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Image: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marienbad Electrique (Tournage), 2019

As part of a joint commission from the Centre Pompidou Metz and the Opera de Paris, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster imagines a new "apparition", entitled Marienbad électrique at the Metz Metropole Opera-Theater, taking place on the following dates: 

June 27 – 28, from 10.15 pm – 12 am

More information can be found HERE.

Hito Steyerl, Drill, 2019, 3 channel digital video (color, sound)
Film still © Hito Steyerl

Artist Talk: Drill

Hito Steyerl
Park Avenue Armory, New York 
June 20, 2019, 6 pm

This summer, Hito Steyerl reveals her most recent installation in the U.S. to date, commissioned by the Armory and curated by Park Avenue Armory’s visual arts curator Tom Eccles. ⠀

Steyerl utilizes both the Wade Thompson Drill Hall and historic interiors of the building in mounting both pre-existing works as well as new projects commissioned by the Armory in her ongoing illumination of the world’s power structures, inequalities, obscurities, and delights. When viewed collectively, this material allows the viewer to zoom in on and out from some of the most complex and pressing issues of our time.⠀

For more information and tickets click HERE. 

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Helen & Gordon, Safety Curtain, Vienna State Opera, 2015/2016
© museum in progress (www.mip.at) © Adagp, Paris 2019
Photo © Andreas Scheiblecker

Opera as the World is a journey through the history of opera in the 20th and 21st centuries, and specifically its relations with the visual arts. Anything but a conventional reading of its subject and much more than a presentation of set designs by artists, it seeks to relate – either echoing or in opposition to the legacy of Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk – how the visual arts and opera have nurtured and, on occasion, radically influenced each other. From the experimental staging of the first avant-garde production to the works of contemporary artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Anri Sala, the exhibition maps interdisciplinarity from a different perspective.

Photo © Michael Chiu⠀

Ari Benjamin Meyers

Lecture: On the Kunsthalle for Music

More information HERE. 

Ceal Floyer, Things, 2009, 25 Audio-CDs, 25 CD-Players, amplifiers, cables, 50 speakers, wood, dimensions variable
Exhibition view: Show, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2009
Photo © Uwe Walter

Upon entering the large-scale installation, visitors encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in a museum. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which visitors can hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is a playful and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

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Liam Gillick, Hamilton, 2014, HD video, duration 27:43 min, screen 69 x 122,5 cm, mirrored room 300 x 238,5 x 480 cm
Exhibition view: Revenons à nos moutons, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2014
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Standing on Top of a Building: Films 2008-2019 is the first retrospective dedicated exclusively to Liam Gillick’s film production. The exhibition, curated by Alberto Salvadori and Andrea Viliani, presents for the first time a selection of the most important videos and films made by the artist, in a setting specifically designed to integrate the vision of his works in the architecture of the museum. Each room will be marked by different but mutually connected works (posters, wall paintings and the soundtracks of the films that randomly switch among the galleries), outlining a real cognitive journey. A fully illustrated book documenting the films and the installation will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

More information on the exhibition HERE. 

Left: © Liam Gillick; Right: © Trevor Paglen

e-flux journal presents: Art After Culture? cumulative conference in New York featuring Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl.

For more information and tickets click HERE.

Hito Steyerl, Lovely Andrea, 2007, single channel video; sound in English, Japanese and German with English subtitles; color, duration: 30 mins
Film still © Hito Steyerl

Film Screening: Lovely Andrea (2007)
Bar Laika by e-flux, New York
Thursday June 13, 2019, 9 pm

Lovely Andrea follows the artist’s quest to find a bondage photograph she posed for while in Tokyo as a film student. The film explores ideas of bondage and domination as they extend to self-identification, popular culture, and politics.

Photo © Mark Poucher

The migration phenomenon is reflected in two aspects in China: urban and rural population movement; convection between foreign population and Chinese population. In Assemblage, Xia Yanguo invites five artists including Tao Hui, to think about these two aspects separately.

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Ugo Rondinone, moonrise. east. april, 2005, cast aluminium, brown enamel, wood plinth, 187 x 105 x 110 cm (sculpture), 58 x 121,5 x 119,5 cm (plinth)
Photo © Studio Rondinone

The 14th Small Sculpture Triennial will take place in Fellbach from June 1 through September 29, 2019. Titled 40,000 – A Museum of Curiosity this year's Triennial draws inspiration from the spectacular findings of the prehistoric figurines in the caves of the nearby Swabian Jura, which, dating back some 40,000 years, include the lion-man and the Venus of Hohle Fels. Curated by Dr Brigitte Franzen, the triennial includes works by more than 50 artists, including Matti Braun and Ugo Rondinone.

