Herr Mueller

Right in time for the Russian presidential election on March 4th, 
Gang of Berlin invited Anna Skladmann to exhibit her new series
of portraits “1991 – Generation Putin”. 

Herr Mueller designed a typographic mark and the folded invitation poster
printed on thin newsprint paper, as well as all other means of communication for this exhibition: caption cards for the extensive texts 
accompanying the twelve works on display, press information etc.

FOTOFEST 2012 BIENNIAL Contemporary Russian Photography

March 16–April 29, 2012
 Houston, Texas, U.S.A.




With a population of 143 million people, Russia spans two continents and nine time zones, while its citizens speak 28 languages. It is a global powerhouse fitfully engaged with capitalism, consumerism and an ongoing struggle to define itself as a modern nation in the context of its own history and culture. FotoFest’s 2012 Biennial will serve to introduce an international audience to never- or little-before-seen contemporary Russian art practice and culture through the medium of photography.

Dan Graham’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Show. Unrealised Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture” @ Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

CHILDREN'S DAY CARE CD-ROM, CARTOON, COMPUTER SCREEN LIBRARY CENTER, 1998 (Not in this show)
Over a period of more than four decades, Dan Graham has developed a diverse practice that refuses to be contained within the confines of contemporary art and instead aligns itself within popular culture. In his exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, ‘Rock n’ Roll Show. Unrealised Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture’, Graham will present drawings for two unrealised architectural projects: the ‘Liza Bruce Boutique’ and ‘The Children’s Pavilion’...

Art Paris Art Fair 2012

Art Paris Art Fair 2012: the not-to-be missed Springtime art event in the heart of Europe. 29 March –1 April 2012
Art Paris Art Fair is the springtime event for modern and contemporary art in France. With a new leadership the 2012 edition is marked by a complete transformation to the fair. A selection of 120 galleries  from 16 countries, 56% of which are first time participants, are coming together under the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais to present a wide panorama of international modern and contemporary art.

iMAKE Rotterdam

THE LUCHTSINGEL
Stadsinitiatief Rotterdam! Stadsinitiatief is a 4 million euro reward to realize the best citizen-initiative. Which one of the last 5 will finally be realized is up to Rotterdam citizens themselves. All Rotterdammers can vote between the 1st and 12th of March.

Allegories & Experiences

An exhibition by Janna Bullock
Bullock's installation consists of 24 found images, each of an individual or group from the Russian power elite: politicians, businessmen, lawyers and journalists. Some are tyrants, some are criminals, and some are victims. The 24 images represent 24 frames per second—the standard in motion picture film speed, hence the underlying visual of film in the exhibition's aesthetic. In the manner of Richard Prince, Jenny Holzer and Ilya Kabakov, each image is accompanied by a provocative title and a story in both English and Russian.
Beaux Arts mansion at 14 East 82nd Street, between Fifth Avenue and Madison, New York.

Valerius de Saedeleer

Belgian painter. He learnt the art of weaving from his father and studied at academies in Aalst and Ghent and in the studio of Franz Courtens. After a turbulent period in Ghent, where he was active in anarchist circles, in 1898 he settled in LAETHEM-SAINT-MARTIN. There he had close ties with like-minded artists. He painted panoramic views of the flat landscape of the Leie in late autumn, winter and early spring. Small houses, hedges and finely-drawn branches stand out against the extensive landscape and vast skies.
The contrast between sharply-drawn detail and panoramic views resembled the landscape vision of Pieter Bruegel. He achieved a timeless, unreal atmosphere by applying thin, smooth brushstrokes of colour with a dominance of white, green or grey.

Rotterdam Museum Night 2012

Yesterday night (DPhoto)
The theme of the Rotterdam Museum Night 2012 is TASTE. You can’t argue about taste. Or can you? It can indeed be food for a tasty discussion. Taste is difficult to explain and can lead to lively debates and extreme opinions. It is a mysterious phenomenon because of the various senses involved. In short: taste is emotion!

Martin Visser

13 March–17 June 2012 @ Bonnefantenmuseum
The exhibition Martin Visser, collector, designer, free spirit focuses on the legacy of Martin Visser (1922 Papendrecht–Bergeijk 2009), renowned furniture designer and driving force behind the Visser collection. It is the first time a coherent picture has been sketched of Visser’s extraordinary significance for visual art, design and architecture in the Netherlands.The Visser collection comprises the most important private collection of neo-avant-garde art in the Netherlands. Visser’s furniture designs, including his iconic sofa bed BR 02 (1958), are regarded as classics of Dutch design, and his unique house in Bergeijk, designed by Gerrit Rietveld with extensions by Aldo van Eyck, has recently been declared a listed building.

