13 June - 22 September 2025

Centre Pompidou
Paris, France

From 13 June to 22 September 2025, the Centre Pompidou is giving Wolfgang Tillmans free rein to create a unique project to mark the end of the exhibition programme at the centre in Paris. He is taking over the 6,000 m2 of level 2 in the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information and transforming the space by means of a curatorial experiment.

The exhibition is composed of two distinct parts: a retrospective presentation exploring 35 years of his practice, and a curatorial experiment, in which Wolfgang Tillmans instigates a dialogue between his work and the museum’s library as both an architectural site and a locus for the dissemination of knowledge.

His iconic photography — including portraiture, still life, architecture, documentary, and abstract images — is on view within an extensive installation that also incorporates moving image, music, sound, and performance.

A catalogue, as well as an expanded version of “Tillmans’ Reader” —— a collection of writings by and interviews with the artist originally published by MoMA NY and newly translated into French — accompanies the exhibition.

Centre Pompidou, Wolfgang Tillmans: “Culture is always the first thing autocrats seek to control.”

British Journal of Photography, Wolfgang Tillmans uses photography and installation to consider knowledge and its circulation

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans “Moon in Earthlight,” 2015

8 June - 31 August 2025

Kunsthaus Biel 
Centre d’art Bienne
Seevorstadt 71
CH-2502 Biel/Bienne

Previewing today! Alexandra Bircken's solo exhibition ‘SomaSemaSoma’ at Kunsthaus Biel opens from 5pm.

The sculptural work of Alexandra Bircken deals with the structure of protection, identification and the expansion of the individual in analogies between body and machine. The Berlin-based artist combines a variety of materials and techniques – often woven or knitted textiles — with which she explores the boundary between the human and the created environment. At the same time Bircken dissects everyday technical objects with surgical precision, bringing the biomorphic nature of machines into view. This dual approach leads to an ambivalent work that is both cyborg-like and androgynous and questions human behaviour and desire, but also the vulnerability of the body in its relationship to technology.

The exhibition is in collaboration with Culturgest in Lisbon where it will travel in October 2025.

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image: Alexandra Bircken, SomaSemaSoma, Kunsthaus Biel, 2025.

Maureen Paley is pleased to participate in London Gallery Weekend.

This is also the last chance to see our current exhibitions, which will be open Friday and Saturday 11 am – 6 pm and Sunday 12 – 5 pm:

Kayode Ojo
An angel is just a messenger
25 April – 8 June 2025

Maureen Paley
60 Three Colts Lane
London E2 6GQ

Wallpaper, Ten things to see at London Gallery Weekend, Emi Eleode, 3 June 2025

Chioma Ebinama
Real love is a love that sets you free
25 April – 8 June 2025

Studio M
Rochelle School
7 Playground Gardens
London E2 7FA

The Great Women Artists, What to see: London Gallery Weekend, Katy Hessel, 3 June 2025

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Thursday, 22 May 2025, 6:00 pm

Project Room 2, 104
Sculpture Studios
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Kurzbauergasse 9, 1020 Vienna

Fiona Connor will give a lecture as part of the Ringvorlesung Series hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts and organised by the Studio Art and Space.
She will discuss her recent projects, including The Long Tail, Newsletter Volume #2, which will be launched on the occasion of this event.

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image: Fiona Connor, Continuous Sidewalk, 2021-23. Photo: Ed Mumford

18 May – 5 October 2025

Blickachsen 14
Bad Homburg
Germany

In collaboration with the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Slip of the Tongue by Alexandra Bircken is included in the 14th edition of Blickachsen Sculpture Biennial alongside works by Paweł Althamer, Joscha Bender, Julius von Bismarck, Monica Bonvicini, Martin Boyce, Richard Deacon, Simone Fattal, Kasia Fudakowski, Asta Gröting, Georg Herold, Olaf Holzapfel, Judith Hopf, Franka Hörnschemeyer, David Horvitz, Elizabeth Jaeger, Hans Josephsohn, Gary Kuehn, Maria Loboda, Christiane Möbus, Thea Moeller, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Schütte, Grace Schwindt, Manolo Valdés and Georg-Friedrich Wolf.

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image: Alexandra Bircken, Slip of the Tongue, 2020, cast aluminium, stainless steel, concrete, 600 x 150 x 134 cm, installation view, Blickachsen 14, Germany, 2025. Becker Collection, Cologne.

17 May – 21 September 2025

Kunstinstituut Melly
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam, NL

Curated by Gabi Ngcobo, Rosa de Graaf

On Saturday, May 17, Kunstinstituut Melly announces three upcoming solo exhibitions featuring a newly commissioned work by Paulo Nimer Pjota.

A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I) is his first institutional solo exhibition, and his debut in the Netherlands. This project is supported by Ammodo.

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image: Paulo Nimer Pjota, Installation View of 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mil Graus. Photo: Gui Gomes

Saturday, 17 May 2025, 4pm

Hotel Bayerischer Hof (Palais Montgelas – Yellow Salon)
Promenadeplatz 2–6 | 80333 Munichn)
Munich, Germany

Moderated by Lisa Weber

An artist talk with Alexandra Bircken and Pia Stadtbäumer will be held on the occasion of the installation of Alexandra Bircken’s work PS (Horsepower) at Oskar-von-Miller-Ring.

With her expansive equestrian sculpture installed at the tunnel portal on Oskar-von-Miller-Ring, Alexandra Bircken explores the role of mobility and speed in the urban environment. Pia Stadtbäumer, a current member of the QUIVID art commission, created a counterpoint to Munich’s traditional equestrian monuments with her rider sculpture GO! (2004) in Petuelpark.

In conversation with Lisa Weber, head of QUIVID – the City of Munich’s public art programme – the two artists will discuss the background and context of their work.

The talk takes place as part of the “Unconference” by Various Others at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.

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image: Alexandra Bircken, PS (Horsepower), 2024, steel, stainless steel, varnish, 400 x 900 x 160 cm - 157 1/2 x 354 3/8 x 63 in

American Art Catalogues presents Kaye Donachie, a self-titled monograph to coincide with her current exhibition in their New York space.

Specifications:
- Hardcover with silkscreen on front and spine
- Edition of 200 copies
- 9 x 10 3 4 inches
- 24 illustrations
- 9 loose-leaf inserts, featuring an excerpt from Savannah Bay by Marguerite Duras
- Printed in United Kingdom

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“You don’t know who you are, who you were, you know you have played, you don’t know what you played, what you are playing, you know you have to play, you don’t know what, you play. Nor can you remember what your roles were, nor which of your children are alive or dead. Nor which are the locations, the settings, the capitals, or the continents where you cried out the passion of lovers. Only that the people in the audience have bought a ticket and that somebody owes them a performance.

You are the stage actress, the splendor of the age of the world, its crowning achievement, the glory of its last delivery. You have forgotten everything except Savannah, Savannah Bay.

Savannah Bay is you.

M. D.”

From Savannah Bay, a play by French novelist and playwright Marguerite Duras.

image: Kaye Donachie, American Art Catalogues, 2025