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Martin Boyce, An Inn For Phantoms Of The Outside And In, 2019

Inspired by the memory of a tennis court long since dismantled, Martin Boyce's ongoing interest in abandoned and disused spaces is awakened in An Inn For Phantoms of the Outside and In Mount Stuart.

Photo © Fogo Island Arts

New Order & Liam Gillick, ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) So it goes..., Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2018. Photo © Warren Jackson

New Order announce live album together with Liam Gillick. The album, recorded in 2017, is a collaboration with Liam Gillick and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra, and is titled ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. and is available from July 12, 2019.

Hear a track from the new album HERE.

Book Launch
Angela Bulloch
Euclid in Europe
Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2019
Thursday May 16, 2019, 5 – 7 pm

Artist Talk
Angela Bulloch in conversation with Dr. Isabelle Moffat
Esther Schipper Bookstore
Thursday May 16, 2019, 5.30 pm

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Photo © Jutta Benzenberg

A public talk with Anri Sala about the exhibition AS YOU GO, which was specifically designed for the spaces on the third floor of the Castello di Rivoli, will be the starting point for the conversation.⠀

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Philippe Parreno, Bioreactor. Bioreactor and probes: peristaltic pump, scales, air compressor, air filter, silicon tubing and fitting, electric devices, servo controller, Plexiglas box Bioreactor: 50 × 50 × 62 cm, overall dimensions: 215 × 250 × 150 cm
Exhibition view: Philippe Parreno, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2018
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

As part of the Collateral Events of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Elsewhen has been produced in the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton “Hors-lesmurs” programme. This programme, inaugurated in 2014, showcases previously unseen holdings of the Collection in the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Beijing and Venice, thus realizing the Fondation’s commitment to mount international projects and make them accessible to a broader public.

In Elsewhen, Philippe Parreno creates an experience where memory of the past comes together in a disruptive temporality. The familiar markers of perception are annihilated in favour of a stimulating process of inventing new ways of understanding, defying rational categories and the established order.

Hito Steyerl, Leonardo’s Submarine, 2019, 3 channel HD video, color, sound, environment: 3 curved screens made of LED panels, dimensions variable, duration: 9:30 min
Exhibition view: May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2019
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tomás Saraceno and The Work of Hito Steyerl, are participating in the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff.

Zukunftsbilder workshop, in preparation of the exhibition Karin Sander: Telling Art and Futures – Die Dialektik des Utopischen
Photo © Dana Giesecke

The utopian is at the centre of the exhibition project by concept artist Karin Sander. There is a lot of unfulfilled future in the past, and visions of the future grow on the layers of the past. Together with sociologist Harald Welzer, the results of two surveys pointing both to the past and to the future will be presented and staged. In the process, scientific and artistic classifications cross over, taking on new and unexpected roles.

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Angela Bulloch, Heavy Metal Herkules, performed at Herkulessaal, Munich, November 29, 2017
Photo © Angela Bulloch

Music for Future Images

Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin
April 28, 2019, 7 pm
Free admission

Photo © Asad Raza

Exhibition view: Power Plants, Serpentine Galleries, London, 2019. Serpentine Galleries AR application design by Ayham Ghraowi, developed by Ivaylo Getov, Luxloop⁣⠀
Photo © 2019 readsreads.info⁣⠀

Hito Steyerl’s new project for the Serpentine Galleries considers power and inequality in society, mapping unequal wealth distribution in the communities surrounding the Serpentine which has been recorded as one of the most socially uneven areas in Europe. Power Plants will see an augmented reality app designed to expand our social vision of some local communities to reveal what Steyerl calls Actual Reality, a series of guided neighbourhood ‘power walks’, and a new video installation created using artificial intelligence trained to predict the future. 

Beginning with the premise that "power’" is the necessary condition for any digital technology’, Steyerl considers the multiple meanings of the word, including electrical currents, the ecological powers of plants or natural elements, and the complex networks of authority that shape our environments.

Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013⁣, single channel high definition digital video and sound in architectural environment

Duration: 15:52 min

Film still © Hito Steyerl⁣

Hito Steyerl in conversation with Marius Babias⁣

Steyerl’s artistic discourse orbits sociopolitical processes in theory and practice: postcolonial criticism, abuse of power, violence and the influences of globalization and digital life visualized in five mixed media installations. ⁣
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This year’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize winner responds by assembling and disassembling computer generated and real images as well as self-written texts. An artist talk will be held together with Marius Babias on 9 Apr 2019.⁣
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The talk will be held in German and tickets can be purchased here.

