Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to present the United States premiere of Animitas (Chili), 2014, a video installation by the late French artist Christian Boltanski, who the gallery began working with in 1987. The video notably documents the first incarnation of Boltanski’s Animitas series, which began as a conceptual monument installed in the Atacama Desert in 2014. This original installation featured 800 small bronze bells on individual stems that were arranged to represent the position of the stars on the night of the artist’s birth. The location of Chile was chosen by Boltanski as he originally drew inspiration from the local animitas or “little souls”—small, makeshift altars created to worship the departed along roadsides throughout the country; Boltanski also uses the form to commemorate those killed under the Pinochet regime. As the bells chime with the desert winds, Boltanski envisioned that we could hear “the music of the stars and the voices of the floating souls,” a moving, ancestral soundtrack of lost spirits, which continues to play on in the remote location of Talabre, Chile today.

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce "Shadows, Spirits and Clouds," the inaugural solo exhibition for Bernard Frize in our Los Angeles space. For Frize, the basic elements of painting (paint, brush, canvas), alongside its sensual and intellectual pursuits, are sublimated according to a pre-determined methodology, and are ultimately concealed by the process of its making, or as Frize concedes, “the method has disappeared under the conditions of its realization.”

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition for our Tribeca space. Revitalizing the historic Grosvenor Building in Tribeca's growing arts district, this group exhibition will highlight the intellectual and creative affinities that have defined the Gallery’s program for over 40 years. Featuring a range of new commissions and installations as well as activations, performance, and moving image presentations, this exhibition provides a nuanced, cross-generational overview of artistic practices today and showcases the unique cosmos of artists represented by the Gallery.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Korean-German artist Jongsuk Yoon in the United States. Born in South Korea in 1965, Yoon relocated to Europe in the early 1990s to study art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under German conceptual artist Fritz Schwegler. After her studies, she settled in Düsseldorf and focused her practice on drawings and paintings that hover in the space between figuration and abstraction. In works on paper, canvas, as well as directly on walls, Yoon creates charged and dreamlike color field landscapes that reflect her interests in both European and American Modernism and East Asian traditions.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Interconnected Landscapes, a group show that features new and historical works by Lothar Baumgarten, James Coleman, An-My Lê, and Oscar Tuazon. In conversation with Yellow May by Jongsuk Yoon in our Main Gallery, this exhibition observes a broad and conceptual look at the notion of land and landscape.

Esa esquina soy yo will present works that span three decades and offer a dialogue between these two artists. The exhibition highlights distinct practices and processes, traversing past and present, bringing to light dual influences and trajectories, from Andean cosmology to explorations of color, geometries and relationship with space. In this exhibition we see their dynamic activation and a sublime transcendence.

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Tavares Strachan. Titled Magnificent Darkness, this immersive exhibition will feature several new bodies of work across six diverse and site-specific environments. Through an interconnected array of works comprising ceramic, bronze, marble, hair, neon, sound, and painting, this exhibition collectively professes a visual allegory toward the overarching exploration of light and darkness.