Press release Throughout the last years, i.e., since taking over as Director of UKS in 2017, UKS has fronted an aim to be a malleable operation, carefully custom-fitted to each new artist—shifting opening hours, tone of voice, exhibition architecture, outreach, or bandwidth according to the artistic intention of the current solo exhibition. In fact, as
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Damon Zucconi at VEDA, Florence
Press release Veda is pleased to present Lithromantic, the second solo exhibition by Damon Zucconi on view from February 14, to March 28, 2020. One might enjoy being in romantic relationships, but only theoretically: a lithromantic — from the Greek lithos meaning stone. “The whole ubicomp environment, dust-sized chips, and utility fog and hazy clouds of diamond-bright optical processors in the
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Esther Schipper, Berlin
Press release: Esther Schipper is pleased to present Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Fog Dog, the exhibition includes architectural light interventions, a sound installation and a new film. Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s (b. 1977, Barcelona) practice encompasses a wide range of media, including film, sculpture, sound, gardens and drawing. His work focuses on the
Solange Pessoa at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
Press Release: Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present In the Sun and the Shade, the first European solo show of works by the Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, coinciding with her acclaimed first solo institutional exhibition in the United States, currently on view at Ballroom Marfa. Utilizing the entirety of the Brussels gallery space, the
Vajiko Chachkhiani and Reijiro Wada at Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
Press release: Daniel Marzona is pleased to present an exhibition with current works by the artists Vajiko Chachkhiani and Reijiro Wada in the Galerie Rolando Anselmi. The idea for this exhibition arose when thinking about possible strategies of processualism in contemporary sculpture. The works of Wada and Chachkhiani initially seem to mark two opposite conceptual
Solange Pessoa at Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Press release: Ballroom Marfa will present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa in the fall of 2019. Pessoa has built a significant and internationally recognized body of work over three decades, which spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, and video. The exhibition will include
“Exodus” at Watergate, Washington D.C.
Press release: Bortolami is pleased to announce the seventh Artist/City project, Paul Pfeiffer/Washington, D.C. A group exhibition at the Watergate curated by Pfeiffer, Exodus brings together a selection of artworks – primarily found-object sculptures – to investigate the collapsed boundary between representation and reality that now defines everyday life. It includes works by Lutz Bacher, Renée Green,
Fiona Tan at Peter Freeman Inc., New York
Press release:Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present Archive / Ruins, Fiona Tan’s first solo exhibition in New York City in the past ten years. The exhibition marks the U.S. premiere of her new film Archive (2019), and the world-premiere of Ruins (2020). Related works, the audio track Hydriotaphia (2016), and the series of photogravures, Shadow
Alan Ruiz at Bad Reputation, Los Angeles
Press release:Bad Reputation is pleased to present an exhibition of work by New York-based artist Alan Ruiz. Enclosures features a subset from Ruiz’s ongoing project Western Standards which engages the ubiquitous and repeatable systems that shape, condition, and regulate the built environment. Suspended in aluminum molding, transparent and reflective glass projects from the wall at
Martin Llavaneras at La Capella, Barcelona
Press release: A sand sculpture on the seashore. A mound of water, salts and silica. Structures and organisms, bound together. Compacted, collapsing. Corals or silicates. Snails or feldspars. The particular reduced to the collectivity of the grain, of the clast, of the blasto. By the parrot fish hard at work, grazing away. Sieved by its
Nina Canell at Progetto, Lecce
Press release: Exploring the Lecce and Salento region, three practitioners have shared 500 hours together. The residency that culminates in the launch of the Vegetable Teratology Colouring Book, co- edited by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins and published by Anna-Sophie Springer’s press K. Verlag. At Progetto gallery, this new publication is presented alongside a selection
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tomás Saraceno at Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Press release: Spiders do not have an auditory apparatus, and yet sound makes up an important part of their lifeworld. Through vibrations in their webs—whether from noise, wind, or prey caught in their sticky patterns—spiders can tell the size and distance of an object of interest. Jumping spiders (Phidippus audax), researchers found in 2016, can
Max Hooper Schneider at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Press release: While for the moment, the fates of human and non-human beings are inextricably entangled, the power of humans is waning. We arrived late on the planet and are likely to exit early. —Max Hooper Schneider A mad scientist, magician, alchemist, trash master, doomsday predictor, and borderline hoarder, Max Hooper Schneider has spent the
Danh Vo at kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Press release: kurimanzutto presents the second solo exhibition by Danh Vo in the gallery. Examining the present to understand his past, Vo also looks at the future and thus weaves objects, people and histories, both personal and official, into his work. The artist’s practice has long since been informed by his interactions with friends and
Mona Hatoum at Chantal Crousel, Paris
Press release: Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to present Mona Hatoum’s 7th solo exhibition, from October 12 to December 21, 2019. New sculptures, installations, and works on paper are presented. Mona Hatoum’s art reflects on world conflicts, migrations, and surveillance, using materials as varied as steel, brick, concrete, and human hair, in order to create
Shannon Ebner at Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Press release: WET WORDS IN A HOT FIELD Water in the camera is a sign of what can happen when wet words enter a hot field. Subjects without cameras in a place without cameras. Some people will say that this camera is a precision instrument but I say that this camera is an instrument for
Philippe Parreno at Watari-Um, Tokyo
Press release: A key artist of his generation, Philippe Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking it as a medium, placing its construction at the heart of his process. Working in a diverse range of media including film, sculpture, drawing, and text, Parreno conceives his exhibitions as a scripted space where a series