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Hotel Sahara, exhibition view, Magasins généraux-Pqntin, 2021, Courtesy the artists and Magasins généraux

ART CITIES:Paris-Hotel Sahara

Magasins généraux presents its third summer cultural season, which explores and questions the imaginaries surrounding the Sahara not only from Europe but …

laudia Comte, After Nature, exhibition view, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza-Madrid, Courtesy the artist and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

ART CITIES:Madrid-Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte has long since developed from a shooting star of the Swiss art scene into an internationally sought-after artist. Claudia Comte …

ART CITIES:N.York-Arcmanoro Niles

Arcmanoro Niles makes vivid, brightly-hued paintings that expand our understanding of traditional genre painting and portraiture. Niles offers a window into seemingly …

ART CITIES:Kassel-Martine Syms

Syms has emerged in recent years as one of the central and defining figures in the younger, international discourse on art and …

Ryoji Ikeda, exhibition view, 180 The Strand-London, 2021, Courtesy the artist and 180 The Strand

ART CITIES:London-Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda’s innovative work explores the essential characteristics of sound and light by means of mathematical precision and aesthetics. The artist engages …

Isaac Chong Wai, When are we wrong? When are we right?, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 63 × 47 1/5 in (160 × 120 cm) each, © Isaac Chong Wai, Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery

ART CITIES:Berlin-Recurrence 2

While the first edition in the “Recurrence” series of exhibitions focused on the reappearance of a 19th Century theme, namely the tension …

Yukinori Yanagi , Article 9, 1994, Neon, plastic box, print on transparency sheet and acrylic frame, Installed dimensions variable, Photo: Jenalee Harmon © Yukinori Yanagi, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Yukinori Yanagi

Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …

Lizania Cruz, ¡Se Buscan Testigos! 9Looking for Witnesses!), Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021. Documentation of happening, dimensions variable. Photo: Neha Gautam, © Lizania Cruz, Courtesy the artist and CUE Art Foundation

ART CITIES:N.York-Lizania Cruz

Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how migration affects ways of being & belonging. Through research, oral …

Marc Padeu, Nuit étoilée, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 280 cm (79 x 110 in), © Marc Padeu, Courtesy the artist and Peres Projects

ART CITIES:Berlin-Marc Padeu

Marc Padeu’s work questions the memory of the past and the relation to the spiritual in current African societies. He admits to …

Robert Smithson, Shift, 1967, Painted metal, 23 x 30 x 32 in. (58.4 x 76.2 x 81.3 cm), Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Smithson

For over fifty years Robert Smithson’s work and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has …

Pia Camil

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Pia Camil

Pia Camil draws inspiration from the urban landscapes of Latin America, engaging with the history of modernism to create paintings, sculptures, performances, …

Michael Flirim, My private fog II, 2017, Color photograph, 83 x 123 cm framed Photo: Rafael Kroetz, © Michael Flirim, Courtesy the artist, Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid and Galleria Raffaella Cortese

ART CITIES:Madrid-Michael Fliri

Subtle and nuanced, the art of Michael Fliri exists on the thresholds between performance, sculpture, photography and video. In his practice, which …

Left: Jean-Michel Alberola, Elisabeth II (Bleu), 41 × 33 × 2 × cm /16 1/8 × 13 × 6/8 × in. (unframed), 45 × 37 × 4 × cm / 17 5/7 × 14 4/7 × 1 4/7 × in. (framed), © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon Center: Jean-Michel Alberola, Fragment du royaume d'ici 1, 28 × 16 × 7,5 × cm / 11 × 6 2/8 × 3 × in. Painted wood gilded with fine gold, © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon Right: Jean-Michel Alberola, Elisabeth II (rose), 35 × 27 × 2 × cm / 13 6/8 × 10 5/8 × 6/8 × in. (unframed), 39 × 31,5 × 4,5 × cm / 15 3/8 × 12 2/5 × 1 3/4 × in. (framed), Oil on canvas, © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon

ART CITIES:Paris-Jean Michel Alberola

During his thirty-year career Jean-Michel Alberola has produced a protean body of work that straddles figurative, abstract and conceptual art. Gouaches, sculptures, …

Bijlmerbajes" by Tiemen Rapati, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. Design by Bassem Saad.

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Formation Camp

de Appel presents the final outcomes of the 2020/2021 Curatorial Programme whose participants arrived in Amsterdam during a time of social transformation. …

Damien Hirst, Five Friends, 2018 Carrara marble, in 5 parts, Mickey: 30 ⅝ × 17 ½ × 17 ¼ inches (77.8 × 44.3 × 43.9 cm), Minnie: 31 ½ × 16 ⅝ × 17 ¼ inches (79.8 × 42.1 × 43.8 cm), Donald: 29 ¾ × 20 ⅜ × 17 ¾ inches (75.6 × 51.8 × 45.1 cm), Pluto: 30 ½ × 21 ½ × 23 inches (77.4 × 54.5 × 58.2 cm), Goofy: 49 ⅜ × 16 ¼ × 24 ½ inches (125.2 × 41.1 × 62.1 cm), edition of 3 + 2 AP, © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photo: Lucio Ghilardi/Prudence Cuming Associates

ART CITIES:Rome-Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst’s wide-ranging practice includes installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Consistently challenging the boundaries between art, science and religion, his visceral, visually …

Larry Poons, Ash Nobody, 2020, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 198.8 x 300.4 cm / 78 1/4 x 118 1/4 in, © Larry Poons, courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Larry Poons

Larry Poons has been at the forefront of Abstract American painting since the beginning of his career in the 1960s. Having moved …

Leiko Ikemura, Colors in Motion, exhibition view Galerie Peter Kilchmann- Zurich, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann

ART CITIES:Zurich-Leiko Ikemura

Since the beginning of her artistic career, Leiko Ikemura’s work has been closely interwoven with her personal journey and the various stations …

Claudio Parmiggiani, Senza Titolo, 2021, Smoke and soot on board, 150 x 200 cm / 59 1/8 x 78 3/4 in., © Claudio Parmiggiani,, Courtesy of Simon Lee Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Claudio Parmiggiani

The work of Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani is concerned with themes of absence, the inevitable passage of time, fragmentation and silence. Over …

Left: Jessica Stockholder, Kathmandu Residency Paper Wall Work 02, 2019, Hand-made Nepali lokta paper, found material, 97,8 x 62,5 x 4,2 cm / 38 1/2 x 24 19/32 x 1 21/32 in, © Jessica Stockholder, courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Right: Jessica Stockholder, Kathmandu Residency Paper Wall Work 03, 2019, Hand-made Nepali lokta paper, found material, 97,8 x 62,5 x 4,2 cm / 38 1/2 x 24 19/32 x 1 21/32 in, © Jessica Stockholder, courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Jessica Stockholder

Although extremely “situated” and unpublished, this work fits easily into the practice of Jessica Stockholder, considered since the 1980s as one of …