#Michael Werner Gallery

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Sigmar Polke - Untitled (2006) 

white enamel on black paper 79 x 59 in

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Issy Wood, Self portrait 56, 2023

at Carlos/Ishikawa, London; and Michael Werner Gallery, New York.

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Markus Lüpertz (CZ-DE, 1941)

Herkules Entwurfsmodell 21 (Hercules Model 21), 2009. Hand-painted bronze 76 x 22 x 27 cm, From an edition of 6 + 1 AP, ) © Markus Lüpertz, Michael Werner Gallery

https://www.michaelwerner.com/artists/markus-lupertz/works#13

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Check out Raphaela Simon, Untergrund (Underground) (2024), From Michael Werner Gallery

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PJ Harvey Reads Beefhart

- “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words,” singer says of Captain’s poems

Captain Beefhart loved cats.

And PJ Harvey loved Beefhart, aka Don Van Vliet. And Van Vliet loved Harvey and her cat, Garden.

And so he, in 2001, wrote the poem “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat” for Harvey. And she read said poem for the late Beefhart at the London art exhibition “Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand” in 2024.

Check it out in the video above.

“Thank you to the Michael Werner Gallery for inviting me to read Don’s poems,” Harvey said in a statement. “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words whilst standing amongst his paintings.”

2/13/24

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GALLERY WEEKEND FESTIVAL

16 & 17 September 2023

Hosted by Studio Mondial at the former Hotel Mondial on Kurfürstendamm, the festival offered a multifaceted program of performances, screenings, sound events, readings, and installations that will bring the lobby, the former restaurant, both hotel bars, the courtyard, and the underground parking garage.

The program kicked off at midday on Saturday with alternating performances and readings on the indoor and outdoor stages by Yi Ten Lai, daniel ward, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Ana Prvački, Angharad Williams, Nicholas Grafia, and Mikołaj Sobczak, as well as a conversation between Nora Turato and author Stephanie LaCava. The afternoon will feature sound performances by Leyla Yenirce with Vienna Gist, Susan Philipsz with Luca Diebold, and Theresa Patzschke and Eleni Poulou, as well as a performance and a DJ set by Maque Pereyra.

The festival recommenced at noon on Sunday in front of the hotel building on Kurfürstendamm with a sound performance by DAF (Dynamische Akustische Forschung), readings by Philipp Simon and Sofia Defino Leiby, a new choral piece by the BWŁKS Choir, a text and and music-based performance by Raphaela Vogel with Juliane Liebert and Daniel Roth, followed by a extension of the film by Elisa Giardina Papa feat. the musician duendita, a sound performance by Leda Bourgogne, a reading by Karl Holmqvist, and a performance by Anna Ehrenstein with Göksu Kunak and Yara Mekawei that oscillated between text and sound. FRANKIE brought the program to a close with a cello and vocal performance.

Films were shown on both days in two separate screening rooms that were formerly the hotel bars. The shorter films ran on a loop throughout the day, with contributions from Peter Wächtler, Nina Könnemann, Kandis Williams, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jordan Strafer, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Eli Cortiñas, Juliette Blightman, Penny Goring, Peter Friedl, Christopher Aque, Leyla Yenirce, Adrian Ganea, and Cornelia Schleime.

The long films were screened once a day at fixed times. The program featured films by Heike Baranowsky, Ulla von Brandenburg, Peggy Buth, Stephanie Comilang, Michael Franz, Christopher Aque, Elisa Giardina Papa, Loretta Fahrenholz, Cemile Sahin, Jenkin van Zyl, Su Yu Hsin, Britta Thie, and Friedrich Kunath.

Additionally, installations and sculptural works were presented in both the interior and exterior spaces. Towards Ku’damm, Dan Peterman’s modular sculptures invite the public to enter the building; Raul Walch’s site-specific intervention, a textile banner stretching across the entire facade of the former hotel, draws attention to the festival from a distance while simultaneously referencing its surroundings – West Berlin’s popular shopping district with its numerous clothing stores. In the lobby, festivalgoers encountered both of Max Paul’s Berlin Beds: in addition to their obvious modernist echoes of Mies van der Rohe, the works allude to Berlin’s ongoing obsession with demolition and construction, a phenomenon that has clearly affected the former Hotel Mondial. Jasmin Werner drew direct comparisons to the United Arab Emirates with its architecture and power structures fueled by globalization. In the hotel reception, visitors could listen to Jenna Sutela’s sound work over the telephone and view works by Laure Prouvost and Asta Gröting; a nearby textile wall work by Ulla von Brandenburg invited visitors to pause. Waiting to be discovered in the stairwell was a sound installation by Jan St. Werner that acoustically and spatially expands the exhibition venue.

