ART BASEL PARIS 2025

A solo exhibition by Christopher Williams is currently on view at
The Perimeter, London, through 20 December 2025.

To me, the process of painting is more like that of an invention. It may sound funny, but I believe they share common characteristics. A painting is like a sketch for a building. It carries many ideas and intentions of the artist. I think it’s a revolution in the simplest and most direct sense. A painting can never be produced in a factory.

 

– Xie Nanxing in conversation with Ai Weiwei, 2008

 

For all the humor and goofiness that comes across in these large in-your face paintings, there is something alarming about them. Her humorous, sad sack caricatures barely contain a suppressed rage. Their exaggerated features speak directly to the fractured American psyche, especially when it comes to race, ethnicity, and notions of beauty.

 

– John Yau

Stefanie Heinze is participating in the group show Natural Mystics at
The Warehouse, Dallas Art Foundation – on view through January 2026.

Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Bolero Bordello, the first solo exhibition by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, opening at the gallery on 31 October 2025.

Maria Brunner is participating in OFFSCREEN at Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, from 21 – 26 October 2025.

Mikołaj Sobczak is one of the recipients of the Villa Romana Prize 2026, dedicated to supporting artists who expand the horizons of artistic practice.

Sean Landers’ solo exhibition Lost at Sea is on view at The Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island, through 29 December 2025.

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna is presenting a comprehensive mid-career retrospective of Tobias Pils, on view through April 2026.

Sanya Kantarovsky is quintessentially a painter – someone who lives and breathes the materials, procedures, and heritage of the art. He’s someone who, according to the curator Elena Filipovic, “believes more in the utter necessity of painting than nearly anyone I’ve ever met.” 

 

– Barry Schwabsky, Artforum

To accompany the new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula, the Metropolitan Opera in New York is displaying a banner by Isabella Ducrot on the façade of the opera house. On view through 3 November.