Gagosian Gallery 21st Street - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gagosian Gallery 21st Street. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Ashley Bickerton “Susie’s Mother Tongue”
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[0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2023-09-08 - 2023-10-14
I’m not interested in creating one single guillotine-edge of meaning. I’m interested in creating a system of swirling rapids and eddies of meaning that overlap to catch the spectator in between. —Ashley...More »
“Avedon 100” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2023-05-04 - 2023-06-24
Gagosian presents Avedon 100 in celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth. Almost 150 celebrated artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and fashion world representatives were asked...More »
Cy Gavin Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2023-02-02 - 2023-03-18
Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin. Gavin’s landscape paintings transmute subjective responses to specific places into expansive works with striking palettes and fluid, gestural...More »
Rick Lowe “Meditations on Social Sculpture”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2022-09-08 - 2022-10-22
I realized that the patterns were simply mapping knowledge of the time I spent with people. —Rick Lowe Gagosian presents Meditations on Social Sculpture, an exhibition of new works by Rick Lowe, including...More »
Dan Colen “Lover, Lover, Lover”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2022-09-07 - 2022-10-22
Home can be a dream for some and a nightmare for others. It is the past we come from and the future we aspire to. But inevitably it’s where we are, the earth we stand, work, and rest on in the present. —Dan...More »
Michael Heizer Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2022-03-03 - 2022-04-16
The rocks are replacements for the art object—something in lieu of a consciously created, highly surfaced, highly detailed, academically studied work of fine art. A piece of rock in exchange for all that....More »
John Chamberlain “Stance, Rhythm, and Tilt”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2021-09-28 - 2022-02-05
There’s all these different variations … coming out looking like the sculptures that are what you might call the signature mark. The stance, and the rhythm, and the tilt are all in there… . But I went...More »
Adriana Varejão “Talavera”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2021-05-03 - 2021-06-26
My work is always in the territory of hybridity. My content forms in terms of decolonizing subjectivities because it deals with countless cultural references—not only from official history, but also from...More »
Titus Kaphar “From a Tropical Space”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2020-10-01 - 2020-12-19
Gagosian presents From a Tropical Space, an exhibition of new paintings by Titus Kaphar. This is Kaphar’s first exhibition with the gallery and inaugurates his representation. A painter, sculptor, filmmaker,...More »
Donald Judd “Artwork: 1980”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-03-12 - 2020-04-11
Space is made by an artist or architect; it is not found and packaged. It is made by thought. —Donald Judd Gagosian presents, in association with Judd Foundation, an installation of untitled, 1980,...More »
Richard Serra “Reverse Curve”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2019-09-17 - 2020-02-01
Weight is a value for me—not that it is any more compelling than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than about lightness and therefore I have more to say about it, more to say about the balancing...More »
Jeff Wall Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2019-04-30 - 2019-07-26
Gagosian presents Jeff Wall’s first exhibition with the gallery. The majority of the works included are on view for the first time. From his pioneering use in the 1970s of backlit color transparencies—a...More »
Jia Aili “Combustion”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2019-03-07 - 2019-04-13
Art is the light of the spirit. It enlightens the dust of the mind. —Jia Aili Gagosian presents Combustion, Jia Aili’s first exhibition in New York, and with the gallery. A central figure in contemporary...More »
Marc Newson Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-01-17 - 2019-02-20
For me, design is a great opportunity to improve on what is already out there, to simplify, to beautify, to technologically improve. —Marc Newson Gagosian presents new works by designer Marc Newson....More »
Richard Prince “High Times”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-11-01 - 2018-12-15
First there were the “dead” heads. (Nothing to do with the Grateful Dead.) Drawn with a Bic pen back in 1972 and ’73. Richard brought these heads with him to NYC when he moved there in 1974. There were...More »
Urs Fischer “Play”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2018-09-06 - 2018-10-13
The machine perpetuates its binary beat. —Federico García Lorca, “Ode to Salvador Dalí” (1926) Play is the origin of fiction. —Urs Fischer Gagosian presents PLAY, conceived by Urs Fischer with...More »
Jenny Saville “Ancestors”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-05-03 - 2018-07-20
I’m trying to see if it’s possible to hold onto that moment of perception, or have several moments coexist… Like looking at a memory. —Jenny Saville Gagosian presents “Ancestors,” new paintings by...More »
