The Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) has bestowed the 2011 Hans Thoma Award, the Grand State Prize for Fine Arts, to the Berlin-based artist Karin Sander. The jury honoured Karin Sander for her outstanding oeuvre of sculptures, installations and spatial interventions. The [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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For its second edition, the modern and contemporary fair Marrakech Art Fair is back at the Palace Es Saadi from September 30th to October 3rd 2011, with 47 international galleries exhibiting their major artists. About 20 additional galleries join the Marrakech Art [Read More]
Camerawork Gallery presents Andrzej Maciejewski Garden of Eden, on view August 20 – September 23, 2011. Garden of Eden is a series of still-life photographs of fruits and vegetables. They are inspired by the Old Masters paintings, but they show our modern [Read More]
Kate Eric is a decade-old collaborative identity comprised of Kate Tedman and Eric Siemens, who methodically take turns as they capture interactions in layers of paint on large scale canvases. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents the artists’ first museum exhibition through [Read More]
From the moment photographer Jamey Stillings first encountered the bridge at Hoover Dam he knew it was a subject he couldn’t ignore. Over the next two years, he visited the bridge 16 times documenting the progress and completion of the enormous structure [Read More]
Solidarność Camp is a project developed by Nowy Teatr in Warsaw and Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdańsk. As an art space, the Camp is an installation that will be modified in each of the sites it visits. The installation proposed by [Read More]
Adelaide based artist Mei Sheong Wong is the winner of the 2012 OZ Minerals Copper Sculpture Award. This is the second year OZ Minerals has offered this award as part of the South Australian Living Arts (SALA) Festival. OZ Minerals Managing Director [Read More]
CoproGallery present Matt Rota The Philosophy of Flies, on view August 13th – September 3rd Opening: August 13th 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM. Matt Rota’s Philosophy of Flies explores themes of catastrophe. Scenes of War, Famine, Floods and Earthquakes are populated with [Read More]
The Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Stephen Cohen Gallery announce COLLECTORS’ FAVORITES, a special exhibition of photographs on loan from private collections of members of LACMA’s Photographic Arts Council (PAC) hosted by Stephen Cohen Gallery. [Read More]
Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and social upheaval of the 1960s, seeking to expose truths about the human condition by depicting people involved in curious behaviors set in a world of his own invention. The [Read More]
Kunsthalle Winterthur presents an exhibition of work by Susanne Kriemann , on view 21 August–25 September 2011 Opening: Saturday, 20 August at 5 pm. usanne Kriemann (*1972 in Erlangen, lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin) composes her works based on historical and [Read More]
Centre international d’art et du paysage on Vassivière island presents the first solo exhibition in France of the British-born, LA-based artist Thomas Houseago: What Went Down on view through 23 October 2011. Thomas Houseago’s monumental and anthropomorphic sculptures have invaded Aldo Rossi’s [Read More]
A new artistic hybrid of installation and performance—internationally renowned artists from different genres present the fruits of their collaboration. On view through 21 August 2011. The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] is hosting an exhibition of contemporary artist Noritoshi Hirakawa’s [Read More]
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011 will bring together artworks that connect political and social subjects with aesthetic and formal concerns. The curatorial point of departure is the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996), whose pieces in different media provide [Read More]