Events
Fundraiser
Artist Plate Project 2022
Coalition for the Homeless
Launching May 22, 2023, 10am edt
Limited-edition bone china plates produced by Prospect and featuring artwork by more than forty artists—including Virgil Abloh, Derrick Adams, Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Mark Grotjahn, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant, and Jonas Wood—will be sold through Artware Editions to raise funds for the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. The funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed one hundred homeless and hungry New Yorkers.
Takashi Murakami, Gargantua on Your Palm, 2018 © 2018 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
Public Installation
Georg Baselitz
Zero Dom
October 20, 2021–March 7, 2022
Académie des beaux-arts, Paris
Georg Baselitz’s sculpture Zero Dom (2015/2021) is installed in front of the Académie des beaux-arts, Paris, in conjunction with the artist’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, which is on view through March 7, 2022, and in celebration of his admission into the Académie des beaux-arts as a foreign associate member. The 9-meter-high patinated bronze sculpture features a bundle of legs in high heels, a recurring motif in the artist’s work, which he sees as a form of self-portrait.
Georg Baselitz, Zero Dom (Zero Dome), 2015/2021, installation view, Académie des beaux-arts, Paris © Georg Baselitz 2022
Auction
The Art of Wishes 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021
Natural History Museum, London
www.artofwishes.com
Founded by philanthropist and Make‐A‐Wish patron Batia Ofer, the Art of Wishes is a charitable initiative that brings the international art community together to raise funds for Make-A-Wish UK, a nonprofit organization that grants the wishes of children with critical illnesses. The fourth annual Art of Wishes benefit auction and gala will take place at the Natural History Museum in London. The auction will be hosted on Artsy, with a preview of the artworks open to the public from October 2 through 8 at Sotheby’s London. More than twenty works by leading international artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jenny Saville, Kon Trubkovich, and others will be included.
Georg Baselitz, Schlafzimmer, 2021 © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
In Conversation
Richard Calvocoressi, Max Hollein, and Katy Siegel on Georg Baselitz
Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 1pm edt
Join Gagosien for a conversation about Georg Baselitz with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Katy Siegel, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair at Stony Brook University, New York, and senior curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and Richard Calvocoressi, art historian and director at Gagosien, London. In celebration of the forthcoming monograph on Baselitz written by Calvocoressi and published by Thames and Hudson, the trio will look at the artist’s prolific career. They will highlight the exhibitions Springtime at Gagosien, New York, and Archinto at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, both opening in May 2021, and the recent gift by the artist and his wife, Elke Baselitz, of six landmark paintings to the Met, which are on view at the museum in Pivotal Turn through July 2021. Hollein curated the major traveling exhibition Georg Baselitz: The Heroes (2016–17) and authored the accompanying catalogue on this seminal body of work. Siegel wrote the insightful essay “Double Positive: Not for Not against Not Nein—Georg Baselitz,” published in the exhibition catalogue for Georg Baselitz: Back Then, in Between, and Today (2014–15) at Haus der Kunst, Munich. To join, register at eventbrite.com.
Left: Richard Calvocoressi. Photo: Miriam Perez. Middle: Max Hollein. Photo: courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Eileen Travell. Right: Katy Siegel. Photo: Christopher Myers
Online Reading
Georg Baselitz
Years later
Georg Baselitz: Years later is available for online reading from May 18 through August 8 as part of the From the Library series. The book documents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Baselitz opening at Gagosien in Hong Kong on May 21, the first show to open to the public within our international network of galleries since the global COVID-19 lockdown. The bilingual English-Chinese publication includes a foreword by Zeng Fanzhi and essay by Lu Mingjun.
Georg Baselitz: Years later (New York: Gagosien, 2020)
Book Launch
Visions of the Self
Rembrandt and Now
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8:30pm
Kenwood House, London
www.english-heritage.org.uk
In the interest of public health, this event has been postponed until further notice.
Gagosien is pleased to host a drinks reception to celebrate the release of Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, published on the occasion of the recent eponymous exhibition at Gagosien, Grosvenor Hill, London. Organized in partnership with English Heritage, the exhibition places Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665) in dialogue with self-portraits by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as leading contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. The catalogue includes an introduction by Wendy Monkhouse, senior curator at English Heritage, and a text by art historian David Freedberg. To attend the free event, RSVP to londonevents@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now (London: Gagosien, 2020)
Announcements
Video
Georg Baselitz
Archinto
This video takes the viewer through Georg Baselitz: Archinto, an exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by the artist at Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, on view May 19, 2021–November 27, 2022. In this show, Baselitz pays homage to Venice and its rich artistic tradition, establishing art historical continuity while also signaling a rupture between the Renaissance portrait tradition and its contemporary equivalents.
