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Jeff Koons, Lips, 2000, Oil on canvas, 304.8 × 426.7 cm), © Jeff Koons, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:N.York-Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is one of of American artists that emerge in the 1980s with an aesthetic devoted to the decade’s pervasive consumer culture. Koons managed to shock the art world with one audacious work after another, from displaying commercial vacuum cleaners and basketballs as his own art to making porcelain …

Alex Katz, Chance 2, 2016,Porcelain enamel on shaped steel (double-sided figures) mounted on a polished stainless steel base, 199.4 x 360.7 x 53.3 cm, Edition 6 + 2 APs (#1/6), Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA-New York, NY, Photo: Diego Flores, Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Alex Katz

Alex Katz’s portraits feature his own social milieu: friends, fellow artists, and most notably his wife Ada, whom he has painted more …

Installation View: Sudarshan Shetty, A Song, A Story and The Empty Vessel, Leila Heller Gallery, 2018, Leila Heller Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Dubai-Sudarshan Shetty

Sudarshan Shetty initially trained as a painter, later turning to sculpture and installations which now account for all of his practice. A …

Serra Behar Untitled, 2017-2018 Brass, iron, concrete and soil 260 x 122.5 x 4.5 cm

ART CITIES:Istanbul-Serra Behar

Every one of Serra Behar’s works can be evaluated as a concrete reflection of the situations corresponding to a specific period of …

Lauren Halsey, detail, Kingdom Splurge (2.4.6.14), 2014, mixed media, 24 x 40 ft., Yale University, New Haven

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Lauren Halsey

The American artist Lauren Halsey builds fantasy sculptures and environments that remix ephemera she gathers with hyperreal nature, technicolors, outerspace and Funk. …

Marius Bercea, Physics for the liminal training, 2017, Courtesy the artist and BlainSouthern, Photo: Peter Mallet

ART CITIES:Berlin-Marius Bercea

Marius Bercea is a painter from Cluj, Romania. He finds his subject matter in the clash of aesthetics within the urban environment, …

Robert Filliou, Built-in Versus Built-upon, 1968-1978, Paintbrush, sock, bottle, photograph and text on painted wood, 34.9 x 34.9 x 8.9 cm, Peter Freeman Inc. Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Filliou

A prolific artist beginning in the 1950s, Robert Filliou was self-taught, embracing disciplines as diverse as economics (in which he first trained …

Young-Jae Lee, Sans titre (14), 2005, Ceramic (Sandstone, feldspar enamel, baked in a 1280 ° gas oven), h = 35,5, Ø 28 cm, Galerie Karsten Greve Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Young Jae Lee

Born in Seoul in 1951, Young-Jae Lee studied at the College of Art Education in her native city before moving to Germany …

A Parrot for Juan Gris, © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

ART CITIES:N.York-Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornel had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive “boxes”. These are simple boxes, …

Left: Taryn Simon, Finance package for the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Baku, Azerbaijan, February 3, 2004, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015, Archival inkjet print & text on archival herbarium paper in mahogany frame, 215.9 x 186.1 x 7 cm, Edition of 3 + 2Aps, © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian. Right: Taryn Simon, Contract to rehabilitate the Lebanese postal system. Beirut, Lebanon, July 22, 1998, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015, Archival inkjet print & text on archival herbarium paper in mahogany frame, 215.9 x 186.1 x 7 cm, Edition of 3 + 2Aps, © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:Athens-Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon’s practice incorporates photography, text, and graphic design. Known for applying classification systems to troves of images, Simon produces heavily researched …

View of the exhibition “Стансы / Stances”, kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris, 2018, © Marie Bovo, Photo: archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour Paris/London

ART CITIES:Paris-Marie Bovo

For 15 years, Marie Bovo has been photographing views of natural and urban landscapes. She records a specific motif at intervals, making …

Cally Spooner, DRAG DRAG SOLO (video still), 2016, single channel projection without sound daylight, daylight bulbs, double-sided room-dividing screen (11'20''), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Archive

ART CITIES:Geneva-Cally Spooner

Cally Spooner has developed a distinctive body of work consisting of media installations, essays, novels and live performances such as radio broadcasts, …

View of Isa Genzken’s studio, 2018, Courtesy David Zwirner-New York/London/Hong Kong and Galerie Buchholz-Berlin/Cologne/New York, Photo: Jens Ziehe, © VG Bildkunst-Bonn 2018

ART CITIES:N.York-Isa Genzken

With a career spanning over 40 years, Isa Genzken has incessantly probed the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, media, technology, and …

Broomberg & Chanarin, Divine Violence, Psalms (Detail), 2013, Set of 57 Frames Containing 724 Sheets, Inkjet Proof for Text and Image Elements, © Broomberg & Chanarin, Adagp 2018, © Centre Pompidou / Dist. RMN-GP

ART CITIES:Paris-Broomberg & Chanarin

Tackling politics, religion, war and history, Broomberg & Chanarin prise open the fault lines associated with such imagery, creating new responses and …

Katinka Bock, Orangerie (weiss) [Detail], 2014, Ceramics, Courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger

ART CITIES:Malmö-Odradek,Part II

In his short story, “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919), Franz Kafka introduces Odradek as a deliberately undefined protagonist. It is …

Josh Sperling, View of the exhibition “Chasing Rainbow”, Perrotin-Paris, 10/1-24/2/018, © Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin

ART CITIES:Paris-Josh Sperling

JoshSperling’s works on canvas waves between wall sculptures and paintings. Building layered plywood structures by hand, the artist stretches canvas over these …