches; 290 × 239 cm, © Gary Hume, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Right: Gary Hume, Oil on Water 2023, Enamel paint on aluminum, 27 × 18¾ inches; 69 × 48 cm, © Gary Hume, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Gary Hume

Gary Hume is best known for his figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with …

Photo Left: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Josephine Red/Black, 2021, Black patina bronze with red cord, 150 x 130 x 190 cm / 59 x 51.18 x 74.8 in, © Barbara Chase-Riboud, Photo: Jo Underhill, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Gallery. Photo Right: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #16, 2016, Bronze with red patina, silk, wool, polished cotton and synthetic fibers with, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Barbara Chase Riboud

With a career spanning over seven decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s innovation in sculptural technique and materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds …

Ghada Amer, WITCHES (detail), 2023, Embroidery on muslin, Set of 12 / Edition of 8, © Ghada Amer, Courtesy the artist and Tina Kim Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer is best known for her subversive embroidered paintings that appropriate imagery from pornographic magazines as a means of creating an …

Marine Hugonnier, Meadow Report, 2021 (Film still), 35 mm film, Colour, sound, 11 min, Courtesy the artist, © Marine Hugonnier

ART CITIES: Bilbao-Marine Hugonnier

Through her films and installations, Marine Hugonnier explores the way ideologies, desires, and discourses converge in the forms of artistic representation. Her …

Tarek Atoui, Waters’ Witness, exhibition view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia (2023). Photo: Zan Wimberley.

ART CITIES: Seoul-Tarek Atoui

A sound performer, musician, and composer, Tarek Atoui challenges conventional modes of sound perception by creating custom electronic instruments, rooted in his …

Ad Reinhardt

ART CITIES: N.York-Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt was one of the most relentless defenders of the purity of abstraction. “The one object of fifty years of abstract …

Sonia Gomes, Symphony Of Colors, 2023, Installation view Pinacoteca de São Paulo- São Paulo, Courtesy the artist and Pinacoteca de São Paulo

ART CITIES: São Paulo-Sonia Gomes

Sonia Gomes’ production develops from materials such as fabrics, lines, threads and objects. Along with the layers of fabrics and trimmings, techniques …

Chico da Silva, Untitled, 1972, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 22 7/8 x 27 3/4 inches (58.1 x 70.3 cm), framed: 24 3/8 x 29 1/4 x 2 inches (61.9 x 74.1 x 5.1 cm), Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Chico da Silva

A Brazilian artist of Indigenous descent, Francisco da Silva, known as Chico da Silva or simply “Chico”, was painting fantastical universes on …

ART CITIES: Paris

Throughout his four-decade long career, Henry Taylor has consistently and simultaneously embraced and rejected the tenets of traditional painting, as well as …

Marcel Duchamp’s dedication to Peggy Guggenheim in her copy of the from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise), 1935–41, cat. no. 6, deluxe edition no. I/XX, January 1941. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York)

ART CITIES:Venice-Marcel Duchamp

As an artist who constantly challenged convention, Marcel Duchamp refused to respect the entrenched cultural and commercial hierarchies that extolled—even fetishized—artistic originals …