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)

Eyes in New York

1 The highlight of my two week research trip to NYC is Ostalgia, the Massimiliano Gioni curated show at New Museum about post-Soviet Eastern Europe is sheer genius. Especially look out for the fall of Berlin photos by Michael Schmidt... (Sergey Zarva's painting above)


2 Cory Arcangel Pro Tools at the Whitney (and pick up the beautifully designed free show brochure)

3) Thomas Demand curated show La Carte d'apres Nature at Matthew Marks with some amazing old Sigmar Polke photos, Magritte paintings, and pieces by Luigi Ghirri (as above)