STOCKHOLM.- Katalin Ladik is a pioneer in experimental poetry, sound and performance art. Referred to as the Yoko Ono of the Balkans, Ladik places language at the heart of her practice. Since the 1960s, she has used her body as both medium and material. “Ooooooooo-pus” is Katalin Ladik’s first survey exhibition in Scandinavia with around a hundred works from her sixty-year-long career. Katalin Ladik was born in 1942 in the city of Novi Sad, in former Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and currently lives in Budapest, Hungary. Her practice has been shaped by the multicultural and multilingual context of Novi Sad, where the majority of the population is Serbian or Hungarian. She began her career as a poet and was one of the few women in the city’s artistic and literary avant-garde. – First, and above all, I am a poet. I constantly try to expand the boundaries of poetry. Whatever material I use in my work, I always convey a poetic message through it; voice poetry with my voice, concrete ... More
En Iwamura, Drawing at the Kitchen Floor, 2024. Ink on paper, 45.5 x 38 cm | 18 x 15 in (unframed), 47.9 x 55.5 x 3 cm | 19 x 22 x 1 in (framed).
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting En Iwamura’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from October 25 to December 28, 2024. One of the most inventive artists of his generation, Iwamura, who was born and brought up near Kyoto, has developed a singular approach to creating ceramic sculpture that has been influenced by his interests in Japanese cultural history and contemporary pop culture, his travels overseas, and his personal experiences as a relatively new, young father. Sophisticated, imbued with a sense of elegance that flows naturally from Japanese fine craftsmanship, and inescapably clever and fun, Iwamura’s works rethink and reinvigorate the long, influential tradition of ceramic art from they have emerged. On the road to developing his work’s unique visual language and technical features, Iwamura first studied ... More
Paul Winstanley, Veil 30, 2024. Oil on linen, 200 x 150 cm / 78.7 x 59.1 in.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents a new exhibition by Paul Winstanley, comprising a new series of paintings titled Arcadia, a continuation of his recent series The Falls, plus the last of his critically acclaimed Veil series, a signature body of work initiated in 1999. Titled Arcadia, suggesting ‘something ancient being revisited’, this new body of work looks towards early 19th-century paintings of idyllic mountainous landscapes – pictures that have largely lost their significance through the ‘gauze of history’. Seizing upon the more abstract elements of these works, Winstanley revisits the genre from a contemporary standpoint – first ‘degrading’ inkjet prints of the source images, stripping back detail using a process of wax resist, before recreating them as paintings. Through this process of reinvention, the landscapes become spatial encounters – removed from the specificity of place, they instead tune our attention towards atmosphere, ... More
PALM BEACH, FL.- Acquavella Galleries is presenting Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud, a group exhibition exploring portraiture, with paintings and sculptures spanning over a century and different styles of representation, from Impressionism to today. Artists include Billy Al Bengston, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Dominic Chambers, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Nicole Eisenman, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Laurens, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Susan Rothenberg, Tom Sachs, Wayne Thiebaud, Édouard Vuillard, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, and Dustin Yellin. The exhibition opened at the gallery’s Palm Beach location November 20, 2024, and travels to New York in January of 2025. Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud brings together works that delve into the techniques ... More
BASEL.- The Regionale, an annual festival for contemporary art in the tri-national region surrounding Basel, continues to shine as a beacon of creativity and cultural exchange. Drawing nearly 20,000 visitors each year, the festival is a platform for artists from Northwestern Switzerland, Southern Baden, and Alsace to showcase their work in an array of carefully curated exhibitions. As the 25th edition unfolds in late 2024 and early 2025, 18 institutions present a diverse range of art exploring contemporary issues, with the theme "Interconnected, Interwoven, Entangled." This landmark edition features the works of 186 artists, including 10 collectives, in exhibitions that challenge traditional notions of identity, community, and transformation. With an emphasis on inclusivity and diversity, the Regionale promotes lesser-known voices and invites audiences to engage in an intercultural dialogue that transcends physical and conceptual boundaries. ... More
Hank Willis Thomas, Siren's Song of Cirque, 2024, UV and Silkscreen Print on Retroreflective Vinyl mounted on Dibond, 60" × 40" (152.4 cm × 101.6 cm).
