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Live auction: November 1, 2022, 8:30pm
Online auction: October 18–November 1, 2022
Tribeca 360, New York
www.remahortmannfoundation.org

Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s annual gala and benefit auction supports the organization’s three unique grant programs, which are dedicated to supporting emerging artists, community-based art projects, and cancer patients. Hosted by Artsy, the live and online auction features more than 120 artworks, including a screenprint by Sarah Sze.

Launching November 16, 2021, 10am est

Limited-edition bone china plates produced by Prospect and featuring artwork by more than forty artists—including Virgil Abloh, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Israel, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Tom Wesselmann, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool—will be sold through Artware Editions to raise funds for the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. The funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed one hundred homeless and hungry New Yorkers.

Thursday, April 29, 2021, 7:30pm EDT

Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents Poetry & the Creative Mind, featuring leading and legendary actors, dancers, musicians, public figures, and artists, including Sarah Sze, sharing their favorite poems. The annual celebration, typically held in person in New York City, will be presented virtually for the first time ever, making it available to poetry lovers everywhere. To join the online event, register at eventbrite.com.

Thursday, April 15, 2021, 2pm edt

Sarah Sze will discuss her recent exhibition catalogue De nuit en jour/Night into Day—featuring contributions by Bruno Latour, Jean Nouvel, and Leanne Sacramone—with Anselm Kiefer and philosopher Emanuele Coccia, as part of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s Art Book Series. Sze will join from her studio in New York, while Kiefer and Coccia will speak from inside the exhibition Night into Day at Foundation Cartier. The trio will talk about Twice Twilight and Tracing Fallen Sky (both 2020), two works Sze created specifically for the Paris exhibition, and about Kiefer’s recently installed work at the Panthéon in Paris. To join the online event, visit www.fondationcartier.com.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 12–6pm EDT

Choreographer Trajal Harrell will stage a livestreamed performance in conjunction with the exhibition Sarah Sze: Night into Day at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, copresented with Performa as part of the institution’s Nomadic Nights series. The performance is a testimony to Harrell’s long friendship with Sze, dating as far back as their college days. Harrell and eight dancers will revisit his repertoire and create a site-specific performance lasting six hours, uninterrupted, within Sze’s immersive installation. To watch the performance, visit www.fondationcartier.com.

November 16–December 14, 2020

Gagosian is pleased to support the Coalition for the Homeless’s Artist Plate Project fundraiser. Artwork by fifty artists, including Cecily Brown, Katharina Grosse, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Andy Warhol, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool, is featured on limited-edition dinner plates produced by Prospect and made available through Artware Editions to support the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. All of the funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed seventy-five homeless and hungry New Yorkers.

Monday, October 19, 2020, 1pm EDT

On the occasion of Sarah Sze’s exhibition Night into Day, which opens at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, on October 24, Sze and French philosopher Bruno Latour will lead a livestream walkthrough of the exhibition, inviting the public to discover the artist’s immersive installations. To watch the live event, visit Fondation Cartier’s Instagram.

October 2–8, 2020

Artists for Biden is an online-only sale of works by leading contemporary artists to support the Biden Victory Fund—a joint fundraising committee authorized by Biden for President, the Democratic National Committee, and forty-seven state Democratic parties. All proceeds from the sale will provide resources needed to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and support other Democratic candidates across the country in the lead up to Election Day. Work by Cecily Brown, Michael Heizer, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Sze, Stanley Whitney, and Christopher Wool will be available. To register for early access on October 1, visit secure.joebiden.com.

Thursday, June 25, 2020, 12pm EDT

This event has been canceled.

Sarah Sze will speak with French art critic Anaïd Demir on the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris Instagram Live account. The pair will discuss Sze’s current exhibition at Gagosian, Paris, as well the artist’s dynamic practice that addresses the precarious nature of materiality and grapples with matters of entropy and temporality. To watch the live conversation, visit École des Beaux-Arts’s Instagram.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8pm
Amphithéâtre d’Honneur, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
www.beauxartsparis.fr

In the interest of public health, this event has been canceled.

Sarah Sze will speak about her practice at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris on the occasion of her exhibition opening at Gagosian, Paris, on March 18. The talk will be introduced by art critic Anaïd Demir. The event is free and open to the public.

Live auction: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 8:30pm
Silent auction: November 1–16, 2019
Preview: November 12–16, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
mcachicago.org

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents its annual Benefit Art Auction on Saturday, November 16, with a cocktail reception and viewing of the available works, followed by a seated dinner and live auction. Works by leading artists, including Virgil Abloh, Theaster Gates, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, and Christopher Wool, have been donated. All proceeds support MCA programs and exhibitions. For information on works in the live or silent auctions, visit artsy.net. To attend the event, purchase tickets at mcachicago.org.

April 25–June 28, 2019
Rockefeller Center, New York
www.frieze.com

Frieze, in partnership with Tishman Speyer, is launching Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York, to be held annually in conjunction with Frieze New York. Brett Littman, director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, is curating the immersive presentation, including works by Walter De Maria and Sarah Sze.

Three of the fourteen sculptures from De Maria’s Truth / Beauty series (1990–2016), which expands upon the artist’s use of permutations of rods, polygons, and numerical sequences, will be shown indoors.

Sze’s Split Stone (7:34) (2018), a natural granite boulder divided like a geode into two halves, in each of which the artist has embedded the image of a generic sunset, captured on her iPhone, will be outdoors.

April 15–19, 2019
Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada
ted2019.ted.com

Sarah Sze has been invited to speak at TED2019: Bigger than us. This year’s conference will focus on the political and technological turmoil of recent years and look at the deeper meaning of life. Sze’s immersive and intricate works question the value society places on objects and how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.

November 21, 2018–January 27, 2019
Museo Nazionale Romano, Crypta Balbi, Rome
www.museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it

Sarah Sze’s Split Stone (7:34) (2018) appears amidst the historic ruins of Crypta Balbi. Opened like a geode, each half of the natural boulder reveals a sunset sky embedded in its flat surface, alluding to gongshi (scholar’s rocks) and the heavenly firmaments of Renaissance paintings. While her current exhibition at Gagosian Rome underscores and amplifies the materiality of digital images, in Split Stone (7:34), Sze takes a reverse approach by imbuing a granite boulder with a pixelated ephemerality.

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 6:30–8pm
Tate Modern, London
tate.org.uk

Sarah Sze will discuss her practice with Mark Godfrey, senior curator at Tate Modern, London. Work by Sze will be on view at the museum beginning November 19. To attend the event, purchase tickets at shop.tate.org.uk.

Friday, October 12, 2018, 7pm
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
lagallerianazionale.com

To mark Sarah Sze’s first exhibition at Gagosian Rome, the artist will speak with Lara Demori. The pair will discuss the wide-ranging influences and experiences that fuel Sze’s multimedia oeuvre while considering the exciting new directions evident in her current practice. The event is free and open to the public.