New Old Histories
Past exhibition
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Featuring:
Charlie Billingham, Alexander Harrison, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Esteban Jefferson, and Tanya Merrill. -
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History is not an objective accounting of events. Rather, it is a series of stories told and retold in an effort to shape the world according to the whims and agendas of real people, as well as by the cultural conditions of a particular time and place. Histories are created, disseminated, and passed down, but they are also altered, forgotten, and re-shaped. New Old Histories presents five artists whose approaches to contemporary representational painting abound in narrative and allegory, developing our understanding of what is at stake in how—and by whom—these stories are told. The artists variously co-opt, critique, and upend conventions of historical painting, and in the process provide a lens through which to view the world today.
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Works
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Explore
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vanessa german: GUMBALL—there is absolutely no space between body and soul
April 3 – May 10, 2025 509 West 27th Street, New York, 514 West 28th Street, New YorkKasmin presents its second solo exhibition of new work by artist vanessa german (b. 1976), which debuts related bodies of sculpture across two of the gallery’s spaces in New York. GUMBALL—there is absolutely no space between body and soul deepens german’s singular approach to sculpture as a spiritual practice with the power to transform lived experience. Both series comprise mineral crystals, beads, porcelain, wood, paint and the energy that these objects bring to life to form monumental heads and figures in the act of falling. Together, each body of work envisions the transformation of consciousness necessary to imagine a new world. -
Helena Foster: Time Honoured
April 3 – May 3, 2025 297 Tenth Avenue, New YorkThe first New York solo exhibition of London-based painter Helena Foster features new oil paintings on linen, paper, and vellum that express the artist’s lyrical approach to painting as an accumulation of cultural and generational wisdom. Foster draws freely from literature, theater, film, Igbo oral tradition, and religion, achieving a dreamlike aura of mystery in dynamic compositions ambiguously set between thick vegetation and the built environment.
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