CURATED EVENTS ARCHIVE
MAY 2023
BUENOS AIRES
Where: Centro de Arte Sonoro
When: May 3, 2023
What is the rhythm of reading a code? How do you publish what is hidden in a fixed format? How do you dissuade the automatic? How do you (mis)understand the code? These questions and others will be asked during the presentation: “Where and when does a website end?”.
“Where and when does a website end? Notes on the code of an oracle” is a book that emerges as a result of the work of Renee Carmichael for the Modular Tide online exhibition, produced by Flee Immediately, and published by Espacio Pla.
The event will include a performance and presentation of the book by Carmichael, curators of Modular Tide Maria Paz Garaloces + Malena Souto Arena, and designer Merlina Rañi. ARO & MIO will close the event with Augmented Sensitivity, a performance in which an elevated body is proposed that explores, live, the sensitive possibilities of a prosthetic device.
An art edition of 50 copies of the book and a special response from the oracle will be available during the presentation.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: The Hammer Museum
When: May 3, 2023
The Flux screening series brings the creative community together to celebrate outstanding short films and music videos from around the globe with wildly inventive filmmaker presentations and performances. An exciting new collaboration from musician, author, poet, director Amyra León and installation artist Alexa Meade,The Embrace of Morning, will be screened.
The Embrace of Morning is an experimental short film that combines the music and poetry of Amyra León with the painting of Alexa Meade to explore themes of climate change and proof of work energy consumption. We follow the protagonist on a journey of becoming as they vacillate between two realms - the idealized painted world and the reality that awaits once the facades built to shelter us from consequence have shattered both tangibly and in one’s mind. The poem delves into the nuance of cascading accountability and the universal cost of complacency. If the future relies on the lives we lead in the present, who will we choose to be when the night fades and we cannot escape the embrace of morning? We do not need to have all the answers, but we must start asking ourselves the right questions and acknowledging the choices we can make to create a more safe and sustainable environment. The screening is FREE, first come first served.
More information on the event can be found here.
PORTLAND
Where: Elizabeth
Leach Gallery
When: May 4, 2023 -
June 3, 2023
Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents Killer Maker, a conversation with art objects between Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Justine Kurland. Killer maker. The two words taken together can suggest many things: the harsh reality of life’s cycle, a cosmic balancing act, an impossible binary that circles back in on itself. The simultaneously adversarial and harmonious nature is where Hutchins’ assemblages of ceramics, furniture, papier-mâché, and paint and Kurland’s photographs staged in the American West converge. Both artists refuse motherhood’s embrace (Hutchins has described it as “un-knowing” and Kurland as “abdication”): of authority, of resolution, of fixity.
Hutchins’ small gouaches, explorations of the shape of color, show figures enmeshed in the landscape, undulations of pigment that recline on, drape from, and melt into their surroundings. Her polyvalent assemblages of paint, ceramic, and papier-mâché—accumulated onto paper or combined with upholstered and wooden furniture—are scrappy, raw, and sensuous in their intuited handmade construction. In the wall reliefs organic but amorphous forms resonate with the pregnant and recently pregnant bodies in Kurland’s photographs. In a direct quote of the work and a nod to their two-decade friendship, Hutchins lovingly collages fragments of Kurland’s photographs into the pulped paper growths.
An opening reception will take place on May 4, 2023 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
More information on the event can be found here.
OAXACA
Where: Online
When: May 4, 2023
Join Pocoapoco for a Virtual Artist Talk with writer/director and actor Gabriela Ortega.
Ortega is an award-winning writer/director and actor from the Dominican Republic. She is a USC graduate, a 2023 Sundance screenwriting fellow, a 2022 Sundance interdisciplinary fellow, and a 2022-2023 Academy of Motion Pictures fellow. Her short film Huella was an official selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is being turned into a feature film. Her work lives within the intersection of fiction and poetry and aims to draw cultural bridges that lead to the Caribbean through intersectionality, duality, and ancestral memory.
Gabriela is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film; and won the NBC & Telemundo best director award at the 2022 LALIFF and “Best New Filmmaker'' at the annual NFMLA awards. Her latest film, Beautiful, FL will premiere on Disney+ in 2023, and her first film, “PAPI'' is available to stream on HBO and HBO Max.
To attend, please email contacto@pocoapocomx.com.
More information on the event can be found here.
COPENHAGEN
Where: Arken Museum of
Modern Art
When: May 5, 2023 -
September 10, 2023
In early summer, Arken presents a solo show featuring Eva Steen Christensen (b. 1969), one of Denmark’s pre-eminent contemporary sculptors. Showcasing an array of the artist’s key works, the exhibition also incorporates two entirely new sculptures created especially for Arken.
When creating her sculptures, Eva Steen Christensen takes her starting point in everyday objects, elements from architecture and subjects from art history. In her works, familiar forms, materials and ideas are turned upside down, processed and put together anew. The sculptures challenge our perception of reality, offering alternatives to the established narratives and imagery of the Western world.
Eva Steen Christensen investigates the qualities of different materials and the stories they contain. She is keenly interested in physical materials such as textiles, paper, bronze and concrete, and she investigates how the materials used in art have manifested in the images and traditions that shape us as people. For example, how has art’s cultivation of the naked female body, ‘the female nude’, impacted our view of women and gender? Steen Christensen wants to take ownership of such issues, displacing traditional masculine values to imbue the feminine with genuine power.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: The Geffen
Contemporary at MOCA
When: May 5, 2023 -
May 6, 2023
A dance between affect and embodiment, seeing and being seen, Ligia Lewis’s new work, A Plot/A Scandal, constructs the poetics of refusal at the edges of representation. It is a scene in the making where excitement for that which does not fit might find its place.
In Lewis’s own words, “A plot exposed, a foul deed enacted, invites scandal. In the spirit of revolution or romantic musings, scandals provoke an imagining of the impossible. Utopian or mundane, how might scandal reveal what lies unwittingly close to our fantasies? And how does it expose where society places its limits? If life is a scandal waiting to be plotted, how do we position ourselves within its matrix? Immoral and lacking propriety, scandals are incidents where fantasy and pleasure take center stage.”
Guided by the questions of whom this pleasure is for and at what expense, Lewis’s newest plot explores the stage where scandals abound by weaving together historical, anecdotal, political, and mythical narratives—ranging from the Enlightenment thinker John Locke, 16th-century Santo Domingo slave rebellion leader Maria Olofa (Wolofa), Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, and Lewis’s great-grandmother, a figure Lewis turns to within her plot as a guide of resistance.
More information on the event can be found here.
BUFFALO
Where: The Buffalo Institute
for Contemporary Art
When: May 5, 2023 - May 31, 2023
BICA School is pleased to present Paralytic States (2023), the first solo exhibition by artist and educator Kelsey Sucena, in the BICA School Project Space, curated by Nando Alvarez-Perez. Kelsey Sucena (she/they) is a trans* photographer, writer, editor, and former Park Ranger working at the intersection of photography and text. Her work is centered on the United States as a site for post-capitalist, queer, and critical reflection. Situating her own trans*feminine identity in negotiation with America’s physical, political, historical, and cultural landscapes, her practice documents her personal struggle with self-identification through periods of political upheaval.
First published as an experimental small-run postal exhibition in 2020, Paralytic States (2020) acted as a timely and intimate response to the presidential election cycle. It received attention as an honorable mention in the 2020 Essay Press book contest and as a finalist for the Lucie Foundation Photobook Prize in 2021. Here, Paralytic States is reconfigured and re-presented for the first time for public exhibition.
Paralytic States straddles the space between memoir and manifesto, utilizing a queer/closeted epistemology to consider questions of community, country, and identity.
An opening reception and reading by Sucena will take place on May 5, 2023 from 7 - 10 pm.
More information on the event can be found here.
MOROCCO
Where: The Montresso*
Art Foundation
When: Open through
May 6, 2023
The Montresso* Art Foundation presents in its Hall of Helmets, Y.A.R.N. – Years of Ancient Rituals Narration.
Multidisciplinary artist, Tina Tictone explores the shapes and symbolism of thread through painting, tapestry and sculpture. The artist invents a unique primer where she mixes her Western culture with the Berber cultural heritage, highlighting the female body as a central element of her artistic creation.
Art for her has no rules, no dogma. Tina Tictone shakes up the representation of women and societal clichés with audacity and sensitivity. Her work acts as her diary, her double, which allows her to explore the complexity of her feelings and to question the stereotypes attributed to each of us.
The encounters she has made during her travels are precious assets. She is committed to discovering women’s intangible heritage, it is a question of transmission and plurality of language. Her universe is full of meanings and symbols.
The works of Tina Tictone are manuscripts collecting the imprints of encounters during her travels. Discover this exploration of space and polymorphic compositions in Y.A.R.N.
More information on the event can be found here.
PARIS
Where: Maison Européenne
de la Photographie (MEP)
When: May 6, 2023
Echoing the Zanele Muholi exhibition, the MEP is pleased to present the films of Alice Diop and Cecile Emeke.
This double session presents two perspectives from different directors, mainly collecting the testimony of Afro-descendants in France, through their films. Alice Diop gives the floor to young men, Cecile Emeke, to young women. In an often toxic sociological context, each one clearly shows the complexities linked to personal and romantic fulfillment.
Towards tenderness (2015), directed by Alice Diop, French, is an intimate exploration of male territory in the suburbs. By following the wanderings of a band of young men, we survey a universe where female bodies are nothing more than ghostly and virtual silhouettes.
With her documentary series, Srolling: Strolling (2014),, directed by Cecile Emeke Emeke allows young people from different cities around the world to testify to sensitive subjects related to their status as people. racialized in society. Here, the episodes of Strolling filmed in France (in the English language) are called Flâner. Gaëlle, Christelle and Fanta discuss their perception of cultural differences and the relationship to beauty or to the body for Afro-descendant people in France.
