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Happy Birthday to Alexander Birchler!Alexander Birchler, and Teresa Hubbard, have been working collaboratively in video,...
09/13/2026

Happy Birthday to Alexander Birchler!

Alexander Birchler, and Teresa Hubbard, have been working collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990. The artists draw influence from the early history of film and photography to investigate relationships between architecture and narrative, character and environment; psychic and physical space. Rather than following a traditional storyline or narrative resolution, Hubbard and Birchler’s works reveal elaborate and enigmatic mise-en-scènes that invite personal and open-ended reflections on memory, place and cinema.

Currently, Alexander Birchler and Teresa Hubbard’s video installation, ‘Night Shift’, (2006) is on view in the group show ‘Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art UMOCA, in Salt Lake City, Utah, through June 5, 2027.

Image: Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, ‘Night Shift’, 2006. Single-channel video installation, stereo sound; 8 min, 24 sec looped. Courtesy of the artists.

Happy Birthday to Carla Klein!Throughout the past three decades, Carla Klein’s work has explored the relationship betwee...
09/13/2026

Happy Birthday to Carla Klein!

Throughout the past three decades, Carla Klein’s work has explored the relationship between photography and painting as well as the layers of mediation involved in both creating and interpreting images. Using her own photography as a point of departure, Klein’s paintings push the original image towards abstraction in ways that reveal inherent flaws in processes of representation. Many works illustrate artifacts of the imaging process – white borders on the canvas suggest cropping, drips of paint reference scratches on the surface of the negative – which the artist describes as the “abstract consequence” of the photo. Enlarged from negative to snapshot, and from snapshot to canvas, her sublime landscapes become real objects, far enough removed from their subjects that they take on new and different meanings.

Image: Carla Klein, ‘Untitled’, 2008.

Please join us from 6-8pm for the opening of ‘Reading the Waves’, an exhibition of new work by Sandra Vásquez de la Horr...
09/10/2026

Please join us from 6-8pm for the opening of ‘Reading the Waves’, an exhibition of new work by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.

For this exhibition, Vásquez de la Horra presents an immersive scenography using spatial interventions, suspended structures, and leporellos to examine the intersection of art, spirituality, and ecological consciousness. In the main gallery space, a circular installation of monumental drawings creates a dialogue between the art, the architecture, and the surrounding landscape. The cardinal points and the sun guide the orientation of the chapel-like installation, demonstrating the integration of landscape, body, and spirituality. Greeting the sun, the stars, the rivers, and the ocean becomes part of a larger gesture toward nature – an invitation to transcend our own limits.

A central focus of this new body of work is the idea of reading signs in the natural world. As children, we subconsciously observe and interpret environmental and meteorological phenomena. Over time, we realize that these are ephemeral and beyond human control. For Vásquez de la Horra, clouds, rainbows, and waves illustrate this expanded consciousness of the natural forces that shape our lives.

Image 1: Installation view, 'Reading the Waves,' Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Photo by Dan Bradica
Image 2: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, 'The Appearance of the Second Sun', 2026. Photo by Dan Bradica
Image 3: Installation view, 'Reading the Waves,' Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Photo by Dan Bradica
Image 4: Installation view, 'Reading the Waves,' Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Photo by Erin Brady

Sandra Vàsquez de la Horra

09/09/2026

Opening tomorrow: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra ‘Reading the Waves’

Opening reception 6-8pm on Thursday, September 10th

Karyn Olivier’s public commission ‘I Didn’t Do It Alone’ was recently unveiled in Milwaukee, honoring the life and legac...
09/03/2026

Karyn Olivier’s public commission ‘I Didn’t Do It Alone’ was recently unveiled in Milwaukee, honoring the life and legacy of Milwaukee trailblazer Vel R. Phillips.

The memorial installation serves as a creative representation of Vel R. Phillips’ work in breaking down social and cultural barriers for women, and women of color, in the City of Milwaukee, throughout the State of Wisconsin, and around the United States. ‘I Didn’t Do It Alone’ honors several pivotal aspects of Phillips’ life of service and her fight for liberty, while highlighting the core of her lifelong efforts. Throughout her career, Phillips often stated, “I didn’t do it alone,” a reflection of her commitment to collective action.

The memorial features three key components: two stone architectural sections with figurative sculptures, a bronze desk, and a bronze chair. Six outward-facing figures will represent citizens, activists, and leaders who worked with Phillips for change. The linked-arm citizens symbolize the unity of the 200 days of open housing protests and stand as protectors of liberty, justice, and democracy – the ideals Phillips fought for.

