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Installation view TOWERMMK, Azin Feizabadi, Cryptomnesia, 2014, 73 min., video, color, sound, Script, directing, editing: Azin Feizabadi; cast: Rusbeh Sarfaraz (as Reinoldus), Dorothee Neff, Illias Nikolaidis, Maik Banach aka DJ Emby, Alvin Ejiro Aggreh, Tommy Catalano, Abdelaziz Lahmar, Daniel Wechsler, Sotiris Makris; Production management: Daniel Pauls; Director of photography: Karsten Jäger; Additional camera: Rusbeh Sarfaraz and Azin Feizabadi; Title design: Maziyar Pahlevan; Music: “Modern Persian Speech Sounds”, Omid Walizadeh (B|ta’arof Records); “Homayoon” composition and setar: Amen Feizabadi, © Azin Feizabadi, Photo: Axel Schneider

ART CITIES:Frankfurt-Because I Live Here

Neither purely artistic nor purely documentary in nature, the works in the exhibition “Because I live here” form a category of their own. They examine the structural and institutional racism and violence that represent an attack on our society. In the process, they document, supplement and question the construct of …

Philipp Timischl, Artworks For All Age Groups, Exhibition view at Secession 2018, Photo: Maximilian Anelli-Monti, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Emanuel Layr

ART CITIES:Vienna-Philipp Timischl

Philipp Timischl’s expansive multimedia installations combine personal notes from everyday life with found and self-produced materials to build narrative structures. Balancing between …

Angelos Skourtis, Installation view: Pictures at an Exhibition, Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery-Athens, 2018, © angelos Skourtis, Courtesy the artist and Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery

ART CITIES:Athens-Angelos Skourtis

The multifaced artist Angelos Skourtis in his new work that is on presentation in his solo exhibition “Pictures at an Exhibition” refers …

Dara Birnbaum, Installation view at Marian Goodman Gallery-London, 2018, © Dara Birnbaum, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Dara Birnbaum

An architect and urban planner by training, Dara Birnbaum began using video in 1978 while teaching at the Nova Scotia College of …

Alejandro Cesarco, Learning the Language (Present Continuous I) [Videostill], HD video, color and sound, Duration 19 min , 40 sec, Courtesy of the artist and gallery Tanya Leighton-Berlin, Coproduction: Jeu de Paume, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art-Bordeaux and Museo Amparo-Puebla

ART CITIES:Paris-Alejandro Cesarco

Alejandro Cesarco’s work is influenced by literature and literary theory, and by the fragile relationships that exist between imagery, language, and meaning. …

Exhibition View: Qiu Xiaofei-Fade Out, Pace Gallery Seoul, 2018, © Qiu Xiaofei, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:Seoul-Qiu Xiaofei

Qiu Xiaofei’s artistic practice includes oil painting, watercolor, drawing, sculpture and installation. The concept of his work engages relationships between personal experience …

Julio Le Parc, Post-Imagen Color Horizontal, 1959, Gouache on cardboard, 25 × 42.5 cm, Framed: 35 × 52 cm, Promised Gift of Julio Le Parc

ART CITIES:N.York-Julio Le Parc

During the course of six decades, Julio Le Parc has consistently sought to redefine the very nature of the art experience, precipitating …

Golden Family, Exhibition view “A Pony / A Bridge / Mountain / Rain” at Pi Artworks-London, 2018, Courtesy the artists and Pi Artworks

ART CITIES:London-Golden Family

Matt Golden (b. 1974 Salisbury) and Natsue Ikeda (b. 1976 Hiroshima) have exhibited in the UK and internationally under their own names …

Michael Scott, #142, 2018m Enamel paint on aluminium, 81,3 x 121,9 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Xippas Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Michael Scott

Michael’s Scott’s history with linear abstraction dates back to contemporary art’s Neo-Geo movement. Using mathematics to build specific parameters for each work, …

Zerocalcare, Fedeli alla tribù, 2010, Courtesy Zerocalcare

ART CITIES:Rome-Zerocalcare

Zerocalcare is the pen name of Michele Rech, Italy’s best-selling graphic novel artist of the past twenty years. His pen name was …

Leong Leong, Float Tank 01, 2018, Industrial stainless-steel tank with diverse materials, water, and salt from the Salt Valley of Añana, 267.5 x 231.7 cm (base); 231.7 cm (top diameter), 204.7 cm (top height), 70.9 cm (low height), © Leong Leong, Courtesy Leong Leong, New York

ART CITIES:Bilbao Architecture Effects

The point of departure of the exhibition “Architecture Effects” is the reappraisal of a timeless question “What makes architecture more than just …