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Le Principe Galápagos #6 is a group exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, curated by a collective from Geneva composed of Maxime Bondu, Gaël Grivet, Bénédicte Le Pimpec and Émile Ouroumov. The works that are scattered throughout the building. The title of the show is derived from Charles Darwin’s famous examination of the Galápagos […]

This is an interview with French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot on the occasion of his exhibition Presences at Galerie Mario Mazzoli in Berlin, Germany. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a French artist and composer who creates acoustic installations. The exhibition Presences introduces the author’s innovative works relating to sound and object. Mark Gisbourne, the curator of the show, […]

The exhibition Alexander Calder – Avant-Garde in Motion at K20 Grabbeplatz – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf (Germany) is dedicated to Alexander Calder’s work of the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition begins with the time when Calder began to translate abstract forms into motion. The show aims to show how Calder was part of the art […]

In this video, we attend the opening of the exhibition Zilvinas Kempinas: Darkroom at K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf (Germany). For the project room “Labor” of the museum K20, the New York-based artist Zilvinas Kempinas created an immersive installation that takes the visitor to a space that reminds of a darkroom or a dark […]

Pulso Alterado (Altered Pulse) is a group exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in Mexico City that explores the extremes of human emotion. The works deal with feelings such as frenzy, rage, frustration, loss, hallucinations, and ecstasy. The works on display belong to the MUAC and related collections and date from the […]

For his participation at the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, Turkish artist Ali Kazma conceived a multi-channel video installation called Resistance. Resistance explores ways to both release the human body from its own restrictions and restrict it in order to control it. Ali Kazma looks at how the body is shaped today through […]

SELF is an exhibition of the artworks of Leonardo Ramos between 2009-2013. Hosted in LA Galería, Bogotá. Curated by Ricardo Arcos-Palma. The SELF, its unity, sameness, transfiguration, death and transformation is the subject. Horns of deer are worn for painting; upon wolf and human skulls, fragmented and hold by a metallic structure, bees did their […]

In this video we attend the opening of artist David Zink Yi’s solo exhibition at the gallery Hauser & Wirth in Zürich, Switzerland. The Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist presents a new sound and video installation, titled Why am I here and not somewhere else – Independencia II. The first part of the video shows David Zink […]

For the second time after the installation The Wall, Christo has created a monumental work for the Gasometer Oberhausen, a former gas holder in Oberhausen, Germany, which has been converted into an exhibition space. The new work is called Big Air Package. It’s a gigantic balloon, made from 20,350 square meters of semitransparent polyester fabric […]

They did it again, but this time, you will get wet! After the hugely popular installation Rain Room, which they showed at Barbican London and at the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York, the London-based studio rAndom International created another spectacular work. For the international arts festival Ruhrtriennale, they realized their first large […]

Japanese visual artist and electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda is known for his installations and live performances that combine visuals and sound. For the international arts festival Ruhrtriennale 2013 in Germany, Ikeda conceived the audiovisual installation Test Pattern [100m Version]. Test Pattern is one of Ryoji Ikedas’s long-term projects. Started in 2008, the work translates the […]

The Hungarian artist Attila Csörgő is known for his kinetic works made of motors, magnets and other materials. His work Platonic Love deals with the metamorphosis of platonic bodies, which he demonstrates with a complex machine made of rather simple components. The apparatus transforms a tetrahedron, a cube, and a octahedron into a dodecahedron and […]

The Pavilion of Venezuela at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is dedicated to Urban Art. The exhibition is titled El Arte Urbano. Una estetica de la Subversion (Urban Art. The Aesthetics of Subversion). The pavilion is curated by Juan Calzadilla. Venezuelan Urban Artists Collective: El Arte Urbano. Una estetica de […]

To mark the centenary of Meret Oppenheim’s birth in Berlin on October 6, 2013, the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin is dedicating a first major retrospective to the artist. Oppenheim became famous with her work “Le Déjeuner en fourrure” (1936), a teacup, saucer and spoon that the artist covered with fur. The Fur Cup is one of the […]

Terike Haapoja’s solo exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion is one of two exhibitions that Finland presents at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibitions are presented under the heading Falling Trees, a title that refers to an event that happened at the 2011 biennale: The Finnish pavilion was severely damaged […]