Fine Art News

Botín Foundation Visual Arts Grants and art workshop 2014 The Botín Foundation, Spain’s leading private foundation in terms of the scale of its investment, launches an international call for its yearly Visual Arts Grants, and for its summer workshop, to be directed [Read More]

Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in New York City of acclaimed artist Will Clift. Opening on April 25, Will Clift: Forms in Balance showcases a selection of more than 30 of this self-taught artist’s astonishing sculptures [Read More]

EVA International announce the full programme and exhibition venues for EVA 2014 AGITATIONISM curated by Bassam El Baroni. The 2014 Biennial is open to the public from 12 April to 6 July, with a professional preview on Thursday 10 April, opening on [Read More]

The first UK group exhibition of work by the New Artists and the New Academy; two movements founded in St Petersburg by the artist Timur Novikov (1985–2002). The exhibition open 2 April–25 May 2014, takes its title from the Club of Friends [Read More]

The International Biennial Association (IBA) announce that the First General Assembly will be held in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) from the 10th to 13th of July 2014 during the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The four-day [Read More]

In Mikhail Zhirmunsky’s whirlwind multimedia pieces, technique and subject come together to conjure mystery. Zhirmunsky paints innocuous scenes, such as peaceful farmhouses seen through the trees, or a simple silhouette of a chair. However, he treats them with radically energetic brushstrokes, otherworldly [Read More]

The acrylic on canvas paintings of American artist Marianne Fernandez are bold, powerful, and utterly fascinating. Combining a strong use of line and form with brilliant colors and heavy brushstrokes, Fernandez explores a wide range of styles, from figurative to abstract. Each [Read More]

Etsuko Shida says that in her paintings there is “a continuous dialogue between the canvas and myself,” a process that results in works with a complex sense of form and color. “I aim to capture the spontaneity of the moment by using [Read More]

In Catherine Manchester’s paintings, the human figure takes center stage in a dreamlike world. The artist has a strong sense of the tension that exists between natural and manmade environments, and creates a synthesis between them in images that project the interior [Read More]

Artist Barbara Palka Winek works in easel painting, watercolor and monotype. Inspired early on to delve into the arts by her father, a recognized Polish painter, it was in his atelier that she began her lifelong love affair with art. In her [Read More]

Yael Bartana’s new film asks: What is true Finnishness? The IHME Contemporary Art Festival’s sixth commissioned project is the Israeli Yael Bartana‘s new film True Finn – Tosi suomalainen. In her IHME Project Bartana asks topical questions: How does national identity operate [Read More]

Seven artists have been selected by Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) to receive support for the realisation of new projects in 2014. The SAF Production Programme grantees are Marwa Arsanios, Elena Artemenko, Ali Cherri, Ahmad Ghossein, Jumana Manna, Zineb Sedira, and Raed Yassin. [Read More]

Garden and Spring takes as its title that of the canonical Urdu text Bagh O Bahar, the tale of a king without an heir. On a solitary journey, he encounters a group of itinerant dervishes who share cautionary tales, following the epistolary [Read More]

The 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, curated by Juliana Engberg and presented at inner-city and harbourside locations across Sydney, today revealed the work of more than 90 artists from 31 countries. The Biennale of Sydney is presented free [Read More]