Biographies can be as various as human lives. And yet Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life really is an outlier, a (auto)biography of a different kind that retraces milestones and turning points in the life of a post-war artist from a dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of his ’68 generation’s experiences (more…)

For the sixth consecutive year, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo returns to occupy the prestigious Palazzo della Ragione venue, in the beating heart of the historic city center, with a new exhibition featuring the internationally renowned British artist Rachel Whiteread, (more…)

Fotografiska is an international meeting place where everything revolves around photography. Located in the heart of Stockholm, with additional locations in New York, London and Tallinn (more…)

Valerio Nicolai uses the space of painting to confront art history’s consecrated subject matters with elements of the prosaic and the everyday. The traditional still life, a tool for both deadpan description and ambiguous symbolism, is declined into contemporary commonplace objects, images and banal situations. (more…)

HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative aims to explore the new atmosphere of trans-disciplinary experimentation across divergent fields and sectors in the arts. (more…)

MVTAFORMA, a collective exhibition promoted by Palazzo Atelié and curated by Elisabetta Moiraghi for DRIM Contemporary Art Ground opens on Friday 29 September at 6pm. In the setting of San Raffaele Cimena Alto, a charming village in the Turin area, the works by Lorenzo Fontana, Hetty Ann Laycock, Miriam Marafioti, and Beatrice Sacco will interact with the space and each other. MVTAFORMA aims to investigate the ‘plural-directionality’ of matter, considered as entity and brand of a thought as well as an action. (more…)

Cy Twombly was a North American artist who spent much of his career in Italy. He was fascinated by the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In his paintings he often referred to historical or mythological figures, or included fragments of classical poetry. (more…)

Allan Sekula was an American photographer, writer, critic and filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lived most of his life in Los Angeles and the surrounding regions of southern California.

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Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)

Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab” culture; “brand X brand” projects; and multiple, or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among the individuals, studios, and practices that engage in such work. For them, the “body of work” they produce matters more than maintaining a singular creative identity (more…)

Max Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. (more…)

Since completing his studies, R. Sebastian Schachinger (b. 1993, Freiburg, DE) has been continuously realizing complex works that occupy spaces as large-scale installations and can also be activated by shorter and longer performances. As part of his first major institutional exhibition, the artist, who works in Basel and Vienna, and was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel / Göhner Art Prize in 2022, will present a rigorously structured durational performance over a period of fourteen days. (more…)