State of Concept Athens presents the recent film of Swiss artist Uriel Orlow, “Learning from Artemisia”. An in depth research of the medicinal plant “artemisia afra”, the three-channel video installation, is an atmospheric, at times harsh and deeply informative journey through the histories of medicinal plants and their relationship to geopolitics. Artemisia afra is an […]
Spotlight on contemporary creation. For the first time, the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is inviting twenty-six artists from across the world to take part in a truly contemporary exhibition focusing on different relationships to photographic and filmed images. http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/a-toi-appartient-le-regard-et-la-liaison-infinie-entre-les-choses-38474/
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s sound and video installation, This whole time there were no land mines (2017) documents a ‘shouting valley’ that lies in the contested area of the Golan Heights, Syria. This stretch of land was annexed by Israel from Syria following a ceasefire in 1967 and was named ‘the shouting valley’, as the area’s topography allows […]
RESTONS UNIS, is a collective initiative that brings together twenty-six Parisian galleries. Throughout this summer, each gallery will present a selection of works, available in Perrotin’s Viewing Salon as well as exhibited in their Saint-Claude space in Paris. https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/10/restons-unis-emmanuel
Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is being relocated by three kilometres due to the expansion of the mine around which Kiruna was built. A third of the population must relocate, housing blocks and landmark buildings […]
The exhibition Inventing Nature – Plants in Art is dedicated to our relationship with the world of plants. Masterpieces from more than 500 years of art history illustrate the change in images of “green” nature and our relationship to it. The spectrum of the discussion ranges from ideas of paradise, depictions of wilderness to garden pictures and botanical studies, […]
Out of the more than 100 videos collected by Mr. Miyatsu in the past 25 years, the exhibition “Daisuke Miyatsu: 25 years of video art – A point of transit signals from East and South East Asia” presents a selection of 8 classical works by East Asian artists as media representatives of Mr. Miyatsu’s perspective on […]
It is striking how popular the hobby of growing plants has become in recent years. Instagram is filled with photos of interiors decorated with potted plants (succulents seem to be particularly well liked), new blogs devoted to plant care crop up almost every day, and urban gardening is constantly on the rise. What is the […]