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July 27–29, 2023
Various locations in Los Angeles
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Gagosian is participating in the third annual Gallery Weekend Los Angeles with two exhibitions. Honor Titus: Advantage In, on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, and Urs Fischer: Denominator, on view across the street at 433 North Camden Drive, will be open until 8pm on Thursday, July 27. The initiative is organized by Gallery Association Los Angeles and galleryplatform.la and includes more than one hundred of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries and museums.

The first volume of Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney: Headz is available for online reading from December 7 through January 5 as part of Artist Spotlight: Spencer Sweeney. Housed in a screenprinted box, this eighteen-volume collection brings together the vibrant and varied drawings made during HEADZ NYC—a weekly gathering of food, music, and creativity hosted by Urs Fischer, Spencer Sweeney, and Brendan Dugan between October 2017 and July 2018 in New York’s Chinatown. Interspersed among the artworks are photos of the participants and the space of creative collaboration they activated.

Saturday, October 22, 2022, 10am–6pm
New York
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Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on an autumn walk to visit over fifty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. The Gagosian Shop, which offers an exclusive and extensive selection of artist’s books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and prints, is featuring displays dedicated to Urs Fischer and Cy Twombly, including screenprinted T-shirts, limited-edition plates, and vintage posters.

Sunday, October 16, 2022, 12–5pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Artist Rob Pruitt is curating a “swap meet” in conjunction with the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500, presented by Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. The gathering echoes the process of object pairing that plays out in Fischer’s digital sculptures by inviting visitors to bring an object and trade it for another. A banquet-length table will serve as a field of action for the exchange of items. This nomadic event has taken place all over the world, including at Frieze London; Tate, London; Karma, New York; NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; and the Yokohama Triennale, Japan. Musician Pete Drungle, who is in residence during the exhibition, will be joined by saxophonist Logan Richardson on the day of the event. The event is free to attend with an exhibition appointment.

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Through October 29, 2022
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Musician Pete Drungle will be in residence at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles during the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500. Performing throughout the open hours, Drungle will play a solo piano improvisation that responds to Fischer’s constantly changing works, which are presented on a trio of colossal suspended screens. Through explorations of polyrhythm and polytonality, Drungle deconstructs existing musical modes and techniques in an attempt to expand the language of the piano. The performances are free to attend with an exhibition appointment.

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Saturday, August 20, 2022, 12–6pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Join Gagosian for a solo piano improvisation by Pete Drungle to celebrate the opening of Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500 at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Through explorations of polyrhythm and polytonality, Drungle deconstructs existing musical modes and techniques in an attempt to expand the language of the piano. Performing inside the exhibition throughout the opening day, Drungle will respond to the trio of colossal suspended screens displaying five hundred unique digital sculptures from Fischer’s series CHAOS #1–#501. The event is free to attend with exhibition appointment.

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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.

November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
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Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.

Thursday, July 23, 2020, 12pm EDT (5pm BST)

Join Gagosian for a virtual tour of Crushed, Cast, Constructed: Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray, an exhibition on view at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, through July 31. Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will discuss the three artists’ divergent sculptural processes, examining their individual approaches and identities with respect to materials and methods. To join, register at zoom.us.

Urs Fischer: Paintings 1998–2017 is available for online reading from June 24 through June 30, 2020, as part of Artist Spotlight: Urs Fischer. Published by the artist’s imprint Kiito-San, the three-volume monograph is the first retrospective publication dedicated solely to Fischer’s paintings, organizing nearly two decades of work into a taxonomy conceptualized by the artist. The monograph is available for purchase at Gagosian Shop.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8:30pm
Kenwood House, London
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In the interest of public health, this event has been postponed until further notice.

Gagosian is pleased to host a drinks reception to celebrate the release of Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, published on the occasion of the recent eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Organized in partnership with English Heritage, the exhibition places Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665) in dialogue with self-portraits by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as leading contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. The catalogue includes an introduction by Wendy Monkhouse, senior curator at English Heritage, and a text by art historian David Freedberg. To attend the free event, RSVP to londonevents@gagosian.com. Space is limited.

Saturday, March 7, 2020, 5–7pm
The Greene Space, New York
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This event has been postponed. The new date will be announced shortly.

Gagosian will host a conversation on Piero Manzoni with Urs Fischer and curator Francesco Bonami to celebrate the English-language release of Flaminio Gualdoni’s biography of the iconic Italian Conceptual artist, published by the gallery. Manzoni’s brief career was one of the most radically inventive of the twentieth century, producing a body of work that continues to challenge definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity. To attend the free event, RSVP to nytalks@gagosian.com. Space is limited.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Paris

Journalist and curator Judith Benhamou-Huet will lead a tour of the exhibition Urs Fischer: Leo at Gagosian, Paris. In Fischer’s work, the processes of material creation and destruction are often explored through the use of impermanent materials. Fischer’s candle sculptures, which he began to make in the early 2000s, exemplify this relationship. The artist’s newest candle portrait, Leo (George & Irmelin) (2019), depicts Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents, George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken. As with all of Fischer’s candle sculptures, Leo (George & Irmelin) will melt slowly over the course of the exhibition, its original composition transmuted into a form dictated by the wayward laws of physics. To attend the free event, RSVP to paristours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.

November 11–December 14, 2019
Gagosian, Geneva

Gagosian is pleased to celebrate the release of Urs Fischer: Sculptures 2013–2018, published by Kiito-San, with a special presentation of the book featuring a selection of recent sculptures, works from the Bandaids series, and other important publications made by the artist.

Featuring more than one hundred works as well as documentation of forty exhibitions and installations both public and private, Sculptures 2013–2018 presents six years of Fischer’s material explorations in a substantial volume. Arranged chronologically, the book allows the reader to follow his developments in form and his frequent adventure into whimsy. Fischer’s instinct for design is evident not only in individual works but also in his clarity of vision for a space. Encountering the immense and the minuscule, the ever-changing and the static, the viewer must reconcile with his or her own presence in time.

Opening reception: Tuesday, December 3, 5–8pm
December 4–8, 2019
Moore Building, Miami

Gagosian is pleased to announce The Extreme Present, the fifth in a series of annual exhibitions at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch. The Extreme Present will explore artists’ reactions to the conditions of our accelerating and increasingly complex world. The title is inspired by The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, a book by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, published in 2015. Their provocative thesis addresses the rapidly evolving digital era, half a century after Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking study on technology’s influence on culture, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, in which he coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” Works in this exhibition explore concepts of media, communication, togetherness, and isolation.

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November 7–30, 2019
Book signing: Thursday, November 7, 6–7pm
Gagosian Shop, New York

Urs Fischer will take over the Gagosian Shop in New York, creating an immersive environment to celebrate the publication of Urs Fischer: Paintings 1998–2017. This three-volume monograph includes every painting produced by the artist from the beginning  of his career through 2017.

Fischer will be signing copies of the new book on Thursday, November 7, from 6 to 7pm, in the shop. To attend the free event, RSVP to fischerrsvp@gagosian.com.

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June 28–November 10, 2019
Louis Vuitton X, Beverly Hills
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Louis Vuitton X celebrates the fashion house’s 160-year history of artistic collaborations and marks the world premiere of the Artycapucines Collection. The line includes limited-edition reinterpretations of the label’s iconic Capucines bag by six artists including Urs Fischer, Alex Israel, and Jonas Wood. The exhibition also brings together a collection of early twentieth-century special-order trunks, art deco perfume bottles, iconic Monogram bags reworked by artists such as Frank Gehry and Cindy Sherman, and original collaborations by artists such as Richard Prince.

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 6pm
Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London

Gagosian director and art historian Richard Calvocoressi will lead a tour of the exhibition Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Calvocoressi will take a look at postwar and contemporary masters of self-representation, anchoring the conversation to an important Rembrandt masterpiece included in the exhibition, Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665). The event has reached capacity. To join the wait list, contact londontours@gagosian.com.

December 6–10, 2017
Moore Building, Miami

On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach 2017, Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch are pleased to present Abstract/Not Abstract, their third collaboration at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District. One of the great innovations of modernism, abstract painting continues to inspire and challenge artists. To make a fresh abstraction today following all the remarkable achievements of the School of Paris and the New York School is a daunting proposition. Yet through the use of innovative approaches, techniques, and technologies, this generation of artists is creating complex and astonishing new work that revitalizes the abstract tradition. Abstract/Not Abstract will include work by contemporary artists who redefine abstraction for our time.

July 5–October 8, 2017
Regent’s Park, London
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Clare Lilley, director of programs at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, has selected twenty-five new and significant sculptures by leading artists around the world to be on view in Regent’s Park. Work by John Chamberlain, Michael Craig-Martin, and Urs Fischer is included.

Live auction: July 26
Online preview: July 27–August 9
Online bidding: August 10–23
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The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is dedicated to protecting the world’s last wild places. Since 2008 it has supported over 200 environmental projects across all five oceans and in over fifty countries. This auction helps make it possible for the Foundation to continue supporting pioneering individuals and organizations on the front lines of environmental conservation and climate advocacy, and will feature donated artworks by Urs Fischer, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, and Jonas Wood.