A new exhibition at the Istanbul Modern brings together modern and contemporary women artists from Turkey in its new exhibition “Dream and Reality”. The show has its focus on the work produced by women artists for more than a century. Curated by Fatmagül Berktay, Levent Çalıkoğlu, Zeynep İnankur, and Burcu Pelvanoğlu, the selection includes the [...]

Coinciding with the Istanbul Biennial 2011, Istanbul’s Galerist gallery presents a survey exhibition of works by the Turkish artist duo :mentalKLINIK. The show is titled That’s Fucking Awesome and presents ten years of work by Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir. The exhibition has been curated by Jérôme Sans. In this video the curator talks about [...]

Untitled is the title of the 12th Biennial for Contemporary Art in Istanbul, Turkey. Both the title and the themes of this year’s Istanbul Biennial reference the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. His minimalist and conceptual artistic language was a source of inspiration for the curators of the biennial, Adriano Pedrosa and [...]

Jerry Gorovoy was Louise Bourgeois assistant for more than 30 years. He is a profound expert of her work. In this conversation with Dr. Ulf Küster, the curator of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: À L’Infini at Fondation Beyeler, Jerry Gorovoy talks about the different aspects of Louise Bourgeois’ work and his personal experiences with the [...]

On the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday in 2012, the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin honors the innovative composer with an interdisciplinary art project. A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage presents artistic comments on Cage that start on Cage’s 99th birthday (5.9.2011) and end on his 100th birthday in 2012. [...]

Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak likes to rock his audience with strange-looking mobile sound systems that emit bass-driven electronic music. His creations bear names like Baron Bass, Sackkarre (sack barrow), Mobile Booster. They are a mixture between extravagant vehicles and big speakers. His latest bass monster looks like tank and is called that way. Nik Nowak [...]

Tomás Saraceno’s work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial. His spider web-like installation created an immersive experience that was fascinating the visitors. With his solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, he takes [...]

This year’s ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary runs under the motto: About Painting. But it’s not strictly painting. Visitors to the fair will also find sculpture, drawing, video etc. Some of them are more “painterly” than others. Art Berlin Contemporary, the “independent, hybrid exhibition format, between curated show and gallery event”, was founded four years ago [...]

Sigalit Landau represents Israel at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Landau conceived a site-specific installation, the main themes being water, soil, and salt. The installation is titled One Man’s Floor is Another Man’s Feelings, a variation on the familiar saying “one man’s floor is another man’s ceiling”. [...]

Sigalit Landau represents Israel at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Landau conceived a site-specific installation, the main themes being water, soil, and salt. The installation is titled One Man’s Floor is Another Man’s Feelings, a variation on the familiar saying “one man’s floor is another man’s ceiling”. [...]

RaebervonStenglin Gallery opens the art season with an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Ivan Seal. Ivan Seal was born in 1973 in Manchester. He lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Ivan Seal’, Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2011); ‘True as applied to you; false as applied to you’, Krome Gallery, Berlin [...]

Louise Bourgeois was one of the most exceptional artists of our time. Her life and work inspired many artists of younger generations such as Tracy Emin or Robert Gober. To honor her 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an homage to Louise Bourgeois by placing her work in dialog with the museum’s permanent collection, [...]

Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens the fall season with a solo show by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. Last year, Rondinone had a comprehensive solo exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus. Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents three work groups: a series of bird figures, six huge ink paintings, and a group of text related works on scrap wood. In addition [...]

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, the museum is showing the artist’s famous sculpture Maman. This video documents the installation of Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider sculpture in the garden of Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland). The video shows how the legs of the spider are assembled, and how the [...]

South African artist Nicholas Hlobo is known for his richly layered sculptures and distinctive use of materials. For his work he chooses materials such as rubber inner tubes, ribbon, gauze, lace and found objects, and combines them using techniques such as stitching and weaving. The choice of materials as well as the techniques of putting [...]

Izolyatsia is a new art center in the industrial city of Donetsk, Ukraine. The center just opened with a solo exhibition of Cai Guo-Qiang. The show titled 1040M Underground is New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in Ukraine. The title is inspired by the artist’s experience of the coal and salt mines of [...]

The Journey to the East is an exhibition that takes its visitors on a trip to the post communist countries in Eastern Europe. 40 artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine have been invited, along with artists from Poland. The exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok in Poland is part of a [...]

Galerie Lena Brüning in Berlin / Germany presents for the first time in Europe works by the Japanese artist Hiroki Tsukuda. In his new series of black and white drawings titled New Tokyo, he deals with the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Tokyo has changed after 11 March 2011. Conventional, absolute things have disappeared. In everyday [...]

Dieter Roth (1930-1998) is considered as one of the great universal artists of the 20th century. Multi-talented, he worked in all kind of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video. He was also a poet, musician and graphic designer. Dieter Roth published, collected, and designed furniture. The current retrospective at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau / [...]

In 2007, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland presented a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning. The exhibition was Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show in Switzerland at that time. The Swiss artist conceived an architecture of art transport boxes. The visitor was invited to stroll through this and discover fantasy figures and strange objects. [...]