More information on the event can be found here.
TORONTO
Where: The Power Plant
When: May 7, 2023
The Power Plant is hosting a captivating Sunday Scene art talk with guest speaker Amanda Boulos, who will address the themes in Brenda Draney's exhibition Drink from the river, on view at The Power Plant.
Drink from the river, Brenda Draney’s first solo exhibition at The Power Plant, features a selection of existing and newly commissioned works that examine the complex nature of intimacy. Referencing her own memories and experiences living in Edmonton, the artist explores the layered meanings embedded in everyday motifs and situations. However, instead of simply reproducing these elements, Draney is more interested in addressing how their meanings can shift when filtered through individual interpretation. Furthermore, by deliberately leaving blank spaces in her paintings, Draney leaves room for viewers to deeply reflect on the subject matter presented. Audiences are invited to connect to the wide range of emotions tied to the nuanced experience of intimacy that the artist explores in her works.
Amanda Boulos (she/her) is a visual artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Engaging with national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada, Boulos explores how oral histories undergo constant metamorphoses and take on different purposes and meanings. She is a member of the Toronto-based project space the plumb and a programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
More information on the event can be found here.
VANCOUVER
Where: The Contemporary
Art Gallery
When: Open through
May 7, 2023
For more than ten years now, Christine Sun Kim has been engaged expansively with the ways sound is understood, experienced and valued. Upending the notion of the sonic as a solely auditory occurrence, the California-born, Berlin-based artist foregrounds sound’s visual, spatial and political properties across a variety of mediums including drawing, video, performance, and installation. Exploring and employing elements of American Sign Language (ASL) — the artist’s first language — alongside other visual communication systems such as musical notation, infographics and memes, the formal vocabulary of Kim’s work is a singular one, engaging with critical precision and deadpan humour the politics of language, listening and voice.
Following her fall 2022 exhibition, Oh Me Oh My, two of Kim’s public-facing projects remain on view this season. On the facade of CAG, the artist presents Echoes Sliding Down, a work that builds on Kim’s engagement with the echo as a metaphor for Deaf/hearing communication, in which messages are bounced between parties and languages with inevitable reverberations, distortions and delays. At Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Kim exhibits Debt Debt Debt, ten large-scale line drawings of hands, each referencing the ASL sign for “debt,” “owe” or “afford” to reflect on cycles of owing and borrowing, social, historical and financial alike.
More information on the event can be found here.
NEW YORK
Where: Online
When: May 8, 2023
On the occasion of their exhibition, PlayPen, artists Penny Slinger and Polly Borland will discuss their collaboration and exhibition with writer and curator, and founder + director of Speciwomen, Philo Cohen. The talk will take place on May 9 at 8pm EST on Zoom and will be recorded for those who are not able to join live.
PlayPen is a collaborative exhibition of photographic works by Los Angeles based artists Polly Borland (b. 1959, Melbourne, Australia) and Penny Slinger (b. 1947, London, England). The exhibition marks a collaborative role reversal in the processes of both artists. Borland’s career as a photographer—one whose work has seen her push her subjects, their bodies, and their guises from behind her own camera—differs from much of Slinger’s work where she has regularly offered herself and her own form for the audience’s inspection. Here, Slinger chooses to place herself behind the lens and train it thus on Borland who serves as the series’ model and performer. Or, as Slinger puts it, “putting herself on the line and putting her money where her mouth is.” This statement gives clue to a defiant and jubilant spirit runs throughout the work on display, and marks a joyous and messy collaboration between two artists and friends.
More information on the event can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
When: May 11, 2023
Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery is hosting a live music performance by Issy Wood in tandem with the exhibition, FURNI, opening May 12, 2023.
This event is FREE to attend, however, advance booking is required.
More information on the event can be found here.
BERLIN
Where: C/O Berlin
When: May 13, 2023 -
September 7, 2023
The exhibition of multidisciplinary media artist Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, UAE) comprises photographs and video work. Influenced by the domestic-set horror films of the 1970s and 80s, she tracks the traces of a poltergeist creating mischief within a home. Objects move around of their own volition, spaces feel imbued with psychic energy, and the safety of one’s own home is challenged by the tyranny of its objects. With humor and a light touch, the visual storyteller holds both worlds in balance, as well as the polarities of documentation and fiction, metaphor and the banal.
The artist moves through private spaces with her camera, documenting everyday situations and objects in interiors and pristine bathrooms, always displaying her specific aesthetic and her unmistakable eye for cultural details. In doing so, she strips her images of place-specific details – the photographs themselves are taken in a broad spectrum of locations, from Abu Dhabi, UAE to Detroit, Michigan.
In Poltergeist, the artist juxtaposes earlier works with recent photographs, placing them in a new context. She creates a mysterious, uncanny atmosphere, while also inducing empathetic feeling for the strange ghostly creature.
This is the first solo institutional exhibition of the artist’s work in Europe.
More information on the event can be found here.
MONTREAL
Where: Canadian Centre
for Architecture
When: May 16, 2023
In connection with the exhibition Lili Reynaud-Dewar: I Want All of the Above to Be the Sun, the MAC presents a lecture by the artist on Tuesday, May 16, at 6 p.m. at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
At the intersection of sculpture, performance and video, the exhibition Lili Reynaud-Dewar: I Want All of the Above to Be the Sun offers visitors an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the main aspects of the practice of French artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar. For almost 20 years, Reynaud-Dewar has been creating environments and situations in which she uses her body and that of others to evoke the vulnerability and empowerment associated with public position statements.
This exhibition brings together for the first time more than 30 of her videos produced over the years where she is featured dancing, her body painted, in museums, galleries, and artist residencies to which she has been invited, as well as a recently begun series of self-portraits made of polished aluminum to establish a dialogue between works based on repetitions of a single gesture performed in different mediums and contexts.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar is a French artist born in 1975, in La Rochelle, who currently lives and works in Grenoble.
More information on the event can be found here.
MILAN
Where: Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea (PAC)
When: Open through
June 11, 2023
The Project Room, curated by Diego Sileo, exhibits the work of artist Silvia Giambrone SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONTENT.
"Receiving a ‘dick pic’ is not considered much these days. It happens everyday to many people (women and men) and it seems it has almost become a social phenomenon that is not even considered outrageous anymore as we are so domesticated to pornography that we tend to forget it is eventually a harassment what we are talking about.
The stalker I’ve had for more than a year sent me 46 videos of himself masturbating and wrote horribly gross things to me. When telling people about that I realized just a few of them took what was happening seriously. Most of them joked about it as this was not a serious matter. To change that I’ve decided to ask some intellectuals and writers I highly appreciate to write a short text about my stalker’s videos as he was a visual artist and that was his body of works. I think that using this conceptual détournement will paradoxically lead to approach the dick pic as something to be considered more carefully and to better ponder the cultural and relational implications and impact it has on people’s realities." - Silvia Giambrone
More information on the event can be found here.
BRUNSWICK
Where: Bowdoin College
Museum of Art
When: Open through
September 17, 2023
The exhibition is the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy, one of the most inscrutable artists and poets of the twentieth century.
Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable is the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882–1966), one of the most inscrutable artists and poets of the twentieth century. Over 80 paintings, drawings, and constructions made by Loy through the course of her life, are united to reveal her omnivorous creativity as an image-maker, author, and cultural arbiter. These works, drawn from a dozen institutional and private lenders, are complemented by extensive, never-before assembled, archival materials that will contextualize her art within the arc of her life. Courageous enough to defy the conventions of her era, both socially and aesthetically, Loy developed a creative career that included the creation of poetry and prose, visual art, and design. Curated by Jennifer R. Gross, the show is accompanied by a fully illustrated eponymous catalogue published by Princeton University Press.
By emphasizing Loy’s accomplishments in the visual arts, while contextualizing this work within the full breadth of her creative expression—including painting, drawing, poetry, prose, art criticism, fashion design, and industrial design—the exhibition will engage audiences with the remarkable vision of this bold iconoclast.
More information on the event can be found here.
MIAMI
Where: Pérez Art
Museum Miami
When: Open through
January 7, 2024
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (b. 1987) is a filmmaker and artist whose work blends narrative and documentary traditions to explore stories and experiences of Black women in the Americas.
Hunt-Ehrlich’s experimental narrative artwork Too Bright to See (Part I) draws on her extensive research on the legacy of Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, a writer and anticolonial and feminist activist from Martinique who, along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, was at the forefront of the Négritude movement during the first half of the 20th century. Roussi-Césaire would also become an important Surrealist thinker, influencing the likes of painter Wifredo Lam and writer André Breton. However, despite her critical contributions to Caribbean thought and Surrealist discourse, until recently much of her work was overlooked.
Too Bright to See (Part I) weaves archival materials with cinematic narrative scenes filmed with an unconventional and modern cast. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean aesthetics and Surrealist artwork, this film installation brings attention to new aspects of Roussi-Césaire’s legacy that are undocumented in the public arena, while addressing the broader question of the continued erasure of women from historical accounts.
More information on the event can be found here.
APRIL 2023
NEW YORK
Where: Faurschou New York
When: April 1, 2023
- September 17, 2023
Highlighting works by Louise Bourgeois, Miles Greenberg, and Yoko Ono, the exhibition revolves around physical and metaphorical aspects of the embrace: from embrace as the merging together of bodies, to embrace as an act of acceptance and shelter or by contrast as claustrophobic smothering. Through performance, installation, and sculpture, myriad facets of the embrace are unfolded in three galleries, one dedicated to each artist.
Highlights include tangible sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, contrasting installations by Yoko Ono, and a performance piece by Miles Greenberg.
