Turner Prize Winner Susan Philipsz Opens Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art

CHICAGO, IL.- Susan Philipsz, recent winner of the prestigious 2010 Turner Prize, presents a newly commissioned sound installation, We Shall Be All, along with The Internationale at an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, from February 26 to June 5, 2011. Philipsz’s performative sound works echo the history, literature, and music of their sites. For her exhibition, strategically placed audio speakers project her voice singing The Internationale (1999) in the atrium, and We Shall Be All in the [...]

Art 41 Basel Announces Art Projects in the Public Space

BASEL.- This summer the Messeplatz, sited directly in front of the buildings hosting the Art 41 Basel, will once again serve as a stage for art projects in the public space. It features 14 works, by the renowned artists Ai Weiwei, Micol Assaël, Dora Garciá, Eric Hattan, Hanspeter Hofmann, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Ernesto Neto, Bettina Pousttchi, Ugo Rondinone, Alberto Tadiello, Oscar Tuazon, Lawrence Weiner and Heimo Zobernig. The sector’s exhibition concept has once again been devised by Basel curator [...]

Exceptional Group of Works by Uta Barth at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exceptional group of works by Uta Barth that comprise the artist’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Exploring both the continuing evolution and the origins of Barth’s practice, the show juxtaposes new color photographs with a major series of previously unseen early black and white pieces. Although taken thirty years apart, these two distinct bodies of work compliment and contextualize each other, demonstrating the development of Barth’s ongoing investigation of the nature [...]

Installation of Spiders Weaving Stars by Tomas Saraceno in Italy

CAMOGLI.- In the installation by Tomas Saraceno at the latest Venice Biennial, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web, thousands of strands filled the room, forming an enormous web with bubble-vessels clustered inside. At Fondazione Pier Luigi e Natalina Remotti in Camogli, with the installation From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars… curated by Francesca Pasini, Tomas Saraceno offers another view of the strategy of the spider and its capacity to cross enormous [...]

New Works by the Danish-Icelandic Artist Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (B. 1967). Eliasson’s sixth solo show at the gallery continues his exploration of and experimentation with modes of perception and the experience of space and time. Focusing on movement, color, and light – and the interplay between the three phenomena – the exhibition involves the viewer in a collaborative creative process. Throughout his career, Eliasson has challenged the notion of the artwork [...]

MCA Presents First Solo Exhibition in Australia of Danish-Icelandic Artist Olafur Eliasson

SYDNEY.- This summer the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney presents the first large scale exhibition of works by acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson ever to have been seen in Australia. The exhibition, entitled “Take your time: Olafur Eliasson,” runs at the MCA Sydney exclusively in Australia from December 10, 2009 to April 11, 2010. Olafur Eliasson is among the most influential and widely acclaimed artists of his generation. From light filled environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, his unique participatory works offer [...]