Laura Piasta Work from her current show at LES. “This exhibit of new works by Laura Piasta uses geometry as a motif to signify a system that can stand in for an abstract concept. Using repetition to focus the viewer’s attention on relationships between forms, one is drawn into contemplation of the conceptual narratives behind [...]

Antonio G. Lauer a.k.a Tomislav Gotovac and performative collective BADco. will represent Croatia at the 54th Biennale di Venezia in the exhibition entitled One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching, curated by WHW. The Croatian presentation will be in the Arsenale.

Opening on April 9, SALT Beyoğlu, the first of SALT’s two venues to be inaugurated this year, establishes its program with “I am not a studio artist”—a comprehensive exhibition of Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and “Laboratory ars viva 2010/11″ along with the building’s newly formed spaces: the Forum, Walk-in-Cinema, Garden, Café and Shop.

Opening on April 9, SALT Beyoğlu, the first of SALT’s two venues to be inaugurated this year, establishes its program with “I am not a studio artist”—a comprehensive exhibition of Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and “Laboratory ars viva 2010/11″ along with the building’s newly formed spaces: the Forum, Walk-in-Cinema, Garden, Café and Shop.

Rare is the occasion when people talk about food in art without someone uttering (or at least thinking) the name Rirkrit Tiravanija. Known as “the artist who cooks,” Tiravanija began to eschew objects in favor of ingestion in 1990 with his installation-slash-performance Pad Thai, for which he cooked and served the dish to visitors of Paula Allen Gallery in [...]

e-flux is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Gustav Metzger conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Anton Vidokle following the exhibition “Gustav Metzger: Decades 1959-2009,” curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Sophie O’Brien at the Serpentine Gallery in 2009.

Steven Baldi Work from his oeuvre. “Steven Baldi’s work attempts to examine the multifaceted nature of visual language by taking on overburdened material forms of representation such as painting, 16mm film and photography, thus re-establishing meaning through process method and proximity.  Baldi utilizes cascading sign systems inherent in the photographic medium to evaluate how the [...]

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

The Flaneur seeks submissions. Reviews of art exhibitions, films and books. Also artists working in digital sphere, tell us about your practice in 500 words or less. Email work to editor@flaneur.me.ukThanks.

Big Picture is the title of a work by recently-deceased California artist Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), an expression term also suggestive of a “larger overview.” When Rhoades—in an ironic reversal—displays a large garden on a small flatscreen, he sets the tone for an exhibition of film and video installations which features the most diverse approaches to the cinematographic art installation.

13–17 April 2011

‘NEW POSITIONS’, ART COLOGNE’s sponsorship programme for young, innovative artists, was launched in 1980. The programme offers young artists selected by a panel of experts free exhibition stands of 25 square metres. The stands for the young artists adjoin the stands of the galleries representing them. This year’s selection panel has singled out twenty young artists.

Call for Proposals: Ideas of time, temporality and being over the course of thepast century have challenged  notonly our conception of past, present and future but also the idea of  that time is necessarily a measuredlinear construct that always mov…

Wish We Were Here is a touring exhibition curated by Samantha Hardingham and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is organized by the Public Occasion Agency and AA Exhibitions and is in part a re-staging of VENIC VENIC made for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, ‘People Meet in Architecture’, Venice Biennale 2010 directed by Kazuyo Sejima and was made possible by the additional support of the Institute of the 21st Century: Bettina Korek, Karen Marta and Justin Conner.

Kunsthallen Brandts
11 March–13 June 2011

The Erwin Wurm exhibition, Misconceivable, immediately brings smiles to people’s faces. Employing humour and wit, Wurm turns the world on its head, questioning our conventional understanding of objects and concepts. The concocted word serving as its title, right away places the exhibition somewhere between understanding and misunderstanding.

13 March–19 June 2011

The Ludwig Forum Aachen will celebrate its 20th birthday with the exhibition opening of Hyper Real – Art and America around 1970. The exhibition, commissioned by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Anna Sophia Schultz, features some 250 works by 100 international artists, such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Jeff Wall, Garry Winogrand and Andy Warhol.

In talking to dozens of artists, curators, and critics over the past few months, over and over I have heard the same term used by those located within the community to criticize Turkish art: didactic. Merriam-Webster defines didactic as “intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment;” synonyms include “sermonic,” “moralizing” [...]