Upcoming Museum Shows

G+R artists are several opening museum shows in the following weeks, so here's a summary of what's going on:

-- Titus Kaphar at the Seattle Art Museum, April 3–September 6, 2009 (more information here)

-- Susanne Kühn at Forum Kunst Rottweil in Rottweil, Germany, March 29-May 10, 2009
Opening Reception with the artist, March 28, 2009 at 7.00 pm (with introduction to the exhibit by Robert Goff)

--Chihara Shiota is participating in a group show that opens at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan on April 18, 2009 and will remain up until August 30, 2009.

-- More information to follow about Pietsch Week, a weeklong screening of Oliver Pietsch's films in mid-April at our NY gallery.

Simon English and Susanne Kühn News

Simon English is included in the show, "New Acquisitions: 2007-2008," at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. The Museum has recently acquired one of Simon's works from the fall show at Goff+Rosenthal. The show will run from March 5 - September 20, 2009.

Additionally, Susanne Kühn will be opening her a solo show at the Forum Kunst Rottweil in Germany on March 29th, which will feature new paintings by the German artist. If you happen to be in Rottweil, the opening reception is on March 28th at 7:00 pm. The show will remain up until May 10th.

New Susanne Kühn catalogue available

Susanne has sent us the link to a new catalogue of her work which has just been published by Forum Kunst Rottweil. The catalogue, priced at 18 euros, will be available through the publisher's website.

[translated version of text on publisher's page]
“Beauty is something that is sought after,” says Susanne Kühn in a studio visit with Elke Buhr. And the pictures and drawings by the 1969 Leipzig-born artist operate in spaces that are as truly artificial as they are aesthetic. Susanne Kühn cites both the Renaissance painting and its gorgeous interiors, fabrics and furnishings, as well as the Japanese woodcut. A dynamic is created through the juxtaposition of different pictorial systems and the area of the space.

When Susanne Kühn speaks of her painting, she likes using terms like "painting control panel" and "research lab". For someone who studied at the School of Visual Arts, Leipzig, she has mastered the technique and is able to concentrate on the essence of painting: exploring the possibilities of the image. Hence Kühn’s paintings and drawings possess an equally aesthetic and intellectual game. So far, Susanne Kühn has primarily been received in the context of the Leipzig school and an expanded concept of realism and as well as a new romanticism. In the new works from 2007-2009, it might also become apparent that this artist living in Freiburg is undertaking a renewal of the still life and portrait painting. These new works will be shown for the first time at Kunstforum Rottweil.

Susanne Kühn at Forum Kunst Rottweil

A solo exhibition of Susanne Kühn's work will be on show at the Forum Kunst in Rottweil from March 29th until May 10th. For more information please see the Forum Kunst website.