Rockbund Art Museum presents Adel Abdessemed: An Imperial Message

July 16–September 11, 2022 Adel Abdessemed explores the scars of the present. His work, which includes drawing, video, sculpture, poetry, sound, and installation, develops as a potent encounter of diametrically opposed elements. The exhibition, which is titled An Imperial Message after Franz Kafka's little story, includes over 40 works by the artist, more than 10 of…

July 30, 2022

Nam June Paik, Three Elements: Circle Square Triangle, 1999. Nam June Paik Art Center Collection.

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Nam June Paik: Super Baroque at Nam June Paik Art Center

July 20, 2022–January 24, 2023 Opera Charlotteronique: July 21–24 Random Access Hall, Nam June Paik Art Center This show was created to explore Nam June Paik's magnificent (but long-gone) video and light installations on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth. Despite the widespread recognition of Paik's video art, there aren't many chances to see substantial…

July 22, 2022

Cinthia Marcelle, O conversador, 2005. © Cinthia Marcelle. Photo: Cinthia Marcelle.

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Cinthia Marcelle at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

July 15, 2022–January 8, 2023 Cinthia Marcelle's (b. 1974, Belo Horizonte) first show to provide a comprehensive overview of her work is titled A Conjunction of Factors . The interwoven layers of Marcelle's practice reveal a persistent concern with rethinking the dynamics of collectivity. Marcelle's practice is motivated by a desire to disorganize the hierarchies and…

July 19, 2022

View of Shubigi Rao, Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, Singapore Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Commissioned by National Arts Council, Singapore, curated by Ute Meta Bauer. Exhibition design: Laura Miotto.

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Singapore Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale presents Pulp III online

April 23–November 27, 2022 Every character in every tale is displaced, a mis-shelved book, a mistranslated text. We are, like the characters we read, restless bodies obsessed with our misapprehensions and mistaken identities, elliptical and misaligned, spinning on axes of our own grinding. We lurk in our murk, we are miasma. —Shubigi Rao, Pulp: A Short Biography…

July 17, 2022

Eli Cortiñas, This Fortress Would be a Land Without a Map (detail), 2021. Digital print, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Waldburger Wouters, Brüssel, Soy Capitán, Berlin.

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Eli Cortiñas and João Gabriel at Kunstverein Braunschweig

Kunstverein Braunschweig announces its summer programme featuring two newly conceived solo exhibitions.

July 14, 2022

Martine Syms, Laughing Gas (still), 2016. Four-channel video, color, sound, 7:12 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NY.

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MCA Chicago presents Martine Syms: She Mad Season One

July 2, 2022–February 12, 2023 Martine Syms: She Mad Season One, a solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist, will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (b. 1988, Los Angeles, CA; lives in Los Angeles, CA). Syms is well known for his multimodal practice, which combines biting social critique with humor to…

July 7, 2022

Aernout Mik, Threshold Barriers (still), 2022. © Aernout Mik. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid.

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Aernout Mik: Double Bind / Threshold Barriers at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

July 7–October 3, 2022 Two video installations by Aernout Mik are on display in a solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. The Dutch artist creates stressful scenarios and tracks the behavior and interaction of groups in precarious social conditions through his choreographed video works. His piece Threshold Barriers (2022), which was created specifically for the…

July 7, 2022

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John Sanborn: Between Order and Entropy at ZKM

July 9–October 30, 2022 John Sanborn is a pioneer in the field of video art. His work served as a shining example of artistic achievement for many years and unlocked a world of fresh sounds, images, and ideas. His early voco-visual experiments served as a trailblazer at a period when the new medium of video spread…

July 4, 2022

Rana Hamadeh, The Destiny Project (still), work-in-progress (2020–). Video. Courtesy of the artist.

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Rana Hamadeh at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art

July 7–October 3, 2022 Artist talk: July 6, 5:30pm Opening: July 6, 7pm By blending the lines between art, theater, and exhibition-making, Rana Hamadeh's operatic approach explores several frameworks for group study and thought. Her multi-year projects progress in logical chapters, taking the form of expansive soundscapes with intricate network architectures, mechanical interactions, video installations, stage sets, texts,…

July 3, 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