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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In the series Strange Plants, Heather Beardsley works across a range of media such as found photography and textiles, embroidery, image transfer, sculpture, and video to create scenes of architecture seemingly reclaimed by wild vegetal overgrowth. These eerie depictions express the sublime power of nature (more…)

Welcome to the new Online Boutique of Artpil with unique contemporary art works, limited edition photography, and monograph artist and photo books available for purchase. Here are some featured collections: (more…)

Between September 7 and October 22, 2023, The Institute of the Present presents Performing 89. States of Disillusion, an exhibition that weaves together some of the intricate storylines of the nineties which emerged in the light of political and social turns occurring after 1989. (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…)

YARAT Contemporary Art Space presents the exhibition Heaven Can Wait by Azerbaijani artist Aida Mahmudova. In order to explore all the possibilities of our existence, we have to turn to art and the social sciences. While there are universal values of art, we must not forget that our literary and visual context is strictly local. (more…)

Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone we present an extensive exhibition featuring iconic works, hidden treasures and recent acquisitions to the Astrup Fearnley Collection, across the museums two buildings. The selected works represent various time periods and highlight a number of key directions that have come to define the identity of the collection (more…)

From the Black Sea, in foggy weather, we navigate along the Bosphorus towards the Golden Horn. From one side of the strait to the other, white marble palaces appear as if emerging from a dream. (more…)

Joel Sternfeld numbers among the most important protagonists of the New Color Photography movement, which discovered color for art photography in the 1970s. Sternfeld has spent years traveling around the United States as a critical observer, documenting the country and its inhabitants in all their idiosyncrasies and contradictions. (more…)

“I am an artist first and foremost – not necessarily just a woman artist or feminist artist or political artist.”

Nirmala Dutt (1941–2016) cuts a sharp and unusual figure in Malaysian art history. She was one of very few women artists in her generation to forge and sustain a practice and presence in the local art scene, and gain recognition beyond. (more…)

The Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group (PIOP), in the context of the organization of the Corintian International Photography Festival 2023 and in collaboration with the Corinthian Photography Club and the Peloponnesian Institute of Arts, opens on Sunday, September 3, 2023 (at 12:00), the solo photography exhibition entitled Je est une autre by the award-winning photographer Fotini Zaglaras, at the Stymphalia Environment Museum. (more…)

Research-based, thematically highly topical, and future-oriented – these terms can be used to describe the impressive work of Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978). From September 16, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of the Canadian and French artist (more…)