The 13th Havana Biennial, the largest visual arts event in Cuba, will be held from April 12 to May 12, 2019, with the commitment that the capital city of the island become a “cultural corridor” in which the creators and the public interact, announced their organizers today.
Under the general theme “Construction of the Possible” the next edition of the Havana Biennial was presented as a space for those types of contemporary art that understand creation as “living event or experience in progress”.
The representatives of the National Council of Plastic Arts and the Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam -both institutions of the Ministry of Culture- insisted on their goal that art “invade the city” during the 13th Havana Biennial will be held in the 500year anniversary of Havana.
One of the guiding principles of the 13th Havana Biennial proposes to encourage interaction between artists, curators, experts and institutions, explained the deputy director of the Wilfredo Lam Center, Margarita González, at the launch of the event.
Alec Soth Spotlight Tour: May 26, 2018, 2-3pm.
David Claerbout is a master of visual ambiguity, presenting scenes built from a complex association between photography, film and sound.
Manchester Art Gallery recently acquired Exposed Painting Green Lake , 2012, by contemporary artist Callum Innes.
The Arts Club will host the debut UK exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Hugo McCloud, who will present new works produced for The Arts Club’s Drawing Room.
The Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow presents Joseph Kosuth's first solo exhibition in Russia.
Glowing Core, a new site-specific installation, by Rebecca Horn is on view at La Llotja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain from March 28 through October 1, 2015.
Whitechapel Gallery will present Peter Liversidge: Notes on Protesting, a solo exhibition inspired by ideas surrounding demonstration and protest.
The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation, by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s extraordinary fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.
Rebirth is an immersive, contemplative experience composed of installations, glowing LED sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos.
MFA Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts presents It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez (MFA 1992 Fine Arts), an SVA alumnus and faculty member.
Sean Kelly is pleased to announce that Jose Dávila was awarded the EFG Bank / Art Nexus Latin America Art Award yesterday evening during Art Basel Miami Beach.
The new Renzo Piano designed Harvard Art Museums reopened on November 16, 2014, with the unveiling of a recently acquired site-specific commission, Flying Book Under Black Rain Painting by Rebecca Horn, at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. In conjunction with the presentation of this new work, a special exhibition, Rebecca Horn: Work in Progress, will run through May 10, 2015.
The Hirshhorn Museum will present Days of Endless Time from October 16, 2014 – April 12, 2015, which will feature David Claerbout’s film Travel, 1996 - 2013.
The Eye Film Museum will present Anthony McCall: Solid Light Films and Other Works (1971-2014) from September 28 to November 30, 2014, his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.
Alec Soth will be featured in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, September 28, 2014.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) will present From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, the artist’s first major traveling survey in the United States, which will be on view from September 13, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
Dorsky Gallery will present, HOMELAND [IN]SECURITY: VANISHING DREAMS from September 7 to November 16, 2014, which will include works by James Casebere and Alec Soth.
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce that Idris Khan has been named to Apollo magazine's inaugural 40 Under 40 list.
Kehinde Wiley: Economy of Grace chronicles the development of Kehinde Wiley's eponymous portrait series – from finding his subjects on the streets of New York City to partnering with fashion house Givenchy to create haute-coture gowns for the sitters – featuring African American women for the first time.
Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning will present James Casebere: Scales and Dimensions from August 24 to September 20, 2014. The exhibition will take place across two gallery spaces, the John Hartell Gallery and the Olive Tjaden Gallery.
Callum Innes will be featured in GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, a ground-breaking multi-venue exhibition, at the Scottish National Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, that will focus on landmark artworks from the last 25 years.
The Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Nice will present Julião Sarmento, a comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist's work. The exhibition, curated by Gilbert Perlein, will be on view from June 28 to November 30, 2014.
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, GAM, will present a special exhibition, Julião Sarmento: Lo Sguardo Selettivo, from June 13 to August 31, 2014 as the third chapter of their Analects series.
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will present Leandro Erlich: The Ordinary?, a solo exhibition of works by Erlich and one of the commemorative exhibitions for the museum's 10th anniversary.
Whitechapel Gallery will host a new performance, Peter Liversidge: Notes on Protesting, on Thursday, May 1st in Gallery 2 at 12pm. Liversidge collaborated with a group of sixty children aged 8 to 9 from the Marion Richardson Primary School in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
For its inaugural event of the 2014 season, Basilica Hudson will present ECLIPSE, a collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and visual artist Anthony McCall. ECLIPSE is a multidisciplinary performance that integrates choreography, light, visual design, and an audio-visual time score to arrive at altered ways of viewing a performance.
