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Francis Alÿs, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco-Spain, 2008, 2 video projections, 7:44 min each, Photo: Roberto Rubalcava, © Francis Alÿs, Courtesy the artist and Art Sonje Center

ART CITIES:Seoul-Francis Alÿs

One of the most compelling artists working today, Francis Alÿs offers a thought-provoking point of view on the times in which we …

Poul Gernes, Pyramide 1967–2018, Photo: Mattias Givell. Courtesy Wanas Foundation

ART-PRESENTATION: Projects x 3

Sculpture, both what it is and what it can be, is explored at Wanås Konst, Chiharu Shiota and Katarina Löfström (SE), who …

Left: Administration Building, Jeju National University, 1965, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea. Right: Samil Building, 1969, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea

ARCHITECTURE:Kim Chung-Up,Dialogue

As the only Korean who worked in Le Corbusier’s atelier, Kim Chung-up (1922-1988) laid the foundation for contemporary Korean architecture after returning …

Aenne Biermann, Coconut, 1929, Museum Ludwig-Cologne, Reproduction: Rheinisches Bildarchiv-Cologne

PHOTO:Aenne Biermann

Aenne Biermann was a self-taught photographer who developed one of the most sophisticated modernist practices in interwar Germany. She assimilated many of …

MASBEDO, Videomobile, 2018, Multichannel video installation, Installation view at manifesta12-Palermo, © & Courtesy MASBEDO

ART CITIES:Palermo-MASBEDO

MASBEDO are Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni, they live in Milan and work together since 1999, focusing on video art and installations. …

20 papier-mache botanical models, 1866-1927, Each between 26-49cm x 11-15 cm, Germany, Image Courtesy George Loudon Collection, Photo: Rosamond Purcell

ART CITIES:London-Surreal Science

George Loudon is a London-based retired banker, art collector, and author. He began his collection in the late 1970s, he started with …

Amplifying Nature, Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018, Exhibition view, Photo: Anna Zagrodzka, © & Courtesy Polish Pavilion in Venice

ARCHITECTURE:Amplifying Nature

Architecture as a domain of the collective knowledge of nature and a way of experiencing the planetary scale is the underlying idea …