Gallery highlights
Niki de Saint Phalle: Tableaux Éclatés 30 April–22 June
Salon 94, New York
‘If I go down in the middle of the night to eat a banana, I am accompanied by a light show, sound, movements and soft noise,’ wrote Niki de Saint Phalle in 1993, referring to the presence in her home of a new series, the Tableaux Éclatés. In these painted mechanisms, five of which are on show at Salon 94, a motion sensor triggers the movement of people, animals and fantastical hybrids that disperse and reassemble as viewers move past the works.
Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted
25 May–5 January 2025
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
Ten years ago, mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth opened an outpost in rural Somerset with an exhibition of Phyllida Barlow’s work. A decade later, the gallery is marking its anniversary with another Barlow show. This time it’s curated by Frances Morris, who worked closely with the artist when she was director of Tate Modern, and who has selected objects, installations, maquettes and drawings Barlow made over the course of six decades.
Andreana Dobreva:
Public Grapes – Anonymous Meat 27 April–24 May
Fiumano Clase, London
The influence of baroque painting is plain to see in the work of Andreana Dobreva, who creates complex compositions painted in impasto oils. For the new series on show at Fiumano Clase, Dobreva drew on her memories of the eight years she spent working with refugees in Munich to create semi-abstract history paintings inspired by stories of their journeys to Europe.
Adam Pendleton: An Abstraction 3 May–16 August
Pace, New York
In his Black Dada Reader (2017), Pendleton created an anthology that provided the conceptual underpinnings of his practice. ‘Black Dada is a way to talk about the future while talking about the past,’ he wrote in the chapter titled ‘Manifesto’. At Pace, Black Dada and Untitled (Days), two recent series of abstract spray-painted, stencilled and painted works are grouped together within a monumental structure formed of five black triangles.