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Yves Zurstrassen, 18 03 01 Contrepoint, 2018, Oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm, courtesy the artist and Galerie Xippas

ART-PRESENTATION: Yves Zurstrassen

Yves Zurstrassen’s work is always moving, going from Lyrical Abstraction to Abstract Expressionism and vice versa. The artist develops a singular creating …

Left: Ryan Gander, 2000 year collaboration (The Prophet), 2018 Installation, Edition of 3 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris. Right: Ryan Gander, Equivalent Economies and Equivalent Means, 2018 Installation, Edition of 1 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander is living and working in London and Suffolk, UK. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, …

Subodh Gupta, This is not a fountain, 2011–13. Old aluminum utensils, water, painted brass taps, PVC pipes, and motor, 65 x 190 x 309 inches (165.1 x 482.6 x 784.9 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery-Buffalo, New York; George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange and Charles Clifton Fund, by exchange, 2015 (2015:6). © 2011–2013 Subodh Gupta, Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

ART-PRESENTATION: We The People

Founded as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is the sixth-oldest public Art Museum in the United …

Call for Contributions: MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research issue 4-Whatever Speculation

OPEN CALL: Contributions for MaHKUscript

MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research is the successor of MaHKUzine. Journal of Artistic Research (2006–11). This online publication series consciously moves …

Left: Birgit Jürgenssen, Guten Morgen/Good Morning, 1972, Pencil, colored pencil on handmade paper, 62.8 x 43.5 cm, © Estate Birgit Jürgenssen, Courtesy Estate Birgit Jürgenssen and Gladstone Gallery-New York/Brussels. Right: Birgit Jürgenssen, Ohne Titel/Untitled, 1973, Tempera on cardboard, 60 x 34 cm, © Estate Birgit Jürgenssen, Courtesy Estate Birgit Jürgenssen and Gladstone Gallery-New York/Brussels

ART-PRESENTATION: Birgit Jürgenssen

Born and educated in Vienna, Birgit Jürgenssen died prematurely at the age of fifty-four. Her artwork received scant attention during her lifetime; …

Exhibition view: Fred Sandback-Le Fil d’Occam, Galerie Marian Goodman-Paris, 2018

ART CITIES:Paris-Fred Sandback

The American artist Fred Sandback (1943–2003) worked with elastic cord and acrylic yarn to delineate or bifurcate three-dimensional space, creating room-filling volumetric …

Martin Boyce, The Light Pours Out (detail), Painted panel, Photo © Martin Boyce, Esther Schipper Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. Since the beginning of his career, …

Left: Nina Beier, Demonstrator,2015, Vinyl print on frame, 155.3 x 121.9 cm, © Nina Beier, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures Archive, Right: Nina Beier, Plunge, 2015, Faucet, coins, resin, wine glass, 74.3 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm, © Nina Beier, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Nina Beier-Baby

Nina Beier is based in Berlin. Her work unfolds the histories enmeshed with serially produced objects and materials. She is drawn to …

Alice Neel, Elizabeth on the Donkey, 1977, Xavier Hufkens Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels-Alice Neel

Alice Neel witnessed a parade of Avant-Garde movements from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art, and refused to follow any of them. Instead, …

Radio Week 3 (6/11-11/11/18, H.E.I. Guide, © H.E.I. Guide

ART CITIES:Basel-Radiophonic Spaces

Over the hundred years since its emergence, the radio medium has been explored by musicians, composers, writers, philosophers and fine artists (and …

George Segal, Flesh Nude in Blue Field I, 1977, Plaster, paint, 85,1 x 171,5 x 20,3 cm, © The George and Helen Segal Foundation Inc., Courtesy of Galerie Templon-Paris/Brussels

ART-PREVIEW: George Segal

A painter and sculptor, George Segal came to be recognized primarily for his life-size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from …

Mario Merz, Spostamenti della terra e della luna su un asse, 2003, Installation view Fondazione Merz-Turin, 2011, Courtesy Fondazione Merz-Turin Photo: © Paolo Pellion, © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018

ART CITIES:Milan-Mario Merz

Mario Merz started constructing igloos in 1968 and developed the idea thereafter, creating increasingly bigger and often structurally more complicated igloos. In …

Sophie Calle, Le lit, 2018, Color photograph, embroidered woolen cloth, framing 36 × 46 cm, © Sophie Calle / ADAGP-Paris 2018, Photo: Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin Parce que je me suis toujours demandé qui en avait la garde après un divorce ? Celui qui souffre ? Parce que je quitte une maison que j’occupe depuis cinquante ans et qu’il en était le personnage principal Parce qu’il est en béton Parce que je ne laisse que lui derrière moi

ART CITIES:Paris-Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s …

Robert Rauschenberg

TRACES:Robert Rauschenberg

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Robert Rauschenberg (22/10/1925-12/5/2008). Building on European Dada and Surrealism, notably Marcel Duchamp and Kurt …

Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture, The Iuventa,18 June 2017, 2018. By motion tracking the clouds from a continuous video taken at sea, Forensic Architecture reconstructed a 360º view of the rescue scene in the central Mediterranean and located vessels observed on the horizon. Image: Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture, 2018

ART CITIES:Utrecht-Forensic Justice

In 2010, Eyal Weizman created the Forensic Architecture (FA) research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Forensic Architecture brings together archives …