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Things and People is the title of the current group show at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (Poland) that features works by the artists Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tymek Borowski, Rafał Bujnowski, Marta Mariańska, Paweł Matyszewski, Shana Moulton, Pavla Sceranková, Jiří Skála, and Pavel Sterec. The title is derived from the eponymous book that was published by […]

Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria presents mainly new works by the Mexican artist that have been conceived specially for the exhibition. The exhibition is spread over all four levels of the exhibition building designed by Peter Zumthor. The show starts with the large-scale sculpture Dark Wave, Orozco’s almost fifteen meter long […]

Alfredo Jaar is representing Chile at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. His work is a detailed model of the Biennale Giardini with all the art pavilions, placed in an enormous water tank. In regular intervals, the pavilions slowly sink and reappear again. Alfredo Jaar was born in […]

Presented by the gallery Marlborough Chelsea, the artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe took part in Art Basel’s Unlimited section this year with a large-scale installation called Artichoke Underground. Upon entering the construction through a closet, the visitor walks through a sequence of rooms, the largest of them being a the print shop of the […]

At the 55th Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Spain is represented by Lara Almarcegui, an artist who’s work often deals with urban wastelands and modern ruins. For the Spanish Pavilion, she conceived an installation that refers to the architecture and construction of the building that was constructed by Javier de Luque in 1922. Lara […]

Zilvinas Kempinas: Slow Motion at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland is the largest exhibition of the New York-based Lithuanian artist to date. Zilvinas Kempinas is known for his kinetic works with magnetic tape. In this video, the curator of the exhibition and director of Museum Tinguely, Roland Wetzel, provides us with an introduction to the […]

The common theme of the current group exhibition at Stadtgalerie Mannheim (Germany) is drawing and the exploration of its possible limits. The artists Nadine Fecht, Pia Linz, Barbara Hindahl and Dorothee Rocke show four different positions and potential intersections to other media and art tendencies such as time-based media, installation art, painting, sculpture, sound art, […]

Leandro Erlich: Dalston House is a highly interactive work that lives through the participation of the visitors. As the organizers state, visitors can “scale the walls of a Victorian terraced house without your feet ever leaving the ground.” So if you ever wanted to be Spider-Man, that’s your chance. Leandro Erlich has been commissioned by […]

The Calder Gallery in the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland) is a collaboration between the Calder Foundation and Fondation Beyeler. It’s a dedicated space in the museum, where selected works by Alexander Calder are shown. The first presentation (2012-13) was a tribute to Mary Calder Rower, the artist’s younger daughter. Recently, the second presentation [...]

For its 2013 edition the art fair Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, has commissioned the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata to create an installation for Basel’s Messeplatz. Tadashi Kawamata is known for his site-specific architectural interventions in public space that often take the shape of huts, tree huts, and walkways made out of wood. For Basel’s […]

The main exhibition of this year’s Venice Art Biennale is titled The Encyclopedic Palace (Il Palazzo Enciclopedico). The group show is curated by Massimiliano Gioni and takes place in two venues, the central pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale. This video provides you with at walkthrough of the exhibition in the Arsenale that […]

The artist Tavares Strachan represents The Bahamas in the nation’s inaugural pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2013. Curated by Jean Crutchfield and Robert Hobbs, Tavares Strachan conceived an immersive installation that includes different media such as neon signs, video, sculpture, and painting, and surrounds the viewer by documentation [...]

Raqib Shaw is a London-based artist who is known for his opulent paintings of imagined paradises. Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague is currently presenting a representative selection of the works of Raqib Shaw. The exhibition was designed through direct interaction with the artist in cooperation with the Manchester Art Gallery. The solo show runs until September [...]

Within the framework of Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector, the gallery Cabinet from London presented the work Enough Tiranny by artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz. During the 1960s, Marc Camille Chaimowicz was one of the first artists in the UK who merged performance and installation art. In the early 1970s he commented on the predominant minimalism [...]

Galerie Urs Meile Beijing present Cheng Ran’s ‘The Last Generation’. The show features a body of work from different media: literature, photography, video and installation. The title of the show draws its inspiration from the novel of the same name by the American writer Steffan Postaer. The exhibition centers on a novel written by the [...]