Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel 2024. This digital showcase reflects highlights from the gallery's in-person presentation, which brings together outstanding artworks representing the diverse media, styles, and techniques employed by the gallery's artists.

Featured artists include Kader Attia, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Marilyn Minter, Rebecca Morris, Aliza Nisenbaum, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Daniel Richter, Sable Elyse Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, James Welling, Alberta Whittle, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel, among others.

Dates:
October 16 – 20, 2024

Address: 
Grand Palais 
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008, Paris

Booth:
B11

Beasley’s practice is deeply invested in drawing out the histories latent in everyday materials and connecting these pasts to the present cultural landscape. This interest manifests in works that are produced by subjecting historically charged materials to transformative processes, reconfiguring and recontextualizing them to make new meaning. Harnessing the personal, cultural, and political associations of objects, Beasley investigates the history of power and race in America.

In “slab” sculptures like Garden Arches VI, 2024, Beasley freezes the adaptive, tensile strength of familiar materials such as raw Virginia cotton in a fixed resin structure. Despite their rigidity, the surfaces retain the organic, flowing appearance of a rippling body of water or a flag caught in a breeze. By transforming quotidian materials into novel, beautiful objects, Beasley draws attention to the personal and political histories that frame daily life. Further exploring the notion of landscape - constructions that reside just outside of our view, Beasley states “I’ve never had a garden view outside my window, only the wooded backyard growing up in Virginia. Thinking of what it means to construct a natural environment around us, I find it curious and paramount to giving space to self-reflection and tending to one’s well-being.”

Beasley’s work is currently on view in Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, the 15th Gwangju Biennale, at the Gwangju Museum of Art, through December 1, 2024. A selection of recent exhibitions and performances include A body, revealed, Hill Art Foundation, New York (2022); Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans (2021), in which Beasley is realizing a multiyear, site-specific project in the Lower Ninth Ward; a series of outdoor performances for the Performa 2021 Biennial, New York; a month-long residency and solo exhibition at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa (2020); and ASSEMBLY, a program co-organized by Kevin Beasley, Lumi Tan, Tim Griffin, and Nicole Kaack at The Kitchen, New York (2019). Other past exhibitions include A view of a landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kevin Beasley, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); Hammer Projects: Kevin Beasley, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); and inHarlem: Kevin Beasley, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016). He was recently awarded the 2023 Heinz Family Foundation Heinz Award for the Arts.

Aliza Nisenbaum’s (b. 1977, Mexico City, Mexico) portraits emerge from prolonged, thoughtful exchanges between the artist and members of specific, carefully chosen communities: transportation and healthcare workers, immigrants, dancers, or grassroot organizers. By fostering connections and sharing skills and resources over extended periods of time, Nisenbaum develops an understanding of the identities, histories, and contexts that frame her subjects. As such, her practice expands—and even exceeds—the delimited space of a painted portrait. Lushly patterned with textures excerpted from the interiors of her sitter’s real homes and workplaces, Nisenbaum’s paintings illuminate the material conditions of their lives. The artist deploys a broad range of painterly techniques, applying continuous grounds with bold, broad brushstrokes; articulating a subject’s features with interlocking, Fauvist tracts of vivid color; or detailing, with naturalistic precision, the design of a tiled wall, a decorative blanket, or an embroidered blouse.

An early, leading figure in the centrality of representation and portraiture, Nisenbaum develops vibrant, figurative paintings through a form of participatory observation. She forges relationships with her subjects and connects meaningfully to the complex communities they create together. Informed by a diverse array of artistic and political traditions, Nisenbaum’s pictures (and the process through which they are made) recall forebears such as Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Diego Rivera.

From mariachi to salsa, the works on view give painterly shape to the fleeting festivity of these traditions. Exploring connections between sight and sound, they evoke music and movement in an otherwise static, silent medium by way of color, contour, and pattern. As such, they recall modernist experiments and visionaries such as Sonia Delaunay and Florine Stettheimer. Mindful of the ever-intensifying specter of technology that shapes our daily lives and recalling sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory of “collective effervescence,” Nisenbaum’s paintings celebrate these spaces and occasions for dancing as consecrated moments apart from our screens and devices, reminding us of the pleasure of being more fully of and with our bodies and each other.

