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With the country still in lockdown, three Vienna galleries – Emanuel Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Sophie Tappeiner – came up with a new format for an art fair set in the conference halls of a popular hotel in the Austrian capital.
Installation View “what fruit it bears”, Peres Projects, Berlin; front: Vojtech Kovarik, Laocoon, 2020, Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas, 220 x 200 cm
It was quite a week and weekends in the German-speaking lands, where Munich’s Various Others, Zurich Art Weekend, and Berlin Gallery Weekend all managed to coincide and jointly usher in the start of the season.
A Tale of Romance, 2020 (detail), carpet, glazed ceramics, artificial hair, fabric, wood, light sphere, Carpet: 350 × 200 cm, Sculpture ca. 20 × 130 × 90 cm, Lamp ø 28 cm
Japanese-born, Vienna-based artist, Soshiro Matsubara is digging deep into the sordid past and affairs of Viennese love, loss, and revenge, at a recent show in the City of Music where heads were taken off, and Freud was keeping close watch.
What did you get for Valentine’s Day? Some New Yorkers were treated to a unique blend of sexual energy and frustration in Irena Haiduk’s “Cabaret Économique”, performed at the Swiss Institute, New York.
Kristian Vistrup Madsen reviews “Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente” (Deserted. Something that happened may happen again) and braves the desert landscape of fiction and memory, finding it remarkably fertile
Jeppe Ugelvig reviews the duo’s latest multimedia-installation ”Whether Line”. Produced in rural Ohio, the ambitious project explores post-Trump American folklore through their neurotic and bewildering lens.
The second edition of Zurich Art Weekend provided some foreplay ahead of Art Basel. Alex Scrimgeour runs us through Zurich's standout shows, where he spotted painted angels, art games, vagina dentatas, and Don Quixote's horse.
A cartography of the Thailand's capital's art scene, five years after its last military coup, and just before the country's first elections in eight years. By Abhijan Toto
Julien Bismuth everything has a face and every face has its thing (2019)
Makeup, installation gesture*, inkjet print
29.7 x 27.9 cm
*Four fingers of the same hand, held to match the placement of the artist’s eyes, nose, and mouth, colored with blue makeup, and pressed against a surface in the room. The work can be installed by the artist or someone else. The fingerprints can vary, but the proportions must stay the same.
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Emanuel Layr Vienna/Rome; Photo: Maximilian Anelli-Monti
An interview with the artist as he puts the finishing touches to his solo exhibition ”Stücke”, opening at Galerie Emanuel Layr in Vienna on 25 January, 2019
Maurizio Cattelan talks to Rita Vitorelli about "The Artist is Present", an exhibition he curated in collaboration with Gucci's Alessandro Michele at Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Federica Bueti on how this year's Berlin Biennale sidesteps the normative force of refusal to open up different sets of questions and engagements with art.
An interview with Asad Raza, D. Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven about their experimental project Schema for a school which was part of the show A Prelude to the Shed in New York.