The spring show marks the fourth round of exhibitions in Faurschou’s Greenpoint space, which opened in 2019. In placing these artistic practices in dialogue together, the Spring 2023 program furthers Faurschou’s mission to explore intergenerational and cross-cultural connections in contemporary art, and to provide viewers with meaningful and inspired experiences.
More information on the event can be found here.
NEW YORK
Where: Ace Hotel Brooklyn
When: April 5, 2023
Jia Sung will be launching Trickster’s Journey at Ace Hotel Brooklyn on April 5th with a livestreamed conversation and a party open to the public, featuring first-come, first-serve tarot readings by Tanaïs and tattoo flash by Zi. Jia reimagines the tarot through the lens of Chinese mythology and Buddhist iconography with the release of her new deck, Trickster’s Journey. RSVP does not guarantee entry: guests will be let in on a first come first serve basis.
Jia Sung is a Singaporean Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work spans paintings, zines & artist books, writing, translation, and tapestries, and draws on motifs from Chinese mythology, Buddhist iconography, and the familiar visual language of folklore to examine and subvert the archive through a queer feminist lens.
Claire Kim is a curator and writer. She is currently the Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Here and There Collective, an organization committed to uplifting and connecting art practitioners from the Asian diaspora.
More information on the event can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Online
When: April 5, 2023
The care provided by women so often goes unnoticed and unacknowledged. In this online talk, we will hear from leading Australian artists who use their artistic practice to challenge preconceived ideas and the frequent misrepresentation of motherhood, childbirth and family.
Ying Ang, Odette England and Lisa Sorgini are currently exhibiting individual bodies of work which attest to the lived experience of women, girls and mothers. Australian/Singaporean artist Ying Ang’s ‘The Quickening’ documents the transformational experience of pregnancy and early motherhood, capturing feelings of anxiety, depression, and claustrophobia, as well as joy and tenderness. Through photography, family snapshots and found imagery, Odette England’s ‘Dairy Character’ chronicles and reflects on her experience growing up on a dairy farm in rural south Australia, considering the marginalisation of girls and women in rural culture. Lisa Sorgini’s ‘Behind Glass’ offers a broader exploration of motherhood as framed through the domestic space. Mothers are captured through glass, separate and detached, bringing to light the collective maternal experience, one which can remain widely unseen. This talk is held to mark the current exhibition programme at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: Heavy
Manners Library
When: April 9, 2023
Heavy Manners is a lending library, gallery, and bookstore that seeks to provide a space for developing, sharing, and discussing artwork and creative practice.
This event is part of a recurring life drawing series. The session will last for 3 hours, with one model doing various poses for different lengths of time. Chairs and drawing boards will be provided for participants, but guests are asked to bring their own paper and drawing/painting materials. Free refreshments will be available to participants as well.
This session will be hosted by Ako Castuera and will feature a nude model.
More information on the event can be found here.
PARIS
Where: Centre Pompidou
When: April 12, 2023
- August 28, 2023
The two photographic exhibitions presenting the work of Lynne Cohen, a Canadian, and Marina Gadonneix, a French woman, are intended to complement each other. Together they form a unique project that probes the spaces of our modern society.
These exhibitions present fifty years of the photographers' work, from 1970 to 2020. The work of Canadian artist Lynne Cohen (1944-2014) enjoys a worldwide reputation. Her photographs of the interiors of public and semi-public spaces, classrooms and shopping arcades, shooting ranges and municipal halls, have been exhibited all over the world. These images served as models and inspiration for the subsequent generation, particularly that of French photographers, such as Marina Gadonneix (1977), with whom Lynne Cohen corresponded shortly before her death. Taken in sites of scientific research that analyze and predict the effects of natural phenomena, Marina Gadonneix's near-abstract images depict a reality that has not yet come into being.
More information on the event can be found here.
ONLINE 5-WEEK
INTENSIVE: FILM FUTURA
2023, “AFRO-FUTURISM
ON SCREEN”
Where: No Evil Eye Cinema Website
When: Applications Due April 12, 2023
NO EVIL EYE CINEMA is proud to announce FILM FUTURA 2023, a continuation of our previous model of virtual learning that will now host SHORT TERM COURSES, a selection of 5-week intensives that aim to deconstruct cinematic legacies, traditions, and unorthodox sensibilities.
This course aims to excavate the works of Black filmmakers who imagine and envision temporality through futurist worlds. Participants will watch futurist films, reading speculative short stories, excavating their themes, myths, forms, symbols, story, magic, technology, and solutions – with the opportunity for participants to workshop and develop their own futurist film idea: learning script-writing, character development, world-building, and the history of futurism on screen. As Octavia Butler ushered us, “you got to make your own worlds – you got to write yourself in.”
This course will take place on Wednesdays from May 10 - June 7 @ 6-8 PM EST.
More information on the event can be found here.
SINGAPORE
Where: Per°Form Open
Academy of Arts and
Activations
When: April 15, 2023
Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations is the inaugural live gathering of 14 Per°Form Fellows from the Global South – Africa, Arab World, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, South America – and its diaspora.
What words do we use to describe the world? What ideas, structures, and beliefs inhabit these words? How could we, collectively, re-write our societies? The Writing Gatherings (2017 - ongoing) are sensitive spaces to enact writing as a social and communal practice. We aim to re-think and re-write the narratives that we have inherited, to create new landscapes for our thoughts, feelings, and relationships. We use an empathic approach, working in groups and from questions, letting our practice be contaminated by collecting, observing, and listening together. Everyone is welcome to join, no previous knowledge is required and participants can write in the language they feel most comfortable in.
While stationary and materials for writing is provided, we also invite participants to bring specific writing instruments of their choice, specifically if there is one of significance and resonance.
More information on the event can be found here.
TORONTO
Where: Mercer Union
When: Open through
April 15, 2023
Lydia Ourahmane is an artist with a research-driven practice that links the personal, spiritual, and geopolitical, drawing on complex histories of colonialism to engage paradoxes of belief and ideas of displacement.
In 2021, Mercer Union joined SculptureCenter, New York together with a group of institutional partners to co-commission Lydia's new film titled, Tassili (2022) and began working with the artist towards her first exhibition in Canada. The work documents a two-week journey on foot with a group of artists to Tassili n’Ajjer, a plateau spanning the border between southern Algeria and Libya. Both a rigorous undertaking and a large, open-ended proposition, Tassili obliquely studies the longing and limitations left by French colonial exploration, conquest, and knowledge production in Algeria.
Once a fertile “plateau of rivers,” as the translation of its name implies, the region is now an arid expanse of desert that is inhospitable to the many forms of life previously known to thrive there. Vibrant and seductive, Tassili is shot in first-person perspective and edited together across the days and nights in the desert.
More information on the event can be found here.
MINNEAPOLIS
Where: The Walker Art Center
When: April 15, 2023 - September 3, 2023
The exuberant and wide-ranging works of Pacita Abad (US, b. Philippines, 1946–2004) are the subject of the first-ever retrospective spanning the artist’s 32-year career. Abad is best known for her trapuntos, a form of quilted painting made by stitching and stuffing her canvases as opposed to stretching them over a wood frame. During her lifetime, the prolific artist made a vast number of artworks that traverse a diversity of subjects, from colorful masks to intricately constructed underwater scenes to abstract compositions. The exhibition includes more than 100 works—most of which have never been on public view in the United States—showcasing her experiments in different mediums, including textiles, works on paper, costumes, and ceramics. Organized by the Walker in collaboration with Abad’s estate, the presentation celebrates the multifaceted work of an artist whose vibrant visual, material, and conceptual concerns are as urgent today as they were three decades ago.
Though she became a US citizen in 1994, Abad lived for several years in a number of countries around the world, including Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, the Philippines, Singapore, and Sudan. Largely self-taught, she interacted with the various artistic communities she encountered on her travels, incorporating a diversity of cultural traditions and techniques—from Korean ink brush painting to Indonesian batik—into her expansive practice. Abad’s global, peripatetic existence is reflected in the portability of her works and in her use of textiles, a medium often associated with female, non-Western labor and historically marginalized as craft. The exhibition is accompanied by the first major publication on Abad’s work, produced by the Walker.
More information on the event can be found here.
SYDNEY
Where: Wagga Wagga
Art Gallery
When: Open through
April 16, 2023
Centre of the Centre is a major new commission that traces the origins of life and its regenerative forces, iterated through video, performance and sculpture.
The Australian-born, Paris-based contemporary artist works across film, performance, installation and painting. This ambitious commission offers O’Callaghan an opportunity to further explore her ever-expanding fields of influence and demonstrates the remarkable range of her artistic practice. Centre of the Centre is O’Callaghan’s first large-scale exhibition in an Australian public institution. The exhibition comprises three distinct yet interrelated works – a large-scale video work, a performative aspect and selected glass sculptures.
The catalyst for this body of work was one small mineral given to the artist by her grandfather, renowned mineralogist Albert Chapman. The mineral contains a small pocket of water, possibly millions of years old, which holds traces of the elemental forces responsible for all life on earth. Inspired by the potentialities and extreme conditions within this primordial liquid, the exhibition submerges the audience in a highly visceral experience through sensory breathing techniques and experiential performance.
More information on the event can be found here.
KARLSRUHE
Where: Badischer Kunstverein
When: Open through
April 16, 2023
a e i o u is the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany devoted to the artist and poet Ilse Garnier (1927, Kaiserslautern–2020, Amiens). Garnier is among the most eminent exponents of acoustic, visual, and concrete literature and art. The exhibition features works spanning the entire career—lasting more than 50 years—of this pioneering artist. World War II had a profound impact on Ilse Garnier and her husband Pierre, who together sought an experimental visual language that would do justice to a peaceful and supranational society. They developed the concept of spatial poetry (poésie spatiale) as a radical form of expression in which language becomes material, and the text is structured by the space of the surface. Ilse Garnier developed new word figures such as the “curve” or the “parabola,” which she could extend via the page as a passage into an unlimited space.
