HR GIGER
Dreams and Visions
10th of March - 26th of June 2011
In this comprehensive retrospective devoted to HR Giger, who was born in
1940 in Switzerland, KUNST HAUS WIEN takes a new look at the works of a
controversial artist who, more than almost anyone else, has had a
farreaching influence on pop culture and cyberculture. The painter and
sculptor HR Gi
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Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street, New York NY 10002 Tel: 212-598-0400 x216 E-mail: info@henrystreet.org www.abronsartscenter.org Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
Apr 7 - May 22, 2011
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, City Studio (Re)Visiting SPURA
MoMA PS1 presents Nancy Grossman: Heads, a solo exhibition that focuses
on the artist's evocative head sculptures. Nancy Grossman has been
making art for more than fifty years and is best known for her
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THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: HANS-PETER FELDMANN
20 May – 2 November, 2011
Hans-Peter Feldmann, winner of the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, has spent over
four decades conducting a profound investigation into the influence of
the visual environment on our subjective reality. Composing imag
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LOUISE LAWLER
Fitting at Metro Pictures
6 May - 11 June 2011
For her exhibition at Metro Pictures, Louise Lawler has taken
photographs of art in museums, galleries, private homes, and auction
houses and stretched them to fit the gallery's walls. Printed on
adhesive wall vinyl
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"The World Game.” In Whole Earth Catalog (March 1970).
ACCESS TO TOOLS:
Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968–1974
18 April – 26 July, 2011
In 1968, Stewart Brand founded an alternative information service and
distribution system within a single publication, called the Whole Earth
Catalog. Influenced by the work of Buckminster Fuller, the catalog
developed into an extensive refe
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Pace’s 13th solo exhibition devoted to the work of John Chamberlain
focuses on his dynamic sculptures from the 1980s through the 2000s made
of steel (often derived from crushed automotive parts) that is
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BURKE + NORFOLK
Photographs From The War In Afghanistan
6 May – 10 July 2011
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in
Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century
British photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagine or
respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context o
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PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW DOCUMENTARY FORMS
1 May 2011 – 31 March 2012
This new five-room display explores the ways in which five contemporary
artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power
of photography as a documentary medium. Consisting entirely of new
acquisi
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Joan Miró's works come to London in the first major retrospective here
for nearly 50 years. Renowned as one of the greatest Surrealist
painters, filling his paintings with luxuriant colour, Miró worked in a
rich variety of styles. This is a rare o
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Sculpture vaudou Fon, Bénin
Wood, sacrificial patina
43 x 14 x 11 cm
Courtesy Robert T. Wall Family
VAUDOU
5 April - 25 September, 2011
"FOR THE PRIMITIVE ARTS AND MOST NOTABLY FOR VODUN, THERE IS JACQUES KERCHACHE AND ONLY HIM.” ANDRÉ MALRAUX
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present for the first
time an exceptional group of vodun objects from the collection Anne and
Ja
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Brassaï
Graffiti de la Série V, Animaux: Chimère, 1933-1956
Gelatin silver print
50.8 x 40 cm / 20 x 15.7 in
Frame: 53 x 42 x 3.5 cm
BRASSAÏ & DUBUFFET
2 April - 21 May, 2011
The Karsten Greve Gallery with the support of the Dubuffet Foundation,
is pleased to pay homage to the artists Brassaï and Jean Dubuffet in the
context of an exhibition that reveals for the first time
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The Musée d’Art Moderne is offering a fresh appreciation of Kees Van
Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his
reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a
multifaceted personality: the socially-conscious Dutchman ever ready to
caricature and denounc
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SIMON FUJIWARA
Phallusies (An Arabian Mystery)
8 April - 21 May, 2011
Erotic art is not exactly a major topic within Islamic history, so when
an ancient, giant stone phallus sculpture was discovered under the
foundations of a new museum under construction in the 'Arabian desert',
naturally there was panic. No photographs
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Bosnian artist Danica Dakić creates videos and photographs that explore
displacement, role-playing, and alienation. Her exhibition features
Isola Bella (2007-2008), a video created with
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Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection
13 March - 04 July 2011
Larry Bell
Cube, 1966
Vacuum coated glass
12 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 12 1/8 in., Base: 46 5/8 x 12 3/8, 12 3/8 in.
