Exhibitions

Keith Sonnier: Louisiana Suite

November 21, 2019 – January 11, 2020 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is delighted to announce an exhibition of seminal work by Keith Sonnier at the gallery’s flagship space in Chelsea, New York, on view between November 21, 2019, and January 11, 2020. Large-scale works from the ongoing series Ba-O-Ba, which the artist began in 1969, utilize large panes of glass and Sonnier’s signature neon tubing in an abstract composition that forms a confluence between the sculpture and the gallery wall and floor. The neon’s linear quality allows the artist to “draw in space” with light and color, transcending the traditional limits of sculpture in an idiosyncratic visual style now inextricably associated with Sonnier. Based on the Greek mathematical theory of the Golden Ratio, the works are quintessential examples of Sonnier’s ability to masterfully synthesize architecture and light, speaking to a formal inventiveness that has defined nearly six decades of work. View More

Elie Nadelman: Significant Form

November 7 – December 21, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by sculptor Elie Nadelman (1882–1946), curated by Priscilla Vail Caldwell and on view from November 7–December 21, 2019, at 297 Tenth Avenue. The assembled works, spanning the artist’s career and sourced directly from the estate, demonstrate Nadelman’s fluid mastery of material, form, and process when modeling the female figure. View More

James Rosenquist: Two Paintings

October 17 – November 16, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin in cooperation with the Estate of James Rosenquist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Paris, Salzburg), is pleased to announce an exhibition of two important paintings by James Rosenquist. On view at the gallery’s flagship 509 West 27th Street location, both works—Joystick (2002) and The Geometry of Fire (2011)—reflect Rosenquist’s lifelong fascination with space, real and imagined, and his turn in the last two decades of his career to a new kind of abstraction. View More

Elemental

September 26 – November 2, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce Elemental, an exhibition comprised of minimalist and post-minimalist painting and sculpture that lays bare the foundational components of these consecutive 20th-century movements. Spanning 1963–1981, each work in the exhibition demonstrates a conceptually robust reduction of both form and content, drawing renewed attention to the nuances of the artistic process, the visceral potential of materials, and the organizational structure of a composition. By way of geometric abstraction, singular motifs, monochromatic palettes and the embracing of repetition, this seminal group of artists eschewed the gestural individualism of mid-century Abstract Expressionism and paved the way for a new understanding of art-making. View More

Bernar Venet: Indeterminate Hypothesis

September 12 – October 12, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce Indeterminate Hypothesis, an exhibition of work by French conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941). Consisting of five monumental Indeterminate Line sculptures, this exhibition marks Venet’s third solo show with Kasmin and is on view in the gallery’s flagship space at 509 West 27th Street, opening September 12, 2019. This is the first time the series has been shown in a gallery in the United States since 2002. View More

Painters of the East End

July 11 – August 16, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce Painters of the East End, on view at 297 Tenth Avenue between July 11 – August 16, 2019. The exhibition explores the commonalities and distinctions of the work produced amongst the coterie culture of Long Island’s South Fork during the mid-twentieth century, including Mary Abbott, Nell Blaine, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Charlotte Park, Betty Parsons, and Jane Wilson. View More

Levity/Density

July 11 – August 16, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce Levity/Density, an exhibition of sculptural masterworks opening on July 11, 2019, in the gallery’s flagship location at 509 West 27th Street. Spanning 1960 – 2018 and including eight internationally acclaimed artists, the presentation muses on the dichotomy between the formidable mass that constitutes each work’s physicality and the resulting evocation of levity and vitality. View More

James Nares: Monuments

May 23 – June 29, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to present an exhibition of James Nares’ newest body of work, entitled Monuments, on view at 509 West 27th Street between May 23 – June 29, 2019. View More

Brancusi: The Photographer

May 16 – June 29, 2019 Kasmin is pleased to announce Brancusi: The Photographer, organized in collaboration with Bruce Silverstein Gallery. The exhibition will be on view at 293 Tenth Avenue between May 16 - June 29, 2019, presented concurrently with Brancusi’s Flowers at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, on view at 529 West 20th Street. View More

Jasper Morrison: Corks

May 9 – June 29, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce the US representation of internationally acclaimed designer Jasper Morrison. Morrison’s first solo gallery exhibition in North America, Corks, will go on view at Kasmin’s 297 Tenth Avenue space between May 9 - June 29, 2019. View More

