Exhibition: Araki. Tokyo

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 26. 10. 2017 ‐ 04. 03. 2018 Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940) is one of the most prolific and provocative photographers of our time. His work spans a wide range of topics, from highly erotic representations of women to artificial still lifes, botanical portraits, photo-journalistic depictions of everyday life, and architectural photography – […]

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Diana Baldon appointed Director of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive

The Italian Copenhagen-based art historian, curator and critic Diana Baldon has been named Director of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, one of Italy’s newest visual arts institutions based in Modena. The new foundation brings together three of the city’s key cultural institutions: the Galleria Civica di Modena—one of Italy’s oldest and most respected Italian contemporary art centres—together with the more […]

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Exhibition: Robert Frank

Albertina, Vienna, 25. 10. 2017 – 21. 01. 2018 “The Americans”, a group of photos shot by Robert Frank between 1955 and 1957, made photographic history: these works, which Frank took on a series of road trips through the United States, illuminate the post-war “American way of life” in grim black and white, revealing a reality […]

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Trevor Paglen is MacArthur Fellow 2017

Photographer Trevor Paglen has been announced as one of twenty-four recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship 2017. The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, […]

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Duane Michaels receives the DGPh Culture Award

New York-based Duane Michals is honoured with the 2017 Culture Award by the German Photographic Association (DGPh), a distinction that marks the association’s recognition of one of America’s most significant contemporary artists. The award ceremony will take place on 21 October 2017 at the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne. The laudatory speech will be made by Dr. Söke Dinkla, director of Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. The […]

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Alexander Kluge’s Ouevre on View at Two Exhibitions

Pluriversum, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 15. 9. 2017 – 7. 1. 2018 Gardens of Cooperation, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 14. 10. 2017 – 14. 1. 2018 Alexander Kluge sees himself as an author. He inspires his readers, listeners and viewers with his films, texts interviews and much more besides. On the occasion of his 85th birthday, Museum […]

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Pluriversale VII: Stealing from the West. Cultural Appropriation as Postcolonial Retaliation

Academy of the Arts of the World / Cologne, Fall Program 20. 9. – 10. 12. 2017 Exhibition: With Yuri Albert, Kader Attia, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Younes Baba-Ali, Ines Doujak, Tom Gould, Ramon Haze, Uriel Orlow, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Ulay Venue: ACADEMYSPACE, Herwarthstraße 3, 50672 Cologne Other events: (various locations in Cologne) With Clara Balaguer, Vivek Chibber, […]

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Exhibition: Willem de Rooij. Whiteout

KW Institute for Contemporary Art 14. 9. – 17. 12. 2017 Willem de Rooij (born 1969 in Beverwijk, NL) investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. His multifaceted practice includes photography, films, videos, sculpture, soundrecordings, and writing. Appropriated materials, such as found images, objects borrowed from art historical or ethnographic collections, or works by […]

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Screening: Tatiana Lecomte. Hors-Champ

mumok, Vienna, October 11, 2017, 19:00 Tatiana Lecomte is showing a selection of films that have impressed her greatly and influenced her own work, contrasting these with her own film Ein mörderischer Lärm (A Thunderous Noise). This film is based on the experiences of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Boijentin (1920–2015) in the Gusen II concentration camp in […]

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Magazine Launch: EIKON #99 with Focus “On Publishing Photography” in Cooperation with Camera Austria International

When: 5.9.2017, 7pm Where: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 in MuseumsQuartier Wien / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna The third EIKON issue of the year marks the beginning of fall with main articles of Jürgen Klauke, Jaakko Kahilaniemi, Elisabeth Czihakund Karin Fisslthaler, as well as an extensive interview with Gerald Bast and Patrick Werkner on the occasion […]

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Stefanie Moshammer wins C/O Berlin Talents Award

After ten successful years, the early career Talents program has been comprehensively restructured: Talents is now the C/O Berlin Talent Award. Effective immediately, the C/O Berlin Talent Award will honor one outstanding young photographer and art critic each year, awarding 10,000 EUR in total (7,000 EUR in the photography category and 3,000 EUR in the art criticism category). In addition to the cash award, […]

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KW Institute for Contemporary Art announces »KW Productions Series«

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the ‘KW Production Series’, a new commissioning project dedicated to artists’ moving image. In collaboration with the Julia Stoschek Collection and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland, KW will concentrate on two new productions per year. Artists Jamie Crewe and Beatrice Gibson will inaugurate this series. The project takes inspiration […]

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Exhibitions: »Hans Hansen. Still Life« and »Optical Illusions. Contemporary Still Life« mit Lucas Blalock, Annette Kelm, Antje Peters, and Oskar Schmidt

C/O Berlin presents the exhibition Hans Hansen . Still Life from 13th July to 10th Sep- tember, 2017. The opening will be on Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 at 7 pm in the Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22–24, 10623 Berlin. A VW Golf, built in 1988, neatly dismantled into around 7,000 pieces, graphically arranged glass blocks, the […]

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Realease and Symposium: Once We Were Artists

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and Valiz, Amsterdam are proud to announce the release of Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice). To mark the launch of the publication, the symposium “Once We Were Artists” takes place on Saturday 24 June 2017 from 10.30 till 18.00 hrs […]

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10th Berlin Biennale Announces Curatorial Team

Gabi Ngcobo, curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, has invited Moses Serubiri (Kampala, UG), Nomaduma Rosa Masilela (New York, US), Thiago de Paula Souza (São Paulo, BR), and Yvette Mutumba (Berlin, DE) to collaborate with her as the curatorial team. In addition, Gabi Ngcobo selected graphic designer Maziyar Pahlevan to create the […]

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