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Manny Krakowski, Untitled (True North), 2016, Edward Cella Art & Architecture Archive

ART CITIES:L.A.- Manny Krakowski

Growing up near Los Angeles, Manny Krakowski had observed phenomena such consumerism, industry and advertising that supports it. His relationship with daily …

Katharina Fritsch, Postkarte (Essen), 2005, Photo: Ivo Faber, © VG Bild Kunst-Bonn 2016

ART CITIES:Essen-Katharina Fritsch

Katharina Fritsch vividly unites the personal and the collective. Her works oscillate between melancholy, light-heartedness and escapism, and between illusion and sublimation. …

Amanda Crary, Setting the Table with the Sun II, 2016, A.I.R. Gallery Archive

ART CITIES: N.York- From the Fringe

After their 2016 University of North Carolina Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at Weatherspoon Art Museum, 7 women artists, present their …

Martin Creed, Work No140 Revisited (Christmas), Collection of Matthew Higgs, Photo: Ben Westoby

ART CITIES:London-Imprint 93

Matthew Higgs is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher, strongly influenced by the tradition of text-based Conceptual Art, he depended consistently …

Tamar Ettun, Exhibition View, Uppsala Art Museum Archive

ART CITIES:Uppsala -Tamar Ettun

As a performance artist, trained as a sculptor, Tamar Ettun’s artistic practice incorporates both movement and stillness. The duality has a symbolical …

Amar Kanwar, The Sovereign Forest, Installation view at Documenta 13, Photo: Henrik Stromberg

ART CITIES:Singapore -Amar Kanwar

Amar Kanwar has distinguished himself through films and multi-media works, which explore the politics of power, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations …

Jill Kroesen, The Original Lou and Walter Story, The Kitchen, 1978 Photo: Robert Alexander

ART CITIES:N.York-Jill Kroesen

Jill Kroesen was an essential figure in the ‘70s New York, working at the intersection of experimental music and then-emerging Performance art. …

Katinka Theis, Resonating of space, 2016, © Katinka Theis, Scotty Enterprises

ART CITIES:Berlin-Katinka Theis

An artist with a relentlessly “constructionalistic impulse” Katinka Theis works in the space between sculpture and architecture. Transforming structures from the world …

Gildas Coudrais, Let's talk about materiality, 2016, 68projects Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Gildas Coudrais

Gildas Coudrais experiments with the most different pictures that spring from media, advertisement, family albums as well as from examples of the …

Kimsooja, from Bottari series, MMCA Korea

ART CITIES:Seoul-Kimsooja

Kimsooja has approached women’s labor of sewing from a different angle and expanded it to a larger context of society. She refuses …

Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 2004, © Jannis Kounellis, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Jannis Kounellis

Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …

Keith Sonnier, Ba-O-Ba VI, 1970, Courtesy the Artist and Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich, © Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich Photo: Wolfgang Stahl

ART CITIES:London- Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier reinvented sculpture in the late ‘60s. Employing unusual materials that had never before been used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries, …

ART CITIES:Vienna-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby works in a wide range of mediums, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures, to large-scale spray-painted canvases, nail …

Alex Katz, North 1, 2015, © Alex Katz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Alex Katz long before the protagonists of Pop Art, such as Andy Warhol, adopted the principle of serialism, and influenced an entire …

Atsushi Saga, inside/002, 2016, Photo:Taku SAIKI, Courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Atsushi Saga

Atsushi Saga’s painted surfaces have such a perfect finish that they could be mistaken for manufactured products. Their sheen enables the viewer …

Adriano Costa, TheKingOfAllTacos (Detail), 2016, Photo: Lee Thompson, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery-Los Angeles

ART CITIES:L.A.-Adriano Costa

Like many other countries, in the eyes of a foreigner Brazil might seem to be a destination of nonstop sunshine, sex, and …

Molly Soda, County Fair, 2016, Annka Kultys Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:London -ZERO ZERO

Exploring reality and virtual space, the group exhibition “ZERO ZERO”, presents works by artists who employ both traditional materials and/or digital media …

Damián Ortega Abrasive Objects (detail), 2016, Courtesy of the artist’s studio, Photo: Gerardo Landa Rojano

ART CITIES:Edinburgh-Damián Ortega

Through the use of wit and humor, Damián Ortega deconstructs both familiar objects and processes, altering their functions and transforming them into …

ART CITIES:Moscow-Symbol

Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is a large-scale project realized on the Moscow art scene. The aims of the Biennale are …