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ART CITIES:Venice-Machines À Penser

During the Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Prada presents “Machines à penser”, an exhibition that focuses on three 20th Century philosophers: Theodor W. …

Yutie Lee, Hilde, 2018, Wood, metal connectors, three copies of the artist book Ekstase 123, H: 75 cm, Ø 637 cm, In collaboration with BNAG.cc (Oliver-Selim Boualam, Lukas Marstaller), Photo © Marius Land, Courtesy the artist and Künstlerhaus Gottingen

ART-PRESENTATION: Yutie Lee-Ekstase 123

Yutie Lee’s multidisciplinary practice combines stories and references to pop culture with literature, history and her own biography. In her first institutional …

Henrik Samuelsson, Frozen Orbit 4:01 a.m., 2012-17, Mixed media on canvas, 180 x 216 cm, © Henrik Samuelsson, Courtesy the artist and : Galerie Laurent Godin

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Henrik Samuelsson

The architecture and formal composition of Henrik Samuelsson’s paintings generate a strong sense of presence, emphasised by an underlying structure of vertical …

Nina Canell, Cucumber (Detail), 2018, installation view S.M.A.K. 2018, Courtesy the artist and S.M.A.K.

ART CITIES:Gent-Nina Canell

Nina Canell’s sculptures and installations are the result of both chance encounters and careful observations. They generate dynamic connections between solid objects …

Olaf Nicolai, Trauer und Melancholie, 2009/2012, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

ART CITIES:Vienna-Olaf Nicolai

Renowned for his inventive work with a diverse array of materials and mediums, over the last 25 years Olaf Nicolai has conceived …

Bronwyn Katz, Grond Herinnering (Soil Memory) (2015) Video, 3min 52sec, © Bronwyn Katz, Courtesy the artist and Palais de Tokyo

ART CITIES:Paris-Bronwyn Katz

As a multi-disciplinary artist, Bronwyn Katz produces installations, sculptures, videos and performances. She takes an interest in contemporary forms of discrimination and …

Courtesy of the Cruising Pavilion

ARCHITECTURE: Cruising Pavilion

The word Cruising usually describes the quest for sexual encounters between homosexual or bi men in public spaces, but it cannot be …

Regina Silveira, (Brazilian, b. 1939), Biscoito arte (Art cookie) [detail], 1976, C-prints (diptych). 74.9 × 99.1 cm, 99.1 × 99.1 cm, 177 × 101 cm overall, Collection of Fernanda Feitosa and Heitor Martins, © Regina Silveira. Courtesy of the artist and Pinacoteca de São Paulo

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part II

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …

Akram Zaatari, Letter to A Refusing Pilot (Film still), 2013, © Akram Zaatari, Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto-Mexico City and Moderna Museet-Stockholm/Malmö

ART CITIES:Malmö-Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari has developed an interdisciplinary practice that combines the roles of image-maker, archivist, curator, and critical theorist. He is concerned with …

Feliza Bursztyn, Cama (Bed), 1974, Assemblage with stainless steel scrap, cot, satin sheet, and motor, 110 × 180 × 70 cm, Museo Nacional de Colombia, © Feliza Bursztyn, Photo: Andrés Mauricio López, Courtesy of Museo Nacional de Colombia

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part I

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …