View of Lydia Ourahmane, Barzakh, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2022. Photo: Dirk Pauwels.

Lydia Ourahmane: Barzakh at S.M.A.K. Ghent

May 21–September 18, 2022 “Barzakh” means “limbo” in Arabic, but also refers to the state in between life and death, a realm in which a spirit waits but also a physical place that offers relief. After the lockdown of 2020, Lydia Ourahmane (b. 1992, Sada, Algeria) transported all of the belongings of her rented apartment in…

June 30, 2022

Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it, Mahmoud Khaled, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Mosaic Rooms, London. Photography: Andy Stagg.

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Mahmoud Khaled: Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it presented by The Mosaic Rooms

June 22–September 25, 2022 The Mosaic Rooms announces Mahmoud Khaled's debut UK solo show, Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it. Khaled's ambitious transformation of The Mosaic Rooms' period domestic architecture into the imagined homes of the owner of a lost phone involves a number of developing installations and interventions. Khaled's fascination…

June 30, 2022

Annika Kahrs, how to live in the echo of other places, 2022. Sound and video installation. © Helge Mundt.

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Imagine the City presents Annika Kahrs: how to live in the echo of other places

June 1–September 4, 2022 “Through music and sound I am able to describe extremely complex contexts, contents, systems and emotions that reach viewers directly. For me, music plays an important role as a form of communication, as an element of translation.” —Annika Kahrs Annika Kahrs's latest project, how to live in the echo of other places, is…

June 28, 2022

[1] Ríos de Gente, 2021. Photo: Juan Esteban Calderón. [2] Estrías, 2009. Photo: City of Women. [3] Quien Puede Borrar Las Huellas?, 2003. Photo: Victor Pérez. [4] Tierra, 2013. Photo: Bertrand Huet. [5] La Sombra, 2017. Photo: Michael Nast. All images courtesy of the artist.

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Regina José Galindo: GRITO at La Nueva Fábrica, Guatemala

June 26–November 27, 2022 GRITO, a mid-career survey of more than 40 pieces by Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, has just opened at La Nueva Fábrica, and it was organized by Maya Juracán. The exhibition, which features works dating from 1997 to the present, is Galindo's first institutional survey in the Americas and celebrates his almost…

June 28, 2022

View of Ahmet Doğu İpek: A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads, ARTER, 2022. Photo: Sena Nur Taştekne.

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Arter announces 2022 exhibition programme

Locus Solus Until December 31, 2022 Curator: Selen Ansen The goal of the group exhibition Locus Solus is to explore nature's facets via the lenses of facts, fictions, and emotions. It centers on the idea of nature. The exhibition explores the interactions and interactions between nature and culture, and how natural settings and organic processes interact with human…

June 27, 2022

Shilpa Gupta, neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

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Summer program at Kestner Gesellschaft

June 25–September 25, 2022 Grand opening ceremony: June 24, 7–11:59pm Olga Tokarczuk, a writer and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, yearns for that other world—the world of the teapot. In her Nobel Lecture, the author cites the Hans Christian Andersen fairy story about the broken teapot that was discarded and rejected due to the people's…

June 27, 2022

Pierre Huyghe, Variants, 2021–ongoing. Scanned forest, real-time simulation, generative mutations and sounds, intelligent camera, environmental sensors, animals, plants, micro-organisms and materialized mutations: synthetic and biological material aggregate. Courtesy of the artist; Kistefos Museum; Hauser and Wirth, London. Photo: Ola Rindal. © Pierre Huyghe.

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Pierre Huyghe: Variants at Kistefos Museum, Norway

Permanent installation The 50th piece in the sculpture park, Variants by French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris), is presented by Kistefos with great pride. Variants is a piece created just for Kistefos that is site-specific. It is the most ambitious commission for the Kistefos Sculpture Park to date and Huyghe's largest permanent piece to date. The…

June 23, 2022

Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM—DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE, 2019. Mirrored glass, wood, LED lighting system, metal, and acrylic panel. Courtesy of David Zwirner.

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PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Yayoi Kusama: DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE

July 6, 2022–January 15, 2023 The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art is proud to offer Yayoi Kusama: DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE in honor of its 15th anniversary. Yayoi Kusama, who was born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, is one of the most well-known living modern artists today. She has created painting, sculpture, installation,…

June 20, 2022

View of How We Live Now. Matrix archive, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2022. Courtesy of the Farrell Centre. Photo: Colin Davison Photography.

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Farrell Centre presents How We Live Now

May 6–July 23, 2022 The Farrell Centre and Newcastle University’s School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, in association with Newcastle Contemporary Art, presents How We Live Now: Making Spaces in the North East with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative. The exhibition is based on an installation curated by Jon Astbury and Jos Boys for the Barbican Centre in…

June 15, 2022

Iris Andraschek, Claudia (detail), 2002. © Iris Andraschek/ Bildrecht, Wien 2022.

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Iris Andraschek at Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

June 16–September 11, 2022 Opening: June 15, 7–8pm Art and Literature—finissage: September 11, 3–4pm I love you:-) by Iris Andraschek will be exhibited at the Lentos Kunstmuseum. Iris Andraschek's work is influenced by her fascination with motifs drawn from the worlds of ordinary culture and socio-political issues. Her art frequently explores the link between mankind and nature, as well…

June 15, 2022