This week: the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2022 is out—is the market’s recovery as good as it sounds? We talk to Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for The Art Newspaper and the Financial Times, about the sixth edition of the market report, what the headline figures tell us and what we can read between the lines.
A 3D scan of a hideout in plot no. 41 of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street, Warsaw Courtesy of Przemysław Kluźniak (ArchiTube)
As the exhibition Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival, opens at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw—focusing on the spaces in Poland and Ukraine that were used by Holocaust survivors to escape Nazi persecution—we talk to the artist behind it, Natalia Romik. Though long-planned, the show has gained a troubling topicality as the Russian invasion and destruction of Ukraine continues.
Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44) Courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands / Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
And in this episode’s Work of the Week, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of Piet Mondrian’s birth, we discuss his painting Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44). Caro Verbeek, the co-curator of Mondrian Moves, an exhibition opening this week at the Kunstmuseum den Haag in the Hague, the Netherlands, tells us about the feverish creation and unfinished nature of the Dutch artist’s final work.
• Natalia Romik’s exhibition, Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, until 17 July; TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland, 4 August-6 November
• Mondrian Moves, Kunstmuseum den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands, 2 April-25 September
• Mondrian Evolution, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 5 June-9 October; K20, Düsseldorf, Germany, 29 October-10 February 2023