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Friday, September 8, 2023, 1pm edt

As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, Rachel Feinstein joins the journal’s editor-at-large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation about the artist’s current exhibition, Rachel Feinstein in Florence, on view at the Museo Novecento and at three other museums in the city Museo Marino Marini, Museo Stefano Bardini, and Palazzo Medici Riccardi. In these daily lunchtime Zoom conversations, invited artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality with Brooklyn Rail staff. The talk will conclude with a poetry reading by Rachel James.

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Saturday, May 20, 2023, 10am–6pm
New York
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Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on a springtime walk to visit over sixty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. The Gagosian Shop is featuring an installation dedicated to Jean Prouvé’s 1947 demountable wood chair CB 22, alongside Rachel Feinstein’s newly launched ring collection with Ippolita and the Jewish Museum, and the latest Gagosian publications, including Louise Bonnet: Recent Paintings. An exhibition by Donald Judd spanning the 980 and 976 Madison Avenue galleries is also on view.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 6pm
Gagosian Shop, New York

To celebrate the publication of her new book, Mirror, Rachel Feinstein will sign copies at the Gagosian Shop in New York. With intimate dimensions recalling a devotional volume, the catalogue, published by Gagosian, features paintings in oil, acrylic urethane, and charcoal on mirror that reference carved wood sculptures and altarpieces by sixteenth-century German artists Tilman Riemenschneider and Gregor Erhart, as well as a wood sculpture interpreting a drawing by Hans Baldung Grien. During the event, Feinstein will present her new line of rings—produced in collaboration with Ippolita—inspired by Marriage Ring, a fantastical piece of oversize jewelry in the form of a castle she designed for the Jewish Museum’s collection of Judaica. The event is free to attend. 

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 6:30pm
New York Academy of Art
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Join the New York Academy of Art for a conversation between Rachel Feinstein and Yvonne Owens, professor of art history and critical studies at the Victoria College of Art, Canada, to celebrate the artist’s new book Rachel Feinstein: Mirror. The pair will discuss Feinstein’s practice as well as the catalogue that documents her eponymous 2022 exhibition at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, and features an essay by Owens. Comprising paintings on mirror and a large stained-wood sculpture titled Metal Storm (2021), the exhibition was animated by Feinstein’s fascination with the human figure and historical and cultural narratives. After the talk, the artist will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5pm
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
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In conjunction with her solo exhibition Façade, at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Rachel Feinstein will deliver the keynote lecture at SCAD deFINE ART 2023, an annual event where leaders in the arts unite for a series of exhibitions and events. The artist will discuss her multidisciplinary practice and the inspiration behind her complex work. The event is free to attend.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 11am
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
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Rachel Feinstein will give a talk about her distinct approach to sculptural objects and installations, touching upon the elements of myth and storytelling that inform her work. The talk is part of SCAD deFINE ART, an annual event where leaders in the arts unite to share thought-provoking work and ideas. The event is free to attend.

Saturday, May 7, 2022, 5pm
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
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As part of the inaugural US edition at the FT Weekend Festival, Rachel Feinstein will speak with Financial Times arts editor Jan Dalley about her artistic practice on the Literature & Arts Stage. By synthesizing visual and societal opposites such as romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, and the marvelous and the banal, Feinstein explores issues of taste and desire in her paintings, sculptures, and installations.

Gagosian is partnering with the Financial Times to host the Literature & Arts Stage at the one-day event where leading experts discuss the arts, music, literature, food, business, and technology. Recent Gagosian Quarterly films will be screened between sessions on the stage throughout the day and Gagosian publications will also be presented. To attend the event in person or online, purchase tickets at usftweekendfestival.live.ft.com.

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 11am EST

Join Madison Square Park Conservancy for a conversation between artists Rachel Feinstein, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Alison Saar, moderated by art journalist Jacoba Urist. The three artists, who have all presented installations in Madison Square Park in New York, will discuss creativity as it relates to studio life during the pandemic, political turmoil, and protests. The event is part of series of live conversations amongst artists, curators, writers, and art professionals reflecting on the challenges and magnitude of the last year. To attend the online event, register at madisonsquarepark-org.zoom.us.

Rachel Feinstein: Secrets is available for online reading from July 19 through August 17 as part of the From the Library series. Secrets documents Feinstein’s 2018 exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, which included a series of oversize, flamboyantly colored sculptures of women inspired by the Victoria’s Secret “Angels,” as well as mirror paintings, majolica sculptures, and a panoramic wallpaper that allude to both the European decorative arts and West Coast modernist luxury. A sculptural object in its own right, the book unites these distinct bodies of work—along with an essay by curator Pamela Golbin and a conversation between Feinstein and designer Tom Ford—within a single volume bound in a Z-fold cover, embodying the dichotomies present in the artist’s work.

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
—Timothy Leary

Gagosian is pleased to present Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video, an online exhibition of artists’ films and videos viewable exclusively on gagosian.com. The exhibition will be organized into a series of “chapters,” each lasting two weeks. The first chapter begins on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now, taking the words of famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary as its starting point. 

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 6:30–8pm
Jewish Museum, New York
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Rachel Feinstein will speak on the occasion of her survey exhibition, Maiden, Mother, Crone, on view at the Jewish Museum through March 22. The artist will discuss the inspirations for her art, which weaves together and deconstructs binaries, underscoring that there is no reality without fantasy, lightness without darkness, or perfection without chaos. The talk will be followed by a book signing of the companion monograph published by Rizzoli Electa. To attend the event, purchase tickets at thejewishmuseum.org.

Saturday, September 21, 2019, 4:15–5:15pm
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
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Rachel Feinstein is participating in the Chatsworth Arts Festival, a weekend of culture and performance. She will discuss her experience of being an artist in residence at Chatsworth, as well as the process of making her life-size ceramic sculpture Britannia (2019), a female figure that depicts the Roman personification of the British Isles. To attend the event, purchase tickets at chatsworth.seetickets.com.

Monday, June 3, 2019, 5:30–6:30pm
Gagosian Shop, New York

Rachel Feinstein will be signing copies of her new book, Secrets, at the Gagosian Shop in New York. Secrets documents Feinstein’s 2018 exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, which included a series of oversize, flamboyantly colored sculptures of women inspired by the Victoria’s Secret “Angels,” as well as mirror paintings, majolica sculptures, and a panoramic wallpaper that allude to both the European decorative arts and West Coast modernist luxury. A sculptural object in its own right, the book unites these distinct bodies of work—along with an essay by curator Pamela Golbin and a conversation between Feinstein and designer Tom Ford—within a single Z-fold cover, which features a cutout doorway that embodies the dichotomies present in the artist’s work. To attend the free event, RSVP to feinsteinrsvp@gagosian.com.

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July 4–October 7, 2018
Regent’s Park, London
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Clare Lilley, director of programs at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, has selected new and significant sculptures by leading artists around the world to be on view in Regent’s Park. A set of four majolica sculptures by Rachel Feinstein will be included.

Each year at their annual gala, the Hirshhorn celebrates incredible artists from around the world who throughout their careers continue to challenge and inspire. This year Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu is proud to honor thirty-one outstanding female artists—from pioneers of performance and video art to emerging painters and sculptors—whose collective contributions to the field have transformed the way we look at art and set the stage for generations of creative talents yet to come. Artists to be honored include Rachel Feinstein, Katharina Grosse, Taryn Simon, and Tatiana Trouvé. The gala will take place on November 6 at Lincoln Center in New York.