Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are semmingly solidified in movement, as if frozen. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Tatiana Trouvé presents new works in her first so...
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At this year’s Art Forum Berlin, Berlin's international fair for contemporary art, Spencer Brownstone Gallery presented a magnetic tape installation by Zilvinas Kempinas. The Lithuanian artist, who lives and works in New York is known for his works that use unspooled videotape as sculptural medi...
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The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison present a series of short videos, drawings and text prints at Von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. The works on display date from the years 1993 to 2009. The works center around making space perceptible and making sense of the world. The ran...
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An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris ...
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At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One & Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Two days before, when we filmed Trafalgar Square at dusk, it was a completely different scenery, ...
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Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, recently inaugurated nine permanent large-scale works by the artists Chris Burden, Doug Aitken, Edgard de Souza, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Jorge Macchi, Matthew Barney, Rivane Neuenschwander, Valeska Soares, and Yayoi Kusama. Inhotim is a museu...
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Until the 19th of December 2009, Hauser & Wirth Zürich presents an exhibition of new paintings on canvas and works on paper by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. Many works in the show relate to Wilhelm Sasnal’s first ever feature-lenght film entitled Swiniopas (Swineherd), which he realiz...
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Interview with Julie Mehretu on the occasion of the American artist’s solo exhibition "Grey Area" at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. More info.
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In June 2009, conceptual artist John Baldessari received the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, now the Tate Modern in London presents the most extensive retrospective of his work to date in the UK. John Baldessari: Pure Beauty. Tate Modern, London / UK. Press preview, October...
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furn...
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Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms (”truisms”) on one of Times Square’s gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a si...
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