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Akinbode Akinbiyi, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006, From the series Sea Never Dry, Photograph, © Akinbode Akinbiyi, Courtesy: the artist and Gropius Bau

ART CITIES:Berlin-Akinbode Akinbiy

Walking the streets of Bamako, Berlin, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, or other megacities, Akinbode Akinbiy studies social structures, uncovers the hidden, …

ART NEWS:Feb.01

For her site-specific work “Perspectives” (2020) Esther Adam draws linguistic and graphic analyses on the wide glass front of the GAK project …

Yuan Jai, Flirting, 2001, Ink and colour on silk, 84 x 222 cm, Private collection, Image Courtesy of the artist

ART CITIES:Paris-Yuan Jai

Borrowing style, patterns and materials (ink and mineral pigments on silk) from classical Chinese painting Yuan Jai transfers and incorporates them in …

Teresa Margolles, Super Speed / El Paso, Texas, 2020, Pigmented inkjet print, Box of 24 cartridges purchased from Walmart, Gateway Blvd, El Paso, TX, Unframed: 66 x 90 cm, Framed67.9 x 92.1 x 3.5 cm, © Teresa Margolles, Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles examines the social causes and consequences of death, destruction and civil war. For Margolles, the morgue accurately reflects society, particularly …

ART NEWS:Jan.03

Tom Pnini has constructed the interactive installation “Two Figures in a Field”, comprised of two main elements “The Set” and “The Vinyl …

Marina Faust, IN RARE CASES (detail), 2019, Pigment print on silk tissue paper, 109 x 84 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy Xippas

ART CITIES:Geneva-Marina Faust

Marina Faust’s oeuvre is anchored in self-portraits, which she has been doing since the start of her career. She places herself in …

Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Installation (Environmental Light), 1969. Installation view, The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2008–2009

ART CITIES:N.York-Doug Wheeler

In the 1960s and ’70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by …

Robert Irwin, Kilts (detail), 2018, Shadow + Reflection + Color, 182.9 cm × 262.3 cm × 10.8 cm, © Robert Irwin, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin has explored perception as the fundamental issue of art for over six decades. Irwin, who began his career as a …

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ART NEWS:Jan.02

Kang Hee Kim in “Dreamer” presents a series of photographs that collage street scenes from New York with landscapes and details from …

Candomblé-Ritual at Ilê Obá Sileké, 2019, Courtesy: Ilê Obá Sileké & Forum Brasil e. V., Photo: Nico Beradi

PERFORMANCE:Rituals of Care

The Gropius Bau hosts a series of performances as it begins its 2020 program: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary …

Cameron Jamie

ART CITIES:Brussels-Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie has produced work in diverse media from photographs and videos to drawings, ceramics, sculpture, and photocopied zines. The work that …