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Main staircase of the Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg during renovation by Brenne Architekten, © Holger Herschel

ART CITIES: BERLIN-The Great Repair

Against the backdrop of current ecological and societal crises, the exhibition “The Great Repair” presents over 40 positions from art, architecture and …

Rirkrit Tiravanija. U.F.O. – NAUT JK (Július Koller). Mexico City, 2012. Image courtesy kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. Photo: Michel Zabé & Omar Luis Olguín, 2012

ART CITIES: N.York-Rirkrit Tiravanija

Even though Rirkrit Tiravanija’s diverse artistic production eludes classification, he has accurately described it as “relational”: a body of work focused on …

Frank Stella, Maha-lat, 5.5X, 1978-1979, media mixed on metal relief, 87 3/4 x 111 x 38 1/2 inches (222.9 x 281.9 x 97.8 cm). Photography by Bill Orcutt. © 2023 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ART CITIES: N.York-Frank Stella

Frank Stella has played a major role in the development of American Abstraction during the 20th Century. During his nearly 60-year career, …

Alex Da Corte, The Grimalkin 2023, Digital print on poplin, plexiglass, Flashe paint, sequin pins, foam, velvet, hardware, wood frame, 88¾ × 117⅜ × 3 inches; 225 × 298 × 8 cm, © Alex Da Corte, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte explores the nuances of contemporary life in his videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, which are often united together in …

Sahand Hesamiyan, The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice, 2019, Photo: Francesco Allegretto, © Sahand Hesamiyan, Courtesy the artist and Parasol unit

ART CITIES: Dubai-Sahand Hesamiyan

Sahand Hesamiyan’s versatile practice is informed by a profound understanding of construction techniques, culminating in larger than life metal sculptures and small …

Chen Zhen, Le Produit naturel / Le Produit artificial, 1991 (detail). Metal, Plexiglas, artificial flowers, screen printed mirror, cow dung, 297 x 170 x 55 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska. © ADAGP, Paris

ART CITIES: Paris-Chen Zhen

Chen Zhen’s artistic poetics, which ranged from international politics to a more intimate and personal view of human life, organically integrates the …

Anselm Kiefer, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), 1994–2012, Gelatin silver print with silver toner, in steel frame, 55 ½ × 75 ¼ × 4 inches (141 × 191 × 10 cm), © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: Paris-Anselm Kiefer

Over the past forty years, Kiefer’s practice has developed through the accumulation, mingling and reworking of themes, motifs and constellations which recur …

SoiL Thornton, Choosing Suitor, installation view, Secession 2023, photo: Sophie Pölzl

ART CITIES: Vienna-SoiL Thornton

SoiL Thornton’s works resist categorization along preconceived notions of genre, medium, artistic subjectivity, biography, as well as gendered and racial identity. They …

Emma McIntyre, Queen of the air (detail), 2023, © Emma McIntyre. Courtesy the artist, Château Shatto, Los Angeles, and David Zwirner, New York

ART CITIES: N.York-Emma McIntyre

Some of Emma McIntyre’s works draw you into an illusory space; others are formalist-flat. All her large paintings begin on the floor: …

Cady Noland, Installation view, 2023, Gagosian Gallery-New York, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES: N.York-Cady Noland

In modernity, violence finds expression not only in social action, but also in omnipresent objects, facilities and urban structures. The severity of …

Analia Saban, Folded Concrete (Gate Fold), 2017, Concrete on walnut pallet, 33 x 127 x 94 cm, 13 x 50 x 37 inches, © Analia Saban, courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Analia Saban

Analia Saban works across and between artistic mediums, consistently turning viewers’ expectations of what constitutes a painting or sculpture on its head. …

Tetsuya Ishida, Untitled, 2004, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 17 7/8 × 20 7/8 inches (45.4 × 53 cm), © Tetsuya Ishida Estate, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: N.York-Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …

Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game 10 / Papalote (video still), Balkh, Afghanistan, 2011, Video, colour, sound, Duration 4’13”, © Francis Alÿs, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES: Brussels-Francis Alÿs

Throughout his practice, Francis Alÿs consistently directs his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward anthropological and geopolitical concerns centered around observations of, …

Left: Marina Faust, Queen of hearts, 2022, Pigment print on silk tissue paper on matt paper, 122 x 90 x 3,5 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery Right: Marina Faust, In disposition to remain in comfortable preconceptions, 2019, Pigment print on silk tissue paper on matt paper, 122 x 90 x 3,5 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Marina Faust

Marina Faust began her artistic career as a photo-reporter in Vienna. Her first exhibitions took place at Galerie Agathe Gaillard in Paris …

Han Bing, The apartment, 2022, Acrylic and oil on linen, 143 x 177.8 x 2.5 cm (56.3 x 70 x 0.98 in), © Han Bing, Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Han Bing

Han Bing is recognized for her sensitive yet disruptive visual language in paintings that deconstruct pictorial reality and open up new dimensions. Having …

Mandy El-Sayegh, Net-Grid (Julia Overwritten by Maher), 2021, Oil and mixed media on linen with silkscreened collaged elements, 235 x 225 cm (92.95 x 88.58 in), © Mandy El-Sayegh, Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

ART CITIES: London-Mandy El Sayegh

Mandy El-Sayegh works across diverse media to examine how social, cultural and political orders are formed and deconstructed in the contemporary world. …

Jo Baer, Dusk (Bands and End-Points), 2012, Oil on canvas, © Jo Baer, Courtesy Irish Museum of Moder Art

ART CITIES: Dublin-Jo Baer

In the 1960s and 70s, Jo Baer explored non-objectivity in her black and white hard-edge paintings as part of the New York …

Eske Kath, Around Horizons (light), 2023, acrylic and ink on canvas, 120 x 360 cm, © Eske Kath, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Mikael Andersen

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Eske Kath

Eske Kath investigates the fundamental uncertainty that has become a basic condition for our time where man-made technology radically changes climate and …

Christo, Wrapped Trees (Project for the Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland), 1998, Graphite, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, photograph by Wolfgang Volz, map, fabric sample, and kraft paper, on paper, in 2 parts, Top: 15 x 65 inches (38 x 165 cm), Bottom: 42 x 65 inches (106.6 x 165 cm), © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, Photo: Wolfgang Volz, Courtesy Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and Gagosian

ART CITIES: Basel-Christo

Christo and Jeanne-Claude worked together since their first outdoor temporary work of art: Stacked Oil Barrels and Dockside Packages, Cologne Harbor, Germany, …

Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull, 1963 Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 83 ¼ × 134 ½ inches (211.5 × 341.6 cm), © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

ART CITIES: Paris-Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s work encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and …