Art021 Shanghai

David Zwirner is pleased to return to ART021 in 2025, at booth C15. Highlights include new and significant works by Huma Bhabha and Joe Bradley, alongside important historic works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who is also the subject of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner Hong Kong opening on November 19, among others.

The booth will feature two recent sculptures alongside works on paper by Huma Bhabha. Bhabha's formally innovative practice pulls from a wide range of references, from art history to science fiction and the makeshift structures and detritus of urban life. Her sculptures hover between states of ruin and repair, challenging our understanding of permanence and monumentality and of personal and collective histories. The gallery will also present Bhabha’s works on paper, which are an enduring and crucial aspect of her practice. These ink-and-collage drawings depict a foreboding figure’s head, beckoning the viewer with their unabashedly confrontational gazes. The artist’s first solo exhibition in China will open at the Cc Foundation, Shanghai, on November 12.

The gallery will also present two new large-scale paintings by American artist Joe Bradley, highlighting the evolution of his practice over the past several years. Developed through a patient process of layering, revision, and reworking, these paintings reveal Bradley’s continued exploration of color, texture, and composition. Patches of pigment, stippled brushwork, and drawn lines converge into balanced, dynamic wholes that convey both restraint and expressive force.

The booth will also present a light-string sculpture as well as puzzle works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Consisting of twenty-four light bulbs, the meaning of these sculptures is as open and malleable as the physical form of the works themselves, exemplifying his interest in the poetic and expressive potential of commonplace materials. Similarly, the artist’s puzzle works consist of printed photographs as jigsaw puzzles. In its reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials, the artist’s work resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political. Also on view (presented by Cc Foundation at the fair’s Special Projects sector) is “Untitled (Loverboy)” (1989), in which sheer, light-blue curtains hang from the windows of a given room, playing on such tensions as transparency and opacity, while subtly shifting the interior of the room. David Zwirner will present a wide-ranging solo exhibition, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place in its Hong Kong space, opening on November 19.

Additional highlights include a painting, The Whistler (2025), by the American artist Dana Schutz, depicting a man strolling with a baguette and a bouquet, while shards of sky fall around him. Often depicting figures in seemingly impossible, enigmatic, or invented situations, her works reveal the deeper complications, tensions, and ambiguities of contemporary life. In this large-scale canvas, Schutz continues her practice of constructing complex visual allegories that engage the capacity of art to represent subjective experience.

The gallery will also present paintings by the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs, reflecting his wide-ranging practice directing his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward anthropological and geopolitical concerns, as well as his observations of everyday life. The artist will also be participating in the concurrent 2025 Shanghai Biennale, presenting films from his Children's Games series, as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures, on view from November 8.

The gallery will further present important works by artists including Mamma Andersson, Katherine Bernhardt, Scott Kahn, Yayoi Kusama, and Wolfgang Tillmans.