Tomás Saraceno, Webs of At-tent(s)ion, 2018 (detail), 76 spider frames, spider silk, carbon fiber, lights, speakers
Exhibition view: ON AIR, carte blanche to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018
Photo © Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2018

Weaving the Cosmos

Civic Planetarium Ulrico Hoepli, Milan

April 9 – 14, 2019

Arachno Concert with Silvia Bolognesi

April 9th, 7 pm

Fogo Island Arts Residency
Photo © Fogo Island Arts

Liam Gillick in conversation with Zita Cobb⁣

A selection of international book launches and discussions to mark the release of the Fogo Island Arts 2019 publication of the 65th Jahresring What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love?

Read more about the publication here.

Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc., 2014, HD video file, single channel in architectural environment, duration: 30 minutes, 15 seconds 

Exhibition view: Animal – Human – Robot, MO Museum, Vilnius, 2019

Photo © Kęstutis Stoškus

Animal – Human – Robot will explore explores the ever-changing relationship between humans and other beings: from animal species to organic and mechanical entities created by humans, such as genetically modified organisms or artificial intelligence. 

Read more about the exhibition here.

Tao Hui, Hello, finale!, 2017, 9 channel HD video installation (color, sound), duration: 38:13 min

Film still © Tao Hui

Esther Schipper congratulates Tao Hui, shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize. Established by M+ in Hong Kong, the prize recognizes outstanding artistic practice in the Greater China region.

The six shortlisted artists will be invited to present works from the past two years in the Sigg Prize exhibition, which will be held at the M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, from December 6, 2019 – April 13, 2020. The winner will be announced in January 2020.

Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. His works are visceral and provocative, yet enlightening and always imbued with a strong emotional power and a sense of displacement, inviting the viewers to confront themselves with their own cultural history, ways of living and social identities.

Tao Hui, Joint Images, 2016, single channel HD video (color, sound), duration: 14:27 min

Exhibition view: An Opera For Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, 2019

Photo © Eddie Lam, Image Art Studio

An Opera for Animals, curated by Cosmin Costinas and Claire Shea, explores the way in which the future is now projected less as the rational thinking commonly remembered from the post-war era – advanced machinery, design, and social forms – but once more as a place of amorphous fear, of animals that might take over in artificial landscapes. The future it seems, will again be an opera for animals.

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Photo © Andrea Rossetti

The second edition of Temple Talks focuses on the role of television in broadcasting ideas about art and architecture. Inspired by collectives such as TVTV, the Videofreex and the The Raindance Foundation, as well as live television and the communicative power of YouTube, Berlin artist Christopher Roth will discuss the potential of TV for architecture and urban planning as opposed to maps and models to share future visions and ideas.

Christopher Roth & Brandlhuber+, Architecting after Politics, 2018

Duration: 86 min
Film still © Christopher Roth & Brandlhuber+

Read more about the exhibition here.

Photo © Mark Poucher

Tao Hui was born in 1987 in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. He lives and works in Beijing. 

Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. His works are visceral and provocative, yet enlightening and always imbued with a strong emotional power and a sense of displacement, inviting the viewers to confront themselves with their own cultural history, ways of living and social identities.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

BPA facilitates exchange between emerging and experienced Berlin-based artists, through coordinated studio visits and meetings.

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On Saturday March 9 at 1pm, Ryan Gander will join the panel discussion Biennials Then and Now during The Armory Show together with Liverpool Biennial director, Sally Tallant, to discuss the relevancy of biennials today.

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Simon Fujiwara
Photo © Miro Kuzmanovic, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Esther Schipper congratulates Simon Fujiwara, shortlisted for the 2019 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

Established in 2000 by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie, the Preis is awarded biennially and promotes young, important positions in contemporary art that reflect the internationality and vitality of the art scene in Germany. The four shortlisted artists will present their work in a joint exhibition in fall 2019 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.

Simon Fujiwara’s work takes multiple forms including theme park style rides, wax figures, robotic cameras, ‘make-up’ paintings and short films that address the complexity and contradictions of identity in a post-internet, hyper-capitalist world. Fujiwara often investigates themes of popular interest such as tourist attractions, famous icons, historic narratives and mass media imagery and has collaborated with the advertising and entertainment industries to produce his work in a process he describes as ‘hyper-engagement’ with dominant forms of cultural production. His work can be seen as a complex response to the human effects of image fetish, technology and social media on his generation.

