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Ugo Rondinone, the morning of the poem, 2014, aluminium foil on existing structure, 1000 x 515 x 515 cm
Photo © Stefan Altenburger / LUMA Foundation, Gstaad, Switzerland

Manifesta 14
With Ugo Rondinone
Various locations, Prishtina
July 22 – October 30, 2022
www.manifesta14.org

For Manifesta 14, Ugo Rondinone brings forth an object of “beauty and contemplation” in one of Prishtina‘s most frequented public gathering spaces – Adem Jashari Square – at a time when monuments the world over are being troubled for their entanglement with ideologies.

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Booth views: artmonte-carlo 2022. Photos © Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

artmonte-carlo 2022
Booth 08
Grimaldi Forum
10, Avenue Princesse Grace
98000 Monaco
Through 16, 2022
Further information

With works by 
Angela Bulloch 
Etienne Chambaud
Simon Fujiwara
Liam Gillick
Ann Veronica Janssens
Isa Melsheimer
Philippe Parreno
Sojourner Truth Parsons
Ugo Rondinone

If you wish to receive a dossier, or should you have any questions about our presentation at Art Basel, please contact Julia Séguier seguier@estherschipper.com

At l'Esplanade, the outdoor sculpture Pentagon Totem: High Five by Angela Bulloch will be on view through the fair.

Exhibition view: Karin Sander, "What you see is not what you get" (22 exhibitions), Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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Film still: Servus Papa, See You in Hell, 2022, directed by Christopher Roth. 
Still © Arden Film

Servus Papa, See You in Hell
Directed by Christopher Roth
Munich Film Festival
Various locations
Screening dates: June 26, June 27 & July 2, 2022
www.filmfest-muenchen.de


Christopher Roth's Servus Papa, See you in Hell will premiere at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.

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Ari Benjamin Meyers, K Club, 2019, performance, environment, neon sign, 2 12-inch LP vinyl records, dimensions variable, neon sign: 106 x 97 x 8 cm. Exhibition view: Ari Benjamin Meyers, K Club, Blitz Club, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2020. Photo © Lenbachhaus

Ari Benjamin Meyers
K Club
Art Basel | Unlimited Night
Hall 1.0
10 Messeplatz, Basel
Thursday June 16, 2022, 7–10pm
www.artbasel.com
Special tickets for the Unlimited Night can be purchased here. A ticket to Unlimited Night does not guarantee access to K Club.

A special performance of Ari Benjamin Meyers, K Club will be at the inaugural Art Basel Unlimited Night on Thursday June 16, 2022, 7–10pm.

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Booth views: Art Basel, Basel, 2022. Photos © Andrea Rossetti

Art Basel 2022
Hall 2.1
Booth R1
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058, Basel
Through June 19, 2022
www.artbasel.com

We hope you will join us at Booth R1 at Art Basel through June 19 and hope you can attend Ari Benjamin Meyers' K Club at the inaugural edition of Unlimited Night from Art Basel on Thursday, June 16, 7–10pm at Hall 1.0, 10 Messeplatz, Basel.

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Nathan Carter, Silky-Way Sylvan Slip-Throughs for Switchblade Shirley from Sapphronia, 2022 (in the artist’s Brooklyn, NY studio). Photo © Nathan Carter (Mars)

Nathan Carter
Silky-way Sylvan Slip-throughs Serrated Sub-space Side-winders
and Countess Von Venomous’ Private Pearl Position
June 10 – July 16, 2022
Opening Friday June 10, 6–9pm
www.estherschipper.com


Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Silky-way Sylvan Slip-throughs Serrated Sub-space Side-winders and Countess Von Venomous’ Private Pearl Position, a special presentation by Nathan Carter, who has had four solo exhibitions with the gallery.

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Sojourner Truth Parsons. Portrait © Cub

 

Esther Schipper is delighted to announce representation of Sojourner Truth Parsons.

"I am looking at art through my heart. Maybe that's selfish, but I want to find something I didn't know was there."

—Sojourner Truth Parsons, 2016

 

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Esther Schipper congratulates Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia, directors of the film Christophe... définitivement, included in the Official Selection of 75th Festival de Cannes, 2022.


Christophe... définitivement
Cinema de la Plage (open-air cinema)
Macé beach, Bd. de la Croisette
06400 Cannes
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 9.30pm
Screening in the presence of Ange Leccia and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Followed by a musical evening organized by ARTE
www.festival-cannes.com

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Gradient grey silk paintings by Matti Braun (130 x 100 cm each).
Sculptures by Angela Bulloch (MDF or synthetic marble sheet material, 150 x 40 x 40 cm; 150 x 50 x 30 cm).
Photos © Andrea Rossetti

馬蒂·布豪恩 (Matti Braun) 的灰色漸變絲綢繪畫 (每幅130 x 100 cm)
安吉拉·布洛克 (Angela Bulloch) 的雕塑作品（中密度纖維板或合成大理石板材, 150 x 40 x 40 cm; 150 x 50 x 30 cm). 攝影：©Andrea Rossetti

Art Basel Hong Kong 2022
Booth 1B14
Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong, China
May 25 – 29, 2022
www.artbasel.com

Private View: May 25 – 27
Vernissage: Friday, May 27, 2pm–8pm
Public Days: May 28 – 29


Esther Schipper is delighted to announce our participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, with works by Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch.

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Photos / 攝影 © Jörg von Bruchhausen; © Andrea Rossetti; © Studio Rondinone; © Marcus Schneider; © Thomas Demand & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022

Taipei Dangdai 2022
Booth C05
Taipei World Trade Center No. 5
Section 5, Xinyi Rd
Xinyi District, Taipei City
May 19 – 22, 2022
www.taipeidangdai.com

Preview: May 19
Public Days: May 20 – 22


Esther Schipper is delighted to announce our participation in Taipei Dangdai 2022.

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Exhibition views: David Claerbout, Hemispheres, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022. Photos © Andrea Rossetti

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Simon Fujiwara
Hello Who?
Presented by CIRCA
Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne, New York, Seoul and Tokyo
April 1 – 30, 2022
Watch online at www.circa.art


In a new stop-motion animation by Simon Fujiwara, viewers are invited to follow Who the Bær - the cartoon protagonist - on their quest for identity and belonging. Curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, Hello Who? will premiere April 1, 2022 on London’s Piccadilly Lights and broadcast everyday at 20:22 throughout the month across the CIRCA global network of screens in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne, New York and Seoul.

