Press release: The Thin Red Line is David Ostrowski’s very first solo show with Sprüth Magers in London, for which he has developed a new body of paintings and materials that serve as a meditation on the colour red. The series was begun earlier this year as part of a new red phase in Ostrowski’s
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Anna Diehl at SALTS, Birsfelden
Press release: The work of Anna Diehl is about exploring the capacity of painting, as a medium, but also as a conceptual space, to challenge the transition from the familiar to the undefinable. In other words, her paintings very often navigate and blur the passage from figuration to non-figuration. Both terms, when thinking about art
Ittah Yoda at Sprout Curation, Tokyo
Press release: There is apparently a neologism known as “Yesternow” that is used as an intermediate between “Yesterday” and “Now.” The music magazine ele-king vol.22 through which I became acquainted with this term, while referencing Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx, had stated, “Presence is not merely made by the present, but instead indicates how the
Agata Madejska at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven
Press release: 2018 marks the centenary of the 1918 Kiel mutiny, a revolt by German sailors that was initiated in Wilhelmshaven by the end of the First World War, triggering the November Revolution. As a consequence Emperor Wilhelm II abdicated and the Weimarer Republic was proclaimed. The first German democratic republic was characterized by conflict,
Darren Bader at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Press release: Blum & Poe is pleased to present character limit, an exhibition by New York-based artist Darren Bader. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Darren Bader (b. 1978, Bridgeport, CT) lives and works in New York and on the road. Institutional solo exhibitions include (@mined_oud), Madre Museum, Naples, Italy (2017-18);
Caroline Mesquita at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lissabon
Press release: Kunsthalle Lissabon and Galeria Municipal do Porto present Astray, a two-part project by Caroline Mesquita, and the first time the Marseille-based artist shows in Portugal. Presented in a collaborative way by the two institutions, the project borrows its narrative structure from the literary genre of scientific fiction. Astray (Prologue) opens at Kunsthalle Lissabon
Koo Jeong A at KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Press release: The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates objects with the capacity for transformation,still and moving images, sound and scent. These disparate mediums are combined with elements such as wind, gravity, and site-specific reconfigurations and interventions into architectural space. Often using commonplace matter in order to conjure alternative realities, Koo Jeong A traces a
Lukas Hoffmann & Andrea Zabric at GiG, Munich
Press release: The show elements, featuring new work by Lukas Hoffmann and Andrea Zabric, is GiG Munich’s first collaboration with Klasse Pia Fries, Akademie der bildene Kunst, München. Klasse Pia Fries is well known for its focus on abstract painting, especially in its material aspect. Both Andrea Zabric, a recent graduate (2018), and Lukas Hoffmann,
Tamara Henderson at KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Press release: The foundation for the exhibition Womb Life by Tamara Henderson is manifold. One strand can be traced back to an encounter at Gatwick Airport. At 10 am on Sunday, May 27, 2018, in a Tokyo-style hotel room capsule, the artist had an impromptu hypnotherapy session with the hypnotist Marcos Lutyens. The written account
Tania Pérez Córdova at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Press release: Tania Pérez Córdova (*1979) makes an art of turning ordinary materials into conceptual sculptures. In her first institutional solo show in Europe, the Mexican artist prepares an exquisite, minimal installation in the upper skylight galleries that mines distinctions between original and copy, the authentic and the ersatz through a body of newly commissioned
Corita Kent at Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest
Press release: In 1962, Sister Mary Corita Kent, a nun at the Convent of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, went to the Ferus Gallery to see the famous show where Andy Warhol adopted silkscreen printing with his Campbell’s Soup series. As an artist, woman, teacher and nun, Corita could not be pigeonholed.
David Hartt at Oakville Galleries, Ontario
Press release: Over the past ten years, the films and photographs of Montreal-born, Philadelphia-based artist David Hartt have explored how social values are expressed in the built environment. Whether considering the offices of the Johnson Publishing Company—home to Ebony and Jet magazines—or reflecting on unrealized urban plans for post-war Athens and Detroit, Hartt’s work looks
Deana Lawson at The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
Press release: Every human body carries the memories and marks of its origin story. But bodies are also like vessels that contain all of the knowledge, love, and culture needed to imagine themselves beyond the boundaries of earthly acres, and oceans. Vessels can take many forms: mothers, fathers, brothers, daughters, lovers, kings and queens. Our
Thomas Thiede at Nir Altman, Munich
Press release: The exhibition centers on an object. It is a book, the sketchbook of the artist, his diary. It is open and immovable. An object filled with aura, an incunabulum of our time. On the opposite side, a large-format video projection shows the same book in which somebody scrolls for us. With each page
Alexandre Lavet at Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest
Press release: The work of Alexandre Lavet has the particularity of fading into its environment, of avoiding any spectacular effects, while refusing all the same to disappear completely. If, since the 1960’s[3] a not negligible number of artists have chosen to put an end to their artistic practice in the face of the system of
David Hanes at Open Forum, Berlin
Press release: Ice was the nature of his game. Seen as leagues of corridor, mazes of shadow. Walls that flick away like supersonic butterflies made of shade. Beyond them, the illusion of infinite space. Black ice. Don’t think about it. Black ice. Too many stories; black ice. Frost that kills. Black ice. Illegal, but then
Alfredo Aceto at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
Press release: Turin is a city that trains your skill in looking at things from far away, things in movement. When workday routine and pressure begins clutching at your throat, you go down to the Po and stroll along its bank, watching it flow. There by the river, attempting to catch your breath, your eyes