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“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...

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...

“Objects and Sounds”. Le immagini come tentativo di rappresentare i suoni stessi

Nel cuore del quartiere San Lorenzo di Roma, si trova il Pastificio Cerere che costituisce un importante spazio di sperimentazione per la capitale. Negli anni Settanta il Pastifico Cerere è stato trasformato da spazio industriale – fabbrica di farina e di pane che riforniva la capitale – a luogo deputato all’arte con un unico obiettivo: condividere l’ideologia del fare e dell’operare come terreno culturale nel quale discutere e incontrarsi ogni giorno. Report di Caterina Tomeo... 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...

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...

“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...

“Training Humans”: an exhibition by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen

Fondazione Prada presents "Training Humans", a landmark exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen. "Training Humans" is the first major photography exhibition devoted to training images: the collections of photos used to train artificial intelligence (Al) systems in how to "see" and categorize the world.... READ MORE...

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene is the culmination of ten years’ artistic inquiry by photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke and collaborators into the forces that change the face of the Earth.... READ MORE...

Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna

Tabakalera is pleased to present its two summer shows dedicated to two artists who are showing their work individually in Spain for the first time: Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna. These projects embrace a vision of the moving image in contemporary art considering the audiovisual as a means of artistic and cinematographic expression.... READ MORE...

Cao Fei: HX

The Centre Pompidou is delighted to announce HX, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Cao Fei. This presentation marks the international debut of Cao Fei’s long term research project Hong Xia, and will also be the first ever solo exhibition of any Chinese artist at the Centre Pompidou, an important achievement for both the artist and the institution which is about to launch its Shanghai flagship in November this year.... READ MORE...

Migrating Textile: the senses in jeopardy

"Migrating Textile" is the second major interdisciplinary and international exhibition initiated by the Save the Loom foundation. It shows how the fabrics of people gather new meaning on account of their environment and how important the influence of their migration is on their artistic practice.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #2: Presence and Participation. Interview with Marguerite Kalhor

Marguerite Kalhor, through the selfie, the beauty tutorial, the food review and, more recently, video game reviews, uses established social media tropes to explore the performative dimension of online experience, often driven by anxiety and expectations. Interview by Nicola Bozzi.... READ MORE...

“Red Umbrella Struggles”: an exhibition on sex work industry

"Red Umbrella Struggles" is an international group exhibition that revolves around the controversial and multifaceted topic of sex work. The show takes its inspiration from two newly commissioned projects by Edith-Russ-Haus’s 2018 Media Art Grant holders, Petra Bauer and Daniel Jacoby.... READ MORE...

Surrogate. An Ideal Love

The show "Surrogati. Un amore ideale", curated by Melissa Harris, from February 21 to July 22, 2019 in the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, creates a direct dialogue between the photographic works of two artists, Jamie Diamond and Elena Dorfman. Both artists highlight the emotional ties between human beings and surrogates, dolls, substitutes.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #1: Of Cats and Models. Interview with Jacopo Calonaci

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Jacopo Calonaci, an illustrator with a prankster's DNA. His Instagram account is a great example to discuss how starting an art project from scratch can muster up a following on what is probably the most competitive platform around.... READ MORE...

An Opera for Animals

The exhibition An Opera for Animals, at Para Site, Hong Kong, looks at different acts of staging that have been crucial to our imagination of modernity.... READ MORE...