LONDON.- Pace is presenting Kinship of the Soul, Hank Willis Thomas’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first at Pace in London. On view from November 20 to December 21, the presentation showcases a new body of retroreflective collages that continue Thomas’s exploration of the histories of abstraction through the lenses of colonization, globalization, and appropriation, with reference to Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, and Henri Matisse. These works, which reveal latent images depending on their lighting and the viewer’s perspective, underscore Thomas’s interest in using wayfinding materials to illuminate often overlooked histories and narratives. Known for his conceptual work across various media—including sculpture, screen printing, photography, video, and installation—Thomas thoughtfully examines subjects ... More
Michaël Borremans, Red Hand, Green Hand, 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery. Photo: Maris Hutchinson.
WASSENAAR.- Like bad news landing at a formal dinner, the works by Michaël Borremans (1963) menace the expectations of a perfect setting. His solo exhibition at Voorlinden, A Confrontation at the Zoo, composed of Borremans’s hand-selected paintings from the last twenty years, exemplifies the intuitive and poetic relationship between his different works. The exhibition opened on 30 November. Michaël Borremans is an artist fluent in centuries-old technical skill, yet his works speak their own contemporary language. His oeuvre spans drawing, sculpture, film, and photography, but he is best- known for his oil-on-canvas paintings, which bristle with tension between historical medium and conceptual immediacy. A trademark of Borremans’s work is his deadpan penchant for the absurd and theatrical. His subjects often appear in homemade costumes, dressed ... More
LEIPZIG.- Barbara Klemm’s works bear witness to the historical development and present-day reality of a country that was divided for decades. Many of her pictures have become icons of contemporary history, shaping the cultural memory of several generations. It is a body of photographic work that blends documentation and artistic inspiration in a way that is rarely encountered in the German press. With the exhibition Barbara Klemm: Light and Dark. Photographs from Germany, the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen presents photographs by one of Germany’s leading photographers. At GfZK, they are being shown in Germany for the first time in 15 years. Most of the photographs shown in the exhibition were taken for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Starting in 1959, Barbara Klemm began her career at this newspaper working as a laboratory assistant and in plate production. From 1970, she became an editorial photographer focusing primarily ... More
GHENT.- The Panamarenko Foundation and S.M.A.K. present the original and historic artwork Magic Carpet by the Belgian artist Panamarenko (1940-2019), which has remained hidden from the world for more than 45 years. This remarkable sculpture, which was only shown once at the Biennale of Sydney in 1979, is finally being exhibited to the public from 29 November 2024 to 5 January 2025, free of charge, in gallery 1 at S.M.A.K. in Ghent. “There is now a possibility to create a flying carpet. The dream of One Thousand and One Nights and of One Thousand and One Inventors. The solution lies in powerful nickel-cadmium batteries and lightweight electric motors.” - Attributed to Panamarenko, from a typewritten document entitled Zauberteppich (Magic Carpet), 1978-1979. Panamarenko spent his entire life dreaming, sketching, designing and creating works about the ultimate goal of flying: to find ... More
Benno Schotz RSA, Cherna at 7, 1937.
EDINBURGH.- This winter, the Royal Scottish Academy presents Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany, an exhibition inspired by the extensive studio gift left to the Academy by the family of sculptor Benno Schotz RSA (1891-1984). This is the first exhibition to showcase that gift, and Schotz’s work has been complemented with that of other international artists who have chosen to make Scotland their home over the RSA’s near two-hundred-year history. Marking the 40th anniversary of Benno Schotz’s death, the exhibition showcases major sculptures that haven’t been on public view for decades, alongside sketchbooks, tools and photographs. Benno Schotz and a Scots Miscellany brings key works in Schotz’s portraiture together with some of his notable abstract sculptures. His Diploma work of James Caw and his portrait of William MacTaggart have been joined by sculptures of friends and family, including his life size half figure of Alan Fletcher and busts of his ... More
Ludolfs Liberts. Early 1930s. Unknown photographer. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Literature and Music, Riga.
