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Peter Doig, Lion in the Road (Sailors), 2019, installation view Secession 2019, photo: Hannes Böck, Courtesy the artist and Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London / Bildrecht Vienna, 2019

ART CITIES:Vienna-Peter Doig

Peter Doig paints representational pictures as though they were abstractions. His spellbinding works combine planar forms and a palette that is as bold as it is subtle with vivid painterly gestures. His distinctive visual idiom interweaves personal recollections and found imagery with references to art history and pop culture in …

Hito Steyerl, Power Plants Installation view, 11/4-6/5/19, Serpentine Galleries Design by Ayham Ghraowi, Developed by Ivaylo Getov, Courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin), Photo: © 2019 readsreads.info

ART CITIES:London-Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the documentary essay film. Drawing upon topics such as media, technology …

Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sex I, 2003, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, Courtesy the artists & Blain|Southern

ART CITIES:Berlin-BEYOND

The idea of the “afterlife” has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento …

Tobias Rehberger, Yourself is sometimes a place to call your own, 2018, Cafeteria and exhibition space including 2 neon signs, table and benches, 425 × 877 × 250 cm, © Tobias Rehberger, Courtesy of the artist, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan and neugerriemschneider-Berlin

ART CITIES:Shanghai-Tobias Rehberger

Tobias Rehberger is an artist whose work is characterized by transformation, serendipity, collaboration and shared experience. His work in large-scale often takes …

ART NEWS:April 01

The exhibition “The Unexpected Subject. 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy” is proposing for the first time a wide-ranging investigation and a …

Ádám Kokesch: Untitled, (Panel), 2009, Acrylic on plastic, plexiglass, metal brackets, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Collection

ART-PRESENTATION: Bauhaus 100

As a movement, the Bauhaus was the most seminal source and milestone in the history of modern art, which was also an …

Dorothea Tanning, Verbe, 1966-1970, Flannel, wool, tweed, cardboard, polyfill, forged steel, and wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces from Johannes Vermeer’s “The Artist’s Studio” (ca.1665/66), 890 x 1160 mm, Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund, © DACS, 2019

ART-PRESENTATION: Dorothea Tanning,Part II

Dorothea Tanning explored the disciplines of painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage, design, soft sculpture, installation and writing throughout her career. As a young …

Donald Judd, Untitled (Detail), 1988, Clear anodized aluminium and blue acrylic sheets, 2 units, Each 50 x 100 x 50 cm, © Judd Foundation / Adagp, Paris, 2019, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg , Photo: Thomas Lannes

ART CITIES:Paris-Donald Judd

Donald Judd preferred to describe his style and oeuvre as “the simple expression of complex thinking”. To Judd, his works, which he …

Rodrigo Matheus, Valeur Instable, 2018, Documents, threads and pins, 122 x 180 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia-Paris/Brussels, Photo: Bertrand Huet

ART CITIES:Paris-Rodrigo Matheus

Born in 1974, the Brazilian artist Rodrigo Matheus is one of the most promising artists of his generation. His work revolves around …