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Leo Koenig

11 Delaware Avenue, Andes

@leokoeniginc

Since opening his first gallery in 1999 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the age of 21, Leo Koenig has continuously owned galleries in various locations in NYC. In 2024, he purchased the striking 1874 Greek Revival building on the corner of Route 28 and Main Street in Andes. Inspired by the architecture, history, and beauty of the area, Leo spent a year painstakingly renovating the building, careful to keep its original charm and historic detail.

Seen here are works by Pauline Shaw, Anke Weier, and Allan McCollum, from the exhibition Colorland. We’re excited for the fall exhibition, Pizzicato.

Photo: Christian Anwander @anwander

David Ebony Reviews “Altered States” for Upstate DIary

 

https://www.upstatediary.com/art-picks/2025/07

Visitors to the Catskills this summer can be rewarded with a visit to Leo Koenig’s newly opened venue in Andes, N.Y., a meticulously renovated former 19th-century butter factory turned into an elegant contemporary art space The gallery hosts an inaugural exhibition that explores altered states of consciousness. Inspired by the 1980 Ken Russell film, Altered States, the exhibition features top-notch works by Adam McEwen, Lorenzo Amos, Sherrie Levine, Sere Serpas, Tony Matelli, Thomas Schütte, and On Kawara. Central to the show’s theme, the concept of time is well represented by the rigorously diaristic date paintings by the late On Kawara

The film’s more hallucinatory aspects are reflected in the eerie, solid graphite sculptural works by McEwen. His ominous Rolldown Gate (2012), for instance, secures a space that will never be seen, and the uncanny Payphone (2018), is a rendering of an obsolete telecommunications device that must be explained to younger viewers. Matelli nearly steals the show with his incongruously comic imagery and technical prowess. His life-size, upside-down flower pots are arresting and as is Yesterday (2014), which appears to be a fragile house of cards towering some eight feet high. Made of painted bronze, steel and painted fiberglass, however, the sculpture assumes an unexpected feeling of permanence and monumentality. Matelli’s fiberglass and concrete Lion (Pizza), 2019, looks like a battered antique statue of a lion like the famous Venetian one. Covered with pizza slices and hotdogs, however, this work clearly presents an acerbic critique of monumentality and all of its socio-political ramifications.  —David Ebony

 

 

 

Blake Gopnik | NY Times Review of The History Of Hand Knitting

Link: NY Times, What to See

So much of our suffering is caused by male aggression. (How many victims of war have been killed by women?) but for all the horror of that violence, there’s often something oafish about it, if only because of the boundless stupidity it represents

This two-woman show captures some of masculinity’s toxic idiocy.

An untitled installation by Nicole Eisenan presents 20 “Clubs” leaning against the wall. Each is just a length of scrap wood with a dumb blob of plaster at its top, as though its maker was either too lazy or too dimwitted to perfect his weapons beyond the minimum needed to bash a head. Nearby, also in plaster, a three fingered blob of a hand sits on the floor, ready to grab at its clubs at the sightest provocation I”You callin’ME a blob of a hand?!)

A blob of a head, about three feet tall and painted blue, looks on dimly from a pedestal, as though helpless to govern its own hand.

Rosemarie trockel contributes quite different pieces to the show, but they nit similar notes. Back in 1984, she began to order up machine-knit balaclavas, like a terrorist or a paramilitary fighter might wear. But instead of being bad-guy black, they had “girlish”patterns knit into them. My favorite covers its wearer’s face in plus and minus signs, like the love charms worn by Frenchwomen that stand for “more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” It’s not clear if Trockel’s pattern counters the balaclava’s associations with masculine threat, or if instead of pointing to a love that’s bound to increase, it lets its wearer proclaim a hatred that’s always on the rise. – BLAKE GOPNIK

Leo Koenig Inc. is now open and welcoming visitors Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm and by appointment

Leo Koenig Inc. “GETS UP”

Like the rest of New York City, Leo Koenig Inc. is in the process of “GETTING UP” after over a year of being tested in so many ways.

With this as our current motto, Leo Koenig Inc. will be open additional hours. We are now open Tuesday-Fridays 11am-6pm, and guests can visit during this time without an appointment while we monitor the progress of all protocols.

We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce an addition to our core staff by welcoming Lara Abouhamad as Director. Abouhamad worked at Christie’s New York for several years in both the Impressionist & Modern Art and Post-War & Contemporary Art departments. She holds a BA in Art History from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Looking ahead, we happily anticipate welcoming more visitors to the Gallery for our current exhibition “Chambre du Brésil” with works by LeCorbusier and Charlotte Perriand and On Kawara which is on view until. July 9, 2021.

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EXPO CHICAGO 2018

Century Pictures participates in EXPO CHICAGO 2018, presenting works by Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Peter Dreher, Nicole Eisenman, Hans-Peter Feldmann, On Kawara, and Niele Toroni.

EXPO CHICAGO
Booth 331
SEPTEMBER 27-30, 2018
NAVY PIER | CHICAGO

Art Düsseldorf 2017

Century Pictures participates in Art Düsseldorf 2017

11/16-11/19 | Booth G11