RIGA.- From 30 November 2024 to 16 March 2025, the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga presents the exhibition Ludolfs Liberts (1895–1959). The Hypnotic Brilliance of Art Deco. Ludolfs Liberts is one of the brightest exponents of Art Deco in Latvia and its most vivid manifestation is his stage designs. Without exaggeration it may be said that the 1920s–30s at the Latvian National Opera were the era of Liberts. Between 1924 and 1937, altogether he designed 43 and directed 12 productions. Liberts set the tone, influenced his colleagues and was at the centre of attention from critics and spectators alike. Master’s stage designs left no one indifferent: many were thrilled and applauded the set designs, others criticised and attacked him for overgeneralisation, flamboyance and excessive decorativeness. Yet, from today’s perspective, it is clear that all of Ludolfs Liberts’ accomplishments in this field conform entirely to the style of Art Deco, which ... More
Julie Green (1961-2021), The Last Supper, 1999-2021, paint on found ceramic plates, overall dimensions vary with installation. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, gift of The Last Supper Irrevocable Trust, 2023.6. Image courtesy of College Art Association.
BOISE, ID.- Boise Art Museum announces the opening of Julie Green: The Last Supper at the Boise Art Museum on November 30, 2024. The exhibition features approximately 1,000 plates that depict the final meals requested by persons on death row in the United States — making it the largest showing of Green's artwork. The Last Supper is a long-running visual art and research project by artist Julie Green (they/them/theirs), illustrating the final meals requested by approximately one thousand people on death row in the United States. Green (1961-2021) began the series in 1999 after reading in a local Oklahoma paper about the final meal requested by a person awaiting execution. By the time of Green's death twenty-two years later, the artist had painted images of final meals on nearly one thousand secondhand ceramic ... More
Wojciech Fangor, Metaphysics and Dialectics / Rhetoric and Dialectics, 1949 Oil on canvas, 198 x 120 cm. Courtesy The Fangor Foundation & GNYP Gallery.
BERLIN.- The pluralist oeuvre of Wojciech Fangor (1922–2015) reflects many of the artistic polemics and geopolitical upheavals of the past century. His reputation primarily rests on his innovative, abstract Modernist Op-art paintings that reached full maturity in his New York period in the 1960s. But considering Fangor’s long, transatlantic life and his diverse output, there is much more to excogitate. As a young man, Fangor had the benefit of traditional artistic training. During the Second World War in his birthplace, Poland, he received private tutelage from two much-admired art professors, Tadeusz Pruszkowski and, later, Felicjan Kowarski. Fangor found he could paint and draw whatever and however he wished and, as a result, his early works are full of confident stylistic sampling. Later, he would put his shape-shifting technical ability to good use in postwar communist Warsaw. It was not until 1958 that his celebrated spatial fuzzy-edged geometric abstract ... More
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Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra present Ana Cláudia Almeida & Tadáskía SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra present Ana Cláudia Almeida & Tadáskía, an exhibition curated by Clarissa Diniz which simultaneously occupies both galleries in São Paulo with a selection of new works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, wall reliefs, videos and photographs that explore material and conceptual connections between cosmology, memory and transformation. This is the first time that the artists have exhibited in Brazil since Almeida entered the MFA program at Yale and Tadáskía’s solo exhibition at MoMA. More than the similarities between the artists’ practices, the exhibition emphasizes the frictions and distances that appear between their work. In lieu of an approximation through identity, the terrain of meanings produced by difference. In Diniz’s words: “The disparities in the works of Ana Cláudia Almeida ... More
Franco-Haitian photographer Henry Roy's first survey exhibition opens at The Art Gallery of Western Australia PERTH.- In a world-first, legendary photographer Henry Roy holds his first survey at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Henry Roy – Impossible Island draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings together 113 photos taken from 1983 to 2023. The images were shot in places such as his native Haiti, Ibiza, Paris, Dakar, Cameroon, Normandy, Marrakesh, Thailand, and the Ivory Coast. “It feels serendipitous that we welcome Henry Roy to our island, Australia, and that these decades of work salute the imaginal realm of island life of different kinds through his enigmatic visual poetry,” said AGWA Director Colin Walker. Impossible Island channels the many influences that have shaped Roy’s artistic ... More
