ELISHEVA BIERNOFF – ELSEWHERE

Posted on 2026-01-12

This exhibition will span Biernoff’s career, featuring a representative selection of her intimately scaled paintings. Working with meticulous fidelity and care, the artist uses fine, luminous brushstrokes to create intricately painted depictions of anonymous photographs, which she sources from antique stores and online marketplaces. Biernoff paints on paper-thin plywood, replicating each detail and blemish, front and back, from the original object in a methodical process that is deeply deliberate and reflective; she only produces around four works each year. Individually mounted on handmade poplar stands, the resultant images exist at the nexus of painting, sculpture, and photography. Biernoff’s works are activated by the viewer’s close looking and emotional connection, yet they are also imbued with an inexorable sense of distance—a longing for another place, face, or moment in one’s life.

Opposite – Advent, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2026

David Zwirner
34 East 69th Street
NY 10021
New York

www.davidzwirner.com

  

HAIM STEINBACH – FIVE EASY PIECES

Posted on 2026-01-12

In five easy pieces, Steinbach introduces a new game format for his works: the “condensed” wall text and the ”condensed/spectrum” canvas works. His hello again (condensed) (2025) is based on the wall text hello again, exhibited in 2019 at the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The arrangement of the black and white text itself has been digitally fragmented and reorganized through a repetitive throw of the dice.

Several new canvas works titled beep honk toot (condensed/spectrum) include color. They are based on the original beep honk toot (1989) wall text. Each canvas is structured by a three-by-three grid of nine square tiles. Approached as if a game board, the fragmented pieces of the font fall into the tiles, in part with the use of a random number generator. Some color spectrum tiles are integrated in the digital mixing process.

Opposite – hello again (condensed) 3, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 12th, 2026

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street
10011 New York

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

  

THILO HEINZMANN – ONE ANOTHER

Posted on 2026-01-12

The exhibition consists of three different types of work: his recent sand paintings, a small group of his best-known pigment paintings (dated between 2024 and 2025), and an example of his series Aicmo (pieces made on aluminium supports).

In general terms, certain fundamentals of painting such as colour, gesture, and composition continue to be decisive in Heinzmann’s work. Yet with its marked conceptual impulse, his work also possesses a strong material development and is fully susceptible to humour, surprise, and emotion. It is formulated both from mechanistic models of form and from organicist models; procedurally, it proposes a radicalism in the tracing of marks, gestures, brushstrokes, and interventions, which are carried out indiscriminately with various tools and brushes, as well as with the artist’s own hands and fingers.

Opposite – O.T. (TH/M 01743), 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2026

Galería Ehrhardt Flórez
Calle San Lorenzo, 11
28004 Madrid
Spain

ehrhardtflorez.com

  

HILDA PALAFOX – DE TIERRA Y SUSURROS

Posted on 2026-01-05

In this powerful body of work, Palafox explores a metaphoric and visual language rooted in Latin American folklore and ecofeminist thought. With this series she reflects on humanity’s interdependence with the natural world.

Rooted in the human condition, Palafox’s practice addresses themes of identity and resilience through a distinctly feminine lens. Her work unfolds as an inquiry into subjectivity and the body, balancing intimacy with monumentality. Exploring the tension between public grandeur and inner sensitivity, Palafox’s imagery resides between the invisible emotional landscape and its external, formal expression. There is an internal order in her painting, grounded in the solidity of pictorial space, the curvilinear rhythm of her lines, and a palette that creates atmospheres both familiar and otherworldly. Palafox reimagines everyday scenes as meditations on emotion and consciousness, weaving analogies between domestic life and the natural environment. Her figures, often rendered in ambiguous form, become metaphors for collective humanity, transcending gender while anchored in the feminine experience.

Opposite – Origen, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 21st, 2026

Sean Kelly
475 Tenth Avenue
NY 10018
New York

www.skny.com

  

MATTHIAS ODIN – RUE DE PARIS

Posted on 2026-01-05

Parallax Hotel. The café on the corner, the one we always go to. Matthias walks to my left. I adjust to his pace. The shops are fogged-up cubes. Outside, it is barely ten degrees, and already too warm. He presses his hand against the glass, leans forward to look through it, and talks about what we were waiting for when we came here. He would like the exhibition title to reflect this.

Not only his work, but also the environment in which it came into being. I think he fears conditioning, that what he makes might only exist in a floating state, without roots or branches, nothing but a trunk. This is what happens when we forget the circumstances in which a work was created. I would never have been interested in art if it did not involve the artist. M. speaks of his “spiritual accomplices,” an expression I often hear him use to refer to the artists who inspire him: Joseph Cornell above all, then Curtis Cuffie and Isa Genzken, who work from what they see in the street. But also Californian assemblage artists such as Bruce Conner, and those who engage with inhabitants and with the city in its morphology, Gordon Matta-Clark or Gregor Schneider, for instance.

Opposite – Compress’ in the city, 2024

Exhibition runs through to February 27th, 2026

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11 Rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Pari

www.peterkilchmann.com

  

MELANIE SMITH – AN AGE OF LIBERTY WHEN THE WORLD HAD BEEN POSSIBLE

Posted on 2026-01-05

An Age of Liberty When the World Had Been Possible marks two decades of collaboration with the artist and will be shown for the very first time at the gallery’s Paris location.

A multidisciplinary artist whose exhibitions consistently explore drawing, painting, performative film, and installation, Smith enjoys drawing from the vast fields of painting and art history, intertwining them with moving images. In her most recent works, the artist examines the impact of extractivism on specific ecosystems and environments in Latin America. Her research, almost anthropological in nature, leads her to observe territories under multiple threats: whether it is the disappearance of certain species or the uses and traditions that developed in their presence.

Opposite – Animation drawing for Axolotl 4, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 27th, 2026

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11 Rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Paris
France

www.peterkilchmann.com