It seemed to be a good year for double shows. Looking in no particular order at the geographically-constrained selection of what I actually saw (London unless stated) I didn’t think about it in compiling, but have only just noticed that Bedford’s finest, Andy Holden, and Sarah Lucas are the only British artists on the list and only 5/20ish are women… I could have corrected some of that by including shows I curated (Maria Marshall: Voluntarie Service; and It’s About Time) or wrote catalogues for (Young Gods, Alzbeta Jaresova, Alison Gill, Phil Illingworth, Daniel Lergon). My favourites were:
Paulina Olowska: Pavilionesque, Kunsthalle, Basel (see top photo)
Paulina Olowska at Kunsthalle, Basel and Stedelijk, Amsterdam
Roy Lichtenstein: Foundation Vedova, Venice and Tate Modern
Sanja Iveković at Calvert 22 and the South London Gallery
Jean-Luc Moulène at Modern Art Oxford and Thomas Dane Gallery
Gerard Byrne at Whitechapel and Lisson Galleries
Andy Holden at Stanley Picker Gallery and Zabludowicz Collection
There were single showings, too. I particularly liked:
Danh Vo: Go Mo Ni Ma Da, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (above)
Danh Vo at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Richard Serra at the Courtauld
Mark Manders in the Dutch Pavilion, Venice
Frederico Barocci at the National Gallery
Thomas Grünfeld at the Museum Morsbroic, Leverkusen
Rudolf Stingel at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Sarah Lucas at the Whitechapel
Agostino Bonalumi at Robilant & Voena
Li Songsong at Pace
Honoré Daumier at the Royal Academy
Martin Kippenberger at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlin
Shaun Gladwell: Cycles of Radical Will at the de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (above)
Shana Moulton in performance at the Royal Collage of Art
Paul Klee and Mira Schendel at Tate Modern
Ciprian Muresan at Plan B, Berlin
Christopher Williams at David Zwirner
Shunga at the British Museum (above)
Shunga: from the unknown 17th century sequence in which a nun discovers a priest in a bag