Exhibition view of “Diagrams: A Project by AMO/OMA” Fondazione Prada, Venice. Photo: Marco Cappelletti. Courtesy: Fondazione Prada.
VENICE.- Fondazione Prada presents “Diagrams”, an exhibition project conceived by AMO/OMA, the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas, in its Venetian venue, Ca’ Corner della Regina, from 10 May to 24 November 2025. “Diagrams” investigates the visual communication of data as a powerful tool for constructing meaning, comprehension or manipulation and a pervasive instrument for analyzing, understanding and transforming the surrounding world. It seeks to foster dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena, and the creation and dissemination of knowledge. The exhibition, on view on the ground and first floors of the 18th-century Palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina, gathers more than 300 items, including rare documents, printed publications, digital images, and videos, spanning from the 12th century to the present day and related to various geographical and cultural contexts. This material is displayed accordi ... More
LONDON.- The National Gallery’s new main entrance reopened to the public on Saturday 10 May 2025, as part of the Gallery’s 200th birthday celebrations. The Sainsbury Wing closed in February 2023 to undergo sensitive interventions to its external façade, foyer and first floor, to provide a better and more welcoming first experience to the National Gallery’s millions of visitors, in a plan designed by New York-based Selldorf Architects, working with heritage architects Purcell. At the entrance, some of the Gallery’s footprint has been given over to public realm, creating a 'square-within-a-square', and leading to a more spacious entrance to the Gallery. The original dark glass of the stairs up to the gallery spaces has been replaced with clear glazing, bringing daylight across the foyer while revealing subtle views of the 1830s National Gallery building by William Wilkins (1778‒1839). The glazing ... More
Created in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna, BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), and the University of Vienna and supported by the European and Italian Space Agencies, the project is grounded in real-world applications of microbial life for food production, medicine, and resource recycling.
VENICE.- The Metabolic Guide to Space Survival is a multidisciplinary installation by artist Kristina Pulejkova that explores microbial life as the foundation to long-term survival in Space. Framed through the voice of the fictional character Chief Bioengineer Mira Kordan aboard the starship Möbius, the installation blends science fiction and applied science to present a speculative and rigorously researched vision of life beyond Earth. Presented at Universe Pavilion, the space, art and architecture exhibition Sheltering in Space: A Guide, curated by Claudia Schnugg at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, The Metabolic Guide to Space Survival runs from May 10 to July 31, 2025, at Fàbrica 33 in Venice, Italy. At the heart of the project is a radical ... More
Jon Buck in his studio, 2019.
LONDON.- Pangolin London presents Telltale Forms, a solo exhibition by the ever-inventive sculptor Jon Buck. Charting over four decades of his career, this exhibition intertwines Buck’s early explorations in sculpture with his most recent works. Through his distinctive use of humour, colour, pattern, and form, Buck delves into profound universal themes - what it means to be human, our connection to nature, and the cultural narratives that both shape and define us. Throughout his career, Jon Buck has sought to address fundamental questions about humanity’s place in the world: “What do we feel about ourselves as human beings, about our relationship to each other, to other creatures, and to the wider environment in general?”. Buck’s work transcends the immediate visual appeal of contemporaries like Keith Haring, inviting deeper engagement through multi-layered meaning and thought-provoking themes. From his formative years studying the figure as a reaction to the ‘Caro ... More
The Australian Performing Arts Collection is the nation’s largest repository celebrating the performing arts, containing more than 850,000 objects relating to the history of circus, dance, music, opera and theatre.
MELBOURNE.- Arts Centre Melbourne today announced it will open the new Australian Museum of Performing Arts (AMPA) within its iconic Hamer Hall in December 2025. Located on the Hall’s upper terrace overlooking the Birrarung (Yarra River), the new cultural destination in the heart of Melbourne will be dedicated to celebrating Australia’s extraordinary performing arts legacy and stories from the global stage. AMPA will present exclusive exhibitions, featuring both rare and treasured objects from the Australian Performing Arts Collection, while also showcasing the best touring international performing arts exhibitions. The Australian Performing Arts Collection is the nation’s largest repository celebrating the performing arts, containing more than 850,000 objects relating to the history of circus, dance, music, opera and theatre. The Collection contains elaborate costumes and iconic rare objects ... More
Choi Hung Road Municipal Services Building, photographed by Chris Lu, courtesy of Ying Zhou and Fai Au.
