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John Chamberlain, Gondola Walt Whitman, 1981–82, © 2016 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York, Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

ART CITIES:Geneva- John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain is known for his long career of making vividly colored and vibrantly dynamic sculptures using discarded automobile parts that he …

Alicja Kwade, Gegenwartsdauer, 2013, Courtesy the artist & Kamel Mennour, Photo: Fabrice Seixas

ART CITIES:London-Alicja Kwade

What is reality? What is perception? What is social consent? These are the key issues the works of Alicja Kwade are concerned …

Chiharu Shiota, Uncertain Journey, 2016, Installation view, Courtesy the artist and Blain|Southern, Photo: Christian Glaeser

ART CITIES:Berlin-Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese Performance and Installation artist best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the …

Nástio Mosquito, Respectable Thief, 2016, Courtesy & © Nástio Mosquito, Live Performance at World Breakers (2016) at Centrale Fies-Dro, Photo: Alessandro Sala

ART CITIES:N.York-Nástio Mosquito

Combining a range of disparate tropes, such as post-internet, performance, protest and masquerade Nástio Mosquito questions identity, political power and the concept …

Manish Nai, Untitled, 2016, © Manish Nai, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln-Paris-St Moritz

ART CITIES:Paris-Manish Nai

The works Manish Nai, defy categorization, comprising of jute (coarse or fine), butter paper, handmade paper, his collages conceive intricate forms. He …

Sven Drühl, S.D.E.T., 2016, © Sven Drühl, VG Bildkunst-Bonn 2016, Haus Am Waldsee Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Sven Drühl

The painter, mathematician, and art historian Sven Drühl is an multitalented artist of his generation. In his paintings, neon-objects, and drawings, Sven …

Doug Aitken, Free, 2016, © Doug Aitken, Courtesy 303 Gallery-New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber-Zurich; Victoria Miro-London and Regen Projects-Los Angeles

ART CITIES:London-Protest

Taking as a starting point Alice Neel’s painting, “Nazis Murder Jews” (1936), the exhibition “Protest” at Victoria Miro Gallery in London presents …

William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time (Film Still) 2012, Courtesy William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma Gallery

ART CITIES:London-William Kentridge

William Kentridge’s work spans across traditional media and techniques such as: tapestries, works on paper, sculptures, installations, animated films or opera productions …

Vik Muniz, handmade: sem título (colored tears), 2016, Galeria Nara Roesler Archive

ART CITIES:São Paulo-Vik Muniz

In a labor-intensive and meticulous process, Vik Muniz reproduces images the Western viewer is familiar with from the print media, such as …

Andy Warhol, Silver Clouds, 1966, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels- Decor

Before the Modern era, art served primarily to decorate architecture and spaces in order to make life richer and more joyful. As …

Installation View, Norsk Natur, 2016 Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Annar Bjørgli, Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo

ART CITIES:Oslo-Norsk Natur

In the exhibition “Norsk Natur”, Toril Johannessen and Tue Greenfort join their forces to discuss nature. The exhibition is the second in …

Sterling Ruby, THE JUNGLE (Detail), 2016, © Sterling Ruby Studio, Courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio and Sprüth Magers

ART CITIES:Berlin-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice, which encompasses painting, ceramics, collage, video and photography, textiles, sculpture and …

ART CITIES:N.York-Sara VanDerBeek

Sara VanDerBeek first became known in the mid ‘00s for photographs featuring her own makeshift sculptural configurations in which appropriated photos were …

Roxy Paine, Salt Almanac, 2013, © Roxy Paine, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York- Roxy Paine

In his body of work, Roxy Paine mirrors natural processes, drawing increasingly on the tension between organic and man-made environments, between the …

Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII (Video Still), 2015-16, Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater-New York, © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society

ART CITIES:N.York- Bruce Nauman

In 1968 Bruce Nauman created the seminal video “Walk with Contrapposto”, in which the artist performed an exaggerated walk along a tall, …

Cotter Luppi, Untitled, 2010, Morgan Lehman Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Cotter Luppi

Cotter Luppi’s large colored pencil drawings on paper fit into a Contemporary kind of organic abstraction that isn’t really organic or abstract …

Matthew Barney, Facility of DECLINE, Gladstone Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Matthew Barney

Two years after his graduation from Yale University, Matthew Barney had his first solo exhibition in New York at the old Barbara …