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Lee Ufan, Relatum (Iron field), 1969, 1994, 2018, Installation View Art Basel Unlimited 2018, © Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York & ADAGP-Paris, Photo: Dawn Blackman, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Ufan

In the late 1960s and the 1970s Lee Ufan was involved in the Japanese artistic movement Mono-ha and became its spokesman. Using …

Idris Khan, The calm is but a wall, 2019, Digital C print, Image/paper: 180.3 x 288.9 cm, framed: 199.4 x 308 x 7 cm, Edition of 7 with 2 Aps, © Idris Khan, Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Idris Khan

Drawing inspiration from the history of art and music as well as key philosophical and theological texts, Idris Khan investigates memory, creativity …

Tarek Atoui, Organ Within, Installation View, © Tarek Atoui, Courtsey the artist and kurimanzutto

ART CITIES:N.York-Tarek Atoui

Tarek Atoui is an artist and electroacoustic composer working with sound performance. The artist engineers complex and inventive instruments as well as …

Irma Blank, Radical Writings, Exercitium, 1990, acrylic on card, 24,5 x 31 cm, © Irma Blank, Courtesy the artist and P420 Gallery-Bologna

ART CITIES:N.York-Irma Blank

Working in a realm that is defined by the overlapping fields of painting, drawing and writing, Irma Blank has built an œuvre …

Anicka Yi, We Have Never Been Individual, Exhibition view Gladstone Gallery-Brussels, 2019, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:Brussels-Anicka Yi

Drawing on research by scientists, biologists and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past 12 years, …

Heidi Bucher, Elfenbornhaut, Fridericianum, Kassel, 1982, Latex, textile, and mother of pearl pigment, 405 x 700 cm, © Heidi Bucher, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Heidi Bucher

Heidi Bucher distinguished herself particularly through her legendary “mouldings“, focussing and exploring the architectural space and the body through sculpture. It is …

In Focus: Helen Pashgian, Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York 2019, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin

ART CITIES:N.York-Helen Pashgian

Born in 1934, Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the California Light and Space Movement. Her signature forms include …

Chiharu Shiota, Black Rain, 2019, Mixed media, Installation view at Galerie Templon-Brussels, 2019, © Chiharu Shiota, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon

ART CITIES:Brussels-Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of …

Josh Smith, Turtle (Detail), 2019 © Josh Smith Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

ART CITIES:N.York-Josh Smith

Josh Smith works with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of …

Left: Gina Beavers. Smoky Eye Tutorial. 2014. Acrylic and wood on canvas panel. Courtesy the artist. Right: Gina Beavers. Who Has Braces? 2014. Acrylic and wood on canvas panel with wood frame. Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:N.York-Gina Beavers

In her paintings, Gina Beaves transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on …

Sean Scully, Human 3, 2018, Oil on aluminium, Each panel 215.9 × 190.5 cm, Private collection (SS3357), © Sean Scully. Photo: courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:London-Sean Scully

One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully’s work draws on the traditions of European painting, invigorated with the distinct character …

Tetsuya Ishida, Search, 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 112.1 x 162.1 cm, the DAI-ICHI Life Insurance Limited, © Tetsuya Ishida, Photo: Takemi Art Photos, Curtesy Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co, Ltd

ART CITIES:Madrid-Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …

Left: Rónai Moscow, DADA, 1986, Serigraphy 65 x 50 cm, Courtesy the artist. Right: Rudolf Sikora, Exclamation Mark VI, 1974, Ofset, paper, 69 x 43,7 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Budapest-SIGNAL

The arrival of conceptual art in the early 1970s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of …

Paola Pivi, Untitled (donkey), 2003, Inkjet print on PVC, 1020 x 1230 cm, Photo Hugo Glendinning, Courtesy Massimo De Carlo-Milan/London/Hong Kong

ART CITIES:Rome Paola-Pivi

Paola Pivi’s works are authentic experiences of wonder, enterprises that mould and personalise the context surrounding them, transforming it into a pure …

Peter Doig, Lion in the Road (Sailors), 2019, installation view Secession 2019, photo: Hannes Böck, Courtesy the artist and Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London / Bildrecht Vienna, 2019

ART CITIES:Vienna-Peter Doig

Peter Doig paints representational pictures as though they were abstractions. His spellbinding works combine planar forms and a palette that is as …

Hito Steyerl, Power Plants Installation view, 11/4-6/5/19, Serpentine Galleries Design by Ayham Ghraowi, Developed by Ivaylo Getov, Courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin), Photo: © 2019 readsreads.info

ART CITIES:London-Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the documentary essay film. Drawing upon topics such as media, technology …

Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sex I, 2003, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, Courtesy the artists & Blain|Southern

ART CITIES:Berlin-BEYOND

The idea of the “afterlife” has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento …

Tobias Rehberger, Yourself is sometimes a place to call your own, 2018, Cafeteria and exhibition space including 2 neon signs, table and benches, 425 × 877 × 250 cm, © Tobias Rehberger, Courtesy of the artist, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan and neugerriemschneider-Berlin

ART CITIES:Shanghai-Tobias Rehberger

Tobias Rehberger is an artist whose work is characterized by transformation, serendipity, collaboration and shared experience. His work in large-scale often takes …

Donald Judd, Untitled (Detail), 1988, Clear anodized aluminium and blue acrylic sheets, 2 units, Each 50 x 100 x 50 cm, © Judd Foundation / Adagp, Paris, 2019, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg , Photo: Thomas Lannes

ART CITIES:Paris-Donald Judd

Donald Judd preferred to describe his style and oeuvre as “the simple expression of complex thinking”. To Judd, his works, which he …