Bart de Baets and Sandra Kassenaar

Success and Uncertainty 3 – 18 Mar @ W139
Every day over a period of three weeks, they displayed a new poster in a light-box at the entrance of a gallery in Cairo which reflected and commented on recent events. The posters are composed of politically charged discussions, interviews with locals, international comments on the revolution, symbolics of the peoples movement, statements and observations on daily life as well as gossip in Cairo.

Dreams of nature. Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky @ Van Gogh Museum

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Grey and Green, Dordrecht

The exhibition will cover a wide range of artists, from forerunners of symbolism, like Böcklin and Whistler, to Mondrian and Kandinsky, who provided the impulse for major 20th-century movements, such as surrealism and abstraction. Works by renowned painters, like Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Munch, will be presented alongside lesser known, but equally fascinating artists from the Nordic countries and Eastern Europe.
A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a unique experience. The museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist's developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection.

Evgenia Arbugaeva, Tiksi

Evgenia was born in Siberian town Tiksi in Russia. She received BA degree in art management from International University in Moscow.
In 2009 graduated from International Center of Photography Photojournalism and Documentary Program. She now works as a freelance photographer between Russia and New York.

KABK STOOR

In STOOR you can buy authentic work of talented students and young professionals from the KABK. You will find small gifts as well as big art pieces. Every product is handmade, unique and innovative.

William Kentridge

“Every so often,‭ ‬a painter has to destroy painting,‭” ‬Willem DeKooning said of his fellow abstract expressionist,‭ ‬Jackson Pollock.‭ “‬He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. ‭ ‬Then there could be new paintings again.‭” ‬In the same way,‭ ‬William Kentridge has revolutionized the practice of drawing.
Using charcoal on paper,‭ ‬repeatedly erased and redrawn,‭ ‬as the vehicle for animation,‭ ‬Kentridge has revolutionized the form and brought it to a new level of regard,‭ ‬as an ambitious and respectable end-in-itself in the contemporary visual arts.‭ ‬In the process,‭ ‬the South African artist has emerged as one of the world's most prominent and relevant visual artists.

Cy Twombly @ BOZAR Bruxelles

The exhibition Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951–2010 presents more than 100 dry prints, generated from Polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on July 5th, 2011. Cy Twombly's photographs have been a rather recent discovery. Snapping photographs with his Polaroid camera since his student days, the artist did not make available to the public his photographic material until the 90s.

first Dutch Apple Store in Amsterdam

Apple is to open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam today, Apple has leased the ground floor and mezzanine of the Hirsch Building, found at Leidseplein 29.

NADA NYC Debuts

The New Art Dealers Alliance is proud to announce that for the first time in its eight-year history, NADA will present a fair in New York City, as NADA NYC takes place May 4th through May 7th, 2012. This inaugural edition will showcase over 60 international galleries from 23 cities representing 10 countries. 
"A NADA Art Fair in New York has been in anticipation for years," said NADA Director, Heather Hubbs. "Our intention is to produce an incredible fair for the art community while maintaining our reputation for introducing new galleries and artists to collectors, curators and others working with contemporary art."

Баба Марта

"Martenitsi" are red and white coloured wristbands, or figurines, that symbolise health and happiness. They are given away to friends and family. People are supposed to take off their martenitsi when they see the first signs that spring has already come - a blooming tree or a stork. When the martenitsa is taken off some tie it to a tree - one that they'd like to be especially fruitful. Others place it under a rock and based on what they find there the next morning guess what kind of a year this one would be. The martenitsa now comes in all shapes and sizes - from Guiness-worth giant building packages to two tiny simple strings gently placed on a newborn's arm. Children usually compete who will get the most and often walk around more ornate than a Christmas tree. However, it always bears the same meaning -
a lucky charm against the evil spirits of the world, a token for health and a sign of appreciation.

Robert Smithson symposium @ KABK The Hague

Book launch Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement 
Friday
30 March 2012, at the symposium.
Venue: 
Royal Academy of Art (KABK) 
Prinsessegracht 4, The Hague


Alauda Publications proudly presents the symposium Rethinking Robert Smithson about the legacy of the artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973) and its relevance for contemporary artistic practices. In many ways, the artistic debates prevalent in the 1970s are recurring in our time: the relation between art and ecology, the position of the artist within a growing information and media society and the crisis of (neo) liberalism. Along the line of two thematic approaches related to Smithson's practice, Art and Ecology and The Cinematic Condition, topical concerns in artistic practice of the 1970s and today are reconsidered by internationally renowned theorists and artists.

