Tag: Installation

Haim Steinbach: Objects, Commodity Products, or Art Have Functions For Us That Are Not Unlike Words

Haim Steinbach, Display #31G — An Offering: Collectibles of Ellen and Michael Ringier, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2014 Producing an extraordinary body of work throughout his impressive forty year career, Haim Steinbach has redefined the status of the object in art through his continued investigation into what constitutes art objects and the ways in which they are… Continue reading Haim Steinbach: Objects, Commodity Products, or Art Have Functions For Us That Are Not Unlike Words

James Richards, Requests and Antisongs

James Richards, Rosebud 2013, James Richards and Leslie Thornton, Crossing, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, 2017 and Requests and Antisongs, Book, Sternberg Press, 2016 James Richards talks about his processes of collaging together digital fragments to create immersive audiovisual installations. “I was really into making an exhibition space where there would be nothing to look at”. Combining fragments of… Continue reading James Richards, Requests and Antisongs

Christodoulos Panayiotou, In the Light of the Day the Fireflies Are Like Any Other Insect

Christodoulos Panayiotou, In the Light of the Day the Fireflies Are Like Any Other Insect, 2013 Christodoulos Panayiotou’s wide-ranging research focuses on the identification and uncovering of hidden narratives in the visual records of history and time. In 2013 The Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu Project Gallery presented the exhibition In the Light of the… Continue reading Christodoulos Panayiotou, In the Light of the Day the Fireflies Are Like Any Other Insect

Artist: Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen, Extended Operations, 2013, Sensitive to Detergent, Tired, 2011 and Hater Headlight, 2015 Emerging from the 3D-printed rubble of Berlin’s “post-Internet” art scene, the Norwegian artist Yngve Holen is a cold empiricist and a slapstick comedian. With sculptural test-subjects ranging from minor appliances (tea kettles and washing machines) to high-industrial behemoths (commercial airliners and… Continue reading Artist: Yngve Holen

Artist: Hans Christian Lotz

Hans Christian Lotz, Untitled, 2016, Die Ölmühle aus Bickelsberg im Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof Gutach, 2015 and Untitled, 2015 In one famous scene in Jacques Tati’s 1958 film Mon Oncle, Tati’s character Monsieur Hulot tries to open the kitchen cabinet in his brother-in-law’s hyper modern suburban home. He pulls repeatedly on the cabinet’s handle, but cannot open… Continue reading Artist: Hans Christian Lotz

Artist: Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfs, Female Figure, 2014 and Colored Sculpture, 2016, Installation View In a recent interview Jordan Wolfson artist traced a cycle of works produced since 2009 back to a moment of eye-contact: “It is something that became clear to me in Your Napoleon (2009) […]. For that work, I kept trying to figure out how… Continue reading Artist: Jordan Wolfson

Charles Harlan, Sculpture

      Charles Harlan, Stack, 2015, Roll Gates, 2012 and Counter, 2013 Drawing inspiration from Land Art of the 1970s, Harlan avails himself of the most common materials at hand – including such hardware store staples as ladders, shipping palettes, and one-ton metal pipe – in his large industrial works. Huge in scale, Minimalist in form,… Continue reading Charles Harlan, Sculpture

Artist: Isabelle Cornaro, Art Historian Specialised

Isabelle Cornaro, Paysage avec poussin et témoins oculaires (version II), 2009 and The Whole World is Watching, 2012 The work of Isabelle Cornaro evinces an interest in the way our perspectives are historically and culturally determined. Due to her training as an art historian specialised in 16th- and 17th-century Western art, her visual language is… Continue reading Artist: Isabelle Cornaro, Art Historian Specialised

Performance Artist: Tris Vonna-Michell

The Trades of Others, 2008, and Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex, 2014 Through live performance and audio recordings of spoken texts, Vonna-Michell relays circuitous and multilayered narratives that combine personal anecdotes and historical research. Vonna-Michell’s narrative structures are characterized by repeated detours, dead ends, and streams of association. Dense conglomeration of photographic material, from film and slide… Continue reading Performance Artist: Tris Vonna-Michell

Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015

  Sascha Weidner, Am Wasser Gebaut, 2009,  Lay Down Close By,  2012 and La lutte de J. Avec l´ange, 2006. Sascha Weidner was a German Photographer and Artist, who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin. The work of Sascha Weidner deals with the creation of a radical subjective pictorial world. His photographs are characterized… Continue reading Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015

Fitness for Artists, “We can finally meet in a virtual space and get fit for life together.”

     Helga Wretman, Fitness for Artists, 2015 Helga Wretman aims to fill the body and soul of participating artists with endorphins to improve their creativity and self consciousness, whilst providing a platform for international artists to connect with peers in other parts of the world. “We can finally meet in a virtual space and… Continue reading Fitness for Artists, “We can finally meet in a virtual space and get fit for life together.”

Patrizio Di Massimo: Col Sole in Fronte (With The Sun In Front Of Me)

Patrizio Di Massimo, Col Sole in Fronte (With The Sun In Front Of Me), 2010 Col Sole in Fronte (With The Sun In Front Of Me) begins on the ground floor of the gallery with the video Duets for Cannibals. This work was commisioned by Milan City Council and Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in order to… Continue reading Patrizio Di Massimo: Col Sole in Fronte (With The Sun In Front Of Me)

Artist: Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey, From the Exhibition, See We Assemble, 2013 Mark Leckeyis a British artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Lights and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize. Through a multi-disciplinary practice… Continue reading Artist: Mark Leckey

Pierre Huyghe

Since the very idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ is tenuous, the exhibition does not propose a canonical presentation, but attempts to establish a series of artist experiments that relate to the many ‘plateaux’ of the psychedelic, and its multiple histories as they unfolded in particular cultural contexts in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Japan. Although the focus will be upon historical projects from the sixties and seventies, the exhibition will include work from the fifties until the present day.

Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding

Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding, 2013 Self published book featuring works and words by : Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, Jean-Max Colard, Camille Vivier, Jérémie Egry & Aurélien Arbet, Eric Tabuchi, Audrey Corregan & Erik Haberfeld, Yann Gross, Andrew Phelps, Estelle Hanania, Jerry Hsu, Raphaël Zarka, Paul Virilio, and many more. 368… Continue reading Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding

Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975

Lutz Becker, Installation view, Cinema Notes, 1975. 16mm Black and White, 45 mins For many years lost and recently found, Kino Beleške was produced in 1975 in collaboration with the group of artists, curators and critics gathered around the Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade. The film includes verbal statements and performative gestures of the numerous protagonists of the… Continue reading Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975

Artist: Wael Shawky

Wael Shawky’s work explores transitional events in society, politics, culture and religion in the Arab World. The films, installations, and performative works of the Egyptian artist explore the ways in which social and political systems have been restructured in Arab countries over the past several decades. Through restaging historical events with children and marionettes, Shawky turns… Continue reading Artist: Wael Shawky