#12 • September 15, 2021–October 9, 2021: Open Circle: Small World at Fragment Gallery, Potapovsky Lane, 12, Moscow, Russia
Fragment presents the second exhibition of the international gallery-sharing initiative called Open Circle. Each year a new theme is proposed for participating galleries. This time concept of the «Small world» exhibition reflects the modern processes of globalization. Despite those who oppose this phenomenon, the project organizers suggest perceiving the «Small world» tendency in a positive way, where art is becoming more accessible. We often notice common themes among artists living and working in different parts of the world, and this is just one of the inevitable manifestations of contemporary art. But the world is not becoming homogenized, instead, we witness the birth of a new community where everyone is somehow connected by five handshakes.
The gallery-sharing initiative features Misako & Rosen (Tokyo) with ironic and provocative videos and prints by the artist duo COBRA and Ken Kagami and Peres Projects (Berlin) with Rebecca Ackroyd’s graphics. Lubov (New York) will show a figurative triptych by Kevin Tobin; Raster (Warsaw) — Przemek Matecki’s series on Art History (previously shown at NADA Miami 2019), Temnikova & Kasela (Tallinn) — Sigrid Viir’s works earlier featured at OVR Art Basel last year; Capsule (Shanghai) — a video by Wang Haiyang (some of his other works will be available at Liste 2021). Fragment will show Kian McKeown’s melancholic, subtle and surreal works.
https://fragmentgallery.com/smallworld/
Image: ©Kevin Tobin, American Princess, 2019.
#11 • September 18, 2021: Better Call it Grace at Lubov, 5 East Broadway, #401 & #402, New York, NY
Reception: Saturday September 18, 6-8 pm
On occasion of the exhibition The Loo Table at Lubov, Hassla Books is publishing Cartier Lucy’s first monograph, titled Better Call it Grace. Created through a close collaboration among Cartier Lucy and Lubov, New York, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and Soft Opening, London, the publication unites images of all the artist’s paintings from 2017 to 2021, along with essays contributed by independent curator Claire Sammut and writer and artist Adam Lehrer.
Texts by Claire Sammut and Adam Lehrer
152 pages, hardcover
9 x 10 1/2 inches, 22.9 x 26.7 cm
Edition of 1,000
ISBN 978-1-940881-48-5
September 2021
#10 • August 28, 2021–August 29, 2021: NADA x Foreland 2021 at Foreland, 111 Water Street, Catskill, NY
Open to the Public: Saturday, August 28 & Sunday, August 29, 11am–8pm
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is pleased to announce a first time collaborative exhibition with Foreland, an 85,000 square-foot arts campus in the Hudson River Valley. Taking place August 28–29, 2021, NADA x Foreland will feature artwork installed in historic industrial buildings in the center of Catskill, New York.
In partnership with Upstate Art Weekend and co-organized with NADA Member Jesse Greenberg of JAG Projects, the exhibition will highlight artworks from the community of NADA galleries, non-profits, and artists with a focus on artists and exhibition spaces working in the region of Upstate New York, featuring 81 exhibiting galleries, non-profits, and artist-run spaces presenting over 100 artists.
This is the first collaboration between NADA and Foreland, allowing participants to present works in a dynamic new setting and engage with the lively community of collectors, artists, and arts professionals based in the Hudson Valley during the bustling Upstate Art Weekend.
NADA x Foreland continues NADA’s engagement with the many audiences of the Upstate New York region, building on past events such as the NADA County Affair in Callicoon, NY (2010), NADA Hudson (2011, 2012), and our partnership with Upstate Art Weekend in 2020.
Foreland is an 85,000 square-foot contemporary arts campus located in Catskill, NY. In its earliest iteration in the mid-1800s, the three brick buildings of the Foreland Campus were used to manufacture uniforms for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Since then, it has housed makers and manufacturers of all kinds. It sat dormant for years, until artist Stef Halmos purchased the buildings in 2017 and began painstakingly renovating and retrofitting them.
