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The 15th Istanbul Biennial: An Interview with Director Bige Örer
Istanbul
As announced earlier this year, the 15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial is running from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Curators Elmgreen& Dragset and director Bige Örer have proposed an exhibition which deals with the concept of “good neighboor”. On this occasion, the director shares with My Art Guides her vision and perspective on the upcoming biennial, describing the curatorial concept, the program and activities, and reflecting on her hopes and expectations.
Carla Ingrasciotta: Istanbul’s art scene has grown rapidly in recent decades. What, for you, characterizes Istanbul’s current artistic and cultural environment?
Bige Örer: I think one of the most powerful... Read More
Mona Hatoum: The 10th Hiroshima Art Prize
Hiroshima
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
29/07 - 15/10 2017
The prize, established in 1989 to appeal to a wider world about the “Spirit of Hiroshima,” is awarded every three years and in 2017 is presents an exhibition by Lebanese born artist Mona Hatoum.
Hatoum was born in Beirut to an exiled Palestinian... Read More
Nam June Paik: Our Bright Future–Cybernetic Fantasy
South Korea
Nam June Paik Art Centre
20/07 - 05/11 2017
“Our Bright Future–Cybernetic Fantasy” proposes an explorative path of contemporary technology and art from the perspective of the ‘Cybernetics’ of Nam June Paik.
Bringing up the themes of robots, interface and posthuman, the show is... Read More
Interviews
Davidoff Art Residency Program: an Interview with Rodell Warner
Basel
On the occasion of the first edition of the Basel Meeting Point, organized by Davidoff in collaboration with My Art Guides, we interviewed the Trinidadian multi-media artist Rodell Warner (b. 1986 Trinidad & Tobago), selected artist of the Third Davidoff... Read More
David Hockney: A Retrospective
Paris
Centre Pompidou
21/06 - 23/10 2017
The Pompidou presents the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to the work of David Hockney; the show is put together in collaboration with Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
It celebrates the artist’s 80th birthday... Read More
Featured Exhibitions
Wolfgang Tillmans
Basel
Fondation Beyeler
28/05 - 01/10 2017
The solo show presents around 200 photographic works by the German artist dating from 1989 to 2017, and is thereby the Fondation’s first comprehensive engagement with the medium photography.
From having attained iconic status for his evocative photographs in the 1990s, he widened his focus and experimented with the medium. Tillmans created a new visual language, with and without using a camera. He used a photocopier as well as other new technologies leveraging on the medium of photography.
This exhibition does not only display portraits, still life and landscapes, but a series of his abstract works that play with the limits of the visible are presented.
The exhibition is accompanied by an audiovisual... Read More
Cajsa von Zeipel: Insulting the archive
London
Arcadia Missa
24/06 - 29/07 2017
For her first solo show with Arcadia Missa, von Zeipel creates a group of sculptures, each one a character: von Zeipel’s figures are narcissistic youths, long-legged depictions of subcultural vitality.
Taking inspiration from classical sculptural... Read More
In Search of Miss Ruthless
Hong Kong
Para Site
01/07 - 10/09 2017
The show presents the work of 23 artists inspired by the media infrastructure that frames a pageant queen, taking inspiration from Miss Hong Kong and Miss Chinese International.
“Miss Ruthless” is a public persona from the future: a queer... Read More
Diaspora Pavilion
Venice
Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina
13/05 - 26/11 2017
On the occasion of the 57th Venice Biennale, International Curators Forum (ICF) and University of the Arts London (UAL) present “Diaspora Pavilion”, a group exhibition conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within... Read More
Floor-naments
Paris
Monnaie de Paris
30/03 - 09/07 2017
Monnaie de Paris presents “Floor-naments”, an exhibition curated by Camille Morineau: instead of placing works on plinths, instead of a quest for monumentality or a choice of conventional subjects, Modern and Contemporary sculpture lies directly... Read More
Selected Cities
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Anne Imhof
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Gabriel Orozco
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Samson Young
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Angelo Plessas
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Giorgio Andreotta Calò
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Damien Hirst
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Carlos Amorales
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