The exhibition presents central works by Ilse Garnier from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. On view alongside the extensive Fensterbilder (Window pictures), are pioneering works such as Rythmes et Silence (Rhythms and Silence) or Blason du corps féminin (Blazon of the female body). The design for the Puzzle-Alphabet illustrates Garnier’s invitation to open up one’s own poetry, both spatially and physically.
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BARCELONA
Where: MACBA
When: Open through
May 21, 2023
Bouchra Khalili has put together a repertoire of life stories that talk about belonging, anti-colonial struggles and the strategies for resistance of subjugated communities.
We are all witnesses of our own history, but whose history is consolidated as collective memory? Exploring modes of historiography and drawing on conversations and archival material, the artistic practice of Bouchra Khalili (Casablanca, 1975, lives and works in Berlin) is an exploration of anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial histories of liberation and solidarity. Interweaving historical accounts and real-life stories, her works reinforce the political agency of subjects rendered invisible by the nation-state model of citizen membership.
Between Circles and Constellations brings together projects from the last ten years of Khalili’s oeuvre, including film, video-installations, photography and documentary material. The exhibition will feature the European premiere of The Circle (2023), a video installation that examines and reactivates the legacy of the Arab Workers Movement and their theatre groups Al Assifa and Al Halaka in France in the 1970s. To mark the end of Khalili’s exhibition at MACBA, a publication will be issued featuring a selection of works, plus a new piece, The Circle, installed in the Museum’s galleries.
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ANTWERP
Where: Museum of
Contemporary Art
Antwerp (M HKA)
When: Open through May 21, 2023
The exhibition She Has Many Names by Spanish artist Dora García surveys some of the most important performances, drawings, installations, printed matter and films created throughout a career spanning three decades.
Dora García’s practice relates to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, and paying homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes. These characters have often been the centre of her film projects, such as The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018) and Amor Rojo (2023). An essential aspect of García’s work is entanglement with political movements such as feminism, and the ways they occupy public spaces. The notion of ‘collectiveness’ in her work relates to the political potential of love, friendship, companionship, as well as a way of working with and transforming social environments.
This exhibition is the first to focus on a central element in García’s work, namely her performance-based practice situated at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Drawing installations, objects and spaces are activated with scripted and unscripted performances. She Has Many Names considers the relationships between audience, artwork and context, using to the gesture of drawing, writing and the act of speech.
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NEW YORK
Where: The Morgan Library
and Museum
When: Open through
May 28, 2023
In Uncommon Denominator, Nina Katchadourian (American, born 1968) stages a conversation among works from throughout her career, artifacts of her family’s history, and objects drawn from every corner of the Morgan’s vaults. To enlist the taste, imagination, and expertise of others, Katchadourian asked Morgan staff members to explain favorite objects to her. She incorporated many of these into a sequence of clusters in which images and objects echo, contradict, or comment upon one another. The sequence encircles a newly commissioned set of photographs from Katchadourian’s ongoing “Sorted Books” project: stacks of books—selected from the Morgan’s Carter Burden Collection of American Literature—whose titles combine into statements, poems, one-liners, or brief narratives. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog featuring an independent image sequence and an interview with the artist.
Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects. In 2020 she began working with the Morgan’s Richard L. Menschel Curator, Joel Smith, on the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions at the museum created in collaboration with an artist.
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WINTERTHUR
Where: Fotomuseum
Winterthur
When: Open through
May 29, 2023
VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs is the first exhibition to focus on the photographic oeuvre of the artist Valie Export (b. 1940), whose at times provocative performances and experimental installations have been a source of controversy. The show examines Export’s use of photography as a critical exploration of processes of depiction and representation. At the interface of film, video art, drawing and body art the photographs offer a new perspective on her creative oeuvre.
Export’s multimedia work eludes any simplistic categorization or definition. As a pioneer of performance art, installation art and video art, Export has consistently broken through the boundaries separating media genres, while using her own body as an artistic medium. Photography has always played a key role in her practice – be it for documentary or experimental purposes, as an element in multimedia installations or as art in its own right. It was not, however, merely used to make a complete document of Export’s work.
The exhibition, which was devised in close collaboration with the artist, focuses on the impact that photography has had on her creative output. However, following the logic of Export’s work, the exhibition not only presents photographs but also juxtaposes different media and works created between 1968 and 2007.
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SANTE FE
Where: IAIA Museum of
Contemporary Native Arts
When: Open through June 25, 2023
Inherent Memory features contemporary Indigenous basketry-related art created by Indigenous women and non-binary artists from California and the Great Basin, including painting, sculpture, multimedia, basketry, poetry, video, and photography. This exhibition aims to raise awareness of contemporary Indigenous art from these areas and to educate museum audiences about Great Basin Tribal arts and culture, including the importance of basketry. Inherent Memory will showcase the work of 19 artists from this underrepresented area. Several of these artists are IAIA alumna and IAIA artists-in-residence.
Exhibiting artists include Sarah Biscarra Dilley (Northern Chumash), whose multimedia video layers basketry images over landscapes of her homelands, exploring the spaces between the worlds of bloodlines, bodies, and the land. Artist and activist Fawn Douglas (Las Vegas Paiute Tribe) shares and preserves stories of Indigenous Peoples, the natural world, and the environment through sculptural baskets, bracelets made of willow, and basketry-inspired paintings. Brittany Britton (Hupa) creates burden baskets made of loosely twined wire. Natalie Ball’s (Klamath, Modoc, and African American) work addresses racial narratives critical to the understanding of self and nation, as well as shared experiences and histories.
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LOS ANGELES
Where: The Getty Center
When: Open through
July 16, 2023
Since the 1960s, Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931 in Pasadena) has been at the forefront of artistic movements in California. Her work explores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including sexuality, physical and spiritual sustenance, technology, and death. This autobiographical exhibition is told in Smith's voice and coincides with the Getty’s publication of her memoir. It explores the artist’s first 50 years, which were marked by dramatic upheavals in her personal life as well as the development of her most pioneering works, including her Xerox art and radical early performances.
Smith’s brave and pioneering art is finally getting its due. While many of her contemporaries eventually turned to video or installation art, she remained dedicated to creating performances without many lasting traces. This exhibition offers an unprecedented look into her practice, thanks to the Getty Research Institute’s extensive collection of her sketchbooks, letters, and diaries—including the Coffin series, a group of artist’s books. It is the first major museum retrospective to cover the first five decades of her momentous life.
For Smith, who celebrates her 92nd birthday this July, eros and inevitable death are two sides of the same cosmic journey, an endless process of becoming.
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MILAN
Where: Pirelli HangarBicocca
When: April 6, 2023 -
July 30, 2023
Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens has developed her research around light and its relationship to what surrounds it, often creating site-specific works that challenge the immutable nature of sculpture and installation. Janssens has built her practice on overcoming the art object through its dematerialization and deconstruction. Through minimal forms and gestures that have an anti-monumental quality, Janssens is actually able to change the public’s perception of space. With their use of light, color, mirrors, air or artificial fog, the works of Janssens call for the direct participation of viewers, inviting them to experience reality differently, to develop an awareness of their senses, of the architecture and spatial-temporal categories by which we define it, emphasizing its sociopolitical and cultural aspects. Often based on experiments carried out in collaboration with scientists, the artist’s works become labs for testing the boundaries between properties and physical-material elements that are regarded as opposites, such as light and darkness, sound and silence, emptiness and presence, the tangible and the incorporeal.
“Grand Bal” explores the career of Janssens as well as different aspects of her practice. Presenting the most comprehensive selection of her works to date, it includes both historical projects and new productions designed to interact with the space of the Navate within Pirelli HangarBicocca and the outdoor area, expanding its boundaries.
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OTTAWA
Where: The National Gallery
of Canada
When: Open through
August 20, 2023
Uninvited celebrates a generation of extraordinary women painters, photographers, weavers, beadworkers and sculptors from a century ago. Together, they opened up new frontiers for women artists in Canada, as seen in this cross-country snapshot of female creativity during the dynamic interwar period.
Incorporating the work of settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice, Uninvited challenges the notion of the quintessential Canadian artist. It explores the diversity of women creators from coast to coast to coast, many of whom have been neglected by traditional art history. What emerges is a vibrant social mandate for art, moving away from the unpopulated wilderness portrayed by many of the era’s male artists to a poignant examination of cities, resource extraction, social issues, human psychology, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the immigrant experience. These women depicted what their male counterparts were perhaps less inclined to see, producing art from a place of deep humanity, curiosity and intelligence.
Featuring nearly 200 works of art, the National Gallery of Canada’s presentation of Uninvited includes more than 30 works from its own collection. The Gallery is the fourth and final venue for this remarkable exhibition, which offers a fuller and more diverse picture of the visual arts in Canada during a pivotal modern moment.
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NEW YORK
Where: The Guggenheim
When: Open through
September 10, 2023
Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), first trained as an architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart). Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, she immigrated to Venezuela, where she settled permanently, fully embarking on an artistic career in the 1950s that would span more than four decades. In two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of mediums, Gego explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her practice in the related fields of architecture, design, and teaching complemented those investigations.
This exhibition is the first major museum retrospective of Gego’s work to be presented in the United States since 2005, offering a fully integrated view of the influential German-Venezuelan artist and her distinctive approach to the language of abstraction. Across five ramps of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda, the chronological and thematic survey features nearly 200 works from the early 1950s through the early 1990s, including sculptures, drawings, prints, textiles, and artist’s books, alongside photographic images of installations and public works, sketches, publications, and letters.
his long-overdue retrospective builds upon the Guggenheim Museum’s legacy of presenting groundbreaking modern and contemporary solo survey exhibitions in a global context that champion nonobjective art.