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Photos © Andrea Rossetti, © Jörg von Bruchhausen

BAMA Busan 2022
Booth C-11
BEXCO
55, APEC-ro
Haeundae-gu, Busan
April 7 – 10, 2022
www.bamabusan.com

Preview: April 7
Public Days: April 8 – 10


Esther Schipper is pleased to participate in BAMA Busan 2022, taking place from April 7 – 10. We hope you will join us at the fair, Booth C-11.

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Still: Liam Gillick & Gelitin, Stinking Dawn, 2022, film, duration: 92 min. © the artists

Liam Gillick & Gelitin
World Premiere: Stinking Dawn
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
March 25, March 30, and April 3, 2022
www.cphdox.dk
Tickets to each screening are available here.


Stinking Dawn - a movie by Liam Gillick and Gelitin, examines the limits of human tolerance in the face of oppression, political crisis and excessive self-delusion, where the boundaries between body and world dissolve in a delirious and darkly funny mirror image of civilization itself.

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Photo © Conrad Erb

Rehearsing Philadelphia 
A Meta-Score by Ari Benjamin Meyers
March 25 – April 10, 2022
Various Locations
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.rehearsingphiladelphia.com
Opening Weekend: March 25 – 26, 2022


Created by Ari Benjamin Meyers and jointly produced and presented by the Curtis Institute of Music and Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Rehearsing Philadelphia is a large-scale public project that explores how we can come together as a city through musical rehearsal. The traditional musical preparation process focuses on rehearsing as a way to attain perfection, which is then repeated in performance. This is not how we live modern life in a rapidly changing world of social upheaval. The future will be rehearsed, not perfected. Rehearsing Philadelphia re-examines the rehearsal processes which allow people to act together and be empowered to create new realities.

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Booth view: Esther Schipper, ARCOmadrid 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Esther Schipper is pleased to participate in ARCOmadrid 2022, taking place through February 27. We hope you will join us at the fair, Booth 9B09.

 

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The Close, a new video work by David Claerbout has been added to the Concertgebouw Brugge collection. Intended as a short, emotional history of the camera, The Close reflects on what Claerbout calls ‘dark optics’: a profound if chaotic recalibration happening in our time, of the beliefs we share in regards to image, information and language. For the premiere of The Close, Arvo Pärt’s Da pacem Domine will be performed live by the Flemish Radio Choir.

Sunday February 20, 2022
11am – tickets
2pm – tickets
4pm – tickets

Thomas Demand, Markise / Canopy, 2020, C-Print / Diasec, 180 x 144 cm. © Thomas Demand & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022

 

ARCOmadrid 2022
Booth 9B09
IFEMA MADRID
Recinto Ferial, Av. Partenón 5
28042 Madrid
February 23 – 27, 2022
www.ifema.es

Esther Schipper is pleased to participate in ARCOmadrid 2022, taking place from February 23 – 27. We hope you will join us at the fair, Booth 9B09.

With works by:
Rosa Barba
Matti Braun
Sarah Buckner
Angela Bulloch
Etienne Chambaud
Thomas Demand
Simon Fujiwara
Ann Veronica Janssens
Ugo Rondinone
Anri Sala
Karin Sander
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

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40 (+1) Anniversary | Booth 17
With AA Bronson and General Idea

Esther Schipper is pleased to participate in this year’s special section ARCOmadrid's 40 (+1) Anniversary, from February 23 – 27. The unique project brings past and present together through the galleries and their essential relationship with artists and collectors that have always been present at ARCOmadrid throughout its history. The programme participants have been invited by María Inés Rodríguez, Francesco Stocchi and Sergio Rubira.

Esther Schipper presents two historical works: General Idea's El Dorado Series,1992, and AA Bronson‘s Untitled (For General Idea), 1997.

Film Still: Tao Hui, Pulsating Atom, 2019. Single channel HD video, color, sound, duration: 14:12 min, edition of 5. © the artist

 

Esther Schipper congratulates Tao Hui, nominated for the 2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award. Established by the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, the prize recognizes outstanding photographic work from a Chinese artist.

All ten nominees will present their work during the Seventh Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, opening in Xiamen on November 26, 2021, and runs until January 3, 2022. The winner will be announced during the opening week and will receive an invitation to present a solo exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2022.

Tao Hui creates photographs and 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.

Booth view: Esther Schipper, ART COLOGNE, 2021. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

ART COLOGNE
Booth A5, Hall 11.2
Koelnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln / Cologne
November 18–21, 2021
www.artcologne.com

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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, A Dream Dreaming a Dream, 2020, video projection (real-time procedural computer-generated animation), infinite duration, 4-channel sound, black and white, edition of 4. 
Commissioned and produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). Exhibition view: LOOP Fair, Casa Milà, Barcelona, 2021. Photo © Roberto Ruiz

LOOP Fair 2021
with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
La Pedrera – Casa Milà
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
08008 Barcelona
Through November 18, 2021
www.loop-barcelona.com

Esther Schipper is pleased to participate in LOOP Fair 2021 where we present Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's A Dream Dreaming a Dream, 2020, a real-time, infinitely changing animation, always similar but also always generated anew, of a dreaming panther roaming the forest.

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Photo © Leon Kahane

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
With Hito Steyerl, Guest of Honor
Frederiksplein 52
1017 XN Amsterdam
November 17 – 28, 2021
www.idfa.nl

Special events: 
November 19, 2:30–4:35 pm – Hito Steyerl: The Empty Center + Master Talk – Tickets
November 20, 8:30–10 pm – IDFA Dialogue: Hito Steyerl and her Top 10 – Tickets

Hito Steyerl who is Guest of Honor of this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam curated a Top 10 program. Key to apprehending her own seismic body of work, Steyerl’s selection presents a lineup of dissident filmmakers who, each in their own way, have radically shaped the art of political documentary cinema.

