FRUITS OF LABOR

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With a practice that is deeply interwoven into her everyday experience, Ruth van Beek looks inwards at how her vast archive works.

In Mariken Wessels’ new series of sculptures of Mama and collage works The Sculptor, it is the female body that becomes matter.

The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam. 11.03.2023 > 22.04.2023.


PAINT & BODY

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Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s still lifes or landscapes are not just painted, but authored; the thread between his different forms of expression: drawing, writing and painting.

Pacific Design Center, Los-Angeles. 16.02.2023 > 04.03.2023


LOCATING PERCEPTION

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Nancy Holt’s work addresses the consistent examination of how we attempt to understand our place in the world.  Across five decades she investigated perception, systems and place.

Sprüeth Magers, Los Angeles. 28.10.2022 > 14.01.2023.


ON STAGE

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Suzy Lake développe initialement un travail orienté vers la performance, mais aussi celui d’activiste politique et de féministe militante. Son œuvre questionne la représentation et la perception de soi en tant qu’être libre et responsable, aux travers de séquences photographiques et de films.

mfc michèle-didier, Paris. 14.10.2022 > 23.12.2022.


OVER THE LAST SIX DECADES

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Walter Pfeiffer explores the syntax of pictures: how acts of arrangement and modes of presentation generate moods and associations. Organized chronologically, the exhibition brings together photographs, paintings, drawings, videos and collages made by Pfeiffer over the last six decades to showcase the artist’s approach to capturing life’s pleasures, poetics and oddities in images.

Swiss Institute, New York. 04.05.2022 > 28.08.2022.


SURPLUS PROJECT REVERSE

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SURPLUS reversed by Magda Buczek refers to practices of protest occupation, squatting, and virusing more than to a traditional exhibition. Hidden from the eyes of inattentive visitors, yet teased in a window display, it plays with a marketing strategy of speak-easy, a secret, exclusive space for the selected group of audience.

SUPER DAKOTA, Brussels. 09.06.22 > 16.07.22.


WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

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Alexandra Leykauf investigates the relationship between image and viewer, and context and space working with photographic imaging processes. With a simple but effective sewing technique, Dominik Styk produces abstracted forms that are simultaneously strange and familiar.

GAK, Bremen. 19.02.2022 > 15.05.2022.


THREE TROPES FOR ENTROPY

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Laila Melchior and Koi Persyn — laureates of the second edition of the Lichen Curatorial Prize — present  Three Tropes for Entropy, a growing and transformative exhibition in three chapters with works by mountaincutters (FR), Angyvir Padilla (VZ) and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (ES), Three Tropes for Entropy delves into three distinctive artistic practices, presenting their singular approaches towards notions of flux, energy, and transformation.

CIAP Kunstverein, Lichen Curatorial Prize #2, Genk, 06.02.2022 > 01.05.2022.


SOFT POWER

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Ludovic Sauvage conceptualise une pratique de l’installation où les images prennent forme par leur déconstruction dans l’environnement.

Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris.  29.01.2022 > 26.02.2022.


A BLACK HOLE IS EVERYTHING A STAR LONGS TO BE

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For the exhibition « A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be », Kara Walker has, for the first time, opened up her extensive archive of drawings and is presenting about 650 graphic works and a selection of films.

Shirn, Frank­furt. 15.10.2021 > 16.01.2022.