Discover Kader Attia‘s installation Hypomnemata at the current 15th Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present. Attia explores the concept of ‘hypomnemata’, or artificial memory supports, and their role in shaping individual and societal memory. From prehistoric bones to modern technology, these external memory aids have expanded our neural memory and have left their mark […]
We are pleased to announce that our artists Bouchra Khalili and Hajra Waheed have received the 2023 Sharjah Biennal Prizes. Their installations presented in the 15 Sharjah Biennale: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 deal with contemporary issues regarding borders and solidarity linked with different social struggles. We will share more details on their work at Sharjah […]
We are pleased to announce that Uriel Orlow is one of the recipients of the 2023 Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim to outstanding artists, architects, curators, researchers and critics. The Prix Meret Oppenheim is not timeless but rather a mirror of social change, and the work of this year’s three winners is characterized […]
Discover Teresa Margolles’ photograph of Osiris, part of her Pistas de Baile series at the upcoming Frac Grand Large exhibition De Leur Temps(7), Un regard sur des collections privées. This series of pictures shows transgender sex workers proudly standing on the remnants of dance floors from demolished night clubs in Ciudad Juárez, a landscape in which ruins […]
Discover Uriel Orlow multipart installation Up, Up, Up at the 2023 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. The work taps into biodiversity research in the Swiss alps and the Himalayas which reveals the climb of mountain flora due to climate change. By connecting two high altitude locations from the so-called Global North and South respectively, the work translocally addresses […]
Discover Bianca Bondi’s Bloom series’ vitrines at Fondazione Miniartextil exhibition Rosa Alchemico These vitrines feature materials and symbols associated with both Satanism and occult rituals. The works directly question our personal representations and expectations of this spirituality and deconstruct a set of preconceived notions that are still widespread in our contemporary cultures based on the […]
The archive, as a repository of the past, is a source of information that, regardless of its medium or nature, becomes a place that can be visited countless times. Our latest OVR Archives as Resistance questions the concept of the past through new discourses that emerge from the concept of fragment to allow reconstructions of […]
Discover Bianca Bondi’s installation at MAMAC (Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain) exhibition Devenir Fleur in the frame of the Biennale des Arts de Nice. The exhibition curated by Hélène Guenin rethinks our relationship with nature and the living world, asking about what can the human being learn from flowers and their resilience, their constant […]
Bouchra Khalili’s first solo show at mor charpentier The Magic Lantern is now open! The exhibition presents The Magic Lantern Project (2019-2022), a mixed media installation that continues the artist’s investigation on the genealogy of movements of decolonization and international solidarity in the Global South and its diasporas. Khalili’s work is informed by the history […]
This year we celebrate our 12th anniversary, these 12 years of exhibitions have brought different inquiries, inspiration, growth and expansion in our cultural project. None of this would have been possible without our represented artists and our gallery staff, who have gone above and beyond to make these past 12 years a wonderful adventure. We […]
We want to congratulate Kader Attia, who has been named among the most influential people in art on ArtReview’s annual Power 100 list! Attia, whose practice deals with postcolonial identity, has researched around the concept of repair, which he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. […]
Discover Paz Errázuriz’s work at her solo exhibition Formas de decir aquí at Centro de la Imagen in the frame of Mexico’s International Photography Festival (FIFMX). The exhibition presents different four corpus of Errázuriz’s work linked with social, affective and political resistance: Los nómadas del mar, portraying the last survivors of the kawésqar ethnic group; La […]