Marian Goodman Gallery

"I’m interested in how people present themselves in front of my camera. I’m always looking for their authenticity, for something that distinguishes themselves from others” —Rineke Dijkstra

As we commence our New York gallery’s move from Midtown to Tribeca, we continue our series, Visions of NY: An Artist’s Point of View, a selection of works by our artists with a focus on our fine city. This week, we feature two of Rineke's portraits from her “Wall Street” series, photographed 31 years ago in 1993.

In her 2012 essay on Dijkstra’s work, Twenty Years of Looking at People, for the exhibition catalogue, “Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective,” Sandra S. Phillips writes:

“As an artist, Dijkstra has a patience and sympathy for the people in her pictures, an ability to look carefully at them and to represent what she finds; she shows us their complexities without sentiment and without minimizing the uncertainty, even the traumas they may face. ... Because of their size and their intimacy, her pictures present these moments of insight, glances at what is beautiful and vulnerable, and ask that we see, remember, and understand even that we cherish these moments, because they will disappear.”

To learn more about her portraits, please visit our website: https://shorturl.at/3EZab

Rineke Dijkstra, “Wall Street, New York, USA, June 29, 1993 (A),” and “Wall Street, New York, USA, June 29, 1993 (C),” 1993, printed 2006.

The Partners of Marian Goodman Gallery announced today the opening of its new flagship location in downtown Manhattan on October 26, 2024. Revitalizing the historic Grosvenor Building in Tribeca's growing arts district, the Gallery will be inaugurated by a major group exhibition highlighting the intellectual and creative affinities that have defined the Gallery’s program for over 40 years. Featuring a range of new commissions and installations as well as activations, performance, and moving image presentations, the inaugural exhibition provides a nuanced, cross-generational overview of artistic practices today and showcases the unique cosmos of artists represented by the Gallery.

Following the inauguration of Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles last fall, the opening of the Tribeca flagship reflects the Gallery’s acceleration into its next chapter under the leadership of Partners Philipp Kaiser, Emily-Jane Kirwan, Rose Lord, Leslie Nolen, and Junette Teng. With a dynamic street-level presence, the newly renovated 30,000-square-feet building provides a prominent platform for the Gallery and its artists, who are among the most innovative and influential of our time.

On view through December 21, 2024, the exhibition will include work by: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Giovanni Anselmo, Leonor Antunes, Nairy Baghramian, Lothar Baumgarten, Dara Birnbaum, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Boyd, Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Rineke Dijkstra, Cerith Wyn Evans, Andrea Fraser, Bernard Frize, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Cristina Iglesias, Amar Kanwar, An-My Lê, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Annette Messager, Delcy Morelos, Sabine Moritz, Maria Nordman, Gabriel Orozco, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Edi Rama, Anri Sala, Matt Saunders, Tino Sehgal, Paul Sietsema, Robert Smithson, Ettore Spalletti, Tavares Strachan, Thomas Struth, Niele Toroni, Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vo, James Welling, and Yang Fudong.

Read the full press release on our website: https://shorturl.at/H0KeL

Image: Courtesy of studioMDA

The staff of Marian Goodman Gallery sends condolences to the family and colleagues of Dorothy Lichtenstein. Her lasting and essential contributions to the art world, along with her philanthropic efforts, were remarkable.

As a Board Vice Chair at Studio in a School, she has been a part of an organization that has provided arts education to over a million New York City public school students, and specialized training for teachers. Our gallery’s Education Program team has often collaborated with Studio in a School NYC to provide visual materials and concepts for school lesson plans.

As President of the Roy Lichtenstein foundation, Dorothy was key to our production of a version of Roy’s iconic 1968 Modern Head Pin, to commemorate the historical exhibition “Multiples, Inc.: 1965-1992” held at the Marian Goodman Gallery New York in 2021. A portion of the proceeds were sent to Studio Institute, which is part of The Studio in a School Association (SIAS).

We remain forever in awe of Dorothy her generosity and her enduring impact on the arts.

📸 Dorothy Lichtenstein. Credit: Kevin Ryan

“When I paint larger works with larger brushes, giving myself to the brushwork comes naturally. In those moments where the brush moves across the surface, I am there, in a different world.” – Jongsuk Yoon

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Korean-German artist Jongsuk Yoon in the United States, from 13 July - 17 August 2024. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, 13 July from 5-8 pm at 1120 Seward Street in Los Angeles, CA 90038.

Yoon focuses her practice on drawings and paintings that hover in the space between figuration and abstraction. In works on paper, canvas, as well as directly on walls, Yoon creates charged and dreamlike color field landscapes that reflect her interests in both European and American Modernism and East Asian traditions.

Her unique approach to painting is found in atmospheric layers of highly gestural and variously textured brushstrokes. The colors, a rich palette of bright yellows, soft fuchsias, and pale blues, are also references to specific memories, such as azalea blossom-covered mountains in the Korean springtime. The disembodied forms of color present this profoundly fraught geopolitical terrain as an anti-monumental, illusory reverie.