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MARCH 2023
CHICAGO
Where: The Art Institute of
Chicago, Fullerton Hall
When: March 7, 2023
Join SAIC in person for a lecture by artist Torkwase Dyson followed by an audience Q&A. Working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, Torkwase Dyson combines expressive mark-making and geometric abstraction to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Dyson deconstructs, distills, and interrogates the built environment, exploring how individuals—particularly Black and Brown people—negotiate, negate, and transform systems and spatial order. Her work has extended beyond traditional studio practices in projects such as Studio South Zero (SSZ), a solar-powered mobile studio for learning and making art about the environment, or the roving pedagogical site The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Liberation (2018–present). In projects such as I Can Drink the Distance (2019) and Liquid A Place (2021), Dyson created sculptural and architectural installations that provide a platform for collaboration with other artists, dancers, and thinkers. Throughout her work and research, Dyson seeks to confront issues of environmental liberation, envisioning a path toward a more equitable future.
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NEW YORK
Where: The Kitchen at
Westbeth
When: March 7, 2023 - April 29, 2023
In December 1972 and April 1973, Shigeko Kubota, Mary Lucier, Cecilia Sandoval and Charlotte Warren-Huey conceived of “multimedia concerts” at The Kitchen under the coalition Red, White, Yellow and Black—a name that explicitly associated each member with their cultural identity. Exemplifying their individual activities and backgrounds rather than act as a collective, the four women presented multimedia work which has notably dematerialized after the concerts, and has since been reconstructed only through scholarly text. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of these performances, this exhibition will bring together rarely seen archival material from the evenings in addition to the restaging of Kubota’s first video sculpture, Riverrun- Video Water Poem (1972), and Lucier and Sandoval's The Occasion of Her First Dance and How She Looked (1973). The living members of the collective will gather for a public program on March 11 to reflect on the legacy of the performances and the divergent directions their lives took afterwards.
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LONDON
Where: The ICA London
When: March 9, 2023
Over a two hour session, Anu will guide participants, through her distinct style of comic making, in constructing their own works within a collaborative, DIY environment. This session will focus on turning favourite songs into comics.
Anu Ambasna is a London born artist, DJ and broadcaster. Anu’s self-taught artistic practice focuses on building worlds through her intricate hand-drawn comics and illustrations, which act as a diary of sorts. She takes inspiration from the mundane and often difficult aspects of life, with humour centred in everything she creates. The protagonists of Anu’s comics and illustrations are sometimes strange to the eye and often centre paunchy brown bodies, with themes of family, identity, music and club culture filtering through.
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NEW YORK
Where: Miriam Gallery
When: March 9, 2023
Join Miriam Gallery on the final week of “The Stench of Orange Blossoms” for a screening of How this has to be told, a film by Martha Naranjo Sandoval.
How this has to be told digs into family photos and mementos to question how much they reveal and how much they silence. Meaning is destabilized as narratives accumulate on the surface of the images across generations and time. Why can't our family recordings just be images? Why do we burden them with so much responsibility of being something else?
The piece consists of a 35mm slideshow synched to sound. The 29 slides have each a narration. The accumulation of these voices questions the content of the pictures and further talks about how we use family pictures and their relationship to truth.
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BERLIN
Where: Akademie der Künste
When: March 9, 2023
The Ellen Auerbach Fellowship for outstanding young international photography 2023 is to be awarded to Joanna Piotrowska. In her black and white silver gelatine prints and 16mm films, the Polish artist deals with topics such as family, home, intimacy and the position of women. She shows people in their entanglements in social systems and in their struggle against manifestations of power, emotional dependencies and human violence.
With welcoming remarks by the Akademie’s vice president Kathrin Röggla and a laudatio by Hubertus von Amelunxen. The artist talk will be held by the curator Juliane Bischoff.
The fellowship grant, endowed with 20,000 euros, is awarded biannually for outstanding international photography. It is financed by German-American photographer Ellen Auerbach’s estate, which has been entrusted to the Akademie der Künste.
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LOS ANGELES
Where: The Hammer Museum
When: March 10, 2023
A program of nine films that circle around urgent Black voices both real and imagined, ranging from the present to the past and from renowned political activists to artistic visionaries. Included are H-E-L-L-O (2014), which re-envisions a somewhat revived New Orleans through a series of musical street tableaux; one of Smith’s earliest and best-known films Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron (1992); the poignant and elegiac Crow Requiem (2015); the redolent utopian testament Pilgrim (2017); and 3 Songs About Liberation (2017), Human 3.0 Reading List Biblio (2015-16), Sine at the Canyon & Sine at the Sea (2016), The Name You Trust in Good Clean Family Fun (2011) and T Minus Two (2010).
Cauleen Smith will be in conversation with Jheanelle Brown after the screening.
Copresented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Organized by Steve Anker.
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LONDON
Where: Cromwell Place,
Lavery Studio
When: March 11, 2023
The Philharmonia Orchestra and Cromwell Place present a series of concerts reflecting on the themes of current exhibitions. Alongside Women’s History Month, Cromwell Place and our Members are celebrating women and female-identifying artists across all geographies and époques, with the second concert in the series. Four members of the Philharmonia’s cello section have put together a captivating programme showcasing women composers past and present, and memorable female characters from film and opera.
Barbara Strozzi, a 17th century composer of exquisite songs, rubs shoulders with two living composers, Roxanna Panufnik and Rosie Trentham. Women in leading roles are represented by music from Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier, the classic Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and a new suite from Madam Butterfly arranged by the ensemble.
The Philharmonia Orchestra recital series at Cromwell Place is supported by NJA Limited.
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DOHA
Where: Fire Station
When: March 11, 2023
Artist Fatima Javed will lead an interactive workshop, where invited participants will have the chance to be part of her unique process. Participants will be able to interact with her sculptures by breaking and rebuilding them into new art pieces. Fatima’s objective is to build bridges between people of different backgrounds and promote meaningful dialogue. She will be highlighting new ceramic art techniques and expand on creative disciplines and enhance the understanding of contemporary art.
Fatima Javed is a Pakistani artist who focuses on ceramic sculptures. She has a bachelor's degree in design from National College of Arts, Pakistan. Fatima is interested in collecting junk parts of automobile and embodying this in her sculptures to create metal-like ceramics. She is inspired by the process of transformation that humans go through, and her work highlights the emotions that takes place during that change.
Fatima is currently an artist in residence at the Fire Station (2022-23).
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BERLIN
Where: Hamburger Bahnhof
When: March 12, 2023
Zineb Sedira’s Dreams Have No Titles marks the international debut of the artist’s project for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, which is being shown at Hamburger Bahnhof for the first time in Germany. Mixing film, sculpture, photography, and performance, the French-Algerian artist weaves together parts of her own biography with the history of cinemato-graphic co-productions and activist films within the context of France, Algeria and Italy.
Sedira (born 1963) has conceived the exhibition space as a movie set where the decors of several films provide the backdrop of a live shoot in which fiction and documentary, the personal and the collective come together. In Dreams Have No Titles the artist not only deals with an important turning point in the history of avant-garde film production. She also presents us with a cautionary tale about the failure of an emancipatory dream that for many people remains an unfulfilled promise. Art mediators invite you to extraordinary dialogues in the collections and special exhibitions. Keep an eye out!
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PHILADELPHIA
Where: Bossone
Research Center,
Mitchell Auditorium
When: March 16, 2023
A limited number of tickets have been released for the keynote address of the 2023 William + Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar – “Dreaming the Present” – by Cauleen Smith.
The weekend will continue with a public screening of Smith's film Drylongso (1998) on Saturday, March 18 at 7PM. Newly-restored in 4K by Janus Films, the feature film follows a woman in a photography class who begins taking pictures of Black men out of fear they will soon be extinct. Smith will be in attendance for a post-film conversation.
Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. You can dive even deeper into Drylongso in the latest print issue of Seen Journal, where Cauleen shares the script and takes readers through the process behind writing it.
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LONDON
Where: Richard Saltoun
Gallery
When: Closes March 18, 2023
Antigone: Women in Fibre Art, is a group show celebrating the rich Eastern European textile art tradition. Focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić – who recently passed away - and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, the exhibition will situate their pivotal fibre sculptures alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, and new work by a younger generation, Anna Perach and Egle Jauncems.
Like Antigone, Abakanowicz, Buić, Levittoux-Świderska, and Pachucka opposed the traditional view of textiles as specifically feminine, decorative, and low in the artistic hierarchy, elevating them to fine art. In the 1960s and 1970s, they revolutionised the millennia-old tapestry tradition to a point that a new term was coined to describe it: fibre art. Their weaved, knotted, plaited, coiled, and even braided creations that forsake flatness and embraced tridimensionality, expanding freely in the space. The feminist movements of the time contributed greatly to the rise of fibre art on the international scene. Indeed, many of the most prominent fiber artists are women.
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TORONTO
Where: Mercer Union
When: March 23, 2023
Samia Henni is a historian and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments. Her lecture, Contaminating the Sahara, investigates France’s nuclear weapons program conducted between 1960 and 1966 in the Algerian desert, and its enduring impact on the Sahara.
On 13 February 1960, the French colonial authorities detonated their first atomic atmospheric bomb in Reggane in the colonized Algerian Sahara, six years after the outbreak of the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). Codenamed “Gerboise Bleue” (Blue Jerboa), the explosive had a blast capacity of 70 kilotons, about 4 times the strength of Little Boy, the atomic bomb used by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during the Second World War. The detonation of Blue Jerboa was followed by years of other such atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons testing that continued well after Algeria’s formal independence from France.
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LONDON
Where: Autograph
When: Closes March 25, 2023
Sasha Huber explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance - asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history.
You Name It brings together over a decade of Huber’s work, prompted by the campaign Demounting Louis Agassiz. Initiated in 2007 by Swiss historian and activist Hans Fässler, the campaign seeks to redress the legacy of the Swiss-born glaciologist and racist Louis Agassiz (1807–1873). His scientific contributions to the fields of glaciology, palaeontology and geology resulted in over 80 landmarks bearing his name on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Less well known, however, was Agassiz’s legacy of ‘scientific’ racism, and how he used his position to actively promote the subjugation, exploitation, and segregation of Black people and other people of colour. He commissioned J.T. Zealy (1812-1893) to photograph enslaved people on the Edgehill plantation in South Carolina in March of 1850, using the technology of photography to further his eugenics campaign.
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OXFORD
Where: Modern Art Oxford
When: March 25, 2023
- July 2, 2023
This major solo exhibition by Carey Young (b. 1970, lives and works in London) explores relations between women, the camera and systems of power.
The show centres on a series of three video works with interrelated themes. Young’s new commission Appearance (2023) is a silent video portrait of fifteen female judges, diverse in seniority, age and ethnicity, which explores their individuality and nuanced differences, as well as the power relations between judge and camera. Critically acclaimed video installation Palais de Justice (2017) evokes an imaginary legal system controlled by women. And The Vision Machine (2020) is a study of female lens-makers at the factory of SIGMA Corporation, a renowned brand of photographic gear. Using lenses as a motif, the piece explores women’s identity in relation to mass production and the global dissemination of images. Alongside the films, a selection of Young’s new and existing text and photographic works feature sites including prisons, legal borders and imaginary space, connecting law, architecture, language and the body.
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SINGAPORE
Where: Singapore
Art Museum
When: March 25, 2023
Witness the activation of pEARs ' --- --- --- ' in §pring, a theatrical performance scripted and choreographed by artist Joo Choon Lin, which is part of the exhibition, Dance in The Destruction Dance. In this performance, the artist plays with the texture and tonality of language, and the visceral effects of sound through the act of reading. “Film-objects” composed of industrial materials and assembly hardware like latches, hinges, collapsible legs and casters are reconstituted and moved around the exhibition space, highlighting how all meaning is generated through interdependence and constant renewal.
Joo Choon Lin (b.1984) is a visual artist and poet based in Singapore who explores the relationship between consciousness and the technologies of representation. This exhibition is part of SAM’s Material Intelligence exhibition series that investigates how artists today connect modes of making associated with craft and industry to speculations about our ecological and technological futures.
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TOKYO
Where: Tokyo Photographic
Art Museum,
3F Exhibition Gallery
When: Closes March 26, 2023
“Humans are being categorized by nationality, ethnic background, gender, and various other factors, for legal reasons, or for the sake of convenience. In each category, there exist multitudes of different ideas and identities, and even those who appear to others to be peculiar, may be perfectly ordinary in everyday life. This is what I keep in mind in my projects that deal with immigrants and members of local communities, while exploring themes of memory, history, tradition, diversity, interrelatedness, and individual identity within a community. While sympathizing with my subjects on a psychological level, I import and superimpose my own experiences onto scenes of their daily life. With a focus on this communication process in which I establish a relationship with them, I create installations incorporating elements of photography, video, sound and performance.” - KIM Insook
KIM Insook received her M.A. from the Graduate School of Arts of Hansung University in the Western Painting, Photography and Images course. Currently, she is based in both Seoul and Tokyo. Based on the idea that “diversity is universal,” Insook highlights the “individual” daily life, memory, history, tradition, community, and family in her works.
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LOS ANGELES
Where: Junior High LA
When: March 28, 2023
Junior High Book Club is moderated by Lina Abascal. Featuring contemporary fiction by female authors, queer authors, and authors of color, members vote on all readings and meet monthly for lightly moderated discussions. This month’s reading selection is Straight from the Horse's Mouth by Meryem Alaoui.
Originally written in French, this hilarious, colorful portrait of a sex worker navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old sex worker Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a brutal honesty, but also a quick wit that cuts through the drudgery. Like many of the women in her working-class Casablanca neighborhood, Jmiaa struggles to earn enough money to support herself and her family—often including the deadbeat husband who walked out on her and their young daughter. While she doesn’t despair about her profession like her roommate, Halima, who reads the Quran between clients, she still has to maintain a delicate balance between her reality and the “respectable” one she paints for her own more conservative mother.
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NEW YORK
Where: Bam Howard
Gilman Opera House
When: March 30, 2023
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents their 2023 music series ELDORADO BALLROOM, curated by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron. The program takes an anomalous approach to celebrating the intergenerational expressions of experimental and transcendent performance through the decades.
Celebrating the dynamic sounds that explore and defy R&B’s outer limits, this show centers the visions of feminine innovation as songwriters, producers, and engineers of their own sonic expressions. Featuring singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist KeiyaA, contemporary underground dance music icon Kelela, and Philadelphia-bred cult-fave Res, these artists of their time take the stage to showcase the wave-making autonomy that ultimately broadened the genre’s range. The lineup calls the audience’s attention toward a greater expanse of musical territory drawn directly from the technological frequency of Black women’s experimentation in music production. This show presents an eclectic showcase of the genre that has shifted sonic tastes.
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AMSTERDAM
Where: de Appel Amsterdam
When: March 31, 2023 -
May 20, 2023
Centering around the visible and invisible slow violence in the landscape, this exhibition is a rich soil for cultivating questions about how to represent and perceive violence in the image and questions whether we can trust images. The works address different regions mired in colonial violence, attempting to reveal – through looking closely – how the land and soundscape around us is an expression of dominant political power and the struggle and resilience of the communities subjected to it. The artist will be presenting a number of existing works as well as new art works.
Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked, or suppressed, histories have on contemporary life. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London and completed the De Ateliers artist residency in Amsterdam, in 2019. She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands.
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PARIS
Where: Maison Européenne
de la Photographie (MEP)
When: March 31, 2023
- May 21, 2023
Diane Severin Nguyen’s photographs invites us to immerse ourselves in the question of the meanings and significance of the material world. In ephemeral compositions, the artist combines synthetic objects (chains, textiles…) with organic substances (hair, fruit…), at times adding liquids or combustible materials with loaded political associations such as napalm. The tension created between these substances gives rise to exchanges – of fluids, materials, movements – of which her photographic works remain the sole visual evidence.
Her vibrantly coloured images can destabilise perception. This occurs both by playing with a sense of scale and by the materials that she uses taking on the appearance of torn flesh or distintegrating matter. There is therefore something profoundly physical, even visceral, about Diane Severin Nguyen’s photographs. Her works trigger responses that can range from discomfort to pain, from pleasure to desire. By playing on this evocative power of objects, Nguyen tells stories about the invisible or imperceptible fragilities of the flesh, and ways in which our bodies contaminate themselves.
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NEW YORK
Where: Park Avenue Armory
When: March 31, 2023
- April 1, 2023
Poet, writer, performer, and activist Pamela Sneed leads a celebration of the role of the women and femme architects of rhythm and blues as well as rock and roll. The multifaceted artist is joined by her band for a tribute to Big Mama Thornton and other female legends on Friday evening, and then leads a salon on Saturday featuring a roundtable discussion exploring the significance and legacy of Juke Joint and how the rebel spirit of these female innovators lives on today at the intersection of political commentary, music, and cabaret culture. The day is punctuated with a performance by singer-songwriter and playwright Stew, who premieres a new cabaret piece featuring songs and texts that explore the role of an audience as a collaborator to the storyteller drawn from his experiences as a Black artist in the punk clubs of his youth, on Broadway, and now in Ivy league universities.
Presented in celebration of Women’s Music Month as part of the Carnegie Hall Women in Music Festival.
More information on the event can be found here.
SÃO PAULO
Where: The Museum of
Modern Art of São Paulo
(MAM)
When: Closes July 14, 2023
A private library is not just a collection of books, it is part of a biography, which reflects the interests and also the passages of a life, with encounters and disagreements between authors, other intellectuals. In the case of Aracy Amaral, it is also the set of references that settled on the shelves and reflect the hard and fundamental erudite work during a life dedicated to studies, writing, critique, and artistic sensitivity. Amaral‘s donation of part of her personal library to the MAM led the Paulo Mendes de Almeida Library to be proud of being the depositary of this intellectual legacy and to look retrospectively at her work in this museum.
Freshly trained as a journalist, Amaral worked as a monitor at the 2nd São Paulo Biennial in 1954 (until 1961, the São Paulo Biennial was organized by mam), and acted as a reporter for Rio de Janeiro newspapers, covering the Biennial, as well as the São Paulo artistic scene. Since then, her contributions have only advanced, participating in dozens of exhibitions, writing essays and actively collaborating in the Art Commission (1996 – 2001) and in the Art Advisory Council (2014 – 2015) of the MAM.
More information on the event can be found here.
BENGALURU
Where: Museum of Art
and Photography (MAP),
Bengaluru
When: Ongoing
VISIBLE/INVISIBLE, a three-year long exhibition, explores the visual representation of women through artworks in the collection. It attempts to re-address preconceived notions of femininity and gender as a social construct through art history by providing a more inclusive understanding towards it. For centuries, while women have been one of the central themes of artistic representation, the image builders have largely been male, allowing women very little control over the nature of their mainstream representation. This exhibition focuses on such central themes but also presents ideas and histories which provide a counter to it. Sacrifice, nourishment, aggression, abandonment, desire, success, struggle and power dynamics form a common thread across the exhibition to highlight selected stories of women.
Through a programme of associated talks, commissioned research papers, round table discussions and public discourse, this exhibition aims to engage with multiple viewpoints, to ask questions and to provide the tools and contexts for audiences to form their opinions and challenge existing ones.
More information on the event can be found here.
FEBRUARY 2023
ONLINE PRINT SALE
Where: Speciwomen
Viewing Room
When: February 10, 2023
- February 18, 2023
For one week only, purchase a limited edition print by Pamela Sneed in honor of her practice as a whole, but most specifically to bring direct support to Sneed’s upcoming tribute performance to rock’n’roll founding figure Big Mama Thornton.