On view in the entrance area were two video works by artists Taína Cruz and Petra Cortright. Four glass vitrines feature ceramic works, drawings, and installations by Ghislaine Leung, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Lena Henke, and Galli. The former restaurant presented sculptural works by Nadira Husain, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Anna Ehrenstein, Yi Ten Lai, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Lap-See Lam, and Raphaela Vogel – some of these were activated by performances during the festival.

Artistic interventions by Fortuna Forest and Lila Steinkampf welcomed visitors to the courtyard, while Monty Richthofen’s tattoo studio and an installation by Anne Duk Hee Jordan occupied the underground parking garage.

The bookstore a.p. was on site selling publications by participating artists and other selected books.

Free childcare was also be available.

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Attribution: Florian Krewer (Germany, 1986-). Animals do not seem to be a common theme in Krewer's work but I do appreciate this canine and feline representation. Thanks to @michaelwernergallery for the tip.

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2024

key

bold = highlight of 2024

+ = not new in 2024

# = book club

books

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)

Restless, William Boyd (2007)#

Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)

The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)

Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#

The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)

The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)

Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)

Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith (2004)#

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, Amy Key (2023)

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (2021)

A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker (2004)

Jesus' Son, Dennis Johnson (2012)#

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Irvine Welsh (1996)

Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq (trans. Penny Hueston) (2023)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sachs (1985)#

The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder) (1994)

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?, Claire Dederer (2023)

Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, Torsten Bell (2024)

Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr. (1978)#

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel) (2007)

Foster, Claire Keegan (2010)

The Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)

Regeneration, Pat Barker (1991)

The Secret Life of John Le Carré, Adam Sisman (2023)

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)+

Mothering Sunday, Graham Swift (2016)

films

Sound of Metal (2019)

Saltburn (2023)

The Two Popes (2019)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Past Lives (2023)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

Searching for Sugarman (2012)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Informant (2009)

Force Majeure (2014)

Paterson (2016)

Anyone But You (2023)

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

22 Jump Street (2014)+

Before Sunrise (1995)

Before Sunset (2004)

Before Midnight (2013)

Arrival (2016)

Emily the Criminal (2022)

Hit Man (2023)

Shoplifters (2018)

About Time (2013)+

Roman Holiday (1953)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Gladiator (2000)+

American Fiction (2023)

The Holiday (2006)+

Maurice (1987)

albums

'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)

'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)

'the record', boygenius (2023)

'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)

'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)

'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)

'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)

'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)

'Mountainhead', Everything Everything (2024)

'This Ain't the Way You Go Out', Lucy Rose (2024)

'Blue', Joni Mitchell (1971)

'A Dream Is All We Know', The Lemon Twigs (2024)

'Romance', Fontaines D.C. (2024)

'Samurai', Lupe Fiasco (2024)

'This Could Be Texas', English Teacher (2024)

'Small Changes', Michael Kiwanuka (2024)

exhibitions

'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)

'Philip Guston', Tate Modern

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain

'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery

'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection

'Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider', Tate Modern

Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art New York

Francis Bacon: Human Presence, National Portrait Gallery

live music

Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live

Yard Act, Rough Trade East

Romy, Roundhouse

Dan Shake / Pretty Girl, Phonox

Lapsley, Moth Club

Berlioz, Brixton Academy

theatre

The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse

Dr Strangelove, Noel Coward Theatre

restaurants

Perilla, Stoke Newington

Felice a Testaccio, Rome

Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome

Zahter, Carnaby Street

Beckford Inn, Tewksbury

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+

Dalla Terra, Covent Garden

Faros, Soho

Little House, Balham

Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury

Pot Luck Club, Cape Town

Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town

La Colombe, Constantia

El Burro, Cape Town

Franks Corner, Franschhoek

The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

Nest, Knysna

Maillard Baking Co, Knysna

Sirocco, Knysna

Coral, Mauritius

Kot Nou, Mauritius

Lemongrass, Mauritius

Le Benetier, Mauritius

Le Chamarel, Mauritius

Muang Thai, Camden

thirty7, Covent Garden

Morito, Hackney+

Nobu, Shoreditch+

Botanica Hall, Clapham Junction

Devonshire Terrace, Liverpool Street

Brutto, Farringdon

St John (bar), Smithfield

Mechela, Seville

Mamarracha, Seville

Caminata, Balham (x2)

