Flowers Gallery
Cork Street, London

Flowers Gallery is proud to present Edward Burtynsky - New Works, opening on 28 February 2024. The solo exhibition will coincide with Saatchi Gallery's upcoming major 2024 retrospective, BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, the largest exhibition ever mounted in Edward Burtynsky's 40+ year career.

Edward Burtynsky - New Works offers a compelling journey into the intersection of nature and industry, capturing the awe-inspiring beauty and the environmental consequences of human industrial activities. This exhibition brings together a selection of Burtynsky's recent works, focusing on three geological themes: Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada; erosion in Türkiye; and the coal mines in Australia.

The Pool NYC
Milan, Italy

The first two rooms of the gallery host the work commissioned by the Sylva Foundation from the Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, famous throughout the world for his civil commitment in witnessing man's impact on the planet. The photographs tell the story of the disaster that occurred in Puglia, where over 21 million olive trees were infected by the aggressive bacterium.

Opening Reception: November 30, 6-9:00 p.m.

Galerie Springer Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Burtynsky’s interest in Africa was sparked 20 years ago while he was working on his landmark 2004 photographic project China, which explores the country’s rapid globalization and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. The series, and subsequent award-winning documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal, Manufactured Landscapes (2006), chronicle China’s transformation into the world’s leading manufacturer and depository for its waste. Burtynsky witnessed firsthand the immense environmental and by extension, human cost of development, and he predicted Africa would be the next, and perhaps the last, region to undergo major industrial expansion.

Fotografiska Shanghai
Jing’an District, Shanghai

Abstraction and the Altered Landscape, by artist Edward Burtynsky, will be one of the four opening exhibitions at Fotografiska Shanghai. During the 40-year evolution of Burtynsky’s artistic practice, abstraction has increasingly become a central mode of expression for him. While there may be photojournalistic overtones in these works, the deeper concern is a desire to create large, detailed, painterly images into which the viewer is drawn not only by their formal aesthetic appeal, but also by the underlying subject matter.

Sublime yet detailed, most of the photographs in this exhibition were taken from fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and drones, so there is a visual continuity in seeing the landscape from lofty perspectives, revealing the designs, structure and scale of the Earth’s surface. Technologies such as remote-controlled drones has allowed for more precision in selecting viewpoints, where Burtynsky often eliminates the horizon line of a landscape to enhance the sense of abstraction.

Green Cave di FestambienteSud
Monte Sant'Angelo, Puglia, Italy

Edward Burtynsky returns to Italy with an exhibition. The famous photographer of industrial landscapes, a contemporary artist among the most internationally appreciated for his civil commitment in witnessing the impact of man on the planet, will be in Monte Sant'Angelo, in Puglia, in the Green Cave, the cultural center of Legambiente, operational and permanent headquarters of the FestambienteSud festival.

Blouin Division
Montréal, QC

A selection of beautiful works from Toronto-based artist Edward Burtynsky. A complementary show to Le paysage abstrait at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal.

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Le paysage abstrait is a new major exhibition from world-renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky brought to Montréal in collaboration with Arsenal Contemporary Art. Curated by Marc Mayer, former Director of the National Gallery of Canada and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the exhibition will feature 30 of Burtynsky’s large-format photographs as well as three high-resolution murals, unique augmented reality (AR) experiences, and a brand new video piece, all of which will echo Burtynsky’s life-long inspirations from the Abstract Expressionism movement. 

International Photography Festival Olten (IPFO)
Olten, Switzerland

On display will be eight works from the Anthropocene series, accompanied by screenings of the award-winning 87-minute documentary ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch, the final part of a trilogy in which Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky powerfully document the consequences of human activity on the planet, in staged views and dramatic sequences that evoke great emotion.

Green Cave di FestambienteSud
Monte Sant'Angelo, Puglia, Italy

Edward Burtynsky returns to Italy with an exhibition. The famous photographer of industrial landscapes, a contemporary artist among the most internationally appreciated for his civil commitment in witnessing the impact of man on the planet, will be in Monte Sant'Angelo, in Puglia, in the Green Cave, the cultural center of Legambiente, operational and permanent headquarters of the FestambienteSud festival.

Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, NB

This exhibition will present the entire Burtynsky gift of thirty-one large-format photographs from around the Earth.

Curated by John Leroux and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Museo Sigismondo Castromediano
Lecce, Italy

The exhibition includes 12 large-format photographs and a video, set up in a widespread way among the Landscapes of the Sea, the Land, the Sacred, the Living and the Dead that make up the permanent museum itinerary. The dialogue, sought and natural, with the archaeological finds that tell of the different landscapes of Salento, formed over the millennia by the interaction between Man and the Environment, reinforces the emphasis on the themes of Nature and Sustainability, an object of particular interest by the Castromediano. In fact, today many of the museum's activities and projects converge on them, from the educational proposals of the project "ADD_L'Arte Diminuisce la Distance + Natura" to the collaboration with the Sylva Foundation for the fundraising campaign "Let's help the forest to go a little further" dedicated to the reforestation of some stretches of the Salento area. In all of this, Burtinsky's images document an ecological disaster that affects not only the olive trees of Puglia but also the entire cultural landscape and identity of Puglia.