Cy Twombly “In Beauty it is finished Drawings 1951–2008”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2018-03-08 - 2018-04-25
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness which ideas can never claim. —John Crowe Ransom, “The World’s Body” (1938) Gagosian presents the first career-spanning exhibition of drawings...More »
Douglas Gordon “Back and forth and forth and back”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2017-11-14 - 2018-02-03
If you want to find the truth in something, take it apart piece by piece, then put it back together with the detail of a forensic scientist. This is a classical way to deconstruct a narrative. However,...More »
Anselm Kiefer “Transition From Cool To Warm”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2017-05-05 - 2017-09-01
What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don’t construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can...More »
Albert Oehlen “Elevator Paintings: Trees”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-02-28 - 2017-04-15
Qualities that I want to see brought together: delicacy and coarseness, color and vagueness, and, underlying them all, a base note of hysteria. —Albert Oehlen Gagosian presents “Elevator Paintings:...More »
Andreas Gursky “Not Abstract II”
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2016-11-10 - 2016-12-23
My photographs are “not abstract.” Ultimately they are always identifiable. Photography in general simply cannot disengage from the object. —Andreas Gursky In the wake of Andreas Gursky’s current survey...More »
Georg Baselitz “Jumping Over My Shadow”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2016-09-20 - 2016-10-29
This idea of “looking toward the future” is nonsense. I realized that simply going backwards is better. You stand in the rear of the train—looking at the tracks flying back below—or you stand at the stern...More »
Richard Serra “NJ1”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2016-05-07 - 2016-07-29
Gagosian Gallery presents four new large-scale steel sculptures and an Installation Drawing by Richard Serra. Richard Serra’s (b. 1938) first solo exhibitions were held at the Galleria La Salita, Rome,...More »
Gregory Crewdson “Cathedral of the Pines”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2016-01-28 - 2016-03-12
It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity. —Gregory...More »
Jeff Koons “Gazing Ball”
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2015-11-09 - 2015-12-23
Gagosian Gallery presents a new series of paintings by Jeff Koons entitled Gazing Ball. In this series, Koons is in dialogue with artists of the past, such as Titian, El Greco, Courbet, and Manet, among...More »
“In the Studio: Paintings” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2015-02-17 - 2015-04-18
Gagosian Gallery presents an ambitious pair of exhibitions, curated by John Elderfield and Peter Galassi, devoted to images of artists’ studios, in paintings and in photographs. The subject of the artist’s...More »
Pablo Picasso “Picasso and the Camera”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-10-28 - 2015-01-03
Gagosian Gallery, in partnership with Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, presents “Picasso and the Camera,” the fifth in a series of major Picasso surveys, following “Mosqueteros” (2009), “Picasso: The Mediterranean...More »
Nancy Rubins “Our Friend Fluid Metal”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2014-07-17 - 2014-09-13
Gagosian presents “Our Friend Fluid Metal,” Nancy Rubins’ first exhibition of major sculptures in New York since the presentation of Big Pleasure Point by the Public Art Fund at Lincoln Center in 2006. Rubins’...More »
Glenn Brown Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2014-05-08 - 2014-06-21
I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that...More »
Rudolf Stingel Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-03-04 - 2014-04-19
Gagosian New York presents a new exhibition by Rudolf Stingel. This will be the first U.S. presentation of pivotal works in which Stingel engages with the genre of landscape painting. Several of these...More »
Richard Serra “New Sculpture”
[0] [3]- Media: Sculpture
- 2013-10-26 - 2014-02-08
Gagosian presents new sculptures by Richard Serra at both Chelsea galleries. At the West 21st Street gallery, a single work made of curved plates: Inside Out, 2013 Weatherproof steel Born in...More »
Renzo Piano Building Workshop “Fragments”
[0] [2]- Media: Architecture
- 2013-06-27 - 2013-08-02
Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom. —Renzo Piano ...More »
Anselm Kiefer “Morgenthau Plan”
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2013-05-03 - 2013-06-08
Beauty requires a counterpart. And in thinking about this flaw, the other flaw occurred to me as well: the Morgenthau Plan. For it too ignored the complexity of things. —Anselm Kiefer Gagosian Gallery...More »
Helen Frankenthaler "Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959"
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2013-03-08 - 2013-04-13
The only rule is that there are no rules. Anything is possible. ... It's all about risks, deliberate risks. --Helen Frankenthaler Gagosian Gallery, in cooperation with the Estate of Helen Frankenthaler,...More »
Henry Moore "Late Large Forms"
[0] [1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2012-11-20 - 2013-01-19
Everything I do, I intend to make on a large scale... Size itself has its own impact, and physically we can relate more strongly to a big sculpture than to a small one. —Henry Moore Gagosian Gallery,...More »
