9 – 12 May 2024

opening:
Thursday, 9 May 2024 5 – 8pm

public days:
Friday, 10 May 2024 11am – 7pm
Saturday, 11 May 2024 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 12 May 2024 11am – 6pm

Spring Studios
50 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013

Maureen Paley is pleased to participate in Independent, New York.

Works will be presented by Felipe Baeza, Kaye Donachie, Chioma Ebinama, Peter Hujar, Merlin James, Behrang Karimi, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Paul P., Seb Patane, Dirk Stewen, Studio K.O.S., and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Online Viewing Room
25 April – 19 May 2024

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image: Merlin James, Room, 1992, acrylic on canvas, wood frame, 72 x 82 cm - 28 3/8 x 32 1/4 in

2 May 2024 – 1 September 2024
opening: Thursday, 2 May 2024

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

The exhibition will present three important bodies of work from the first fifteen years of Peter Hujar's photographic career, many of which have never been seen, highlighted in depth for the very first time. Peter Hujar: Rialto will pay homage to the body of work for which he is best known, his black and white portraits of the thinkers, artists, dancers and drag performers of the bohemian Downtown scene he inhabited.

In his Ukrainian Village loft studio, near various iconic Ukrainian establishments such as the restaurant Veselka and the Ukrainian Museum, Peter Hujar focused on those who followed their creative instincts and dreamed about mainstream success. His studio in the former Louis N. Jaffe Art Theatre (now the Village East Cinema) was a meeting point (rialto) for the original and flamboyant. These earliest Peter Hujar photographs are a little-known prequel to his widely discussed and influential work as one of New York's seminal photographers.

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Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death, a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, continues until 24 November 2024.

image: Peter Hujar, Drag Ball, Hotel Diplomat (I), 1968 © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

20 April – 24 November 2024

Collateral Event
60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà
Calle della Pietà
Castello 3703, Venezia

curated by Grace Deveney
David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Peter Hujar Foundation, New York presents the first exhibition in Europe of Peter Hujar’s legendary Portraits in Life and Death.

Selected press:

Frieze, Off-site Exhibitions Review: Responses to Political Instability, Vanessa Peterson, 19 April 2024

The Art Newspaper, Venice Biennale 2024: our pick of collateral shows, Louisa Buck, Lee Cheshire, Kabir Jhala, Julia Michalska, Alexander Morrison, José da Silva and Gareth Harris, 19 April 2024

The Art Newspaper, Meditations on mortality: Venice exhibition revisits the photography of Peter Hujar, Simon Bainbridge, 17 April 2024

The Guardian, ‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde, Alex Needham, 15 April 2024

Financial Times, John Waters on Peter Hujar's ‘original, sexy’ photography, Baya Simons, 13 April 2024

Wallpaper, Venice Art Biennale 2024: a guide to what to see in and around the city, Amah-Rose Abrams, 12 April 2024

SHOWstudio, What to look forward to: a Venice Biennale Special, Christina Donoghue, 12 April 2024

Ocula, It's Peter Hujar's Day, Advisory Perspective, Annabel Downes,
11 April 2024

Art Basel, Portraits in Life and Death: Stephen Koch remembers Peter Hujar, Matthew Leifheit, 9 April 2024


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opening: Sunday, 7 April 2024

Mazatlán Museum of Art
Calle, Sixto Osuna 71
Centro, 82000 Mazatlán, Sin., Mexico

The exhibition will be the third and final installment in a series that began with the first exhibition Prologue, held at Maureen Paley & Studio M (15 September – 22 October 2023), dedicated to the Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024 and

Across ancient cultures, the total eclipse of the sun holds significance and is often perceived as the birth of a star and the initiation of new life. The ability to view the eclipse from Mazatlán, a city within the state of Sinaloa, holds resonance for Sarabia, whose family heralds from this territory and much of his legacy and intimacy with the earth comes from this naturally rich landscape.

image: Eduardo Sarabia, exhibition view, Prologue, Maureen Paley, London, 2024

Saturday 6 April 2024 - 7pm

The Brussels Planetarium
Av. de Bouchout 10
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Co-presentation with KANAL-Centre Pompidou & L’Art Rue as part of Dream City performance festival. In partnership with The Brussels Planetarium. Co-curated by Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi, Jan Goossens, Guy Gypens.

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29 March – 9 June 2024

opening: Thursday, 28 March 2024, 6.15 - 10 pm

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
3 Park Drai Eechelen
1499 Clausen
Luxembourg

Curator: Vanessa Lecomte

This is the first presentation of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's major work Air Conditioning, 2022, in a museum since it was acquired in 2023 by Mudam.

The installation was previously presented as part of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (11 June – 18 September 2022).

To coincide with the opening of this presentation Lawrence Abu Hamdan will be in conversation with Vanessa Lecomte on on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 6.30 pm.

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image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Conditioning, 2022, installation view, Mudam Luxembourg, 2024. Photo: Studio Rémi Villaggi

29 March – 16 June 2024

Curated by Johny Pitts

(Hayward Gallery Touring)
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Jordan Well
Coventry CV1 5QP

Hannah Starkey is participating in Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024, launching this month at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The exhibition brings together contemporary working class artists who use photography to explore the nuances of working class life in all its diversity.

The exhibition, emphasises the perspectives of practitioners who turn their gaze towards both their communities and outwards to the wider world. The year 2024 marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, signifying the end of Communism and the rise of Western Liberal Democracy. The exhibition questions the fate of working class culture post the 'End of History’, exploring identity, creativity and the imagery produced by the working class over the past three decades.

The exhibition will tour to Focal Point Gallery, Southend (3 July – 14 September 2024) and Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (27 September – 15 December 2024).

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image: Hannah Starkey, Untitled, May 2022, 2022

16 March – 9 June 2024

opening: Friday 15 March 2024, 6 – 10 pm

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
Grabbepl. 4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany

The exhibition Pocket Call, marks Behrang Karimi's first major solo institutional exhibition.

A series of events will be held during the exhibition, including a walk-through with the artist and Kathrin Bentele, Director of the Kunstverein.

The exhibition is generously supported by the Kunststiftung NRW and Maureen Paley. The art association is supported by a permanent partnership between Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and the state capital of Düsseldorf.

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image: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf