As part of the Némo Biennial of Digital Arts, up to 26 January 2020 the CENTQUATRE-PARIS is hosting the exhibition Jusqu'ici tout va bien ? (So far, so good?) Its commissioners Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès invite visitors to take leap back in time: what if robots and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) designed by humans were to survive the [...]
Back home for his new exhibition Towards No Earthly Pole, showing at the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano) in Switzerland, Julian Charrière is presenting a series of art works bearing witness to extreme environments. MASI is the first museum to present the artist's latest video project (which gives its name to the exhibition), which began in 2017, tracing [...]
London’s iconic Serpentine Galleries will host Formafantasma Studio from 4 March to 17 May 2020. The Amsterdam-based, Italian design duo will combine design, contemporary art and scientific research to question the role of design in raising public awareness of environmental issues – and more specifically, issues arising from the production and exploitation of forests and timber. Bear in mind [...]
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is hosting Otobong Nkanga up to 23 February 2020 with her solo exhibition Acts at the Crossroads. Otobong Nkanga stands at the crossroads of science, art, ecology, and anthropology. Revealing systemic fields, Nkanga describes Earth as an extension of the physical human body, and so through analogy leads the public to greater environmental [...]
Through a set of sculptures, found objects, and installations, the Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet unveils his first major solo exhibition in the U.K. Showing at the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, this selection of eight works on the theme of the fragment and memory, is a kind of contemporary archaeology combining personal narrative and collective experience. The artwork Steel [...]
Showing in London at Annely Juda Fine Art until 20 December 20, the exhibition Destruction / Reconstruction unveils to the public the latest creations by the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, made from recycled wood and a cross between art and architecture. Left behind by the emergence and development of concrete, wood was nevertheless the first material used for the structures [...]
This 6th edition of the Lubumbashi Biennial in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now drawing to a close, demonstrates its commitment to a changing and responsible world without walls. With Future genealogies, stories from the equator, the Biennial investigates both the colonial narratives and migration flows as well as the environmental issues of his country, taken between the two hemispheres, [...]
At Taipei Fine Arts Museums, Wu Chuan-Lun's No Country for Canine exhibition is entirely dedicated to German Shepherds – a dog breed doubly present in Taiwanese and German history, the artist’s two geographic touchpointst. The German Shepherd, introduced to Taiwan by Japanese settlers, was for a long time a symbol of the country's elite. Wu Chuan-Lun uses porcelain, photography [...]
An anti-speciest wind is blowing in Singapore with The Posthuman City: Climates, Habitats, Environments. This exhibition invites visitors to imagine conditions for living, resource sharing and coexisting between species, at a time when over half the human population lives in urban areas that are increasingly encroaching on natural sites and when global warming is disrupting geography. Nine international artists have [...]
From 19 September 19 to 31 October 2019, the Swiss Institute in New York, in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is presenting the first personal exhibition in an institution of the artist Michael Wang, himself a New Yorker. The exhibition is a continuation of his project Extinct the Wild, unveiled to the public in 2017 at [...]
