Regarding Marisa Merz: The latest presentation of the MAXXI Arte collection

ROME.- Ten works by Marisa Merz exhibited together with the works of Rosa Barba, Elisabetta Benassi, Alighiero Boetti, Jim Isermann, Ketty La Rocca, Luisa Lambri, Claudia Losi, Mario Merz, Paola Pivi, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker and Franz West. Regarding Marisa Merz is the latest presentation of the MAXXI Arte collection and represents a continuation of the exploration of the history of recent Italian art through a thematic reading of the museum’s permanent collection. The protagonist of this re-interpretation is the outsider Marisa Merz, [...]

Gesamtkunstwerk: New art from Germany on show at the Saatchi Gallery in London

LONDON.- On 18 November, the Saatchi Gallery will open Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, the gallery’s first survey of German art. The exhibition, which presents artists from or based in Germany (including Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bremen and Cologne), confirms Germany’s position as a powerhouse of European contemporary art. Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany showcases 24 artists, most of whom have been little seen in the UK, but are rapidly establishing themselves in Germany and internationally. Their work, including sculpture, painting, drawing and [...]

John Miller Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize

COLOGNE.- John Miller has been named the 2011 recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für ModerneKunst at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. He will have a one-person exhibition at the museum in April, and it will acquire work for its collection. Previous winners of the prestigious annual prize, named in honor of Cologne art conservator and collector Wolfgang Hahn, include Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Pipilotti Rist, Richard Artschwager, Rosemarie Trockel, and Peter Doig. John Miller, Installation view at the Kunsthalle [...]

Exhibition Celebrates Chicago Collectors’ 50 Extraordinary Gifts

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents a landmark presentation of one of the country’s leading private collections of contemporary art, Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, on view through September 19, 2010, in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries and in the eponymous Stone Film, Video, and New Media Gallery. The first public exhibition of the Stones’ collection, it features 59 works by artists ranging from Gerhard Richter and Sol LeWitt to Rosemarie Trockel and [...]

Whitechapel Gallery Presents the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece

LONDON.- As part of its programme to open up important art collections to the public the Whitechapel Gallery presents a series of four displays drawn from the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, one of the foremost European collections of contemporary art. Jointly titled, Keeping it Real, these displays go on view from 10 June 2010 – 22 May 2011 in the dedicated Collections Gallery. The D. Daskalopoulos Collection consists of over 400 major works with a particular focus on the last [...]

Exhibition Series “Saw it, Loved it: A Look at Private Collecting” at Ludwig Museum

COLOGNE.- When people discover art for themselves love has usually had a hand in it. And when they dedicate themselves seriously to art, the result is a collection that is shaped by that person’s own eye, by their aesthetic sensibilities and personal background. This passion for art and this personal interest in collecting led to the founding of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst. Twenty-five years ago – in 1985 – a group of Rhenish collectors founded the association to help [...]

Print Portfolios from Four Biennials on View at International Centre of Graphic Arts

LJUBLJANA.- The exhibition presents print portfolios from four biennials (Hamburg 1985, Sydney 1990, Istanbul 1995, and Cetinje 2005) containing more than eighty graphic works by sixty well-known and established artists from all over the world; thus it mirrors the development of art in the past twenty years. These print portfolios represent a unique artistic and art-historical achievement, for they show the development of printmaking techniques and their involvement in the context of contemporary art. They present artists from different generations [...]