Douglas Gordon "The End of Civilisation"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Film
- 2012-09-08 - 2012-10-13
I wanted to do something with a piano in a landscape of some significance and I suppose, as a Scotsman, there's nothing more significant than the border. I thought it was beautiful to look from one country...More »
Richard Avedon "Murals & Portraits"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2012-05-04 - 2012-07-27
Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of Richard Avedon's legendary photographic murals and related portraits. The exhibition has been drawn from the collection of and developed in collaboration with...More »
Georg Baselitz Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2012-02-28 - 2012-04-07
I don't want to create a monster, I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do....something that references tradition, but is still new. --Georg Baselitz Gagosian Gallery...More »
Damien Hirst "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2012-01-12 - 2012-02-18
I was always a colorist, I've always had a phenomenal love of color... I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that's where the spot paintings came from-to create that structure to do those colors,...More »
Andreas Gursky Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2011-11-04 - 2011-12-17
Gagosian Gallery presents a major exhibition by Andreas Gursky. At the 21st Street gallery, Gursky will premiere Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works, in tandem with the majestic Oceans of 2010,...More »
Andy Warhol "Liz"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2011-09-16 - 2011-10-22
She was unquestionably gorgeous. I can think of no other word to describe a combination of plentitude, frugality, abundance, tightness. She was lavish. She was a dark unyielding largesse. She was, in short,...More »
"Picasso and Marie-Thérèse L’amour fou" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-04-14 - 2011-07-15
You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait. I have a feeling we will do great things together.--Pablo Picasso Following the critical and popular success of Picasso: Mosqueteros in...More »
Francesco Vezzoli Sacrilegio”
[0] [3]- Media: Painting - Other - Installation
- 2011-02-05 - 2011-03-12
Whatever great artist or thinker we choose to look at, they’ve all used whatever weapon they might have to attract interest to their thoughts. I don’t see anything wrong with using celebrities to make...More »
Robert Rauschenberg Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-10-29 - 2011-01-15
The thing that’s been a constant over all these years is that I believe that art is communication so that the message has to change with time… If I can possibly show to anyone that the world belongs to...More »
Marc Newson “Transport”
[0] [1]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Product
- 2010-09-14 - 2010-10-16
As a kid obsessed with designing and making things, post-war Italian design was a huge source of inspiration. I was amazed by the seamless ability of designers and industry to produce every conceivable...More »
Claude Monet "Late Work"
[0] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2010-05-01 - 2010-06-26
The instantaneity of Monet, far from being passive, requires an unusual power of generalization, of abstraction… Monet declares: here is nature, not as you or I habitually see it, but as you are able to...More »
Alexander Calder Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-02-26 - 2010-04-10
People think monuments should come out of the ground, never out of the ceiling, but mobiles can be monumental too. --Alexander Calder Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of large-scale sculptures...More »
Richard Serra "Blind Spot" and "Open Ended"
[0] [3]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-10-27 - 2009-12-23
Gagosian Gallery presents two important sculptures by Richard Serra. Related in both form and scale, Blind Spot (2002-2003) and Open Ended (2007-2008) entail similar concentric structures, each consisting...More »
Pablo Picasso "Mosqueteros"
[0] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2009-03-26 - 2009-06-06
"Picasso: Mosqueteros" is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the late paintings since "Picasso: The Last Years: 1963-1973" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1984. Organized around...More »
Hiroshi Sugimoto "Seven Days / Seven Nights"
[0] [4]- Media: Photography
- 2008-11-06 - 2009-02-14
Gagosian Gallery announces "Seven Days / Seven Nights," an exhibition of fourteen photographs from the Seascapes series by Hiroshi Sugimoto in an architectural setting of his own design. For more than...More »
"Retrospective" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-06-20 - 2008-08-22
The retrospective exhibition, conceived and realized by a museum institution, is perceived as a watershed in any artist's career. This exhibition looks at various ways in which contemporary artists mine...More »
Piotr Uklański " Bialo-Czerwona"
[0] [2]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-03-27 - 2008-05-31
Gagosian Gallery presents BIAŁO-CZERWONA, an exhibition by Piotr Uklański. This is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. "Biało-Czerwona" (white-red), referring to Poland's bi-colored flag,...More »
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