The Brooklyn Museum will host its fourth annual Brooklyn Artists Ball on Wednesday, April 16th, in celebration of the borough’s creative community and the work of great artists and art patrons. This year they will honor Kehinde Wiley with the Asher B. Durand Award for contemporary artists.
For its opening night celebration, the Canadian Art Foundation's Reel Artists Film Festival (RAFF), will host the world premiere of the documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace.
Traveling Wave, an installation by Anthony McCall, has recently opened at Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
Kehinde Wiley will be honored at this year's American Federation of Arts Cultural Leadership Awards, which recognizes considerable achievements in expanding the audience for art.
Marina Abramović has been elected to the National Academy, a prestigious association of esteemed artists and architects committed to building and sharing the heritage of the arts in America.
Abramović inaugurates her project at Ekebergparken, a sculpture and national heritage park in Oslo, Norway, coinciding with the ongoing celebration of Edvard Munch’s 150th anniversary.
Japan Society Gallery will present an ambitious solo exhibition of works produced by Mariko Mori over the course of the last decade, including an important light installation never before exhibited in the U.S. and a new video work. Titled Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori, the exhibition includes nearly 35 installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and videos, many of which are informed by Mori’s extensive explorations of ancient cultures, including the Jōmon (14,000–300 BCE) of Japan and the Celts in Europe. Rebirth will be on view from October 11, 2013 through January 12, 2014.
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo will present an exhibition of works by Mariko Mori, entitled Infinite Renew, which will be on view from September 28, 2013 – January 5, 2014. With “the infinite renewal of energy” as its theme, Mori redefines and inhabits the gallery’s high-ceiling and glazed space through eight pieces, out of which seven have been newly created for the show and five supported by Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo.
Rarely seen early photographs and works on paper from Anthony McCall's Four Figures series will be included in the group exhibition Lunch with Olympia.
The Faena Arts Center will present the work of Anthony McCall for the first time in Argentina.
The Public Art Fund will present Iran do Espírito Santo's first public work in the United States this fall. Opening on September 10 and on view through February 16, 2014, the work, entitled Playground, explores the tactile attributes of the artist's chosen materials through the contours of a deceptively simple form.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) will present You and I, Horizontal (II), the first solo museum exhibition of work by Anthony McCall in the Midwest.
Peter Liversidge will make a major contribution to a group exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London, England.
The exhibition, entitled INDEX, is curated by João Silvério and features important historical works from the artist's oeuvre as well as new work, including a performance that Sarmento created specifically for the exhibition.
Marina Abramović will be prominently featured in this year's Luminato Festival in Toronto, Canada.
The National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico will present Julião Sarmento's first solo exhibition in the country at the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art.
The Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester will mount a solo exhibition of paintings by Callum Innes. The exhibition, which will be on view from March 2nd through June 16, 2013, will prominently feature works from his series of Exposed Paintings, Monologues and a selection of works on paper and new watercolours.
The tenth annual Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival (RAFF) will feature Somewhere to Disappear.
The eight portraits included in the exhibition take their poses and contexts from the oeuvre of the 15th century Flemish master Hans Memling, but substitute the figures with contemporary young men of color.
The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal will present URANIBORG, a solo exhibition of work by Laurent Grasso.
The New York Times Magazine will present a photograph by Alec Soth on the cover of this week's issue.
The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal will mount the most extensive retrospective exhibition to date of the work of Julião Sarmento. Titled White Nights, the exhibition will feature work in a diverse range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, video and performance exploring themes of eroticism and sexuality and questioning concepts such as desire, absence, time and language. In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Sarmento will present a series of performances by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, dance and other performing arts specifically designed for this occasion in the Serralves Villa. White Nights, curated by James Lingwood and João Fernandes, will be on view from November 23, 2012 through February 24, 2013.
The Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea will present a major retrospective exhibition by Julião Sarmento in his native Portugal. Over the course of his career, Sarmento has developed a multi-media visual language, combining film, video, sound, painting, sculpture and installations. White Nights, which is curated by João Fernandes and James Lingwood, will include over 150 works from throughout Sarmento's distinguished career.
On Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 2pm Anthony McCall will deliver a talk at Tate Liverpool offering insight into his artistic practice. This event coincides with the opening of the exhibition Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change, which will be at Tate Liverpool from November 16, 2012 to January 20, 2013. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to experience Anthony McCall’s seminal solid-light film Line Describing a Cone, 1973, which is part of the Tate collection.
Lifelike, an exhibition featuring James Casebere's Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #8 and Leandro Erlich's Stuck Elevator, will travel to The New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana. The exhibition, curated by Siri Engberg of the Walker Art Center, highlights an international selection of artists whose practices engage commonplace objects and situations to create effects that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal.
Laurent Grasso will be included in, ROUNDTABLE, this year's edition of the Gwangju Biennial. ROUNDTABLE will feature over 93 artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives from 43 countries.
Peter Liversidge is part of the group exhibition Reality Bites: The Document in Contemporary Art at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. In conjunction with the exhibition, 77 proposals were sent to Kiasma between November and December of 2011; the resultant artwork, Proposals for Kiasma, is in the exhibition and has been acquired by the museum for its permanent collection. The first of the proposals to be realised is the publication Proposals for Kiasma, which accompanies Reality Bites and is available on site at the museum's pop up store. The exhibition will be on view through March 10, 2013.
Laurent Grasso will be participating in In the Holocene, a group exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, that explores art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.
This season of the critically acclaimed Sundance Channel series Iconoclasts will premiere with an episode profiling Marina Abramovic and James Franco. The television show, which pairs two visionaries to discuss their influences, passions and creative processes, provides an intimate look into the lives, work, past experiences and aspirations that have made each icon who they are today.
Laurent Grasso will contribute a large neon work, Du soleil dans la nuit, to the Nuit Blanche festival in Paris, France this October.
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor will host Rebecca Horn's first solo exhibition in Slovenia. The exhibition, which celebrates Maribor's status as the 2012 European Capital of Culture, will present a selection of Horn's works alongside works by other contemporary artists, chosen by Horn herself to underscore the themes of her oeuvre.
Materializing “Six Years” showcases the artists brought together and championed by Lucy R. Lippard, demonstrating how her curatorial projects, critical writing and political engagement helped to redefine exhibition-making, art criticism and the viewing experience.
BAM will host the world premiere of ECLIPSE, the breathtaking collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and artist Anthony McCall exploring total motion through uniting Boaker's choreography with an installation by McCall constructed of shifting avenues of light and spatialized, sonic images. ECLIPSE will be the inaugural performance in BAM's Fishman Space, a performance venue which optimally suited for the piece as its four-sided seating configuration creates an intimate, immersive experience.
Column will be a new public sculpture by Anthony McCall, commissioned by Arts Council England. It will run for one year.
Maybe the sky is really green and we're just colorblind, a WeTube-o-theque by Johan Grimonprez, will be included in a group exhibition of video works from the François Pinault Foundation. The exhibition, entitled Voice of Images, includes thirty works by twenty-seven artists and is curated by to Caroline Bourgeois.
The New Art Trust (NAT) has announced the promised gift of a cohesive body of early work by Anthony McCall, consisting of six Solid Light Films and related materials from the 1970s, by Pamela and Richard Kramlich. Two additional works related to the seminal series have also been donated to the Trust by the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery. All works will be made available for presentation by the NAT’s three consortium members, who are the focus of its programs and resources, and include: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); and the Tate, United Kingdom, which will present a selection of these works in Anthony McCall: The Complete Cone Films on July 22, 2012, in the new Tanks at Tate Modern, London.
There will be an exhibition of photographs by James Casebere held in the historic Abbaye de Montmajour as part of the Rencontres d'Arles. The Rencontres d'Arles, a world renowned summer photography festival, features photography exhibitions presented at various heritage sites in Arles, France. The exhibition is curated by Christian Caujolle and will be on view from July 3 through September 10, 2012.
Film Forum in New York City will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of the award-winning, feature-length documentary, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT. The film, from first-time director Matthew Akers, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes portrait of Abramović, following the artist in the momentous year leading up to her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. The film will be on view at Film Forum from Wednesday, June 13 through Tuesday, June 26, 2012.