Photo © Thomas Demand

To mark the release of the new publication of the monograph "The Complete Papers", Thomas Demand will join filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge in a conversation about Demand's artistic career.

Image: Ari Benjamin Meyers, K Club (Logo), 2019
Graphic design: Mirjam Schlottner

Ari Benjamin Meyers’ first institutional solo exhibition in Italy, In Concert, curated by Valentina Lacinio and Judith Waldmann, fills the space of OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni from March 1 to April 14, 2019 with something that goes beyond music: a variety of social interactions and experiences.

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Anri Sala, Take Over (Marseillaise), 2017, HD video projection, color, stereo sound, duration 7:56 min
Film still © Anri Sala

Photo © Jens Ziehe

On February 25, 2019, 7:30 pm, Karin Sander will give an artist talk with Prof. Dr. Ursprung, ETH Zurich, at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. 

Read more here.

Photo © Trevor Paglen

We are delighted to announce the exhibition opening and award ceremony of Hito Steyerl for the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Read more about the exhibition here.

Christoph Keller, Ceppo sradicato (uprooted tree), 2018, dimensions variable
Photo © Christoph Keller

For one night only on February 21, 2019, at 7.30pm, Christoph Keller will present Ceppo sradicato in the group exhibition Villa Massimo zu Gast im Gropius Bau at Gropius Bau, Berlin.

Exhibition view: Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, 2019
Photo © Teresa Estrada

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intends to totally and profoundly transform the space of the IAC. And so, the path of the exhibition, Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, generates new vanishing lines. Defined by a sensitive geometry, driven only by rays of natural light that penetrate the gloom, it encourages exploration and groping and fumbling. 

This path through the exhibition also translates the artist’s fascination for the notion of dissolution of the self in its surroundings. By placing all of these relationships in space, the artist provides us with a sharp and critical tool: “if there are no more subjects nor objects, then there are no longer spectators or works of art, but rather processes of relationships of mutual transformation. Combinations of agents which influence one another”.

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On February 19 2019, Liam Gillick with host a lecture at the College of the Arts & University of Florida.

Read more about the event here.

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Spiral Forest (Kingdom Of All The Animals And All The Beasts Is My Name), 2014-2015, 16 mm film, duration 11:41 min, silent, 125 x 170 cm approx. (projector screen), 480 cm approx. (distance to projector), 138 x 30 x 47 cm (plinth)
Film still © Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Through a new immersive installation, architectural interventions, a 16mm film and a virtual reality work, the Rio-based Catalan artist looks at how diverse mediums and technologies can represent aspects of the Mata Atlântica.

Mata Atlântica, a rainforest stretching along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, is one of the most important biodiverse areas on Earth, yet is highly endangered, with only 7% of its original surface left. Steegmann Mangrané looks at how this complex environment has been subjected to conflicting pressures: economic, ecological, geographic, scientific, historical and territorial.

More information on the exhibition here.

Simon Fujiwara, Salvator Mundi Experience, 2019 (detail), mixed media installation. Simon Fujiwara in collaboration with David Kohn architects Photo © Simon Fujiwara

Opening on February 14, Is This Tomorrow? takes as its model Whitechapel Gallery’s landmark exhibition This Is Tomorrow (1956), which featured 37 British architects, painters and sculptors working collaboratively in small groups.

Whitechapel Gallery has invited ten groups of artists, architects and other cultural practitioners, including Simon Fujiwara, to explore the potential of collaboration and offer their visions of the future. 

Read more about the exhibition here.

Opening on February 4, the Stedelijk Museum presents Tino Sehgal’s 2012 work This Variation. Originally conceived for Documenta 13 and recently acquired by the Stedelijk Museum, This Variation will be on view through March 3, 2019.

Image: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Not my airline, Apparition at the Silencio, Paris, 2017

A live concert with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in collaboration with Julien Perez as part of Elevation1049: Frequencies in Gstaad.

Photo © Albrecht Fuchs

On Wednesday January 30, from 6–8pm, Julia Scher will give a talk titled “Databound Vaginal Architectures” at the Freie Universitat, in Hörsaal 1B (Habelschwerdter Allee 45) 

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

On Saturday, January 26 2019 at 13:30pm, Philippe Parreno will host a Master Talk at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Read more about the event here.

