Weekly World Wide Exhibition Round Up
2 – 9 June 2015
YOUR GUIDE TO THE ART WORLD
WE HAVE ROUNDED UP A SELECTION OF UPCOMING SHOWS FOR YOU TO SEE BROUGHT TO YOU IN A REGULAR WEEKLY SNAPSHOT.
In the coming week there is:
After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art
Singapore Art Museum
Opening 1 May – 18 October 2015
Sourced from the Singapore Art Museum’s vast permanent collection, this show explores what the term ‘utopia’ means and has meant in the past. Asking where we might locate such phantasmal places and how we have tried to create it.
http://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/exhibitions/current.html
Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Road
Singapore
189555
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Havana Biennale: Between the Idea and Experience
Various venues
Opening 22 May – 22 June 2015
Established in 1984, this years biennale focuses on the art of performance. From dance, film, theatre, music and literature, this show won’t be your conventional gallery biennale aimed at collectors. There isn’t a central venue or a grand opening show. Havana Biennale 2015 would rather succeed in making connections throughout the city. Art will be spilling out of the venues and galleries and into the streets. There will be more than 200 artists from 44 countries.
Various Venues (see website)
Havana
Cuba
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Keys to a Passion
Foundation Louis Vuitton
Opening 1 April – 6 July 2015
This exhibition aims at displaying pivotal works of art that have defined the Modernist age. It includes works by Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Delaunay, Munch Matisse and many others. This key exhibition marks Foundation Louis Vuitton’s collaborative relationship with key French and international institutions.
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/expositions.html
8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi
Bois de Boulogne
75116
Paris
France
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Tracey Emin/Egon Schiele: Where I Want to Go
Leopold Museum
Opening 24 April – 14 September 2015
This is Vienna’s first comprehensive feature of works by former Young British Artist, Tracey Emin. She is exhibited side-by-side with drawings by Egon Schiele, chosen by Emin. Displaying more than 80 works by the YBA, this show offers an opening for the interest of both artists to delve into new territory and drawing interesting parallels, exploring their fascinating dialogue about personal vulnerabilities, love, loss and suffering in light of the others.
http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/66/tracey-emin-egon-schiele
Leopold Museum
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1
1070
Vienna
Austria
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Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3
Dia Art Foundation
Opening 1 June 2015 – May 2017
Robert Irwin has installed a landmark piece of site-specific installation that continues his explorations on light and space. This immersive multi-dimensional work was originally commissioned for the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York City between 1998 – 1999. The installation comprises of numerous intersecting chambers made from translucent mesh scrim and lit by numerous fluorescent and natural light. The work brings to attention the nuanced subtleties of perception.
http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/introduction/128
3 Beekman Street
Beacon
NY
12508
U.S.A
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Looks
Institute of Contemporary Arts
22 April – 21 June 2015
A group show that looks at how contemporary notions of identity are constructed, performed and challenged through mass digital culture. The exhibition features multi-disciplinary works including film, installation, sculpture and photography. Many of the works are playful and reactive to new technologies, engaging in ideas about post-humanism particularly through the lens of gender politics and sexuality.
http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/looks
Institute of Contemporary Arts
12 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
U.K