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Matti Braun, Untitled, 2019, Seide, Textilfarbe, pulverbeschichtetes Aluminium / silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium, 130 x 100 cm. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction
With Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch
Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
Hohe Bleichen 18
20354 Hamburg
www.kulturstiftung-hh.de

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Still: Simon Fujiwara, Once Upon a Who, 2021, installation with stop-motion animation, duration: 4:48 min. © the artist

Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2021: A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song
With Simon Fujiwara
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10
1205 Geneva
November 12, 2021 – January 30, 2022
Opening: November 11, 6 pm
Admission free: a vaccine certificate is required for entry
www.bim21.ch

Co-curated by the collaborative DIS and Andrea Bellini, Director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 (BIM'21) includes works by 14 artists and collectives, that all grapple with a shift in consciousness and a need to debunk narratives.

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Ugo Rondinone, yellow green pink mountain, 2021, painted stone, stainless steel, pedestal, 160 x 35.6 x 30.5 cm. Photo © Studio Rondinone

 

UNQUESTIONING LOVE: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial
With works by Ugo Rondinone
November 9 & 12, 2021
Christie's New York
20 Rockefeller Plaza
New York
www.nycaidsmemorial.org


The New York City AIDS Memorial has partnered with Christie’s for Unquestioning Love, a selection of contemporary artworks across two auctions — the 21st Century Evening Sale on November 9, and the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on November 12 to which Ugo Rondinone has donated yellow green pink mountain, 2021.

This charitable auction is dedicated to creating a vital and strategic fund that will help to ensure the preservation of the New York City AIDS Memorial’s physical space in perpetuity and support and strengthen many future years of ambitious arts, cultural, and educational programs.

The proceeds of the sale, occurring as the New York City AIDS Memorial celebrates the 10th anniversary of its founding and the 5th anniversary of its public dedication, will help create a vital and strategic fund that will ensure the preservation of the Memorial’s physical space in perpetuity and support and strengthen many future years of ambitious arts, cultural, and educational programs.

Ugo Rondinone, siebteraprilzweitausendundsechzehn, 2016, acrylic on canvas, ø 80 cm (31 1/2 in).
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Art Collaboration Kyoto
Joint presentation by Esther Schipper and Taro Nasu
Booth B01
Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall
November 5–7, 2021
www.a-c-k.jp

For Art Collaboration Kyoto, November 4 – 7, 2021, Esther Schipper is pleased to announce a joint presentation together with Taro Nasu.

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Angela Bulloch, Pentagon Totem: Perp, 2021 (detail). Photo: Daniel Young

Angela Bulloch 
Animal Vegetable Mineral
November 5 – December 18, 2021
Opening Friday November 5, 2 – 8 pm
www.estherschipper.com


Esther Schipper is pleased to present Angela Bulloch's Animal Vegetable Mineral, the artist’s 13th exhibition with the gallery. On view will be all new works, further developing the artist's iconic series and her sculptures assembled from modular geometric elements, as well as a monumental wall painting and a projected digital animation.

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Photo: Marlene Gawrisch. © Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba
In conversation with Joachim Jäger
Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin
Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 7 pm – 9 pm
Language: German
Free, booking required

On the occasion of her exhibition In a Perpetual Now at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Rosa Barba talks with director Joachim Jäger about her artistic work and ongoing projects related to the 15 cinematic and sculptural works on display there until January 16, 2022. The conversation will be mostly conducted in German.

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Photo © Michael Chiu

Esther Schipper congratulates Ari Benjamin Meyers, who was named Artist in Residence at the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn.

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Booth view: Esther Schipper, Frieze London, 2021. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Frieze London
Booth B04
13 Park Square W
Regent's Park, London NW1
Through October 17, 2021
www.frieze.com

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FIAC
Booth B17
Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
75007 Paris
October 21 – 24, 2021
www.fiac.com

FIAC Viewing Room
October 21 – 25, 2021

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce our participation in FIAC 2021.

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Photo © Wolfgang Stahr

Finissage – Artist Talk with Anri Sala & André Vida
Kunsthaus Bregenz
October 10, 2021, 11 am
Free admission
Language: English
Further Information on the talk
www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at
Current COVID-19 guidelines at Kunsthaus Bregenz

On the occasion of the closing of Anri Sala's major solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, the artist will be in conversation with André Vida, giving a personal insight into his work on the last day of the exhibition.

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Rosa Barba, Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021. United Nations Buffer Zone, Deryneia, Cyprus. Open-air cinema Sculpture. Photo: Marios Stylianou © Rosa Barba

 

Esther Schipper is is pleased to announce the inaugural ceremony of Rosa Barba’s Open-Air Cinema and premiere of her film Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021.

Inside the Outset is a project that consists of two parts: a film and a long-term open-air cinema installation within the 180-kilometer UN-controlled "Green Line Buffer Zone" in Cyprus. This area divides the island between North and South, and forms the starting point of Rosa Barba’s artistic intervention.

The project started seven years ago when Barba was invited by Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia and by the curator Mirjam Varadinis to Cyprus and proposed a cinema sculpture for the Buffer Zone. The inaugural ceremony of the Open-Air Cinema will take place in the presence of His Excellency the Ambassador of Italy to Cyprus on September 10, 2021, with the projection of Barba's film Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage along with films selected by the project’s Advisory Board of artists from each side of the Green Line and beyond. Visitors from both sides of the island will be able to enter the Buffer Zone, which is usually closed to civilians.

In a recent article for The Brooklyn Rail, Rosa Barba discusses this project as well as her other current projects – Read it here

 

 

Rosa Barba, Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage (2021)
Open-Air Cinema and 16mm film transferred to digital and 8k film, sound, 31:15 min
Produced by Point Centre for Contemporary Art, funded by the Italian Council.
A collaboration with Famagusta Avenue Garage.
Image: Marios Stylianou © Rosa Barba

Ann Veronica Janssens, Venetian Blind, 2007-2021, aluminum Venetian blinds, gold leaf, 400 x 190 x 2 cm
Exhibition view: Ann Veronica Janssens, gam gam gam, Galleria d'Arte Moderna – GAM, Milan, 2021. 
Photo © Ann Veronica Janssens

 

On the occasion of Milan Design Week, Italian luxury house Bulgari presents Metamorphosis, an immersive journey inside the iconic Serpenti jewelry collection in dialogue with the work of four renowned contemporary artists, including Ann Veronica Janssens. 

