Press release: The Eduardo Secci Gallery Project is pleased to inaugurate the artistic direction by Luca Pozzi and his itinerant platform SWAN STATION with the personal show featuring the works by Michele Gabriele titled “The Missing Link. On Every Point of a Sphere.” Michele Gabriele works in time, with time, and for time. He leads
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Alicja Kwade at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Press release: The exhibition title Out of Ousia sets the tone for the emerging contemporary artist Alicja Kwade’s (b. 1979) first institutional solo exhibition in Denmark: With her poetic minimalism and powerful sculptures, the Polish-born artist has created an exhibition that questions science and social conventions. A vase created by the dust from a blended
Colin Penno & Raul Diaz Reyes at Osnova Gallery, Moscow
Press release: Etymological meaning of the word «Dapple» is «differing in color». Thus we should focus on the dialectic of the infinite visual work. What makes dapple a dapple is not a dapple itself, but it’s distinction from what surrounds it. From this point of view, art gesture (only exists as a result of other
Jaume Plensa at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
Press release: Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. Literature, psychology, biology, language and history become strategic tools in the creation of his work, and, through a broad spectrum of materials — steel,
“Every Breath You Take” at Umberto di Marino, Naples
Press release: Umberto Di Marino Gallery is pleased to present Every breath you take, a group show with Eva Papamargariti, Giulio Scalisi and The Cool Couple curated by Alberta Romano. Every breath you take wants to build a path through the various forms that the manipulation of our surrounding can take. The works of Giulio
Mike Kelley at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco
Press release: The 500 Capp Street Foundation is proud to present one of the most influential artists of our time: Mike Kelley (1954–2012). The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street is a body in question, the former home cum museum of late Bay Area conceptualist David Ireland. 500 Capp Street is an architectural body
Marlon de Azambuja at Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan
Press release: Medio Cuerpo (Half Body) is a project that focuses on fascination with architecture and our ability to experience it physically. Various forms and levels of interpreting space are merging with each other, forming one whole. Rigid architectural divisions, soft organic forms, imagined architecture, light, consciousness… We are invited to gradually experience various forms,
Keith J Varadi at Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland
Capitalism stole my ass, and now I’m breathless in the buzz bin. A gap to fold; a banana to peel. Keep the body in sync. As you know, a lifetime of slip-ups will leave you sneezing on powder like a newborn son of a bitch. Christ is currently out of the office, auto-replying lures to
Life Sport at Point Chaud, Lausanne
Press release: Since 2015, the art space Life Sport in Athens has been organizing exhibitions and events that are funded through selling sweatpants editions and sweatpants collections. The sweatpants are home-made and locally produced. Life Sport is therefore as much a sportswear brand as an artist collective; an exhibition space as a shop; a relaxed
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
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,
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
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,
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
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