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Choi Jeong Hwa, Alchemy - Culture Station Seoul 284, 2014, Photo: Choi Jeong Hwa, © Choi Jeong Hwa / Park Ryu Sook Gallery, curtesy Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

ART-PRESENTATION: Megacities Asia

Asia is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing continent, containing more than half of the approximately 30 megacities around the globe. Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai and Seoul have grown at an astounding pace over the last half-century to equal and in some cases exceed the size and urban density of metropolises …

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens (series), 2015, courtesy 22,48 m2, Paris

ART FAIRS:Art Brussels 2016

The Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair opens its 34th  edition relocated from Brussels Expo to the more conveniently Tour & Taxis building, …

Sigmar Polke, Die Trennung des Mondes von den einzelnen Planeten, 2015 / Zirkusfiguren, 2005, Pinault Collection, Installation view at Palazzo Grassi, 2016, Photo: Matteo De Fina, © The Estate of Sigmar Polke by SIAE 2016

ART CITIES:Venice-Sigmar Polke

For the 1986 Venice Biennale Sigmar Polke conceived an extraordinary installation for the German Pavilion generically entitled “Athanor”. Alchemy and politics were …

Thomas Ruff, press++20.33, 2015, © Thomas Ruff, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Thomas Ruff-press++

Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …

ART NEWS:Apr.02

A newly commissioned painting of monumental scale “Empireland” grapples with Ireland’s history as a state. With images, icons, symbols and figures relating …

Adriana Varejão, Kindred Spirits, 2015, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Adriana Varejão

Adriana Varejão has developed a rigorous practice that is informed by cultural and historical research. Each series is based on intense investigation …

Kader Attia, Chaos + Repair = Universe, 2014, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016, Courtesy Kader Attia and Galeria Continua, Photo: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst / Axel Schneider, Museum für Moderne Kunst Archive

ART CITIES:Frankfurt -Kader Attia

Kader Attia has been considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. He spent his childhood between France and Algeria, …

R. Crumb, Untitled, 2002, Pages from Art & Beauty Magazine, Number 2-2003, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:London-R.Crumb

Robert Crumb is universally acknowledged as the Godfather of underground comics, and is widely held up in some quarters as a counterculture …

Roy DeCarava, Lonely Women, 1960, courtesy Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art

PHOTO:Roy DeCarava -New York 19

Roy DeCarava began his career as a painter and turned to photography in the mid ‘40s to gather information for his canvases.  …

Annette Messager, Le bras chassure, 2015, © Annette Messager, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Annette Messager

Annette Messager has an extensive body of work, for over 4 decades she encompasses drawing, photography, needlework, sculpture and installation. Messager’s works …

Alfredo Jaar, The Skoghall Konsthall, 2000, Courtesy the artist, EVA International 2016 Archive

BIENNALS:EVA International 2016

EVA International is Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. Every two years EVA International works with guest curators to create a 12-week program …

Stan Douglas, Hogan’s Alley, 2014, © Stan Douglas, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

PHOTO:Stan Douglas

Through photography, film and installation, Stan Douglas has, since the late ‘80s, examined complex intersections of narrative, fact and fiction while scrutinizing …

Anish Kapoor, Fold II, 2014, courtesy Paragon

ART FAIRS:Art Cologne 2016

The origins of today’s ART COLOGNE go back to Kunstmarkt Köln ’67 which was launched on 15/9/67 in the Gürzenich a historic …