Images: Karyn Olivier, ‘I Didn’t Do It Alone’, Vel R. Phillips Plaza, Milwaukee, Permanent Commission. Photo by Kevin J. Miyazaki

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to present ‘Reading the Waves’, an exhibition of new work by Sandra Vásquez de la...
09/01/2026

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to present ‘Reading the Waves’, an exhibition of new work by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, opening on September 10th. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.

With drawing as the foundation of her artistic practice, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra creates a poetic visual universe that depicts the interconnectedness of the human body and the natural world. Taking inspiration from spiritual mythologies, folklore, religious iconographies, and Latin American popular imagery, she incorporates her anthropological interest in diverse healing practices and indigenous knowledge to promote a greater awareness of human interdependence with nature. By dipping her works in beeswax or creating accordion-like sculptures, Vásquez de la Horra transforms the paper while maintaining its transparency, creating movement and lightness in the spaces they inhabit. For this exhibition, Vásquez de la Horra presents an immersive scenography using spatial interventions, suspended structures, and leporellos to examine the intersection of art, spirituality, and ecological consciousness.

Image 1: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, ‘El Llamado a los Náufragos’, 2026. Photo by Gunter Lepkowski

Image 2: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, ‘Nacer de la Pacha-Mama’, 2026. Photo by Gunter Lepkowski

Image 3: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, ‘El Saludo de los Delfines’, 2026. Photo by Gunter Lepkowski

Sandra Vàsquez de la Horra

08/27/2026

Opening soon: Sandra Vàsquez de la Horra ‘Reading the Waves’ at the gallery!

September 10 - October 31, 2026

Haim Steinbach’s installation, ‘Display #111 – Chambres d’Amis: Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Vercruysse’ (2026) is ...
08/25/2026

Haim Steinbach’s installation, ‘Display #111 – Chambres d’Amis: Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Vercruysse’ (2026) is currently on view in the group show ‘Chambres d’Amis turns 40’ at S.M.A.K through January 10th, 2027.

In 2026, S.M.A.K. marks the 40th anniversary of ‘Chambres d’Amis’, Jan Hoet’s groundbreaking 1986 exhibition that brought contemporary art out of the museum and into private homes across Ghent. To revisit the exhibition’s legacy, S.M.A.K. has invited artists Heike Pallanca, Haim Steinbach, and Susanne Kriemann to each present a contemporary response to ‘Chambres d’Amis’ within the museum.

Haim Steinbach revisits Jan Hoet’s concept of the ‘guest room’ or ‘chambre d’amis’ through an architectural installation bringing together works from S.M.A.K.’s collection. At its center is a replica of a bed from Annick and Anton Herbert’s guest room, set within a triangular metal structure and surrounded by elements from works by artists Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, and Jan Vercruysse.

This idea of bringing artworks from their original setting into a new context connects closely to Steinbach’s longstanding interest in how objects are selected, arranged, and displayed.

Image 1&2: Haim Steinbach, ‘Opening night, Chambres d’Amis turns 40’, S.M.A.K. Ghent, 2026. Photo by Martin Corlazzoli.

Yuko Mohri’s solo exhibition, ‘Recompose’ at the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan, is on view through November 23rd, 2026...
08/25/2026

Yuko Mohri’s solo exhibition, ‘Recompose’ at the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan, is on view through November 23rd, 2026.

Yuko Mohri represented Japan at the 2024 Venice Biennale with ‘Compose’, a solo exhibition at the Japan Pavilion commissioned by the Japan Foundation and curated by Sook-Kyung Lee. Now retitled ‘Recompose’, the exhibition returns to Japan this year for a homecoming presentation in Yokohama.

Referencing the legacy of Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Nam June Paik, and the Fluxus Movement (all of whom utilized experimental methods of chance, improvisation, and connection with everyday life), Yuko Mohri’s work is characterized by boldly embracing environmental phenomena. She explores latent “changing events” by creating ecosystems which actively utilize familiar, everyday objects.

Image 1-3: Installation view, ‘Yuko Mohri: Recompose - A Homecoming Exhibition from Japan Pavilion of the 60th Venice Biennale’ at Yokohama Museum of Art. Photo by naokitakehisa

Sneak peek of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s solo exhibition ‘Reading the Waves’, opening September 10th. Join us for the ...
08/24/2026

Sneak peek of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s solo exhibition ‘Reading the Waves’, opening September 10th. Join us for the opening from 6-8pm!

Sandra Vàsquez de la Horra

Image: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, ‘Todas las Mañanas te Saludo Olorun’, 2026. Photo by Gunter Lepkowski

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