New-York based poet, performer, and visual artist Pamela Sneed’s genre defiant work is rooted in her commitment to activism and intersectional modes of thinking, from the 1990s AIDS crisis to the Black lesbian working class experience. Her upcoming performance project, Juke Joint, which will premiere at the Triangle Theater and The Park Avenue Armory this March, pays tribute to singer and songwriter Big Mama Thornton, an unsung pioneer of Rock and Roll. 100% of proceeds from this sale will go directly to the artist for the production of her upcoming performance.
More information on the event can be found here.
PARIS
Where: Palais de Tokyo
When: February 18, 2023
As part of the exhibition Exposed, discover the program ” Les Pointes perché·es ” : a series of 5 conversations moderated by Elisabeth Lebovici and François Piron
The first panel discussion brings together the New York artists featured in the exhibition Exposed, most of whom met in the context of the HIV epidemic and the fight against AIDS in the late 1980s.
With Gregg Bordowitz, Moyra Davey, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard and Carrie Yamaoka.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: Cinemark
Baldwin Hills Screen #14
When: February 18, 2023
Presented in conjunction with Afro-Atlantic Histories, this series engages the multiple historical and cultural trajectories of the Black diaspora through the aesthetic expressions of filmmakers and visual artists. Curated by critic and scholar Yasmina Price, Wayward Waters: Black Cinema & The Atlantic traces the emancipatory and ecstatic possibilities of cinematic challenges to the transatlantic slave trade, colonization and Euro-American imperialism. What emerges from these fluid currents of poetic and political Black visual culture is a defiant stance against borders and containment, offering a clearer encounter with the past and a more expansive vision for the future. Featuring artists and filmmakers from Brazil, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Mauritania, France and North America, the program comprises 3 feature films preceded by shorts and 1 block of experimental short films. There will be a Post-screening conversation with director Miryam Charles and Schelby Jean-Baptiste.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: Hauser & Wirth
LA Bookstore
When: February 18, 2023
Book Launch for Grace Is Like New Music with Mary Manning in conversation with Miranda July.
A comprehensive monograph on New York–based photographer Mary Manning, Grace Is Like New Music includes hundreds of images that span the last decade of their production and are arranged into multiphotographic compositions. Designed in collaboration with long-time friend Joe Gilmore, the book portrays Manning’s creative community in New York, London and elsewhere, and depicts subjects and sensibilities inspired by their interests in dance, film, fashion and poetry. Using a basic point-and-shoot camera, Manning captures people, nature, the street and everything in between. Their practice is an exercise in recording and collecting, an effort in “paying attention as a practice of being alive.” The book includes an essay by writer Olivia Laing and a contribution by S*an D. Henry-Smith.
More information on the event can be found here.
LOS ANGELES
Where: The Getty Center
When: November 15, 2022
- February 19, 2023
For more than forty years, Los Angeles–based artist Uta Barth (born in West Germany, 1958) has made photographs that investigate the act of looking. In her multipart works, she explores the ephemeral qualities of light and its ability to overwhelm and entirely destabilize human vision. In certain series, the repetition of motifs—including aspects of her home—creates a rhythm that suggests movement, carrying viewers from one image to the next. Barth also highlights photography’s abiding connection to the passage of time with her sequential images captured at intervals over a particular period.
This exhibition traces Barth’s career from her early experimentations as a student to later studies of the eye’s capabilities and the camera’s role in helping an artist translate visual information into a photograph. Barth’s most recent work is displayed here for the first time: a project commissioned in celebration of the Getty Center’s twentieth anniversary.
More information on the event can be found here.
SYDNEY
Where: Art Gallery of
New South Wales
When: February 23, 2023
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is hosting an afternoon screening of queer video works, followed by a panel discussion with local artists exploring creative strategies for personal, experimental filmmaking today.
The panel will be moderated by Jen and André (Garden Reflexxx), hosts of FBi Radio’s Movies, movies, movies.
This event is a collaboration between Art Gallery Cinema and SWARM, a film festival inspired by the traditions of Black radical cinema, which takes place at the Skyline Drive-In at Blacktown on 23 February 2023, and is curated by Xuela, Jackie De Lacy and Garden Reflexxx. It is part of WorldPride at the Art Gallery, an extensive program of art, performance, films, talks and more in association with Sydney WorldPride 2023.
More information on the event can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Toppins London
When: February 14, 2023
- February 24, 2023
Between the Stacks sees photographer Lydia Garnett, writer D Mortimer and artist and performer Prinx Silver collaborate. Mortimer has written a new text to accompany Garnett’s affectionate, mischievous and often seductive portraits.
Between the Stacks traces the connection between psychic and sexual possibility and the importance of queer artists and writers having enough free and affordable space to work and play, read, write and yes – fuck - in. The public library must be protected as a free and universal service at all costs. We must resist the censorship of a hostile government and protect the public libraries’ manifesto to represent all whom it serves. Within this exhibition is, almost unavoidably, the ghost of section 28 and the perennial notion of reading as contagion and books as dangerous.
More information on the event can be found here.
STOCKHOLM
Where: Moderna Museet
When: October 10, 2022 -
February 26, 2023
Nan Goldin is one of the most high-profile and controversial artists of our time. The retrospective “This Will Not End Well” is presented in six unique rooms. Experience her works as slideshows and films set to sound and music, where stories about love, intimacy, addiction, and loss take place on the screens.
Over the years, Goldin has produced more than a dozen different slide shows culled from thousands of images, ranging from portrayals of her friends to traumatic family stories and the addiction that has dogged her throughout her adult life. These are stories of great importance, not only as a testament to history but as eternal tales where new generations of audience see themselves. Nan Goldin – This Will Not End Well is a collaboration with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, who initiated the exhibition tour. More information on the event can be found here.
NEW YORK CITY
Where: Hana Makgeolli
When: February 16, 2022 -
February 26, 2023
Hana Makgeolli is an artisanal Korean rice wine producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Their wines celebrate heritage and the labor of love. By using only organic rice, nuruk, and traditional brewing methodologies, they are able to achieve complex flavor profiles that show the breadth and depth of the entire sool category. Their tasting room embraces their labor of love with communal tables, shared plates of house-made anju, and of course, our sool - offered by the glass, carafe, or mixed in one of our house cocktails.
Get a behind the scenes look at the brewery, learn about the history of sool and how Hana Makgeolli is made. Tours + Tastings include both a tour followed by a guided flight of sool.
More information on the event can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Online
When: March 2, 2023
Join London Drawing Group’s Luisa-Maria MacCormack for a unique PRACTICAL session dedicated to the intersection between Feminism and Mycology!
This class will be dedicated to painting and drawing Fungi! (And for those who have done this session before, you will be painting all new Fungi this session!) Using watercolour and pencils, Luisa will guide students through a whole host of drawing exercises that will challenge our perceptions of Fungi, and explore the world of Mushrooms through painting!
We will also explore the wide variety of incredible female artists who have drawn on fungi in their work, both present and past!
More information on the event can be found here.
NEW YORK CITY
Where: Brooklyn
Academy of Music
When: March 9, 2023
What if you don’t have time to spend? How is our painful relationship to time inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism? How might we imagine a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive? In this intimate evening of conversation, multi-disciplinary artist and author Jenny Odell explores these questions and more with New Yorker staff writer and author Jia Tolentino, offering different ways to experience time and find a more humane, responsive way of living. Celebrating the launch of Saving Time, her dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book, The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing helps us see how we might take inspiration from pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales to become stewards of different rhythms of life.
More information on the event can be found here.
SYRACUSE
Where: Light Work
When: January 17, 2023
- March 10, 2023
Jenny Calivas’s Surface Thing exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective. Calivas’ black and white images can unexpectedly taunt us, at once generous and withholding, still and active. Her pictures are part of photography’s long conversation about the tension between chance (the decisive moment) and control (the staged). The weight of this exhibition, Self-Portraits While Buried, features photographs where she has buried herself in the earth from which she sometimes seems to re-emerge as well. These photographs live in the realm of female experience and feminist making; the work suggests a new creation myth, a maternal purging or dissolving of the original form to make way for a new body. An opening reception and artist talk with Jenny Calivas will be held on Thursday, February 23, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery.
More information on the event can be found here.
OSHKOSH
Where: Allen Priebe Gallery
at UW Oshkosh
When: February 23, 2023 -
March 16, 2023
Photographer Anne Vetter (b. 1994) lives and works in California and Massachusetts. They are a queer non-binary Jew. Their work is focused on play, family systems, performance and the fluidity of identity. Their current project Love is Not the Last Room is made in collaboration with their family—parents, brothers, cousins and partner—and explores gender and attachment.
More information on the event can be found here.
AARHUS
Where: ARoS Aarhus
Art Museum
When: December 3, 2022
- April 16, 2023
Invisible Line is a solo exhibition by Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan), who now lives and works in Berlin. Her installations have captivated audiences all over the world. Thoughts of mortality – loss, death – but also joy and exuberance are explored by Shiota in her work.
Shiota is best known for her large-scale ingeniously woven thread installations to mirror the way all human experiences are connected in a network of invisible lines. Invisible Line shows six large scale installations allowing the audience to dive into Shiota’s distinctive universes. The exhibition focuses on Shiota’s often humble yet always powerful drawings and paintings letting the spectators realize their significance as works of art. In Invisible Line we find the work Last Hope; one of Shiota’s most beautiful installations. Last Hope is an all-encompassing thread installation created to make its audience wonder and inspire hope.
More information on the event can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Whitechapel Gallery
When: February 9, 2023
- May 7, 2023
Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition of 150 paintings from an overlooked generation of 81 international women artists. Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this exhibition celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.
