Toba Khedoori’s first solo exhibition in Germany is now open at the 

 in Kassel, on view from October 9, 2021, through February 20, 2022. Curated by Moritz Wesseler, this major survey presents twenty-three works created between 1994 and 2021.

The exhibition includes detailed drawings of ordinary motifs—from buildings and windows to grass, clouds, and horizons, among others—on large-scale sheets of paper treated with wax, as well as paintings on canvas that Khedoori began making in 2008. Considerably smaller than Khedoori’s works on paper, the paintings consider the tension between human beings and the natural world.

“The Australian artist with Iraqi roots develops a philosophy of the everyday in her impressive works painted with old-masterly precision…Toba Khedoori questions the philosophical foundations and individual and aesthetic preconditions of our perception and, above all, how we locate ourselves in this world,” noted Eva Claudia Scholtz, Executive Director of the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

To accompany the exhibition, the Fridericianum will also publish a catalogue featuring an essay by curator Mark Godfrey. Khedoori will present a solo exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2023, of which selected works are included in the Fridericianum show.

Installation view of an exhibition titled, Toba Khedoori, at the Fridericianum in Kassel, dated 2021.

Toba Khedoori at the Fridericianum

Join Ebecho Muslimova and Katy Hessel, art historian, independent curator & host of The Great Women Artists, for a virtual exhibition walkthrough of 

, the artist's first solo presentation in London.

 is on view at David Zwirner London Tuesday, November 23 through December 23, 2021.

Katy Hessel is an independent curator, broadcaster, and art historian based in London, UK, and runs 

, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists on a daily basis since 2015. She’s written extensively on the subject of women artists and has lectured for Intelligence Squared, The National Gallery, Courtauld, Tate, Cambridge University, Pallant House Gallery, and more.

Image: Ebecho Muslimova, 

A detail from a drawing by Ebecho Muslimova, titled Fatebe Between Doors, dated 2021.

Livestreamed from our London gallery

Ebecho Muslimova and Katy Hessel Virtual Exhibition Walkthrough

Join curator and critic Mark Godfrey, for an exhibition walkthrough of 

 at David Zwirner Paris. The exhibition spans the artist’s decades-long engagement with public pictures, ordinary pictures, or pictorial types.



 is on view at David Zwirner Paris beginning Saturday, November 27 through January 29, 2022.

Mark Godfrey is a curator and critic based in London. From 2007 to 2021 he was senior curator at Tate Modern, where he curated and cocurated shows including Soul of a Nation and retrospectives of Sigmar Polke, Roni Horn, Franz West, and Gerhard Richter. Outside Tate, he curated 

Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness

, a retrospective that debuted at Art Institute of Chicago before traveling to The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He won the Absolut Prize for Art Writing in 2015 and recently coedited the 

 at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, 

 at the Wexner, and Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall project, 

, at Tate Modern.

Image: Christopher Williams, 

Model-Nr.: 1740 Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur Liesegangstr. 7A 40211 Düsseldorf Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf January 28, 2016

A photograph by Christopher Williams, titled Model-Nr.: 1740 Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur Liesegangstr. 7A 40211 Düsseldorf Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf January 28, 2016, dated 2016. 

Artist Event

Mark Godfrey Walkthrough of standard pose

In a recent episode of the BBC’s podcast 

 discusses his practice and his move to his hometown of La Paila, Colombia, during the pandemic. Presented by Maria Wills Londoño, director of the Banco de la República art museums in Bogotá, the episode also features Colombian artists Julieth Morales, Carolina Caycedo, and Edinson Quiñones.

 is on view at Fondazione Memmo in Rome, Italy, through March 20, 2022. Murillo’s first solo exhibition in Italy, 

 features new paintings that depict a fundamental, latent instability permeating society brought to the fore amidst the pandemic, as well as an installation using objects associated with worship. 

 opens on December 11, 2021, at KM21, the institute for contemporary art affiliated with Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The artist’s first solo exhibition in The Netherlands, this eponymous show will feature new large-scale paintings.

A detail from a painting by Oscar Murillo, titled Surge (Social Cataracts), dated 2019.

A conversation with the artist about his practice and family history

Oscar Murillo on the BBC’s Podcast

Oscar Murillo on the BBC Podcast

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