dreamideamachine ART VIEW
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Jean Tinguely (22/5/1925-30/8/1991). He is best known for his machinelike kinetic sculptures that destroyed themselves in the course of their operation, or Kinetic art, in the Dada tradition, known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely’s art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in …
Peggy Guggenheim’s Cork Street gallery had an outsized impact on London’s art scene during its brief eighteen-month run. In that time, it hosted over twenty ambitious exhibitions, bringing avant-garde movements like Surrealism and abstraction to a wider British audience. The gallery not only reshaped contemporary tastes but also marked the …
There are artists who define a movement, and there are artists who refuse to belong to any movement at all. Francis Picabia belongs decisively to the latter category. Across more than five decades, Picabia moved restlessly through Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, figuration and abstraction with such velocity that his oeuvre …
Following a series of critically acclaimed international presentations, Tolia Astakhishvili now realizes her first solo museum exhibition at mumok with “Tolia Curriculum”, …
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For over forty years, Kiki Smith has navigated the art world not by following trends, but by spinning a vast, interconnected web …
Is design a tool of liberation, oppression, or both at once, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt addresses this question with the …
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were known for creating monumental, temporary public artworks that transformed landscapes using everyday materials. Their ambitious projects required years …
Set against the sweeping terrain of New York’s Hudson Valley, the forthcoming exhibitions by artists Anicka Yi and Saif Azzuz reimagine sculpture …
Rosa Barba presents “Tracing Vocabularies”, a major exhibition at the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) in Lisbon that transforms the CAM …
PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) announces the 8th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, with the launch of the application process on May 11, …
As the environmental crisis accelerates, artists around the world are responding with urgency, insight and vision. Artists are not scientists, but they …
At the threshold between art installation, archival excavation, and speculative cosmology, Jennifer West transforms the ground floor of Ca’ Foscari University of …
In the paintings of Hilary Pecis, the everyday becomes structurally monumental. A cluttered coffee table, a hillside dense with succulents, a half-finished …
Zineb Sedira’s commission “When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks…” at Tate Britain is not simply an installation—it is a fully inhabited cinematic …
Evelyn Plaschg’s catalogue “Viscous City”, published by Revolver Publishing in conjunction with her exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST, is less a traditional …
Apply now (until Wednesday, May 20, at 6 pm (Marseille time) –for a 8-week research residency (Residency program, intended for early/mid-career artists from French—excluding …
At a moment when contemporary painting continues to oscillate between figuration and pure abstraction, Francesca Mollett has emerged as one of the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Thomas Hirschhorn (16/5/1957- ), he uses everyday and found materials to create a dystopian …
Three decades after they last exhibited side by side, David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis are reunited in a landmark exhibition Spanning works …
Twenty years after her first exhibition with David Zwirner, Lisa Yuskavage is not looking back—she’s painting into the wormhole. This May, the …
A pioneer in film, video and installation art, VALIE EXPORT (17/5/1940-14/5/2026) has produced one of the most significant bodies of feminist art …
In an age fixated on preservation—cloud backups, archival inks, climate-controlled vaults—Kelly Akashi proposes something more radical: that loss need not be resolved …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Jasper Johns (15/5/1930- ), his work affected nearly every artistic movement from the ‘50s …
