ART CITIES: Basel-Arakawa
Born in Japan in 1936, Arakawa was one of the founding members of the Japanese avant-garde collective Neo Dadaism Organizers, describing himself …
Born in Japan in 1936, Arakawa was one of the founding members of the Japanese avant-garde collective Neo Dadaism Organizers, describing himself …
The word Ubuntu is derived from a Nguni (isiZulu) aphorism “Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu”, which can be translated as “a person is a …
Mandy El-Sayegh’s highly process-driven practice is rooted in an exploration of material and language. Executed in a wide range of media, including …
Anish Kapoor combines Eastern heritage with Western influence and as a result makes truly international art, most famous for public sculptures that …
Since the ‘90s, Sarah Morris works with painting and film, which she regards as separate media with complementary content. She describes her …
Do Ho Suh works transform the familiarity of a domestic space into a liminal one, where ‘home’ is both an idealized concept …
When Ebecho Muslimova first started drawing the character “Fatebe”, it was as a joke and a distraction from art school critique. The …
Hong Kong’s M+ Museum, Asia’s first institution dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century visual culture, officially opened its doors to the public. First …
Welcome to one of the most interesting artworks of 2021 – Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Berl-Berl at the iconic Halle am Berghain in …
Shahpour Pouyan’s work is a commentary about power, domination and possession through the force of culture. His interest lies in singling out …
Sterling Ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice, which encompasses painting, ceramics, collage, video and photography, textiles, sculpture and …
Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-80s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. …
Since the ‘90s, Sarah Morris works with painting and film, which she regards as separate media with complementary content. She describes her …
The exhibition ”Greater New York”, a asignature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, returned for its …
Since the 1990s, Ines Doujak has been developing a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses photography, performance, film, and installation and uses political theory …
French-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923 – 2019), is a major protagonist in the field of Kinetic and Optical Art, a movement that …
Coming of age as an artist in 1950s New York, Alex Katz developed his unique approach to contemporary representational painting at the …
Throughout his career, Glenn Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build …
In his work, Remy Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African Diaspora, and 20th …
Athi-Patra Ruga is one of the few artists working in South Africa today whose work has adopted the trope of myth as …
Josef «Seppi» Imhof was Jean Tinguely’s assistant from 1971 until the artist’s death in 1991. As Tinguely’s closest and most constant companion …
Since 1993, Fundación Botín has been supporting research and contemporary creation through the foundation’s Visual Arts grants, which, to date, have been …
Hans Op de Beeck produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex …
In paintings, textile works, ceramics, children’s books, and installations, Daniela Ortiz develops antiracist and anticolonial narratives as counterpart to colonialisms that persist …