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laudia Comte, After Nature, exhibition view, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza-Madrid, Courtesy the artist and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

ART CITIES:Madrid-Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte has long since developed from a shooting star of the Swiss art scene into an internationally sought-after artist. Claudia Comte complements the transgression and combination of different techniques and disciplines by juxtaposing materials such as wood and marble, which she works in the traditional manner of sculpture, with …

ART CITIES:N.York-Arcmanoro Niles

Arcmanoro Niles makes vivid, brightly-hued paintings that expand our understanding of traditional genre painting and portraiture. Niles offers a window into seemingly …

ART CITIES:Kassel-Martine Syms

Syms has emerged in recent years as one of the central and defining figures in the younger, international discourse on art and …

Ryoji Ikeda, exhibition view, 180 The Strand-London, 2021, Courtesy the artist and 180 The Strand

ART CITIES:London-Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda’s innovative work explores the essential characteristics of sound and light by means of mathematical precision and aesthetics. The artist engages …

Isaac Chong Wai, When are we wrong? When are we right?, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 63 × 47 1/5 in (160 × 120 cm) each, © Isaac Chong Wai, Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery

ART CITIES:Berlin-Recurrence 2

While the first edition in the “Recurrence” series of exhibitions focused on the reappearance of a 19th Century theme, namely the tension …

Yukinori Yanagi , Article 9, 1994, Neon, plastic box, print on transparency sheet and acrylic frame, Installed dimensions variable, Photo: Jenalee Harmon © Yukinori Yanagi, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Yukinori Yanagi

Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …

Lizania Cruz, ¡Se Buscan Testigos! 9Looking for Witnesses!), Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021. Documentation of happening, dimensions variable. Photo: Neha Gautam, © Lizania Cruz, Courtesy the artist and CUE Art Foundation

ART CITIES:N.York-Lizania Cruz

Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how migration affects ways of being & belonging. Through research, oral …

Marc Padeu, Nuit étoilée, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 280 cm (79 x 110 in), © Marc Padeu, Courtesy the artist and Peres Projects

ART CITIES:Berlin-Marc Padeu

Marc Padeu’s work questions the memory of the past and the relation to the spiritual in current African societies. He admits to …

Robert Smithson, Shift, 1967, Painted metal, 23 x 30 x 32 in. (58.4 x 76.2 x 81.3 cm), Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Smithson

For over fifty years Robert Smithson’s work and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has …

Pia Camil

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Pia Camil

Pia Camil draws inspiration from the urban landscapes of Latin America, engaging with the history of modernism to create paintings, sculptures, performances, …

Michael Flirim, My private fog II, 2017, Color photograph, 83 x 123 cm framed Photo: Rafael Kroetz, © Michael Flirim, Courtesy the artist, Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid and Galleria Raffaella Cortese

ART CITIES:Madrid-Michael Fliri

Subtle and nuanced, the art of Michael Fliri exists on the thresholds between performance, sculpture, photography and video. In his practice, which …

Left: Jean-Michel Alberola, Elisabeth II (Bleu), 41 × 33 × 2 × cm /16 1/8 × 13 × 6/8 × in. (unframed), 45 × 37 × 4 × cm / 17 5/7 × 14 4/7 × 1 4/7 × in. (framed), © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon Center: Jean-Michel Alberola, Fragment du royaume d'ici 1, 28 × 16 × 7,5 × cm / 11 × 6 2/8 × 3 × in. Painted wood gilded with fine gold, © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon Right: Jean-Michel Alberola, Elisabeth II (rose), 35 × 27 × 2 × cm / 13 6/8 × 10 5/8 × 6/8 × in. (unframed), 39 × 31,5 × 4,5 × cm / 15 3/8 × 12 2/5 × 1 3/4 × in. (framed), Oil on canvas, © Jean-Michel Alberola, Courtesy the artist and Gallerie Templon

ART CITIES:Paris-Jean Michel Alberola

During his thirty-year career Jean-Michel Alberola has produced a protean body of work that straddles figurative, abstract and conceptual art. Gouaches, sculptures, …

Bijlmerbajes" by Tiemen Rapati, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. Design by Bassem Saad.

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Formation Camp

de Appel presents the final outcomes of the 2020/2021 Curatorial Programme whose participants arrived in Amsterdam during a time of social transformation. …

Damien Hirst, Five Friends, 2018 Carrara marble, in 5 parts, Mickey: 30 ⅝ × 17 ½ × 17 ¼ inches (77.8 × 44.3 × 43.9 cm), Minnie: 31 ½ × 16 ⅝ × 17 ¼ inches (79.8 × 42.1 × 43.8 cm), Donald: 29 ¾ × 20 ⅜ × 17 ¾ inches (75.6 × 51.8 × 45.1 cm), Pluto: 30 ½ × 21 ½ × 23 inches (77.4 × 54.5 × 58.2 cm), Goofy: 49 ⅜ × 16 ¼ × 24 ½ inches (125.2 × 41.1 × 62.1 cm), edition of 3 + 2 AP, © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photo: Lucio Ghilardi/Prudence Cuming Associates

ART CITIES:Rome-Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst’s wide-ranging practice includes installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Consistently challenging the boundaries between art, science and religion, his visceral, visually …

Larry Poons, Ash Nobody, 2020, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 198.8 x 300.4 cm / 78 1/4 x 118 1/4 in, © Larry Poons, courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Larry Poons

Larry Poons has been at the forefront of Abstract American painting since the beginning of his career in the 1960s. Having moved …

Leiko Ikemura, Colors in Motion, exhibition view Galerie Peter Kilchmann- Zurich, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann

ART CITIES:Zurich-Leiko Ikemura

Since the beginning of her artistic career, Leiko Ikemura’s work has been closely interwoven with her personal journey and the various stations …

Claudio Parmiggiani, Senza Titolo, 2021, Smoke and soot on board, 150 x 200 cm / 59 1/8 x 78 3/4 in., © Claudio Parmiggiani,, Courtesy of Simon Lee Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Claudio Parmiggiani

The work of Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani is concerned with themes of absence, the inevitable passage of time, fragmentation and silence. Over …

Left: Jessica Stockholder, Kathmandu Residency Paper Wall Work 02, 2019, Hand-made Nepali lokta paper, found material, 97,8 x 62,5 x 4,2 cm / 38 1/2 x 24 19/32 x 1 21/32 in, © Jessica Stockholder, courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Right: Jessica Stockholder, Kathmandu Residency Paper Wall Work 03, 2019, Hand-made Nepali lokta paper, found material, 97,8 x 62,5 x 4,2 cm / 38 1/2 x 24 19/32 x 1 21/32 in, © Jessica Stockholder, courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Jessica Stockholder

Although extremely “situated” and unpublished, this work fits easily into the practice of Jessica Stockholder, considered since the 1980s as one of …

Hiwa K , The Bell Project (Videostill), 2007-2015, Two channel video installation, SD & HD video, color, sound with English subtitles, © Hiwa K, Courtesy the artist and Kow

ART CITIES:Berlin-Hiwa K

Hiwa K’s works escape normative aesthetics but give a possibility of another vibration to vernacular forms, oral histories, modes of encounter and …