LONDON.- Marking 30 years of collaboration with Jeff Wall (b.1946, Vancouver, Canada), White Cube opened a major solo exhibition of the artists work at the Bermondsey gallery. Titled Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures, the show celebrates the cultural significance of Walls work and how he challenged the conventions of photography to change its course within contemporary art. It follows recent museum shows across Europe in 2024, including Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland) and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona, Spain), and precedes major solo presentations in 2025 at MAAT (Lisbon), Galleria d'Italia (Turin, Italy) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto, Canada). Residing between near-documentary realism and compositional artifice, the subjects of Walls cinematographic photographs range from the urban environment to elaborate tableaux that evoke the scale and complexity of 19th-century history paintings. The exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey b ... More
MONTREAL.- Starting November 29, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will present the Canadian premiere of the immersive video installation Ravel Ravel Interval by world renowned French-Albanian artist Anri Sala. In this work, Sala trains his lens on the left hands of two pianists performing Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major: Louis Lortie and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. The exhibition will run through April 2025, the year of the 150th anniversary of Ravels birth. To foster an immersive auditory experience, a chamber will be installed with several speakers that transmit two quasi-simultaneous interpretations of Ravels concerto. Lorties and Bavouzets hands are shot in close-up as they play the music, rest and then resume playing again. Each interpretation is accompanied by an unseen orchestra somewhere ... More
Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Dyed Flowers With Lunch Poems, 2024. Oil on canvas. Non-encadré | Unframed: 73 x 60 cm | 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches. Photo: Tanguy Beurdeley. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Jean-Philippe Delhommes new paintings continue to explore a subtle reflection on human presence and the authenticity of the gaze. The exhibition Model Resting is organized around portraits and still lifes, with the word Model emphasizing a direct relationship with the person present and the word Resting introducing the question of inactivity. For the artist, the idea is not to paint a model in a traditional sense, through poses and artifice, as has occurred throughout art history, but to attempt to capture an individuality, a particular presence, usually through a non-pose, with the model choosing to get involved or not. This distinctive approach rejects any staging by painting directly from life, far from social constructions or mediations imposed by contemporary gazes. Delhomme works exclusively from life, in ... More
Eric Length, Swedish, B. 1980, Sleeper cell, 2024. Photo: Fiumano Clase.
LONDON.-London Art Week Winter 2024 will take place in galleries from 29th November to 6th December. Highlights this winter include specialist exhibitions with many focusing on single artists and rediscovered artists, many of which are female. Abbott and Holder are showing An Artist Rediscovered - presenting the works by Mary Headlam (1874-1959) from 28th November 23rd December. Mary trained at the Slade from 1892-1896 and was part of a circle of progressive and highly educated women artists and writers that included the Syrett sisters and Gwen Raverat. She was a regular exhibitor at the N.E.A.C. where the vast majority of her output was illustration and landscape, Samuel Palmer being the greatest influence on her work. She was the subject of a small exhibition at Sheffield City Art Galleries in 1983, curated by the late Anne Goodchild, but since then nothing of Headlam's work has been seen beyond the walls of her ... More
FRANKFURT.- With a comprehensive selection of works PASSIONATELY FFF MEMBERS SHOW reveals the desires and interests that the members of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) have personally for the medium. In an open call process members of the FFF were asked to send their photos to be juried for an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of FFF. The spectrum of FFF members is wide -- passionate professionals, beginners to highly accomplished photographers, collectors, teachers, artists, professors, office workers, designers and architects, journalists and writers, scientists and historians, craftsmen, philanthropists and students, doctors, lawyers, bankers, musicians, and others. This exhibition is dedicated to all those who participated over 200 members -- for their passion for photography and their commitment to supporting FFF. Original works from the juried short list are part of the wall and room installation. ... More
Croix de procession, 432 000 . Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The annual Master Sculpture Sale, held on Friday, November 22, and Monday, November 25, 2024, has written a new chapter in the history of Sothebys Paris. As the last auction conducted at the iconic 76 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, this event carried significant emotional weight for collectors and Sothebys team members alike. Featuring prestigious provenances and major rediscoveries, the sale achieved an impressive total of 3,140,800. Highlights included a rare medieval masterpiece and a neoclassical marble acquired by the Musée du Louvre. Among the standout pieces was Lot 5, a Limoges processional cross crafted between 1195 and 1215 using gilt copper and champlevé enamel. Comparable to treasures exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, this cross dazzled collectors with its rarity and pristine condition. Regarded as one of the finest surviving examples of Limoges crosses, it achieved 432,000, far ... More
Christian Tagliavini, Capsilla Regalis, 2024. Series Flora. Archival Pigment Print. Ed. of 15. 85 x 68 cm.