Karin Sander, Patina Painting, 2019, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Photo © Studio Karin Sander

On the occasion of Haus am Waldsee’s re-opening, the institution presents a comprehensive and site-specific solo exhibition by Karin Sander. Sander often works with the spatial and historical conditions of her exhibition venues. Not only does her upcoming exhibition at Haus am Waldsee document the evolution of her work since the early 1990s, but it also addresses its location, the building itself, which has been freshly renovated 73 years after its inauguration.

Artist Talk with Karin Sander and Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
February 25, 2019, 7:30pm

Read more about the exhibition here.

Image: Ryan Gander, 2000 year collaboration (The Prophet), 2018. Exhibition view: Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft, with Ryan Gander, ICA Milano, Milan, 2019
Photo © Ryan Gander

Works by Ryan Gander will be on view until March 15, 2019, in the group exhibition "Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft" at the ICA Milano.

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Ann Veronica Janssens, Hot Pink Turquoise, 2006, two halogen spotlights with dichroic filter, variable dimensions
Exhibition view: mars, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, 2017. Courtesy the artist, IAC - Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne and kamel mennour, Paris/London. Photo © Blaise Adilon

Through various media (installations, projections, immersive environments, urban interventions, sculptures), Ann Veronica Janssens invites the viewer to cross into a new sensory space on the borderline of dizziness and dazzlement in the solo exhibition Contemporary Counterpoint. 

In a register inspired by cognitive processes (perception, sensation, memory, representation), her works tend towards minimalism, emphasising the fleeting, ephemeral and fragile nature of the environments she invites us to enter.

In her desire to create a dialogue with Monet’s work, the artist will create a specific luminous immersive environment for the exhibition Contemporary Counterpoint at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. 

Ari Benjamin Meyers, Duet, 2014, 2 scores on paper, 2 music stands, pdf file, instructions

Photo © Paula Winkler

Tacet, from Latin tacere, is a playing instruction in music. If it appears in a score, the instrumentalist or singer is required to pause during the marked interval – to remain silent. 

Absence, silence and the idiosyncratic power of imagination and memory are performed in the first institutional solo survey exhibition of the American artist and composer – Ari Benjamin Meyers – in Germany. In Meyers’ enactment, the visitor enters a staged situation rather than an exhibition space. She or he inevitably becomes part of the scenario invoked in Tacet. Meyers – who in his work explores, transgresses and shifts the boundaries between the disciplines of music and art – combines in the Kasseler Kunstverein aspects of immersive theater with questions of contemporary art and music. 

The installation refers to a selection of performances by the artist, all of which are missing the corresponding characteristics of music, sound and movement. Two voices eventually break through the silence in Tacet: the voice of the peculiar archivist performed by art historian Jörn Schafaff, and that of the visitor her or himself. 

Enrique Vila-Matas and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Photo © Giasco Bertoli

Join long-time friends – the renowned Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matasand artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster – for a conversation celebrating the first in a year of displays from la Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art.

Read more about the event here.

Image: Ugo Rondinone, the radiant, 2018⁣
Photo © Studio Rondinone⁣
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Skanderbeg Square, Tirana

Photo © Filip Dujardin

Esther Schipper congratulates Anri Sala and the architecture firm 51N4E, who have won the European Prize for Urban Public Space for their renovation of Skanderbeg Square in Sala's native Tirana, Albania. 

Like no other public space, Skanderbeg Square, Tirana’s nerve centre and symbolic site for the whole country, reflects Albania’s complex, convulsive history. Finalised in 2017, the rennovation has turned Skanderbeg Square into a public space of more than ten hectares exclusively for the pedestrian use. In the centre of the square there is a clear esplanade of almost 40,000 square metres. Rather than being flat, the esplanade is shaped like a four-sided Roman pyramid with a slope of 2.5% and a height of two metres at its tip. A fountain at the top lets water trickle down the sides, thus bringing out the colours of the mosaic paving which is made from stones from all over Albania.

Felix Utting is the inhabitant of the house with things behind. The public is invited to meet with him on March 14th at 18:00. He will prepare tea and introduce them to the house.

Kunsthalle for Music at Witte de With in Rotterdam was the subject of a recent feature by Nina Siegal in the New York Times. Led by Artistic Director Ari Benjamin Meyers, this exhibition includes a newly commissioned work by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, as well as a repetoire of existing pieces collected from Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal, among other artists and composers. The exhibition also includes three of Meyers’ works: Serious Immobilities, Duet, and Anthem.

