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Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of remembrance and oblivion, dreaming and sleeping, traces of the past and childhood, and dealing with anxieties. Chiharu Shiota in her installations often employs the use of everyday objects, …
Josh Smith works with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of …
Steven Hull explores the various ways that painting, sound and sculpture interact, and even overlap, where a flat image can appear to …
An exponent of the most representative of what Nicolas Bourriaud has defined as relational aesthetics, with explicit references to the conceptual and …
In her paintings, Gina Beaves transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on …
Curatorial and Critical Studies is a two-year Master of Arts Program by the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule …
The visionary Emma Kunz predicted that her legacy of over 400 drawings would be seen and appreciated by future generations, yet she …
One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully’s work draws on the traditions of European painting, invigorated with the distinct character …
Since the 1980s, Robert Longo has created work across media including drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, music, performance, and film. Using a vast …
Over the past 35 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into …
Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …
Miriam Cahn’s paintings are as oppressive as they are engaging. In pastels or charcoal, she frequently depicts figures that fill the frame …
The arrival of conceptual art in the early 1970s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of …
Mircea Cantor’s work knows no borders. Originally from Romania, he defines himself above all as an artist who “lives and works on …
Contrary to popular belief, the architecture and spatial politics of Israel were not born haphazardly out of emergency or speculation. The Israeli …
Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have been working together for over 20 years and are a …
Paola Pivi’s works are authentic experiences of wonder, enterprises that mould and personalise the context surrounding them, transforming it into a pure …
From the very first stages of the creation of the Centre Pompidou in 1977, color, used as a code is at the …
Open Space welcomes applications from curators for the first Open Space Curatorial Residency, a new, two-month curatorial residency taking place in Istanbul …
Lois Weinberger is a pioneer of artistic field research. He first came to international attention with a work for documenta X in …
Roberto Matta, in full Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren was an international figure whose worldview represented a synthesis of European, American, and …
Peter Doig paints representational pictures as though they were abstractions. His spellbinding works combine planar forms and a palette that is as …
In the turbulent 1960s of the Federal Republic of Germany, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Anselm Kiefer laid the foundation …
When Philip Taaffe visited William S. Burroughs in February 1987, the latter was 73 years old, yet had lost none of his …
