Oben ist ein Pigmentdruck ohne Titel von Rosemarie Trockel von 2018 zu sehen. Das Editionsexemplar stammt direkt aus dem Besitz der Künstlerin und wird zum Schätzpreis von 2500 bis 3500 Euro angeboten. Auktionshaus sowie Künstlerinnen und Künstler verzichten auf ihre Einnahmen, mit dem Erlös will der Verein "Kunst hilft geben" nach Köln geflüchtete Menschen unterstützen und humanitäre Hilfe in der Ukraine leisten.
Read MoreThe sculpture, by contemporary artist Kiki Smith, is of Lilith, the first woman according to Jewish mythology, who was exiled from Eden for refusing to be subservient to Adam. History has often depicted Lilith as a demon, but her independence has given her modern feminist icon status; Smith's work leans into both, referencing the myth while revealing a gravity-defying power.
Read MoreThese are the last days of the Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition includes a growing installation that Ono started in 2013 named “Arising.”
The installation displays the responses to Ono’s call inviting “women of all ages, from all countries of the world” to “send a testament of harm done to you, for being a woman.” Along with their statements, women were asked to send a photograph of their eyes only.
Read MoreThe 2022 edition of India Art Fair, the leading platform that showcases modern and contemporary art from South Asia, was presented from April 28 to May 1 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. It comprised 77 exhibitors, including 63 galleries and 14 institutional participants from 16 cities in India and beyond.
Included Shilpa Gupta at Vadehra Art Gallery.
Read MoreIn autumn 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist and Honorary Royal Academician, William Kentridge (b. 1955). Working closely with the artist and his studio, this ambitious and immersive exhibition has been specifically curated for the Royal Academy and will encompass the broad repertoire of Kentridge’s forty-year career. It will bring together important works spanning from the 1980s through to the present day, including charcoal drawings, animated films, a mechanical theatre, sculptures, tapestries and performance pieces.
Read MoreThat museum bedroom will also include fairy tale-inspired cloth dolls by Kiki Smith that combine 19th-century folk art forms with her own painting. “I’m very appreciative of the creativity of the past,” Ms. Smith said, but “for it to live,” she added, “you have to re-embellish it or revitalize it, or breathe life into a form.”
Read MoreLONDON — Billions of us have spent the past two or so years trying to divine the future. Will I get Covid-19? How bad will it be? When will the coronavirus pandemic end? Will it ever end? Reliable answers have been scant; even if we’ve been cushioned from the worst effects, many people have been camping in a sort of existential waiting room, living in near-permanent uncertainty. Appropriate timing, then, that the Barbican arts center in London is about to stage a chamber opera, by the South African artist William Kentridge, about how difficult it is to see around the next corner. Titled “Waiting for the Sibyl,” it retells the myth of a Greek prophetess whom mortals once pestered with exactly these sort of exasperating questions.
Read MoreThe benefit for Médecins Sans Frontières will be held during Christie’s Marquee 20/21 Sales of 20th and 21st Century Art in May and will include a collection of donated works by Ukrainian and international artists such as Yoshimoto Nara’s caricature portraits of girls (with estimates of $100,000-$150,000 and $80,000-$120,000), Boris Mikhailov’s 1970s Soviet life series Yesterday’s Sandwich (est. $3,000-$5,000), and works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and Olafur Eliasson.
Read MoreThe works in the gift display a broad range of artistic themes and strategies. Many in the grouping, including major highlights by Robert Gober, David Hammons, and Kiki Smith, challenge the social norms and political structures that regulate our bodies and identities. In ways that have never seemed more urgent, they craft new understandings of our individual places in the world, serving as a bold affirmation of the link between human freedom and creative expression.
Read MoreDans la rotonde du musée Guimet, à Paris, des cordelettes tirées du sol au plafond forment une nasse écarlate renfermant un socle blanc. Dessus, un mobilier minuscule : canapés, chaises, tables ou vaisselier de maison de poupée. Chaque meuble, chaque assiette est captif d’un entrelacs de fils rouges. Celle qui tire les ficelles s’appelle Chiharu Shiota.
Read MoreWhile a permanent collection show typically does not spark fireworks enough to make a special trip, the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth’s exhibition focusing on the institution’s last 20 years of acquisitions offers a fascinating glimpse into the sometimes opaque inner workings of collecting. Scholarship often seeks to elucidate the ways in which artworks reflect the period of creation, but equally important is how artworks respond to the time in which they were acquired into major public collections.
Read More“Society consumes both the good girl and the bad girl,” Argentine artist Silvia Kolbowski once said. “But somewhere between those two polarities, space must be made for criticality.”The quote was included in a statement from MoMA about the opening of Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists this coming weekend. The statement sums up perfectly the nature of the collection, which is neither a chronological history, nor a linear account, but an approach to the medium from a “contemporary, intersectional feminist perspective,” in the museum’s words.
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