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Hélène Delprat, J’accuse, 2023, Pigment, acrylic binder and glitter on canvas, 250 x 566 x 4 cm / 98 3/8 x 222 7/8 x 1 5/8 in, © Hélène Delprat, Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Hélène Delprat

Inspired by literature such as Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, cinema as in Melville’s “Les Enfants Terribles” and the culture of radio, Hélène Delprat’s work explores the questions …

Tetsuya Yamada, Listening, Installation view,Courtesy the artist and Walker Art Center

ART CITIES: N.York-Tetsuya Yamada

Tetsuya Yamada’s body of work experiments with qualities of twinkling and balanced lightness and weighty, assured heaviness. Polished glaze casts glimmers across …

Martin Barré, 75-76-D-157x145, 1975–76, Acrylic on canvas, 61⅞ × 57⅛ inches; 157 × 145 cm, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Martin Barré

Martin Barré is known for his pioneering, conceptual approach to painting. Beginning in the 1950s, Barré rejected the gestural abstraction of his …

Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy (Deep Brain Stimulation, Siena, Full Width, Exa), 2024, cotton, polyester, nylon, and wood, 132-1/2" × 205-1/2" × 2" (336.6 cm × 522 cm × 5.1 cm) 136-1/8" × 208-7/16" × 3-13/16" (345.8 cm × 529.4 cm × 9.7 cm), framed, © Mika Tajima, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Mika Tajima

In her sculptures, paintings, videos, and installations, Japanese-American artist Mika Tajima interrogates the techniques and technologies developed to shape and control the …

Stanley Whitney, Untitled, 2019 Gouache on paper, 22 × 30 inches (55.9 × 76.2 cm), © Stanley Whitney. Photo: Rob McKeever, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: Paris-Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney investigates the intricate possibilities of color and form in the realm of abstract painting. Since the mid-1970s, Whitney has been …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2022. In Ellen Gallagher — All of No Man’s Land is Ours, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The George Economou Collection. Photo: Peter Tijhuis

ART CITIES: Amsterdam-Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher builds multi-layered paintings that pivot between the natural world, mythology and history. Her painting process involves undoing and reforming trains …

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 …