Playfully titled gam gam gam, Janssens‘ site-specific installation conceived for the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, uses natural light and a composition of new works characterized by a minimalist aesthetic in contrast with the maximalism and the sumptuous decor of the museum's architecture. The exhibition includes a golden Venetian blind which was specially produced for the windows of the room, and six of her iconic aquariums, where optical physical phenomena are used to expand the observers' perception.

A bilingual catalogue titled Serpenti. Il Potere delle Metamorfosi – The Power of Metamorphosis, published by Silvana Editoriale, is forthcoming.

 

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

What would you like to know about Who The Bær?⁠
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Tune in to attend the digital preview of the exhibition Who The Bær on Wednesday 3 March at 7 pm (CET) live on the @fondazioneprada Instagram account⁠
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Simon Fujiwara will unveil his site-specific project and, in conversation with author Barbara Casavecchia will go through the key themes that inspired the fantastical character of Who The Bær.

Photo © Tom Mannion

 

Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander and Princeton Program in Visual Arts faculty member David Reinfurt
February 9, 2021, 12 pm (EST), 6pm (CET)
Pre-registration is required

 

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Exhibition view: Isa Melsheimer, false ruins and lost innocence, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2020
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Online Tour of Isa Melsheimer's false ruins and lost innocence
with Isa Melsheimer and Jan Kage
Saturday December 12, 2020, 12 noon
The tour will be held in German
Join the tour on Instagram Live

 

Join Isa Melsheimer and author, musician, and curator, Jan Kage as they take you on a tour of false ruins and lost innocence, Isa Melsheimer's current exhibition at the gallery.

Hito Steyerl, SocialSim, 2020⁠. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020⁠
Film still © Hito Steyerl⁠

 

Hito Steyerl's simulation Social Sim screening live from a locked down K21 to reflect the current political climate.⁠

 

Watch the live stream here!

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Online Tour of Still Frame with Andrew Grassie and Manuel Miseur, Director at Esther Schipper

Sunday November 1, 2020, 11:30 am
On Instagram live

 

Andrew Grassie’s paintings are based on photographs he has taken himself or that he, in some cases, has found. Often they have been elaborately staged, although this effort is veiled by the ostensibly unassuming matterof-factness the small, precisely painted works exude. The works are executed with tempera, a technique associated with pre-Renaissance panel paintings anteceding the development of oil paint. Tempera dries very rapidly and remains relatively sheer. To create cover and solid colors, many layers are needed.

 

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Photo © Ola Rindal

 

Enjoy a discussion with artist Philippe Parreno, creator of the installation Echo, a "sensible and sentient automaton" that "lives" in MoMA's lobby and interacts with visitors, and hear about what he's working on and thinking about these days.

 

An online lecture/panel discussion with Philippe Parreno
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 12 pm (EST)

MoMA

 

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

 

Film screening with Tao Hui

Bi’bak, Berlin
October 8, 2020, 8 pm

 

Tickets available here

Photo © Brigitte Lacombe

 

Starting 9 October M is presenting the new exhibition HOUSE OF CARD by Thomas Demand. In order to limit the spread of the coronavirus there will be no physical opening event. Instead, there will be a livestream on Facebook on Thursday evening 8 October.

 

8 pm – Première of the film M and Thomas Demand made on the exhibition (English, subtitles in Dutch and French)

8:15 pm – Conversation between curator Valerie Verhack and Thomas Demand (English) on the exhibition at M and the accompanying book.

 

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On Wednesday September 9, at 18.30, the Museo Madre will present the new publication by Liam Gillick: Standing On Top of a Building: Films 2008-2019 published in June 2020 by Edizioni Madre and arte’m.⁠
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After an introduction by the president of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Laura Valente, Liam Gillick will be joined in conversation with the curators, Alberto Salvadori and Andrea Viliani.⁠
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The publication is the first retrospective dedicated exclusively to Liam Gillick’s film production.⁠

 

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Ari Benjamin Meyers, Solo, originally produced in 2009 by Soundfair at Loge, Berlin with Ruth Rosenfeld, soprano
Photo © Douglas Gordon

 

Solo by Ari Benjamin Meyers was first presented in Berlin in 2009 by Soundfair at Loge. In line with the basic concept of the work, only one person at a time was allowed to enter the space, to experience a live vocal performance of ca. seven minutes, delivered by a solo singer. In the first version of the performance the soloist and the solo audience were in one space, a small room which created, in fact provoked, an inevitably intimate connection between the two.

In Solo (Social Distance Version)—presented first at CHB-Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and later at Yellow Solo—the soloist and the solo audience are separated by a wall, and thus the show, experienced in complete solitude, is comprised not of hearing, but overhearing.

VENUE 1:
CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin
September 11, 12, both days 4 pm - 10 pm
Duration of the performance: 10 min
The performance takes place in continuous repetition from 4 pm till 10 pm on the 11th and 12th of September. A solo visitor is allowed to enter the space following a short break after each performance.
From 4 pm to 7 pm, the performance can only be visited at a pre-booked time slot. It is not necessary to register between 7 pm and 10 pm, entry is in the order of arrival.
Registration: contact@yellowsolo.de

VENUE 2:
Yellow Solo
Danziger Straße 162a, 10407 Berlin
September 19, 26, October 4, 11, on all four days 4 pm – 8 pm
Duration of the performance: 10 min
The performance can only be visited here at a pre-booked time slot.
Registration: contact@yellowsolo.de

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Artist Talk

Gabriel Kuri in conversation with Georgina Jackson⁠

Thursday 3 September 2020, 7.30 pm⁠ ⁠(CET)

 

Join Gabriel Kuri and The Douglas Hyde Gallery Director Georgina Jackson as they discuss Kuri's practice, in particular his current exhibition The Douglas Hyde Gallery "spending static to save gas".⁠ ⁠ The conversation will be live cast on The Douglas Hyde Gallery YouTube channel. 

