BOOK:Books & Rivers
From the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC) to the present day, rivers have called artists to create work meditating on their …
PHOTO:Martin Munkácsi
In 1933, photographer Martin Munkácsi (18/5-1896-13/7/1963), made history and changed the world of photography forever when he took the first spontaneous fashion …
ART-PRESENTATION: Francis Bacon-Invisible Rooms
Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism, film, …
ART CITIES:Turin-Passo Dopo Passo
The exhibition “Passo Dopo Passo” seeks to examine diverse historical and contemporary artworks and artistic practices that reflect on the status of …
ART CITIES:Paris-Daniel Buren
Since the ‘60s Buren’s critical analysis of painting , attempting to refine the act to an elemental form , led him to …
ART-PRESENTATION: Lee Krasner
The work of Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her husband, Jackson Pollock. While Pollock’s rugged persona and large-scale, wildly painted works would …
ART-PRESENTATION: Women at Work
Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide …
ARCHITECTURE: Superstudio 50
Superstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by …
ART-PRESENTATION: Gerhard Richter, Black & White Drawings
Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. During a career spanning almost fifty years, the astonishing …
ART-TRIBUTE:Space to Dream-Recent Art from South America,Part I
Presenting some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, the exhibition “Space to Dream: Recent Art from South …
ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeronimo Voss
Jeronimo Voss’ exhibition “Inverted Night Sky” is inspired by charcoal drawings of the Milky Way found in the Anton Pannekoek Institute for …
ART-PRESENTATION: Anders A-The Least and Outermost
Anders A is like a digital archaeologist who digs his visual world out of a modified memory. The artist says he …
ART CITIES:Salzburg -Liza Lou
With an emphasis on repetition, formal perfection and materiality, Liza Lou’s sculptures and environments thrive on the tension between the apparent impossibility …
ART CITIES:N.York-Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfson’s practice in the past 12 years has included video, film, installation, performance, print photography. Since 2009 he has focused on …
ART-PREVIEW:Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor’s work reflects upon metaphysical polarities including presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the …
ART CITIES:Paris-Romuald Hazoumè
The work of Romuald Hazoumè deals with the social and political history of Africa and Africa’s dynamic, ever-changing role within the international …
ART-PRESENTATION: Peter Halley-The Schirn Ring
Since the ‘80s, in his geometric abstract paintings and site-specific installations, Peter Halley has engaged in a critical examination of the spatial …
ART NEWS:May 02
“Tropisms”, a new project by Davide Zucco, shows a single installation, of which the central object will shift in space throughout the …
ART CITIES:Basel -Yngve Holen
Yngve Holen uses sculpture and imaging techniques to explore themes of transportation, technology, and the body. The multiple series of works he …
ART-PRESENTATION: Mario Merz-Works from the 1980s
A major figure in the Arte Povera Movement, the Italian artist Mario Merz’s work combines a fascination with the material and metaphorical …
ART CITIES:Berlin-Claudia Comte
The work Claudia Comte is characterized by her use of a simple language of forms and her engagement with different media, such …
BOOK:Benjamin H. Bratton
Benjamin H. Bratton is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. His research is situated at the intersections of political …
ART CITIES:Berlin -Basim Magdy
In his work Basim Magdy uses video, painting, slide projection and installation to examine war, information systems, scientific theories and the visual …
ARCHITECTURE: Archaeology of the Digital
Archaeology of the Digital is part of a multi-year research project launched by the CCA to investigate the development and use of …