Best in Show: 2011

This is my third annual round up of the best art shows of the year (see 2010 and 2009).

1 Mark Leckey at Printemps de Septembre

2 Friedrich Kunath at Whitecube Hoxton Square

3 Christoph Buchel's Piccadilly Community Centre

4 Thomas Hirschorn at the Swiss Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

5 Wolfgang Tilmans at Andrea Rosen (chosen by Beatrix Ruf)

6 The launch of French Riviera gallery culminating in the brilliant Les Televisions

7 Without Sanctuary (thought this was far more than exhibition and shouldnt really be judged in these confines)

8 Ostalgia at the New Museum (glimpse of Michael Schmidt U-NI-TY installationbelow)

9 Il Labirinto di Cristallo at Bubblebyte.org

10 The New Psychedelica at MU (I know I curated this but I was so pleased with the outcome and it was so important to me it would be ridiculous not to choose it. Still from Carlos Laszlo's film below)

Berlin highlights

Highlights from Berlin so far this week

1 Alex Hubbard's basement video at Tanya Leighton group show The Confidence Man (still above)

2 The pryamid style black maze by David Adajaye that led to Noble and Webster's golden heads at Blain Southern's huge space

3 Buying Friedrich Kunath's Rising vs Setting catalogue at Konig Books.


4 Raymond Pettibon's work at CFA


5 Aaron Moulton's latest show at Autocenter - particularly the mesmerising flashing installation by Constant Dullaart which you can see below. This is an artist I think I'll be looking at a lot more...

Celibrate, Calibrate, a live GIF from Constant Dullaart on Vimeo.

Why didn't I know I'm in with love Friedrich Kunath?

I stumbled through Hoxton Square today and came across Friedrich Kunath's first solo show in London which opened last night . Its a perfect amalgam of psychedelic references, strange sculptures, paintings, junk lighting - all put together in a weird room installation. Best solo show I've seen this year so far. All the invigilators stood in dark corners reading books so you couldnt tell if they were part of the work or not. These teeny pics from the Whitecube site above by Ben Westoby were all I could find online. There's a catalogue out mid May. Some more tasters from past shows at Andrea Rosen below.