David Zwirner

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, the first traveling posthumous survey of the artist’s work, opens Sunday, October 19, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/4orxWEv Following its debut in the artist’s hometown at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition charts Ruth Asawa’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works. Featuring some 300 artworks, the presentation celebrates how Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Ruth Asawa riding the New York subway, c. 1980s. Photo by Paul Lanier. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

In London this week for Frieze? Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions across the city. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/4nKaK4a At Frieze London (Booth D15) we’ll be presenting new works by Huma Bhabha, Chris Ofili, Oscar Murillo, and Portia Zvavahera, as well as recent works by Lucas Arruda and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. — Artwork details in order of appearance: Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009; Victor Man, Maternity with Legend, 2024; Kerry James Marshall, Haul, 2025; Bridget Riley, Concerto 1, 2024; Mamma Andersson, The Fallow Deer, 2016; Christopher Williams, Model-Nr.: 1740, Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur, Liesegangstr. 7A, 40211 Düsseldorf, Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf, January 28, 2016, 2016; Chris Ofili, Visions, 2025

52W HARDWAY, presented by Awesome Championship Wrestling, closes Saturday, October 11. Don’t miss the final evening of wrestling and live music at 52 Walker Street this Friday. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/4mOws5L The exhibition, organized by Ebony L. Haynes features drawings by Raymond Pettibon, a live wrestling match with Darby Allin, as well as drawings and wrestling props created by artist, designer, and wrestling specialist Charlie Ramone. The show’s title, “Hardway,” refers to when a wrestler gets busted open by accident. More often than not, a hardway injury is gruesome, shocking, and unsettling because it’s real. This rupture—where the performative nature of the match is pierced by something raw and truly violent—speaks to the heart of the exhibition. —⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Photos by Krista Schlueter

An exhibition of work by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter opens Monday, October 20, at #DavidZwirnerParis. Plan your visit to see this exhibition on view during Art Basel in Paris: https://zwrnr.art/3KtfT21 Marking the artist’s third show with the gallery since the announcement of his representation, the exhibition also coincides with a major retrospective of his work opening on October 17 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, curated by Nicholas Serota and Dieter Schwarz. On view at the gallery will be new works on paper, as well as distinct bodies of painted work by Richter from the 1990s to the 2010s, and glass installations. —⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Gerhard Richter, Kl. Badende (Small Bather), 1994 (detail)

Sasha Gordon: Haze opens tomorrow, September 25, at our 19th Street gallery in Chelsea, marking our debut exhibition with the artist. Learn more and plan your visit: https://zwrnr.art/46ax93e In her hyperrealistic paintings, Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Her surreal narratives address viewers with a candor that is both familiar and unsettling in its intimacy. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ #SashaGordon #DavidZwirner

On the occasion of his solo exhibition currently on view at #DavidZwirnerLondon, a new limited edition print by Victor Man, published by Utopia Editions, is now available. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/4mvLywZ The etching, available in an edition of 15, relates to a portrait of the same title featured in the exhibition. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Victor Man, Umbra Vitae, 2025

“I hope many people will see this Royal Academy show, The Histories, for the sheer nourishing pleasure of his visually and intellectually rich work, which largely builds upon, continues and subverts the genre of history painting, which the institution once considered the most noble of them all.” —Nancy Durrant via The Times on Kerry James Marshall: The Histories The largest survey of the celebrated artist ever shown in the UK and Europe, The Histories opens to the public on Saturday, September 20, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Curated by Mark Godfrey, Adrian Locke, Rose Thompson, and Nikita Sena Quarshie, the exhibition will explore the artist’s expansive career to date and feature more than 70 works including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture from museums and private collections across North America and Europe. Plan your visit: https://zwrnr.art/4fm6dS8 —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Arsac and Sébastien Carvalho have joined David Zwirner Paris as directors. As our Paris team, led by Justine Durrett, prepares for forthcoming solo exhibitions by Gerhard Richter in October and Josef Albers in January, Arsac and Carvalho will bring their long history working with artists, collectors, and international institutions to their roles, helping to introduce our program to new audiences in France and beyond. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/evrtjGhM

Join us at our 20th Street gallery this evening for Andra Ursuța: Retina Turner, which debuts a new body of monumental sculptures by the artist. Plan your visit: https://zwrnr.art/4nnx43c Ursuța’s egg-shaped slabs of cast glass contain anthropomorphic apparitions reconstituted from studio flotsam, their spectral presence enacting the experience of declining vision. + On Friday, September 12, join Ursuța and curator Massimiliano Gioni inside the exhibition for a seated discussion on the new series, beginning at 5 PM. RSVP is required via events@davidzwirner.com. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Andra Ursuța, Private Dancer (Rose), 2025

In a conversation between Lucy Liu and Sasha Gordon for Interview Magazine, the two discuss Gordon’s upcoming exhibition in New York, why she paints the things that scare her, and how she navigates anxieties and insecurities through her painting. LIU: Do you think that you explore that fear in your work? Or do you feel that it’s more like, you take it and you create this comedic or misrepresented tone in order to diagnose and to heal yourself? GORDON: I think it’s a bit of both. There’s definitely this feeling of impending doom or fear of what’s going to happen next, or the endless possibilities of what could happen. And this show in particular, there’s a bit more of showing the limits of how far the body can go. Sasha Gordon: Haze opens on Thursday, September 25 at our 19th Street gallery in New York. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/46ax93e