10 Outstanding Exhibitions of 2015

America Is Hard to See
at Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, USA
May 01, 2015 - Sep 27, 2015

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new Renzo Piano-designed home in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on May 1, 2015, the first exhibition on view will be an unprecedented selection of works from the Museum’s renowned permanent collection. Setting forth a distinctly new narrative, America Is Hard to See presents fresh perspectives on the Whitney’s collection and reflects upon art in the United States with over 600 works by some 400 artists, spanning the period from about 1900 to the present. read more...

The Inaugural Installation
at The Broad
Downtown Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 20, 2015 - Dec 31, 2015

The inaugural installation features a predominantly chronological selection of masterworks from the Broad collections. The installation begins on the third floor with works by major artists who came to prominence in the 1950s, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. The Pop art of the 1960s—an area of great depth in the collections—is represented through works by Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, among others. read more...

Agnes Martin
at Tate Modern
Bankside - London, UK
Jun 03, 2015 - Oct 11, 2015

Agnes Martin is perhaps most recognised for her evocative paintings marked out in subtle pencil lines and pale colour washes. Although restrained, her style was underpinned by her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. Martin believed that spiritual inspiration and not intellect created great work. ‘Without awareness of beauty, innocence and happiness’ Martin wrote ‘one cannot make works of art’. read more...

Sophie Calle: For the Last and First Time
at Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Montreal, QC, Canada
Feb 05, 2015 - May 10, 2015

This exhibition consists of two recent projects by Sophie Calle, one of today’s leading French artists. These works, The Last Image, 2010, a series of photographs accompanied by texts, and Voir la mer, 2011, a series of digital films, take an incisive, poetic look at the particular reality of the mental images of blind people and at the discovery of beauty and the sublime. For The Last Image, she writes: “I went to Istanbul. read more...

Alicja Kwade: Something absent whose presence had been expected
at Johann König
Mitte - Berlin, Germany
Feb 28, 2015 - Apr 18, 2015

Johann König, Berlin is pleased to present “Something absent whose presence had been expected” a solo show by Alicja Kwade. Throughout the main room as well as the south gallery and the small exhibition room Alicja shows new art works that question the structure of reality, the essence of things. When attempting to describe time, we have recourse to images from very different areas: time ‘flies’, ‘flows’, ‘flashes by’, ‘passes’, ‘runs out’. read more...

Alfredo Jaar: Gold in the Morning
at Galeria Luisa Strina
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Apr 07, 2015 - May 23, 2015

Galeria Luisa Strina is pleased to present Gold in the Morning, Alfredo Jaar’s first solo exhibition to be held at the gallery. Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker. He was born in 1956 in Chile, where he was also educated. In 1982 he moved to New York, where he lives and works today. In 1985 Jaar traveled to Brazil to document the Serra Pelada gold mine, a year before Sebastião Salgado began to photograph in the region. read more...

Song Dong: Surplus Value
at Pace Beijing
Beijing, China
Dec 19, 2015 - Feb 27, 2016

Pace Beijing is pleased to present "Beijing Voice: Song Dong Surplus Value" from December 19, 2015, to February 27, 2016, with an opening reception to the public on Friday, December 18 from 4 to 6 pm. As the sixth installment of Pace Beijing's annual project "Beijing Voice", this exhibition will feature Song Dong’s latest series, Surplus Value, a conceptual exploration of everyday “discarded things”. As a leading international artist, Song Dong this year presented a retrospective exhibition of over twenty years of his art at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, and Kunsthalle Dusseldorf in Germany, while also taking part in the Venice Biennale, Triennial Brugge, and important exhibitions at art museums and institutions around the world. read more...

Gabriel Orozco: Inner Cycles
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Koto-ku - Tokyo, Japan
Jan 24, 2015 - May 10, 2015

Gabriel Orozco (born Mexico, 1962) is known for works that manipulate existing objects or rules to transform them into something else, such his 'Ping-Pond Table', in which two table tennis tables have been joined together and a pond placed in the center. These works, which intervene with common scenes to invite new thoughts, have attracted international acclaim since the 1990s and he has exerted a powerful influence on the subsequent generation of artists. read more...

Olafur Eliasson: Space Minding
at Stevenson, Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Jan 22, 2015 - Feb 28, 2015

STEVENSON is pleased to present Space minding, the first solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson to take place in South Africa. Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation artworks that employ elemental materials such as light, water and earth. In 1997, he participated in the second Johannesburg Biennale with the urban intervention Erosion, in which he turned a water reservoir into a running stream that stretched 1. read more...

Grayson Perry: My Pretty Little Art Career
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Dec 10, 2015 - May 01, 2016

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is pleased to present the first major survey exhibition in the Southern hemisphere by internationally renowned artist and Turner Prize recipient, Grayson Perry, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. Grayson Perry is one of the best known British artists of his generation, acclaimed for his ceramics, sculptures, drawings, prints and tapestries. With a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular and vernacular, Perry infuses his artworks with a sly humour and reflection on society past and present. read more...