The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York presents a major retrospective of the German artist Thomas Schütte. Featuring sculptures, drawings, prints, and architectural experiments, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of his career from 1975 to the present. Focusing on aesthetics, form, and history, it aims to provide a deeper understanding of the artist's practice and introduce new audiences to one of today's most significant sculptors.
The exhibition "Write as the Beasts Cry at Night" unfolds in La Loge like an open book, a palimpsest where Marguerite Duras' aura intersects with legendary, intimate writings. Through tracing, imprinting, and fragmenting, the artist focuses on what her chosen materials represent, searching for recollections she can extract. Thu Van Tran scrutinises contaminated memories, the processes of disappearance and reappearance, and buried violence to sketch out a new imaginary.
Candida Höfer will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. With this prize, the Akademie der Künste honors one of the most internationally recognized German photographers, whose œuvre, which has grown over five decades, is considered part of the contemporary photographic avant-garde. The prize will be awarded on September 13, 2024, as part of Berlin Art Week at the Akademie der Künste on the Pariser Platz. On the occasion, the Akademie der Künste will be presenting an exhibition featuring works by Candida Höfer.
Portrait of Candida Höfer, 2024, photo: Ralph Müller
The Neue Galerie Bitburg is presenting Elger Esser's latest solo exhibition “Die engen Wasser” (The narrow waters). Esser's photographic landscapes are pictorial homages to the beauty of nature. The artist works mainly in France, in Normandy and Brittany and on the Loire. His precisely composed landscapes, which are preferably taken in cloudy weather conditions with subdued atmospheric scattered light and long exposure times, play with horizontals and the effect of depth.
“What's the Story?” opens a dialogue between the KSMKA Collection and contemporary artists, including David Claerbout. Although time passes and the world continues its fast-paced and ever-increasing progress, the main themes and issues that impregnate our society and the art remain the same. The exhibition celebrates the different generations of artists and the way they influence and inspire each other.
Martin Creed's celebrated “Work No. 3868 Half the air in a given space” has taken over the space and the very air present in OCMA's Yvonne de C Segerstrom Gallery. Acting as a tangible measure of air, an invisible substance that defines free space, this playful inversion of art and space encourages visitors to change the shape and volume of the work themselves.
"Born From Stone" is an immersive installation by Goshka Macuga, inspired by the ancient Roman temple of Mithras discovered beneath the current site of Bloomberg’s European headquarters. For the exhibition, the artist created a transformational cave-like installation featuring sculptural rock formations which evoke the subterranean landscape of the temple’s origins. Within this immersive environment, visitors will encounter a selection of works, carefully curated by Macuga on loan from Imperial War Museums.
"Cuentos Posibles" provides a profound insight into Jeff Wall's unique artistic production and highlights his major influence on the (re)definition of photography as an integral part of contemporary art. The exhibition showcases works from 1978 to the present day, encompassing a wide spectrum of registers and modes of expression that range from pure description to beginnings of possible tales.
To this day, the representation of the human body continues to be central to artistic practice, both in terms of exploring concepts of beauty and aesthetics and due to its cultural, political, and symbolic implications. "Faire Corps," the fourteenth exhibition held at Fondation Villa Datris, explores visions of the body and its different aspects through the works of 60 international artists, including Stephan Balkenhol.
"Survival in the 21st Century" explores the fundamentals of life in the modern era, human existence and survival in the 21st century; a century marked by progress and innovation, but also by conflict and uncertainty about the future. The exhibition presents a great selection of works, ranging from painting, sculpture, photograph, textile and even installation. Featured artists include Goshka Macuga and Thomas Struth, among others.
Forum Würth Rorschach presents its 10th-anniversary exhibition under the title "Water, Clouds and Wind". A selection of artworks from the Würth Collection which focuses on these natural phenomena. Phenomena that are not only determining factors in our climate but have also been an essential part of art history since immemorial times.
