1–21 October 2011, Busan, Korea

Busan Biennale Organizing Committee holds the Sea Art Festival 2011 to establish Busan’s special sea art brand on its own. The Sea Art Festival 2011 is held Oct. 1 to Oct. 21 during a 3 week period in SongDo Beach situated Amnam-dong Seo-gu Busan. There will be 29 Artworks featured from 12 Countries.

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
13 September–6 November 2011

After the resounding success of his first solo exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art in 2006, the foundation has dedicated a second major solo show to the renowned artist and filmmaker Yang Fudong, one of the most important artists yet to emerge in contemporary China. It presents three new works: Fifth Night, 2010; One half of August, 2011; Ye Jiang (The night man cometh), 2011.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
October 4–December 17, 2011

With Painting Between the Lines, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts continues its investigation into the relationship between literature and art. Fourteen contemporary artists were commissioned to create paintings based on written descriptions of artworks in historical and contemporary novels.

Costly and often monopolistic approaches to the distribution of art books has resulted in a situation where it has become common for not only the author, but also the publisher to receive little to no revenue for a book’s sales. As a possible alternative, e-flux is pleased to present the book coop: a mobile bookstore of over 600 titles on contemporary art, theory, and criticism from over 100 international art centers, artist-run spaces, and independent publishers.

Portikus
24 September–6 November 2011

As a further engagement with its architectural redesign—a recent addition of an intermediate second floor that has doubled the exhibition space—this show at the Portikus confronts two artistic positions. For the first time in the history of Portikus, the works of two artists will be presented spatially separate.

Raven Row
22 September–20 November 2011

For this exhibition Mathias Poledna (b. Austria, 1965) and Florian Pumhösl (b. Austria, 1971) have each created a single expansive new work. Poledna has produced a 35 mm film for Raven Row’s ground floor, and Pumhösl has made a series of 54 glass paintings for its panelled upper galleries.

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse / La Fonderie
15 September–13 November 2011

Benoît Maire is the first artist invited by Vincent Honoré to inaugurate a cycle of exhibitions at la Kunsthalle Mulhouse. This cycle will concentrate on the question of knowledge, knowledge as a form and a structure to expropriate, a type of knowledge which is often foreign (outside of the arts), multifaceted and theoretical (science, philosophy, architecture, etc), and which must be taken over.

LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst
25 September 2011–8 January 2012

Thomas Ruff is one of the most internationally well-known contemporary German photographers. Over the course of two-dozen photography series, he has explored and defined the medium’s limits like no other contemporary artist. The exhibition in the LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte focuses specifically on four of Thomas Ruff’s series: the stars series, produced between 1989 and 1992, zycles from 2007, the cassini series from 2008/2009, and recent work from the ma.r.s. series, shown now for the first time in an institutional context. Individual works from other series that explore a similar theme are also shown.

de Appel arts centre / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

“A Little Less Conversation” will question, in an unusual and dynamic fashion, how contemporary performance art is exhibited. The conference follows the previous inquiries into contemporary performance organized by de Appel arts centre, including the symposia ‘The manifold (after) lives of performance’ (2009 and 2010), which scrutinized the different ways performance is documented and collected.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

The autumn-winter programme at Charlottenborg includes: a major exhibition by the British artist Simon Starling, which features an extraordinary puppet performance; the next in our series of exhibitions by emerging figures, this one by the young Danish artist Nina Beier; and the latest block of our Research Programme, generated this time by the Belgian curator and writer Dieter Roelstraete.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

The autumn-winter programme at Charlottenborg includes: a major exhibition by the British artist Simon Starling, which features an extraordinary puppet performance; the next in our series of exhibitions by emerging figures, this one by the young Danish artist Nina Beier; and the latest block of our Research Programme, generated this time by the Belgian curator and writer Dieter Roelstraete.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
29 September 2011–8 January 2012

On the occasion of Iceland’s presentation as a guest of honor at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn Kunsthalle will dedicate a solo exhibition to this country’s artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir. Her approach is characterized by the use of a variety of media: drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures figure as prominently as installations, performances, and video films.

17 September 2011–8 January 2012

Sala Verónicas (Murcia) and La Conservera Contemporary Art Centre (Ceutí/Murcia) open their seventh series of exhibitions on Friday September 16th and Saturday September 17th respectively.

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to present the Canadian premiere of the installation The Last Silent Movie by legendary conceptual artist Susan Hiller. Composed of a video projection and a series of etchings, this installation is based upon archival recordings of some of the last remaining speakers of twenty-five extinct or endangered languages. The result is both a memorial to and a protest against irredeemable loss.

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is pleased to announce its Fall 2011 exhibitions, “David Noonan” and “Emily Wardill: Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck.” These exhibitions will run simultaneously in CAM’s Main Galleries from Friday, September 9–Friday December 30, 2011.

1/9unosunove, Roma; A Palazzo, Brescia; annex14, Bern, Artericambi, Verona; Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli; Enrico Astuni, Bologna; Balicehertling, Paris; Laura Bartlett, London; Niklas Belenius, Stockholm; Bonomo, Bari; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Bugada Cargnel, Paris; Cardi Black Box, Milano; carlier|gebauer, Berlin; Carreras Mugica and many more.

10 September–20 November 2011

Within the long-term program covering the avant-garde, Marres presents Specters of the Nineties, an exhibition that looks at the last decade of the 20th century through a selection of art works made in the period between 1989 and 2000.

steirischer herbst festival

The exhibition “Second World” relates to the notion of multifold worlds, possible, parallel, fictional, desired worlds, worlds different to the one we live in, in which the past might have played out differently and the future is not irrevocably determined by the present.

This November, Performa will take New York City by storm with new performances by over 100 of the most exciting artists working today, organized by a team of 50 international curators, and presented in collaboration with a consortium of over 40 arts organizations. Performa 11 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, featuring events in all disciplines, including visual art, music, dance, poetry, radio, comedy, architecture, and food.

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

With 14 million inhabitants and 101 billionaires, Moscow is Europe’s biggest city, and perhaps its most contradictory. The former center of the socialist world once again goes global, with financial and cultural involvement in all the world’s other capitals, and with massive migration of cheap labor from Central Asia. But at the same time, Moscow isolates itself from the world to which it belongs, constantly in danger of becoming a provincial megalopolis.