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

Saturday 10 May 2025
4 - 5 pm EDT
Independent

50 Varick Street
6th Floor Restaurant
New York, NY 10013

Maureen Paley, one of the pioneers of London’s contemporary art scene, marks the 40th anniversary of her gallery in this candid conversation with Matthew Higgs Independent’s founding curatorial advisor and director of White Columns. A groundbreaking presence in London’s East End, Paley has been instrumental in promoting and exhibiting a diverse range of international artists in all media, including numerous Turner Prize winners and nominees. The talk looks back on the roots and evolution of Paley’s gallery, from the earliest days of Interim Art to the present-day program at Maureen Paley and Studio M in London and Morena di Luna in Hove, on the south coast of England.

Independent is partnering with Puck on a public program of talks at the 16th edition of Independent Art Fair. Talks are complimentary with your booking to the fair; purchase fair tickets here.

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image: Maureen Paley and Matthew Higgs, Courtesy of Independent

8 – 11 May 2025

Spring Studios
50 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013

Thursday 8 May: 11am – 8pm (by invitation)
Friday 9 May: 11am – 7pm
Saturday 10 May: 11am – 7pm
Sunday 11 May: 11am – 6pm

Online Viewing Room
1 May – 16 May 2025

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image: Paulo Nimer Pjota, Casca de árvore, 2025

25 April - 28 September 2025

YermilovCentre
Kharkiv, Ukraine

The exhibition Pairs Skating explores the artistic kinship between Wolfgang Tillmans and Boris Mikhaïlov, tracing connections in conceptual focus, central motifs, and artistic language transcending geography, political contexts, and cultural ambiance.

Presented by RIBBON International at the YermilovCentre in Kharkiv, this exhibition marks a significant moment for the city, and Ukraine’s wider artistic community. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from figure skaters moving in unison, provides an apt metaphor for two artists, who, despite growing up in vastly different political, cultural, and artistic environments, share a strikingly common photographic language. Through their lens, both artists capture the fragility, resilience and humour inherent in the human condition, the vulnerability of the body, and the notion of restriction—whether political, social, or personal.

Pairs Skating features examples of the most significant works from both artists, each carefully selected to highlight how Tillmans and Mikhaïlov speak to the past, the present, and the future of photography.

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Nite Queen, 2013. © Wolfgang Tillmans.

Wednesday, 23 April, 6.30 pm

Flat Time House
210 Bellenden Road
London SE15 4BW

Anne Hardy is a contributor to the latest edition of the Archive of Destruction Reader, with her work also featured on the cover. Her contribution is a conversation with Alice Channer and Jes Fernie on The Necessary Destruction of Art.

The reader brings together conversations, texts, stories, artworks, and images from artists, curators, academics, and writers.

Contributors to this edition also include Pilar Quinteros, Tschabalala Self, Joseph Constable, Jaime Gili, Alice Channer, Rosie Ram, Ben Cranfield, and Candice Purwin.

All proceeds from the Archive of Destruction Reader II support contributors’ fees for Reader III.

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image: Anne Hardy, Prayer, 2025, found materials and cast pewter, 6 x 39 x 28 cm - 2 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 11 in. Photo Stephen James

Saturday, 19 April 2025, 2 – 6 pm

Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art
Middelburg, Netherlands

Curator: Roos Gortzak

This program will feature performances by Eglė Budvytytė, Jae Pil Eun, Rory Pilgrim & Robyn Haddon, and Zahar Bondar, artists with whom Gortzak has collaborated in previous years.

Rory Pilgrim & Robyn Haddon have curated a special selection of musical pieces from Pilgrim’s body of work. The songs originate from Pilgrim’s films Sacred Repositories, Software Garden, The Undercurrent, Rafts, and their most recent work pink & green. Accompanied by a keyboard and harp, this musical contribution will guide the audience through the different periods of Pilgrim and Haddon’s 10-year collaboration.

Pilgrim was also one of the three artists awarded a Vleeshal Commission in 2021, which became the starting point for the long-term project pink & green, a film branching into multiple forms, including a solo exhibition at Vleeshal in 2026.

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