Pasha Mangal, Balham (x2)

Hawksmoor, Air Street+

Dishoom, King's Cross

Som Saa, Spitalfields

180 House, The Strand

Three Uncles, Brixton (x2)

Balham Social, (...)Balham

The Duke of Malborough, Woodstock

The Perch, Binsey

Megan's on the Hill, Balham

Le Bab, Covent Garden

Well Street Pizza, Hackney

Mele e Pere, Soho+

Five The Beach, Clevedon

Ascough's Bistro, Market Harborough

The Inn at Freshford, Freshford

The Bird, Bath

Bussia, Amsterdam+

Bar Bouche, Amsterdam

Blue Fig, Balham

Flesh & Buns, Covent Garden+

Roka, Canary Wharf

Smoking Goat, Shoreditch

Boucherie West Village, Manhattan

Bagels & Schmear, Manhattan

Fette Sau, Brooklyn

Cosme, Manhattan

Broad Nosh Bagels, Manhattan

Estela, Manhattan

Mirabella, Miami Beach

Cubata, Miami

Crispin, Spitalfields

MCR Restaurant and Bar, Holborn

Fumo, Covent Garden

Cornus, Belgravia

Joro, Sheffield

Timmy Green, Victoria

Serata Hall, Old Street

The Carpenters Arms, Burford

Milk, Balham (x3)

FIRIN, King's Cross

podcasts

Kermode & Mayo's Take+

The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+

The News Agents+

The News Meeting+

Today in Focus+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Joel Golby's Book Club

Desert Island Discs+

Off Menu

Young Again+

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Conversations with Tyler

Freakanomics Radio

Double Jeopardy

The Lawyer Podcast

80,000 Hours

tv

Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)

The Traitors (series 2)

Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)

One Day (limited series)

Gossip Girl (series 1-4)

Ripley (limited series)

Kin (series 1)

Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip (series 1)

America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (limited series)

Industry (series 3)

Better Call Saul (series 1-5)+

talks

'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

'Beer, bribes, and brawling: an accurate representation of elections in Victorian England?' by Nigel Siesage, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Rome

South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)

Mauritius

Seville

Algarve (work)

Amsterdam

New York

Miami (work)

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(via Maki Na Kamura - - Exhibitions - Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London)

Michael Werner Gallery, New York is pleased to present Maki Na Kamura, the first solo exhibition in New York of Osaka-born, Berlin-based painter Maki Na Kamura.

Many critics have highlighted the competing polarities in the paintings of Na Kamura, namely the Japanese and Western influences, the abstract and figurative elements, the fact that she sees herself as a traditional painter and an artist of the 21st century, as well as the harmonious use of both tempera and oil paint, two materials traditionally labeled as distinct. While influence, style, and time are fluid for Na Kamura, she does not see her work as existing in a liminal space. Instead, the polarities are intentional and deliberately provoke the viewer.

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Check out Per Kirkeby, "Untitled" (2011), From Michael Werner Gallery

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Dichotomies do not exist to Na Kamura, and style and time are fluid. Seeing herself “as both a traditionalist and as a painter of the twenty-first century”, for the new works on view, the artist pulls structure from as diverse sources as the paintings by Italian Renaissance master Luca Signorelli and the choreographed gestures of contemporary K-pop dancers. She is communicating with the art of the past and with the viewer in the present: “As long as I produce pictures that are seen, they remain communicative. They’re open.”

Maki Na Kamura (b. Osaka) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in Japan. Solo museum exhibitions have been held at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium (2017); Osthaus Museum Hagen in Hagen, Germany (2017); Bilbao Arte – centro de arte contemporáneo in Bilbao, Spain (2015); and Oldenburger Kunstverein in Oldenberg, Germany (2014). Na Kamura was awarded the Falkenrot Prize in 2013. Her work is in the collection of Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Na Kamura lives and works in Berlin.

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#Repost @michaelwernergallery “Eugène Leroy: The Materiality of Light, Paintings 1950-1999” on view at Michael Werner Gallery, London. Image: Eugène Leroy, “Lumière pauvre”, 1999, Oil on canvas, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (62 x 47 cm) ©️The estate of Eugène Leroy #EugèneLeroy #MichaelWernerGallery https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5wmaqo_eD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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‘Dioroar’ | © Peter Doig | Michael Werner Gallery | Financial Times