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Negin Sharifzadeh, Inspector Sorrow in 2253, Still shot from an imagined futuristic film, Courtesy Negin Sharifzadeh

EMERGING ARTISTS: Negin Sharifzadeh

Negin Sharifzadeh studied sculpture at the University of Tehran and started working in animation and new media since her move to New York in 2010. Her animation style grows out her earlier sculptural and performing arts practices. Growing up in Iran, one of the world’s most historically and socially complex …

Gildas Coudrais, Let's talk about materiality, 2016, 68projects Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Gildas Coudrais

Gildas Coudrais experiments with the most different pictures that spring from media, advertisement, family albums as well as from examples of the …

Kimsooja, from Bottari series, MMCA Korea

ART CITIES:Seoul-Kimsooja

Kimsooja has approached women’s labor of sewing from a different angle and expanded it to a larger context of society. She refuses …

Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 2004, © Jannis Kounellis, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Jannis Kounellis

Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …

Keith Sonnier, Ba-O-Ba VI, 1970, Courtesy the Artist and Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich, © Haeusler Contemporary-Munich/Zurich Photo: Wolfgang Stahl

ART CITIES:London- Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier reinvented sculpture in the late ‘60s. Employing unusual materials that had never before been used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries, …

Installation view of Melodrama Act I, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Melodrama Acts I &II

This Summer, Luxembourg & Dayan collaborates with Francesco Bonami on the sculpture as performance Exhibition “Melodrama”, with “Act I” taking place in …

ART CITIES:Vienna-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby works in a wide range of mediums, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures, to large-scale spray-painted canvases, nail …

Alex Katz, North 1, 2015, © Alex Katz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Alex Katz long before the protagonists of Pop Art, such as Andy Warhol, adopted the principle of serialism, and influenced an entire …

Carsten Nicolai, rota, 2009, Collection Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, donation to Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Uwe Walter-Berlin

ART-PRESENTATION:On Surface

The surface of an object may be alluring or repellent, nondescript or exciting. It is our first impression. It invites us to …

Atsushi Saga, inside/002, 2016, Photo:Taku SAIKI, Courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Atsushi Saga

Atsushi Saga’s painted surfaces have such a perfect finish that they could be mistaken for manufactured products. Their sheen enables the viewer …

Adriano Costa, TheKingOfAllTacos (Detail), 2016, Photo: Lee Thompson, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery-Los Angeles

ART CITIES:L.A.-Adriano Costa

Like many other countries, in the eyes of a foreigner Brazil might seem to be a destination of nonstop sunshine, sex, and …

Schema Sun Publications

BOOK:Schema, SUN Publications

In his new book “Schema”, Stephan Sagmiller continues his reflection on the portrayal of Nature in Contemporary culture through the first of …

Łukasz Jastrubczak, Skizze Sprite for Conceptual Artist, 2016, © Łukasz Jastrubczak

ART-PRESENTATION: Common Affairs

Spanning at two Berlin venues, the exhibition “Common Affairs” presents a selection of artists who were nominated for the important for the …

ART NEWS:July 02

The group exhibition at Praz-Delavallade Gallery brings together artists who call into question those systems that in art organize a hierarchy of …

Shinro Ohtake, Scrapbook #11(detail), 1980, © Shinro Ohtake, Courtesy Take Ninagawa-Tokyo, Photo: Kei Okano

ART-PRESENTATION: The Keeper

The New Museum hosts an exhibition dedicated to the passion of collecting objects from the most precious artworks to the apparently worthless. …

Molly Soda, County Fair, 2016, Annka Kultys Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:London -ZERO ZERO

Exploring reality and virtual space, the group exhibition “ZERO ZERO”, presents works by artists who employ both traditional materials and/or digital media …