Her work is currently featured in "Kumgangsan," a solo exhibition at Mumok (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation) in Vienna, Austria. Past select solo exhibitions include Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (2021); Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (2020); Wall Paintings, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2018); Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2017); and Osthaus Museum, Hagen (2015). Her works can be found in many public collections, including Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Sprengel Museum and Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, among others.

Jongsuk Yoon
White Water, 2023
Oil on canvas
55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in. (140 x 120 cm)

The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, presents “Desire Disorder,” the first major solo exhibition in China by the renowned Annette Messager, from 6 July to 8 October 2024.

The exhibition will feature over 70 works across various media, including drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations. This exhibition will not only revisit significant moments in Messager’s half-century-long career but also showcase large-scale installations adapted to the PSA’s space. https://shorturl.at/5awYL

As we commence our New York gallery’s move from Midtown to Tribeca, we are pleased to present Visions of NY: An Artist’s Point of View, a selection of works by our artists with a focus on our fine city.

After documenting streets and buildings in the working-class area of East London in 1977, Thomas Struth conceived a research project to photograph social housing in its urban context, where he chose to focus on urban panoramic views and street perspectives. With the help of a scholarship from the Kunstakademie that allowed him to travel to New York and photograph as desired, Struth moved to America within the year and stayed until September 1978.

Over the course of several months, Struth photographed in various districts in Manhattan including Wall Street, Tribeca, SoHo, Chelsea, Midtown, Harlem as well as in Brooklyn, Queens and elsewhere, making two hundred black-and-white street photographs, invariably with a central perspective.

“I was interested in the possibility of the photographic image revealing the different character or the ‘sound’ of the place. I learned that certain areas of the city have an emblematic character; they express the city’s structure. How can the atmosphere of one place be so different from another, and why? This question has always been important to me," said Struth.

To learn more about these works, please visit our website: https://shorturl.at/bZaEl

Images: Thomas Struth, “West 56th Street at 8th Avenue, New York,” 1978; “West 80th Street at Broadway, New York,” 1978; “Hudson Street, New York/Tribeca,” 1978; “Hester Street at Mulberry Street, New York,” 1978
Silver gelatin print

🇺🇸 July 4th Closure Announcement 🇺🇸

Happy 4th! Our New York office remains closed until we open in Tribeca this fall.

Rineke Dijkstra
“Coney Island, N.Y., USA, June 20, 1993,” 2023
Archival inkjet print
53 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (136 x 107.9 cm)

Opening tomorrow: "Pratza ’e Domo. A Semiotic House That Was Never Built," a group exhibition at Museo Nivola. Nairy Baghramian created the concept for this show upon receiving the 2023 Nivola Award for Sculpture.

The exhibition features work by Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Nicolas Hsiung, Janette Laverrière, Rosemary Mayer, Win McCarthy, Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Paulina Olowska, Monika Sosnowska and Mariantonia Urru. ⁠https://shorturl.at/vpMww

📸 Nairy Baghramian installing Rosemary Mayers’s Midwinter Ghost (1980/81–2024), 2024 © Atelier Baghramian

The first monographic exhibition in Paris by Edi Rama, artist and current Prime Minister of Albania, continues at 66 rue du Temple. The exhibition offers a panorama of Rama’s practice with drawings on paper, printed wallpaper, ceramic sculptures, and a hand-embroidered folding screen. The ensemble, the result of an unprecedented creative process, underscores the artist's close relationship with color.

Color has been essential to Rama, both in his political career and in his artistic practice, for its ability to convey elements of the psyche but also for its potential to change our perceptions and invigorate dialogue between individuals.

For instance, when Rama started drawing in his ministerial office, he decided to integrate his work into his political environment, displaying his colorful works and incorporating them as motifs for wallpaper on site.

A notable first in this exhibition is a folding screen on which Rama’s multicolored drawings are hand-embroidered. This piece incorporates a composition inspired by X-rays of the famous cycle, “The Battle of San Romano,” painted by Florentine Renaissance artist Paolo Uc***lo in the early 1440s, further highlighting the artist’s profound engagement with color.

Exhibition continues through 26 July 2024: https://shorturl.at/BTql9

Photo: Rebecca Fanuele

“‘Landscape and Memory’ recalls that memory of landscape that was, and constructs a new one that calls our imagination.” —Cristina Iglesias

Listen to Cristina Iglesias as she speaks with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy. The two discuss Iglesias’s 2022 public installation, ‘Landscape and Memory,’ which unearthed the forgotten terrains and geographic history of Madison Square Park with five bronze sculptural pools on the Oval Lawn. https://shorturl.at/srGk4

Photo: Alex Yudzon

After 43 wonderful years, we will be saying goodbye to our 57th Street location at the end of this month, as we anticipate our move to our new flagship location in Tribeca this fall.