An interview with the artist as she puts the finishing touches to her solo exhibition "THEMOVE", opening at Galerie Emanuel Layr in Vienna on 14 May, 2018
A pioneer in uniting the avant garde of art with fashion, Elsa Schiaparelli created The Tears Dress with Salvador Dalí in 1938. The celebrated dress offered a violent, inventive glamour that foretold the horrors to come. By Ella Plevin
Copenhagen is more then just streamlined design, noma and beautiful people. The city's art scene deserves some close-up attention. A roundup by Janus Høm
Leila Peacock, The Fourth Wall in a Fugue State, 2016, with Levan Chogoshvili and Tobias Spichtig, and Marc Hunziker & Chantal Kaufmann & Rafal Skoczek (UP STATE), No trees in the forest, 2016
Camille Henrot, Buffalo Head: A Democratic Storytelling Experience performed by Amira Ghazalla with the participation of Jacob Bromberg, David Horvitz, Maria Loboda and Milovan Farronato. Adapted from Italo Calvino’s folktale of the same name Photo: Giovanna Silva Courtesy Fiorucci Art Trust, London
Mural by Camille Henrot Installation view "I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong" Photo: Giovanna Silva Courtesy Fiorucci Art Trust, London
Walter Sutin, Augury, 2015 Pen and Ink, 37 x 28 cm Installation view "I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong" Photo: Giovanna Silva Courtesy Fiorucci Art Trust, London
Korakrit Arunanondchai / Alex-Gvojic, There's a world I'm trying to remember, for a feeling I'm about to have (a distractedpath towardextinction), 2016 /Blue-Star sightseeing boat
Korakrit Arunanondchai / Alex-Gvojic, There's a world I'm trying to remember, for a feeling I'm about to have (a distractedpath towardextinction), 2016 /Blue-Star sightseeing boat
Korakrit Arunanondchai / Alex-Gvojic, There's a world I'm trying to remember, for a feeling I'm about to have (a distractedpath towardextinction), 2016 /Blue-Star sightseeing boat
Jon Rafman, Bitsa Park (Bitsevski Park) Moscow, Russia, 2010 Archival pigment print on alu dibond, framed Courtesy of the artist and Future Gallery, Berlin
Emma Charles, Fragments on Machines, Production still, 2013
Laura Poitras, ANARCHIST: Power Spectrum Display of Doppler Tracks from a Satellite(Intercepted May 27, 2009), 2016. Pigmented inkjet print on aluminum, 45" x 64-3/4" (114.3 x 164.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Poitras, ANARCHIST: Israeli Drone Feed (Intercepted February 24, 2009), 2016. Pigmented inkjet print on aluminum, 45" x 64-3/4" (114.3 x 164.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Still. Laura Poitras, O’Say Can You See, 2001/2016. Two-channel digital video, color, sound. Courtesy of the artist.
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN Exhibition view of In Anticipation of Women’s History Month at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, 2016 Photo credit: Gunnar Meier Photography
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN Exhibition view of In Anticipation of Women’s History Month at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, 2016 Photo credit: Gunnar Meier Photography
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN Exhibition view of In Anticipation of Women’s History Month at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, 2016 Photo credit: Gunnar Meier Photography
Installation View: Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club", Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski
Adriana Lara Interesting Theory #35, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski
Adriana Lara Interesting Theory #17, 2014 wool hand woven Berber carpets 210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski
Venice Biennale; Susan Philipz, Theseustempel, Vienna; “The Symptom of Art”, Cabinet, London; Cory Arcangel, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich; Cyprien Gaillard, Sprueth Magers, Berlin; and much more
WADE GUYTON & STEPHEN PRINA "Wade Guyton“, Untitled 2011; Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen / Stephen Prina, PUSH COMES TO LOVE, "Untitled, 1999 - 2011, 2011“; Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen and acrylic enamel on linen;
"Jardin d'Hiver", 1974; Detail of Jardin d’Hiver, six photographic enlargements of 19th century, English engravings of 81 x 124.5 cm (each); Copyright Estate Marcel Broodthaers
Foto: Stephan Wyckoff: Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Obere Halle, Ausstellungsarchitektur: Johannes Porsch
Foto: Stephan Wyckoff: Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Obere Halle, Ausstellungsarchitektur: Johannes Porsch
Foto: Stephan Wyckoff: Tina Lechner, Ohne Titel, 2015, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien; Paul Leitner, the traveler #3, 2015, Courtesy der Künstler und unttld contemporary, Wien; Maruša Sagadin, Hand (die B.I.G.), 2014, Courtesy die Künstlerin
Josef Strau at Vilma Gold in London; Miriam Cahn at Meyer Riegger in Karlsruhe; Ed Atkins at the Kunsthalle Zürich; Tatiana Trouvé at the Schinkelpavillon in Berlin; »LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2« at nGbK in Berlin; Francesca Woodman at the Sammlung Verbund in Wien; and much more
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