Until 3rd May 2014

Gagosian Gallery, Paris

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Don’t miss the Skate ‘N’ Surf auction now live on Artnet until 12th December 2013. Featuring over 100 artist skateboards, by artists including Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons & Takashi Murakami. The sale is live on Artnet from December 3rd – 12th, click here to view the full range up for auction.

Gagosian, New York

9th May – 29th June

With sources as diverse as children’s art, comic-book characters, and figures from antiquity, Jeff Koons continues to draw a common thread through cultural history, creating works that attempt to touch the core of the human psyche. Working through conceptual constructs including the new, the banal, and the sublime, he has taken his work from its literal, deadpan beginnings in readymades to baroque creations that extol innocence, beauty, sexuality, and happiness in confounding combinations of abstraction, figuration, sumptuous effect, and pure spectacle.

Read more about the exhibition on the Gagosian website.

Gagosian Gallery
December 7, 2012 – February 14, 2013

The Fondation Beyeler is presenting the first exhibition ever devoted by a Swiss museum to the American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955). Koons has for decades been causing a furore with the combination of popular and high culture that informs his art.

The extensive presentation focuses on three central series of works – The New, Banality and Celebration – which represent crucial stages in Koons’s development and lead to the nucleus of his thinking and creative activity. The New comprises the ready-made-like cleaning appliances of his early period, symbols of newness and purity. Banality includes those traditionally crafted sculptures in porcelain and wood which have since become (post-)modern icons. Finally, in the Celebration series, on which Koons has been working for almost twenty years, appear high-gloss steel sculptures of unique material perfection, and large-format paintings in which the artist celebrates childhood in a veritably baroque way. Koons’s equally spectacular and subtle works are repeatedly concerned with themes such as innocence, beauty, sexuality and happiness. These reflect his conception of an art that is accessible to every viewer.

Sunday 4th December, 5pm
Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow

LECTURE: ‘Jeff Koons – Kitsch and minimalism’ by Irina Kulik

Join Irina Kulik as she looks at the work of controversial American artist Jeff Koons, a cryptic figure who has consistently eschewed explicit socio-political critique and instead opted to embrace an outlandishly kitsch and baroque aesthetic. Since the beginning of his career, Koons has consistently generated a shift towards a new understanding of what constitutes a work of art, and the artist’s and art’s role in a specifically consumer-oriented society. By concentrating on everyday, household items and taking them as literal models for his artwork, Koons has complicated discussions centering on “good taste”, aesthetic and value in art.

Irina Kulik is an art critic, culture theorist, lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the MKhAT studio school in Moscow, columnist of Kultura newspaper and author of numerous publications on contemporary art, music and cinema.

For more information visit Garage Center of Contemporary Culture’s website.

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection 3rd March - 6th June 2010

Skin Fruit will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou collection.

Jeff Koons is exhibiting in the group show BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age until 5th April 2010 at Museum MADRE. 28 artists are taking part in the group show including Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman.

For more information, and for images of the exhibition, click here.