 

More information can be found here

AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson looking at the Old Sun Residential School, now the Old Sun Community College, on the Siksika Reserve, 2018.
Photo © Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur

 

(At Home) On Art And Healing: Online Artist Talk

With AA Bronson And Adrian Stimson
Hirshhorn Museum (online)

August 19 2020, 2–3 pm

 

Artists AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson join Hirshhorn assistant curator Betsy Johnson for a discussion on their work and recent collaboration to address the fundamental role that art can play in helping us to face unspeakable atrocities, rebuild relationships and trust, and find healthy ways to heal and move forward together. Through this conversation, the artists approach the unanswerable question—one posed by Bronson in his work A Public Apology to Siksika Nation—of how one can apologize for genocide, if at all.⁠
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“When I was a kid, I drew and built my worlds. I would make maps and models of places. I would mix toys together and there was a lot of masking tape, pencils, matchboxes, thread, string, and Elmer’s glue—sticking legos to pine cones and things like that. As an adult, as a childish adult, I’m still doing that storytelling through drawing maps and world-building.”⁠
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Nathan Carter shared his recipe for a refreshing, tangy salad of cucumbers, mangoes, pineapples, lime, and spicy Thai chilis for MoMA PS1's new instalment of Cooking with Artists with Chef Mina Stone⁠
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Click the link for the full recipe!
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Wir freuen uns, an der dritten Ausgabe von SUNDAY OPEN teilzunehmen, einer Initiative von INDEX Berlin. Unsere Ausstellung ist noch bis 26. Juli zu sehen wird am kommenden Sonntag von 12 bis 18 Uhr geöffnet sein.⁠
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We are pleased to participate in the third iteration of SUNDAY OPEN, initiated by INDEX Berlin. For its final day, our exhibition PS81E will be open this Sunday, July 26, from 12 through 6 pm.

Only a few weeks ago, Gabriel Kuri wrote in our Letter from Berlin about his love of books. Now he has recorded a story by Umberto Eco as part of the New Museum's series Bedtime Stories (in English and in Spanish).

 

Listen to the story here

Welcome to the next instalment of the series where our artists open their studio doors and invite you to guess whose studio.⁠

 

To give a helping hand to figure out whose studio you’re peeking into, we’ve put together a number of clues to get you on the right track: 1

1. Everything on their desktop⁠

2. A Scotsman in London⁠

3. Only thing missing are the eggs⁠

4. Worlds within worlds⁠

 

Click here to find out the answer!

Photo © Francesco Gennari, 15 aprile 2020⁠

 

VIAGGI DA CAMERA is the new online project from the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi. "Viaggi da camera" collects and distributes daily images, videos and texts, chosen by artists invited to tell their home and private space. Every day a new contribution will be published on the Foundation's website and social channels.⁠
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Inspired by Xavier de Maistre's famous 18th century novel "Journey around my room" - written during a 42-day obligatory stay in a room in Turin - "Viaggi da camera" invites artists to open the doors of their real and imaginary rooms. Taken from day #39, Francesco Gennari shared a glimpse into his home life in the midst of lockdown.⁠
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Welcome to the next instalment of the series where our artists open their studio doors and invite you to guess whose studio.⁠

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To give a helping hand to figure out whose studio you’re peeking into, we’ve put together a number of clues to get you on the right track:

 

⁠⁠1. Has been with the gallery for over 30 years
⁠2. The sky's the limit⁠
3. Loves rules
⁠4. Enjoys heavy metal⁠

 

Click here to find out the answer!

Exhibition view: Tomás Saraceno, Algo-r(h)i(y)thms, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2019⁠
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

In this next instalment of Journey Through the Gallery, we look back to November 2019 where we presented Algo-r(h)i(y)thms, Tomás Saraceno's third solo exhibition with the gallery. ⁠

 

See inside the exhibition here

Ugo Rondinone, If there were anywhere but desert, Monday, 2000, fiberglass, paint, clothing, glitter, 86 x 76 x 122 cm. Photo © Studio Rondinone

 

Ugo Rondinone's 2001 exhibition Slow Graffiti consisted of two new works. The exhibition space was dominated by a tessellated mirror partition (5 x 5 meters) which is positioned in a way to reflect the whole room in fragments, or rather to display a distorted picture of the room in which the sculpture, a clown figure made of polyester, leans passively against the wall.

Integrated into the partition there were four loudspeakers playing a dialogue typical of Rondinone. To be heard is a woman's voice from the left and a man's voice from the right channel. The Beckett-like one-minute dialogue of the two voices talking at cross-purposes, fitted together to make a loop, expresses a depressing purposelessness, regarding content as well as formal aspects.

 

See inside the exhibition here

Under the heading Messages from Home artists are sharing videos from their (temporary) studios or homes.⁠

 

Here, Tao Hui shares a recipe of his take on a Chinese-style ice plant salad!

 

See the full recipe here!

Gabriel Kuri, Reduce to Improper Fraction, 2018. 32 x 24 cm. Published by Three Star Books, Paris

 

"I love books. By making my own, I learned that they do not have to be second to nor a derivative of my sculptural practice. Whether they are linked to a body or period of work, or exist completely independently, I always make an effort for them to have a life of their own. Books are material memory and register, key concepts in my understanding of what art is and what art can do. Books allow me to see my work as a collection of images. Images as pieces of evidence, metaphors, or signs, or simply—but no less importantly—as an essay of colour. I can see my practice through the narrative resulted from turning pages, which is quite different to pacing around a space.⁠
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Books have clear boundaries of size, format, material and binding that I always find helpful rather than limiting. I like to look at my practice through the limited structure of a book format. This shift of mind frame and optics is always helpful and never constraining. After the visible choices of colour, paper and layout in a few of my books, I guess one can see an inclination towards an aesthetics that embraces ordering and didactic principles. Making books is methodical, like my work. The methodology, the technique and of course the teamwork they involve, give me great pleasure, topped by the always welcome sense of surprise of finally holding the embodiment of an idea. I love it that books are mostly consumed intimately. And of course, I love paper." – Gabriel Kuri

Exhibition view: Ugo Rondinone, two men contemplating the moon 183, Esther Schipper, Berlin⁠⠀
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

In 2016, Esther Schipper presented two men contemplating the moon 1830, Ugo Rondinone’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. 

 

Taken from a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the exhibition’s title makes manifest Rondinone’s long-standing indebtedness both to the iconography and philosophy of German Romanticism. “The German Romantic movement was the first to blur the line between reality and illusion. In this sense I’m very attached to the idea of art and art making as an environment that is itself outside of time and inaccessible to a linear logic.“ (The Brooklyn Rail, 2013).

 

Rondinone modified the exhibition space to create a self-contained environment: new walls cover the existing windows. The works themselves index architectural barriers between outside and inside—a monumental new series of aluminum-cast windows, a large-scale brick-wall painting and a new series of concrete sculptures cast from the corners of urban buildings—collectively comprising the space of an inner world. 

