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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 …

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 1965, Folded leporello book, 21.2 x 243.2 cm, Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut), Photo: Volker Renner-Hamburg

ART CITIES:Bern-Etel Adnan

 Etel Adnan’s career spans several decades and encompasses a wide range of media as it does traditions and locations. Adnan was first …

Laure Prouvost, Swallow me, From Italy to Flander, a tapestry, 2015, Tapestry, 200 x 462 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia (Paris / Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London / New York)

ART CITIES:Paris-Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost’s work adopts the form of independent stories that intersect and answer to each other, in which fiction mixes with reality. …

Left: Petrit Halilaj, RU, installation view, New Museum-New York, 2017, © Dario Lasagni. Right: Petrit Halilaj, Shkrepëtima, 2018, Ink drawing on cover page of the magazine Shkrepëtima

ART CITIES:Bern-Petrit Halilaj

Petrit Halilaj uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective …

Heidi Voet, When all the world is a hopeless jumble

ART-PRESENTATION: Play

Kortrijk is a nice little town on the Lys River in south-western Flanders, only 7km from France. Founded by the Romans as …