Since the 1960s, René Block has been a key figure in the European art world. In 1964, he opened a gallery in Berlin that was to shape art history. In 2022, now aged 80, he is artistic director of the 2022 Riga Biennale taking place from mid-July to early October. (more…)

“A reunion between creative arts and the industrial world” is how architect Walter Gropius described the Bauhaus, the school of art and design he founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany (more…)

With REGENERATE as its theme, the 2023 festival brings together works that explore the changes modern society must face. Where people in today’s world experience a sense of being displaced, regeneration means seeing ourselves and the world as built around reciprocal relationships that benefit all parties. (more…)

The Hartung-Bergman Foundation presents in its villa-workshop in Antibes an exhibition devoted to the cosmic visions and more generally to the dreamed relationships with the sciences of Hans Hartung (1904–1989) and Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987). (more…)

Works of Heart (1970–2023) is the first major museum survey of one of the most important Croatian artists, Sanja Iveković, in her city. The exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb with Kusthalle Vienna (more…)

‘How can you know the reality of a conflict when the winners get to write its history?’ Kunsthalle Zürich presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas: For Real, an exhibition across both floors of the institution by the British-Tamil artist, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann (more…)

“I was following instinct, not reason; I drove into that wet and soggy camp and parked my car like a homing pigeon. I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions.”

–Dorothea Lange / February 1960 (more…)

Angela Davis Johnson creates paintings, public art installations, and ritual performances to examine the technologies of black people, in particular black women/femme. (more…)

Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 in Scandiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy. He shares an interest for vernacular cultures with Walker Evans, by whom he affirms having been strongly influenced since 1977. In 1979, he shows extracts from the series “Breakfast the grass” and “Italian memories” at the Venice Biennale. (more…)

Since 2021, the internationally acclaimed visual artist Cally Spooner has been an associate research fellow at O–Overgaden, developing a long-term itinerant project – moonlighting as choreography, sound, book, rehearsal, philosophy study, and opera. (more…)

We had the chance to talk to the OGR Prize Winner of this year, Rebeca Romero. Peruvian artist based in London, she was recently awarded by Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT with her project Semilla SAGRADA, (more…)

What is it that we actually see when we look at Thomas Demand’s photographs? Demand, born in Munich in 1964, has spent almost three decades exploring the intersections of history, images, and architectural forms. (more…)