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Capitian Petzel
Capitian Petzel Monika Sosnowska – June 26 - August 8, 2009
For her first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Monika Sosnowska has installed seven sculptural elements in metal, wood and glass in the empty gallery. The exhibition walls have been removed from the space to create one large, undivided area in which the different objects create a line along the room. Starting with the smallest sculpture, the installation proceeds down the middle of the space to end wall, where the last element hangs above all the rest. CAPTAINPETZEL.DE

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Matthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon "Poor. Old. Tired. Horse." ICA, London – June 17 - August 23, 2009
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. takes an expansive look at text-based art practices, inspired by the concrete poetry movement of the 60s which explored both the literary and graphic potential of language.

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Matthew Brannon and Wade Guyton
Matthew Brannon and Wade Guyton "Five", Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow – May 21 - July 13, 2009
The exhibition explores the work of five internationally recognized young American artists: Walead Beshty, Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Sterling Ruby, and Kelley Walker. It examines their recent work in detail and its resonance with prominent American predecessors, such as Donald Judd, Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol.

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Troy Brauntuch, Allan McCollum
Troy Brauntuch, Allan McCollum "The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY – April 21, 2009–August 2, 2009
This will be the first major museum exhibition to focus solely on "The Pictures Generation."

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Keith Edmier
Keith Edmier "Flower Power", CRAA Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Italy – May 23 - October 11, 2009
The exhibition comprises eight sections with a focus on the many diverse representations of the flower as an "object". The thematic, stylistic and symbolic excursus spans over five centuries of Italian and international art, showcasing more than 160 works by artists from the Baroque period to the present. Each theme-based section spotlights the symbolic use of the flower, which our culture has deemed messenger and expression of grace, allure and seduction.

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Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser "The Making of Art", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, Germany – May 20 - August 30, 2009
This exhibition offers a look behind the scenes of the contemporary art world in which the triangle of artist, artwork, and viewer has long since been expanded many times over.

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Cosima von Bonin, Thomas Eggerer, Charline von Heyl, Jon Pylypchuk
Cosima von Bonin, Thomas Eggerer, Charline von Heyl, Jon Pylypchuk "Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection", Musuem of Modern Art, NY – Opens April 21, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings, with Cornelia H. Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings.

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Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris "China 9, Liberty 37", MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy – May 26 - July 26, 2009
MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna of Bologna is presenting the first solo exhibition of Sarah Morris in an Italian museum and has the pleasure of welcoming the international première of her new film, Beijing.

Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Andrea Viliani

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Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris "Gemini Dressage", MMK. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany – May 30 - August 30, 2009
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is showcasing a comprehensive solo exhibition of works by American artist Sarah Morris (born 1967) in conjunction with the current presentation of works from the collection, which focuses on American and European art of the 1960s and major examples of Pop Art and Minimalism. Morris's oeuvre spans across both film and painting, relating strongly to the formal language of the Pop Art and Minimalist movements, expanding and challenging their vocabulary and placing it in a new discourse; crossing politics, industrial design, entertainment, commerce, and architecture.

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Jorge Pardo
Jorge Pardo "The House Tha Cat Build", Galería Salvador Díaz, Madrid – February 1 - July 31, 2009

Jorge Pardo
Jorge Pardo K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf – April 04 – August 02, 2009
The K21 Kunstsammlung NRW is the first European museum to devote a solo exhibition to Havanna born Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo.

Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno Kunsthalle Zurich – May 8 - August 16, 2009
Over the course of the past 20 years Philippe Parreno has produced a varied and complex body of work which is full of references, mental evocations and arguments relating to variants from literature, philosophy, science fiction, film, theatre and information formats such as radio, television and the internet.

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Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno "The Puppet Show", Fry Art Museum – May 16 - September 13, 2009
The Puppet Show is a group exhibition that explores the imagery of puppets in contemporary art. International in scope, the exhibition brings together twenty-nine artists from multiple generations in works that range from a 1974 installation by Dennis Oppenheim to a new animated video by Berlin-based artist Nathalie Djurberg. Consisting of sculpture, video, and photography, the artwork included in The Puppet Show investigates key themes associated with puppetry, including manipulation, miniaturization, and control. The exhibition demonstrates that in contemporary art, as in Western culture at large, the puppet acts as a psychological surrogate, social and political commentator, and entertaining performer.

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Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno Centre Pomidou, Paris – June 1 - September 14, 2009
Philippe Parreno's first solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou will be a significant event in more than one way. The French show, one of the most ambitious in terms of the distinctive means deployed, will combine works of the early 1990s with works and events presented for the very first time.

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Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno "Making Worlds" Venice Biennale 53rd International Art Exhibition, Italy – June 7 - November 22, 2009
directed by Daniel Birnbaum, in the Giardini and the Arsenale exhibition venues, as well as in various other locations around the city.

Seth Price
Seth Price "2009", MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy – May 26 - July 26, 2009
MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna of Bologna has the pleasure of presenting the first solo exhibition of Seth Price in an Italian museum.

Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Andrea Viliani

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John Stezaker
John Stezaker "Source Codes" Sprueth Magers, Berlin – June 28 - August 29, 2009
'Source Codes' juxtaposes a selection of works by a number of artists and filmmakers from Europe and America who mapped essential conceptual groundwork in the 1960s and 1970s and whose work remains influential to many artists today.

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Heimo Zobernig
Heimo Zobernig CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France – May 16 - August 16, 2009
The CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux gives carte blanche to the Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig for the creation of a work in situ in the nave of the museum. After completing design studies at Vienna, Heimo Zobernig turned to abstraction in the early 1980s. His early paintings assume various tropes of abstraction, gesture until lyrical geometric motif serial.