 

See inside the exhibition here

Welcome to the next instalment of the series where our artists open their studio doors and invite you to guess whose studio.⁠

 

To give a helping hand to figure out whose studio you’re peeking into, we’ve put together a number of clues to get you on the right track: 

 

- mollusks galore

- lock up your wedges

- everything’s sorted

- no Marie Kondo

 

Click here to find out the answer!

Under the heading Messages from Home artists are sharing videos from their (temporary) studios or homes.

 

Here, Tao Hui shares snapshots of his life from his hometown, Yunyang, Chongqing, as well as his journey back to Beijing.

Exhibition view: Ugo Rondinone, primal, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2013

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

In the next instalment of our team's favorite exhibitions from the history of the gallery, Tara K.Reddi, Senior Sales Director, shares why Ugo Rondinone’s 2013 exhibition primal stands out for her:

 

"In 2013 for the exhibition of Ugo Rondinone’s primal the gallery space which was then at Schoeneberger Ufer became the stage for a series of new sculptures by Ugo Rondinone: 34 cast bronze horses, each individual in their form and size. The space was transformed with the installation of plywood flooring spread across the rooms of the gallery, uniting the space and introducing an active natural element into the white-cube environment. The white washed windows diffused the daylight and isolated the exhibition from the world outside. Suspended translucent discs of stained-glass clocks hung over the window panes. These colored, perfectly divided stained glass clock-faces, stripped of their hands, augmented the impression of an isolated environment, arrested in time and space.⁠

 

The gallery, appeared to be transformed into a time capsule, occupied by small cast bronze horses not more than 20 cm in height, each of them spread across the wood flooring and each facing in a different direction. Each horse was modelled in clay by the artist and then cast in bronze leaving the surface raw and unfinished after the casting. Both the uniqueness and the rough, hand-made character of the sculptures are emphasized by the titles given to each of the works, introducing a romantic undertone to the exhibition. The horses “names” rather than “titles”, refer to primordial natural phenomena: the lava, the cosmos, the foliage, the sunrise etc."⁠⠀

 

See inside the exhibition here.

Jac Leirner has been working from her home in Sao Paulo on a new body of work. Fascinated by often overlooked objects and materials, she recently embraced pens from museums, airlines, and hotels, which had been left aside until the last couple of weeks, creating humorous and peculiar sculptures. Clay forms the base of several of these new pieces and is embedded with pen tops, springs, and cartridges.

 

Here, Jac reminds us that there are inherent, magical qualities even in the most seemingly banal of materials. Along with artist Adriano Costa, the #quarantineshow project was launched on Instagram, and every single day they each post a new work. Follow Jac Leirner (@jacleirner) and Adriano Costa (@adrianocostaluis) to visit their everyday #quarentineshow

On the occasion of the re-launch of our website with extensive archive material celebrating over 230 exhibitions in 30 years, over the next weeks we will be sharing archival material from some of our past exhibitions!⁠

 

To begin, we're starting with General Idea's ¥en Boutique exhibition from 1989.⁠

 

Under the guise of pseudonyms, 3 Canadian artists called AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal work together in the group 'General Idea'.

 

Read more here

 

Welcome to the second instalment of our new series where our artists open their studio doors and invite you to guess whose studio.⁠

 

To give a helping hand to figure out whose studio you’re peeking into, we’ve put together a number of clues to get you on the right track: 

 

1. Kids are frequent inspiration⁠

2. Plants have been art too⁠

3. The studio has a proper name⁠

4. I... I... I…⁠

 

Click here to find out the answer!

"Looking at the bookshelf across my table I noticed Gabriel Kuri’s catalogue Sorted/Resorted published for his Wiels exhibition. Home office has advantages and disadvantages. As work is for the most part done remotely, on a computer far from the offices, my surroundings have become richer, alive. All the objects collected in more than a decades start to speak again.

 

I like to listen to these objects – to reconnect with the reality in which I found them. It is something I’ve always liked since I was going to the beach in summer: I found the things people left in the sand very fascinating – especially because they were also completely out of context. It was an idiosyncratic place, a desert land.

 

When I met Gabriel in 2015 for his most recent solo exhibition at the gallery, this sense of research was activated in the same way. Among the works he made, there was a series of sculptures that were hosting found objects. In the heat of the summer, I was looking for a coffee cup, the one you use to take the coffee with you, and you realize that a plain one, the one that contains just the right sense he was looking for did not exist in Kreuzberg, at least in the surrounding 10 blocks or so of his studio at the time.

 

This research became a way to map the city and ordering a coffe-to-go was no longer about the taste of the coffee but about the shape of the cup." – Emiliano Pistacchi

 

In the second installment of our team's favorite exhibitions from the history of the gallery, Andrea Rossetti, photographer and dear friend, speaks about why the 2011 Gabriel Kuri exhibition carbon index compost copy is particularly special to him.⁠

 

“This was the very first exhibition I documented at Esther Schipper, so I have very special feelings when I think about it and remember the installations and artworks very vividly. It was also the very first show at the Schöneberger Ufer location, and I like the idea that both myself and the gallery have a shared milestone together.”

 

In carbon index compost copy Gabriel Kuri fused formal and material aspects in a dichotomy of physical shape, object nature, and reduction. The work incorporated a complex combination of minimalist formal language and veiled biographical reference into a very personal and often poetic discourse. Contemporary references of mundane applications, casually dispersed among the work, such as bank notes, plastic bags, official queuing tickets linked his timeless objects to the contemporary universe as well as creating a critical reference to current value systems.

 

See inside the exhibition here

A paintbrush, a camera, a robot, disregarded doorstops or even a ouija board – how much can you tell from an artist by what’s in their studio? We’re putting your knowledge to the test in this new series where our artists open the doors and invite you to work out whose studio you’re peering into…⁠

 

To help you out, we’ve put together a number of clues to get you on the right track.

 

1. Carp skeletons have featured in work in past.

2. A lot of stretching is done here

3. Lives in Germany⁠

4. Recent fondness for the color grey⁠

 

Click here to find out the answer!

Exhibition view: Pierre Huyghe, Influants, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2011⁠⠀
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020⁠
Photos © Andrea Rossetti

 

We’d like to take you on a journey through the history of the gallery.

