Maximiliane Leuschner

Maximiliane Leuschner is an art historian and writer based in London.

Popularized by the twentieth century avant-garde, geometric abstraction with its long line of eminent proponents often reads like the ABC of Modern Art. With Beyond the Line: From Finite to Infinite, From Physics to Metaphysics, Joachim Pissarro and Alma Egger step out of line: their two-person-exhibition at Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego in Warsaw, Poland, traces the artistic kinship between Stefan Gierowski (1925-2022) and Sean Scully (b.1945)—the former Polish; the latter of Irish descent—who have honed in a similar visual vocabulary rooted in geometric shapes, forms, and lines.

Installation view, Beyond the Line: From Finite to Infinite, From Physics to Metaphysics, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw. September, 14–November, 24, 2024. Courtesy Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego.
Somewhere on the garrigue, on a scenic coastal stretch in the South of France between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, among the rugged limestone cliffs and the sweeping pine trees, we encounter two dancers (Élise Argaud and Aloun Marchal) in an intimate pas de deux.
Élise Argaud and Yumiko Funaya in Forme(s) de Vie. Photo: © Shonen.
Raven Row—an East London not-for-profit exhibition venue that claims an almost cult-like following—has resurrected the artist and unleashed her ghost across the three levels of the domestic-eighteenth-century townhouse-turned-exhibition-venue on Artillery Lane, just off the bustling Spitalfields Market. AYE! (short for “Are You Experienced” and titled after the 1992 video with the same name) seems almost like a game of truth or dare.
Installation view, Lutz Bacher: AYE!, Raven Row, London, 2023. Featuring Empire, 2013. Courtesy the Estate of Lutz Bacher and Galerie Buchholz. Photo: Marcus J Leith.
Imagine a reality where the future is historical and the past contemporary, where time stands still and simultaneously moves on. Ali Banisadr conjures such wondrous worlds in his paintings. By bringing the ancient into conversation with phenomena of the present and the future, he explores what stands the test of time. And the circumstances of the current exhibition itself similarly weave together distinct layers of time and space, as the Tehran-born and Brooklyn-based painter celebrates his first solo show with Victoria Miro in the British capital during this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
Ali Banisadr, Queen of the Night, 2022. Oil on linen, 82 x 120 inches. © Ali Banisadr. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
Currently at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge—former home to British art collectors Jim and Helen Ede—Pindell unfolds her new approach—from abstraction to filmic confrontation—over three galleries on two floors in the annexed exhibition galleries.
Howardena Pindell, Separate but Equal Genocide: AIDS, 1991–1992. Mixed media on canvas, 75.5 x 91 inches. Private collection, Aspen, CO.
Penny World at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London spans three galleries over two floors, sharing glimpses of the thirty-year-long career of Penny Goring, an artist and poet who has long worked on the fringes of the London art world, from her early days at Kingston School of Art in the early nineties until today.
Penny Goring, I was a Visionary for Boudica, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Finding a Way is foremost a meditation on fragments, a topic that has long preoccupied Fattal.
Simone Fattal, The Master, 1998. Bronze, 20 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm, Ed. of 6 + 2AP. Photo: Fançois Doury. Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery.
Architectural fantasias run deeply through Pablo Bronstein’s veins. At the age of 16, the Argentinian-British (or British-Latinx) artist redecorated his bedroom in drabby Neasden, a West London suburb, transforming it into an iridescent Baroque palazzo.
Pablo Bronstein, Oil Wells, 2020-21. Courtesy Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Borrowed Faces: Future Recall at The Mosaic Rooms in London is Fehras Publishing Practices’ institutional debut in the United Kingdom.
Fehras Publishing Practices, Borrowed Faces: Future Recall, 2021. Courtesy The Mosaic Rooms, London. Photo: Nicola Tree.
The Kolumba in Cologne, Germany, explores what fine arts can learn from dance, and has, together with tanz.Köln, devised a comprehensive program of live performances, screenings, podcasts, video teasers, and more for a yearlong presentation.
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/ Rosas Dark Red. Photo: Anne van Aerschot © Rosas.
Cosmic Dancer retrospective on Scottish choreographer and dancer Michael Clark explores his screen, set, and stage collaboration with fellow artists.
Michael Clark during the opening of Derek Jarman, ICA, London, February 1984. © Steve Pyke.

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