#9 • July 9, 2021: Platinum at 5 East Broadway, floors 2–5, New York, NY
Friday July 9, 10pm–5am
Organized by Angel Money. Join me in three floors of music and mystique
Club Eat (Debut live performance), Jasmine Infiniti, Drumloop, Sausha, Sunrisehunter, Miss Parker, Nitelvs, Dime, Knives, Via App, and me.
Ambient roof by Drumloop and Celes
Hosted by Miss DeSe Baby, King Liam, and Eo.Nat
The door is run by a very special guest, and entry is at her discretion. Downtown Manhattan - the address will be released on my Instagram, @babydreamgirl, on the day of the 9th. Dress expensive
#8 • June 25, 2021–June 28, 2021: Lucky Jewel IV: I Love This Place and I Love This World at Lubov, 5 East Broadway, #401 & #402, New York, NY
Opening: Friday June 25, 3–9pm
Open shop hours:
Saturday, June 26, 12–6pm
Sunday, June 27, 12–6pm
Monday, June 28, 12–4pm
#7 • April 9, 2021–May 2, 2021: Untitled at Always Fresh, 127 Stanton St, New York, NY
Opening reception: Friday April 9, 6-8 pm
Always Fresh presenting Volk Lika / Alyssa Davis Gallery presenting Chris Retsina / ASHES/ASHES presenting Ian Swanson / Gern en Regalia presenting Jenna Beasley / King’s Leap presenting Joe W. Speier / Love presenting Jake Shore / Lubov presenting Kevin Tobin / Mery Gates presenting Brian Oakes / Sinkhole Project presenting Marc Matchak
#6 • October 31, 2020: Afternoons: Book Launch and Signing at Lubov, 5 East Broadway, #402, New York, NY
Saturday October 31st, 3–5pm at Lubov
Book launch and signing of Jenna Westra, Afternoons published by Hassla
Afternoons is published on the occasion of the exhibition Afternoons at Lubov with support from Lubov, New York; Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin; and Fahrenheit, Madrid.
Text by Orit Gat
96 pages, softcover
9 x 11 1/2 inches, 22.9 x 29.2 cm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-1-940881-39-3
October 2020
#5 • September 17–September 19, 2020: Requiems at Lubov, 5 East Broadway, #402, New York, NY
Every evening 8pm-12am; doors 7:30pm
Organized by Tabitha Piseno.
Thursday September 17: Shots, Alexander Tominsky, Luke Moldof, Nick Scavo
Friday September 18: Umfang, Bookworms, Syanide
Saturday September 19: DeForrest Brown Jr., Voice Training, 7038634357, Drumloop
#4 • September 12–October 25, 2020: Open Circle at Fragment Gallery, 3rd Krasnoselsky Lane, 19, B. 7, Moscow, Russia
In September Fragment gallery is launching a gallery-sharing initiative called Open Circle. The theme of the first collaborative exhibition, which occupies a whole Fragment gallery space, is ‘The New (Sur)Realism’. It reflects, in the best possible way, times we all live in and shows different angles of contemporary artists practice, and strikes a balance between illusory, fictional and real life.
Each participating gallery was invited to become a co-curator of the month-long exhibition and show works by one of its artists. Capsule Shanghai presents a video work by Alice Wang, Lubov from New York — an installation by new media artist Theodore Darst, Raster from Warsaw brings prints by significant Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska, Temnikova & Kasela (Tallinn) — works by Jaanus Samma, who presented Estonia at the 56th Venice Biennale, and Fragment gallery shows paintings by Canadian artist of South Korean origin Sun Woo. Special bilingual platform (Rus/Eng) dedicated to Open Circle will be launched on September 16th.
«Despite only half of previously confirmed participant galleries being able to make it to the final show, I’m glad that Open Circle is finally happening in real life. In a time of very limited travelling, postponement of gallery and museum exhibitions, and cancellation of all major art fairs around the world, it’s important to show Moscow collectors works of international artists, and show them that life is still going on. We plan to make this project every September, to coincide with Cosmoscow art fair, to give galleries and collectors a chance to experience art from around the world not just for four days, but a whole month. We do hope other galleries from Moscow will join forces with us for future editions to create a strong, visible Russian gallery-sharing platform», said Sergey Guschin, founder of Fragment gallery and Open Circle initiative.
