Best in Show 2013

Time for the annual year round up again.
1 Mike Kelley at PS1

2 Michael Landy 'Saints Alive' at The National Gallery

3 'Jimmy Merris Sings The Blues' at Seventeen Gallery

4 Martin Kippenberger 'Sehr Gut' at Hamburger Banphof

5 Danny McDonald at Cabinet

6 Wolfgang Tillmans 'Central Nervous System' at Maureen Paley

7 Re-View: Onnasch Collection at Hauser and Wirth London

8 Philippe Parreno at Palais de Tokyo

9 Pierre Huyghe at Centre Pompidou

10 Cameron Jamie at Kunsthalle Zurich

Also notable: Thomas Zipp 'Comparative Investigation About The Disposition of the Width of a Circl' in Venice; Scott Treleavan at Invisible Exports; Travess Smalley at Higher Pictures; Alex Hubbard at Maccarone; David Horvitz at Chert Berlin; Ian Tweedy and N Dash at Dover Street Arts Club 

Show I've been most gutted to miss: Isa Genzken at MoMA (and I'm also sad there arent more women and group shows in my top ten)

This year I've curated 'Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye' at V1 Copenhagen and 'Is That All There Is?' screening at Import Projects

Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee

Really enjoyed the Kippenberger show Zehr Gut at the Hamburger Banhopf - much more than I expected. 

My three favourites were: 

- the genius audio piece Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee that had me in giggles from the start

- the group of monochrome paintings' Uno di voi, un tedesco in Firenze' above (that were more squeezed together and tight in their Berlin display) 

- an incredible Slaves to Tourism slide show installation with a punk soundtrack that recreated from an event Kippenberger did at Cafe Einstein, showing an American road trip he and his friend took, with the slide projectors balanced on a ladder.

The exhibition is on until August 18. 

Image credit: Martin Kippenberger: ""Uno di voi, un tedesco in Firenze", 1976-1977, Öl auf Leinwand, 56 Teile, 41 je 60 x 50 cm; 15 je 50 x 60 cm (Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof/© Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne)