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Markus Proschek’s work that he developed during his stay in Bad Gastein refers to a sculpture by NS-artist Josef Thorak. The sculptor was considered as one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite artists and was regarded as an unscrupulous careerist. One of his sculptures is on the terrace of the old hydroelectric plant in Bad Gastein. In [...]

The motto of the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose (California) is Seeking Silicon Valley. The 2012 ZERO1 Biennial features an extensive program of exhibitions, public art installations, performances and events in San Jose and other places in the Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. More than one hundred artists participate in the event. The [...]

Kris Perry is a Hudson-based artist that conceives and builds kinetic sculptures / instruments. At the art space Family Business in Chelsea, New York City, he and his friends (Elise McMahon, Bill Stone, Brian Dewan, Peter Nadin, Vanessa Haroutunian) present an exhibition, curated by Linda Yablonsky and called Industrial Evolution. On September 7, the musicians [...]

Play Mincu is the title of the exhibition at the Romanian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. It pays homage to the legendary architect, politician and creator of the Romanian School of Architecture, Ion Mincu. The five curators of the Romanian pavilion – Emil Ivanescu, Irina Bogdan, Ana Costantinescu, Laura Iosub and Paul Popescu [...]

For his solo show at Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogotá (Colombia), the Colombian artist Mateo López realized an exhibition with twelve small to medium sized installations. The exhibition bears the title Avenida Primavera, Casa No. 2 and is structure as a walk-in book structured into chapters. The installations can be seen as micro-worlds that transform [...]

Robert Irwin: Dotting the i’s & Crossing the t’s: Part II is the second part of an exhibition focusing on the oeuvre of Robert Irwin at The Pace Gallery in New York City. Robert Irwin is recognized as one of the major representatives of the Light and Space movement together with James Turrell, Larry Bell, [...]

Janis Avotins was born in Riga in 1981. He studied painting at the Latvian Academy of Art. Janis Avotins lives and works in Riga. For his work, he uses photographic inspirations. In this short interview he provides us with an insight into his work. Janis Avotins at Kunstresidenz Bad Gastein 2012. August 16, 2012. More [...]

Architecture possible here? Home-for-All is the title of Japan’s contribution to the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy. The exhibition in the Venice Biennale’s Japanese Pavilion deals with the devastation the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 caused in East Japan. It shows photographs of the earthquake by Naoya Hatakeyama and alternative housing solutions for [...]

This is the first report from our new correspondent in Beijing (China), Diana Coca. It covers the openings of exhibitions at four art spaces: Tang Contemporary Art, Gallery Yang, New Age Gallery, and Today Art Museum. Tang Contemporary Art in Beijing presents Sky Ladder, Shen Yuan’s solo exhibition, including installations from the artists recent works [...]

Devening Projects + Editions in Chicago currently presents two solo shows. New York-based artist Gary Stephan shows new works on paper in an exhibition entitled The Story of What Happens. It’s Gary Stephan’s second show with the gallery. He presents over 100 works on paper produced over the last two years. Hamburg-based artist Michael Pfisterer’s [...]

At the Venice Architecture Biennial 2012, the artist Olafur Eliasson showed his “Little Sun” solar lamp, that is also part of an installation presented in the main exhibition “Common Ground”. For the installation, Olafur Eliasson attached two Little Sun lamps to a fan. When the fan is on, the individual lights create a continuous ring [...]

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky has created a new, large-scale work for his current solo exhibition entitled Al Araba Al Madfuna at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The solo show is part of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2011 that he won. Wael Shawky is known for the reenactment of historic events [...]

At this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale the Russian pavilion presents the innovation city (or i-city) Skolkovo. Skolkovo is one of the largest Russian projects of today. Many international architects such as David Chipperfield Architects, SANAA, and Herzog & de Meuron are involved in the project. The aim of the project is to combine science and [...]

The Museo Tamayo in Mexico City reopened on August 26, 2012 after a major renovation and expansion of the museum. The expansion project was designed by Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, one of the architects of the original building that was designed over 30 years ago. The Tamayo Museum openes with seven new exhibitions and projects [...]

The Bronx Documentary Center in New York is a new space for photography, film and new media. It was founded in 2011 and aims to create an engaging environment for local and international artists that are using innovative methods of non-fiction storytelling. One of the recent events was the screening of Jennie Livingston’s Paris is [...]