Katharina Grosse is known for the vibrant palette and exuberant gestures of her large-scale canvases and raucous installations which merge painting, sculpture, and architecture. Wielding a spray gun instead of a brush, Grosse often paints directly on the walls, floors, or facades of her exhibition sites, altering the logic and scale of architecture itself. In
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“Aftermath” at Taka Ishii, Kyoto
“A utopia minus a bottom, a place where the machines are idle, and the sun has turned to glass […]” -Robert Smithson, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic”, Artforum, October 1967. Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto is pleased to announce Aftermath, a group exhibition curated by Simon Castets. The exhibition is based upon the twofold
Roger Hiorns at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
British sculptor Roger Hiorns makes objects that explore transformation, both material and perceptual. Using divergent and often esoteric found materials—jet and automobile engines, plastinated cow brains, perfume, thistles—Hiorns collides the natural and man-made. His work often engages a variety of organic and chemical processes such as treating objects with substances like amyl nitrate, steroids, or
Ann Veronica Janssens at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Ann Veronica Janssens’ artistic practice could be defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality. Using different devices – installations, projections, immersive environments, urban interventions, sculptures –, she invites the viewer to cross the threshold into a new sensory space, on the borderline of dizziness and bedazzlement. In a register inspired by
Claire Fontaine at Helena Papadopoulos, Athens
For the inaugural exhibition at Helena Papadopoulos Gallery Claire Fontaine deploys a reflection around contemporary living conditions, where consumption has become not only our main activity but also our personal destiny; at the point where a life that refuses to consume and to get consumed has a lot less chances to persist than a life
Koenraad Dedobbeleer at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s way of working is very conceptual, and he constructs references and narrations that nevertheless turn out to be the result of perception. Through various manipulations and displacements, the artist creates ‘objects’ that seem to question their own status. While most of the sculptures display a very familiar look, none of them belongs to
Ida Ekblad at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Bonniers Konsthall begins its autumn season with the young Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad, who holds her first exhibition in Sweden. Ida Ekblad creates new works especially for the exhibition, which covers everything from expressionist painting and poems to metal sculptures and large concrete reliefs. During summer, Ida Ekblad has been working on site in Stockholm
Cosima von Bonin at Kunsthaus Bregenz
Cosima von Bonin is one of the most well-known artists of her generation. Especially since her participation in the last documenta, at which a large number of the works was spread over the entire course of the show, she is no longer an insider-tip and so-called artist’s artist. Nevertheless it is not easy to classify
J. Parker Valentine at Taka Ishii, Kyoto
J. Parker Valentine is a post-conceptual draftsperson. While crafting artwork in a variety of media, Parker’s practice amounts to an elemental yet informed engagement with the act of mark-making. Endowed with a literal weight, in part a consequence of her often chosen carrier – MDF panel – and, contrastingly, informed by the act of erasure,
Group Show at AMP, Athens
AMP is pleased to present Ashes to Ashes, a group exhibition that explores the notions of antiquity and endless sources and taboos. Ashes to Ashes is a spectral assemblage of material facts and artefacts from Greece, carefully chosen from the antique store Martinos, and works from ten contemporary artists, where the old is exhibited back-to-back
Alicja Kwade at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Alicja Kwade (*1979, Poland) has in her sculptures—as well as in her installations, photographs and films—long been engaged with different aspects of our value systems and with the issue of abstract concepts such as space and time. The artist lives in Berlin and belongs to a generation of sculptors who have taken up the fundamental
Imi Knoebel at Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
We take pleasure in announcing the opening exhibition in our new premises, devoted to Imi Knoebel (b 1940), probably the internationally best-known German abstract artist. We are showing a series of ten large-scale black-and-white works created in 2009 and 2010 as a contemplative contrast to his previous phase of excessive use of colour. They are
Liam Gillick at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
The exhibition is a development of one component of his 2008 ‘retrospective’ exhibition ‘Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario’. An essential element of his reconsideration of how to formulate a retrospective was the production of new work for the Kunstverein in Munich. The resulting work: ‘Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar’ (2008) takes place in a
David Thorpe at Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
David Thorpe´s visual language outlines antagonisms, expressed formally in the juxtaposition and interpenetration of geometrical and ornamental structures. Using media such as drawing, sculpture, installation and verse, the artist generates spatial situations – sometimes fictive ones – often accentuating the exhibition space as a component of his work with specific architectural elements. In our present
Tatiana Trouvé at Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Kunsthaus Graz is pleased to announce a very first in Austria, the solo exhibition Il Grande Ritratto by one of the leading artists of the younger generation, Tatiana Trouvé (born 1968 in Cosenza, Italy, now living and working in Paris). Awarded the prestigious Prix Ricard (2001) and Prix Marcel Duchamp (2007),Trouvé has participated in numerous
Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki at Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
Press release: Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to announce a presentation of new works by Zon Ito (born 1971) and Ryoko Aoki (born 1973, the couple lives and works in Kyoto). His sensitive embroidery on large scale tapestries and fabric establish Zon Ito as one of the most interesting artists working in Japan. With nervous,