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Drawing on his personal experiences Mark Leckey returns frequently to the themes of desire and transformation, using a variety of media, including film, sculpture, sound and performance. He has an ongoing fascination with the affective power of images, music and technology, and often uses reconfigured archival footage in his work. …
Walter De Maria’s 60 years career made a lasting and profound contribution to Contemporary Art. A vanguard force within four major art …
The skylines of modern China are punctuated by architecture that amazes, inspires, and awes. Many of these structures are the work of …
Rita Ackermann has been known to reference Bertolt Brecht’s slogan, “Art is not a mirror, but a hammer.” Ever since she arrived …
During her career, Sidsel Paaske expressed herself through many different techniques and media forms, such as watercolour, painting, textile, enamel, music, text, …
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images …
Since Urs Fischer first began showing his work, in the mid-‘90s, in Europe, he has produced an enormous number of objects, …
After six editions in Paris and a first one in Brussels, the International Art Fair YIA (Young International Artists) returns during the …
YIA ART FAIR is a Contemporary Art Fair committed to emerging artists in Paris 200 artists are exhibited, with 65 galleries invited …
One of the oldest and respectable Art Fairs, FIAC, opens for its 43rd Edition at the Grand Palais in Paris. A major …
The newcomer Art Fair, Paris Internationale, which defined itself as “Not a rejects salon, nor a reaction to FIAC”, after a more …
Josephine Meckseper’s work conflates the aesthetic language of Modernism with the formal languages of commercial display and advertising. In her shop window …
Born and raised in England, Bharti Kher moved to New Delhi in the early ‘90s, and today, like most of her contemporaries, …
Literature, western culture and European art house movies are Cheng Ran’s main sources of inspiration. These influences refer to the many bootlegs …
How can the suggestive power of images be activated? What effect is generated by the conjunction of images and text? How do …
How does one begin to tell the story of Agnes Martin, one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when …
In 2001 Rebecca Howe Quaytman began applying a system with which to make all paintings into the future. One element of this system …
Taryn Simon has constructed an ambitious body of work that is the result of an invisible and rigorous process of research and …
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the …
Every two years, the European Month of Photography takes place in different places across Europe. Berlin turns into a large photographic gallery …
Isa’s Genzken influential work is characterized by radical innovation and includes works in almost every conceivable medium. Its foundations are in sculpture, …
Liliana Porter’s work often places carefully chosen small figurines and other objects, addressing larger philosophical questions and emotional states. Alongside printmaking, she …
Angela Bulloch is an artist working across many forms such as sculpture, installation and sound. In her work, Bulloch adopts an interdisciplinary …
Increasingly influential for younger generations of artists, Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s work explores the space between public and private, design and art, and …