The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume will present URANIBORG, a solo exhibition of work by Laurent Grasso. The exhibition, which was curated by the artist in conjunction with the Jeu de Paume's Marta Gili and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art's Marie Fraser, centers on the artist's exploration of observation as a vehicle for manufacturing reality and enforcing systems of power. URANIBORG will be on view from May 22 through September 23, 2012 and will subsequently travel to the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. A forthcoming catalogue, which will feature a number of essays as well as a conversation between Marta Gili and Laurent Grasso, will accompany the exhibition.
A video work by Idris Khan, Lying in Wait, is on view in The Space, a deliberately experimental service managed by Arts Council England and developed in partnership with the BBC. The Space is a project designed to give arts and culture organizations the opportunity to experiment and engage with new and existing audiences in an innovative digital environment. It is a pilot and will be available through October 31, 2012.
Sean Kelly announces that Peter Liversidge has begun a year-long collaboration with Low, a highly-regarded band from Duluth, Minnesota. The partnership will culminate in a new set of proposals written for the musicians.
Marina Abramović is the subject of a solo exhibition opening at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC) in Milan, Italy. The exhibition, entitled The Abramović Method, will feature an eponymously-titled body of new work. The exhibition will be accompanied by a two volume catalogue; the first volume will detail the history of Abramović's performances in Italy while the second will focus on the exhibition itself. The Abramović Method is curated by Diego Sileo and Eugenio Viola.
James Casebere and Leandro Erlich will be featured in Lifelike, an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition, which is curated by Siri Engberg, highlights an international selection of artists whose practices engage commonplace objects and situations to create effects that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal. Lifelike opens on February 25th and will be on view through May 27, 2012. A Walker-produced catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
The University of Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery will present the first UK showing of Idris Khan’s new installation The Devil's Wall, which draws inspiration from rituals and practices of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that is one of the pillars of Islam and is undertaken by millions of Muslims each year.
The ninth annual Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival (RAFF) will feature both Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present and Rebecca Horn's Moon Mirror Journey. The focus of this year's festival is revolutionary artists.
The captivating new HBO feature-length documentary, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, will have its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition. The film, from first-time director Matthew Akers, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes portrait of Abramović, following the artist in the momentous year leading up to her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010.
In conjunction with a performance of the Texas based band Balmorhea, a video by Peter Liversidge will be debuted at the Bozar Electronic Weekend Festival in Brussels, Belgium.
Works by Laurent Grasso will be included in an exhibition of the Olbricht Collection at La Maison Rouge in Paris, France. Titled memories of the future in reference to Grasso's neon sculpture of the same name (pictured above), the exhibition draws from the impressive collection of Thomas Olbricht, marking the first time the collection has been seen in France.
S.M.A.K. will present the first extensive retrospective of the film-maker and artist Johan Grimonprez.
Julião Sarmento is part the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture's video project, Commercial Break, which debuted at this year's Venice Bienniale and will be on view for Brooklyn's Bring to Light celebration.
The film world premiere of Moon Mirror Journey will take place at the 11th international literature festival berlin in Berlin, Germany.
Manchester International Festival and Teatro Real Madrid present the world premiere of a startling new piece for the stage: The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, a biography of the godmother of performance art, re-imagined by visionary director Robert Wilson and performed by Marina Abramovic.
Iran do Espírito Santo is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery of the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Canada.
Rebecca Horn has been awarded the prestigious Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques 2011 from the Académie d’Architecture de Paris.
Joseph Kosuth is the subject of a major solo exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv.
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will showcase video works by Laurent Grasso in their Black Box theatre. The exhibition will feature two works, Polair and Les Oiseaux. The exhibition opens on April 4, 2011 and will be on view through July 24, 2011.
The exhibition includes film, sculpture, a performance, drawings and paintings, the works in the exhibition will be shown in Spain for the first time.
Anthony McCall will be included in a group exhibition at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial titled Electric Nights.
A special screening of the film and digital remake of Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone will be shown simultaneously at Tate Modern London.
This year, SCAD deFINE ART will honor Marina Abramović, a pioneer of performance art as a visual art form.
Callum Innes is included in a group exhibition at Tate Britain titled Watercolour.
Anthony McCall's seminal work Line Describing Cone, 1973 is included in the group exhibition Seeing Now: Photography since 1960 at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland.
Film Forum screens Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE.
Johan Grimonprez's award-winning documentary film DOUBLE TAKE (2009) will be screened at Documentary Fortnight 2010, in the Museum of Modern Art's International Festival of Nonfiction Film, New York (February 17 – March 3, 2010).