Our final day at the 57th Street location will be Saturday, 29 June. Until then, we invite you to explore the following exhibitions: "Giuseppe Penone: Hands – Earth – Light – Colors" and "Gabriel Orozco: Spacetime."

In the interim period, our New York staff will be working offsite during regular business hours, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 6 pm.

For inquiries or to schedule a viewing, please contact us at +1 212 977 7160 or [email protected].

Today, we celebrate Maria Nordman on her special day.

To learn about and her work, please visit mariangoodman.com.

"Giovanni Anselmo: Oltre l'orizzonte (Beyond the Horizon)," organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with MAXXI, highlights the uniqueness of Anselmo's art and its fundamental impact on the development of the Arte Povera movement.

The exhibition is a journey through his career from the 1960s to today, showcasing the creative approach of an artist who ardently investigated the energies, forces, and dynamics that govern the universe.

While the works on display present a portrait of an artist associated with the Arte Povera movement, Anselmo managed to transcend any labels by creating his own artistic language. This language is characterized by its physicality, concepts of space and time, and the diverse range of media and elements employed.

“Drawing never demands a real-world scenario. Drawing steps into the world of dreams.” —Tony Cragg

Our inaugural exhibition with Tony Cragg in Los Angeles features several works on paper from 1998 to 2021. For Cragg, drawing is an essential activity, often existing autonomously from the practice of sculpture, as a daily process or the expression of a concrete idea. Drawing allows visualization of a complex material world, or can be a step into the unknown.

Be sure to catch the exhibition before it closes after next Saturday, 29 June. (Note: we will be closed tomorrow for Juneteenth.)

Tavares Strachan’s “art is always encyclopedic, engrossing, disconcerting and engaging.” —Adrian Searle, The Guardian

The first mid-career survey dedicated to the work of Tavares Strachan is now open at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London.

"Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere" showcases the remarkably inventive ways in which Strachan has celebrated unsung explorers and cultural trailblazers, inviting audiences to engage with overlooked characters whose stories represent and illuminate histories hidden by bias.

Featuring monumental new sculptural commissions alongside striking large-scale collages, neon works, bronze and ceramic sculptures, and mixed-media installations, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey of discovery and recovery that is simultaneously playful and impactful.

Strachan’s vividly realized stories of erasure and remembrance shine a light not only on histories of colonialism and racism, but also on the universal desire for a sense of belonging. https://shorturl.at/5ePBE

Photo: Mark Blower

The Gallery would like to wish Marian Goodman a very happy birthday today! May it be a joyful birthday celebration filled with laughter and love 💖🎂

Fondation Beyeler & Luma Foundation’s Summer Show is conceived as a “living organism” that changes and transforms throughout its duration. Featuring works by Adrián Villar Rojas, Pierre Huyghe, and Tino Sehgal, among others, the exhibition has transformed the entire museum and its surrounding park into a site of an experimental presentation of contemporary art.

The connections and interrelationships between the individual works on view were developed in close dialogue with the artists. This exchange also extends to works from the in-house collection, which are integral to the project. While a number of the paintings, sculptures, films, installations, and performances are site-specific, others are adapted versions of existing works.

Exhibition concept by Sam Keller, Mouna Mekouar, Isabela Mora, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Precious Okoyomon, Philippe Parreno and Tino Sehgal, in close collaboration with the participants.

through 11 August 2024: https://shorturl.at/Wl7s8

Adrián Villar Rojas
“The End of Imagination VI,” 2024
Live simulations of active digital ecologies, and layered composites of organic, inorganic, human and machine-made matter
© Adrián Villar Rojas
Photo: Mark Niedermann

Pierre Huyghe
“Idiom,” 2024
Realtime voice generated by Artificial Intelligence, golden LED screen masks
© 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich
Photo: Stefan Bohrer

Our Art Basel presentation showcases new and iconic works by 40 contemporary artists working in the US and internationally, with a number of exceptional works available online.

Visit us at our booth, B20, or visit our website to explore our presentation. https://shorturl.at/DBmom

“Each individual is actually like a bird itself: simple and ordinary. To fly away, to remain on the sea or to gather the courage to explore, that’s the question.” —Yang Fudong

Fudong discussed the three male protagonists in his film, “Sparrow on the Sea," in a recent interview with Kate Gu, M+ Associate Curator for Digital Special Projects. (The full conversation is available on the museum’s YouTube channel.)

His latest work is described by the artist as a site-specific ‘architectural film.’ Shot in Hong Kong, the black-and-white film weaves together scenes from seaside villages and nocturnal city streets. The work is also intended to function as a short poem, blending moments from the country’s past and present to offer a glimpse into an unpredictable future.

“Sparrow on the Sea" is on the facade of the M+ facing Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour through 14 July 2024. Fudong also documented the work in photographs, one of which is on view at . Come visit Hall 2.0/Booth B20 to learn more.

Yang Fudong
Sparrow on the Sea 1, 2024
Black and white photograph
39 3/4 x 70 7/8 in. (101 x 180 cm)

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