Lehmann Maupin returns to West Bund for the seventh time with a presentation that foregrounds artists with recent exhibitions in the Greater Asia region, as well as artists from the region with institutional programming around the world—from Shanghai and Seoul to New York City and Venice. A selection of works by Lari Pittman, Nari Ward, and Erwin Wurm will anchor the booth, on the heels of their exhibitions at the Long Museum, the Fosun Foundation, and Lehmann Maupin Seoul, respectively, while works by Lee Bul and Kim Yun Shin celebrate concurrent institutional moments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and La Biennale di Venezia. 

A selection of significant paintings from the 2010s by Los Angeles-based artist Lari Pittman will be included in the presentation, on the heels of his solo exhibition Magic Realism at the Long Museum in Shanghai, which marked the artist’s first museum survey in Asia. Pittman’s distinct visual language has established him as one of the most significant painters of our generation—his densely-layered painting style includes a lexicon of signs and symbols, a compilation of varied painting techniques, unique color combinations, and a clear homage to the handmade, craft, and the decorative. Following his solo exhibition Dreamwalkers at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, two sculptures by Erwin Wurm will be exhibited, one of which will debut at the booth. Best known for his uncannily anthropomorphic sculptures, Wurm has examined the fundamental tenets of the medium for over 25 years. Confronting expectations about what sculpture can or should be, the artist explores intriguing new possibilities through investigations into volume, mass, surface, color, and time. Concurrent to the fair, Wurm has a retrospective on view at The Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, through March 9, 2025.