Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to present the United States premiere of Animitas (Chili), 2014, a video installation by the late French artist Christian Boltanski, who the gallery began working with in 1987. The video notably documents the first incarnation of Boltanski’s Animitas series, which began as a conceptual monument installed in the Atacama Desert in 2014. This original installation featured 800 small bronze bells on individual stems that were arranged to represent the position of the stars on the night of the artist’s birth. The location of Chile was chosen by Boltanski as he originally drew inspiration from the local animitas or “little souls”—small, makeshift altars created to worship the departed along roadsides throughout the country; Boltanski also uses the form to commemorate those killed under the Pinochet regime. As the bells chime with the desert winds, Boltanski envisioned that we could hear “the music of the stars and the voices of the floating souls,” a moving, ancestral soundtrack of lost spirits, which continues to play on in the remote location of Talabre, Chile today.

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce "Shadows, Spirits and Clouds," the inaugural solo exhibition for Bernard Frize in our Los Angeles space. For Frize, the basic elements of painting (paint, brush, canvas), alongside its sensual and intellectual pursuits, are sublimated according to a pre-determined methodology, and are ultimately concealed by the process of its making, or as Frize concedes, “the method has disappeared under the conditions of its realization.”

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition for our Tribeca space. Revitalizing the historic Grosvenor Building in Tribeca's growing arts district, this group exhibition will highlight 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, this exhibition provides a nuanced, cross-generational overview of artistic practices today and showcases the unique cosmos of artists represented by the Gallery.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Korean-German artist Jongsuk Yoon in the United States. Born in South Korea in 1965, Yoon relocated to Europe in the early 1990s to study art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under German conceptual artist Fritz Schwegler. After her studies, she settled in Düsseldorf and focused 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.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Interconnected Landscapes, a group show that features new and historical works by Lothar Baumgarten, James Coleman, An-My Lê, and Oscar Tuazon. In conversation with Yellow May by Jongsuk Yoon in our Main Gallery, this exhibition observes a broad and conceptual look at the notion of land and landscape.

Esa esquina soy yo will present works that span three decades and offer a dialogue between these two artists. The exhibition highlights distinct practices and processes, traversing past and present, bringing to light dual influences and trajectories, from Andean cosmology to explorations of color, geometries and relationship with space. In this exhibition we see their dynamic activation and a sublime transcendence.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Tavares Strachan. Titled Magnificent Darkness, this immersive exhibition will feature several new bodies of work across six diverse and site-specific environments. Through an interconnected array of works comprising ceramic, bronze, marble, hair, neon, sound, and painting, this exhibition collectively professes a visual allegory toward the overarching exploration of light and darkness.

The exhibition will include the East Coast premiere of Night Watching (2019), a three-channel video installation and a selection of never-before-seen works.

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to inaugurate its Los Angeles gallery this September with a solo exhibition dedicated to artist and filmmaker Steve MᶜQueen. The exhibition will feature, among recent works, the U.S. premiere of the immersive video installation Sunshine State (2022) by MᶜQueen.

Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by William Kentridge featuring Oh To Believe in Another World, an immersive five-channel projection made in response to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10. The exhibition marks the North American premiere of the film, which will be shown alongside a multi-disciplinary body of work which includes new bronze sculptures, drawings, collaged lithographs, and mixed-media puppets. This will be William Kentridge’s 19th solo exhibition with Marian Goodman Gallery, celebrating two and a half decades of representation.

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce Downbeat, an exhibition about Denniston Hill, the artist residency founded by artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer and architect Lawrence Chua. Downbeat features alumni and collaborators of Denniston Hill’s residency program, including Rosa Barba, Pelenakeke Brown, Renee Gladman, Autumn Knight, Zoe Leonard, Joseph Liatela, Emma McNally, Maia Cruz Palileo, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Carlos Reyes, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Traces of bodies in action and works made in relation to his environment are at the heart of Gabriel Orozco’s practice. For almost two years, Orozco has exhibited Spacetime, an off-schedule exhibition-project tucked away inside a rented, readymade gallery space on the floor below Marian Goodman Gallery at 24 West 57th Street. In physics, space-time is a mathematical model in which space and time meld together to create a fourth dimension. The Spacetime project forges new connections between works that span over thirty years of time and movement. Continuing to experiment with this concept, the new exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery brings together his long-standing interests in nature, travel, geometry, and science, works forming circular references to one another, bending and looping time onto itself.

Marian Goodman Gallery New York is pleased to announce an exhibition dedicated to Dan Graham (1942–2022). Curated by his longtime friend and admirer Peter Fischli, Is There Life After Breakfast? will showcase a variety of works from over three decades, highlighting Graham’s groundbreaking endeavors in sculpture and video installation, connecting his friendships with his contemporaries, and focusing on his passion for music and film.

Presenting new, luminous works by Cerith Wyn Evans, known for his unique sculptural oeuvre.

Marian Goodman Gallery New York is delighted to announce "about the space of half an hour," a solo exhibition of new work by Julie Mehretu that will open on Monday, November 2nd and be on view through Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020. Comprised of two distinct bodies of work, the first cycle of works was initiated prior to the pandemic, and the second cycle was made during the shutdown, in quarantine in upstate New York at Denniston Hill – an artist collective and residency program founded by Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer and Lawrence Chua as a site for interdisciplinary creation, interrogation and debate. Mehretu’s new works reimagine abstraction and her language of gestural marks in an epic theater of saturated color. Providing vistas of clarity and opacity, transparency and impenetrability, Mehretu builds her compositions with blurs of light and contour.

The exhibition will present new abstract paintings and new drawings from the past three years, as well as a series of ink jet prints from 2012, and overpainted photos from 2008.

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018) which will open on Thursday, 9 January, and be on view through Saturday, 15 February. Created in close collaboration with the artist before his passing, the exhibition “Lothar Baumgarten: The Early Years” focuses on the formative works that shaped his oeuvre. The exhibition is an homage to one of the most important German artists who influenced a subsequent generation, and whom Marian Goodman has represented since 1985.