Exhibition at The Korean Cultural Centre UK delves into the heart of Korean literature LONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK is presenting ‘Bestselling and Beloved,’ a special exhibition that delves into the heart of Korean literature, showcasing both its enduring classics and its dynamic contemporary scene, with a spotlight on Nobel Laureate Han Kang. Exploring beloved Korean literature and contemporary classics, the exhibition illuminates the broader contours of each generation—its politics, economy, society, culture, social systems, ideologies, and people’s daily life. Each one serves not only as a narrative but as a cultural artifact, offering insights into the collective psyche and societal shifts within Korea. Structured around five thematic sections, the journey begins with ‘Timeless Masterpieces’ exploring Korea’s literary roots in the late 17th century. Then it progresses from ‘The First Bestseller’ to ‘A Mirror of the Times’ exploring ... More
The Glucksman opens two new exhibitions CORK.- In her decades long career, Cecily Brennan has explored themes of physical and psychological pressure, creating works in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and screen media that explore the vulnerability and perseverance of the human condition. This major survey exhibition presents new work by the artist including the gallery premiere of the short film The Devil’s Pool and photographs from her Six Men project, alongside a selection of earlier pieces that also investigate the connections between mind and body, mental and material forces. In her tender paintings of patients with eczema and psoriasis, common but often embarrassing skin diseases, the artist foregrounds the way in which the skin is a canvas with blemishes, rashes and discolouration that seem almost beautiful in their painted form. By inviting ... More
Almaty Museum of Arts to launch in Summer 2025 ALMATY.- Launching in summer 2025, Almaty Museum of Arts is a new major private museum and the first of its kind in the region, dedicated to the preservation and presentation of local and regional modern and contemporary art. The museum is founded by collector, philanthropist and businessman Nurlan Smagulov. It will house his collection of over 700 modern and contemporary Kazakh and Central Asian artworks, in addition to seminal modern and contemporary international works. Examples include a monumental ceramic mural by Fernand Léger, a large-scale, walkthrough sculpture by Richard Serra, a multi-channel audiovisual installation by Bill Viola, as well as specially commissioned outdoor sculptures by Alicja Kwade and Yinka Shonibare CBE. The museum and its collection will be gifted by Smagulov to his hometown, the city ... More
Cukrarna Gallery presents Fall/winter programming LJUBLJANA.- The Layering exhibition looks at the practices of painting and sculpture in the medium of collage and assemblage within contemporary Slovene art. The exhibition features works by 29 Slovene artists, including individual artists and art collectives, who have employed these techniques, either as a primary or occasional working method from the late 1970s to the present. Curators Mateja Podlesnik and Alenka Trebušak have conceived the exhibition with a focus on layering and transformation, integrating the artworks into a coherent yet dynamic spatial concept. The exhibition design by Ajdin Bašić is an integral part of the setup, structured around three layers: the white wall, color, and freestanding elements. Group exhibition Layering offers a reflection on the gap between clear definitions and artistic practice, as it becomes ... More
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg aanounces annual program 2025 RAVENSBURG.- The exhibition Walk This Way extends an arc from the 1960s up to the present and focuses on works by contemporary artists in which the city is transformed into a stage and the act of walking becomes an artistic statement. Walk This Way brings together works by artists who, whether playfully or provocatively, proceed on their individual paths of exploration, reinterpretation and replacement. Public spaces have always been a site for seeing and being seen. The multifaceted architecture and the accelerated movements of passersby led to an abundance of new impressions and living environments. Artists reacted to these changes and utilized urban space as the location for their artistic inquiries as well as for expressing their social and political concerns. The Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926–73) numbers ... More
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On a day like today, French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet was born
December 01, 1716. Étienne Maurice Falconet (December 1, 1716 - January 4, 1791) is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour. In this image: A Russian groom jumps to his wife during a wedding ceremony near the statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman monument, by Etienne Maurice Falconet in St Petersburg, Russia, 26 June 2010.
