10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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21 Jan, 2015
Christina Gay: Joy of Living
at Michaela Helfrich Galerie
Neukölln - Berlin, Germany
Jan 30, 15 - Feb 27, 15
Right before the beginning of february the Michaela Helfrich gallery presents an exhibition of Christina Gay, gathering the nucleous of the gallery focus on paintings and skulptures. The former master class student from the state run art college of Karlsruhe shows some of her latest works including paperworks in mixed media as well as large scale paintings, collages and skulptures. “ Informal Art up to installation” Gay sums it up. read more...
Laugh-in Art, Comedy, Performance
at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
La Jolla, CA, USA
Jan 23, 15 - Apr 19, 15
Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance explores the recent turn toward comedic performance in contemporary art. The exhibition features twenty artists who engage the strategies and themes of stand-up comedy as a means to rethink questions of artistic performativity, audience participation, and public speech. If stand-up evokes the image of an isolated figure, spot-lit on a stage, this form of comedy resonates with contemporary artists precisely for its direct if uncertain relation to an audience or public. read more...
Cindy Sherman
at Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection)
Munich, Germany
Jan 29, 15 - Jul 18, 15
With her photographs, Cindy Sherman (born 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.) has had a lasting influence on 20th century art. Much like an actress, she portrays herself in different roles before the camera. Although Sherman’s photographs are self-portraits in the traditional sense, they do not reveal much about the artist’s personality. Rather, her primary concern is the deconstruction of gender roles and stereotypes. read more...
New Frankfurt Internationals: Solid Signs
at Frankfurter Kunstverein
Frankfurt, Germany
Jan 23, 15 - Apr 26, 15
“New Frankfurt Internationals” is a special exhibition project initiated in 2010 by Frankfurter Kunstverein as a recurrent format. The idea behind it is to focus on the major artistic potential innate in the region and to present artists who have lived and/or have studied in Frankfurt and the Rhine/Main region and who are in part already counted among the “new internationals” in the art world. Focusing on art from Frankfurt and the region The 2nd edition of “New Frankfurt Internationals” is organized by Frankfurter Kunstverein (FKV) and Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (NKV) thus expanding the presentation out from the city of Frankfurt into the region. read more...
Natural Histories
at Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Athens, Greece
Jan 29, 15 - Mar 21, 15
Gagosian Athens is pleased to present “Natural Histories,” an exhibition of two painted bronze sculptures by Georg Baselitz and Mark Grotjahn. When the figurative sculptures of ancient Greece and Rome were unearthed during the Renaissance, they were in a dismembered state, eroded, and had lost nearly all of their original color. Pliny the Elder, in his wide-ranging treatise Natural History (circa 77–79 A. read more...
Michael Dean: Qualities of Violence
at De Appel
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan 24, 15 - May 10, 15
Michael Dean produces sculptures of cast concrete or other industrial materials, which seek to evoke unusual physical reactions in the human body. It is not often that hard cement appears soft and flexible. Dean's sculptural works arise from his own extensive writing. His forms represent words, but in a three-dimensional type face which he developed himself, so that they remain strange and inexplicable for the viewer. read more...
Osvaldo Lamborghini: Proletarian Chamber Theatre
at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Jan 30, 15 - Sep 06, 15
For the first time in a museum, this exhibition brings together a comprehensive selection of the visual art (photographic collages, publications intervened with images and texts, as well as posters and drawings) of Osvaldo Lamborghini, one of the most unique writers of contemporary Argentinean literature, who passed his final years, between 1982 and 1985, in the city of Barcelona. Osvaldo Lamborghini (Buenos Aires, 1940; Barcelona, 1985) is one of the most unique and fascinating writers of contemporary Argentinean literature. read more...
Charlotte Gyllenhammar
at The Göteborg Museum of Art
Gothenburg, Sweden
Jan 24, 15 - May 03, 15
Charlotte Gyllenhammar has consistently developed an artistic language with a direct address. With several public artworks, she has established herself as one of Sweden’s most influential sculptors, and she also works with photography, film and spatial installations. Gyllenhammar often employs repetition as an artistic method and in her latest work she has returned to the motif of a woman suspended upside down, which she has explored throughout her career. read more...
Rita Ackermann: Chalkboard Paintings
at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
Jan 24, 15 - Mar 14, 15
Hauser & Wirth Zürich is pleased to announce an exhibition of new chalkboard paintings by Rita Ackermann. This body of work was presented for the first time at Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria in 2014, and a second series was shown later the same year at Art Unlimited, Art Basel. The works in this exhibition are a step further in Ackermann’s investigation into the deconstruction and disappearance of a pictorial language. read more...
Rina Banerjee: Migration's Breath
at Ota Fine Arts
Minato-ku - Tokyo, Japan
Jan 23, 15 - Mar 21, 15
Her Moist Breath warm with saliva and scent punctured mountain pleasured a thousand cultures of magnificent Migrations in Mist hidden bewildering beasts and plant blew winds for wandering trumpeted of conch and sprinkled cowry shell as money , came to launch commerce by mouth of river to open sea spoke sirens to fold all difference into a single hunger for more to eat Ota Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present "Migration's Breath", a solo exhibition featuring new sculptures, works on paper and lithographs by Indian-born, New York-based artist Rina Banerjee. One of the foremost artists of the post-colonial diaspora, Banerjee's work is intricate and enchanting. read more...
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