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OCULA : Gerhard Richter : Image and Reflection

Image and Reflection is Gerhard Richter's fifth solo exhibition at Sies + Höke. Forty works in a wide range of media are on view, including paintings, glass objects, mirror pieces, and tapestries. The show focuses on the motif of mirroring as a central principle within Richter's oeuvre. The artist not only uses mirroring as a physical phenomenon, with reflecting glass surfaces and actual mirrors, but also as a pictorial strategy, by repeating and multiplying structures and colours, as in his Strip paintings.

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COLOSSAL : Through Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence

Through Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence. Inspired by Taoist philosophy, Shiota blurs the line between dream and reality. The artist installation at Beijing’s Red Brick Art Museum explores presence in absence. The butterfly wings, red threads, and ancient relics evoke cycles of life and time, inviting the public to meditate on connection, memory, and the spirit’s enduring essence.

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Artplugged : Book Release: William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot

This new artist’s book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers is a translation into book form of South African artist William Kentridge’s film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, which premiered at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice, during the 2024 Venice Biennale. In the nine-episode series, Kentridge employs a multidisciplinary approach—combining film with performance, collage, drawing, and music—to investigate the relationship between thinking and artistic creation and is a reflection on what might happen in the studio—and in the brain—of an artist today.

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Stirpad : Shilpa Gupta addresses themes of mobility, control and resilience at Galleria Continua

Galleria Continua welcomes contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta back to its San Gimignano space with a new solo exhibition. Recognised as one of the leading international voices of her generation, Gupta presents works centred on her continued exploration of 'mobility, control and acts of resilience' at the show running from May 3 – August 31, 2025. It also includes a newly commissioned art installation created specifically for the auditorium of the former cinema-theatre in Italy.

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The Korea Herald : William Kentridge returns with provocative works that ask rather than answer

This month, audiences in South Korea will once again encounter the haunting, layered world of the South African artist known for collapsing the boundaries between drawing, film, music and performance. William Kentridge, whose diverse works have previously been showcased at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Asia Culture Center and the Amorepacific Museum of Art, returns to Seoul with two of his recent works under the GS Arts Center’s Artists series: "Sibyl," and multimedia symphonic project “Shostakovich 10: Oh To Believe in Another World” (2024).

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E-Flux : Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Between Heaven and Earth and The Ship of Tolerance

Oakville Galleries presents the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth and the project The Ship of Tolerance, by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. This exhibition highlights a number of the artists’ works, including paintings, prints and installations, and spills out into the gardens with several larger artworks. The largest installation is The Ship of Tolerance, a 60-foot long, hand-crafted wooden ship with sails made from children’s paintings, presented lakeside in Gairloch Gardens for one year. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, its first appearance in Canada takes place at a critical time where a crossroads towards a new global order is visible. 

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Meer : Shirin Neshat: a journey through gender, power, and identity

From March 28 to June 8, 2025, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan will host Body of Evidence, the most extensive retrospective ever dedicated in Italy to Iranian artist Shirin Neshat. Her poetic vision delves into the duality of oppression and self-determination, memory and oblivion, and silence and protest. The biggest mistake one can make when visiting a Neshat exhibition is to assume that the artist speaks only about herself—as a woman, an Iranian, and a self-exiled American artist.

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E-flux : Yoko Ono : Music of the Mind

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is thrilled to announce Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, opening October 2025. The MCA is the exclusive US venue for this comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to artist, musician, and activist Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo, Japan; lives in New York). Traveling from Tate Modern in London, where it enjoyed record attendance, and in close collaboration with Ono’s studio, this groundbreaking retrospective covers seventy years of Ono’s trailblazing career, with over 200 works including participatory instruction pieces and scores, installations, a curated music room, films, music and photography, and archival materials. The exhibition reveals Ono’s innovative approach to language, art, and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.

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The Berliner : Why Yoko Ono’s Berlin takeover deserves your attention

With three exhibitions running simultaneously this summer, the Japanese artist hovers over Berlin like a vast alien spacecraft, zapping us with cringeworthy one-liners, showering us with torrents of platitudes about peace and love. In a rare triple play, her Gropius Bau summer blockbuster coincides with the Neue Nationalgalerie’s exhibition and she’s even taken over the enormous Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) billboard.

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The Guardian : Oh to Believe in Another World review – Gripping Kentridge and Shostakovich bring Stalin’s age of betrayal to life

The 20th century is a cruel farce performed by puppets in a cardboard museum in South African artist William Kentridge’s grotesquely funny, constantly disconcerting film interpretation of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony. Lenin and Stalin, their faces’ photographs fixed on jerky figures made from scraps, transforming sporadically into living dancers hidden under collaged costumes, monstrously dominate a puppet cast that also includes the bullish-looking but revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky along with Trotsky and Shostakovich himself.

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