VENICE.- Hong Kong is a city far more fascinating—and with much more to teach the world—than its popular image suggests. This more fascinating Hong Kong is not found in its dazzling skyscrapers that overlook old junk boats crossing Victoria Harbor, in its open-air dai pai dong where global financiers in bespoke suits eat lunch at plastic tables, or in the nostalgic images of neon-drenched Kowloon streets. Rather, this city is found in places the world does not often look: in the extraordinary but unsung public infrastructures that make Hong Kong the singular urban miracle that it is. These infrastructures that have shaped the city in the early postwar decades are showcased in "Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive," Hong Kong's official exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2025. The exhibition reveals how the city's often-overlooked architectural and urban achievements have for decades fulfilled the pressing mandates that cities around the world now ... More
The official inauguration of the Türkiye Pavilion took place on Thursday, 8 May 2025, with the participation of curators Ceren Erdem and Bilge Kalfa, İKSV’s General Director Görgün Taner, and Deputy Director General Yeşim Gürer Oymak.
VENICE.- The Türkiye Pavilion presents Grounded, a project inspired by the sensual and cyclical nature of soil – translating the earth’s inherent versatility into architectural expression. Curators Ceren Erdem and Bilge Kalfa invite visitors to reconsider their relationship with nature and to explore the richness and depth of the ground beneath our feet. Grounded includes works by 10 individual participants and 10 participant teams, as well as a selection made through an open call. The Türkiye Pavilion exhibition is commissioned by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), co-sponsored since 2014 by SCHÜCO TÜRKİYE and VitrA, and realised with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye. Fibrobeton and STONELINE support the Türkiye Pavilion as contributing organisations, Turkish ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Coinciding with the artist’s career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Alison Bradley Projects presents Kunié Sugiura: Something Else, an exhibition of iconic works from different periods of her long career in New York, several of which have never been on public view. Something Else is on view through June 28th. Through six decades of constant experimentation, Kunié Sugiura (b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan) has always pushed the boundaries of her practice in search of new expressions. From explorations of photography’s earliest form—the photogram—to the bold integration of painterly materials and techniques, Sugiura’s oeuvre embodies the richness of photography as an aesthetic medium while redefining its apparent limits. Soon after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1967 and moving to New York City, Sugiura began printing photographs on canvas. Though ... More
LONDON.- Room 34 of the National Gallery was unveiled as the Blavatnik Family Foundation Room in recognition of its significant gift to NG200. The generous gift marks the culmination of NG200, which has been the National Gallery’s year-long Bicentenary celebration of art, creativity and imagination, marking two centuries of bringing people and paintings together. Led by Sir Leonard Blavatnik, founder and chairman of Access Industries, the Blavatnik Family Foundation promotes innovation, discovery and creativity to benefit the whole of society. Through the Foundation, the Blavatnik family has contributed over $1 billion globally to advance science, education, arts and culture, and social justice. They have provided essential funding to dozens of scientists in the early stages of their careers through the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, made major gifts to ... More
The Party’s Is Over Southampton, Long Island. Metallic Hahnemühle Paper, 2023 22x33.
NEW YORK, NYZ.- Artist and photographer Federico Rabinovich unveils Wind Full of Space, a striking new photographic series capturing the haunting stillness of Southampton, New York, during the off season. Over several winters, Rabinovich found himself alone in the seaside town—bustling in summer, but nearly deserted in winter—accompanied only by his camera. Originally from Buenos Aires, Rabinovich used this solitude for much-needed introspection, finding solace in the rugged, windswept landscape. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Elegy, written at the similarly desolate Duino Castle in 1911–12, Rabinovich borrowed the series’ title to echo the same themes of sorrow, search, and transformation. Printed on metallic Hahnemühle paper, the photographs shimmer with a daguerreotype-like quality, highlighting the stark beauty of bare white branches, frost-laced grass, and moonlit water. Working primarily at night, Rabinovich captured long exposures that explore ... More
Iassen Markov, portrait image, courtesy of Iassen Markov.