Similarly, as dancers slide and screech to a halt, the undulating motion of the wooden floors mirrors the movement of the figures via painterly gesture. Rehearsal mirrors and elevated bars occasion playful angles, geometries, and juxtapositions, expanding and suturing spaces and passages. They punctuate, frame, divide, and at times provocatively double or even triple figures and forms, creating and implying pictures within pictures. Such reflections liken Nisenbaum’s activity as a painter to that of the whirling dancers. Her complex tableaux reveal her deep awareness and clear delight in the possibilities of painting to narrate human experience and the relationships that sustain us.

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2023–2024); Queens Museum, New York (2023); Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport, New York (2022); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2022); Tate Liverpool (2020); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2017–2018); and University Galleries at Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University (2007).

Aliza Nisenbaum’s exhibition Altanera, Preciosa y Orgullosa is currently on view at Regen Projects through October 26, 2024.

For over thirty years, Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, OH) has captured both iconic and often overlooked aspects of contemporary life and culture. One of the most important photographers of her generation, her photographic subjects have included early portraits of the LGBTQ+ community, the architecture of Los Angeles’s freeway system, mansions in Beverly Hills, Midwestern icehouses, high school football players, California surfers, abstract landscapes of National Parks, and the Bel-Air residence of Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Her complex and diverse body of work is political, personal, and highly aesthetic, keeping questions of form, concept, and the documentary in constant dynamic interplay.

Opie’s recent series of Norway Mountain photographs were taken during her 2024 road trip through the Norwegian countryside in search of the “blue hour,” a phenomenon that only occurs during polar winter. Deeply in dialogue with the history of landscape imagery and the color blue, Opie’s photographs extend from her more than thirty year practice of closely observing the social and physical world around her. The work's vertical orientation reveals that Opie considers these images to be “portraits” of each mountain, addressing them as bodies that provide testament to the Earth’s unique individuality. Through her consideration of massive forms that change on geologic timescales, Opie confronts the scale of human history as well, and here provides another brilliant example of her expansive photographic practice.

Opie’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Museum of Art São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (2024); Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2019); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2017); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016 and 2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (2016); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2015); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2014); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011); Portland Art Museum (2010); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2006); Saint Louis Art Museum (2000); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2000); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997); among others. In 2016, Opie completed a monumental commission for the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse.

Wolfgang Tillmans’s photographs put the tender, exquisite, everyday, transient, and fortuitous into dialogue as he engages with the material and conceptual possibilities of the medium. His wide-ranging subjects and genres collectively showcase the artist’s unique perspective and his ability to use the many languages of photography to enunciate his trajectory through the world. Tillmans distills our fragmented, image-saturated moment into a subjective experience—capturing the political, personal, and aesthetic at once.

Tillmans has long engaged with still life as a genre, often capturing chance arrangements of objects tenderly placed upon a table or windowsill. His interest in the residual fragments of everyday life speaks to not only the fleeting moments of intimacy that can be captured and preserved, but also to the ways these objects are traces of his passage through the world. 

In 2022, a major exhibition of Tillmans’s work entitled To look without fear opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior exhibitions include Fragile, a touring African survey organized by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (2018–2022); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna (2021); and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2020).

Over a career spanning three decades, Gillian Wearing has produced works in an array of media, including photography, video, sculpture, and painting, that question fixed notions of identity and test the boundaries between the self and the collective.

In this latest series, Wearing uses physical masks, AI, and Photoshop to transform herself into a succession of characters relaying her belief that a self-portrait is a controlled masquerade. Referencing the stars of Classical Hollywood, Wearing described “I wanted the characters to be actors rather than models, so some of the shots feel more performative [...] I wanted the photographs to initially not look like they are me in disguise. We can think of masks as being unnerving. I wanted them to look more human."

Wearing was recently the subject of Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2021–2022). Recent solo exhibitions include Life: Gillian Wearing, Cincinnati Art Museum (2018); Gillian Wearing – Family Stories, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2017); Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask, National Portrait Gallery, London (2017); Gillian Wearing, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (2015); among others. Wearing was awarded the Turner Prize in 1997, elected a lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2007, and appointed an OBE in 2011. She was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019.