Press release: Or We Gonna Do It Together? What we can do together? Is it good if we do it together? Can you do it without me? Can it work without us? Am I Gonna Do This Alone? “Line by Line” series: “There is a moment when certain words of your favorite song sound as
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Etienne Courtois at Maison Grégoire, Brussels
Press release: Bn PROJECTS & Maison Grégoire are very happy to invite you to Legerdemain an exhibition specially conceived by Etienne Courtois for the space of Maison Grégoire. The exhibition title, beyond its mysterious and poetic character, taken from the title of the work which we used for the invitation card, illustrates indirectly and
Eva Koťátková at CONVENT – Space for Contemporary Art, Ghent
Press release: For the opening exhibition of the third year, Convent presents a solo project by the Czech artist Eva Koťátková (°1982, Prague). In her work Koťátková examines how the individual relates to social structures such as a community, family and institutions. The exhibition focuses on a selection of sculptures and collages from 2014-2015. Eva
Yasumasa Morimura at ShugoArts, Tokyo
Press release: What kind of art does Morimura Yasumasa make? Morimura is a Japanese artist who deals subjectively with his origins in the Showa era and the 20th century. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan fell under the influence of Western civilization and culture, and after the Pacific War, the country was strongly affected
Justin Caguiat at 15 Orient, New York
Press release: The love is boiling in the Fertile Void; it is souring and fermenting there. The Void must yield up an homunculus. (All this is occurring in the dark, on the yonder side of impasse.) Void! Yield up the homunculus! The surface of the river was everywhere giving itself to the air. Most of
Yves Zurstrassen at Xippas Galleries, Paris
Press release: Xippas Gallery is pleased to present Something Else, a major exhibition of Yves Zurstrassen, that plays out to the rhythm of free jazz and explores the potential of abstract painting. The exhibition reunites, on the both floors of the gallery, a body of work carried out since 2014 till today. Although Yves Zurstrassen’s
Fatma Bucak at GAM, Palermo
Press release: Spatial mobility is the foundation of every human activity, yet migrations, diasporas and mass flights have always brought disquiet and fear. Not only in those living them directly but also in those who are obliged against their will to “submit to the invasion”, to rethink their own spaces, habits of a lifetime, certainties
Jenine Marsh at Interface gallery, Oakland
Press release: I press the coins with a machine that cuts through cities and continents like a rusty knife. An unbelievably long and narrow machine-press, it forks and grinds its way across land, unwavering from its stubborn route, locked in steel. The machine is sometimes fenced in with chain-link and barbed wire, sometimes bordered by
Jose Dávila at Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
Press release: “I’m very interested in the notion that there is poetry embedded in science, because science is trying to answer fundamental questions.” Jose Dávila One could say that humans have tipped the world out of balance voluntarily; joint effort is constantly in demand in order to reestablish and maintain the fragile balance of our
Carlos Reyes at Vie D’ange, Montréal
Press release: VIE D’ANGE is pleased to present Wst Sd Clb, a solo exhibition of new work by New York based sculptor Carlos Reyes with collaborations from Max Stolkin. Blown glass vessels on felt hats sit upon slatted drywall partitions as they gravitate low to the floor of the room. Through vocal chords, the flight
E.Swearengin at Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis
Press release: Sadie Halie Projects is truly pleased to present “To hold ‘em or fold ‘em,” an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Minneapolis based artist E.Swearengin (FKA Emma Courtney Cook). Most recently comprised of gestural and textural figuration, these new paintings mark a shift in her work. Her color palette has been stripped
Adrien Missika at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Press release: 1. Aquí Allá Ahí (engl. here, there, yonder) suggests places that feel as tangible and close as they are abstract and far. Demonstrative indications such as here and there can only be comprehended when they are expressed by ourselves or a person who we have in plain sight indicating directions. They only exist
Calixto Ramirez at DOM Art Space, Palermo
Press release: The pieces that Calixto Ramírez presents for DOM art space comes from his explorations around the city. It is a homage to Palermo, and, at the same time it is a way of thanking the city that in a short time has given so much. The sea, the night, the crime, the architectural
Bright File (June) at HAUS N ATHEN, Athens
Press release: The show has a lifetime of several hundred hours. When heated, it glows with visible light. ‘Le Rayon X’ and ‘Six Heures avant l’été’ (1980) by legendary Greek artist Christos Tzivelos (1949-1995) were the starting point for this show that centres on light but isn’t about light. Felt as an effigy for June
Camille Blatrix at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Press release: For his project Somewhere Safer, CAMILLE BLATRIX modifies Kunstverein Braunschweig’s Remise, reorganizing the spatial situation with architectural interventions. As a harbinger of the show, the entrance area, that is usually perceived en passant, is transformed into a nostalgic waiting room. Sculptures, paintings and a “soundtrack” produced on-site are condensed into a tense, at
Bill Culbert at Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Press release: Though the uniqueness of the art object has long been the sign of its status, Culbert prefers a kind of familial profusion. In this he replicates the effects of repetition, variation and dispersal that are the world’s ‘literal’ condition – its many similar-but-different sunsets, light bulbs and conversations – while at the same
Thea Djordjadjze at Portikus, Frankfurt
Press release: Portikus is pleased to announce the exhibition o potio n. by the artist Thea Djordjadjze (born 1971, Tbilisi, Georgia). The exhibition hall at Portikus is the starting point of her works for o potio n. Height is the significant architectural feature at Portikus, which sprawls over several levels from the Maininsel to the