The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) welcomes the public to the first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial from 13 October to 12 December 2012. Generating critical discussion of design issues, the biennial delves into the theme of Imperfection, suggested [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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Kunsthal KAdE presents The Dwelling Life of Man. Masterpieces by American and European photographers from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami on 22 September through 6 January 2013. Gregory Crewdson (New York, USA, 1962), Untitled (Merchant’s Row), 2003, C-print, 164 x 25 [Read More]
Canadian Cultural Centre presents Michel Campeau Darkrooms (Chambres noires), an exhibition on view September 26–October 26, 2012. Michel Campeau, Sans-titre 7987 [Montréal, Québec], La chambre noire, 2005–2009. omprising some thirty colour photographs taken between 2005 and 2009, Darkrooms is the composite portrait [Read More]
Cristina Popovici’s creative spirit is not hindered by a particular medium or process, and she works easily in two dimensions or three. Her vivacious palette is as boundless as light itself. Popovici’s expressive abstract compositions are centered around powerful movements. Cristina Popovici-Spin [Read More]
Sylvie Drolet’s delicate, petite-sized works of watercolor on paper explore the abstract language of residues, traces, scars, marks and bleeds as a form of vivid emotional communication. Soft in approach and dynamic in scope, the works offer ‘borderless’ visions of the human [Read More]
MAP, Mobile Art Production presents Jonas Dahlberg. An Imagined City, in view October 18–December 31, 2012. Jonas Dahlberg Photo: Lisa Tan. Jonas Dahlberg is one of Sweden’s most prominent artists, working at the intersection of art, architecture and film. This October, Dahlberg [Read More]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin announce the appointment of Juan A. Gaitán as curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The 8th Berlin Biennale will take place in spring 2014. Juan A. Gaitán (Canada/Colombia) is an independent writer [Read More]
Kunsthal KAdE presents The Dwelling Life of Man. Masterpieces by American and European photographers from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami on 22 September through 6 January 2013. Gregory Crewdson (New York, USA, 1962), Untitled (Merchant’s Row), 2003, C-print, 164 x 25 [Read More]
Art Toronto 2012, the 13th edition of the Toronto International Art Fair, will take place October 26 to 29 in downtown Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As Canada’s only international art fair, Art Toronto is widely acknowledged as an essential [Read More]
On Sunday, 30th of September, 2012 Manifesta 9 closed its doors in Genk, Limburg, Belgium. The team of Manifesta looks back to a successful 9th edition of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, an edition that was met with much critical acclaim, [Read More]
Frac Haute-Normandie presents L’Inventaire, Vol.2 Acquisitions 1985 on view through 25 November 2012. Inaugurated in September 2011, L’Inventaire is designed to take stock of Frac Haute-Normandie’s collection every year at the start of the season in September, with an exhibition of works [Read More]
Gasworks presents the first UK solo exhibition by New York-based artist Lana Lin, on view now until 18 November 2012. Lana Lin, still from Taiwan Video Club, 1999. Video, 14 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. Since the early 1990s, Lin has developed [Read More]
Museum Kunstpalast presents the oeuvre of the Düsseldorf-based, internationally renowned photographic artist Andreas Gursky (born in Leipzig in 1955) stands, in contemporary photography, for a new approach to realism by means of conceptualisation or photo montage using digital technology. For his exhibition [Read More]
The Yanghyun Foundation (Eunyoung Choi, Chief Director) announce the Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas as the laureate of the 2012 Yanghyun Prize. The Yanghyun Prize was established in 2008 and was the first international prize established by a Korean institution, with the aim [Read More]