PHotoESPAÑA Official Selection
CentroCentro
Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid

The 54 countries that make up the African continent span a broad spectrum of governments and economies and are physically divided down the middle by the Sahara desert. This new series of photographs by Edward Burtynsky focuses on the sub-Saharan area and reflects his experience in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania.

Flowers Gallery
Hong Kong

Making its European premiere at our gallery on Cork Street, London, in 2022, Edward Burtynsky's African Studies will now travel to Hong Kong, showcasing a new selection of large-scale photographs.

Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York, NY

Edward Burtynsky’s powerful new photography series African Studies, a seven-year project spanning ten countries, will have its New York premiere with two solo gallery exhibitions this March. The exhibitions will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 4 through April 22 at 41 East 57th Street, Suite 801, and at Sundaram Tagore Gallery from March 2 through April 1 at 542 West 26th Street. Opening receptions will be held at Howard Greenberg Gallery Saturday, March 4, 3 - 5 p.m and at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Thursday, March 2, 6 – 8 p.m. and . The artist will attend both receptions.

Sundaram Tagore Gallery
New York, NY

African Studies will be on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery from March 2 through April 1 at 542 West 26th Street and at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 4 through April 23 at 41 East 57th Street. 

Suite 211, 49 Geary St.
Robert Koch Gallery

The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to offer works from Edward Burtynsky’s latest African Studies series. Between 2015 – 2019 Burtynsky focused on Sub-Sahara Africa’s complex and ever-changing landscape. A new monograph of the same title published by Steidl accompanies the exhibition.

Pino Pascali Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art
Polignano A Mare

On Friday 25 November at 6 pm (until 9 April 2023) the Pino Pascali Foundation presents an exhibition by Edward Burtynsky , a famous photographer of industrial landscapes, one of the most internationally appreciated contemporary artists for his civil commitment in witnessing the impact of man on the planet.

The exhibition, entitled Edward Burtynsky: Xylella Studies , documents the ecological disaster that hit the olive trees in Puglia and is the result of the work started with the Sylva Foundation , a non-profit organization that deals with environmental regeneration through reforestation activities. A year ago the Foundation, which was born in 2021 with the aim of regenerating the Apulian landscape, hosted the Canadian photographer author of Anthropocene in residence in Salento, entrusting him with the task of translating into images and videos the destruction of the millennial tree heritage and of the Apulian landscape caused by the xylella bacterium.

Festival Delle Scienze Roma

In collaboration with the Sylva Foundation

Xylella fastidiosa is a phytopathogen associated with serious diseases in a wide range of plants. In Europe it was first detected in 2013 on olive trees in southern Puglia, and then spread to France, Spain and Portugal. In less than a decade it has led to the rapid drying of more than 20 million olive trees in Salento, where the monoculture of the olive tree is widespread. In 2021 the Sylva Foundation, which carries out land redevelopment activities mainly through reforestation, commissioned the famous photographer Edward Burtynsky to document the environmental disaster that occurred in the olive groves in Puglia. A selection of ten prints of his work is hosted in this Festival exhibition and at the Pino Pascali Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Jean & Ross Fischer Gallery
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton, ON

In October 2014, Edward Burtynsky began a photographic journey that took him 4,000 kilometres across Eastern Europe to capture the scarred landscapes Holocaust sites. Nearly 80 years later, these sites still bear witness to human loss perpetrated on an unprecedented scale.

Like the scarred landscapes of mines, oil fields and landscapes that have been destroyed by industrial processes in the support of our modern lifestyle that we see in Burtynsky’s work, these places bear the mark of unthinkable destruction long after the activities have ceased. This portfolio is titled Chai – the Hebrew word for ‘life’. While there were an unthinkable number of victims in these places, there are also survivors. Their experiences then and since must guide our remembrance and learning.

New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT

The first major exhibition of the artist’s work in Connecticut and one of the largest in the Northeast ever, Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed examines the artist’s career-long documentation of human impact on nature and comprises examples from nearly every series of Burtynsky’s output from the 1980s to today, including Mines, Quarries, Shipbreaking, China, Oil, Water, and Anthropocene. The exhibition will explore the legacy of landscape art in America, as well as the role of photography in environmental advocacy.

Works in Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed are drawn from the New Britain Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Howard Greenberg Gallery, and private collections.

Weinstein Hammons
Minneapolis, MN

Opening Reception: October 28, 6-8 PM

Weinstein Hammons Gallery is pleased to present African Studies, an exhibition of fourteen large format photographs by the internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. This will be Burtynsky's third solo exhibition with the gallery and is the debut of African Studies in the United States.

