Press Release: To celebrate the centennial of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, The Arts Club of Chicago welcomes an exhibition by acclaimed Slovak artist Roman Ondak. Known for a conceptual oeuvre that draws on both participatory and object-based processes, Ondak interrogates the peculiarities of daily life in a post-Soviet and increasingly global context. For The Arts Club,
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“Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms” at Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Press release: Ex Situ is an international group exhibition with artists and works addressing the constantly changing conditions of forms of life on planet Earth. At a time of accelerating transformations in global ecosystems, humans and other animals leave and lose their natural habitat. The exhibition reflects the unruly state of migrating species trying to
Martin Soto Climent at Atlantis, Marseille
Press Release: Atlantis is proud to inaugurate its new space with a solo exhibition by the Mexico City-based, Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent. For his exhibition at Alantis, Soto Climent presents an extensive selection of new work, which is comprised of photographs, objects, sculptural installations and a video. Known for his irreverent reverence and sensual
David Ostrowski – Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona
Press release The Blueproject Foundation presents “Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch”, the first personal exhibition of the artist David Ostrowski in Spain that can be seen in the Sala Project from July 14th to October 1st, 2017. The exhibition allows the visitors to discover the pictorial work of the artist, presenting a selection
Abbas Akhavan at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Press release: Abbas Akhavan will present a major solo show at the Museum Villa Stuck, combining older works with pieces created especially for this exhibition. This show, comprising of mostly sculptures and installations, explores issues related to destruction, marginalization as well as acts of preservation and regeneration in the shifting and repurposed spaces of the
“Ungestalt” at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Press release: Ungestalt brings together a subjective ensemble of newly commissioned and existing pieces of drawing, photography, sculpture, textile, and video by fifteen artists and one artistic duo, each of whom has responded to their moment with works characterized by a tantalizing, yet unnerving, volatility. In its amorphous excess, the show also poses the question:
“Social Geometrism” at Reinbeckhallen Foundation-Collection of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Press release: 2017 is a landmark year for Kunst am Spreeknie as it celebrates the 10th anniversary, a decade studying art and artists working on the southeastern banks of the river Spree. The Art festival contains a story which underlines the ability of the artistic community of Schoeneweide to organize, evolve, claim space, overcome bureaucratic
Adrian Piper at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Press release: The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin presents Adrian Piper’s first solo exhibition in a German museum. The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3 features her same-titled major work recently acquired for the collection of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The work consists of three identical,
Philippe Parreno at Serralves, Porto
Press Release: The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents A Time Coloured Space, a major exhibition by French artist Philippe Parreno, his first in Portugal. Curated by the Director of the Museum, Suzanne Cotter, the exhibition will span all thirteen rooms of the Museum, across two floors, and extending to the Museum’s Auditorium. A Time Coloured
Anne Imhof at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Press Release: Anne Imhof (b. 1978), recent winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015 for young artists, presents an audacious new commission that combines her interests in performance, painting, and installation with a live element that will extend over the duration of the exhibition. Here, Imhof presents the first act of an “opera” of sorts
Philippe Parreno at Park Avenue Armory, New York
Press Release: In the past two decades, Philippe Parreno has almost single-handedly reshaped the very notion of what it means to experience art by turning the dynamics of a show into an evolving, situational process, exploring its possibilities as a singular, coherent object rather than as a collection of individual works. In his largest installation
Philippe Parreno at Pilar Corrias, London
Press Release: Pilar Corrias presents With a Rhythmic Instinction to be Able to Travel Beyond Existing Forces of Life, Philippe Parreno’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Comprising new works, drawings, automatons, and an animation, the show is Parreno’s first in the UK since his 2010 solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. The exhibition centres
“Fearful Symmetry” at Balice Hertling, New York
“Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” – William Blake, “The Tyger” In art and architecture symmetry designates the beauty characterized by proportion or harmony. But in mathematics, symmetry means something else. In this field, anything that preserves its
Michelangelo Pistoletto at Continua, Le Moulin
After the resounding success of Year 1: Earthly Paradise, a retrospective at the Louvre featuring historic works of Arte Povera, GALLERIA CONTINUA is pleased to welcome Michelangelo Pistoletto and his 100 mostre nel mese di ottobre, 1976 (« 100 exhibitions in the month of October 1976 »). This exhibition springs from a text of the
Michael E. Smith at Clifton Benevento, New York
Typically mysterious, the prompt I receive, entitled ‘Inspiration’ to write the press release for Michael E. Smith’s second show at Clifton Benevento gallery is puzzling to say the least. The terse content of the email is: “skull chips and laptops”, which either illustrates or is illustrated by an iPhone quality image of a couple of
Tom Burr at Bortolami, New York
Bortolami is pleased to present “Dressage”, six contingent sculptures that together form a parallel to the six levels of training of Classical Dressage. These stages are loosely translated from German as Rhythm and Regularity; Relaxation and Suppleness; Contact; Impulsion; Straightness; Collection. Dressage continues Burr’s overarching interest in structures and performances that control, discipline and contain
Philippe Parreno at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Philippe Parreno, one of the most original figures of the international art world, has radically transformed the monumental space of the Palais de Tokyo. In response to its carte blancheinvitation, Parreno has devised an exhibition driven by his dialogue with architecture and with the notion of the exhibition as a medium in its own right. ANYWHERE,