In a special exhibition, Altman Siegel is pleased to present a monumental and historic work by Chris Johanson. Exhibited for the first time since 2000, this painted triptych, Untitled, offers a rare insight into Johanson’s early large-scale works.

Known for his observant nature, Johanson was invited to participate in Glen Helfand’s 1999 exhibition, “Museum Pieces,” about the history of the de Young Museum. (more…)

After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.

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International Women’s Day: Founded over a hundred years ago evolving through various names and dates, this fulcrum of women’s rights was adopted by the United Nations only in 1975 and is still largely overlooked in many countries. (more…)

“With the collapse of the market economy, we begin to see the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins before they have even crumbled.” –Walter Benjamin

Following Bertrand Lavier and Anri Sala, Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt will take over the Passage display cases of the Bourse de Commerce. (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…)

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…)

Crystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary art practice centers on “public secrets” – stories known by many but rarely told. Lines of Sight illuminates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when white mobs attacked and killed hundreds of Black residents, destroying over 35 city blocks of the predominantly Black Greenwood district (a.k.a. Black Wall Street) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (more…)

This small town symbolized the archetype of pastoral American life. Yet this idyllic place was also held hostage by a dark past, manifesting in the racial tensions that scar much of American history.

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In the contradictory 1980s, several remarkable women artists emerged in Sweden and the Nordic region. Sleepless Nights revolves around them. The name of this exhibition was inspired by Teresa Wennberg’s large video installation Nuit Blanche (1983) (more…)

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…)

Since 2021 I have started a story about a group of girls and teenagers growing up in one of Palermo’s most historically complex and problematic neighborhoods: Danisinni. A neighborhood of Arab origin, it stands on a natural depression, as it was once the bed of the Papireto, one of the rivers that ran through Palermo. (more…)

UPHA Made in Ukraine is the first book published by BOOKSHA. The work on the project started in 2017. The book is the result of creative work by the participants of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative group. (more…)