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Arlene Shechet, Equal Time (detail), 2017, Glazed ceramic, paint, hardwood, steel, 53 x 35 x 23 in, © Arlene Shechet, Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle, Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet isknown for her sculptures that defy categotization. Some are figurative, some are architectural, and others resemble melting vessels or growing …

Left: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Henry VIII, from “Portraits”, Commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim, 1999, © Hiroshi Sugimoto. Right: Queen Victoria, 1999, Hiroshi Sugimoto, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery-San Francisco, © Hiroshi Sugimoto

ART CITIES:Brussels-Hiroshi Sugimoto

A multidisciplinary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, sculpture, architecture and installation. A photographer since the ‘70s, his work deals with history …

Haegue Yang, Mountains of Encounter, 2008, Aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, steel wire rope, moving spotlights, floodlights, platform ladder, cable Dimensions variable, Joint acquisition by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst and the Museum Ludwig on the occasion of the 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Installation view, Wessen Geschichte (Whose (His)Story), Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2008, © Haegue Yang, Photo: Fred Dott-Hamburg

ART CITIES:Cologne-Haegue Yang

Traversing a wide range of media, from collage to performance, Haegue Yang’s body of work often features quotidian and domestic found objects …

Roe Ethridge, Slime Turkey, 2018, © Roe Ethridge, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery-New York/Brussels

ART CITIES:Brussels-Roe Ethridge

Roe Ethridge is known for exploring the plastic nature of photography, how pictures can be easily replicated and recombined to create new …

Exhibition View of Torbjørn Rødland-The Touch That Made You, Fondazione Prada

ART CITIES:Milan-Torbjørn Rødland

Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still-lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. Embedded with multiple symbols and …

ART CITIES:Paris-Matthew Porter

Matthew Porter is part of a large group of contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of traditional photographic techniques and blurring the lines …

Left: Carl Einstein, "Ethnologie de l’homme blanc", disposition in the omnibus volume "Manual of History of Art", 1930s, manuscript Akademie der Künste-Berlin, Carl-Einstein-Archiv, No. 222, page 10, Courtesy Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Right: Carl Einstein, theses for "Art Reference Book“, 1930s, flag with sticked fragments on it, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Carl-Einstein-Archiv, No. 244_007, © Akademie der Künste-Berlin, Courtesy Haus der Kulturen der Welt

ART CITIES:Berlin-Neolithic Childhood

The stock market crash and mass unemployment, political polarization, the industrialization of perception, the violence of colonialism: “c. 1930” was a time …

Pedro Barateiro, The Universe in a Cup, 2017, Plaster, cup, rope and basket in metal, acrylic paint and Indian ink, 25,5 X 27,5 X 27,5 cm, View of the Exhibition “Saga”, Galeria Filomena Soares, 2017 , Photo: Francisco Ferreira/ Galeria Filomena Soares, Courtesy of the artist and the Galeria Filomena Soares-Lisbon

ART CITIES:Paris-Talismans

The project “Talismans. The desert between us is only sand”, taking the form of an exhibition at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris, …

Jonas Wood, Hammer Interior, 2016, 18-color letterpress print on Crane Lettra paper, 28.6 × 52.7 cm, Edition of 20 + 10 Aps, © Jonas Wood, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood takes the motifs of interior domestic spaces and landscapes as his subject, using a range of formal techniques to create …

Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1985, Oil on Canvas, 300 x 450 cm, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Per Kirkeby

Per Kirkeby is not only a leading painter, sculptor and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker. Entrenched in the …

Nicole Wermers, Women Between Buildings, Installation View, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2018, Photo: Fred Dott, Courtesy: Kunstverein in Hamburg

ART CITIES:Hamburg-Nicole Wermers

In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and …

Left: Shio Kusaka, (line 55), 2017, Stoneware, 27 x 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches, & (line 67), 2017, Stoneware, 23 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Right: Shio Kusaka, (line 65), 2017, Stoneware, 28 x 19 x 19 inches, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Rome-Shio Kusaka

Growing up in Japan, Shio Kusaka had little interest in art. But her grandmother led traditional tea ceremonies, and those rituals helped …

Left &Right: Jennifer Guidi, The Priestess (Green and Light Green MT, Green Sand SF #1T, Green Ground), 2018 Sand, acrylic and oil on linen 76 x 76 x 76 inches 193 x 193 x 193 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Jennifer Guidi

Developing an absolutely personal technique, through the use of sand on canvas, Jennifer Guidi breaks up the distinction between painting and sculpture, …

Carsten Höller, Elevator Bed, 2010, Steel, electric scissor lift, wooden panels, acrylic panels, operational controls, wiring, various furnishings, mattress, bedding, LED and incandescent light bulbs, Photo: © Attilio Maranzano, Collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Vienna

ART CITIES:Beijing-Carsten Höller

Originally trained as a scientist, Carsten Höller is frequently inspired by research and experiments from scientific history and deploys these studies in …

Johann Lurf, District Wr. Neustadt (Film Still), 2011), Courtesy Frei Raum Q21

ART CITIES:Vienna-Shaping Democracy

The audiovisual exhibition “Shaping Democracy-The Republic in 24 Frames per century” which marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the First …

Left: Markus Amm, Untitled, 2017, Oil on gesso board, 35 x 30 cm, Photo: Annik Wetter, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery-Los Angeles CA. Right: Markus Amm, Untitled, 2017, Oil on gesso board, 50 x 40 cm, Photo: Annik Wetter, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery-Los Angeles CA

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Markus Amm

Markus Amm concentrates on several groups of works at once, alternating between small and large formats, photograms, collages, and oil paintings. At …

Nazgol Ansarinia, The Mechanisms of Growth, Demolishing buildings, buying waste (Detsail), 2017, Plaster, glue, pigment, Variable dimensions , Photo: Rachel Gruijters, Courtesy the artist and Green Art Gallery-Dubai

ART CITIES:Dubai-Nazgol Ansarinia

Nazgol Ansarinia works with different media which include drawings, collages, sculptures, murals and textile works. She uses them to depict daily urban …