#3 • January 31, 2020: Lubov x Ways of Raving at Montez Press Radio, 46 Canal St, #2, New York, NY
Broadcast: Thursday November 21, 1-2:30 pm
Bessie Zhu, Francisco Correa Cordero, Geoffrey Mak in conversation about Ways of Raving, an open-ended series of booklets that present contemporary experiences and perspectives on rave.
Bessie Zhu is an artists’ book publisher and producer of the upcoming booklet series, Ways of Raving.
Geoffrey Mak is a writer who divides his time between New York and Berlin. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Mask, Guernica, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Francisco Correa Cordero is the founder and director of the contemporary art space Lubov in Lower Manhattan.
#2 • November 21, 2019: Pendant at Montez Press Radio, 46 Canal St, #2, New York, NY
Broadcast: Thursday November 21, 1-2:30 pm
Pendant was an exhibition at World Pro News (WPN), the roof of 5 East Broadway, New York, curated by Tabitha Piseno. Live performances took place on October 18th and October 25th with the restraint that sets be made specifically for the roof and tailored with sound levels specific to the location. Weather conditions were generally overcast between 40 and 60 degrees with an average humidity of 55%.
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Permanent Six Flags, Live at WPN, 10/18/19, 21:52. Permanent Six Flags is an epistolary duo and residency program comprised of Derek Baron and Emily Martin, writers and teachers based in Brooklyn, NY. Their most recent album is A Festival Play for the Consecration of a Stage.
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The Actual School, Live at WPN, 10/18/2019, 10:10. The Actual School is a collective of workers, a set of options for organizing work, and a continuous discourse around the concept and function of actuality. The Actual School is based in New York City and was founded by Aaron Dowdy, Nick James Scavo, and Xander Seren in 2014. Aaron Dowdy is a researcher based in NYC with a focus on critical theories of the visual and contintental philosophy. Xander Seren is a musician and software developer based in Queens, NY. Nick James Scavo is a musician and writer based in New York City.
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TEL, Live at WPN, 10/18/2019, 7:18. In archaeology, a tel (derived from Arabic: تل tall or Hebrew: לת tell, 'hill' or 'mound' ),is an artificial mound formed from the accumulated refuse of generations of people living on the same site for hundreds or thousands of years. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with sloping sides. It is also a collaboration between Multi-instrumentalists/ composers and improvisers Benjamin Scott and K. Hank Jost.
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Asha Sheshadri, "Figure 1.2", Dedicated to Gena Rowlands, featured on Recital “Cellar Volume 2” CD, 5:28. Asha Sheshadri’s work involves the unpredictable observation of and response to a personal and political network of relays -- archival fields coexisting in entropy that operate within our collective worlds and imperfect memories. Her work, often taking the form of essayistic videos, recordings, readings, and performances, follow these relays towards creating environments from musical and non-musical artifacts alike -- a kind of "affective collaging” concerned with the personal deconstruction and re-assemblage of archival objects and documents. Asha’s work has been released via several imprints including Entr'acte Recordings, Recital Program, with forthcoming releases on Anomia and Marginal Frequencies.
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Max Eilbacher, "For-me-ness", 16:02. Max Eilbacher is an intermedia artist who works primarily with sound, video, and performance. His sound practice draws upon traditions of electroacoustic, musique concréte composition and process-intensive computer music. "For-me-ness" was created specifically for the roof of 5 E Broadway.
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Daren Ho, Live at WPN, 10/25/19, 20:23. Daren Ho is a New York-based experimental electronic musician.
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Compile, Live at WPN, 10/25/19, 10:28. compile.global
#1 • March 27, 2019: HIT Journal 2018 at Swiss Institute, 38 St Marks Pl, New York, NY
Issue launch: Wednesday March 27, 6-9 pm
Jean Luc Andrianasolo Hugo Baud Murat Bulut Aysan BUREAU Ligia Dias GARNISON Gaëlle Edwards Lubov Gallery NYC Servane Mary Coline Mir Baker Wardlaw