Flowers Gallery
London, UK

Flowers Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Edward Burtynsky produced across the African continent between 2015-19. Burtynsky’s work chronicle the major themes of terraforming, extraction, agriculture and urbanization, developing a long-standing preoccupation with the unsettling reality of the human imprint on the planet. In African Studies, Burtynsky reflects on landscapes undergoing rapid industrial and manufacturing expansion.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
Le Locle, Switzerland

The MBAL is delighted to present the exhibition Eaux Troublées by renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky (Canada, 1955) which explores in an immersive way the multiple exploitations of water by Man. Worryingly, water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. With his fascinating and frightening aerial shots, the artist reveals what is at stake. Traveling across the five continents, from the Gulf of Mexico to the banks of the Ganges, Burtynsky confronts us with the planetary scandal of water pollution, a consequence of human irresponsibility.

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

Opening Reception: October 6, 5-7 PM

Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce Africa, an exhibition of new photographs by Edward Burtynsky. The exhibition will open on October 6th and run until October 29th, with an opening day reception on Thursday, October 6th from 6-8 pm.

Between 2015 and 2020, Edward Burtynsky travelled to Africa to document the last continent on the precipice of massive geological transformation due to industrial expansion. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, he completed shoots in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania. With Africa, Burtynsky expands on major themes from the arc of his career including extraction, agriculture and urbanization. Using fixed-wing aircrafts, helicopters and drones alongside new camera technologies, his most recent photographs reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks we inscribe on the surface of the earth like never before.

Taylor Square
Sydney Festival

Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patterns and epic panoramas of our planet.

This absorbing new work from acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky tells the story of human industry’s impact on Earth with exquisite artistry and extraordinary scale, urging us to rethink our legacy and seek a more sustainable future.

40 years in the making, In the Wake of Progress combines the most powerful photographs and film footage of Burtynsky’s career, characterised by award-winning aerial work and dramatic industrial landscapes. Co-produced by Canadian music legend Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed) and set to a stirring original score by multi award-winning composer Phil Strong, the result is a deeply moving 22-minutes.

Premiering at Luminato Festival Toronto in June 2022, In the Wake of Progress now comes to Oxford Street’s Taylor Square, where passers-by and art pilgrims alike will experience this urgent call to action, and search for hope through art.

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AN EPIC NEW IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

Commissioned and Co-Produced by Luminato Festival Toronto

Witness the epic tale of humanity’s impact on the planet at Edward Burtynsky’s new indoor immersive experience, In the Wake of Progress. This fully choreographed blend of photographs and film from world-renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky surrounds you with a powerful 30-minute experience of global landscapes, revealing primordial beauty alongside the stark impact of human industry.

This intimate and enveloping project is complemented by a curated gallery show of traditional Burtynsky photographs and high-resolution murals including new and never-before-seen work, a Change Station which tackles the question “what can I do now?”, and two powerful augmented reality (AR) experiences which explore the impact and legacy of the internal combustion engine.

In the face of the climate crisis, In the Wake of Progress dares us to have an important conversation about the legacy of the widespread impact of human industry and what it means for the future of sustainable life on this planet.

Musée de Dieppe
Dieppe, FR

A paradoxical beauty. Edward Burtynsky's photographs challenge as much by their graphic aestheticism as by the disasters of industrial gigantism on the nature they depict. With the exhibition Mounds and Voids: From Human to Global Scale , the Canadian photographer puts in images "the full and the empty" linked to the human extraction of the riches of the subsoil as well as their impacts on the landscapes, the hands of works and populations. What emerges are striking panoramas captured in places kept away from favored urban areas: coal pyramids in China, plastic dumps in Kenya, oil spilled on the sand in Canada, piles of millions of used tires in California ...

Somerset House
London, UK

A special curation of over a dozen large-scale photographs by the Awards’ 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient, Edward Burtynsky, will be on show. Burtynsky is the 15th recipient of this award which honours a person or group that have made a significant impact on the photographic medium. The selection, made by the artist, highlights key bodies of work and themes over his 40-year career. These include epic scenes from Anthropocene (2018), an examination of human activity and its profound influence on the Earth and its systems; Oil (2009), a 12-year chronicle of the complex oil cycle; and images from Burtynsky’s forthcoming series Africa (2022), a look at the African landscape and areas transformed by resource extraction.

Whyte Museum
Banff, Alberta

Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict. Vast human-altered landscapes expose the astounding scale of infrastructure and destruction fuelled by enterprise and consumption.

Burtynsky’s photography is held in over 60 major museums around the world including the Whyte Museum whose holding include 36 works dating from 1983 to 2012. The exhibition features an overview of the Burtynsky collection.