 

Each week we will be sharing moments from Esther Schipper’s 30 year history that are personal favourites from the team. Founded in in Cologne in 1989, the gallery celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, and to mark this occasion we have relaunched our website with extensive archive material, celebrating over 230 exhibitions in 30 years.

 

The first to be featured is, Pierre Huyghe’s 2011 Influants, chosen by Marek Obara, Associate Director. “It was an exhibition constructed of seemingly simple means, but at the same time related the inside to the outside within the context of an exhibition.⁠"

 

See inside the exhibition here

Photo © Simon Fujiwara

 

Esther Schipper congratulates Simon Fujiwara who has won the Audience Award for the Preis der Nationalgalerie shortlist exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof,

 

For the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019, Simon Fujiwara presented a compilation of five works that stem from his investigation of contemporary mass phenomena and their economic, socio-political, and media aspects. The very different works illustrate the extent to which these phenomena have an emotional component of their own. For instance, the video installation Likeness (2018) focuses on the figure of Anne Frank and her media-effective staging and instrumentalization.

 

On occasion of the publication of Matti Braun’s new monograph, edited in cooperation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Beth Citron, the artist will read from the Bengali science fiction story “Mangalik” by Parashuram, translated by co-editor Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. This pioneering 1955 text is published for the first time in English.

 

The book brings together texts by Parashuram, Beth Citron, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Dip Ghosh, Ranen Ghosh, Soham Guha, Sudhir Kakar, Sami Ahmad Khan, Matthia Löbke, Amrita Shah, highlighting the myriad interconnections of the work of Rabindranath Tagore, Vikram Sarabhai, Satyajit Ray, and Indian and Bengali science fiction. Richly illustrated, the publication focuses on Matti Braun’s artistic production of the last ten years.

 

Following the reading, Matti Braun and Isabelle Moffat will discuss related topics.

The reading will be in English, the discussion in German and English.

 

The event is free and open to the public. As seating is limited, please register HERE

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Fog Dog, 2020, 2k video, 5.1 digital sound
Photo © Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

 

Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers, and participants, Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements will provoke us to reconsider (art)histories, movement, borders and fault lines. From February 7–15, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be the epicenter of a radical upheaval of how we think about art, activated by intellectual and curatorial contributions, spanning four floors of the Shilpakala Academy in the city’s vibrant University belt.

Observing the interplay and occasional confrontation inherent among architectural spaces within an emergent nation-state, seventeen artists/collaboratives respond to the built and unbuilt legacy of the ground-breaking Bangladeshi architect Muzharul Islam (1923–2012). While Prabhavathi Meppayil’s newly commissioned works observe how Muzharul Islam’s reliance on both social and empirical structures informed the making and occupation of space, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s narrative film, Fog Dog, brings us into a community of human and inhuman inhabitants of Charukala, the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka (designed by Muzharul Islam from 1953–55).

Photo © Huis Sonnenveld

 

Artist Talk
4th Verbier Art Summit, Bagnes
January 31, 2020, 4:50 pm

 

The 2020 Verbier Art Summit will ask how to envision a way forward in finding harmony between art, ecology and resources.

 

View the full program HERE.

David Claerbout, Olympia (The Real Time Disintegration Into Ruins Of The Berlin Olympic Stadium Over The Course Of A Thousand Years) (Horizontal), 2016, single channel video installation (color, silent, HD animation), duration: 1000 years
Exhibition view: David Claerbout, Olympia, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016–2017
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

David Claerbout
Olympia
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
January 29 – April 12, 2020

 

Artist Talk
The Laziness of Action
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
January 29, 2020, 5 – 6 pm

 

More information on the exhibition can be found HERE

Photo © Koos Breukel

 

E.A.T./Engadin Art Talks with David Claerbout
"SILENT - LISTEN" - 10 YEARS
Zuoz, Plazzet, Switzerland
January 25, 2020, 12:30 – 12:45 pm

 

Find the full program HERE.

Exhibition view: Ari Benjamin Meyers, Solo for Ayumi, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2017
Violin: Ayumi Paul
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

 

Ari Benjamin Meyers⁠
Performance: Solo for Ayumi⁠
January 18 – 19, 2020, 12 – 6 pm⁠
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Book Launch: Tacet in Concert⁠
January 18, 2020, 6:15 pm⁠
at Schering Stiftung, Berlin⁠

 

More information on the performance and book launch can be found HERE.
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Hito Steyerl, Robots Today, 2016, single channel HD video file, duration: 8:02 min
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019
Film still © Hito Steyerl

 

Helin Celik, Nathalie Borgers, Tina Leisch and Hito Steyerl, four unlike filmmakers, initiated the film series Women Rise up For Rojava and want raise awareness for solidarity with mult-ethnical, multi-ideological and feminist self-government structures in kurdish regions in Syria (Rojava) in order to strengthen the international collaboration of women for the peace building process in the Middle East.

 

More information can be found HERE

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Stonewall at 50: Has LGBTQIA+ culture been normalized?

Art Basel Conversations Program with AA Bronson, Lotic, Carlos Motta, and Sharmistha Ray

 

Moderator: Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

 

December 5, 2019, 5 pm – 6 pm

 

More information on the event can be found HERE.

Photo © Fred Ernst

 

Artist talk with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Introduction by Julia Scher

For more information click HERE.

Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall, 2010 

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019

Film still © Hito Steyerl

 

 

In Free Fall incorporates a trio of works: Before the Crash, After the Crash and Crash, which tell the story of the current global economic crisis through the example of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert. The aeroplane junkyard reveals the anatomy of all sorts of crashes: both fictional and real. This is an investigation of planes as they are parked during the economic downturn, stored and recycled, revealing unexpected connections between economy, violence and spectacle.

 

For more information click HERE.

Photo © Michael Chiu

 

Ari Benjamin Meyers

Symposium: Show and Try Again – Curatorial Program

 

More information HERE. 

Photo © Studio Tomás Saraceno

 

Tomás Saraceno in conversation with Franz Mauelshagen on a future after the Anthropocene.⁠
Friday November 22, 2019, 2 - 3pm⁠
Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar⁠
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Building upon the creative energies and legacy of Bauhaus, Tomás Saraceno’s site-specific installation Sundial for Spatial Echoes at the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar envisions the utopian reconfigurations of living and dwelling in the post-Anthropocene time. The artist will discuss his heritages of the past and the visions for future with the Anthropocene historian Franz Mauelshagen.⁠

 

For more information click HERE.

