December 2024's Essential Exhibitions: From Sakamoto's Sonic Installations to Bamako's Photography Biennial
December 2024 showcases notable exhibitions across the globe. In Tokyo, the Museum of Contemporary Art will feature 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time' from December 21, 2024, to March 30, 2025. Frankfurt's Portikus is set to display Adrian Piper's 'Who, Me?' until February 9, 2025. The 14th Bamako Encounters, titled 'Kuma, the Word,' will be available in Bamako until January 16, 2025. In Santiago, Museo de Bellas-Artes de Chile presents Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's retrospective 'Los volcanes despiertos' from December 6, 2024, to March 9, 2025. 'Soft Impressions' at Dundee Contemporary Arts will run from December 7, 2024, to March 23, 2025, featuring artists like Helen Cammock. The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery will include over 200 artists from November 30, 2024, to April 27, 2025. M+ in Hong Kong will host 'Masquerades' from December 14, 2024, to May 5, 2025, while IMMA in Dublin presents 'Hamad Butt: Apprehensions' from December 6, 2024, to May 5, 2025. Lastly, Carmen Amengual's 'A Non-Coincidental Mirror' will be co-presented by Smack Mellon and the Vera List Center from December 7, 2024, to February 9, 2025. The London Contemporary Music Festival is scheduled to run until January 17, 2025.
Key facts
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's first Japanese exhibition dedicated to his installations opens December 21, 2024 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
- Adrian Piper's 'I'm the Tree' at Portikus reimagines Robert Smithson's 1969 'Mirror Displacement: Indoors'.
- The 14th Bamako Encounters biennial 'Kuma, the Word' highlights photography and video by 30 African artists.
- Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's retrospective at Museo de Bellas-Artes de Chile features 190 works from 1986 to present.
- 'Soft Impressions' at Dundee Contemporary Arts examines printmaking as activist tool amid declining studio access.
- The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial includes Brett Graham's work on Māori resource extraction and Kawita Vatanajyankur's AI-controlled performance.
- M+ Hong Kong presents the first two-person show of Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman, focusing on masquerade and identity.
- Hamad Butt's first exhibition outside England opens at IMMA Dublin, co-organized with Whitechapel Gallery.
Entities
Artists
- Adrian Piper
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Shiro Takatani
- Robert Smithson
- Maria Eichhorn
- Lucas Samaras
- Carmen Amengual
- Victor Adewale
- Jeannette Ehlers
- Primo Mauridi
- Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
- Helen Cammock
- Ingrid Pollard
- Camara Taylor
- Frederick Douglass
- Brett Graham
- Kawita Vatanajyankur
- Yasumasa Morimura
- Cindy Sherman
- Hamad Butt
- Charlemagne Palestine
- Éliane Radigue
- Amalia Ulman
- Matt Copson
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Dengbêj Kazo
- Melinda Maxwell
- Plato
- Igor Toronyi-Lalic
- Jack Sheen
Institutions
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- Portikus
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- Smack Mellon
- Vera List Center
- Bamako Encounters
- Royal Danish Library
- Museo de Bellas-Artes de Chile
- Dundee Contemporary Arts
- Lenthall Road Workshop
- Queensland Art Gallery
- Gallery of Modern Art
- Venice Biennale
- M+
- IMMA
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Goldsmiths
- London Contemporary Music Festival
- Hackney Church
- Wigmore Hall
- ArtReview
Locations
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- Düsseldorf
- New York
- United States
- Algiers
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Cuba
- Mauritania
- Senegal
- Los Angeles
- Bamako
- Mali
- Africa
- Nigeria
- Lagos
- Denmark
- St. Croix
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Goma
- Mount Nyiragongo
- Santiago
- Chile
- Dundee
- Scotland
- London
- United Kingdom
- Hackney
- East London
- Brisbane
- Australia
- Asia Pacific
- Wellington
- New Zealand
- Tainui
- Taranaki
- Thailand
- Hong Kong
- China
- Dublin
- Ireland
- Lahore
- Pakistan
- Essex
- Hackney Church
- Wigmore Hall