Still from “Georg Baselitz: Archinto”
Donation
Georg Baselitz
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Georg Baselitz has donated six paintings to the Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, which are now on view in the special exhibition Donation d’œuvres de Georg Baselitz, through January 9, 2022. The gift testifies to the museum’s ongoing relationship with the artist since his retrospective there in 1997, followed by his sculpture exhibition in 2011.
Georg Baselitz, La tête d’Abgar, 1984, Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
Donation
Georg Baselitz
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six landmark paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2020. These works are now on view at the museum in Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn through July 18, 2021. The portraits, made in 1969, are among the first that Baselitz created using the radical strategy of inversion, in which the pictorial motif is literally turned upside down, enabling the artist to focus on painting’s possibilities, rather than the image of the sitter in direct relationship to the viewer. These portraits of the artist’s friends and associates in the German art world—the journalist Martin G. Buttig, the gallerists Franz Dahlem and Michael Werner, and the collector Karl Rinn—are deeply personal and have remained in the artist’s collection for six decades.
Georg Baseltiz, Der werktätige Dresdener – Porträt M.G.B. (Working Man from Dresden - Portrait of M.G.B), 1969, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Baselitz Family, 2020 © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
Honor
Georg Baselitz
Académie des Beaux-Arts Foreign Associate Member
Georg Baselitz has been elected a foreign associate member of the prestigious Académie des beaux-arts, one of five institutions comprising the Institut de France. Baselitz joins ten other foreign members, taking the seat previously held by the late Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. The artist’s induction ceremony took place on October 27, 2021.
Dedicated to the fine arts, the Académie des Beaux-Arts encourages artistic creation and ensures the defense of France’s cultural heritage by awarding prizes to both emerging and recognized artists, organizing competitions, funding artist residencies, and granting aid to artistic projects, events, and associations. As an advisory body to the French public authorities, it is organized around the notion of multidisciplinarity, bringing together members within eight different artistic sections, foreign associate members, and corresponding members.
Georg Baselitz during his induction into the Académie des beaux-arts, Paris, 2021
New Release
Gagosien App for iPad
Issue 4
Gagosien announces the release of issue 4 of the Gagosien App for iPad on July 13, 2013. Artists featured in this issue include Georg Baselitz, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Rubins, Thomas Ruff, Taryn Simon, and Cy Twombly.
In issue 4 we feature an illustrated “pop-up” biography of Georg Baselitz, show Piero Manzoni’s Azimuth magazines digitized with full English translations for the first time, offer an endless “art board” of works from the exhibition The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, including historical and biographical information on more than seventy-six artists. We also show a comprehensive overview of Nancy Rubins’s monumental public sculptures made from industrial objects, and give you a look at Thomas Ruff’s stereoscopic ma.r.s. photographs in 3-D. We invite you to interact with multimedia highlights from Taryn Simon’s four major bodies of work, curated by the artist, and explore Cy Twombly’s final paintings with a photographic and audio tribute to the artist by Sally Mann.
Museum Exhibitions
On View
Georg Baselitz
Through September 30, 2023
Peter Marino Art Foundation, Southampton, New York
www.petermarinoartfoundation.org
Georg Baselitz includes forty-five paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the artist shown alongside work from the Peter Marino Collection. In the 1960s Baselitz became well known for his figurative and expressive paintings, and in 1969, he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work. Drawing from a myriad of influences, including Soviet-era illustration, Mannerism, and African sculptures, Baselitz has developed his own distinct artistic language.
Installation view, Georg Baselitz, Peter Marino Art Foundation, Southampton, New York, May 20–September 30, 2023. Artwork, front to back: fourteenth-century statue of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, © Georg Baselitz 2023
On View
Baselitz im Atelier
Open from April 7, 2023
Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany
www.hallartfoundation.org
Schloss Derneburg was Georg Baselitz’s home and studio for more than three decades until its sale to Andy and Christine Hall, founders of the Hall Art Foundation, in 2006. This exhibition, whose title translates to Baselitz in the Studio, includes some two dozen paintings and one sculpture that were completed between 1998 and 2005 and are among the last works the artist made in this studio. This is the first in a series of Baselitz exhibitions drawn from the Hall Collection that will be presented on the occasion of the artist’s eighty-fifth birthday.
Installation view, Baselitz im Atelier, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany, open from April 7, 2023. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Roman März, courtesy Hall Art Foundation
On View
Malelade
Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag
Through October 22, 2023
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
www.sgsm.eu
Malelade is an artist’s book by Georg Baselitz that includes forty-one large-format drypoint engravings. This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Georg Baselitz on His 85th Birthday, displays the 148 test prints produced ahead of the book and celebrates the artist’s momentous birthday. The prints provide insight into the work’s genesis and Baselitz’s creative process, which varies from sheet to sheet.
