The exhibition Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph aims at looking behind the scenes of collecting and organizing exhibitions. So a series of artist talks is part of the programme. Would you like to get to know something about Ján Mančuška's work and work process - in particular about his film installation Killer Without a Cause which will be shown in the exhibition? The artist will give you details during his lecture and talk. Admission free
BRAD KAHLHAMER THE PROMENADE SPACE Curated by Cydney Payton
Both Rapid City and Prairie Girls by Brad Kahlhamer blend sex and death, urban and rural, artificial and natural, and dark and light. For Kahlhamer, the hidden language of things in-between is everything. His paintings and works on paper display an exuberant expressionistic line and mix the energy of country western music with Native American symbolism and subversive figuration that can include strippers and skeletons, as seen in his installations at MCA DENVER. A newly cast 9 1/2 foot tall bronze totem pole is on view for the first time. His installation projects take on a character that reads as landscape, swirling with an atavistic energy–as if a sound accompanies their visual rhythm.
From June to September Syndney presents its 16th Biennale of Contemporary Art, where The Murder of Crows, the new T-B A21 commission by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller is inaugurated.
The impulse to revolt. Revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning upside down or inside out, changing perspectives. Through installations, performances, films, texts, an evolving online venue, conversations and other events, Revolutions – Forms That Turn articulates the agency embedded in forms that express our desire for change. Such literal and formal devices are charted for their broader aesthetic, psychological, radical and social perspectives. This Biennale is a constellation of historical and contemporary works of art that celebrates and explores these dynamics, both in art and life. It includes some of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists and presents new works by artists including Lene Berg, Gerard Byrne, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, William Kentridge, Anawana Haloba, Pierre Huyghe, Brian Jungen and Paul Pfeiffer.
If you go to London, don't miss this fantastic exhibition, curated by Ralph Rugoff! Ten artists from around the world – including T-B A21 artists Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), and Do Ho Suh (Korea) – transform the entire gallery in Psycho Buildings by creating habitat-like structures and architectural spaces that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones. The Hayward’s huge spaces are filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which spill onto the three outdoor sculpture terraces, radically altering the interior and exterior of the gallery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a series of ten atmospheric, enthralling and unsettling installations. Combining architectural and artistic design with the use of light, colour and smell to trigger responses, these dynamic constructions actively encourage viewers to become adventurous participants.
In the MACRO Galleries in Rome (until August 31) Schneider focuses on the idea of the double, which is the leitmotiv running through all his work and led him in 2004 to create two identical apartments at 14 and 16 Walden Street in London. The work is now summed up in the exact mirror-image form recreated at the Museum. The mirror-image MACRO Galleries are connected by a revolving door, like those in hotel lobbies, which is installed on the glazed bridge on the second level of the Museum. The walls, floors, and corridors of the MACRO Galleries have been totally blackened, in order to ignore the Museum’s architecture and to disorient. Some habitant-bodies are placed in the rooms, making reference to the strange presences that started inhabiting his works as from the late 1990s. The other room he has recreated is a seclusion cell - part of Schneider's study of socially significant spaces, such as the seclusion cells in the secret Camp V in the Guantánamo prison in Cuba.
For the exhibtion at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in St Mark's Square in Venice (until September 14), Gregor Schneider has created a dark tunnel, in which he takes up the design of the Ka’aba in Mecca. Schneider reproposes the 'Cube Venice 2005' project presented for the 51st Venice Biennale, here with a new display positioning; the work was refused by the Biennale as it was believed to be potentially dangerous in terms of the political reactions. Cube Venice consists of a large, black, geometric sculpture, without an accessible entrance, resting on a base of 12x13 metres, designed to be anchored to the ground in St. Mark's Square. The awe inspired by such an enigmatic and impenetrable volume is rooted in the artist's reflections on the space of the Ka'ba. The exhibition brings together 3-D presentations, models, photographs, drawings which document the creative process and the meaning underlying the Cube Venice project, throughout the various stages of its development. A great Installation designed especially for the display area introduces the spectator to the idea of an enclosed space, an empty space: both unsettling and mystical at the saure time.
Go north to join the The Experiment Marathon Reykjavík, an exhibition and program of related events organized by the Reykjavík Art Museum (RAM) and the Serpentine Gallery, London. From May 15, the RAM becomes a laboratory in which leading artists, architects, film-makers, academics, and scientists will create an environment of invention through a series of installations, screenings, performances, and experimental films. The exhibition and related events are curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London, in collaboration with artist Ólafur Elíasson. The Festival's full program can be found on their website!