Under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew, the exhibition will include artworks across six sites: Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Art School.

This evening invites us to reconsider space, plants, survival and ecology, exploring the intertwined ecological and human ramifications of climate change in the Middle East, particularly those felt by communities of women. ‘Who’s Afraid of Ideology’ by Marwa Arsanios explores the Kurdish women’s autonomist movement, travelling to a cooperative in the Bekaa Valley which has […]

What is behind the increased interest in domesticated nature? In his “Speech About Poetry and Society”, Theodor W. Adorno claims that the sacralization of nature stems from the fact that the individual is looking for a refuge in a capitalist society in the face of alienation. In addition, nature’s reputation increases when hopes of revolutionary […]

The curatorial collective What, How & for Whom / WHW took over the artistic leadership of Kunsthalle Wien in June 2019. Their program starts with an international group exhibition featuring more than 30 artists and extending to all spaces of Kunsthalle Wien. The artists in the exhibition offer a critique of the harsh processes that […]

Artist and audio investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan, writer and art historian Hannah B. Higgins, and UChicago professor and theorist W.J.T. Mitchell (Departments of English and Art History) come together to explore the ways in which what we hear and how we hear it impacts our ability to perceive and understand things visually.

February 26th – March 1st

The exhibition “Gran Sur: arte contemporáneo chileno en la Colección Engel”, presents un important selection of works from one of the main private collections in Latin America, the Claudio Engel collection.

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.