VENICE.- The Bulgarian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2025 presents Pseudonature, an experimental installation at the intersection of nature and technology, reality and simulation. Conceived by architect Iassen Markov, the project challenges the future of sustainability in a world where natural processes are increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence and human intervention. At the core of Pseudonature lies a striking contradiction: a snow-covered courtyard in the height of summer in Venice. A solar-powered snow-making machine produces artificial snowfall—only to bury the very panels that sustain it. The sun becomes both creator and destroyer, driving the system while simultaneously erasing its own work. This self-regulating cycle reveals the fragile equilibrium of sustainable technology: the stronger the sun, the more efficiently the system operates, yet as snow accumulates, energy production slows, requiring constant adaptation to shifting conditions. The project ... More
Igshaan Adams, Jaime-Lee, Lulu, Savannah, Zandile, Zanele i, 2024, Cotton twine, plastic and glass beads, gold and silver ball chain, mohair wool and tiger tail wire, 97 x 81" / 246.4 x 205.7 cm. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan is presenting Igshaan Adams’ third solo exhibition, Verkenning, translating from Afrikaans as “to explore or the process of gaining knowledge.” In a series of wall-based tapestries, hanging sculptures, and three-dimensional weavings spanning 2023 – the present, Adams decodes communal and individual material histories by treating movement as medium. The progress of individual action is inherently tied to the activity of the collective—within its parameters, personal impetus drives a steady unearthing of the self. By tracking the migration of communities, the time stain of domestic pathways, or the rhythmic dance of the body, Adams explores how, within unlikely places, suppressed memory is dislodged and reinvented. As a child of apartheid in South Africa, Adams navigated the constraints of a layered identity within the boundaries ... More
Defne Ayas is a director, curator, and editor whose practice embraces the confluence of cultural, technological, spiritual, and political currents.
EINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum announced the appointment of Defne Ayas as its new director, effective September 2025. Ayas will succeed Charles Esche, who is stepping down after two decades in the role. Ayas’s work as a director, curator, and editor spans the intersections of culture, technology, spirituality, and politics. Currently serving as Curator-at-Large at Performa, New York’s biennial dedicated to visual art performance, she has held key positions at leading international institutions, including Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) in Rotterdam (2012–2017). She has co-curated major biennials such as Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning at the 13th Gwangju Biennale; How To Gather? Acting in a Center in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia at the 6th Moscow Biennale; and the Mindaugas Triennale for the 11th Baltic Triennale. In 2015, Ayas curated Respiro by Sarkis ... More
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Thomas Erben presents New Works: Dona Nelson and Andrew Ross explore systematic process and hybridity NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben is presenting New Works by Dona Nelson and Andrew Ross. Though differing in medium – painting and sculpture, respectively – both artists are united by their systematic approach to art-making, unorthodox use of materials, emphasis on and layering of process, and hybridity of outcome. In his new sculptures, Andrew Ross translates the kinetic energy of two men wrestling into clay forms, which are then cast, recombined, scanned, milled by CNC and finished manually. Without discounting the personal imprint of his hand, Ross defines sculpture as a materially invested process – copying and transposing between materials – that nonetheless confirms a human presence in an ever-changing world. Embracing ... More
Margaret Roach Wheeler weaves a living practice of Indigenous textile designs for Zane Bennett Contemporary Art SANTA FE, NM.- Margaret Roach Wheeler is a textile artist and designer whose scholarship and reinterpretation of Indigenous dress spotlights the cultural legacy of her people and brings greater attention to Indigenous craft traditions across the United States. Wheeler’s forthcoming exhibition, Summer Winter, presents sixteen handwoven garments inspired by Indigenous symbology and textile traditions from the southwest to the northeast. Included in this exhibition are collaborations on headdresses with Alice McKee and Maria Mayo; and recently completed collaborations with Marwin Begay (Diné/Navajo). Works from the first tribally owned textile company in the U.S., Mahota Textiles, founded by Wheeler, feature designs by Wheeler and other Indigenous ... More