BERLIN.- Camera Work Gallery is presenting the new series and exhibition Flora by Christian Tagliavini for the first time worldwide. The works offer a unique experience within the exhibition. The visual opulence of the pieces is complemented by additional sensory stimuli, creating a contemplative and gracious atmosphere. This setting allows the works from the Flora series to provide insight into Christian Tagliavinis new distinctive artistic vision. With his previous world-renowned series, Christian Tagliavini explored themes and aesthetics rooted in historical epochs. In Flora, the artist turns his gaze for the first time toward the immediate present and future. The works focus on the origin of all life, from which the beauty of forms and colors unfolds. As is typical for Christian Tagliavini, every visual element in these elaborate pieces was meticulously conceived and designed by the artist himself. This contemplative, deliberate creative process enhances the impact of the works. In ad ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia from November 23, 2024 through May 4, 2025 at MOCA Grand Avenue. The first solo museum exhibition in the United States for artist Ana Segovia (b. 1991, Mexico City, where he lives), the exhibition displays luscious paintings that twist assumptions of masculinity through a queer lens. MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia is organized by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant, and Anastasia Kahn, former Curatorial Assistant. We are delighted to bring the second installment of the relaunched MOCA Focus series to life with MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia, said Johanna Burton, The Maurice Marciano Director. This series has played an instrumental role in the careers of an illustrious group of artists over the years, and we are thrilled to once again demonstrate our commitment to providing crucial opportunities for ... More
Honoré Daumier, Sad state of the sculpture placed in the middle of the paintings, published in the series Salon de 1857 in Le Charivari on 22.07.1857, lithograph, private collection Prochnow-Seiffert.
COLOGNE.- The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne invites art enthusiasts to explore the humorous and critical world of Honoré Daumier in its latest exhibition, "Between Neck Strain and Art Delight: Daumier's People in the Museum." Running from November 29, 2024, to March 23, 2025, the exhibit highlights how the 19th-century French artist captured the quirks and contradictions of museum-goers, artists, and critics. Honoré Daumier (18081879) is celebrated as a brilliant painter, lithographer, and caricaturist, renowned in France for his sharp wit and insightful observations published in major newspapers like La Caricature and Le Charivari. The exhibition features 30 works, including pieces from series such as Le Public du Salon (1852) and Le Public à lExposition (1864). These satirical illustrations showcase Daumiers fascination with art exhibitions, including the Paris Salon and Worlds Fairs, where he poked fun at so-called art connoisseurs. His timeless ... More
BERLIN.- The special exhibition Histories of Tanzania illuminates the chequered histories of the territory of modern-day Tanzania. Curators from Dar es Salaam, Songea, and Berlin have developed the exhibition collaboratively, in conversation with representatives of communities in Tanzania. The exhibition presents their different perspectives and stories, dealing, in particular, with the violence of German colonial rule and its consequences. It also presents the artistic positions of East African artists and shows short films by school students from Berlin and Dar es Salaam, which investigate traces of colonialism in their respective cities. A diverse programme of events accompanies the exhibition, featuring artists from the fields of film, dance, photography, media art, and music. The highlight here is the European premiere of Frozen Power, the new work by Tanzanian dance company MUDA Africa. The area covered by modern-day Tanzania ... More
WOLFSBURG.- Images and language are deconstructed and regenerated, gestures are transformed into speech, colors are exchanged and manipulated, texts are spoken forwards and backwards. From a loudspeaker membrane slowly filled with sand, we hear that a voice is buried here The exhibition Gary Hill. A Question of Perception shows how the American US-American media conceptual artist has been revealing the essence of image and language through the medium of video for more than five decades. Active since the 1970s, Gary Hill (b. 1951 in Santa Monica, lives in Seattle) is one of the key practitioners working with video , language and electronic media. With his inimitable feel for a mediums technical and conceptual possibilities, he helped establish the liminality between video, performance and conceptual practices in contemporary art. Long before the manipulation of media became commonplace, Gary Hills videos repeatedly ... More
Portrait of Hyzolic/Desires. Courtesy of the artists.
