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 chosen to exhibit scholarly and sensory works never shown before, which are inspired by natural phenomena and question our relationship [...]
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 from 18 countries were invited to create an ‘ecological space’ in situ. Among them, the great Chinese artists Yin Xiuzhen and [...]
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 their power, and expose the vulnerability of our societies governed by algorithms and networks. Cirio draws from the information theories [...]
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 and installations, the exhibition All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, running from 9 June to 8 September 2019, [...]
The rapid rate of insect decline is alerting us to the state of health of our planet. It also offers contemporary art an opportunity to bring a new perspective on these miniature creatures and finally defuse the fear and dislike they arouse. The climate emergency is already reversing the image of insects in our collective [...]
Art of change 21 - What is new with you ? Brandon Ballengée - The Atelier de la Nature project is still new and ongoing. Three years ago we began to transform heavily farmed land in rural Louisiana into a nature reserve and eco-campus. By sculpting the lands with specialized native species, and are working to [...]
One of the oldest examples of human dominance over animals dates back 5,000 years: sericulture, the domestication of silkworms to serve the silk industry and trade. This worm was thus transformed and distorted (hypertrophy of the belly to produce more, preventing it from flying), becoming totally dependent on humans. The Rehabilitation project, by artist Ivana Adaime Makac, seeks [...]
Mark Dion continues his exploration at the frontiers of science and art in a new exhibition presented at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, from 4 April to 1 September 2019. This American artist, who has accustomed us to large installations combining art and the history of natural sciences, gives a bleak diagnosis, loud and [...]
From unscrupulous domination to acknowledgement of a sensibility, relations between Humankind and Nature have not always been ruled by empathy. Awareness of the interdependency of all living things (apart from any form of anthropocentrism) has come a long way. Through five elements: beauty, ecology, confrontation, material, and symbol, and no less than 70 artists from [...]
The future has never been so uncertain. Who better than artists to try to see more clearly? This is what the exhibition Tomorrow is the Question is proposing at ARoS Contemporary Art Museum in Denmark from 6 April to 4 August 2019. This exhibition is the fruit of a curatorial collaboration between ARoS and Luise Faurschou, director [...]
