| Charlie Woolley: I Built my House on Sand
David Risley Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition by London born artist Charlie Woolley.
In this exhibition Woolley brings together a collection of images and objects with thematic connections. He asks the question 'what can be done with the images that we are confronted by everyday?' Sometimes this question is in response to simple desires: to chart the histories of the... |
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| Michael Samuels: Childstar
Michael Samuels tests the boundaries and our preconceived ideas of objects and space, presence and absence and fiction and reality. Interested in sculptures formal language and its material presence, Samuels uses furniture sourced for its distinctive quality and appearance and reconstructs it through experiments in form, colour and placement.
Reconstructed and refigured, sliced and... |
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| Joao Pedro Vale - Festa dos Rapazes
For his second exhibition at the gallery, João Pedro Vale is to debut a set of seven works, presented under the broad title ‘Festa dos Rapazes’.
The ‘Festa dos Rapazes’ (literally translated, ‘Boys Party’) is a millenary ritual that is based on the myth of eternal return. Today, this ritual finds its parallel in the farming cycle and is carried out by rural societies in... |
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| Meuser: Woman rides, the horse goes on foot
Meuser — the name stands for iron and steel. But Meuser is also the pseudonym of the sculptor who turns this massive material into light, humorous, poetic works of art.
The Kunsthalle is presenting a first comprehensive exhibition of the works of the artist born in 1947. From 1968 — 1975 Meuser studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art under Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich; he was... |
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| Sea Hyun Lee: Between Red
Sea Hyun Lee’s paintings are a constant and obsessive shuffling of recurring fragments. His unmistakable series of landscapes are rendered in delicate but pervasive washes of red - large swaths of unmarked white meandering between islands of crimson land. The blank spaces are harshly set against the carefully detailed fragments in red yet cohering into the flawless totality that is... |
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| Katerina Christidi: Charcoal Overload!
Katerina Christidi presents a new series of large-scale drawings on canvas, created in 2007 and 2008. It is in fact a series of portraits, in which it is hard to determine either the age or sex of the individuals depicted. The latter are but hybrid beings, the solitary inhabitants of a world that is not readily recognizable. The grotesque, a quality which seems to have haunted the... |
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| Paul Rooney: La Décision Doypack
For his first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, and first solo exhibition in London, Paul Rooney has made a new 27 minute film shot on 16mm, La Décision Doypack (2008), co-commissioned by Matt’s Gallery and the Loughborough University Radar programme. A further new commission entitled Failing That (2008), with images and a text written by the artist, will feature in the gallery... |
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| Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society
A cooperation between
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Ars Electronica, Linz, and RIXC, Riga
Concept: Armin Medosch
Curators: Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Dr. Inke Arns
Wireless communication is, in this day and age, a given in all realms of society. Yet what manner of artistic potential is presented by the electromagnetic waves perpetually enveloping us... |
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| Melissa Gordon: War of the Ghosts
Galerie Juliette Jongma is presenting the second solo exhibition by the American artist Melissa Gordon (1981, lives and works in Berlin).
'War of The Ghosts' explores the collapse of democratic systems of governance. Paintings utilizing images appropriated from newspapers and depictions of pre-Modernist architects and social planners are presented on structures that reference... |
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| Beatrice Jugert: Social Fiction
“The repetition of the sacred action symbolically duplicates the structure and power that established the world originally. Thus, it is important to know and preserve the eternal structure through which man has life, for it is the model and source of power in the present. [… > Ritual activity moves power in two directions: (1) it concentrates it in one place, time, and occasion, and... |
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| Lothar Baumgarten. autofocus retina
This monographic exhibition by Lothar Baumgarten (who lives and works in Berlin and New York) brings together a series of photographic works, with single images as well as sequences forming part of this complex presentation. While not considering itself to be a retrospective, the show includes sculpture, projection, wall drawings, books and film from the late 1960s to the present... |
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| Thierry Feuz: PUSHING DAISIES
Galleri Christoffer Egelund is presenting the Austrian artist Thierry Feuz in his first solo exhibition in Denmark.
Over the last decade Thierry Feuz has had his international breakthrough with his four interplaying artistic styles: "Psychotropical", "Technicolor", "Gulf stream" and "Supernatural". Typical of his unorthodox style he executes all his paintings in glossy auto paint... |
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| Peter Callesen: Paperman
Themes of life, death, body and identity are brought into being in Peter Callesen’s second solo show at Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Paperman. The title of the show refers to the artist’s identity and the close connection between work and creator. That the artist becomes one with the paper by using clear references to his own body and physics puts forward the question if it is at... |
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| Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
f a projects is presenting "Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow", an exhibition that premieres the work of four young Hungarian born and based painters in London: Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horvath, Peter Sudar, and Dorottya Szabo.
The artists are part of a unique generation that knew communism in childhood, witnessed its disintegration during adolescence and experienced... |
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| Pieter Hugo: Works 2002-2007
Two years after his first solo show in Switzerland, Galerie bertrand & gruner is pleased once again to present the work of Pieter Hugo.
Born in 1976 in South Africa, Hugo was awarded the World Press Photo prize for portraiture in 2006. He was also named the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007. In the past year, Hugo has held solo shows in New York (Yossi Milo Gallery), Los... |
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