LUBOV - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for LUBOV. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jon Rafman & Parker Ito “Poets, Gamblers, Fools”
organized by Grant Tyler On August 12, 2009, Parker (b. 1986) emailed Jon (b. 1981) for the first time in response to an article Jon had written for Art Fag City’s IMG MGMT series about Jon’s project...More »
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Jenna Westra “Twinchecks”
Jenna Westra’s photographs take place in the overlapping spaces of performance, portraiture, and dreams. These are all zones for shared collaborative improvisation — living settings for interactions between...More »
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Eunnam Hong “Souvenirs”
Souvenirs travel with you, stored in the body as the joy or menace of memory, talismans like a keychain, napkin, rock, or lock of hair. You’re leaving with it for better or worse. Eunnam Hong’s paintings...More »
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Ella Rose Flood “Only Silver”
Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego, and the latter could be judged by a special agency, as though it were an object, the forsaken object. In this way an object-loss was transformed into an...More »
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Victor Boullet “Werkk.Werkk.Liverpool.Painting.”
Organized by Reilly Davidson I’m not leaning in any other direction but my very own pit of sorrow and existential crawl. Victor the grouch. He resents his neighbors for their neglected waste bins....More »
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Covey Gong & Eli Ping Exhibition
Since becoming friends with Eli, we’ve cooked together a lot, and I’ve gotten to know his family at the dinner table sharing the food we made. The first time Eli and I had a serious discussion about this...More »
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Jobi Bicos “Dragon Guts”
A body is a strange thing to carry around. It holds the promise of liberation while also serving the carceral gaze of a society married to a binary worldview. It’s the paucity of imagination manifesting...More »
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Shannon Cartier Lucy “The Loo Table”
If you touch the brass mechanism fitted at the base of a loo table, it will fold to make itself small and storable. It’s the effort of the game that makes for a small gathering. Many hands held small cards...More »
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Hwi Hahm “Bushman’s Poetry, Starman’s Prank”
A definitive Hwi Hahm style does not exist — at least not yet. That is because his paintings are not invested in a continuum, they are all about the feel, the excitement, the going-for-it-ness of putting...More »
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“Disease Was My Life Coach” Exhibition
Organized by Jacques Louis Vidal It should be useful that I find myself, the weekend before this show opens, lying down in a cold sweat feeling deeply nauseous, the victim of some kind of bacterial...More »
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Daffy Scanlan & Chiara Ibrah “Delayed Green”
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Katja Farin “Lines from Arguments”
in collaboration with in lieu, Los Angeles Depthless theatrical spaces in color palettes of decomposing fruits set the stage for alienation and co-dependency to unfold between Katja Farin’s easily relatable...More »
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Shannon Cartier Lucy “Home is a crossword puzzle I can’t solve”
Shannon Cartier Lucy’s paintings are loquacious despite seeming unassuming. They thrust you towards the edge of a precipice right where your inhibitions end and your subconscious begins. Suddenly, you...More »
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Noel Freibert “Halo in a Hayloft”
A friend of mine began riding horses this past spring. For her, it’s part of a larger exploration in power—apparently working with horses is all about power. The quiet kind. Like communicating with the...More »
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Thomas Liu Le Lann “Best Western”
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Do your sculptures portray specific people? Thomas Liu Le Lann: Yes, I write biographic essays of the boys (men) I meet, linking them to my sculptural work. I title each piece with...More »
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Riley Hanson & James Gregory Atkinson “Rawr means I love you in dinosaur”
organized by Daisy Sanchez Rawr means I love you in dinosaur initiates a dialogue between two bodies of recent work through which Philadelphia-based painter Riley Hanson and Frankfurt-based multidisciplinary...More »
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“CONDO New York 2019” Exhibition
Lubov hosts El Apartamento, Havana More »
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Phoebe Berglund “Great Expectations”
Characters are one place to start. Actors getting into character: grimacing or expressionless or smiling luridly at nothing. Lovers in an entwined embrace that veers toward restrained wrestling: hands...More »
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Stefan Schwartzman “Golem”
When you’re getting fucked in the ass you get an experience that is exposing. And there is the feeling of being impaled, of being split in half. And there is a splitting of personality. Or one could say...More »
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Mira Dayal “Anagen”
You notice a string of fortuitous coincidences. The artist’s given name is an invitation for you to look, if your ears are primed to another of the many languages spoken in this city. In other tongues...More »
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Daffy Scanlan & Chiara Ibrah “Toy Temple Human Monk”
Organized by Dana Kopel, with gratitude to Charlie Markbreiter Auditorium filled by sulfuric odor. Confrontation of inner banners. Evidence of overturning baby-cells. Trash fire blurs free embers on...More »
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Kricket Lane “Prepositions All the Way Down”
Oh, how we speak to the creaturely! In Kricket Lane’s surreal visual world, it’s in a series of half-Imperative, partly-cooing ask-commands: sculptural portmanteaus of nature- and human-made, inspired...More »
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Theodore Darst “Last Days in a Lovely Place”
Last Days in a Lovely Place provides a conceptual and formal break from the Theodore Darst’s previous video projects. Darst abandons the highly rendered and processed landscape of professional video editing...More »
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Manuela Soto “Meant to Be”
Manuela Soto’s work is both viral and permanent, a contradiction fit for an age where female empowerment and self expression is wrapped up in enduring trends and cyclical battles for Instagram-oriented...More »
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Jenna Westra “Parts of Some Quartet, Fruits”
Jenna Westra uses the body to reimagine The Set as a framework that activates the performers within it, transforming accidental or chance movements into intentional, choreographed actions for the camera....More »
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“Potemkin // Body” Exhibition
Potemkin//Body is both workaround and wall: a framework built from a façade // surface as functioning surrogate. It is avatar identities, assumed structures of knowing and behavior, illusions of safety/prosperity/space....More »
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PS3* “A groundbreaking, missed party”
One cortado please, says Pedro Make it two, I say Cortado is a small coffee in a small very small coffee cup with a drop of milk that cuts the intense brown with the white. Very white. His cap resting...More »
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Linnea Vedder “If nothing lasts forever, will you be my nothing?”
Birth Linnea Vedder’s recent paintings depict pregnancy, engaging the longstanding analogy between birth and creative genesis (see, for instance, Courbet’s L’Origine du monde). Vedder takes up art’s classical...More »
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“Pearls” Exhibition
Curated by Natalie Yang It was then that the ocean returned to its familiar self and my tears of relief dropped as shining pearls, and pillows of sand welcomed each treasure to the ocean floor as...More »