Gift of Frederick R. Weisman Company.
HUMAN NATURE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION
13 March – 4 July, 2011
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection presents
approximately 75 works of art in diverse media, including painting,
drawing, p
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FROM THE RECENT PAST
New Acquisitions
13 March - 3 Juy, 2011
This exhibition highlights 50 artworks in a range of media—video,
drawing, photography, sculpture, and painting—recently added through
gifts and purchases to the museum's permanent collection. Organi
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RECOCO: LIFE UNDER REPRESENTATIONAL REGIMES
12 May - 18 June, 2011
Boaz Arad and Miki Kratsman, Ariella Azoulay, Lisa Biedlingmaier, Diego
Castro, Köken Ergun, Francesco Finizio, Thomas Galler, Roee Rosen, Anna
Witt, Hannes Zebedin, and the collection of Rudi Maier "so geht
Revolution"
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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
Take me here by the Dishwasher
Memorial for a Marriage
6 May - 26 June, 2011
Auch wenn es nicht so aussieht, die Ausstellung Take me here by the
Dishwasher ist ein Porträt. Ragnar Kjartansson, der sich selbst als
einen hoffnungslosen Romantiker bezeichnet, ist ein isländischer
Künstler, der sich vorwiegend auf den Gebieten der Performance,
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VIDEO OF THE MONTH #67: SPECTRUM
From the Zachęta Video Collection
1 May - 30 June, 2011
Spectrum. From the Zachęta Video Collection - kuratiert von Anna Tomczak
The compilation of videos presented in the ursula blickle videolounge is
a selection of works from th
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THREE STATEMENT IN PAINTING
Francis Alÿs, John Armleder, Valérie Favre
15 April - 28 May, 2011
Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present its new spacious
facilities with three single exhibitions. The new gallery space situates
itself in the Diagonal building located on the Maag Areal, bordering on
Zurichs highest building to date, the Prime
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KILIAN RÜTHEMANN
Target as Frontside
14 April - 28 May, 2011
RaebervonStenglin is proud to present Target as Frontside, an exhibition
of new work by Kilian Rüthemann. The Swiss artist makes sculptures
using simple substances such as salt, sugar, bitumen or cement,
interacting these with the fabric of the bu
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NADAV KANDER
Yangtze - The Long River
10 April – 4 Juni 2011
„Wie kann man so verwurzelt mit einem Land sein und es dennoch so rücksichtslos vorantreiben und neu erfinden?"
Nadav Kander
Fünfmal bereiste Nadav Kander zwischen 2005 und 2007 den Jangtsekiang
stromaufwärts, von der Mündung im Ostchinesischen Meer bis zur Quelle im
Qinghai-Plateau von Tibet. Nie mehr als 20 M
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Der amerikanische Künstler Mel Chin
(*1951) gehört zu den bedeutenden Vertretern der Konzeptkunst seiner
Generation. Seit 1970 setzt er sich in seinen Arbeiten
kulturübergreifend mit politischen, gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen
Themen auseinander. Gegenüber zahlreichen Ausstellungen in den USA seit
Mitte der siebziger Jahre, wurden Chin’s Arbeiten in Europa bisher kaum
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REBECCA ANN TESS
A Crime must be Committed
2 April - 28 May, 2011
We are proud to present – on the occasion of the opening of our new
space in Berlin – the second solo exhibition of Rebecca Ann Tess on
April 2, 2011 at 7pm.
The video installation A Crime
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REBECCA ANN TESS
A Crime must be Committed
2 April - 28 May, 2011
We are proud to present – on the occasion of the opening of our new
space in Berlin – the second solo exhibition of Rebecca Ann Tess on
April 2, 2011 at 7pm.
