Must-See Exhibitions in 2023 I

— March 5, 2022 by YIART

1. Egon Schiele from the Collection of the Leopold Museum: Young Genius Born in Vienna

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum | 2023.01.26-2023.04.09

Drawing primarily from the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the exhibition will showcase Schiele’s life, work, and environment through paintings and drawings from his early to later years. With a total of nearly 50 works, it will include paintings such as Self-Portrait with Physalis, and Mother and Child, one of Schiele’s most famous self portraits. The exhibition also features works by important artists in Vienna from the end of the century, such as: Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, and Richard Gerstl.

2. Peter Doig

The Courtauld Gallery | 2023.02.10-2023.05.29

The Courtauld Gallery will hold a major exhibition of Doig’s new and recent works, including works he created since moving from London to Trinidad, South America in 2021. It will showcase a new chapter of one of the most famous contemporary artists and their career and will also be the first exhibition of contemporary artists since the museum re-opened in November 2021. Since moving to London, Doig has experimented with new works from Trinidad, New York, and other places. During this period, he also created a new London theme that introduces Doig’s exploration with diverse places, people, memories, and paintings.

Peter Doig is currently one of the most influential contemporary artists and his works are popular in academia and the art market.

3. Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle

Barbican Centre | 2023.02.16-2023.05.21

Alice Neel, who mainly lived in New York and created figurative paintings, adhered to her own unique expressionist style and portrayed characters depicted in non-mainstream art such as labor leaders, African Americans, transgender people, etc. The artist’s works showcase her emphasis on humanity and dignity in her subjects. Neel was hailed as the “Underground Court Painter” for subjects she depicted that were not widely recognized during the period.

This is the artist’s largest solo exhibition in the UK to date, as it brings together 60 years of her career, including her famous portraits, photography, films, and documents. It places her works in a cultural context that is ever changing, works that were not recognized in the last century, but were later embraced due to changes in social views. This exhibition also showcases paintings during the Great Depression and bears witness to the hardships that most Americans experienced at the time. Portraits from the late 1960s and 70s are also highlighted in the exhibition, including the artist’s only full-scale self-portrait, which took five years to complete. She was already 80 at the time. The exhibition highlights Alice Neel’s understanding of politics and what it means to be watched.

4. Martin Wong： Malicious Mischief

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

2023.02.25-2023.05.14

Martin Wong, who is known for depicting American society, political, and sexual scenes from the 1970s to the 1990s, was a Chinese-American artist. The artist combines Chinese portrait painting, urban poetry, graffiti, prison aesthetics, and sign and visual language. Influenced by his surroundings, Wong meticulously incorporates and combines social realism and fantasy into his works.

This exhibition is his first large-scale solo exhibition in Europe. It features more than 100 works, including early paintings and sculptures created in San Francisco and Eureka from the late 1960s and early 70s, as well as iconic paintings from the 1980s and 1990s. His work provides a rare insight into the defining periods of modern American history through changing urban landscapes, the revelation, and the complexity of hidden desires.

5. Simon Leigh

Institute of Contemporary Art | 2023.04.06-2023.09.04

Hirshhorn Museum | 2023.11.03-2024.03.03

Artist Simon Leigh represented the United States at the 29th Venice Biennale in 2022, where she won the Golden Lion Award for Best Artist. Leigh’s works place the subjectivity of black women and female identity at the center of contemporary art discourse. Her sculptures, videos, installations, and social practices explore ideas of race and community in visual and material culture, and her art deals with history, geography, traditional African culture, and different forms of craftsmanship and architecture.

This exhibition is the museum’s first comprehensive examination of the artist, exploring approximately 20 years worth of works in ceramics, bronze, video, and installation. It will showcase the “Sovereignty” displaced at the Venice Biennale, giving the audience the opportunity to appreciate her work.

Must-see exhibitions in 2023 II

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Must-See Exhibitions in 2023 I

— March 5, 2022 by YIART

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