Weekly World Wide Exhibition Round Up
21 – 28 July 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:
In the coming week there is:
The Boys the girls and the Political
Lisson Gallery
Opening 17 July – 5 September 2015
This exhibition brings together ten international artists whose work contain dynamic multifaceted working methods, collaboration and a concern with material transformation. The show attempts to highlight the agency of cultural production and artistic labour, establishing a discourse that investigates the use of language and the dissemination of information as artistic material. This show includes new works in performance, film, painting and sculpture.
http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/the-boys-the-girls-and-the-political
Lisson Gallery
27 & 52 Bell Street
London
NW1 5DA
U.K
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Jaanus Samma: Not Suitable For Work. A Chairman’s Tale, Estonian Pavilion
Venice Biennale
Opening 9 May – 22 November 2015
Presented by the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Jaanus Samma’s pavilion for the 56th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale is a fragmented fictive opera, which follows a Soviet Estonian collective farm chairman who happens to be on trial for acts of homosexuality in the 1960s. The work includes archive material from Soviet Estonia and the dignified aesthetics of opera. Samma’s research has focused on gathering unspoken histories of gay lives in Soviet Estonia.
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/jaanus-samma/
Venice Biennale 2015
The Estonian Pavilion
Palazzo Malipiero
San Samuele Square
San Marco 3199, 2nd floor
Italy
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The Cool Look: Graphic Art of the New Objectivity
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Opening 12 June – 6 September 2015
The exhibition is titled after the term ‘New Objectivity’, coined by then-Director Gustav Hartlaub in 1925 for a show of the same name at Kunsthalle Mannheim. It emerged as a movement that stood apart from the Expressionist’s idiosyncratic use of colours and shapes. Instead they pursued a naturalistic and veristic presentation of form. They prefer factual representations, landscape and political themes.
http://www.kunsthalle-mannheim.de/en/exhibition-current/der-kuehle-blick
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Friedrichs Square 4,
68165 Mannheim
Germany
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Dieter Meier: Acrobatics 1977 – 2015
Grinder Contemporary
Opening 14 June – 27 July 2015
Following on from Meier’s research into the existential investigation of ‘meaning’; an ongoing video project begun in 1977, Acrobatics looks at none-sense and the meaning of radical meaninglessness. Featuring a series of performances that evoke children’s circuses, absurd and infantile exercises and the exploration of unconscious movement. The work draws from the artist’s childhood acts of physical play.
http://artforum.com/uploads/guide.003/id08236/press_release.pdf
Grieder Contemporary AG
Limmatstrasse 256
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
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Flora
Oriel Davies Gallery
Opening 23 May – 9 September 2015
Celebrating the significance of flowers in contemporary art, Flora brings together a group exhibitions of nine major UK and international artists. This runs alongside a broad programme of publications, discussions, residencies and commissions. The show looks at how flowers and cultivation has been central to cultural history, providing powerful inspiration to generations of artists. The flower has thus been studied through a cultural, historical, geographic, social and scientific lens, opening a wide range of discourse.
http://www.orieldavies.org/en/exhibition/flora
Oriel Davies Gallery
The Park
Newtown
Powys
SY16 2NZ
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Josephine Pryde: Lapses in Thinking by the Person I am
The Watts Institute
Opening 5 May – 1 August 2015
This exhibition has at it’s core a participatory train experience. A train track with a downscaled freight train which one can ride, takes a route that cuts through the main gallery of the Watts Institute. With graffiti on the sides of the carriages, the train transports the rider, thereafter transformed as bundles of information, throughout the exhibition. The passenger rides past a series of photographs and accompanied texts on the gallery walls. The show investigates bodily engagements with machines, objects and technology, focusing a lot on hands – proposing a new semiotic that has arrived with Smart technologies.
http://www.wattis.org/view?id=213
CCA Wattis Institute
Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries
360 Kansas Street (between 16th & 17th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA