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Tony Cragg, Untitled, 2019, Bronze, 100 x 113 x 52 cm, © Tony Cragg, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ART CITIES:Paris-Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg is one of the world’s most foremost sculptors. His work is notable for its exploration of different materials, including found objects and raw matter of various kinds. His early, stacked works present a taxonomical understanding of the world, and he has said that he sees manmade objects as …

ART CITIES:Paris-Openings

In her latest series of vivid geometric paintings that are on show in the exhibition “Paintings”, Farah Atassi intermingles references to modernist …

Left: Alain Biltereyst, Sans titre / A-855-3, 2020, Acrylic on plywood, 23 x 17,4 x 2 cm, © Alain Biltereyst, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery Right: Alain Biltereyst, Sans titre / A-905-3, 2020, Acrylic on plywood, 118 x 88 x 2 cm, © Alain Biltereyst, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Alain Biltereyst

Alain Biltereyst continually draws attention to the innate beauty of practical designs, such as a manhole cover, fence design or airplane tail …

Work from the exhibition “No Man is an Island”, Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:London-No Man is an Island

In 1985 NASA published the book “Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight” exploring how humans adjusted psychologically and socially to space. …

Isa Genzken, Untitled (detail), 2018, MDF tower, two (2) aluminum plates, foil, spray paint, mirror foil, and fabric tape, Signed and dated, 290 x 93 x 83 cm, © Isa Genzken, / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner and Galerie Daniel Buchholz

ART CITIES:Paris-Isa Genzken

Isa Genzken is arguably one of the most important and influential artists of the past 30 years. Her work has been part …

ART CITIES:Copenhagen-Tove Storch

Tove Storch’s artistic projects can be viewed as a continuous investigation of sculptural possibilities. Her works challenges the viewer’s perception of space …

Louis Soutter, Eclaboussures du crime, ca. 1934, Black ink and gouache on paper, 43 x 57 cm, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Louis Soutter

Louis Soutter’s pictorial world revolves around elementary themes such as the examination of human nature, death and the question of life after …

Francesco Clemente, Friends, 2010, Watercolor on paper, 35.6 x 50.8 cm, Courtesy of Francesco Clemente Studio; Collection of the Artist, New York, Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

ART CITIES:N.York-Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente’s nomadism inflects many aspects of his practice: The artist divides his time between New York, New Mexico, and India, drawing …

K, exhibition view, Fondazione Prada-Milan, 2020, Courtesy Fondazione Prada

ART CITIES:MILAN-K

The exhibition project “K” brings together works by Martin Kippenberger, Orson Welles, and the electronic music band Tangerine Dream. With years of …

Bosco Sodi, A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Exhibition view Axel Vervoordt Gallery-Hong Kong, 2020, © Axel Vervoordt Gallery

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Bosco Sodi

Bosco Sodi is known for his use of raw, natural materials to create large-scale textured paintings and objects. Sodi has discovered an …

Exhibition view: The Porcelain Room, Fondazione Prada-Milan, 2020, Courtesy , Fondazione Prada

ART CITIES:Milan-The Porcelain Room

The exhibition “The Porcelain Room” explores the historical context, scope and impact of Chinese export porcelain and brings together examples of porcelain …

Ingeborg Strobl, ohne Titel, 2014, mumok, Schenkung Ingeborg Strobl, 2017 © Bildrecht, Wien 2020, Photo: © Ingeborg Strobl

ART CITIES:Vienna-Ingeborg Strobl

Ingeborg Strobl’s oeuvre is moored in the tradition of conceptual and intermedia art. Natural and animal subjects acting as mirror images of …

Beatriz Milhazes, Os Campeões, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 158 cm × 149 cm, © Beatriz Milhazes, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:New York-Group Show

A group exhibition brings together leading figures from the Pace Gallery’s program of modern and contemporary artists as a means of introducing …

Camille Henrot, Saturday (video still), 2017, video, sound, color, 19 min 32 sec, © Camille Henrot, Courtesy the artist and Art Sonje Center

ART CITIES:Seoul-Camille Henrot

Camille Henrot’s art is born out of an intensive research process, the findings of which she uses to construct rich multimedia narratives …

Ricky Swallow, Stair with Contents, 2014, patinated bronze, 22 x 35 x 22 inches (55.9 x 88.9 x 55.9 cm), Edition of 1, with 1 AP), © Ricky Swallow, Courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Ricky Swallow

Ricky Swallow is best known for sculptural works combining contemporary imagery with the still-life tradition. Swallow has also consistently maintained a watercolour …

Jules de Balincourt, They Each Had Their Lesson, 2020, Oil and oil stick on panel , 177.8 x 203.2 cm (70 x 80 in), © Jules de Balincourt, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ART-CITIES:Paris-Jules de Balincourt

Evoking notions of utopia and dystopia, Jules de Balincourt’s paintings investigate public and private spaces and suggest an ever-changing landscape – both …

Verena Dengler, Die Galeristin und der schöne Antikapitalist auf der Gothic G’stettn (Corona Srezessionsession Dengvid-20), installation view Secession 2020, photo: Apollonia T. Bitzan, Courtesy Vienna Secession

ART CITIES:Vienna-Verena Dengler

Verena Dengler makes art that is richly allusive, trenchant, and occasionally provocative. Astute observations of the art world with its mechanisms and …

Catherine Opie, Untitled #2 (Swamps), 2019, Pigment print, 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm), © Catherine Opie, Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects and Lehmann Maupin

ART CITIES:New York-Catherine Opie

For over 30 years, Catherine Opie has captured often overlooked aspects of contemporary American life and culture. One of the most important …

Diana Thater, The Road to Hana Two, 2014

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Parallax

The group exhibition “Parallax” takes its inspiration from the Chinese idiom 移步换形, which translates as “the view before you will transform with …