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Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Louise Bonnet and Stefanie Hessler, director of Swiss Institute, New York, inside 30 Ghosts, the artist’s exhibition of new paintings at Gagosian, New York. The pair will explore the work’s recurring themes—the cycles of life, continuity and the future, and death—and discuss how the conceptual and pictorial structures Bonnet borrows from seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting converge to form a metaphor for hard labor, basic animal urges, and the things we often try, but fail, to hide.

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Saturday, May 20, 2023, 10am–6pm
New York
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Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on a springtime walk to visit over sixty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. The Gagosian Shop is featuring an installation dedicated to Jean Prouvé’s 1947 demountable wood chair CB 22, alongside Rachel Feinstein’s newly launched ring collection with Ippolita and the Jewish Museum, and the latest Gagosian publications, including Louise Bonnet: Recent Paintings. An exhibition by Donald Judd spanning the 980 and 976 Madison Avenue galleries is also on view.

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 7pm
Metrograph, New York
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Join Louise Bonnet and cultural critic Naomi Fry for a conversation and screening on the occasion of Louise Bonnet Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The pair will discuss how the protagonists of the seven selected films are ruled, betrayed, changed, or unsettled by their bodies, focusing on David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979). After the talk, this psychological body horror film, in which a man tries to uncover the unconventional therapy techniques being used on his institutionalized wife amid a series of brutal murders, will be screened.

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May 19–June 7, 2023
Metrograph, New York
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Louise Bonnet has curated a selection of films around the theme of “the body” as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The protagonists in these movies are ruled by their outer shells—their bodies—exploring how they are betrayed by them, changed by them, and how their lives are sometimes turned upside down because of them.

Bonnet explains, “These movies have all given me something that I remember and think about since seeing them and have also made my own body react; to some of them because of sounds, joy, horror, or all of it. These films have somehow challenged the part of my brain that judges and second guesses.”

Featured films include
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
All That Jazz
Audition
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The Brood
Le Petit Amour
Under the Skin

Friday, May 19, 2023, 6–7pm
Gagosian Shop, New York

To celebrate the publication of her new book, Recent Paintings, Louise Bonnet will sign copies at the Gagosian Shop in New York. Made by the artist between 2019 and 2022, the nineteen figurative paintings in the book walk the line between beauty and ugliness, between absurdist, knockabout comedy and extreme psychological and physiological tension. The publication includes an essay by Nicole Rudick and a conversation between Bonnet and Dodie Bellamy. Published by Gagosian, the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is free to attend.

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November 10–30, 2020

Show Me the Signs is an online benefit auction hosted by Artfizz to support the families of Black women killed by the police. Over a hundred artists have created pieces in the form of protest signs for the auction, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the African American Policy Forum’s #SayHerName Mothers Network. Work by Louise Bonnet, Piero Golia, Meleko Mokgosi, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Nancy Rubins is included. To register to bid, visit artfizz.com.