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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 and elusive phenomena that together testify to what has happened or is happening. This mediation between stuff, substances and structures always leaves traces: from the distance that they …

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 …

Courtesy of the Cruising Pavilion

ARCHITECTURE: Cruising Pavilion

The word Cruising usually describes the quest for sexual encounters between homosexual or bi men in public spaces, but it cannot be …

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 …