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Find more about the exhibition here: www.kunsthalleformusic.org

Simon Fujiwara

Photo © Miro Kuzmanov, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Simon Fujiwara. Over the past decade, Fujiwara (born 1982 in London, lives and works in Berlin) has become known for his staging of large, complex exhibitions that explore the deeply rooted mechanisms of identity construction for both individuals and societies. Addressing the inherent contradictions of image and narrative making – from social media and self-presentation to marketing and history formation – Fujiwara revels in the complexity and paradox of our simultaneous quest for fantasy and authenticity. Crossing multiple media, from sculpture and installation to video and painting and mining worlds as diverse as advertising and archaeology, Fujiwara's works are a constant reportage on the real world sources from which they draw inspiration. However, rather than simply presenting commentary, the artist creates a unique universe of his own – one that is populated with challenging and often absurd new narratives that are as intellectually rigorous as they are emotionally stimulating. 

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artgenève presents, Myth, Music and Electricity, part of “contemporary art as concert”, a series of events focused on musical and ephemeral works by artists invited by Augustin Maurs.

This event will take place at Munich's Herkulessaal and plays with the adventurous and puzzling construction of myths. The concert hall will host a series of musical and perfomative works, including a bass guitar ensemble by Angela Bulloch and performances by Karin Sander.

Doors: 7pm

Admission: 8 EUR / 12 EUR

Tickets: julia.etter@palexpo.ch

Gabriel Kuri working in his studio.

This special event will explore the work of two artists with a cutting edge, experimental practice: Analia Saban and Gabriel Kuri. The evening will begin with viewing of two short documentaries featuring each artist, created as part of the Artist Dialogues series, followed by a conversation among the artists and Rachel Rivenc.

The movies and conversation will focus on the artists' material practice and how it relates to meaning, their approach to making and finding objects, their playful use or misuse of materials, as well as their thoughts on longevity, the future of their work, and the role of conservation.

Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Flyer © Nathan Carter

Mixing fictional representation and real-life celebration, on October 27 a screening of The DRAMASTICS are Loud (2016) will be followed by the Dramastics Revue, a live concert by Nathan Carter and The DRAMASTICS at the legendary Grapevine Bar, as featured in his film and dioramas.

The presentation will include hand-made Dramastics t-shirts and performace capes produced in collaboration with the artist Dan Estabrook and Featherweight Studio.

Anri Sala, The Last Resort, 2017

42-channel sound installation including 38 altered snare drums, loudspeaker parts, snare stands, drumsticks, soundtrack and 4 speakers

Duration 58:28 min, dimensions ø 850 cm

Photo © Peter Greig

On October 14, Anri Sala will share his insights into the conceptual and creative development of The Last Resort in a conversation with Maud Page, Deputy Director and Director of Collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Read more about the event here

Exhibition view

Our Interplanetary Bodies, 2017

Asia Culture Center, Gwangju

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

On Thursday, October 5 at 6pm, Tomás Saraceno will be joined in convesation by Yasmil Raymond, Associate Curator at the Museum of Modern Art.

This event is presented by Arts, Science + Culture Initiative and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Goethe Institut.

Find out more about this event here.

Tomás Saraceno Eclipse of the Aerocene Explorer, 2016

Photo: © Studio Tomás Saraceno

Join Tomás Saraceno for a lecture at The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York.

This Event is co-presented by Columbia University School of the Arts; the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; and the School of International and Public Affairs as part of Saraceno’s Fall 2017 visit to at Columbia University.

Read more here: lenfest.arts.columbia.edu

We're pleased to announce Roman Ondak's participation in the eigth edition of Sequences.

While Sequences uses the term “real time” to refer to time-based media, Sequences VIII: Elastic Hours considers how the term might be applied to the experience of art making, exploring how artists manipulate time as a raw material. Stretching, echoing, and inverting hours, the works included in Sequences VIII often go beyond standardized metrics such as clocks to investigate alternative systems for measuring and experiencing time.

Find out more about the festival here: sequences.is

Film still: David Claerbout, Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016

David Claerbout's work Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is included in this year's BFI London Film Festival.

"A hypnotic and lyrical reworking of The Jungle Book, that removes its anthropomorphism and its human characters to give the animals back their dignity. The artist redrew all the animated animals and deconstructed the narrative arc to render it eventless, thus giving the impression of watching the animals in their natural surroundings and unaware of any human presence. The effect is one of rekindling a fond memory of childhood, but with the shades of commercial and cultural exploitation removed."