Mircea Cantor

Concrete sculptures, drawings, artist publications, web projects, installations, videos, paintings, sound pieces, ready-made objects, site-specific interventions - there are many ways to make art and Cantor is fully conversant with all of them. But it is when he is on film that he is at his best. His moving images follow a precise if not simple pattern, with one single scenario and constant movement slowly building a narrative. At times the story follows a circular path, at other times there is a crescendo towards a grand finale, but both solutions never fail to create a climax of such colossal proportions that it puts even the most detached of viewers into a deeply reflective mood.

PANAMARENKO NAMES VLM AIRLINES AIRCRAFT

The judges selected Panamarenko as the winning name because of his Antwerp origins, and as flying is an integral part of his work. Panamarenko is an exceptional artist in contemporary art. Artist, engineer, poet, physicist, inventor and visionary, he has pursued a singular course of exploration of space movements, flights energy and the force of gravity. His work is famous for its many forms; from aeroplanes to flying carpets, birds and flying saucers, the link with the aviation industry is definitely present.

theatre.art.bg

Theatre.art.bg е първият специализиран уеб сайт за култура и изкуство в България. Нашата цел е да поднесем актуална и систематизирана информация за  културния  живот в България, да популяризираме България  като страна с богати многовековни традиции, а също така и  да представим съвременни български творци.

Theatre.art.bg is the first site dedicated to art and culture in Bulgaria. Our goal is to provide topical and easy to use information about the cultural life in Bulgaria, to popularize Bulgaria as a country with rich and ancient cultural traditions and to advertise contemporary artists as well...

Oriol Arisa

Nací en 1980 en Sabadell (España).
Poco antes de que cayera el Muro, recuerdo que mis padres me enviaron a una academia para que...

"I was born in Sabadell, back in 1980. Shortly before the Wall fell, my parents sent me to an academy to learn to paint pretty pictures. At that time I did not like stuffed partridge copy, so for me despair of the teacher spent to develop my creativity. From there came a memorable picture with Gorbachev sticking pins in the ass to Ronald Reagan, causing chills to this good man. But the best was feeling comfortable with other children, sharing all our joke.
Then came years of learning, several teachers and a lot of pictures more or less fortunate. For me painting a lady remained distant and severe, which cost him smile.
Now I have a great time painting pictures, and exhibitions that I like is trying to preserve the carefree spirit that led us to laugh at ourselves, at that time for children. "

LEAP 13

The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China

COVER FEATURE: A TALE OF TIER TWO CITIES
 Having resisted the temptation in our first two volumes, LEAP finally succumbs to the lulling call of China's second-tier cities for our thirteenth issue, visiting the two outlying megalopolises of Wuhan and Chongqing. Through firsthand observation of the local art ecology in both, our editors uncover shared stories, destinies, and elements of a mindset that may explain just why we ourselves choose to remain in Beijing.

Here & There

Imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands.

Kees Koomen

Moloch - 2010 (oil on canvas, 50x40 cm)

As an artist I used always direct sensual experience as the basis of my visual work. I held irregularly written diaries, from the art school,
I began systematically capturing those experiences in the form of sketchbooks, photographic diaries lyrics, quotes. What has occurred. Later I tried several times the mechanism that Foucault describes in visual display systems for various exhibitions. Combining this collection of material in a whole may suggest an idea or an image of a subject with which you are working on...

Arsenale 2012 The First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art

Kyiv, the site of this exhibition, is an historic Slavic city and state located on routes of trade and migration between East, West, North and South. It absorbed Vikings from the North in the 9th Century CE and strengthened its international significance and at different times Huns, Khazars, Greeks, Mongols, Pechenegs, Scythians, Tatars and other nomadic peoples, many of whom originated in the Far East, have passed through and sometimes settled there. The diasporic heritage of the vast Eurasian landmass is reflected in the choice of works for this exhibition in which artists from the Ukraine and CIS states are shown with those from the North, South, West - and particularly the East.

Ayman Yossri Daydban @ Selma Feriani Gallery

In Identity, Daydban provides any participant of his work with a linguistic and  interpretive experience. He pushes us to reproduce his work through his own life experiences, provoking viewers to divide as well as conquer their shared and divergent memories. His answer to "Where are you from?" would be "The place is the mental space, e.g. the psychological, mental, cultural and civic venue outside the political and economic arena."

Zvi Shorr

The patron artist of Petah-Tikvah. He was influenced by Cezanne and worked all his life in the Post-Impressionist style. Shorr's scenes of Palestine early in the 20th century and his landscapes and still lifes are magnificent images.

Intervention #20 Evelyne Janssen - POPHOUSE!

Photo: Wubbo de Jong
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Evelyne Janssen's exhibition "POPHOUSE!" a playful, associative and disordered miniature universe. During the exhibition, Evelyne Janssen will be installing her objects and drawings in the four spaces known as the cloverleaf, as well as in the broom cupboard next to it.