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VIDEO: Reinier De Graaf-Architects Shouldn’t Preach

“I had a perverse fascination for the urban. And it persists until today.” Meet one of the most prolific and outspoken architects …

Photo left: Maud Gourdon, Peinée l'eau peut - Installation, © Maud Gourdon, Courtesy the artist and HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts). Photo right: Jim Campers, Siloman, 2017. Archival pigment print, 100 x 125 cm, © Jim Campers, Courtesy the artist and HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts)

PRESENTATION: Worldlines (HISK Laureates 2023), Part II

HISK’s artists in residency come from a plethora of cultural environments through which they have formed distinctive trajectories, practices, and methodologies. While …

Karlo Kacharava, Für Kuitca, 1993, pen and black ink on paper, 21 x 30 cm, Courtesy the Estate of Karlo Kacharava, Tbilisi, and Modern Art, London

PRESENTATION: Karlo Kacharava-Sentimental Traveller

Georgian artist and writer Karlo Kacharava was feverishly prolific. A polymathic figure living in Tbilisi of the late 1980s and early ’90s, …

Miron Schmückle, Cosmic Attractors I, recto, 2023, Watercolor, Indian ink, genuine stone pigments, Polychromos crayons and pitt graphite on cotton cardboard 153 x 219 cm, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Courtesy the artist and Setareh Düsseldorf, Photo: Joachim Schulz

ART CITIES: Frankfurt-Miron Schmückle

The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is among the singular protagonists of contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Ceaușescu, already as a …

Photo left: Portrait of Lygia Clark with Bicho Ponta. Rio de Janeiro, n/d. © Associação Cultural o Mundo de Lygia Clark Archive. Photo: Revista Manchete. Photo right: Franz Erhard Walther, Forehead Piece, No. 1, 1963. From First Work Set, 1963–1969. © Franz Erhard Walther / VG Bild-Kunst 2023. Photo: Barbara Brown

PRESENTATION: Lygia Clark & Franz Erhard Walther-Action as Sculpture

The exhibition “Action as Sculpture” is an encounter between two artists who never met in person. In an exchange of letters between …

Anish_Kapoor, Laser Red to Garnet 2018, Sculpture in stainless steel and lacquer, 111 x 111 x 13 cm, Photo: Dave Morgan, © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved SIAE, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA

PRESENTATION: The Benighted From Anish Kapoor to Guido Reni

For the entire length of his career, this Anish Kapoor has been fascinated with the notions of shape and void, perspective, light …

Michael Dean, Unfuckingtitled (!) (FULL EMPTY), 2023, Reinforced concrete and oil paint on sack cloth, 65 x 180 x 15 cm, 25 5/8 x 70 7/8 x 5 7/8 in, © Michael Dean, Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM

ART CITIES: Paris-Michael Dean

Borrowing instruments and strategies from the practices of the sculptor, the writer and the typographer, British artist Michael Dean investigates the relationship …

Photo left: Hernan Bas, The Conceptual artist #2 (the ice sculptor: he exclusively carves objects which hold ice), 2021. Photo” Claire Dorn. © Hernan Bas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin. Photo right: Hernan Bas, A conceptual artist #15 (Performance based, along with a troop of hired actors he takes residence in fixer upper homes and feigns nefarious occult activity to stir up the neighbors), 2022. Photo: Silvia Ros. © Hernan Bas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin

PRESENTATION: Hernan Bas-The Conceptualists

In his paintings, drawings and installations, Miami-based artist Hernan Bas creates intricately detailed scenes that invite viewers to decipher an astounding number …

ART NEWS: Dec.01

Bram Demunter presents his solo exhibition titled “Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers”. His paintings and drawings strongly illustrate his process of collecting, examining and …

Exhibition view “ON STAGE - All the Art World's a Stage”, 15/3/2023-14/1/2024, Mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Photo: Klaus Pichler, © mumok

TRIBUTE: On Stage at mumok, Part II

Exhibitions in general offer stages on which artists can present their works, and thus form a vital part of their public presence …

Boris Nikitin, Erste Staffel. 20 Jahre Grosser Bruder, exterior view of the container, Stage design: David Hohmann, Staatstheater Nurnberg, 2020, © photo: Boris Nikitin

PREVIEW: Boris Nikitin-The Last Reality Show

For over thirteen years, Boris Nikitin’s productions, texts and happenings have been dealing with the representation and production of identity and reality. …

John Meade, The Puschelhockers (detail), 2018, fur, steel, acrylic paint, metallic screen, print ink, hairclips, dimensions variable, Photo Andrew Browne

TRIBUTE: John Meade-It’s Personal!

Combining the rigors of geometry with soft organic forms, John Meade works in an intuitive way to materialize his ideas, creating tightly orchestrated pieces that …

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Continuous Reenactments”, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kirsi Halkola

ART CITIES: Helsinki-Haegue Yang

Dividing her time between Germany and Korea since the mid-1990s, Haegue Yang has been gathering inspiration from a wide range of social, …

VIDEO: Mariko Mori-Between the Ancient Gods and the Future

“It seems to me that a lot of our conceptual ideas are already carried out in the past. And we’re at a …

VIDEO: Lita Albuquerque-We Are In Space

Meet the internationally renowned artist and writer Lita Albuquerque, who talks about her upbringing in Tunisia, the Light and Space movement, and …

Exhibition view “Ceramics”, Galerie Mikael Andersen- Copenhagen, 2023, Courtesy Galerie Mikael Andersen

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Ceramics

Holdings illustrate the continued endurance of ceramics alongside works exemplifying movements that sought to release the medium of clay from its functional …

Ngoc Nau, Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia, 2023, video still. Courtesy the artisT

PRESENTATION: Passages

SEA AiR is a new programme that aims to foster artistic exchange between Southeast Asia and the European Union, with Singapore as …

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, El ruido del bosque sin hojas / The Sound of the Forest without Leaves (obverse), 2020, cast rubber with ficus tree surface residues; glass; acrylic and wood glue on found cloth; twine; and wooden support, approx. 122 × 90 × 6 in. (309.9 × 228.6 × 15.2 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased through the Board of Advisors Acquisition Fund. Image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Mexico City, © Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. Photo by Ruben Diaz

PRESENTATION: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio-Focus

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio examines local histories of materials linked to pre-Hispanic cultures in Central America, particularly his family’s homeland of El Salvador. …