Press release: To imagine a city through the logic of capitalist relations you have to look awry. The spatialised arrange-ment of a city’s social order reveals itself as an uneven stratification of territory along antagonistic lines of class, race, gender and minoritised surplus populations. This social assemblage is precipitated by the relent-less need to create
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,
Vivian Greven at Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Press release: For Vivian Greven, the story of Amor and Psyche is the starting point of her new works. It is the ancient tale about a unity destroyed by Psyche‘s desire to recognize the real figure of her lover: her mind demands to see the nature of Amor, for what we see is easier to
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
Daniel Boccato at RIBOT, Milan
Press release: RIBOT gallery is pleased to present fly like an eagle, curated by Domenico de Chirico, the first solo show in Italy of the artist Daniel Boccato (Campinas, Brazil, 1991; he lives and works in New York). A selection of recent wall sculptures from the series “Wall Works”, specifically made for this show, shall
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
B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures, New York
Press release: Coinciding with “Kitchen Trees,” B. Wurtz’s major installation for Public Art Fund at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, “Domestic Space” at Metro Pictures includes new large-scale sculptures and photographic works printed on fabric. While Wurtz is known for his carefully assembled sculptures made from quotidian objects, the works on view here demonstrate
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
Jasmina Cibic at Significant Other, Vienna
Press release: The legal decorator, the Rose Garden as a battlefield and the looming extinction of the Hitler bug. ‘I don’t want you to be surprised when you see that we redecorated.’ says lawyer Johnnie Cochran to his infamous client O.J. Simpson before a scheduled house visit by the jury in a double homicide trial
Kazuo Kadonaga at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Press Release: Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present sculpture by Kazuo Kadonaga, produced in the materials wood, paper, bamboo and glass, between the years 1977 & 1999. Kadonaga, who descends from a forestry family, chose instead to become an artist in the late 1960s. He tried painting at first, but around 1970 Kadonaga eschewed the personal,
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
Andro Wekua at Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Press release: At the center of Andro Wekua’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers is a life-size sculpture made of nickel silver – a silver-like alloy of copper, nickel and zinc – and a group of paintings. The untitled sculpture recalls Wekua’s earlier mannequin figures and continues their subtle formal vocabulary. The androgynous figure appears situated
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
Mark Grotjahn at LACMA, Los Angeles
Press release: Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) has made “Butterfly” compositions since 2002, and the latest to come out of his studio is 50 Kitchens (2013–18), exhibited here for the first time. Conceived as one work, 50 Kitchens takes its inspiration from a single composition (in black and cream-colored pencil) that Grotjahn made