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Michael E. Smith, Untitled, 2017, Detail, Installation view, KOW, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and KOW, Berlin, Photo: Ladislav Zajac

ART-PRESENTATION: Michael E. Smith-ॐ

Michael E. Smith uses cast-offs, waste and other remnants of our globalised consumer society. In his studio, the artist generates material sketches out of his finds, thereby testing their potential to hold meaning. It is only when installing these sketches for an exhibition that he develops the objects into their …

Young-Jae Lee, Sans titre (14), 2005, Ceramic (Sandstone, feldspar enamel, baked in a 1280 ° gas oven), h = 35,5, Ø 28 cm, Galerie Karsten Greve Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Young Jae Lee

Born in Seoul in 1951, Young-Jae Lee studied at the College of Art Education in her native city before moving to Germany …

A Parrot for Juan Gris, © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

ART CITIES:N.York-Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornel had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive “boxes”. These are simple boxes, …

Left: Taryn Simon, Finance package for the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Baku, Azerbaijan, February 3, 2004, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015, Archival inkjet print & text on archival herbarium paper in mahogany frame, 215.9 x 186.1 x 7 cm, Edition of 3 + 2Aps, © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian. Right: Taryn Simon, Contract to rehabilitate the Lebanese postal system. Beirut, Lebanon, July 22, 1998, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015, Archival inkjet print & text on archival herbarium paper in mahogany frame, 215.9 x 186.1 x 7 cm, Edition of 3 + 2Aps, © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:Athens-Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon’s practice incorporates photography, text, and graphic design. Known for applying classification systems to troves of images, Simon produces heavily researched …

Joyce Wieland, O Canada, 1970, Lithograph, 70.5 x 60 cm, © Joyce Wieland, Courtesy of Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University Permanent Art Collection

ART CITIES:N.York-Kiss Off

Found in a cave near Bethlehem and now in the collection of the British Museum, the sculpture known as “Ain Sahkri Lovers” …

View of the exhibition “Стансы / Stances”, kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris, 2018, © Marie Bovo, Photo: archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour Paris/London

ART CITIES:Paris-Marie Bovo

For 15 years, Marie Bovo has been photographing views of natural and urban landscapes. She records a specific motif at intervals, making …

Left: Martial Raysse, NOW, 2017, acryl on canvas, 209 x 175.5 cm, Lévy Gorvy Gallery Archive. Right: Martial Raysse, Portrait de Gabriella la jolie vènetienne, 1963, mixed media on canvas, 88 x 62 x 9.5 cm, Lévy Gorvy Gallery Archive

ART-PREVIEW:Martial Raysse-Visages

Martial Raysse is a well known French artist, famous for his distinctive approach in painting and his recognizable imagery. Raysse began to …

Cally Spooner, DRAG DRAG SOLO (video still), 2016, single channel projection without sound daylight, daylight bulbs, double-sided room-dividing screen (11'20''), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Archive

ART CITIES:Geneva-Cally Spooner

Cally Spooner has developed a distinctive body of work consisting of media installations, essays, novels and live performances such as radio broadcasts, …

ART NEWS:Feb.02

The retrospective “Mediations” is devoted to the American photographer Susan Meiselas and brings together a selection of works from the 1970s to …

View of Isa Genzken’s studio, 2018, Courtesy David Zwirner-New York/London/Hong Kong and Galerie Buchholz-Berlin/Cologne/New York, Photo: Jens Ziehe, © VG Bildkunst-Bonn 2018

ART CITIES:N.York-Isa Genzken

With a career spanning over 40 years, Isa Genzken has incessantly probed the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, media, technology, and …

Broomberg & Chanarin, Divine Violence, Psalms (Detail), 2013, Set of 57 Frames Containing 724 Sheets, Inkjet Proof for Text and Image Elements, © Broomberg & Chanarin, Adagp 2018, © Centre Pompidou / Dist. RMN-GP

ART CITIES:Paris-Broomberg & Chanarin

Tackling politics, religion, war and history, Broomberg & Chanarin prise open the fault lines associated with such imagery, creating new responses and …

Katinka Bock, Orangerie (weiss) [Detail], 2014, Ceramics, Courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger

ART CITIES:Malmö-Odradek,Part II

In his short story, “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919), Franz Kafka introduces Odradek as a deliberately undefined protagonist. It is …