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Personal travel and the cult of tourism form the subject of Franz Ackermann’s work, inevitably representing the dichotomous nature of 21st-century global life: fear and freedom, exotica and simulacra, the crowd mentality and the need for solitude. Mental maps form the basis of his working method, they push against the …
“My Bed” is probably the most notorious work in the oeuvre of Tracey Emin. First shown in 1998 at the Toyko’s Sagacho …
Joseph Beuys was active in Antwerp during the ‘60s and ‘70s through his relationship with Wide White Space gallery, for whom he …
Working in collaboration since 1976, husband and wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen redefined the nature of outdoor sculpture in …
Keith Haring was an artist and social activist responding to New York City’s street culture of the ‘80s. His work is about …
The group exhibition “L’OFFRE” features works that engage with the complex concept of “gift” and its attendant links with notions of exchange, …
In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected …
Timed with the 5th anniversary of MOCA Cleveland’s, the exhibition “A Poet*hical Wager” explores the ethical dimension of works that use abstraction, …
October is dedicated to Paris as we have two great Art Fairs that officially mark the beginning of the visual year, the …
Harun Farocki is one of the most important and influential filmmakers, an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. …
Idris Khan transforms the conceptual art of appropriation into an elegant and substantial meditation on the act of creativity. Appropriating icons of …
Cheryl Donegan’s work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing and installation. Direct, irreverent, …
Alex Dordoy’s practice concerns the tension between physical forms and their representation as flat images. He is interested in the interplay between …
The work of Marcel Dzama is characterised by an immediately recognisable visual language that stems from a wide spectrum of references and …
The City of Ottawa invites artists and artist teams to submit qualifications for consideration to design, fabricate and install a permanent site-specific …
Unlike an art book, catalog or monograph that tend to showcase artworks created in another medium, the term “artists’ books” refers to …
Lee Miller was discovered by Condé Montrose Nast, as he stopped her walking in front of a car in Manhattan at age …
To exhibit Japanese architecture is to offer a broader perspective that clearly shows the diversity of this scene and the defining place …
The “The Photographic I–Other Pictures” is an is the first part of a diptych exhibition in spread over two years and is …
Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …
Artist often work in multiple mediums and Louise Bourgeois found a creative outlet in printmaking. This little-known but highly significant aspect of …
Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) is dedicated to cultural exchanges between Europe and the Arab countries, while Maison Européenne de la Photographie …
Sherrie Levine along with artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, questions how images are culturally constructed and the effects of …
“60 Years of Performance Art in Switzerland” explores performative art, taking as its starting point the ;60s, when pioneering performance artist Jean …
