MATT CONNORS – COOPERATIVE VILLAGE

Posted on 2026-02-16

To what extent does an abstract image have allegiance to its origin? In the case of Matt Connors, his paintings draw on many sources, which, for him, can ultimately vanish in the wing mirror as he careers away from them. It is not necessary to know what came before an image to appreciate it. But, if you are curious, it might be a detail captured on his phone, something he has seen on the street, a fragment from design history or from an unrelated book. Connors’s approach isn’t about clarifying – or even paying homage to – these things, but rather complicating them and rendering them beyond the direct purview of language, doing the opposite of wrapping them up neatly into a parcel.

Opposite – Soft Eye, 2025

Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2026

Herald St
Via Valdonica 14
40126 Bologna
Italy

www.heraldst.com

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KASPER BOSMANS – PEAS, POD

Posted on 2026-02-09

Gladstone will present new and recent works from Brussels-based mixed-media artist Kasper Bosmans, marking his inaugural solo exhibition in Seoul. The presentation will feature a selection of paintings, sculptures, and murals that explore themes of identity and expression through a contemporary queer lens. Bosmans’ experimental bronze-casting practice and painting style culminate in works that investigate anatomical form and malleability.

Opposite – Heraldic Rules, 2026

Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2026

Gladstone Gallery
760, Samseong-ro, Gangnam-gu
06070 Seoul
South Korea

gladstonegallery.com

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PETER HALLEY – RECENT PAINTINGS

Posted on 2026-02-09

The monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of American artist Peter Halley is a colorful breach that opens in the midst of January, countering the grayness of long winter days. Far from this, his strong and vibrant palette radiates an intense energy. One that does not fade but stands absolutely out.

Opposite – After Everything, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2026

Almine Rech
20 Avenue de la Costa
98000 Monaco
Monaco

www.alminerech.com

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HELMUT DORNER – ONE OF MY GHOSTS

Posted on 2026-02-09

In this new exhibition there are paintings constructed with subtle, firm, decisive, and rapid strokes, while others are developed on the basis of smudges, marks, stains, and obsessive, repetitive exercises. There are new versions of previous paintings, supports such as wood or methacrylate, worked on both sides, characteristic of his works from the 1980s and 1990s, and paintings on canvas or hollow wood. While some paintings feature autonomous, monochromatic fields of colour, others offer pared-down signs that draw our gaze back to minimalist pictorial precepts typical of the early 1980s.

Opposite – Lost (One of my ghosts II), 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2026

Galería Ehrhardt Flórez
Calle San Lorenzo, 11
28004 Madrid
Spain

ehrhardtflorez.com

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HANA MILETIĆ – DIVERSIONS

Posted on 2026-02-02

The exhibition features a site-specific installation comprising suspended jacquard-woven curtains and new floor works from her ongoing hand-woven Materials series. As with her earlier exhibition at The Approach, Patterns of Thrift, this exhibition also hints at the location of the gallery in Bethnal Green, which has a rich history connected to weaving and textile production.

By using a jacquard loom to produce the curtains, Miletić is able to create more complex patterns, and at a much quicker pace, compared to her regular technique of weaving by hand. Historically, jacquard looms used punch cards to automate the production of woven patterns, and it was from this lineage that the binary system of 0s and 1s evolved to become the fundamental organising principle for early computing. The chequered pattern is based on the transparency grid found in image editing software such as Photoshop, which underpins all digital images today. Like the transparency grid, the curtains oscillate between opacity and invisibility. Through this work, Miletić brings the connection between weaving and computing full circle: while the fabric pattern suggests a digital editing tool, that precise technology would not have been possible without the loom on which it was made.

Opposite – Materials, 2025-26

Exhibition runs through to February 21th, 2026

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

www.theapproach.co.uk

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LARRY JOHNSON

Posted on 2026-02-02

Taken together these new works resist – with antipictorial désœuvrement, with negation, with Fagtualität – this moment of rapid and rabid (so-called) hyperrealism, but perhaps all you really need to begin working through the juxtapositions, the comings together, of Monty smiling on a Fire Island beach and seaside circumstances going and gone wrong and pictures of Frost and Defrost panels is to recall that A Place in the Sun is based on a novel by Theodore Dreiser called An American Tragedy.

Opposite – Untitled (Cabana 2), 2026

Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2026

Galerie Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17
50667 Cologne
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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