Copenhagen Ceramics
Posted by Thorbjorn 9 January 2012
In a series of 10 consecutive exhibitions in a new gallery space in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 19 ceramics artists have got the opportunity to show the present state of their work through unexpected constellations of artists and concepts. The fairly rough exhibition space provides great artistic license to new experimental ideas. The show opened 5th January and will run through 2012.
WOLFGANG TILLMANS – ZACHĘTA ERMUTIGUNG
Posted by Fabio 16 December 2011
Zachęta Ermutigung, the first individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, has been prepared by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in cooperation with Zachęta National Gallery of Art. read more
Passion and Painting
Posted by Fabio 2 December 2011
The Kunstmuseum Bern is organizing an exhibition that gives fascinating insights into Arina Kowner’s extensive collection of Russian contemporary art. The collection comprises 200 works by 46 artists from the period dating from 1970 to 2008. The museum will be showing pictures by famous Russian nonconformist artists as well as works that were executed after 1989. read more
LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR
Posted by Fabio 30 November 2011
Creating oblique relationships between her own personal history and cultural signifiers of both racial and political struggles and identity politics, Reynaud-Dewar draws from varied influences, from Rastafarianism to the work of Ettore Sotsass to the history of cinema. read more
Mauro D’Agati – Alamar
Posted by Fabio 28 November 2011
The Alamar’s neighborhoodcextends to the east of Havana, on the other side of the bay. In the 70′s Alamar was born as a model city project, but through the years fell into anonymity until it became a bewildering complex of badly constructed buildings. The Sicilian Mauro D’Agati decided to expose the scene of Alamar through a series of shots that convey life, decay, color, poverty and dreams. read more
THE MALCOLM MCLAREN AWARD
Posted by Fabio 21 November 2011
The Performa 11 Grand Finale will be held in honor of the punk pioneer and Sex Pistols founder Malcolm McLaren. The inaugural award will be presented tonight at the Bowery Hotel in New York, by writer Greil Marcus and musician Lou Reed.
MICHAËL BORREMANS – The Devil’s Dress
Posted by Fabio 14 November 2011
Borremans’ drawings, paintings, and films present an evocative combination of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups,
and unsettling still lifes. There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are at once highly staged and ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to conflicting moods—simultaneously nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque. read more
Laurence Tarquin Von Thomas – If You Leave
Posted by Fabio 3 November 2011
Following the success of the first ‘If You Leave’ book in 2010, a second publication is now to be released featuring the work of 89 fresh photographers. ‘If You Leave’ is a contemporary photography collection, curated online by photographer Laurence Tarquin Von Thomas. read more
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