OPPOSITE PAGE: ULLA VON
OPPOSITE PAGE: ULLA VON BRANDENBURG, C, Ü, I, T, H, E, A, K, O, G, N, B, D, F, R, M, P, L, II, 2019, PHOTO : ANDRÉS LEJONA, CASINO LUXEMBOURG, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ART : CONCEPT, PARIS; MEYER RIEGGER, BERLIN/KARLSRUHE ; PILAR CORRIAS GALLERY, LONDON AND PRODUZENTENGALERIE HAMBURG; THIS PAGE: MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ, ‘ARTIST PORTRAIT WITH A CANDLE (C)’, FROM THE SERIES PLACES OF POWER, 2013. © MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ Marina Abramović’s Artist Portrait with a Candle (detail, 2013) CONTEMPORARY GIANTS There may be no bigger star in the art-world firmament than Marina Abramović, many of whose performance-led pieces will be recreated at her coming retrospective at London’s Royal Academy, Marina Abramović: After Life (26 Sept – 8 Dec; royalacademy.org.uk), which she has helped curate. Across the pond, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All (until 5 July; metmuseum. org) also chronicles the decades-long career of a European artist, the more than 100 works on display offering up a précis of Richter’s trademark tension between representation and abstraction in one of the final shows at the Met’s Breuer location. The exhibition moves to Los Angeles in August, and just up the coast, the de Young Museum in San Francisco will host Judy Chicago: A Retrospective (9 May – 6 Sept; deyoung.famsf.org) featuring some 150 works by the feminist artist in the year that marks the centenary of women’s right to vote across the US. Back on the European continent, two more exhibitions explore the successes of talents who have long been in the public spotlight: Isa Genzken: Works 1973-1983 (6 June – 11 Oct; kunstmuseumbasel.ch) looks at the fruits of a particularly ripe period for the German artist in Basel, while In My Beginning Is My End: The Art of Hsiao Chin (24 April – 20 June; rothkocenter.com) at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia highlights the remarkable work of Chin, a Chinese painter who settled in Europe in the 1950s and whose European-meets-Asian sensibility is utterly of the moment. RISING STARS Among young artists, there's been a renewed push for the Gesamtkunstwerk and, at the moment, Ulla von Brandenburg (until 17 May; palaisdetokyo.com), a self-titled exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, makes the most compelling case for its value, a multimedia, multi-narrative installation full of bold colours and 47 DEPARTURES
DEPARTURES CULTURE ON VIEW 48 From left: Gerhard Richer's Cage 4 (2006); Chiharu Shiota’s haunting installation In Silence (2002/2019) There may be no bigger star in the art-world firmament than Marina Abramović, many of whose performance-led pieces will be recreated at her coming retrospective big themes. On the other side of the planet, in Australia, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art will host Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles (27 June – 5 Oct; qagoma.qld.gov.au), which showcases the spiderweb-like works of the Japan-born, Berlinbased artist who has made waves at recent showings in Busan and Tokyo. Another multi-hyphen prodigy, Michael Armitage – who was born in Kenya and trained in London – proves his case as an ascendant name to watch with two exhibitions this year: Accomplice Isa Genzken’s transfixing Parallelograms (1975) (until 15 June; norvalfoundation. org), which centres on a series of recent Kenyan politics-influenced paintings, at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, and a self-titled show (24 July – 3 Jan; hausderkunst.de) at Munich’s Haus der Kunst. Under the auspices of the Reina Sofia in Madrid, Petrit Halilaj (3 April – 6 Sept; museoreinasofia.es) will create another of his biography-informed installations in the Palacio de Cristal – the latest in a series of high-profile solo displays that have included the New Museum in New York, Fondazione Merz in Turin and the Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Ed Atkins is another thirtysomething artist on the rise, and his Live White Slime (until 23 Aug; kiasma.fi) brings together many of his mind-melding video works, alongside new pieces, at the always provocative Kiasma in Helsinki. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GERHARD RICHTER, CAGE 4, 2006, OIL ON CANVAS, TATE: LENT FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 2007,© GERHARD RICHTER 2019; CHIHARU SHIOTA, IN SILENCE 2002/2019, BURNT PIANO, BURNT CHAIR, ALCANTARA BLACK THREAD; INSTALLATION VIEW: SHIOTA CHIHARU: THE SOUL TREMBLES, MORI ART MUSEUM, TOKYO, 2019, COURTESY: KENJI TAKI GALLERY, NAGOYA/TOKYO, PHOTO: SUNHI MANG; JENS ZIEHE
