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“Fictive Appearance”, Yotaro Niwa’s new installation

Taking inspiration from Yuto Takamuro's book, the new spatial installation of Yotaro Niwa also leads the visitors back to experiencing the physical space. One medium used to construct the installation is the book contents itself.... READ MORE...

Loop, repetition and cyclicity: the exhibition “AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand”

"AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand" aims at inquiring into the theme of loop, repetition and cyclicity in the present time, by looking at things from different perspectives, through the works of artists who have made this issue the focus of their research.... READ MORE...

Imran Perretta’s experience at “the destructors”

Chisenhale Gallery presents the destructors, a film commission and solo exhibition by London-based artist Imran Perretta.... READ MORE...

MAPS 2020: a conference and an exhibition on preservation of media art

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its "Media Art Preservation" project this year with a two-day MAPS 2020 conference and a related exhibition, continuing the work started in 2015 to discuss the issues of conservation and preservation of media art, that has involved international conservators, art historians and experts.... READ MORE...

Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...

“Dark Matter”: the use of black

The exhibition "Dark Matter" brings together individual works from a variety of contemporary artists, ranging from photography, collage, and painting to sculpture, all of which make use of the color black and its diverse contexts of meaning to convey many-faceted connotations.... READ MORE...

Olaf Nicolai: A light vapour emanating from bound matter as spirits running, along

The Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is presenting, in the Museum Künstlerkolonie, the exhibition A light vapour emanating from bound matter as spirits running, along by the Wilhelm Loth Prize winner 2018, Olaf Nicolai.... READ MORE...

“Sublimi Anatomie”. Gli abiti multimodali e transfemministi di Jeanne Vicerial

Partendo dalle orme del maestro Chalayan, Jeanne Vicerial ha fondato l’innovativo studio di ricerca Clinique Vestimentaire, all’interno del quale idea e sviluppa nuovi principi di creazione tessile, coniugati alla ricerca tecnologica sperimentale avanzata (Robotica). Report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

“Momentombs”: 50 years of Gary Hill’s artistic practice

Suwon Museum of Art presents a solo show of Gary Hill encapsulating his 50 years of artistic practice from the 1970s, when video art began, to the present time.... READ MORE...

Giving images new lives. Interview with Kensuke Koike

What can be the role of abandoned photographs, which after a certain time cease to have their original intention? Teresa Ruffino interviews Kensuke Koike, a visual artist that, with a calibrated manipulation, transforms in an alchemic way the matter he comes across to create something new. ... READ MORE...

Are we ready for a new revolution? Some reflections after Signal 2019

Comprehensively the theme of this 2019 edition of Signal, which took place from 10th to 13th of October, was the revolution: the 30th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution, but also that of the present and the future, linked to the climate, social and technological changes of our time. Report and interview of Federica Fontana.... READ MORE...

The Assembled Human

With "The Assembled Human" the Museum Folkwang focuses on the manifold entanglements between human being and machine: the exhibition presents art as a mirror of industrialisation, technologisation and digitisation.... READ MORE...

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

"Masculinities: Liberation through Photography" is a major group exhibition that explores how masculinity is experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed as expressed and documented through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day.... READ MORE...

Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future

Inspired by 2019 - the year that many iconic cyberpunk futures were set or scheduled to arrive (see Bladerunner, Akira, Running Man, The Island, and more…) - the exhibition "Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future" considers the hold that cyberpunk retains on our collective imagination.... READ MORE...

The Extended Mind / Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)

Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh are proud to present the exhibition "The Extended Mind" and Myriam Lefkowitz’s "Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)", a unique city-wide performance event. Talbot Rice Gallery seeks to unlock the potential of universities to contribute to contemporary art, with both projects rooted in research called the History of Distributed Cognition (2014–18).... READ MORE...

Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age

IMMA presents one of its most ambitious and compelling exhibitions exploring desire in our everyday lives. In particular, "Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age" considers desire’s relationship to structures of power, individualism and emerging collective actions.... READ MORE...

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...

Ricardo Carioba: “Non Linear Spatial Normalizations”

FuturDome is introducing, for the first time in Europe, the oeuvre and the artistic course of Ricardo Carioba. In his first monographic exhibition "Non Linear Spatial Normalizations", the context becomes the work, not to extend the art space or to pierce the city through, but to find a time and place with the arriving people, where meaning could begin.... READ MORE...