SLAWOMIR ELSNER – PROJECT ROOM

Posted on 2025-11-24

In this exhibition Elsner establishes a visual and conceptual dialogue with Pietro Dorazio, a leading representative of post-war Italian abstract art, choosing his work Reticoli from Collezione Ramo as a meeting point. Dorazio’s exploration of color and structure becomes both a mirror and a counterpart to Elsner’s investigations into perception, abstraction, and the act of seeing. Slawomir Elsner’s artistic practice has long revolved around the transformation of historical imagery through drawing.

In this new series, the artist revisits paintings by Palma Vecchio, Bernardino Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, artists rooted in the Renaissance tradition of Milan and Lombardy. Rather than reproducing them, Elsner translates these works into distilled, meditative compositions, where gesture and chromatic vibration replace narrative and symbolism.

Opposite – Saint with palm reading the scriptures (after Bernardino Luini), 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2026

Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy

monicadecardenas.com

  

KATI HECK – THE BRODO

Posted on 2025-11-17

In The brodo, Heck continues her long-standing exploration of the transformative processes that bind human, social, and emotional life. Known for her virtuosic handling of paint and her ability to merge realism with absurdity, Heck constructs a world in which tenderness and grotesque humor coexist, constantly dissolving into one another. Her practice has always moved between the theatrical and the intimate, between the instinctive gesture and the meticulously staged tableau. Here, that dynamic takes the form of a metaphorical soup, a social and spiritual broth in which everything is connected and nothing remains stable.

A drawing/collage functions as the exhibition’s abstract recipe, pairing a simple ladle with a written formula. Part instruction, part incantation, it distills Heck’s practice into its most essential gesture: the act of mixing. The piece operates like a dadaist statement, binding intuition and absurdity within a single frame. It is as if the artist were revealing her own method: not a recipe to be followed, but a process of perpetual recombination, of letting the ingredients of experience simmer until something new emerges.

Opposite – Bindemittel II, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2026

Tim Van Laere Gallery
Palazzo Donarelli Ricci
Via Giulia 98
00186 Rome

www.timvanlaeregallery.com

  

DAZHI – CHRONIC PAIN AND REHABILITATION TRAINING

Posted on 2025-11-17

The presentation spotlights the artist’s hree-year peregrination toward coexistence with physiological suffering, articulating a visual narrative punctuated by pain, spiritual practice, and rebirth. Descending into the chasm where the body entangles with time, DAZHI turns to artistic creation as her rehabilitation training, seeking to transmute pain from corporeal shackle into conduit for the psyche. This exhibition assembles over 40 artworks from her two series Chronic Pain and Rehabilitation Training.

Opposite – Do Not Abandon Me, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

WHITE SPACE
F6, BLDG D7, BSQ (Beijing Baoshui Yishuqu)
101316 Beijing
China

whitespace.cn

  

ERIK STEFFENSEN – ELEMENTS

Posted on 2025-11-17

Water, mountains, ice, mist and the presence of weather fill the landscapes in Erik Steffensen’s new exhibition, Elements, at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Frederiksberg. Seeking out both dramatic and contemplative natural scenery, the artist strives to give beauty a place in a world threatened by catastrophic changes and challenges. Steffensen says, “In March 2025, I travelled through Iceland, photographing some of the classic sites that have been most important to my art and my conception of landscape as revelation. Back in my studio, in Copenhagen’s Nordvest neighborhood, I reworked the photographs with oil paint as an additional contact between subject and human. The result is a series of unique works entitled Elements.

Opposite – Untitled, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2025

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Sankt Knuds Vej 23C
1903 Frederiksberg
Denmark

bjerggaard.com

  

SYLVIE FLEURY – SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS

Posted on 2025-11-10

She-Devils On Wheels, Fleury’s first solo exhibition in New York, brings together recent and historical sculptures, an installation, neon works, and videos. The title She-Devils On Wheels refers both to the installation She-Devils on Wheels Headquarters (2000) and to Fleury’s own motoring club of the same name.

She-Devils on Wheels Headquarters (2000) draws on a 1968 film about an all-female motorcycle gang, The Man-Eaters, and Fleury’s own women-only motoring club, founded in the 1990s after she was refused membership to a car-racing club. The installation includes a red mural with blocky lettering spelling “SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS,” a large-scale neon reading “HOT HEELS,” blown-up magazine covers and club merchandise—badges, caps, stickers and T-shirts. The work establishes sharp parallels between the paraphernalia of femininity and the tools of motorsport culture, offering an ironic critique of gendered rituals and obsessions.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Sprüth Magers
22 East 80th Street, 2nd Floor
NY 10075
New York

spruethmagers.com

  

PALOMA PROUDFOOT – A FESTIVAL OF UGLY SOUNDS

Posted on 2025-11-10

The exhibition investigates the gendered histories and cultural associations of vocal utterances, examining how sound shapes identity, emotion, and communication.

Proudfoot’s works consider how, throughout the centuries, women’s sounds have been regarded as obscene and thus have sought to be controlled, curtailed and muted. As Anne Carson writes, ‘putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.’

Opposite – Gossip, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
London

www.theapproach.co.uk