Lava, renewable building material of the future, takes center stage at the Venice Biennale VENICE.- Iceland Design and Architecture opened Lavaforming, Iceland’s presentation in its national pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Arnhildur Pálmadóttir and created by her team at s.ap architects, Lavaforming presents a speculative future where controlled lava flows build cities, and shares tangible experiments to demonstrate the enormous potential of this renewable material that has traditionally been viewed as a threat. s.ap architects, which also includes Arnar Skarphéðinsson, architect and co-creator of Lavaforming; Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir, designer; and Sukanya Mukherjee, architect, has conducted groundbreaking materials tests to shape lava in a lab setting, including re-melting and pouring it into molds. The results are smooth, glass-like, black bricks and columns—highly durable basic ... More
Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York is presenting Scarecrow, an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982 in Moscow). “The painter is condemned to please. By no means can he transform a painting into an object of aversion. The purpose of a scarecrow is to frighten birds from the field where it is planted, but the most terrifying painting is there to attract visitors. Actual torture can also be interesting, but in general that can’t be considered its purpose.” Georges Bataille, The Cruel Practice of Art, 1949 “I made this body of work over the course of a year. I worked in increments, in fits and starts, getting to know the paintings better than I usually do. There are a lot of accidents here, some images from the imagination or dreams, and some from life, like my friends Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood’s dog Hera whose last days I witnessed last summer. Hera was like a broken ... More
Selected works from world's largest teapot collection at Craft in America LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sharing a cup of tea with someone can be an intimate, resonant experience, and through the eyes of Los Angeles art collectors Gloria and Sonny Kamm, the dutiful, historically-laden teapot itself can be a site of great visual and tactile expression, where the focus becomes evocative abstraction of its most standard features. The Kamms are known and respected for collecting and commissioning studio craft teapots by a wide range of artists. Envision a teapot made of perforated clay or another made of heavily embroidered fabric or even one made of metal mesh and pistachio shells! Form complicates function. Gloria Kamm has called these concept teapots “delightfully useless” in terms of practical function. And yet in partnership with her husband Sonny, the Kamms see the function of a teapot less as a device for serving the legendary beverage, but rather ... More
Mika Ninagawa makes European solo debut with immersive 'INTERSTICE' at Palazzo Bollani VENICE.- Mika Ninagawa with EiM: INTERSTICE, curated by Eriko Kimura, represents the first solo exhibition in Europe by Japanese photographer and director Mika Ninagawa, in collaboration with the creative collective EiM (Eternity in a Moment). The immersive installation, set up at Palazzo Bollani, explores the concepts of boundaries, transition, and overlap, using images, lights, and sounds to create a space where reality and fiction merge into a totalizing sensory experience. Mika Ninagawa (Tokyo, 1972) is one of the most influential photographers on the contemporary Japanese scene, renowned for her bold use of color and a visual language that blends pop aesthetics, natural symbolism, and traditional Japanese culture. Alongside directing critically acclaimed Japanese films such as Sakuran (2007) and Helter Skelter (2012), Ninagawa engages in photographic ... More
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art announces "Nancy Genn: The Nature of Being" - retrospective of Berkeley-based artist SONOMA, CA.- The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is presenting a retrospective of the work of Nancy Genn, a Berkeley-based artist, whose long career explores the history of post-war American art in the fields of gestural abstraction and abstract expressionism. Nancy Genn: The Nature of Being opened on Saturday, May 10, and runs through September 7, 2025. “I have known Nancy and her work for over twenty years. I am thankful that our paths converged again, and that we could work together to bring Nancy Genn: The Nature of Being to Sonoma Valley Museum of Art,” writes SVMA Executive Director & Chief Curator, Linda Keaton. “Nancy continues to refine and develop both process and expression. Her natural positivity and curiosity about ... More
New exhibition by Ima-Abasi Okon opens at van Abbemuseum Eindhoven EINDHOVEN.- On view from 10 May to 21 September 2025 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven Ima-Abasi Okon’s solo exhibition Incorporeal hereditaments like Love [can] Set(s) You Free, according to Kelly, Case, Dru Hill, Kandice, LovHer, Montel and Playa with 50 60g of –D,)e,l,a,y,e,d1;—O,)n,s,e,t2;— ;[heart];M,)u,s,c,l,e3;[heart];— S,)o,r,e,n,e,s,s4; opens May 10 in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. ImaAbasi Okon presents a collection of old and new work in as many as 10 rooms of the historic section of the building. The exhibition raises questions about how ideas of improvement, used to justify the appropriation of land in settler colonialism, are still seen in today's focus on optimising the body. Okon draws on elements from road running in this exhibition. For instance, rubber mats typically used in races are incorporated into the installation. Conventionally ... More
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On a day like today, English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born
