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Ebun Sodipo: A Journey Through the Debris of Images
Back in Basel, and now in its last week, Vitrine presents the first exhibition in Switzerland of emerging artist Ebun Sodipo, who works across performance, film, sculpture and collage, and narrates constructions of a black transfeminine self after slavery and colonialism through visual assemblages. ‘On the Edge of a Sheen Cut’ presents a new body of wall-based sculptural works in resin and mylar showing images from the artist’s visual archive. The archive is an exploration into what she describes as her own formation of personal narrative, self-possession and the aestheticisation of compositional materials that reflect ideas around transformation, desire and sexuality.
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Paris + par Art Basel Public programme
Paris + par Art Basel public programme is free and open to all. It is an artistic activation in various...
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Komumuma: Starting Sunday
Starting Sunday at Komunuma runs from 2-6pm at 29 & 43 rue de la Commune de Paris, Romainville 93230....
October 15, 2023
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Laurent Grasso: On the Limits Between Fiction and Reality
Laurent Grasso (born in 1972 in Mulhouse, France) lives and works between Paris, France and New York, New York, USA. Located at the intersection of heterogeneous temporalities, geographies, and realities, Grasso’s films, sculptures, paintings, and photographs immerse the viewer in an uncanny world of uncertainty. The artist creates mysterious atmospheres that challenge the boundaries of what we perceive and know. Anachronism and hybridity play an active role in his strategy, which entails diffracting reality in order to recompose it according to his own rules. Fascinated by the way in which various powers can affect human conscience, Grasso seeks to grasp, reveal, and materialise the invisible, from collective fears to politics to electromagnetic or paranormal phenomena. His work reveals what lies behind common perception and offers us a new perspectiveon history and reality.
October 3, 2023
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Bolzano Art Week #3: play_ground
BAW has reached its 3rd edition: born in 2020, almost ‘for fun’ from a meeting in a playground,...
September 29, 2023
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Jacopo Benassi: Dealing with Nature as a Political Act
Wild nature and even cultivated nature have taken center stage in my recent works. For some time now,...
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Yann Bronder: Tu m’as reproché en fait ce que tu faisais avec moi sans que je ne le sache. Top.
On the occasion of Brussels Gallery Weekend and the 50th anniversary of Baronian, the oldest gallery in Brussels, we interviewed artist Yann Bronder. Born in 1990 in Belgium, she studied at KASK in Ghent and holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from LUCA in Brussels. Bronder does not work in series, she works in time slots and works on several works simultaneously. Each work is an occasion for something new, for something unprecedented. As a result, Bronder’s works are not limited to one theme or one context.
September 9, 2023
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Generation Brussels 2023
In addition to collaborating with galleries, Brussels Gallery Weekend also organises its own exhibition called "Generation Brussels." The primary objective of this exhibition is to showcase the emerging generation of artists who reside in Brussels but have not yet found representation by a particular gallery.
September 6, 2023
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Giorgia Severi: Climax #5 Venice
On the occasion of the eighth ‘Vetrina‘, Vino Vero presents a site-specific work by Giorgia Severi, an Italian artist working on environmental and landscape issues. Her multimedia artistic research is based on archiving endangered landscapes, including natural spaces and cultural practices. “Climax #5 Venice” poses the question whether the climax, which is the condition of maximum equilibrium and growth of an ecosystem, is not perhaps at the point of involution.
September 5, 2023
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Exploring the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan: An Interview with Gayane Umerova
In just three years, Uzbekistan has cemented its place in the Venice Biennale, with each presentation more intriguing than the last. From the initial debut in 2021 with "Mahalla — Urban Rural Living" curated by Christ&Gantenbein, the country has maintained its presence at the Arsenale, next to the Italian Pavilion. Last year's "Dixit Algorizmi — The Garden of Knowledge" was looking at the origins of algorithms and computation, curated by Space Caviar and Sheida Ghomashchi. And this year, the pavilion promises to delve deep into archives and the future of sustainable architecture with "Unbuild Together: Archaism vs. Modernity". We sat down with Gayane Umerova, the commissioner of the Uzbekistan National Pavilion in Venice, to get a behind-the-scenes look at this year's enthralling presentation.
September 13, 2023
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35th Bienal de São Paulo: Choreographies of the impossible
Choreographies of the impossible, which runs from September 6th to December 10th, enunciates a space...
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Panorama L’Aquila
Back again from 7 to 10 September 2023 Panorama is the cultural project that ITALICS annually dedicates...
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Frieze Seoul
Frieze returns to the Korean capital with an expanded line-up for Frieze Film, an initiative supporting the city’s non-profit spaces, talks and the debut of Frieze Music
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Una Boccata d’Arte
Una boccata d’arte is an invitation to work together: every year it involves 20 artists of different nationalities, 20 italian municipalities and 20 regional curators to create 20 contemporary art projects in dialogue with the local area.
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Palai 2023
The second edition of Palai is taking place at Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi in Lecce, Southern Italy and involve...
August 7, 2023
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When the human body becomes landscape: a conversation with Luna Cenere.
Luna Cenere is the young choreographer who won the 2022-2023 call for new choreographies aimed at artists under 35 by La Biennale Danza with her project "Vanishing Place." The piece made its world premiere at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale during the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, "Altered States," under the artistic direction of Wayne McGregor.
August 21, 2023
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Bohemian Glass: An interview with Caterina Tognon and Sylva Petrová
The mark the beginning of The Venice Glass Week and the exhibition Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters at Le Stanze Del Vetro, on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice, we interviewed curators Caterina Tognon and Sylva Petrová. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and is dedicated to Bohemian glass after the Second World War, featuring the works by six major artists of contemporary glass sculpture: Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, René Roubíček and Miluše Roubíčková.
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P. Staff: On pain lapsing into pleasure and back again
Whilst in Basel, we had a chat with British artist P. Staff about the show In Ekstase at Kunsthalle Basel, which incorporates all new works in video, sculpture and installation.
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Biennale Arte 2024: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In Venice (Arsenale and Giardini venues) from 20 April to 24 November 2024 (pre-opening on April 17, 18 and 19).
April 20, 2024
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Art Basel 2023
Basel fair brings the international artworld together.
June 12, 2023
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Elena Filipovic: on Basel and showcasing the most trenchant artists of our time
As the art world descends upon Basel this week, we interviewed Elena Filipovic, director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel to find out more about the current shows on there, what's new in town and her ideal day in Basel.
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Shirana Shahbazi: On Zurich and grappling with the contradictory nature of photography
To mark the beginning of Zurich Art Weekend we had a conversation with artist Shirana Shahbazi - living and working in Zurich. Her exhibition at Galerie Peter Kilchmann features all new works.
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Basel Social Club
The Basel Social Club was founded in spring 2022 by a collective of artists, gallerists and curators...
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Evaporating Suns: Contemporary Myths from the Arabian Gulf a conversation with Munira Al Sayegh and Verena Formanek
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition of Evaporating Suns we met with the curators Munira Al Sayegh and Verena Formanek. The preface to the exhibition catalogue edited by KBH.G, poses some key questions to underline the importance of this exhibition: “does the function of myth in the Arab world differ from that in the West or the global South? Is there a common denominator, are there core stories that are generally valid and accessible beyond cultural differences?” The answer relies upon the audience, viewers are invited to suspend preconceptions and stereotypes and open themselves up to a journey through the region’s artistic production.