It is often said that the Abstract Expressionist movement began in the USA, but this exhibition’s geographic breadth demonstrates that artists from all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception and gesture, endowing gestural abstraction with their own specific cultural contexts – from the rise of fascism in parts of South America and East Asia to the influence of Communism in Eastern Europe and China.
More information on the event can be found here.
MADRID
Where: Museo Nacional
Thyssen-Bornemisza
When: February 20, 2023
- June 11, 2023
TBA21 presents Of Whales, an exhibition by American artist Wu Tsang. TBA21 showcases a multi-part project created by the artist drawing from her research around Herman Melville’s classic American novel Moby-Dick, tackling its subterranean currents. The work will be presented on the occasion of a solo exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. The exhibition will be centered around Of Whales (2022) in a unique and immersive display.
Of Whales is an immersive real-time video installation that offers a poetic meditation on the whale’s perspective, through a deep dive into an oceanic cosmos that is alluded to in Herman Melville’s tale. The work was created on the Unity gaming platform as a dynamically generated real-time video and sound installation, which envelops visitors in an oceanscape-cosmos for respite, contemplation, and provocation.
More information on the event can be found here.
COPENHAGEN
Where: GL Strand
When: February 12, 2023
- December 3, 2023
Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art presents a collection of more than 80 works that across video, performance, painting, photography and sculpture reflect and explore the major developments and transformations that Chinese society has undergone since the 1980s. The exhibition shows the Chinese art scene through artists born in the period between 1960 and 1994. They belong to the generations that grew up with the great economic, political and cultural changes that China has seen from the time of the Cultural Revolution until today, and work in the field of tension between past and present, and longing for a different future.
The focus of the exhibition’s works is on woman’s position and view of herself, her gender, sexuality and role.
More information on the event can be found here.
JANUARY 2023
NEW YORK CITY
Where: MoMA PS1
When: January 30, 2023
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore is celebrating ‘Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces’ (MoMA/The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2022) published on the occasion of the exhibition at MoMA on view through February 18, 2023.
Featuring a round table conversation with Linda Goode Bryant, Kimberly Varella, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, and Lilia Rocio Taboada.
Pre-order SIGNED books and RSVP for the event at artbookstores.com. RSVP is required due to limited capacity. This event will also be live-streamed on Instagram @artbookps1.
LOS ANGELES
Where: MOCA Grand
When: January 15, 2023 -
April 2, 2023
Simone Forti is the first exhibition on the West Coast to explore the monumental career of visionary artist Simone Forti in depth. Forti is perhaps best known as a choreographer, which the exhibition will highlight with weekly performances of her groundbreaking Dance Constructions, featuring a cast of Los Angeles-based artists and creatives. At the same time, Forti can more expansively be understood as an artist who works with movement; looking beyond the Dance Constructions, this exhibition surveys six decades of the artist’s incisive work, elucidating the breadth and depth of her practice through works on paper, videos, holograms, and performance ephemera and documentation. Featuring work from the 1960s through to the present day, Simone Forti is an homage to a towering artist who has forever reframed the dialogue between visual art and contemporary dance. Admission is free. More information on the event can be found here.
STOCKHOLM
Where: Bildmuseet
When: January 29, 2023
Nancy Holt (1938–2014) was a central figure in the New York art scene and was an innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place.
Inside Outside is the most extensive European survey of Holt’s work and is the most ambitious presentation ever of her multifaceted artistic oeuvre. The exhibition includes film, video, photography, concrete poetry, audio works, sculpture and room-sized installations as well as drawings and documentation of her land art. Two of her major site responsive System Works are presented in this exhibition, in their first posthumous iterations, including Ventilation System, a playful sculpture covering several floors, both indoors and outdoors, in dialogue with the architecture of Bildmuseet. Click here to learn more about the event.
SHIGA
Where: Shiga Museum
When: January 21, 2023 -
May 7, 2023
Photographer Rinko Kawauchi was born in Shiga Prefecture in 1972 and has been active since her debut in 2001. Kawauchi's works, which are characterized by her unique faint color tones filled with her soft light, depict the mystery, brilliance, ephemerality, and strength of all life, including humans and animals, and are widely acclaimed both in Japan and overseas.
In this exhibition, while interweaving Kawauchi's previous series, we will introduce a new series "M/E" with the theme of connecting with the earth, along with a group of new works that capture everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with the special exhibition, a special exhibition "Rinko Kawauchi and Shiga" will be held in Exhibition Room 2 from Wednesday, January 11, 2023 to Sunday, May 7, 2023. More details about this exhibition can be found here.
HANOI
Where: Manzi Art Space
When: December 23, 2022 -
February 5, 2023
Phi Phi Oanh displays new results of her ongoing exploration in expanding the abilities and unfolding possibilities of the Vietnamese lacquer medium. ‘Arca Noa’, features a series of 10 small and medium sized paintings from different series and two Lacquerscopes.
" ‘Arca Noa’ attempts to hold still and record, in lacquer form, our relationship to the earth and our will towards the domestication and objectification of nature around us. The works are conceived as vestiges of this epoch currently hanging in delicate balance and as iconography of its human centered gaze."
Additional details on the exhibition can be found here.
TORONTO
Where: The Drake Hotel
When: February 2, 2023
Patricia Ellah presents photographs and ceramic pieces as part of the Drake Hotel’s Workflow exhibition series curated by Kris Lodu.
Ellah is a Nigerian Canadian photographer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work centers around her heritage and documenting the people that are a part of her life; it stems from personal explorations of self, womanhood and the everyday existence as a human being.
Out of the Hearts of Women comes something indescribable, wondrous even. Something that looks like love in all its glory but is exquisite, layered, and complex. It is everything in between being born, blooming, seeing yourself, aging, and dying. Event details can be found here.
SAN FRANCISCO
Where: The ICA San Francisco
When: January 21, 2023 -
June 25, 2023
The Combahee River Collective believed that society would inevitably benefit from the success of Black women-centered movements. When we consider what technologies have already been used to dismantle systems of oppression on a personal level, leisure and adornment are often overlooked, but extremely present in everyday life.
Focusing on the liberation and celebration of Black women through the lens of leisure and physical adornment, Resting Our Eyes features new and existing works from 20 multi-generational Black artists working across sculpture, photography, video, mixed media, painting, and textile. Through embodied experiences of space and temporality, spectrums of abstraction and representation, these artists contend with the limitations and failures of the colonial gaze by casting Black womxn at the center of their visions through leisure and adornment. Collectively, these works invite us to see Black womxn as fully realized and free. Additional details on this exhibition can be found here.
LONDON
Where: Online
When: January 30, 2023
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a pioneer photographer famous for her soft-focus portraits. She grew up in Calcutta, India with her British family but later moved to England and France to study Literature, Latin and Greek. Eventually she settled down in the village of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight with her 11 children and husband Charles Hay Cameron. It was here she took her famous portraits after being gifted a camera by her daughter in 1863.
In this workshop we will look into the life and works of Julia Margaret Cameron and also discuss the role of her gender in relation to the criticism she received. How come she was targeted more than others? Nowadays Julia Margaret Cameron is considered to be one of the most influential portrait photographers and this class will highlight the legacy of her work and how she has influenced other (women) photographers. She stayed true to her beliefs and we encourage a discussion about imposter syndrome and what we can learn from this great woman artist. Registration for this online lecture can be completed here.
TUCSON
Where: MOCA Tucson
When: January 27, 2023 -
September 10, 2023
Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other. Exhibition details can be found here.
DUBLIN
Where: MART Gallery
When: January 28, 2023 -
February 10, 2023
“Time Sensitive: Leeward” presents a series of reflections and observations rooted in the artists’ lived experiences of the Rural(s). Artists Anne Vetter, Frank Abruzzese, Karl Logge & Marta Romani, Laurence O’Toole, Rosie O’Gorman, Sarah Ellen Lundy and curator Karla Sánchez, have all resided for long periods in both city and countryside, the latter being the place where, in the last several years, they have spent most of their time.
This exhibition comprises a mix of recent work: photographs, drawings, tapestries, installations, and video pieces. Animal life and death are present in the work of Sarah Ellen Lundy and the enigmatic, organic, ink drawings by Rosie O’Gorman. Every-day life, in all its joy and marvelous monotony, is captured in the photographs of Frank Abruzzese and those of Anne Vetter. An intense presence of the forest, and our perceptions of it, appear in the work of Laurence O’Toole, and in the tapestries and work by Karl Logge & Marta Romani we are faced with rituals and almost extinct traditions that once allowed the survival of our species. Additional exhibition details can be accessed here.
SYDNEY
Where: White Rabbit Gallery
When: December 17, 2022 -
May 14, 2023
When wandering through the streets of imperial China, amidst bazaars and teahouses, one might stumble across the figure of a storyteller. Crowds gather around this lone narrator, whose tales of mystical beasts, warriors, and immortals, infuse the air with enchantment. Yet in recent years Shuo Shu, or the art of storytelling, has become a dying tradition. Contemporary Chinese audiences have instead turned their attention to digital content.
The artists in ‘Shuo Shu’ map the evolution of the story from timeless myths and literary romances to political propaganda and modern-day censorship. Artists become shapeshifters, and their stories twist and turn to fit within codes and secret messages. Whilst a closed mind is like a closed book, stories reveal themselves to those who are open.
Additional exhibition details can be found here.
MUMBAI
Where: Sassoon Dock
When: December 22, 2022 -
February 22, 2023
The Mumbai Urban Art Festival facilitates a novel, democratic, and expansive experience of the city, through landmark murals, experiential exhibitions, and immersive installations, in addition to a host of community programmes, walks, talks and more. Every two years, the festival will bring together a plethora of artists and diverse practitioners to create interdisciplinary projects in Mumbai.
Additional details on the festival can be found here.
