Prague, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, May 29 – September 1, 2019, http://www.ghmp.cz The “Start Up” exhibition series is dedicated to the youngest generation of artists from Czech Republic. It takes place in one smallish room of the palace. Filipek’s sculptures strongly referenced the human body and its scale. They resembled furniture or objects from the urban environment…
Category: Exhibitions
_Writing about, Bad Homburg, Europe, Exhibitions, Germany
Museum Sinclair-Haus: Chiharu Shiota “Line of Thought”
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Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, March 31 – June 16, 2019, https://www.museumsinclairhaus.com Before visiting the show I had a faint idea about the artist´s work based on the news I glimpsed from the 2015 Venice Biennial: boat, read threads, keys.. Somehow this artist branding was confirmed. There was a lot of red, there were threads, there…
_Writing about, Düsseldorf, Europe, Exhibitions, Germany
Julia Stoschek Collection: “New Metallurgists”
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Düsseldorf, October 7, 2018 – April 28, 2019, https://www.julia-stoschek-collection.net I was very impressed on my first visit to the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf: A perfect installation of a video-only show. Even the fact that all projections in a video show work as expected in quite extraordinary, but on top of that the light and…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Artsonje: Lee Kit “Resonance Of A Sad Smile”
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_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
MMCA “The Essential Duchamp” + “Vertiginous Data” + Harun Farocki ”What Ought To Be Done? Work And Life”
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Seoul, December 22, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Duchamp), March 23 – July 28, 2019 (Data), October 27, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Farocki), http://www.mmca.go.kr Three shows were taking place at MMCA during my visit. The Essential Duchamp was what the title suggested: An overview of Marcel Duchamps oeuvre. At first I almost wanted to…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
MadeIn: Shen Xin 沈莘 “To Satiate”
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Shanghai, March 22, – May 5, 2019, www.madeingallery.com Madein gallery in was showing Shen Xin ( 沈莘 ), a video artist, female. There were two works on display. Upon entering the space, the visitors encountered a four channel video installation. It consisted of two screens with two similar shaky videos of a chair and 6…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Edouard Malingue Gallery “Sans Soleil”
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Shanghai, March 23 – May 5, 2019, https://edouardmalingue.com A painting group show at Edouard Maligne gallery on the West Bund: The show has a mix of styles, not too surprising, but the space was structured in an interesting way, and it overall felt pleasant. Everyone could find something she likes. I had a laugh at…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Arario: Hayoun Kwon “Si proche et pourtant si loin (English: So close yet so far)”
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Shanghai, February 28 – May 5, 2019, http://www.arariogallery.com/ Arario Gallery had an installation by Hayoun Kwon. The topic was the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ). Different media were used to convey stories and impressions of the DMZ: Filming an architectural model, 3D animation with a narrated voiceover, a thermal-vision-like video loop showing guards walking around a…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Long Museum (West Bund): permanent collection + Yu Hong 喻红 “The World of Saha”
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Shanghai, March 9 – May 9, 2019, http://thelongmuseum.org/en/ The first impression of the Long Museum on the West Bund (Puxi): It was cold. The large concrete halls above ground have a magnificent feel. But no heating. And in fact a large part of the exhibition halls is located underground. There it smelled like entering a…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
GHMP: Hulacova – Keresztes – Janousek “Entomos”
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Prague, November 21, 2018 – March 3, 2019, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace 3F, http://www.ghmp.cz A duo-exhibition of two young sculptors. The exhibition space was located in an old crumbling palace, but the insides of the rooms were transformed in a white-cube setup, and I could feel that the exhibition architecture was considered as an inherent part of…