PRESENTATION: Urs Fischer-Easy Solutions & Problems
Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials (clay, steel, and paint to bread, dirt) to create works that disorient and bewilder. Through …
PRESENTATION: Accumulation-On Collecting, Growth and Excess
What is the price to pay for the logic of growth? Striving for more is deeply embedded within us. The accumulation of …
PRESENTATION: Kader Attia-Descent into Paradise
Born in 1970 in Seine-Saint-Denis, Kader Attia has created a body of work that cannot be reduced to one single medium, yet …
PRESENTATION: Iman Issa-Das Spiel
Iman Issa’s work is driven by her intense interest in history and her insistence on questioning the preconceptions that govern knowledge. She …
PRESENTATION: Drain the Öresun
The exhibition “Drain the Öresund*” brings together fourteen artists living on both sides of the Öresund to examine the region as a …
PREVIEW: Nancy Holt-System Works
Nancy Holt was central to the earth, land and conceptual art movements as well as a pioneer of site-specific installation and experimental …
PRESENTATION: Jutta Haeckel-Skin in the Game
In her works, the artist Jutta Haeckel from Düsseldorf occupies herself with the principles of cycles of growth. Her pictures call to …
ART CITIES: Zurich-Matias Faldbakken
The artist Matias Faldbakken often uses industrial materials and heavy-duty objects in his works, which he then manipulates or even partially destroys. …
PRESENTATION: Tarek Atoui-Improvisation in 10 Days
Tarek Atoui is an electro-acoustic artist and composer whose work investigates the intersection between visual and sound research and experimentation through installations, complex …
ART NEWS: Feb.01
WIELS presents “OBSTAKLES”, a major survey of Willem Oorebeek’s work. Since the early 1980s Willem Oorebeek has been a prominent figure with …
PRESENTATION: Precious Okoyomon-One Either Loves Oneself Or Knows Oneself
Precious Okoyomon’s works traverse art, poetry, and performance. They investigate identity, colonial history, spirituality, and people’s relationship to things and the living …
ART CITIES: Athens-Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte’s installations, sculptures, prints, drawings and watercolours take different and often contradictory forms. Schütte’s art looks utilitarian offering sustenance, shelter and …
PRESENTATION: Haegue Yang-Lost Lands and Sunken Fields
Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk …
ART CITIES: Dubai-Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great …
PRESENTATION: Kosen Ohtsubo & Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham
The artists Kosen Ohtsubo and Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham share an unusual approach to ikebana and an interest in how one person …
PRESENTATION: Akosua Viktoria AduSanyah-Corner Dry Lungs
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is a German-Ghanaian artist and photographer based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work centres upon the color darkroom, where she …
PRESENTATION: Mona Hatoum-Inside Out
Mona Hatoum creates discomforting, but at the same time poetic, political and challenging work that reveals the contradictions and uncertainties of our …
ART CITIES: Berlin-Ull Hohn
For Ull Hohn painting was more than just an artistic medium – it was a space where discourse, technique, and personal reflections …
PRESENTATION: Catherine Goodman-Silent Music
For more than four decades, Catherine Goodman has developed a unique visual language that communicates a powerful visionary response to her lived …
PREVIEW: Allison Janae Hamilton-Celestine
Throughout her practice, Allison Janae Hamilton draws on her upbringing in the rural American South, weaving themes of environmental justice, folklore, and …
PRESENTATION: Jordan Watson-Easier to Breath
Jordan Watson is a self-taught multi-media visual artist and curator, part of the Ultra Contemporary Afrofuturism art movement. His works explore storytelling …
ART CITIES: Berlin-Joseph Kosuth
Considered one of the pioneers of conceptual and installation art in the 1960s, Joseph Kosuth has undertaken sustained investigations into the philosophy …
PRESENTATION: Bernar Venet-From Rational to Virtual (1966–2024)
Bernar Venet is a pioneer of Conceptual art. Throughout his career spanning more than 60 years, Venet has been known for producing …
PRESENTATION: Arnulf Rainer, Landschaften—Goya (1983—1992)
Born in 1929 in Baden, near Vienna, Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer was a nonconformist from the beginning: he dropped out of art …