LONDON.- For its annual Spring commission, Somerset House presents a new multi-dimensional project by Hylozoic/Desires, the cross-disciplinary collective of Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser. Salt Cosmologies explores the complex weave of histories and myths around Britains imperial salt monopoly in India, with a spectacular open-air installation, scaling 80 metres in length and over 2 metres in height and a compelling exhibition set within spaces that once administered Britains tax on salt. This will include Somerset Houses Salt Stair, which will open to the public for the first time after an extensive restoration, displaying works specially commissioned for Salt Cosmologies. As Somerset House marks 25 years of its transformation into an international arts destination, it reimagines a historic building for the future with its powerful juxtaposition of inspirational architecture and a centre for contemporary culture. In the Somerset House courtyard, Hylozoic/Desires pres ... More
FORT, Hercules, 2017. Installation view, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, 2018. Courtesy the artists, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf. Photo: René Arnold.
BREMEN.- The collective of female artists entitled FORT (Alberta Niemann, b. 1982 in Bremen, and Jenny Kropp, b. 1978 in Frankfurt/Main; both live in Berlin) connects art and life in a special way. In a pointed perspective involving various techniques, they summon up stories of impressive intensity. Their works oscillate between humorous lightness and poetical profundity. Through subtle distortions, familiar scenes and objects from everyday life take on a surreal, sometimes uncanny character. Wardrobes from whose insides childrens songs can be heard. Heart-shaped balloons that glide through the exhibition. An orphaned drugstore with empty shelvesFANTASY ISLAND is not a hideaway but instead transforms the commonplace into grotesque counter-images. The exhibition presents a wide-ranging selection from the artistic production by the ... More
More News
Annet Gelink Gallery opens 'Steffani Jemison: Way in the Middle of the Air' AMSTERDAM.- Using movement and language as tools for material and spiritual research, Jemisons exhibition features new and recent works exploring the physical and metaphorical phenomena of falling and floating, suspension and support. Drawing from a wide range of historical and cultural resources and references - from geology to interstellar travel - the exhibition invites the viewer to consider how the leap of faith operates as an aesthetic, political, linguistic, and spiritual engine. The exhibition title refers to the traditional African American song Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, inspired by a prophets mystical, revelatory vision of a flying chariot. In 1950, science fiction author Ray Bradbury borrowed the phrase Way in the Middle of the Air to title a short story about black Americans who secretly built rockets and escaped to Mars - and the white ... More
Charmaine Poh Named Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2025 FRANKFURT.- Charmaine Poh has been chosen as Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year for 2025. Born in 1990, the Singaporean-Chinese artist and documentary filmmaker divides her time between Singapore and Berlin. In her work, she explores themes such as agency and repair, as well as the visibility and invisibility of queerness and femininity in Asia. Her work is also influenced by Eastern philosophy, media criticism, and cyberfeminism. In the fall of 2025, an exhibition dedicated to Charmaine Poh will be presented at the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin. Poh studied Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin and began her career in experimental documentary photography. In 2024, she was featured in the main exhibition of the 60th Venice Art Biennale. Her films and installations straddle the border between documentary, ... More
Museum Tinguely presents 'String Figures: A Research Exhibition' BASEL.- Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, loops of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanitys oldest cultural practices, they have inspired artists, anthropologists, and theorists. String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking. The exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary pieces of art with objects from ethnographic collections in order to re:search, re:define and re:signify the past and present of string figure practices. In anthropology, string figures were long regarded a universal game. As a body practice that can be found in many places of the world, it fed the epistemological fantasies ... More
MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique opens first solo exhibition by Giorgio Griffa at the Paris gallery PARIS.- MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique is presenting Senza Tempo, the first solo exhibition by Italian master Giorgio Griffa at the Paris gallery. Painting captures its time and transcends it, continuing to live beyond its era. Thought is outside of time. It acts without yesterday, today, tomorrow, without present, past, or future. It is memory that anchors time and space. Timeless. We are capable of conceiving only an endless present. Giorgio Griffa, Turin, November 6, 2024. With these words, Griffa invites us to rethink time not as a linear progression but as a boundless space: an infinite present that exists in constant dialogue with the past and future. For Griffa, painting is a process that extends beyond the moment of creation. It remains open, unfinished, and alive, detached from the historical context of its inception. His art resists definitive ... More
Cairo Contemporary opens 'Tipo Passe' by Angolan photographer Edson Chagas BUDAPEST.- Tipo Passe by Angolan photographer Edson Chagas, is a series that addresses questions of history, culture and identity. The artist’s birthplace of Angola was subjected to colonial rule by the Portuguese from 1575 until independence in 1975. The culture and traditions of the local population were largely disregarded and ‘unseen’ by the European colonialists. Edson Chagas stages portraits of models wearing traditional African masks borrowed from a private collection. The artefacts have been extrapolated from their history and context; the sitters are dressed in contemporary clothes from street markets, complementing the colours and forms of the masks. These objects with immense ritual meaning and a compelling presence are suspended between worlds, and prompt the viewer to question the reality of what he or she is perceiving The images in this series are photograp ... More
'The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories' on view at Framer Framed AMSTERDAM.- Framer Framed presents The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories, an exhibition examining how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora. The Anarchist Citizenship is an ongoing research-based project initiated in 2016 by curator Amal Alhaag and artist Nadine Stijns and developed in collaboration with Somali artists such as Mustafa Saeed, along with various other artists, thinkers, architects, and activists. On show at Framer Framed until January 26, 2025, this iteration of The Anarchist Citizenship features work by Somali (diasporic) artists navigating the waters of cultural production, histories, war traumas, (diasporic) lifeworlds and possible futures. How can we avoid, refuse, or obscure the colonial gaze and create images challenging the status quo? Especially when so much of the visual culture produced on (the Horn of) Africa continues to enact and reproduce ideas of desire, sympathy, ... More
paper positions vienna takes stock VIENNA.- The first edition of paper positions vienna concluded this past Sunday. The Viennese audience showed great interest in the fair's focus on paper, approaching the unique features of more than 80 artistic positions with curiosity and enthusiasm. Over the four days, positive feedback flowed from both gallery owners and visitors. Many praised the open, salon-like atmosphere, which sharpened the focus and allowed galleries to present works and formats rarely showcased at fairs. There was a strong willingness to embrace solo presentations, include smaller formats, and feature emerging talents, resulting in a consistently high quality of the works and displays. Some galleries exhibited paper works by artists better known for their objects, sculptures, or canvases, creating a rare and expansive sense of intimacylike peeking behind the curtain of a familiar ... More
Khandakar Ohida is the winner of the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize focussed on moving images LONDON.- The V&A and Art Jameel have announced Khandakar Ohida (b. 1993, India) as the winner of the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize, an international award worth £25,000 for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The triennial competition, founded in 2009 in collaboration with Art Jameel, focusses this year on artists working with moving image and digital media. An exhibition of works by the winner and shortlisted artists opens at the V&A South Kensington on November 30, 2024 through to March 16, 2025. Khandakar Ohida received the award for the film Dream Your Museum (2022) a portrait of her uncle, Khandakar Selim, who has built an extraordinary collection of objects and memorabilia over the last 50 years. Ohida documented the collection as it was displayed in her uncles traditional mud home, which has ... More
The secrets of Van Dyck's Andalusian Horse
Flashback
On a day like today, American artist James Rosenquist was born
December 29, 1933. James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. In this image: Then 71-year-old US artist James Rosenquist stands in front of his art work 'Brazil' which he created in 2004 at the art museum in Wolfsburg, Germany on Thursday, 17 February 2005. The piece was part of a retrospective which included 150 works of art spanning across three decades, allowing an insight into the work of a leading representative of US American Pop Art. The exhibition ran until 05 June 2005.