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Michel Majerus, running in cycles, 2001, Screen printing ink on PVC, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2023 Collection Mudam Luxembourg Acquisition 2002

PRESENTATION: Michel Majerus

Throughout his short but prolific career, Michel Majerus captured the spirit of his time – decades marked by the expansion of globalised consumer culture and digital technology. His large-scale paintings and installations are characterised by the visual sampling and collage of an eclectic repertoire of imagery and text. Borrowing freely …

General Idea, Green (Permanent) PLA©EBO, 1991. Hartwig Art Foundation. Promised gift to the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed / Rijkscollectie. © General Idea. Photo: Peter Tijhuis

PRESENTATION: General Idea

Formed as part of 1960s counterculture, General Idea was a radical artist group founded in Toronto by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and …

Liu Jianhua, A Unified Core, 2018, Porcelain, Variable dimensions, © Liu Jianhua, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES: Seoul-Liu Jianhua

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s best-known contemporary artists who experiments with comprehensive materialsmixed media. Liu’s porcelain and mixed media works reflect …

Douglas Gordon, kick out the chairs, 2022, Neon, 2 ⅞ × 35 ⅞ × 2 inches (7.3 × 91 × 5 cm, © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES: Athens-Douglas Gordon

Working across mediums and disciplines, Douglas Gordon investigates moral and ethical questions, mental and physical states, as well as collective memory and …

ART NEWS: April 01

Already in the 90s Michael Laube has created a painting technique on acrylic glass to extend his works into space. Michael Laube …

Jason Saager, Ethereal Grasslands, 2023, Monotype and oil on paper mounted over canvas on panel, 76,2 x 101,5 cm / 30 x 39 in., © Jason Saager, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES: Paris-Jason Saager

Jason Saager makes sprawling landscape paintings and monoprints that drift between surrealism, illustration, and early American folk painting. Their flattened rendering challenge …

Rosemarie Trockel, Some Know Better, 2023, Pigment print on paper, on aludibond, framed, 70 × 70.77 cm | 27 5/8 × 27 7/8 inches, Edition 1 of 2, 1 AP, © Rosemarie Trockel, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery

PRESENTATION: Sprüth Magers × Artadia

Bringing together a group of outstanding female artists in an innovative and collaborative effort to support the next generation, the exhibition “Sprüth …

Mandy El-Sayegh in her London studio, 2023, Photo by Abtin Eshraghi

ART CITIES: N.York, Mandy El-Sayegh

Mandy El-Sayegh’s highly process-driven practice is rooted in an exploration of material, aesthetics, and language. Executed in a wide variety of media …

INSITE Journal 05-Speech Acts

BOOK: INSITE Journal 05-Speech Acts

Founded in 1992, INSITE is a cultural initiative focused on commissioning artworks in the public sphere through collaborations among artists, cultural agents, …

Lee Bul, Perdu CXXII, 2021, Mother of pearl, acrylic paint on wooden base panel, stainless steel frame, 83.3 x 189.5 x 6.6 cm (32.8 x 74.61 x 2.6 in), © Lee Bul. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol, Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

ART CITIES: London-Lee Bul

Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. …

Left & Right: Thomas Ruff, from the “d.o.pe.” series, colaris print on velour carpet | edition of 4 + 1 AP, Each: 105.12 x 78.74 in (267 x 200 cm), © Thomas Ruff, Courtesy the artist and Mai 36 Galerie

PHOTO: Thomas Ruff

Since the late 1970s, Thomas Ruff has been investigating the internal rules and structures of the medium of photography throughout various series. …

Mona Hatoum, Roadworks, 1985. Documentation of performance, Brixton, London. Color video with sound; 6 minutes, 45 seconds. © Mona Hatoum. Photo: Stefan Rohner, courtesy Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

PRESENTATION: Mona Hatoum-Early Works

Mona Hatoum’s work dialogues, in an original and exemplary manner, with the major disciplines and Movements of contemporary art: Performance, Video, Kinetic …

Richard Wright, No Title, 2020 Watercolor on paper, 30 ¾ × 30 ¾ inches (78 × 78 cm), © Richard Wright. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: London-Richard Wright

Richard Wright is a British painter and installation artist who created directly on gallery walls his intricately detailed and visually arresting abstract …