Helen de Witt, bfi.org.uk

Ryan Gander, Earnest Hawker (performance detail), 2015. Artwork and image © Ryan Gander. Image courtesy the artist.

The Contemporary Austin presents new outdoor works by Ryan Gander. On occasion his permanent exhibition The Day to Day Accumulation of Hope, Failure and Ecstasy, the artist and Senior Curator Heather Pesanti will talk about Gander's work, his evasion of visual style, and his voracious practice ranging across styles and forms.

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Exhibition view: Between Spaces, ZKR, Berlin

Photo: Frank Sperling

Join Isa Melsheimer for an artist talk at ZKR–Center for Art and Public Space, Schloss Biesdorf in Berlin. Entitled "Fading Architectures, Melsheimer will talk about the present and future of urban cityscapes and architectures. Read more about the event here: zkr-berlin.de

Christoph Keller will receive the prestigious scholarship of German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. The artist has been awarded numerous grants and residencies and will begin his stipend in September 2017.

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Roman Ondak

Photo © Benoit Linero

Esther Schipper congratulates Roman Ondak, recipient of the 2018 Lovis Corinth Prize.

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Tino Sehgal

Photo: Robin Roger, 2017

V-A-C Foundation presents V-A-C Live: Tino Sehgal, an exhibition of seven works by Tino Sehgal. From 1 August to 14 September 2017, the New Tretyakov Gallery and Schusev State Museum of Architecture will host works by the internationally renowned artist, who de es art as material production and constructs immersive situations that reinvent the traditional museum environment. This will be the first large-scale appearance of Sehgal’s work in Russia and parallel to the exhibition, an educational programme exploring the exhibition themes will run at the New Tretyakov Gallery and the Solyanka State Gallery.

Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy FRONT International.

We congratulate Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tino Sehgal for their inclusion in the upcoming FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art.

FRONT's first edition, titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, will run from July 14, 2018 through September 30, 2018. Conceived by FRONT’s Artistic Directors Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann, this multipart presentation of interconnected “cultural exercises” will investigate the significance and meaning of staging a large-scale international triennial in the contemporary context. Bringing together more than 55 local, national and international artists across mediums and disciplines, FRONT will partner with sites throughout the city of Cleveland and beyond to explore artistic collaborations, intellectual exchanges and curatorial dialogues connecting the city and the Great Lakes region to broader global, political and economic networks. FRONT’s ambitious program will weave critical approaches to museum exhibitions, public and educational programs, residencies, publications and research strategies in a complex presentation.

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Film still: David Claerbout, Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016

Cinema Zuid in Antwerp will present an exclusive screening of David Claerbout's work Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016.

Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is a color animated cartoon by David Claerbout, based on the classic 1967 animated adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. The 60-minute-long film follows the tradition of the frame-by-frame animation, re-creating the historical characters with the most faithful precision. Claerbout's film focuses exclusively on the animals: Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear, Kaa the snake, among others. Although the 1967 film depicted them as speaking animals, well-known for their witty dialogues, dances and jokes, they are here seen as “realistic” animals without any anthropomorphic characteristics. Claerbout represents them wandering in the jungle, drinking from a water spring, sleeping on tree branches, observing one another. Each of their movements is followed with precision and duration, giving the spectator the opportunity to observe every detail of the drawings. The title of Clearbout's work refers to the famous song, Bare Necessities, performed by Baloo in the 1967 film.

We congratulate Prabhavathi Meppayil for her participation in the 21st Biennale of Sydney!

Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney Mami Kataoka has announced the title of the 2018 Biennale of Sydney is SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement and shared the names of additional artists from Asia selected to present their works in the multi-venue event.

The 57th International Art Exhibition, VIVA ARTE VIVA, will take place at the Giardini and the Arsenale in Venice, from May 13 to November 26, 2017. Curated by Christine Macel, it will feature 120 artists from 51 countries, including Liu Ye, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala.

The exhibition will offer a route that unfolds over the course of nine chapters or families of artists, beginning with two introductory realms in the Central Pavilion, followed by another seven across the Arsenale through the Giardino delle Vergini. Each of the nine chapters or families of artists of the Exhibition will represent a Pavilion in itself, or rather a Trans-Pavilion as it is trans-national by nature but echoes the Biennale's historical organization into pavilions, the number of which has never ceased to grow since the end of the 1990s. From the "Pavilion of Artists and Books" to the "Pavilion of Time and Infinity", these nine episodes will tell a story that is often discursive and at times paradoxical, with detours that mirror the world's complexities, a multiplicity of approaches and a wide variety of practices.

