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Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Backcountry Capri 54.74), 2021, Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 74 ⅜ × 94 ⅜ inches (188.9 × 239.7 cm), © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: London-Mark Grotjahn

Mark Grotjahn has developed a practice that merges abstraction and figuration, and geometry and gesture. With an oeuvre encompassing paintings, sculptures, and …

ART NEWS: Sept.03

Taking inspiration from her home in Marrakesh, Laurence Leenaert’s paintings in her exhibition “Argile et Rêves”, are a tapestry of different colous, …

Thomas Ruff, d.o.pe.01 (detail), 2022, Colaris on velour carpet, edition 2/4 + AP, 266.7 x 199.4 cm, 105 x 78 1/2 inches, Signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed verso, © Thomas Ruff, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Thomas Ruff

Already as a student in the class of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in the …

Nari Ward, Amazing Grace, 1993, mixed media installation, variable dimensions, Private collection, © Nari Ward, Courtesy the artist

PRESENTATION: Nari Ward -Gilded Darkness

Nari Ward  is known for his sculptural installations composed of discarded material found and collected throughout his neighborhood. He has repurposed objects …

Soun-Gui Kim, Situation plastique III – Octobre à Bordeaux, 1973, single-channel video (4:3), 16 mm, 13:45 min., © Soun-Gui Kim

PRESENTATION: Soun Gui Kim-Lazy Clouds

Soun-Gui Kim combines philosophy, art, and technology in works ranging from the deconstruction of painting to spectator-participatory events in public places, video …

Photo Left: Kenjirō Okazaki, Haunted Pagan Vegan / やさいのおばけ / Cabbage Beggar, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 9 7/8 x 7 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches framed, Photo: SAIKI, © Kenjirō Okazaki, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery. Right: Kenjirō Okazaki, Sar-i Sang Mines / 東方浄瑠璃 (Eastern Pure Lapis Lazuli) / oṃ huru huru caṇḍāli mātaṅgi svāhā, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches framed, Photo: SAIKI, © Kenjirō Okazaki, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe

ART CITIES: Tokyo-Kenjirō Okazaki

Kenjirō Okazaki has developed a wide range of interdisciplinary practices that transcend conventional artistic genres and classifications of art, including architecture, literary …

Kelly Tissot, Dubious portrait and improper meeting/Grower, 2022 / Dubious portrait and improper meeting/Schoolgirl I, 2022 / Dubious portrait and improper meeting/Schoolgirl II, 2022, Digital UV print on faux leather, each 290 x 210 cm / Coating against nostalgia/ Cobalt glints II, 2022. Steel, stained fir wood , 300 x 160 x 5 cm, Exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Gina Folly

ART CITIES: Bassel-Kelly Tissot

Since 2016, Kelly Tissot has been working on photographic series that radically break away from a romantic image of the landscape or …

Prune Nourry, Diorama Cible, 2022, Box, metal, wood, arrows, 252 × 141 × 28 cm, 99 2/8 × 55 1/2 × 11 in, © Prune Nourry, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Daniel Templon

ART CITIES: Brussels-Prune Nourry

Prune Nourry lives and works in New York. She is interested in the fields of science and anthropology, particularly bioethical questions relating …

ART NEWS: Sept.02

Helen Marten’s exhibition, “Third Moment Profile | The Almost Horse”, own folly is classical: the attempt to depict a horse. This exertion …

rena Lagator Pejović, Nets, Nodes, Horizons, 2020. Interactive wall installation (hand-made colored yarn balls, nets, nodes), 105 × 620 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Lazar Pejović

PREVIEW:Art at Work

The exhibition “Art at Work”, looks at three different segments of the genealogy of the concept of (artistic) work in the region …

Alexandre Lenoir, Trois Rivières, 2021, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 261.9 x 128 x 3.5 cm (each), 103 1/8 x 50 3/8 x 1 3/8 in (each), © Alexandre Lenoir, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Shanghai-Alexandre Lenoir

Representing landscapes of luxurious vegetation, interiors and buildings, Alexandre Lenoir’s works often include characters as ephemeral as memories. Like flashbacks or dreamscapes, …

Michael Rakowitz, Charita Baghdad, 2020, Graphite on archival digital print, 1100 x 4570 cm, 433 1/16 x 1799 3/16 inches, © Michael Rakowitz, Courtesy the artist and Green Art Gallery. Photo: Anna Shtraus

ART CITIES: Dubai-Michael Rakowitz

Concerned with history and current events, Michael Rakowitz uses his work to explore pressing issues and to invite others into the conversations …

Hoda Kashiha, I am Here, I am not Here (diptyque), 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 2 canvas of 150 x 120 cm (59 1/16 x 47 1/4 in), © Hoda Kashiha, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES: Paris-Hoda Kashiha

Hoda Kashiha studied painting at Tehran University in 2009 and at Boston University in the United States in 2014, which allowed her …

Allan Sekula, The Forgotten Space (Video still), 2010, DCP, Digibeta, DV CAM, colour / black & white, Duration: 113 min, Collection: The Estate of Allan Sekula, Los Angeles

PRESENTATION: Museum in Motion

A new building dedicated to contemporary art will be realised for M HKA, the museum is already beginning the important work in …