Robert Indiana

May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 Kasmin Sculpture Garden Kasmin is proud to present a new exhibition of three monumental sculptures by Robert Indiana (1928-2018) exhibited on the gallery’s rooftop sculpture garden, on view from The High Line with access at 28th Street. This is the first time the three works have been shown together, and the first significant exhibition of Indiana’s sculpture since 2018’s Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective at Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY. An additional work will accompany the rooftop exhibition in High Line Nine, Gallery 3. View More

Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell

March 21 – May 18, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to announce Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell, opening March 21, 2019, at the gallery’s flagship space at 509 West 27th Street. This unprecedented exhibition will be the first to focus solely on Motherwell’s approach to large-format painting and will be comprised of eight works spanning the 1960s - 1990, including a core group of paintings from the collection of The Dedalus Foundation. This will be the fourth exhibition on which Kasmin and The Dedalus Foundation have collaborated. View More

David Wiseman: Plants, Minerals, and Animals

March 14 – April 27, 2019 Kasmin is pleased to present a major exhibition of new work by artist and designer David Wiseman (b. 1981). Plants, Minerals, and Animals is Wiseman’s first solo presentation at the gallery and will be on view at 515 West 27th Street between March 14 - April 27, 2019. Bringing together designs conceived and forged in the artist’s Los Angeles studio over the course of the last fifteen years, the exhibition acts as a culmination of Wiseman’s career thus far. View More

Naama Tsabar: Dedicated

March 13 – May 4, 2019 Naama Tsabar employs performance, sculpture, and photography to subvert the gender roles historically associated with musicianship. In her second exhibition at Kasmin, Dedicated, Tsabar further explores these themes by expanding the borders of movement of the female body. For the duration of the exhibition, Tsabar and a group of female musicians will explore a new vocabulary of movement and sound, culminating in a performance with Tsabar and her collaborators on the exhibition’s closing night, May 4, between 4-6pm. This will be her first performance in New York City since 2017. View More

Jan-Ole Schiemann: A Different Pose

March 7 – May 4, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to present A Different Pose, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Cologne-based artist Jan-Ole Schiemann. Schiemann’s paintings are grounded in both gestural abstraction and the history of 20th-century animation, aspects that combine to imbue his work with a rare sense of kinetic energy. Half-formed, simultaneously disappearing and reappearing shapes suggest that somewhere amidst the lines, there are figures tumbling, colliding, or fighting obscured by clouds of smoke. As a result of Schiemann’s meticulous, layered application of charcoal, oilstick, ink and acrylic, the works have the illusion of both a sculptural and a digital depth. The artist’s first solo exhibition at Kasmin will be comprised of new medium-scale and monumental paintings, as well as the debut of a new series of works on paper. View More

Matvey Levenstein

January 24 – March 2, 2019 Kasmin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Matvey Levenstein, on view at 293 Tenth Avenue between January 24 - March 2, 2019. Levenstein’s work depicts scenes from his life on the North Fork of Long Island and explores themes of history and representation. The paintings speak to the relevance of Romanticism in the 21st Century, and act as quiet meditations on the immigrant experience filtered through the most traditional painterly genres: the landscape, the still life and the portrait. Imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity and sincerity, the exhibition brings together a selection of new works ranging in size and materials, including large sumi ink drawings, and smaller, delicate works realized on linen, copper, and wood. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. View More

Andy Warhol: Polaroid Portraits

January 24 – March 2, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to present an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s polaroid portraits, on view from January 24 - March 2, 2019, at 297 Tenth Avenue, New York.

Beginning in the 1960s, Warhol carried a camera with him almost constantly, obsessively documenting both his personal life and the daily goings on in his studio, The Factory. These images, artworks in their own right, also acted as visual references and formed the basis of many of the artist’s drawings, silkscreens, and paintings. Highlighting the integral contribution of photography to his art-making process, Warhol referred to his Polaroid Big Shot camera (which he purchased in 1970) as his “pencil and paper.” View More

Les Lalanne

January 24 – March 9, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to present a new exhibition of work by French sculptors Les Lalanne, on view from January 24–March 9, 2019. Designed in a unique collaboration with world-renowned landscape architect Louis Benech, the presentation will kick off the year’s programming at Kasmin’s recently opened flagship gallery in Chelsea, New York. View More

Theodora Allen: weald

January 24 – March 9, 2019 Kasmin is pleased to present weald, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Theodora Allen.

For her first exhibition with the gallery and debut New York solo show, Allen presents two bodies of work: Shields (dwale) and Monuments (weald). Dwale from Old Norse, meaning deep sleep or trance; weald from the Old English for forest. The two words are anagrams, both archaic; one is landscape and the other mindscape. View More