Installation view, Malelade: Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, August 30–October 22, 2023. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Zeynep Oktay/PIN
On View
Capturing the Moment
Through January 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk
Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.
Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993, Tate Modern, London © Jeff Wall
Opening Soon
El eco de Picasso
October 3, 2023–March 31, 2024
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
museopicassomalaga.org
Organized as part of Picasso Celebración—1973–2023, a series of international exhibitions and events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, The Echo of Picasso focuses on his influence on twentieth-century art. The exhibition places Picasso’s practice in dialogue with work by more than fifty artists, including Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Houseago, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West.
Richard Prince, Untitled (Picasso), 2011, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid © Richard Prince. Photo: Pablo Asenjo
Opening Soon
Georg Baselitz
Sculptures 2011–2015
October 5, 2023–January 7, 2024
Serpentine Galleries, London
www.serpentinegalleries.org
Featuring works selected with Georg Baselitz and taken directly from his studio, this exhibition presents never-before-seen towering wood sculptures alongside loose, inky drawings. The sculptures were not originally intended for public view; they were made as maquettes in preparation for bronze works. Each sculpture originated as a single tree trunk, which Baselitz carved down using power saws, axes, and chisels. The exhibition provides new insights into the artist’s process, and how his works inform one another across different mediums.
Georg Baselitz, Sing Sang Zero, 2011 © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
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Georg Baselitz
100 Zeichnungen
June 7–September 17, 2023
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at
This exhibition, whose title translates to 100 Drawings, celebrates Georg Baselitz’s gift of fifty drawings to both the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Albertina in Vienna. Shown together, the works present a retrospective of Baselitz’s artistic development and highlight the central role that drawing plays in his practice. This exhibition has traveled from the Morgan Library, where it was titled Six Decades of Drawings.
Installation view, Georg Baselitz: 100 Zeichnungen, Albertina, Vienna, June 7–September 17, 2023. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Albertina Fotostudio
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RA Summer Exhibition 2023
June 13–August 20, 2023
Royal Academy of Arts, London
www.royalacademy.org.uk
Held annually since 1769, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art across all mediums—print, painting, film, photography, sculpture, architecture, and more—with some 1,600 works on display, many for the first time. Work by Georg Baselitz, Michael Craig-Martin, and Edmund de Waal is included.
Edmund de Waal, five stone wind (for John Cage), 2023 © Edmund de Waal
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Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag
January 15–July 16, 2023
Museum Würth 2, Künzelsau, Germany
kunst.wuerth.com
This exhibition marks the occasion of Georg Baselitz’s eighty-fifth birthday by presenting a selection of his graphic art, paintings, and sculptures in the Museum Würth’s atrium. Since the mid-1960s, Baselitz has experimented intensively with various printmaking techniques. This show brings together more than fifty works by the artist from the Würth Collection, including eighteen monumental linocuts made between 1977 and 1979.
Georg Baselitz’s Yellow Song (2013; left) and BDM Gruppe (2012; right) installed outside Museum Würth 2, Künzelsau, Germany. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023
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Baselitz
Nackte Meister
March 7–June 25, 2023
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
baselitz.khm.at
This exhibition, whose title translates to Naked Masters, places works by Georg Baselitz alongside historical paintings of nude figures from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s collection. This juxtaposition aims to reveal insights into the history of nude portraiture as well as the currency that painting itself still has. Baselitz selected the works himself—nearly eighty of his own and forty from the collection, including paintings by Hans Baldung Grien, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Titian.
Installation view, Georg Baselitz: Nackte Meister, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, March 7–June 25, 2023. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband
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Georg Baselitz
Six Decades of Drawings
October 21, 2022–February 5, 2023
Morgan Library & Museum, New York
www.themorgan.org
This exhibition celebrates Georg Baselitz’s gift of fifty drawings to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, as well as a donation to the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Shown together, these works present a retrospective of Baselitz’s artistic development and highlight the central role that drawing plays in his practice.
Installation view, Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 21, 2022–February 5, 2023. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Janny Chiu
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Jubiläumsausstellung—Special Guest Duane Hanson
October 30, 2022–January 8, 2023
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch
This exhibition, whose title translates to Anniversary Exhibition—Special Guest Duane Hanson, features more than one hundred works from the foundation’s collection, from modern to contemporary art, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution. Several hyperrealist sculptures by Duane Hanson enrich the presentation, opening up surprising perspectives on the exhibited artworks, architecture, staff, and visitors. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread is included.
Installation view, Jubiläumsausstellung—Special Guest Duane Hanson, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, October 30, 2022–January 8, 2023. Artwork, front to back: © 2022 Estate of Duane Hanson/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein