CHEN FEI – SOMETIMES

Posted on 2026-08-10

The works brought together in Sometimes, however, move beyond a simple extension of autobiographical narrative. They mark a transitional moment in which Chen renews his painterly vocabulary, testing genre, surface, composition, and narrative structure through a more fluid and materially charged approach.
Working in figuration for more than two decades, Chen has often used acrylic paint for its speed, clarity, and capacity to generate an almost frictionless image. In his recent works, he pushes the medium beyond its familiar flatness, introducing tactile effects that complicate the smooth surface typically associated with his paintings.

Opposite – Blue giant 2, 2026

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2026

Perrotin
1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi
Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan

www.perrotin.com

  

DESHAUN PRICE

Posted on 2026-08-10

I have worked with the immediacy of my surroundings for some time now. Each painting is the encounter between two variables: my bodily capacities, and the situation they compose with. I have yet to find a distance between the body painted and the body painting.
The show organized itself around the painting of my partner watching a film. I took the watching-body as the limit point between passivity and activity; the interval, variable itself, between an image received and an image produced. I seem to spend most of my time in this interval; a painting is a way out, giving it a body of its own.

Deshaun Price

Opposite – Spinoza, 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2026

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

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

SAM & SARA

Posted on 2026-08-10

STANDARD (OSLO) is proud to present the exhibition “Sam & Sara”, bringing together works by Nina Beier and Torbjørn Rødland. Having been friends and fellow artist of the gallery roster for years, this is the first time that their works are subject to a two-artist exhibition.

Opposite – Nina Beier, Field , 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2026

STANDARD (OSLO)
Eilert Sundts gate 40
N-0355 Oslo
Norway

www.standardoslo.no

  

JOHN CURRIN – OPENING CREDITS

Posted on 2026-08-03

John Currin’s show at the Savile Row gallery focuses on a new series of paintings that set pairs or triplets of women with exaggerated physiques in ornamental, Arcadian landscapes. In the sequence of twelve mid-size paintings, performative models, reinterpreted from the pages of 1970s clothing catalogues, are poised in a confident display that provides Currin with the means to explore classical painting. In his rendering of the tension of fabric stretched tight across breasts, the light on feathered leaves and gnarled trunks, the radiant softness of flesh and hair, and the self-conscious assembly of limbs, these tableaus allow Currin to make masterful paintings that replace a disappointing contemporary world, with a ‘lost golden world’ that holds his nostalgia for the past. A group of five new drawings in ink on washed paper interpret the paintings in a new medium and sketches from his process are shown alongside the finished works.

Opposite – Eclipse, 2026

Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2026

Sadie Coles HQ
17 Savile Row
W1S 3PN
London

www.sadiecoles.com

  

JÖRG SASSE – RED DOORS

Posted on 2026-08-03

Many of Jörg Sasse’s subjects seem clearly identifiable at first glance and look as if they come from a mundane pictorial world. This apparent reliability is closely connected with the medium of photography: Photographic pictures suggest a faithful representation of reality to this day, as if they were able to create an objective relationship to the world. It is this expectation that is subtly undermined in Sasse’s works. The seemingly photographic images question what can actually be seen as well as what wants to be seen. They refer to our habits of seeing, culturally acquired pictorial patterns, and the assumption that images must have a clear reference to reality.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2026

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at

  

PETER ACHESON

Posted on 2026-08-03

The exhibition brings together small works on canvas, panel, bark, brick, and wood, made by Peter Acheson over several decades. Acheson’s paintings range from textured abstractions to tempered gestures containing references to other artists and periods, among them 19th century French painters, Blinky Palermo, Raoul De Keyser, Bill Jensen, and Forrest Bess, alongside more direct observations from the landscape around his studio in
Columbia County, New York.
Acheson’s concern is less with resolving these references than it is to allow them to coexist, permitting his paintings to act as habitats where various traditions and approaches can meet without hierarchy. This carries through to Acheson’s playful way of treating his compositions, leaving them caught between styles, simultaneously structured and chaotic, with direct references and happenstance similarity.

Opposite – Four Levels, 1983 – 1984

Exhibition runs through to August 14th, 2026

Anton Kern Gallery
16 East 55th Street
10022
New York

www.antonkerngallery.com