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Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean 1996, (still) two-channel video installation with sound, colour: projectors, players, sound system, paint, carpet, sound by Anders Guggisberg and Pipilotti Rist after Wicked Game (1989) by Chris Isaak, Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine © the artist

ART CITIES:Sydney-Pipilotti Rist

As one of the first generation of artists to grow up with televisions in their living rooms, Rist’s work references the history …

Ugo Rondinone, Installation view of “good evening beautiful blue” at The Bass Museum of Art-Miami

ART CITIES:Miami-Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone works in mixed-media installations that include sculpture, painting, video, sound, and photography. His wide-ranging practice utilizes metaphoric and iconographic images …

Alex Hubbard, Interior I (Video Still), 2017, Video with sound, Edition of 5, 4:36 min, Galerie Eva Presenhuber Archive

ART CITIES:Zurich-Alex Hubbard

Alex Hubbard’s work is investigates the boundaries between video art and painting, exploring each via a cross-examination that invigorates both media in …

Bill Viola, Ascension, 2000, Color video projection, stereo sound, Performer: Josh Coxx, Photo: Kira Perov, Courtesy of Bill Viola Studio

ART CITIES:Montreal-Bill Viola

Bill Viola, in one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the ‘70s employing video art and sound technologies. …

Thomas Hirschhorn, Pixel-Collage n°97, Prints, plastic sheet, tape, 28x44cm, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery-New York, Photo: Romain Lopez

ART CITIES:N.York-Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn is an artist known for his sprawling works that transform traditional white cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of …

Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits, 1973-76. Crayon on paper, rope, harness, 16mm film projector, video (color, sound; 29 min.), and six monitors, Dimensions variable, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Committee on Drawings Funds and Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds, 2012, © 2015 Courtesy of Carolee Schneemann and PPOW Gallery-NY, Digital image © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art-New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar

ART CITIES:N.York-Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann’s first major work, “Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions” (1963), posed a question that the artist would continue to explore throughout …

Gilbert & George, BEARD MERRY, 2016, 190 x 302 cm, © Gilbert & George, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Paris-Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George (Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore), have long since been acknowledged icons of Contemporary Art. In 1967 they met as …

Rita McBride, Particulates (schematic), 2017, Dia Art Foundation Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Rita McBride

Rita McBride works with the language of sculpture, employing the vocabularies of architecture and design. Her cross-disciplinary practice also encompasses collaborative publications, …

Anri Sala, The Last Resort, 2017, Photo: Peter Greig, Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive

ART CITIES:Melbourne-Anri Sala

Anri Sala’s works of film, sculpture and installation create poetic analogies that reflect on life and culture from different frames of experience. …

Left: Claire Morgan, Time of Death (study), 2017, Pencil and watercolor on paper, 38,1 x 28 cm, Photo: Claire Morgan Studio, © Claire Morgan Studio, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln/Paris/St. Moritz. Right: Claire Morgan, To an End, 2017, Blackbird, (taxidermy), wood, polythene, nylon in vitrine, 108,5 x 56,7 x 56,7 cm, © Claire Morgan Studio, Photo: Claire Morgan Studio, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln/Paris/St. Moritz

ART CITIES:Paris-Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan’s fragile hanging installations reflect her interest in natural processes and organic materials. In her works, the artist engages with the …

Gilbert & George, BEARD CODE, 2016, Mixed media, 254 x 452 cm, © Gilbert & George, Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin New York/Hong Kong

ART CITIES:N.York-Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George (Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore), have long since been acknowledged icons of Contemporary Art. In 1967 they met as …

Claes Oldenburg, Shelf Life Number 6, 2016-17, © 2017 Claes Oldenburg. Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Claes Oldenburg

Working in collaboration since 1976, husband and wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen redefined the nature of outdoor sculpture in …

Left: Doug Ashford, Next Day Page A21, 2015 -16, archival inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright paper, image: 22 x 13 1/4 inches; sheet: 37 x 23 inches, overall: framed 37 1/2 x 23 inches, Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz-Rotterdam. Right: Doug Ashford, Next Day Page A24, 2015 -16, archival inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright paper, image: 22 x 13 1/4 inches; sheet: 37 x 23 inches, overall: framed 37 1/2 x 23 inches, Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz-Rotterdam

ART CITIES:Cleveland-A Poet*hical Wager

Timed with the 5th anniversary of MOCA Cleveland’s, the exhibition “A Poet*hical Wager” explores the ethical dimension of works that use abstraction, …

Harun Farocki / Antje Ehmann, Feasting or Flying (Video Still), (2008), © Harun Farocki / Antje Ehmann 2008, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki is one of the most important and influential filmmakers, an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. …

Cheryl Donegan

ART CITIES:Zurich-Cheryl Donegan

Cheryl Donegan’s work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing and installation. Direct, irreverent, …

Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance) Storyboard, 2013, courtesy David Zwirner-New York/London

ART CITIES:Madrid-Marcel Dzama

The work of Marcel Dzama is characterised by an immediately recognisable visual language that stems from a wide spectrum of references and …

Andres Serrano, Octopus Head (Early Works), 1985, © Andres Serrano, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Bruxelles

ART CITIES:Paris-Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …

Yannis Vassalos, Urban (8), Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Athens-Yannis Vassalos

Vanitas was a fairly niche art movement that began in the early 17th Century, later spreading across greater Northern Europe and seeping …

Gino De Dominicis, Senza Titolo (Detail), 1986, Tempera and chalk on panel, 129 x 105 cm, © Estate of the artist / Archivio Gino De Dominicis-Foligno Italy, DACS 2017

ART CITIES:London-Gino De Dominicis

Gino De Dominicis worked in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, film, and installation. He was obsessed with immortality and invisibility, …

Katharina Grosse, Asphalt Air and Hair, 2017 ARoS Triennial THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Time. The Garden – The Future, Aarhus, Denmark. © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Studio Grosse

ART CITIES:London-Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse is known for the vibrant palette and exuberant gestures of her large-scale canvases and raucous installations that merge painting, sculpture, …