The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. (more…)

Is My Living In Vain is the title given by Ufuoma Essi to her first solo exhibition in France. The British artist, whose work is mainly in the form of videos, films, photographs and sounds, invites the public of the Magasin CNAC  into an immersive installation with a religious atmosphere dedicated to his eponymous film, the most recent and the most ambitious to date. (more…)

In the late summer of 2016, I spent six weeks in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region where I documented the transformation of some of the most influential cities in the region: Ordos, Hohhot, and Baotou. While looking back on the images I had taken, I was unexpectedly reminded of post-war Italian cinema (more…)

Photographer, theorist, and critic Allan Sekula (US, 1951–2013) is known for photographs and essays that blend researched, descriptive realism with emotionally impactful narrative. His photography actively engages ideas around labor, capitalism, and Marxist theory, providing complex and poignant critiques about social reality. (more…)

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Anicka Yi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam, the exhibition features a series of unique animated pod sculptures that pulse and undulate, casting their flickering light across the surfaces of luminous algorithmically-generated paintings. Below this suspended constellation of bio-techno lifeforms, the soft glow of an aqueous ooze – indicative of life’s marine origins – sprawls in a shallow crater in a built up section across the gallery floor. (more…)

“I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.” –Richard Serra (more…)

In the midst of chaos we hunt for dreams. It blends together. Their memories became my memories. Once-present. A personal story of search and encounters, of escape and returning.
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Eye Filmmuseum presents an exhibition and extensive film program around the work of celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog. With an unorthodox oeuvre of more than seventy features, documentaries and shorts, Herzog has fascinated audiences with unforgettable stories, images and characters for more than half a century. (more…)

To tell your own story (Comment se raconter) brings together stories from behind the scenes of grand history, from society’s margins. The featured artists come from different horizons; they share stories through videos, sculptures, letters, and images. In our post-truth age, we are witnessing a fragmentation of collective narratives. (more…)

“Only visual art bears materiality. Other forms of art, such as poetry, literature, film, and music, do not exist in flesh. It is because of this materiality that the value of visual art is determined by an estimated worth. The conceptual art that constitutes the bedrock of my practice is fundamentally founded on the commitment to removing all materiality from visual art.” (more…)

Tim Van Laere Gallery presents A Life in A Day, Rinus Van de Velde’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. In this exhibition, the artist not only presents new drawings in oil pastel, colored pencil, and charcoal but also premieres his third film, A Life in A Day, along with a selection of sculptures featured in the film. (more…)

Twin brothers Jalan & Jibril Durimel draw inspiration through their diversified upbringing between the French Antilles and the US. Born in Paris to parents from the island of Guadeloupe, at the age of 4 they moved to Miami where they first immersed themselves in American culture. (more…)