Articles
Article date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Closing of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne until April 19
Wolfgang Hahn Prize award ceremony for Betye Saar and exhibition "Mapping the Collection" postponed. Due to the measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Museum Ludwig, like the other city museums in Cologne, will be closed until April 19. No events will take place during this time.
Article date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Belgrade: Leading Institution Damaged by Local Politics
The CIMAM community is taking action resulting from a deep concern of the evolving developments surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (MoCAB), the first and still one of the leading art institutions from the West Balkan region.
Article date: Sunday, March 15, 2020
The Aestheticized Interview with Evelin Stermitz (Austria)
Evelin Stermitz, M.A., M.Phil., studied Media and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and holds the degree in Philosophy from Media Studies. Her works in the field of media and new media art focus on post-structuralist feminist art practices.
Article date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
French Culture Minister Franck Riester has Tested Positive for the Coronavirus
French Culture Minister Franck Riester has tested positive for the coronavirus, along with several other French officials, but he is currently “feeling well” and resting at his home.
Article date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Vatican Сloses Museums, Beefs up Measures to Stop Virus Spread
The Vatican has instituted new measures and closures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
In addition to urging employees to work from home if possible and providing family leave for workers with minors at home due to school closures, Pope Francis also was making some events - normally held outdoors with large crowds - closed to visitors, filmed indoors and broadcast online.
Article date: Thursday, February 27, 2020
Turner Prize-Winning Artist and Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Steve McQueen Unveils his Epic Portrait of London’s Year 3 Pupils
Explored through the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, this vast new art work is one of the most ambitious portraits of children ever undertaken in the UK. It offers us a glimpse of the capital’s future, a hopeful portrait of a generation to come. Steve McQueen invited every Year 3 pupil in London to have their photograph taken by a team of specially trained Tate photographers.
Article date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Love, Ren Hang
One of the actual shows at C/O Berlin is an homage to Ren Hang, Chinese photographer and poet died in 2007 at the age of twenty-nine. ‘Love’ is the title. Ren’s photos include nude groups and solo portraits of women and men often creating sculptures of intersected bodies. Animals are also used in many pictures and there is a very fine interaction between the two forms of life. Two different creatures, animals and humans, are represented into a dialogue of forms and compositions and the different bodies are shown naked as the nature created.
Article date: Sunday, February 23, 2020
Documentary about Artist Koen Vanmechelen at FIFA Montreal
On March 21, "Wild Gene", a documentary about Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, will be shown at the Festival International du Film sur L’Art (FIFA). For no less than six years, documentary filmmaker Joris Gijsen followed the artist on his work trips around the globe.
Article date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
So British! - The Museum of Fine-Arts in Rouen Hosts the Pinault Collection
Since its creation 30 years ago, the Pinault collection never ceased to grow and quickly became a major actor in the contemporary art scene. Rich from work of the greatest artist of our time and regularly presented to the Palazzo Grassi and to the Pointe de la Douane in Venice, the Pinault collection ranks among the most important and dynamic contemporary art collection in the world.
Article date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Wright Morris - The Home Place
Foam has opened 2020 with the first-ever exhibition in the Netherlands of the celebrated American author Wright Morris (1910-1998). As well as being a writer, Morris devoted a short period of his life to photography. In his own distinctive way, he portrayed the poverty and decline that plagued the United States in the 1930s and 40s.
Article date: Monday, February 17, 2020
Game Without Rules by Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg)
Irina Gabiani’s exhibition “The game without rules”at Gian Marco Casini Gallery in Livorno (Italy) is a continuation of the artist’s previous exhibition titled “Domino principle (the end is your choice)” presented at Nosbaum Reding Gallery in Luxembourg, where the artist was showing the consequences of excessive exploitation of the resources of our planet.
Article date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Louise Mertens On
Belgian artist Louise Mertens is known for her eye for aesthetics and her unique, sophisticated take on capturing the human form. Early on in her career, she opened a fine art studio in Antwerp where she creates works that translate her visual world and become a trademark of herself.
Article date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Collecting, the Story of Vanhaerents Family
As a West Flemish family, we are more in the habit of setting ourselves up modestly. I hope that our passion and drive and our sense of quality also brings other people into contact with the medium of art. Its impact on others or the outside world is of secondary importance to me. I mainly buy art that touches me. It is nice to be listed as "the top 200 collectors", but this is not an end in itself.
Article date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money in Bourdeaux
Winner of the Turner Prize 2017, Lubaina Himid is taking over CAPC’s large nave space with her iconic installation “Naming the Money“, which extends the experience of slavery to all “migrants” and calls to mind the initial purpose of the building that houses the CAPC, a former warehouse for colonial goods.
Article date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
The Aestheticized Interview with Jaime de los Rios (Spain)
"The drift of the life of an artist is very curious. It is common to think of his career as a series of evolutions that also affect his technical skill and conceptual realization. The reading of a life in creation is according to the classical linear vision. In these pre-quantum times, I have discovered that in a way people look for ourselves, we seek our fate within a complex universe where reality is not always an absolute truth".
Article date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Interview with Patrick Shearn - Poetic Kinetics
Enormous, aesthetically striking, sustainable, colourful, often interactive and mobile are the sensational and remarkable works of Poetics Kinetics. Here the interview with Patrick Shearn, Poetic Kinetics's father.
Article date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Hella Jongerius – Breathing Colour
National museum of Sweden presents Hella Jongerius’s exhibition Breathing Colour which is a visual installation that features the results of her longstanding research into colour, shape, light and materials.
Article date: Thursday, January 9, 2020
Opening of the Berlin-Based “Help Desk” for Enquiries about Cultural Assets Seized in the National Socialist Era
Since the beginning of January there is a central point of contact in Berlin for enquiries from those whose cultural assets were seized as a result of persecution under the National Socialist regime, and their descendants. This “Help Desk” is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Article date: Tuesday, January 7, 2020
John Baldessari, the Godfather of Conceptual Art, Dead at 88
Artist John Baldessari, whose irreverent, multimedia work and lengthy career as a teacher at CalArts and UCLA inspired an entire generation of artists, died Thursday at the age of 88 at his home in Venice, California. According to the New York Times, his studio manager and foundation chairwoman, Virginia Gatelein, confirmed his death on Sunday. At times a sculptor, a painter, photographer and videographer, Baldessari’s surrealist mixed-media body of work helped shape the modern Los Angeles art scene and, eventually, the world’s.
Article date: Sunday, January 5, 2020
The Princely Collections, Liechtenstein: Five Centuries of European Painting and Sculpture
Established in the mid-16th century and built over successive generations, the Princely Collections, Liechtenstein is one of the most storied private art collections in Europe. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the princely family made the decision to sell a number of their most important paintings and sculptures, which soon found homes in museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Canada.