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Rashid Johnson, Antoine’s Organ, 2016, Performance, Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano, 858.5 × 480.1 × 321.9 cm, Hauser & Wirth, © Art Basel

ART-PRESENTATION: Art Basel 2018-Unlimited, Part II

Every year at Art Basel the Unlimited Sector is a unique platform for large-scale projects, and provides it’s curator in close cooperation …

Left: Joana Vasconcelos, The Bride (A Noiva), 2001–2005, OB tampons, stainless steel, cotton thread, steel cables, 600 x Ø 300 cm, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas –Coleção António Cachola, Work produced and restored with the support of Johnson & Johnson, Lda, © Joana Vasconcelos, VEGAP-Bilbao, 2018. Right: Joana Vasconcelos, Red Independent Heart (Coração Independente Vermelho), 2005, Translucent plastic cutlery, painted iron, metal chain, power supply unit, motor, sound installation, 371 x 220 x 75 cm, Museu Colecção Berardo, © Joana Vasconcelos, VEGAP-Bilbao 2018

ART-PRESENTATION: Joana Vasconcelos-I’m Your Mirror

Through the construction of light-hearted yet strikingly direct images that refer to socio-political issues relevant to post-colonial, globalized and consumerist societies, Joana …

Left: Clément Blanchet and Alexandra Roussopoulos, Polymondi, 2018, Cardboard, plastic rods, metal mesh, resin and acrylic paint, Variable dimensions, © the artists, Callisto Mc Nulty’s Archive. Right: Eva Bony, 04-14, 2014, Paris, Seven books without text, paper, 7 x 4 x 3 cm, © the artist, Callisto Mc Nulty’s Archive

ART CITIES:Paris, Bibelot-Summer Show

In the Victorian era a new category of objects has come in to being, the category designated by the word “bibelot”, whose …

Olaf Nicolai, Colors from New Canaan (Curtain for the Auditorium of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld by Philipp Johnson), 2013, Curtain, Photo: Philip Ottendörfer, © Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig / Berlin, VG Bild Kunst-Bonn 2017

ART-PRESENTATION: Olaf Nicolai-Chant d’Amour

Olaf Nicolai has been developing his own unique form of Conceptual Art for the past 20 years. Based on the philosophical influence …

ART CITIES:N.York-Voice of America

Vito Acconci’s Installation at the Portland Center for Contemporary Arts “Voice of America” dates back to 1975. Two over-sized wooden chairs occupy …

ART CITIES:London-Beth Letain

Coming from a background in science, Beth Letain’s approach to painting is driven by an ‘imperative. The artist earned a BA from …

Michel Majerus, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2018, © Michel Majerus Estate, Photo: Jens Ziehe, Courtesy neugerriemschneider-Berlin and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Michel Majerus

Michel Majerus’s visual language freely samples from art history and popular culture, redeploying canonized styles and genres alongside graphics borrowed from youth …

ART NEWS:June 04

What at first appeared to be no more than an unspectacular artists’ book by Michael Oppitz and Lothar Baumgarten, published in 1974 …

Katja Novitskova, The new surface area, our walking consciousness, that was colonized, 2017, Digital print, polyurethane resin, rotating ceiling hook, lace, Courtesy of the artist, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler-Berlin, Greene Naftali-New York, Photo: KUMU Art Museum / Tõnu Tunnel, Whitechapel Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Katja Novitskova-Invasion Curves

Katja Novitskova’s oeuvre is located at the crossroads of visual culture, digital technologies and speculative fiction: she is interested in how the …

Viewers interacting with Franz West, Passstücke (mit Video mit Verwendungstips), 1996, during the exhibition Franz West at David Zwirner-New York, 2014, © 2018 Archive Franz West

ART CITIES:N.York-This Is Not a Prop

In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then …

Raphaela Vogel, Installation view, Ultranackt, view on Kopfschuss, 2018, Kunsthalle-Basel 2018, Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel, Courtesy of the artist; BQ-Berlin and Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zurich

ART CITIES:Basel-Raphaela Vogel

Raphaela Vogel’s work is located in the meeting of sculpture, video installation and performance and is characterized by an acute study of …

Christo, The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), Collage, 2017, Pencil, wax crayon, enamel paint, colour photograph by Wolfgang Volz, technical data and tape on brown board 21.5 x 28 cm, Private collection-Switzerland, Photo: André Grossmann, © 2017 Christo

ART-PRESENTATION: Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018

Born on the same day in 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria and Casablanca, Morocco respectively, Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude, who died …

Yoko Ono, Mend Piece (Galerie Lelong version), 1966 – 2018, Galerie Lelong & Co., © Art Basel

ART-PRESNENTATION: Art Basel 2018-Unlimited,Part I

Every year at Art Basel the Unlimited Sector is a unique platform for large-scale projects, and provides it’s curator in close cooperation …

Ghosts and Hells-The Underworld in Asian Art, Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

ART-TRIBUTE:Ghosts and Hells-The underworld in Asian Art,Part II

The exhibition “Ghosts and Hells-The underworld in Asian art” at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris focuses its attention on …

ART CITIES:N.York-Martha Diamond

Born and educated in New York, Martha Diamond has developed an unmistakable personal language from the forms and sensations of the city. …

Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh, TIMES NATURE, 2018, Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 150 × 150 cm, © Virgil Abloh and © Takashi Murakami, Courtesy Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION: Murakami & Abloh-Technicolor 2

Earlier this year, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami collaborated with multi-hyphenate creative Virgil Abloh. Working together in Murakami’s Tokyo studio, Abloh and Murakami …

Walter Swennen, Ceux qui sont ici, sont d’ici, 2013, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 136 x 150 cm, © Walter Swennen/Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath, 2018,

ART CITIES:Vienna-Class Reunion

Gabriele and Wilhelm Schürmann started collecting art in the mid1980s. Concentrating on context oriented positions informed by Institutional Critique and political art, …

Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude, 2016, Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Courtesy the artist

ART-PRESENTATION: Another Banana Day For The Dream-fish, Part I

J. D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” originally published in the 31/1/1948, issue of The New Yorker. Bananafish, the …

Jason Martin, As Yet Untitled (Ultramarine blue), 2015, Mixed media on aluminium, 127 x 98 x 15 cm, © Jason Martin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Jason Martin

Many painters across history have focused their attention on the sculptural potential of painting, but that hasn’t stopped Jason Martin experimenting in …