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Worlds’ explorations with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno
"More than humans", showing from 25 September to 1 December 2019 at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, entrusts the discovery of an exo- and eco-centered world to a mighty duo composed of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno. In this exhibition, [...]
Manish Nai, “A History of Gestures”
Manish Nai is a leading figure in Indian contemporary art. A fan of upcycling, he seizes upon used clothing, newspapers, and other everyday consumer goods in major Indian cities to shed light on their social, demographic, environmental, and economic narratives. Presented [...]
“Back to the sources”, artificial intelligence and nature
The sound installation "Retour aux sources" by Mouawad Laurier, a duet composed by Maya Mouawad and Cyril Laurier, has been showing since 18 September and will continue for the next ten years at Maison Ruinart in [...]
One SDG, one artist: Ren Ri
The Chinese contemporary artist Ren Ri bases his work on research. One living material in particular – bees – has captured his attention for some years now. Bees use wax for various construction tasks in [...]
Interview of the artist Minerva Cuevas
Art of Change 21 - What is the purpose of your first solo exhibition ‘Disidencia’, which just opened at the Mishkin Gallery, at Baruch College in New York? Minerva Cuevas - The show presents [...]
Multipurpose materials
In November 2018, Dubai inaugurated the Jameel Arts Center, one of its first contemporary art institutions. Since then, this centre has regularly hosted projects and exhibitions. Yet Second Hand is the first group exhibition. It seeks to [...]
Istanbulites out to conquer the ‘Seventh Continent’
Is it possible to extract from the ‘Seventh Continent’, this cluster of floating plastic waste covering almost 3.4 million square kilometres in the North Pacific, fertile territory for contemporary creation? This is the challenge taken [...]
Eco-Visionaries take up residence in London
Backed since 2018 by Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, the project Eco-Visionaries: Art and Architecture after the Anthropocene continues its journey from Portugal to Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and finally England through collaboration with [...]
Eliasson’s return to Modern Tate
An adept of unforgettable experiences, Olafur Eliasson reconnects with his London audience, still dazzled by his Weather Project. For his return to the Tate Modern in London (in partnership with Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum), the artist has [...]
Continuous Refle(a)ction
Since May 28, the Riverside Museum of Art in Beijing has been combining contemporary art and sustainable development with the exhibition Continuous Refle(a)ction (Reflection + Reaction). In this show, which focuses on current environmental protection issues, 34 artists [...]
Paolo Cirio – Systems of Systems
A new solo exhibition by Paolo Cirio – Systems of Systems – is running up to 26 July 2019 at Gallery Giorgio Persano, in Turin. It seeks to use art to analyse information technologies, interpret [...]
Julian Charrière – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere
The artist whose extreme landscapes (radioactive or uninhabitable lands, unusual aquatic phenomena) are his favourite playground, is setting out to conquer new territory: that of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna. Through photographs, videos [...]