PULSATIONS – CATHERINE GFELLER IN BERLIN

PULSATIONS – CATHERINE GFELLER IN BERLIN

Catherine Gfeller is a Swiss artist living in France (Paris and Southern France). She has exhibited her work in many different countries since 1988: Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Argentina, Chile, Canada and the United States. She regularly takes part in art fairs,… Read More

Video Spotlight Series 2013: Winners of the Open Call for Photographers

Video Spotlight Series 2013: Winners of the Open Call for Photographers

May 24th, 2013 | Germany, Ikono, Photography

We must admit that we are really happy with the second Open Call of the Video Spotlight Series 2013, a project made in collaboration with Artconnect Berlin, and aimed at promoting Berlin-based artists on a local and international scale. We truly have been amazed by all the… Read More

Views from above at Pompidou Metz

Views from above at Pompidou Metz

May 24th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Shows

Views from above considers how an elevated perspective, from the first aerial photographs of the nineteenth century to the satellite images of Google Earth, has transformed artists’ perception of the world. Covering more than 2,000 square metres, the exhibition at the Pompidou Metz gives us… Read More

What Was Contemporary Art?

What Was Contemporary Art?

May 24th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Talks, Videos

Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. Here Richard Meyer (Associate Professor, Art History and… Read More

Amanda Palmer: “Fear Not the Digital Present”

Amanda Palmer: “Fear Not the Digital Present”

Another inspiring talk by Amanda Palmer (Piano-slayer, ukulele-freak, singer, blogger, lover of Neil Gaiman, and co-founder of the Brechtian punk cabaret duo, The Dresden Dolls) who is ruling the Internet when she has the time for it and George Takei is on a holiday. Amanda… Read More

26th Floor | Augmented Sculpture

26th Floor | Augmented Sculpture

May 24th, 2013 | Lebanon, Light Paintings, Sculptures

Here we have an ‘Augmented Sculpture’ made for the Four Seasons Hotel in Beirut. This permanent light Sculpture was exclusively developed for the rooftop of the hotel. Sculpture development and content development refer to each other in an interdependent Design. By assimilating specific aspects of… Read More

Contemporary spin on ancient art in Rome exhibition

Contemporary spin on ancient art in Rome exhibition

May 24th, 2013 | Art History, Contemporary Art, Italy, Shows

From ancient Greek statues with futuristic helmets to gladiator shields decorated with shoes, a series of Italian contemporary art works are going on show among the ruins of Rome’s Forum. Many of the creations by 17 artists — spread throughout the vast complex which was… Read More

What is Contemporary? Exhibition of Contemporary photography and art from the past

What is Contemporary? Exhibition of Contemporary photography and art from the past

Brancolini Grimaldi announces a group exhibition of contemporary photography and works of art from the past. Curated by photographer Domingo Milella and antiques specialist Bruno Botticelli, What is Contemporary? will place work by Dan Holdsworth, Lise Sarfati, Clare Strand and Domingo Milella alongside antique sculpture,… Read More

Open Call for Installation Artists!

Open Call for Installation Artists!

May 24th, 2013 | Featured, Ikono, Installations

ikono invites Berlin based artists to take part in a year-long series of open calls, held in collaboration with Artconnect Berlin, to promote the visibility of the arts on a local and international scale. Every other month in 2013, ikono and Artconnect Berlin will encourage… Read More

Mexican archaeologists identify 5,000 cave paintings in Tamaulipas

Mexican archaeologists identify 5,000 cave paintings in Tamaulipas

May 24th, 2013 | Art History, Mexico, Paintings

The existence of almost 5 thousand cave paintings found in Sierra de San Carlos, municipality of Burgos, Tamaulipas, made by hunter and collector groups of the region was announced by archaeologist Martha Garcia Sanchez, during the Second Conference of Archaeological History, which took place in… Read More