The video installation A Crime
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A number of free-hanging, colored wooden beams help to generate a new
feeling for what space and sculpture can be. American sculptor Joel
Shapiro (*1941) will create an installation of new and preexisting works
for the Museum Ludwig’s
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DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2011
Thomas Demand . Roe Ethridge . Jim Goldberg . Elad Lassry
13 May - 19 June 2011
Thomas Demand, Roe Ethridge, Jim Goldberg, and Elad Lassry, the
finalists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, have documented
the entire spectrum of human life in their richly layered work,
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HORST ADEMEIT
Secret Universe
13 May - 25 September, 2011
With Secret Universe, Hamburger Bahnhof begins a series of exhibitions
focusing on artists who have so far remained largely neglected by the
established art discourse. The first exhibition in this series is
devoted
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FRITZ ESCHEN
Berlin under the Makeshift Roof
Photographs 1945 to 1955
7 May - 26 June 2011
When "zero hour” struck for postwar Germany, and the country
capitulated, Berlin was left in ruins. The Tiergarten—Berlin’s central
park—was deforested, the massive Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the
heart of the city bombed and crumbling, the historic Nicolai Quarter a
burned-out shell, and Lehrte
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SASCHA WEIDNER
since tomorrow
Photographs
7 May - 26 June 2011
It’s the moment that counts. It’s the source of everything—every
perception, longing, dream, and remembrance. Sascha Weidner celebrates
the beauty of the perfect moment and takes hold of it, turning an
unflinching eye toward himself and his environment. His radically
subjective cosmos of images is the poetic film of life,
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Eine Ausstellung des Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien kuratiert von Maik Schlüter
KünstlerInnen der Ausstellung: Diana Artus, Jakob Kolding, Eiko
Grimberg, Stephanie Kiwitt, Christine Schulz, Tomek Mzyk und
Korpys/Löffler
Urban Noise: Architektur und soziales Geschehen, Alltägliches
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We are happy to announce the first solo exhibition of our artist Rosa
Barba at carlier | gebauer, opening at the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2011.
With her filmic works and sculptures, which she exhibited widely in
major institu
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NOÉ SENDAS
SABOTAGE {Crystal Girls & German Diaries}
30 April - 4 June, 2011
"My first thought for this exhibition was to make a facsimile of the
show I had done two years ago, also in Invaliden1 Galerie, thus aiming
heavily at a Déjà vu experience on behalf of regular visitors and on a
suit of issues concerning the viewer’s memories versus the
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KATHRIN SONNTAG
Double Take
30 April – 25 June 2011
Kathrin Sonntag’s solo exhibition at Galerie Kamm bears the title Double
Take. As implied in the title an extensive installation ushers the
viewer into a miraculous world of doublings
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Kunsthalle Basel is pleased to announce "Line Wall”, the first
comprehensive solo exhibition by the Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim (*1975,
Seoul) in Switzerland. Kim turned the Kunsthalle’s upper gallery into a
semi-dark space filled with wall drawings and existing
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LEVI VAN VELUW
Origin of The Beginning
21 May - 25 June, 2011
Ron Mandos Amsterdam is excited to announce the latest solo exhibition
of Levi van Veluw. We warmly welcome you to join us at the opening
reception of this eagerly anticipated show on Saturday the 21st of May
fr
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The first solo exhibition of works by Omer Fast in the Netherlands is
comprised of three complex installations. These are the three-part work
Nostalgia (2009), with which Fast won the Preis der National-galerie für
Junge Kunst in Berlin, the 4-channel work The Casting (2007), that won
him the Whitney Museum’s Bucksbaum Aw
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Exhibition design by Metahaven with Paul Kuipers. Photo Idan Shilon
ALLEGORIES OF GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT
22 April – 29 May, 2011
Salima Belhaj (D66), Carolien Gehrels (PvdA), Ruud Nederveen (VVD),
Mariko Peters (GroenLinks), Michiel van Wessem (VVD), Nicoline van
Harskamp, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Hans van Houwelingen, Jonas Staal
ALFREDO JAAR
The Marx Lounge
17 April - 5 June, 2011
For The Marx Lounge by Alfredo Jaar, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau
Amsterdam has been transformed into a reading room with comfortable
sofas, reading lamps and a large reading table. The reading table offers
a myriad of publications with topics spanning Marxist theory,
capitalism, neo-liberalism, post-colonialism, globalization, cultural
theory,
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Photojournalism is in the midst of a remarkable, and singularly
unexpected, renaissance. New practices, strategies, viewpoints,
techniques, and agents have radically transformed the institutions and
the fundamental co
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