Taking its title from a song by Yoko Ono, the exhibition explores the politics of space and place and is an invitation to see and know the world differently. Whether inspired by architecture, urban archaeology and landscape or personal geographies in relationship to the body and history, the work of contemporary artists resonates strongly with some […]
Sourcing oral histories and female accounts, delving into archives, and mapping sites associated with different forms of mining, exploitation, and confinement, Rossella Biscotti will deepen her research interest into colonial structures of power and management at the turn of the 20th century and the way in which these structures are interwoven with contemporary practices of production and distribution.
In 20/20 Symposium considers the universe of image production, the vision systems that distribute it and the underlying frameworks by which it shapes the present moment. Through presentations, panel conversations and talks from contemporary artists, filmmakers, media theorists, curators and technologists, the day looks back at images as a way to bring visibility to the present […]
On the occasion of Rundgang at Städelschule, the students of the master’s programme Curatorial Studies present the Water Cooler Talks. For three days, this series of events provides an open platform to exchange and discuss ideas together with artists, curators, theoreticians and activists on shifting boundaries in the contemporary art world(s).
EXTRACOLONIAL: Reflections for Action brings together a group of Indigenous and Latin American artists—Ulysses Castellanos, Monica Gutierrez Quintero, Yoshua Okón, and Onaman Collective—whose works examine the relationship between extractivism and colonialism as they have impacted the history of the Americas. These works propose alternate activist models to address the sustained systems of inequality seeded in […]
We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images.Their number is growing so exponentially – each day more than three billion images are shared on social networks – that the space of visibility seems to be literally inundated. As if it can no longer contain the images that constitute it. As if there […]
Charwei Tsai’s video installation Hear Her Singing 2017 was made in collaboration with Tibetan filmmaker Tsering Tashi Gyalthang. Commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, the work takes the universality of song to create a platform for refugees and asylum seekers currently living or detained in the United Kingdom. Through a series of film installations, the artist presents […]
Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers and participants, ‘Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements’ (DAS 2020) will provoke us to reconsider (art) histories, movement, borders and fault lines. From 7–15 February 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be the epicentre of a radical upheaval of how we think about art
Organized as part of MoMA’s celebration of a major gift from Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the symposium seeks to build on questions around the perception of South American art, focusing on the intellectual frameworks that characterize our ever-changing present.
Thursday, 13 February 2020, at Vtape “Latin American Speakers” series, Yoshua Okón will discuss his work on art and his recent work. Moderated by Noor Alé.
On January 30th, Alexander Apóstol will conduct a master class to discuss his artistic practice