Photo © Mark Poucher

 

Tao Hui in conversation with Marko Daniel
Director, Fundació Joan Miró
Almanac Barcelona Hotel

 

Image: Ari Benjamin Meyers, Four Liverpool Musicians (Bette, Budgie, Ken, Louisa), 2018

Film still © Ari Benjamin Meyers⁠

 

Screening: Four Liverpool Musicians (Bette, Budgie, Ken, Louisa), 2018⁠

For the 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Ari Benjamin Meyers created a series of musical compositions that form the basis for film portraits of four musicians from Liverpool, or with musical ties to the city: Bette Bright (Deaf School), Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees/Big in Japan), Ken Owen (Carcass) and Louisa Roach (She Drew The Gun). ⁠

 

More information can be found HERE.

Photo © Alfred Weidinger

 

Artist talk

with Tomás Saraceno and Antonia Alampi
Saturday November 9, 2019, 6:20 pm

Kulturquartier (Kuppelhalle), Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

 

For more information click HERE.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Plages, 2001, 35 mm film (color, stereo sound, Portuguese with French subtitles, 4:3 format), duration: 15:00 min
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019
Film still © Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

 

 

e-flux video rental at Bar Laika by e-flux presents: Dominique Gonzales-Foerster and Philippe Parreno
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 9pm

 

Film Screenings:

Philippe Parreno, The Boy From Mars, 2003
Dominique González-Foerster, Plages, 2001

 

For more information click HERE

Photo © Jutta Benzenberg⁠

 

On the occasion of his exhibition Le Temps coudé, and the launch of the catalogue Coudées : Quatre variations sur Anri Sala, Anri Sala will be discussing his work with Suzanne Cotter, director of Mudam⁠ and curator of the exhibition. The talk will be held in French.⁠

 

To book tickets for the talk please click HERE.

Anri Sala, Dammi i Colori, 2003, single-channel video and stereo sound, duration: 15 min 25 sec
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019
Film still © Anri Sala

 

Bar Laika presents: one year old and a screening of Anri Sala, Dammi i Colori

 

Anri Sala, Dammi I Colori, 2003, chronicles the work of Sala’s friend and former artist Edi Rama as Mayor of Tirana, Albania. Dammi i Colori evokes the city as canvas and champions art as a means for social transformation. Edi Rama became mayor of Tirana in 2000, and quickly went about re-painting the capital’s decaying buildings in brilliant, provocative colors and patterns. His aesthetic and political act was a powerful visualization of change—a source of both public debate and renewed civic pride.  

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

 

Esther Schipper congratulates Philippe Parreno for his MoMA commission.

 

Re-opening to the public on October 21st, after undergoing substantial renovation and a major expansion, The Museum of Modern Art in New York will present six site-specific commissions including Echo (Danny the Street), a large-scale installation by Parreno for the museum’s main lobby.

 

Read more about the re-opening HERE.

Photo © Ola Rindal

 

IF THE SNAKE

Artistic Director: Pierre Huyghe
Okayama Art Summit, Okayama
September 27 – November 24, 2019
with Tino Sehgal among other artist

 

For more information click HERE.

Photo © Asad Raza

Photo © Gabriel Kuri

 

Gabriel Kuri in conversation with curator Zoë Gray at WIELS – Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels.

 

More information on the exhibition can be found HERE.

Photo © Disappearing Berlin

 

The year-long DISAPPEARING BERLIN project will highlight some of Berlin’s most unique architecture and urban spaces that are currently at risk of disappearing or embody the rapid changes the city is going through. With a program of performances, installations and concerts Schinkel Pavillon will move into the city for the very first time and, together with the invited artists, creates a dialogue between performance, art and architecture to allow us to experience these places once more in a new way.⁠

 

For more information and to RSVP click HERE

Philippe Parreno, Mont Analogue, 2001, video projector without lens, computer program, color, silent, dimensions variable.

Exhibition view: Alien Seasons, ARC/Musée de la Ville de Paris, 2002
Photo © Philippe Parreno

 

We are pleased to announce Philippe Parreno’s participation in the Reborn Art Festival, curated by Etsuko Watari and Koichi Watari. For this occasion, Parreno will present a new configuration of Mont Analogue. 

 

More information can be found HERE.

A discussion between Ryan Gander and Will Self about Ryan's 1:12 scale commission for Merrivale Model Village

 

one-twelfth is a series of 12 annual 1:12 scale public art commissions organised by originalprojects;. Each one will be sited at Merrivale Model Village for one season then sited at a public location within the Borough of Great Yarmouth, creating a trail of miniature artworks exploring ideas of scale, transformation and relationship to place.⁠

 

For tickets and more information click HERE.

Photo © Hugo Glendinning⁠

 

An artist talk with Ceal Floyer to mark the opening of the third chapter of 44møen's summer trilogy Exercises in Harmony.⁠

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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. 

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 © 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

 

More information

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.⠀

 

Read More

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

 

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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.

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.

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.

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

Exhibition view ...

 

The Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums (AMACI) and OGR–Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin announce Museums at The ‘Post-Digital’ Turn, the first major symposium conceived by AMACI.

 

Museums at the ‘Post-Digital’ Turn will take place at the OGR in Turin over two days, November 3–4, and will encompass seven panels including a conversation between Liam Gillick and Nicola Ricciardi (Artistic Director, OGR, Turin).

 

Read more about the symposium here

 

This event is concurrent to Like a Moth to a Flame, an exhibition curated by Tom Eccles, Mark Rappolt and Liam Gillick at OGR–Officine Grandi Riparazioni and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (November 4, 2017 – January 14, 2018).

Find out more about the exhibition here.

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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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.

 

 

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.

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.

Hitting the highest notes on the Highest Peaks, 2017

Cappadox 2017, Cappadocia, Turkey

Musical piece, played by a number of professional musicians, an ensemble or an orchestra, in which everyone strives to elicit the highest possible notes from his or her instrument.

 

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

Liam Gillick

Construcción de Uno (A Prequel), 2006

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

Exhibition view: Tate, London, 2006

 

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