David Zwirner

Affinities: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Paul Klee opens today, March 13, at David Zwirner’s 20th Street gallery in New York. Curated by Nicholas Fox Weber of the Albers Foundation, the exhibition presents work by three artists who overlapped at the Bauhaus in 1920s and 30s. Plan your visit: https://lnkd.in/gqM_-TgS ?? Take a deeper dive by listening to our latest episode of Dialogues, the David Zwirner Podcast, Anni Albers: Her Life, Her Work, Her Words, with Diedrick Brackens, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Kristine Woods: https://lnkd.in/gK9gBc3u ?? Related: In Paris this week, Loewe debuted a new collection celebrating the pioneering work of Anni and Josef Albers, and their lifelong dedication to reshaping art into how we understand it today.

Wolfgang Tillmans: Weltraum opens today at the Albertinum in Dresden, marking the artist’s first major museum show in Germany in over half a decade. Following the artist’s extensive retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Weltraum focuses on entirely new works created since 2022. The journey toward Tillmans’s latest photographic series began, in part, in San Francisco, a major hub of technological innovation in the United States, and continued through Guam to Southeast Asia. In regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia, Tillmans has continued his investigation into the material traces of internet and AI companies, observing how these industries intertwine disparate locales into a dense global network. —???? Installation view, Wolfgang Tillmans: Weltraum, Albertinum, Dresden, 2025. Photos by Oliver Killig

Sigmar Polke: Beneath the Cobblestones, the Earth—a major retrospective devoted to Sigmar Polke and the first in France since 2014— is now on view through May 25 at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles: https://zwrnr.art/3QDAvUY This presentation, curated by Bice Curiger, assisted by Margaux Bonopera, brings together paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and films that highlight the audacity of an artist driven by an incisive humor and a taste for experimentation. The exhibition’s French title, Sous les pavés, la terre, refers to the famous slogan of the May 68 movement, a period of civil unrest throughout France, while nodding to one of the artist’s favorite motifs: the potato (or “pomme de terre”). A previous iteration of the exhibition was previously on view at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Sigmar Polke in his studio, July 2002. Photo by Anna Polke

Huma Bhabha: Before The End, a Public Art Fund presentation at Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, is coming to a close. On view through Sunday, March 9, this striking installation brings together four monumental bronzes—cast from hand-carved cork and skull fragments—standing as enigmatic sentinels between worlds. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/41d8ybm “I titled it Before the End. I didn’t even know what was coming… What I felt about [the figures] is even more obvious now. They are here to be witnesses. Their meaning is still very relevant and even more so.” —Huma Bhabha in conversation with Shreya Ajmani via Artnet + This May, Bhabha’s work will be presented alongside Alberto Giacometti in the exhibition, Encounters: Giacometti at the Barbican Centre, exploring shared affinities in their sculptural approaches and material experimentation. In June, a solo exhibition of new drawings and sculptures by the artist will open at David Zwirner Paris. — Installation view, Huma Bhabha: Before The End, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, 2024

In a special episode of Dialogues, a David Zwirner podcast, host Helen Molesworth speaks with leading ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, artist Laurie Simmons, and activist Maryhope Howland Rutherford, PhD (she/her) on the current administration’s assault on the rights of trans citizens. Listen to “The Unconstitutional War on Trans People” here: https://lnkd.in/gJAbbBDw —???? Photo by Nathan Morris via Getty Images

Headed to Los Angeles for Frieze LA? We’ve got you covered with our guide to the best things to see in the city this week: ?? At David Zwirner Los Angeles, two new exhibitions will be on view, featuring new and recent work by Lisa Yuskavage and Tau Lewis. Join us Tuesday, February 18, for the opening reception for Lisa Yuskavage. ??Beginning Thursday, February 20, the gallery will present a special booth at Frieze (Booth E03) of a number of single-sitter portraits dated between 1995 and 2000 by John Currin, Karen Kilimnik, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans, and Lisa Yuskavage. ??Visit Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see Joan Mitchell’s East Ninth Street (c. 1956), on view to celebrate the centennial of the artist’s birth taking place this year. ??In a group exhibition titled Transmissions at the Marciano Art Foundation, explore works by Katherine Bernhardt, Barbara Kruger, Shio Kusaka, Yayoi Kusama, Sherrie Levine, Raymond Pettibon, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Franz West, all of which come from the Marciano Collection. —???? #LisaYuskavage, Faucet, 1995

The Feint of Heart Hoodie is now available exclusively on PLATFORM and in limited quantities at the David Zwirner Books shops in New York and Los Angeles. Get yours: https://lnkd.in/gz3G8SJg Ed Ruscha’s cover artwork for Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982–2002, transcends the page. This limited edition hoodie features Ruscha’s original art for Dave Hickey’s incisive collection of essays on art and culture, edited by Jarrett Earnest and published by David Zwirner Books. — Modeled by #JarrettEarnest. Photographed by Oliver Jaskowski

Happy Ruth Asawa Day! In 1982, San Francisco declared February 12 to be Ruth Asawa Day in honor of the artist’s work and her avid dedication to arts education in the city. On April 5, the first major traveling museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa will premiere at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the city that the artist called home for more than 60 years. This first posthumous retrospective will feature the entire spectrum of the artist’s practice, from sculpture, drawings, prints, and paintings to design objects and archival material. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/guUHd6Gs —???? Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Asawa Kneeling Behind a Hanging Looped-Wire Sculpture, 1957. ? Imogen Cunningham Trust. Artwork ? 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Tau Lewis: Spirit Level, a solo presentation of work by the artist, opens Thursday, February 13, at David Zwirner in Los Angeles. Plan your visit: Employing various sculptural techniques, Lewis creates colorful, totemic forms that suggest mythical territories beyond our own. This presentation will focus on 5 monumental sculptures and a circular quilt, all created from salvaged textiles and other found materials, that were first realized for Lewis’s solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, curated by Jeffrey DeBlois . + In 2024, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver unveiled a new outdoor installation by the artist, Coloratura, which will be on view through March 30, 2025. —???? Tau Lewis, The Night Woman, 2024 (details)

“Noah Davis: A spellbinding retrospective for an artist lost tragically young” via The Telegraph | Read more: https://lnkd.in/efv_pSBt The largest institutional survey to date of the work of late American artist Noah Davis is now on view at Barbican Centre. Bringing together over 50 works spanning the artist’s career, this major touring exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Davis’s extraordinary practice in painting as well as his work in curating and community building as cofounder of The Underground Museum. Noah Davis is initiated by the Barbican, London, and DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, where it was on view earlier this year. Following this iteration at the Barbican, the presentation will travel to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles later this year. —???? Portrait: Noah Davis painting in his studio in New York, 2011. Photo by Lindsay Charlwood Artwork details in order of appearance: Noah Davis, Seventy Works (36), 2014