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20 papier-mache botanical models, 1866-1927, Each between 26-49cm x 11-15 cm, Germany, Image Courtesy George Loudon Collection, Photo: Rosamond Purcell

ART CITIES:London-Surreal Science

George Loudon is a London-based retired banker, art collector, and author. He began his collection in the late 1970s, he started with Walter Dahn, Jiri Dokoupil and Jean Michel Basquiat. Loudon has since developed an affinity with a new generation of conceptually based artists. Later he was fascinated by scientific …

ART CITIES:Venice-Machines À Penser

During the Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Prada presents “Machines à penser”, an exhibition that focuses on three 20th Century philosophers: Theodor W. …

Yutie Lee, Hilde, 2018, Wood, metal connectors, three copies of the artist book Ekstase 123, H: 75 cm, Ø 637 cm, In collaboration with BNAG.cc (Oliver-Selim Boualam, Lukas Marstaller), Photo © Marius Land, Courtesy the artist and Künstlerhaus Gottingen

ART-PRESENTATION: Yutie Lee-Ekstase 123

Yutie Lee’s multidisciplinary practice combines stories and references to pop culture with literature, history and her own biography. In her first institutional …

Henrik Samuelsson, Frozen Orbit 4:01 a.m., 2012-17, Mixed media on canvas, 180 x 216 cm, © Henrik Samuelsson, Courtesy the artist and : Galerie Laurent Godin

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Henrik Samuelsson

The architecture and formal composition of Henrik Samuelsson’s paintings generate a strong sense of presence, emphasised by an underlying structure of vertical …

Nina Canell, Cucumber (Detail), 2018, installation view S.M.A.K. 2018, Courtesy the artist and S.M.A.K.

ART CITIES:Gent-Nina Canell

Nina Canell’s sculptures and installations are the result of both chance encounters and careful observations. They generate dynamic connections between solid objects …

Olaf Nicolai, Trauer und Melancholie, 2009/2012, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

ART CITIES:Vienna-Olaf Nicolai

Renowned for his inventive work with a diverse array of materials and mediums, over the last 25 years Olaf Nicolai has conceived …

Bronwyn Katz, Grond Herinnering (Soil Memory) (2015) Video, 3min 52sec, © Bronwyn Katz, Courtesy the artist and Palais de Tokyo

ART CITIES:Paris-Bronwyn Katz

As a multi-disciplinary artist, Bronwyn Katz produces installations, sculptures, videos and performances. She takes an interest in contemporary forms of discrimination and …

Regina Silveira, (Brazilian, b. 1939), Biscoito arte (Art cookie) [detail], 1976, C-prints (diptych). 74.9 × 99.1 cm, 99.1 × 99.1 cm, 177 × 101 cm overall, Collection of Fernanda Feitosa and Heitor Martins, © Regina Silveira. Courtesy of the artist and Pinacoteca de São Paulo

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part II

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …

Akram Zaatari, Letter to A Refusing Pilot (Film still), 2013, © Akram Zaatari, Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto-Mexico City and Moderna Museet-Stockholm/Malmö

ART CITIES:Malmö-Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari has developed an interdisciplinary practice that combines the roles of image-maker, archivist, curator, and critical theorist. He is concerned with …

Feliza Bursztyn, Cama (Bed), 1974, Assemblage with stainless steel scrap, cot, satin sheet, and motor, 110 × 180 × 70 cm, Museo Nacional de Colombia, © Feliza Bursztyn, Photo: Andrés Mauricio López, Courtesy of Museo Nacional de Colombia

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part I

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …

Exhibition view: Shilpa Gupta,For, In Your Tounge, I Can Not Fit, 2018, YARAT Contemporary Art Space- Baku, Photo: Fakhriyya Mammadova, Courtesy the artist, YARAT Contemporary Art Space and Edinburgh Art Festival

ART-PRESENTATION: Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta’s media ranges across manipulated found objects, photography, video, interactive computer-based installation, and performance. The removal of individual identity and the …