ARCO 2023, is now on view! Visit us in booth 9C04 to explore our proposal regarding reparation and time. On the one hand, a series of works delve into the overflow of the borders and limits of human communities, focusing on reparation and reconciliation as liberating forces with enormous transformative power. This is shown in […]
Bouchra Khalili’s solo exhibition Between Circles and Constellations has opened at the MACBA. The show brings together projects from the last ten years of Khalili’s oeuvre, including film, video-installations, photography and documentary material of her exploration of anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial histories of liberation and solidarity which she interweaves historical accounts and real-life stories. The exhibition’s […]
Discover Hajra Waheed‘s multichannel sound installation Hum II being presented at the the 15th Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present. Housed within a uniquely built conical sound chamber and composed entirely of voice, Hum II explores humming and other vocal practices as a means to consider radical forms of collective and sonic agency. The […]
Discover Bouchra Khalili’s mixed media installation The Circle at the 15th Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present. The installation, co-commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Luma Foundation, and MACBA (Barcelona) shows Mia and Lucas, two young French of Tunisian and Algerian descent, investigating the birth of Al Assifa, an agit-prop theatre group formed in Paris […]
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 […]