Tomás Saraceno, Arachno Concert, with Arachne (Nephila senegalensis), Cosmic Dust (Porus Chondrite) and the Breathing Ensemble, 2016

Photo: © Studio Tomás Saraceno

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Photo: © Mark Niedermann

Pierre Huyghe, artist's plan, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Image: © Pierre Huyghe

General Idea, Portrait of AA Bronson, 1973, vintage silver gelatin print, 12,5 x 17,5 cm (unframed), 15,5 x 20,5 x 4 cm (framed)

Photo: © The Estate of General Idea

David Claerbout, Olympia (The Real Time Disintegration Into Ruins Of The Berlin Olympic Stadium Over The Course Of A Thousand Years), 2016

Single-channel video installation (color, silent, HD animation), duration 1000 years

Film still

Karin Sander, Exhibiton Space 1.7, 1:2, 2017

Graphic: © Ari Benjamin Meyers/Kunsthalle for Music

Kunsthalle for Music and its Artistic Director Ari Benjamin Meyers continue the unfolding of Kunsthalle for Music by addressing fundamental questions through a symposium of multiple modes: lectures, auditions, open workshops, and performances.

The two-day symposium at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam will feature international practitioners from the fields of contemporary art, music, and theory. As part of the symposium, Witte de With will host a casting of the Kunsthalle for Music's future ensemble, which will invite selected performers to collaborate with composers towards the creation of music and performance works.

The program was conceived by Ari Benjamin Meyers, Armen Avanessian, and Witte de With's Defne Ayas, Samuel Salemakers, and Rosa de Graaf.

Ugo Rondinone, let's start this day again

Image: © Ugo Rondinone

Starting May 6, 2017, CAC–Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati will present let's start this day again, a solo exhibition by Ugo Rondinone. This hypnotic installation will be carefully layered in groups that include a neon rainbow, colored gels on the windows, floating mandalas, blurred target paintings, painted windows, gradient color walls and a surreal cast of life-size, clown sculptures. Presented as a constellation, Rondinone marries elements he has used in the past to “bring all those groups together in a colorful symphony.”

Ryan Gander, Echo from Culturefield, 2016, 13 x 75 cm, wall plugs and dust

Photo: © Andrea Rossetti

Ryan Gander's solo exhibition These wings aren't for flying (April 29 – July 2, 2017) will present approximately 60 new works at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. At the same time, Gander will curate an exhibit made up of works from the museum collection. Using the human tendency to think in comparisons as a premise, Gander will present the works in numerous pairs. Though the pairings will be based on a physical resemblance, they will be derived from different genres and eras.

Gabriel Kuri, complete set of vestiges from Church of Saint Hubert, lotto tickets, scratch cards, 2017

Photo: © Alain Janssens

David Claerbout

Olympia (The Real Time Disintegration Into Ruins Of The Berlin Olympic Stadium Over The Course Of A Thousand Years), 2016
Two-channel video installation (color, stereo sound, HD animation)

Duration: 1000 years
Exhibition view: KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016

Legislating Architecture Chicago Architecture Biennal, Chicago, 2017

Isa Melsheimer

Kallmorgen (Kaispeicher), 2015
Reinforced concrete

Photo © Andreas Weiss

Ugo Rondinone

clockwork for oracles II, 2008

Photo © Studio Ugo Rondinone

Tomás Saraceno

Aerocene Gemini, Free Flight, 2016

Photo © Tomás Saraceno

Liam Gillick

Construcción de Uno (A Prequel), 2006

Volkswagen (Golf Mk 1 or equivalent), texts, participants

Exhibition view: Tate, London, 2006

Ryan Gander

Portrait of a colour blind artist obscured by flowers, 2016 (film still)

Roman Ondak

Tugendhat 1, Villa Tugendhat, Brno

Photo © Roman Ondak

Exhibition view of Andrew Grassie's works at Blipblipblip Gallery, Leeds, 2017

Christopher Roth and Armen Avanessian

Hyperstition, 2015, HD film, Blueray player and non-removable disc

Duration: 113 minutes with an eight-minute break

Photo © Christopher Roth

Tomás Saraceno

Arachno Concert With Arachne (Nephila senegalensis), Cosmic Dust (Porus Chondrite) and the Breathing Ensemble, 2016

Nephila senegalensis silk, carbon frame, light beam, cosmic dust, stellar wind, sonic waves, video camera, loudspeakers, video projector
Photo © Andrea Rossetti