Our editors around the world have compiled the shows not to miss this month, including photographs of New York City hip-hop culture, the chaotic nature of consumerism and a retrospective from a Shanghai-based partnership.
Suki Seokyeong Kang, Our Spring (until 25 April 2026) at Tina Kim Gallery, New York City
“I always thought, ‘Why do I have to draw the mountain?’” the late Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang told Art Basel last year. “‘Can I draw that kind of form using paper rather than depicting a mountain?’” The question of how line can take up space drove her through decades of artmaking, until her death last year from cancer, aged just 47. The clearest expression of such thinking can be seen in this new solo exhibition. It includes Mountain–hours (2020–2021), a series of aluminium sculptures, some of which are suspended in the air, like hills seen in the horizon, others planted firmly on the ground. They sit alongside her Mora–nuha (2014 – 2024) series of dust-and-gouache paintings: colourful records of the matter floating through the air of her studio on any given day. As Suki Seokyeong Kang told Ocula in 2018: “This idea of space allotted for each individual serves as the primary grammar of my art.”
—Baya Simons
