Word Association: Gerhard Rühm, Theo Altenberg, Ann Cotten & Kerstin Cmelka revisit the experiments in poetry and art of the ‘Wiener Gruppe,’ a collective founded in postwar Vienna in reaction to the suppressed aesthetic movements of the time. Vienna Interiorism: Dominikus Müller and Helen Chang explore the unique role that […]
In 2008, the Contemporary art center La Ferme du Buisson, and the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen invited Mathieu Copeland to curate A Choreographed Exhibition. Exclusively composed of “movements” written by eight artists—Jonah Bokaer, Philipp Egli, Karl Holmqvist, Jennifer Lacey, Roman Ondák, Michael Parsons, and Fia Backström & Michael Portnoy—and executed […]
Afterall present issue 34, Autumn/Winter 2013, which looks at the inscription of ideology, power and desire in cultural production through the work of Lene Berg, Mary Ellen Carroll, Lili Dujourie, Lucy McKenzie and Haegue Yang. Accompanying essays discuss questions of artistic and curatorial agency in Mike Kelley’s exhibition The Uncanny […]
The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and Sternberg Press announce the publication of Scandalous: A Reader on Art and Ethics (ed. Nina Möntmann). A book launch will take place at Iaspis in Stockholm, with presentations by Nina Möntmann and Måns Wrange and a film screening by Renzo Martens. Recent encounters […]
In the November–December issue of frieze: Then & Now: “How does the period look today? Scanning the list of names being given the retrospective wax and polish, the answer should be: ‘It depends on whose 1990s you’re talking about.” Editor Dan Fox reconsiders British art and the 1990s. Poet in […]
The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen announce the first comprehensive solo publication by Lars Breuer (b. 1974, Aachen). Breuer first attracted the attention of the Ludwig Forum through his numerous site-specific wall paintings, murals, and facade projects. Displaying a strong sense of the historical, and with a clear […]
Kaleidoscope announce the promotional tour of the Asia special issue, a series of exclusive events running throughout the fall in Europe and Asia in celebration of the release of Issue 19 (fall 2013), a special edition dedicated to contemporary art and culture produced in the Asia Pacific region. The release […]
Peculiar Galaxies: Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith considers the recent work of the legendary and elusive artist Lutz Bacher on the occasion of her long-awaited first solo exhibition in the UK at the ICA, London. My Influences: Ahead of his solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, which opens on […]
Rebecca L. Spang on how we have come to fear inflation –D. Graham Burnett on tabua and relational economics –Geoff Manaugh on the physical and financial topographies of gold mining –Jeffrey Kastner in conversation with Stephen Mihm on capitalists and counterfeiters in nineteenth-century America –And artist projects by Conrad Bakker, […]
We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, edited by Daniel Baker (artist, curator, and researcher; London) and Maria Hlavajova (artistic director of BAK, Utrecht), inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life. As the so-called […]