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Amar Kanwar, The Sovereign Forest, Installation view at Documenta 13, Photo: Henrik Stromberg

ART CITIES:Singapore -Amar Kanwar

Amar Kanwar has distinguished himself through films and multi-media works, which explore the politics of power, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations …

John Gerrard, Power. Play, Installation View, UCCA Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: John Gerrard-Power.Play

Gerrard’s works are constructed as simulations or virtual worlds, using 3D Real-time computer graphics. Although making use of advanced digital technology, Gerrard’s …

Jill Kroesen, The Original Lou and Walter Story, The Kitchen, 1978 Photo: Robert Alexander

ART CITIES:N.York-Jill Kroesen

Jill Kroesen was an essential figure in the ‘70s New York, working at the intersection of experimental music and then-emerging Performance art. …

Katinka Theis, Resonating of space, 2016, © Katinka Theis, Scotty Enterprises

ART CITIES:Berlin-Katinka Theis

An artist with a relentlessly “constructionalistic impulse” Katinka Theis works in the space between sculpture and architecture. Transforming structures from the world …

Kris Martin

ART-PRESENTATION: Kris Martin

Kris Martin belongs to the most important representatives of Contemporary Conceptual Art from Belgium. Working with different Media such as drawing, photography, …

Gildas Coudrais, Let's talk about materiality, 2016, 68projects Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Gildas Coudrais

Gildas Coudrais experiments with the most different pictures that spring from media, advertisement, family albums as well as from examples of the …

Kimsooja, from Bottari series, MMCA Korea

ART CITIES:Seoul-Kimsooja

Kimsooja has approached women’s labor of sewing from a different angle and expanded it to a larger context of society. She refuses …

Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 2004, © Jannis Kounellis, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Jannis Kounellis

Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …

Keith Sonnier, Ba-O-Ba VI, 1970, Courtesy the Artist and Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich, © Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich Photo: Wolfgang Stahl

ART CITIES:London- Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier reinvented sculpture in the late ‘60s. Employing unusual materials that had never before been used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries, …

Installation view of Melodrama Act I, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Melodrama Acts I &II

This Summer, Luxembourg & Dayan collaborates with Francesco Bonami on the sculpture as performance Exhibition “Melodrama”, with “Act I” taking place in …

ART CITIES:Vienna-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby works in a wide range of mediums, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures, to large-scale spray-painted canvases, nail …

Alex Katz, North 1, 2015, © Alex Katz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Alex Katz long before the protagonists of Pop Art, such as Andy Warhol, adopted the principle of serialism, and influenced an entire …

Carsten Nicolai, rota, 2009, Collection Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, donation to Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Uwe Walter-Berlin

ART-PRESENTATION:On Surface

The surface of an object may be alluring or repellent, nondescript or exciting. It is our first impression. It invites us to …

Atsushi Saga, inside/002, 2016, Photo:Taku SAIKI, Courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Atsushi Saga

Atsushi Saga’s painted surfaces have such a perfect finish that they could be mistaken for manufactured products. Their sheen enables the viewer …

Adriano Costa, TheKingOfAllTacos (Detail), 2016, Photo: Lee Thompson, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery-Los Angeles

ART CITIES:L.A.-Adriano Costa

Like many other countries, in the eyes of a foreigner Brazil might seem to be a destination of nonstop sunshine, sex, and …