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
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Joseph Tasnádi at Horizont Gallery, Budapest
Press release: Wellness – Fitness – Bedness – Sleepyness – Nothingness – Artness When… … moving is not in itself interesting but together with its consequences. … time thickens into the space. … fiction materializes into reality. … vision settles as fact. … the dream sharpens into objectivity. … resignation masks itself as self-irony. When
Francesco Arena at NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Press release: The notion of history as a chain of events that make up the past, capable of being isolated and arranged in a historical narrative, fails to contemplate the movement of time of the historical process. Francesco Arena’s research is centred around ways of thinking about temporality, by revealing irruptions in the course of
Carl Mannov at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
Press release: Sofa. Ponder that thing. A source for many a heated argument in the middleclass household. I have an old IKEA Karlstad sofa-bed myself. A sun-bleached charcoal cotton-thing—very uncomfortable. Carl Mannov once compared being seated in it to being slumped on a wooden bench. I got the sofa for free online four years ago.
Tobias Hoffknecht at A+B, Brescia
Press release: A+B presents the new solo show by Tobias Hoffkencht, German artist born in 1987 in Bochum; he graduated in Dusseldorf, where he currently lives and works. On Saturday the 6th of October opens his first personal show at the gallery, where there will be presented three original sculptures designed and created to perceptively
Jiří Kovanda at Black Cube, Denver
Press release: Kovanda will fly from Prague to Denver in September with only materials and no sense of the exhibition’s physical location August 27, 2018 – Denver, CO – Jiří Kovanda, an internationally recognized performance artist, is heading from Prague to Denver next month for his first American exhibition outside of New York City. But,
Rachel Adams at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Press release: Working within creative, menial, domestic and administrative labour Rachel Adams’s installation, with iterations in Glasgow and Sheffield, considers the linked systems that govern both the natural and manmade world and the possibilities where the two intersect. We are surrounded by incomprehensible systems, that detail not only the current shifts in society and technology,
Charlotte Mumm at Art Foundation Erich Hauser, Rottweil
Press release: The Kunststiftung Erich Hauser was established in 1996. A major emphasis of the Art Foundation is the biennial Werkstattpreis. An art prize for young sculptors to support them in their work and career. This year the jury chose Charlotte Mumm out of a total of 19 sculptors who were proposed by various museum
SAGG NAPOLI / E COS FAVZ S’APPICN at Polignano a Mare (Italy)
Press release: “When Naples was one of the most illustrious capitals in Europe, one of the greatest cities in the world, it contained a bit of everything. It contained a bit of London, a bit of Paris, a bit of Madrid, a bit of Vienna – it was a microcosm of Europe. Now that it
Michael E. Smith at Atlantis, Marseille
Press release: Lately I have been thinking a lot about the future, its erstwhile role in the avant-garde, and its more or less complete absence from contemporary art discourse. Who really imagines the future anymore? Or tries to? Is it even possible? What, in the anthropocene, is conceivable at this point? Maybe only forms of
Ian Waelder at Centro Párraga, Murcia
Press release: We tend to think of cities as more or less ordered compositions of buildings, roads, streets, squares, bridges, tunnels, roundabouts and parks. The last of these seem to tell us that the traditional division between culture and nature has been another of our many epistemological fictions. The other elements, in contrast, help us
Julia Scher at DREI, Cologne
Press release: One night an Alexa owner was woken at 3 am realising the device was talking to itself about an unknown person called David. Supposedly, Alexa was turned off and later showed no recording of a prompt that was set earlier that night. Assuming reddit users tell the truth, the person was understandably creeped
BB5000 at Horizont Gallery, Budapest
Press release: Horizont Gallery is pleased to announce BB5000: “Campari”, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by the Italian artist group, curated by Domenico de Chirico. « Futurists had a clear and sharp understanding that our age, the big industrial age, the age of the working metropolis, this intense and tumultuous life had to
Jan S. Hansen at Overgaden, Copenhagen
Press release: In his first major Copenhagen solo exhibition Jan S. Hansen presents a series of new works addressing the individual and collective aspects of the contemporary human condition. How we are formed and act as individuals in society is a recurrent theme of Jan S. Hansen’s art. Using a broad range of media, he
Mariana Silva at fluent, Santander
Press release: fluent is pleased to present For More information, Mariana Silva’s first solo exhibition in Spain. The installation is the outcome of a two-week writing residency focused on the textual basis of Silva’s ongoing projectFriends of Interpretable Objects (2013 – …). For this specific iteration of the project, the artist proposes a reading room
Isabel Legate at And Now, Dallas
Press release: 1: Center moves south 2: A bright white sense of annihilation whose blinding, milky brilliance is enough to make the want dissolve 3: Warm red nodule sets along the iris 4: The excess of the eye becomes void 5: Buttergush 6: Rolling in and fuzzing out Artist: Isabel Legate Venue: And Now, Dallas
Felix Treadwell at L21 Gallery, Mallorca
Press release: L21 is happy to present the exhibition “Dark Age” by Felix Treadwell (Buxted, UK, 1992). The world seems familiar, yet sinister somehow. For here, it is always dark, while the constant wind is harsh and cold. The only protection is their blue puffa jacket. They stand still isolated, waiting for something we do