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Asta Gröting: “Where do you see yourself in 20 years”?

In her exhibition, Asta Gröting combines earlier works with new sculptures and videos focusing on the physical and psychological deconstruction of the human body. Whether based on family members, friends or historical figures, Gröting’s work across media seeks to cast abstract qualities such as thought, intimacy, conflict and subjectivity.... READ MORE...

“Transcorporealities”: part of “HERE AND NOW” at Museum Ludwig

The exhibition "Transcorporealities" takes as its starting point the concept of the permeability of bodies. This idea of “transcorporeality” can also be applied to the museum: in continuous metabolic processes, various social, biological, technological, economic and political systems intersect. Against this backdrop, the exhibition activates an area in the museum that is freely accessible and opens toward the urban space with its transparent façades and glass doors on two sides: the foyer.... READ MORE...

More-than-humans

Curated by Stefanie Hessler, "More-than-humans" brings together outstanding works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) collection: they consider that which cannot be explained by the rational anthropoid mind.... READ MORE...

Designs for Different Futures

The role of designers in shaping how we think about the future is the subject of a major exhibition that will premiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall. Designs for Different Futures brings together some 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities that humans may encounter in the years, decades, and centuries ahead.... READ MORE...

The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100

This Earth Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is pleased to announce highlights from its upcoming show "The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100", which marks the first major exhibition in Russia to explore the subjects of ecology and the environment.... READ MORE...

Speculative Landscapes

This fall, The Art Gallery of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) invites viewers into the imagined worlds of four UAE-based artists. "Speculative Landscapes" is a series of new installations through which each artist explores the very concept of environment (natural, artificial, virtual).... READ MORE...

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

A cosa ci riferiamo quando parliamo di arte transgenica? In questo panorama spinoso, che più di tutti lega a doppio filo arte e scienza, filosofia e biotecnologie, questioni giuridiche e tabù ancestrali cerca di fare ordine il libro di Mario Savini “Arte transgenica: la vita è il medium”, edito nel 2018 da Pisa University Press.... READ MORE...

“Empathic Systems”: three solo shows on the relationship between humans and technology

The exhibition "Empathic Systems" revolves around the complex emotional relationship between humans and technology. Communication processes no longer only happen from human to human, but between humans and technology. Netzhammer, Jansen and Todo work at the intersection of engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience and ethics.... READ MORE...

Eco-Visionaries: art for a planet in a state of emergency

Initiated in 2018 as a joint project appearing across four institutions Eco-Visionaries has a new presentation at Matadero Madrid, with an expanded selection of projects and artworks that highlight the future of interspecies relationships. Eco-Visionaries is a manifesto-exhibition focusing on the impacts of rapidly changing ecological conditions.... READ MORE...

Julian Charrière: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere

MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna is pleased to present All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, the first personal exhibition in Italy of Julian Charrière, whose work bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history.... READ MORE...

The Cured

Radiator Gallery is thrilled to announce The Cured, a group show featuring five artists whose works delineate the coherent relationship between social politics and the ethics of biological studies situated in a postmodern context, in the hope of raising the questions on the dynamic and ambiguous nature of being human.... READ MORE...

Heather Dewey-Hagborg: At the Temperature of My Body

Fridman Gallery is honored to present At the Temperature of My Body, multidisciplinary artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s second solo exhibition: a meditation on intimacy and obsession in an emerging world of biotechnological rituals, the exhibition features three new bodies of work that correspond to three stages of love.... READ MORE...

More Eskimo than Artist. Intervista con Theo Jansen

Alcune considerazioni sull'esposizione "Dream Beasts" di Theo Jansen, a partire da una breve intervista all’artista. In mostra le sue sculture cinetiche zoomorfe, destinate alle enormi e scenografiche spiagge dei Paesi Bassi.... READ MORE...

The future around the corner: interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Human beings have always needed to face their time and raised questions about the future, on the edge between the fascination and the fear for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

In The Age of Post-Drought: The Aquatic State

The program In The Age of Post-Drought is dedicated to the global water-related challenges. Due to climate change and the rapid world population growth, water scarcity is grown to be one of the biggest threats facing life on earth in the 21stcentury. Transnatural organises a series of exhibitions that aim to address these pressing issues in Amsterdam, at the Dutch Design Week and Grand Hornu (CID) in Belgium.... READ MORE...

Ravi Agarwal: Ecologies of Loss

PAV Parco Arte Vivente presents Ecologies of Loss, the first Italian solo exhibition of the Indian artist Ravi Agarwal. Curated by Marco Scotini, this exhibition continues the investigation into the relationship between artistic practices and ecological thought in the Asian context, begun with the solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zheng Bo.... READ MORE...

Spare Parts. Rethinking human repair

SPARE PARTS, is London Science Gallery's new exhibition exploring the art, science, ethics and technology that enables human repair and alteration. It examines organ transplantation and tissue regeneration through the creative responses of world-renowned artists and designers.... READ MORE...

La Fabrique Du Vivant (The Fabric Of The Living)

From 20 February in Gallery 4 at the Centre Pompidou, La Fabrique du Vivant [The Fabric of the living] retraces an archaeology of the living and of artificial life. This group exhibition offers a prospective presentation of the recent work of some fifty designers, in addition to research from scientific laboratories.... READ MORE...