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Political activist as well as artist, Jenny Holzer aims is to disrupt the passive reception of information from damaging sources. Her text-based art appears in places one wouldn’t expect to find it. On t-shirts, billboards, parking meters and her signature medium, LED signs, her work call attention to social …
Olafur Eliasson is one of the most representative and influential artists working today. His works reflect on nature and also demonstrate a …
Katharina Grosse, who has been considered one of the leading artists of her generation for many years now, adopts a very striking …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind, the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters (20/6/1887-8/1/1948). His ground-breaking Merzbau, completely misunderstood in its …
For the last 8 years Versailles president Catherine Pégard invites a contemporary artist to form a dialogue between their own work and …
In celebration of Zaha Hadid’s career in Architecture and Design that spans 40 years, Fondazione Berengo hosts a retrospective of her work …
Since first introduced at Art Basel in 2000, Unlimited has become a key element of the show, providing galleries with a unique …
LISTE was originally founded in 1996 as “LISTE-The Young Art Fair in Basel”. From the beginning LISTE has focused on introducing new …
Much of Cy Twombly’s work is a direct reflection of, response to, and re-working of the ancient past that surrounded him in …
From 1908, when the Ford Model T went into production, the impact which automobiles have had on the American landscape has been …
Born in Buenos Aires, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. …
Rave culture from the ‘80s and ‘90s was Europe’s last big youth movement. During this period of radical social and political change …
Mario García Torres works with very specific elements (hidden stories, rumours or un-clarified details) from the history of art, film, other artists, …
Helmut Newton worked as a photographer from the ‘50s onwards, but he changed the fashion photography in 1961, the moment that he …
Since first introduced at Art Basel in 2000, Unlimited has become a key element of the show, providing galleries with a unique …
Although largely ignored in its day, the short-lived magazine Provoke (1968-69) was one of the most important photographic publications of the 20th …
Between June and September 2016, Serpentine Galleries presents “Park Nights”, an annual series of live art, dance, poetry, music, film, literature, performance …
Louis Stettner is an American photographer of the 20th Century, whose work includes streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and …
The gallery Analix Forever, a nomadic gallery in Paris, is organizing video projection called “Video Forever” since December 2011. Video Forever are …
From the early instances of the urge to collect objects, to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have …
As a Special Guest of LISTE Art Fair 2016, Kunsthalle Zürich presents a project based on children’s books. These books are narratives …
How do artistic processes come about, what inspires artists? 200 years ago, in 1816, the “Year Without a Summer” when especially Southern …
Over the course of his career David Hammons has carved out a singular position. He first came to prominence in the ‘70s …
“Schiff Ahoy-Contemporary Art from the Brandhorst Collection” takes works of Minimal and Post-Minimal Art, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art as its point …
