Lo Brutto Stahl is delighted to announce Modeling, a group exhibition with Ghislaine Leung, Mark Lombardi and Philipp Simon. 
Opening on Saturday, February 1, 2025 (6–9pm).

The exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Claire Sammut and has been made possible with the great help and collaboration of the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, the MAC/CCB Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Maxwell Graham in New York, and Schiefe Zähne in Berlin.

Modeling runs until Saturday, March 8, 2025.

Ghislaine Leung (b. 1980, Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in London, UK).

Significant solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Basel, in Basel Switzerland and The Renaissance Society, in Chicago, Illinois;  MAMCO, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, CH (2023); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE (2021); Chisenhale, London, UK; and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE both (2019). Her work was also included in the Turner Prize exhibition at Towner Eastbourne, UK. 

Select group exhibitions include Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2024); FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France (2023);  Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2023); Para Site, Hong Kong, Hong Kong été (2023) and HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria (2023). Leung's second book of writing, Bosses, was recently published by Divided Press, Brussels and London.

Mark Lombardi (b. 1951 in Syracuse, NY - d. 2000 in New York, NY) was an American artist known for his intricate diagrammatic drawings mapping political and financial power structures. He received his B.A. in Art History from Syracuse University in 1974.

Significant solo exhibitions include: Mark Lombardi: Global Networks, a traveling exhibition presented at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, OH; The Drawing Center, NY; and other venues (2003-05); Crossing the Line: 1994-98, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. (1998); Silent Partners, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (1998); Vicious Circles: Drawings, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY (1999); Mark Lombardi: In Memory, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA (2000); Silent Partners, Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson Park, MA (2000); Preparatory Drawings, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (2003).

His work has also been included in group exhibitions such as Fragments of Memory, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, TX (2024); Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York, NY (2018); Une brève histoire de l’avenir, The Louvre, Paris, FR (2015); On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2011); dOCUMENTA (13) (2012); 10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE (2011); Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2000), one of his last exhibitions before his death. 

Philipp Simon (b. 1987 in Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He received his MFA from the Academy of Art in Berlin (KHB) in 2014.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Diesel-Only, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE (2023); Incomplete Nature, Kirchgasse Gallery, Steckborn, CH (2022); The Big Picture, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE (2021); [no title], 15 Orient Gallery, New York, USA (2020).

His work has lately also been shown in group exhibitions such as: Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH (2024); Air Service Basel 2024, Lo Brutto Stahl, Basel, CH (2024); Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again, Binz39, Zürich, CH (2024); Ruf/Simon, Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, FR (2024); Slow Dance (3), Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, CH (2023). In October 2024 Simon published his first Sci-Fi novel Natur. 

Visual below:
Ghislaine Leung
Balances, 2022
Score: An analytical balance scale with the doors left open. An object may be placed on the scale.
Edition of 3 plus II AP
(Detail)