Mark Westall founder & editorial director of FAD Magazine picks five exhibitions to see as you jet around the world. St.Moritz, St. Louis, London, Berlin & New York the places and exhibitions to see for the jet-set over Christmas & into the New Year.
1 Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the paintings he created in and inspired by his visits to Switzerland. Exploring various artistic motifs that combine the natural and cultural landscape of the Engadin with the metropolis of New York. MORE
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin, 14th December 2024 – 29th March 2025, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz
2 Adam Lavigne, Hamburgers Today
Modernity has spurred radical shifts in everyday life, arriving in a dizzying sequence of advancement-upon-advancement: cars, airplanes, an endless array of synthetic psychotropic drugs, microwaves, the polio vaccine, nearly ubiquitous internet access, and a critical intervention for millions of Americans: the mass-produced hamburger. Adam Lavigne’s debut solo exhibition, “Hamburgers Today,” confers, through sculpture and painting, the hamburger its rightful position as America’s premier commodity object. MORE
Adam Lavigne, Hamburgers Today, November 2nd – April 2025, Dragon, Crab, and Turtle Gallery
3 Philip Colbert, The Battle for Lobsteropolis
Old Masters meet AI in Philip Colbert’s new battle scene exhibition at Saatchi Gallery titled The Battle for Lobsteropolis. Colbert continues his signature battle scene series, where the lobster battles artificial intelligence in the retro-future world Lobsteropolis. In this solo show, Colbert’s iconic lobster travels through time and clashes with AI in reimagined historical battle scenes. MORE
Philip Colbert, The Battle for Lobsteropolis, 29th November 2024 – 13th January 2025, Saatchi Gallery
4 Greg Bogin, Laughter Was Heard.
In his painterly practice, Greg Bogin explores the central historical developments in painting since the emergence of abstraction. He juxtaposes these historical developments with the specific visuality of contemporary culture. His work oscillates between conceptual rigour and a playful, sensual curiosity about the visible. Essential to Bogin’s work is the rejection of common rectangular forms as pictorial grounds and his confident handling of colour as bearer of emotions. His canvases are organically rounded, cut out or geometrically shaped, overcoming the two-dimensionality of traditional paintings and acquiring a sculptural quality. MORE
GREG BOGIN — LAUGHTER WAS HEARD — 25th January 2025, The Buchmann Galerie
5 KAWS: DAY BY DAY
This is the inaugural exhibition at Skarstedt Chelsea, titled DAY BY DAY, it is KAWS’s fifth with Skarstedt and follows a series of solo and two-person exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Parrish Museum, Water Mill.
The exhibition presents a series of new paintings highlighting recent developments in his working method and iconography, recontextualizing elements from art history and his own oeuvre, thereby inviting viewers to engage with a dynamic interplay of references.
KAWS: DAY BY DAY, November 8th – December 21st, 2024 Skarstedt Chelsea
