Sophie Kahn and Lisa Parra – Body/Traces
Katie Torn – Pristine Fantasies
Xavier Delory – Origine
Julien Palast – SkinDeep
Jane South – Floor/Ceiling
dr. julius | ap presents: bits and pieces Wolfgang Berndt – Generative Graphics Burchard Vossmann – Objects + Collages The exhibition bits and pieces at dr. julius //
Arthur Duff Precious Objects / Extraordinary Individuals site-specific installation Palazzo Malipiero Barnabò and private garden campo San Samuele, Venice 28 May – 3 June 2013 from 19.30 //
Michael Danner’s book Critical Mass / Kritische Masse on nuclear power in Germany will be published by Kehrer this July. The photography book with a print run //
On May 15, 2013, Claudia Hart and Alex M. Lee will open an exhibition titled Rendering Time at Gallery Dos in Seoul. A special catalogue has //
The human body is the first and last subject and medium of art. It is the primordial agent and subject of all constructions and self constructions, unlimited to its gender, expression or sexuality. See the body in our archive.
When the body meets the social, historical and political contexts, its interaction describes different reactions and evolutions in the quest for an expression of the self. How many identities can one assume? See this in our archive.
There is an unlimited number of paths one can walk to reach a destination. From stories that unfold in time to strategies, diversions and eschews, the human pieces out its own narrative line. See the threads in our archive.
The spiritual content of our lives has been much too often repudiated by formalism, conformity and a general disregard to the spiritual beliefs that continue to inform our sense of reason, hand in hand with a drive to reach immortality. See the works in our archive.
As agent of social change, the artist is imprinted with the political dynamics of our context, conditions and situations. As such, art is a mirror of today’s political momentum, its rise and its fall. See the examples in our archive.
The effects of globalization erase the national boundaries and our sense of identity, generating tensions of the most intimate kind between the various colliding cultural geographies. See the illustrating cases in our archive.
The separation of technology and science brought an era of bureaucratic technocracy the aims of which sometimes part with our sense of reality, nature and bodily presence to surface the virtual relief of existence. See some interesting studies in our archive.
We need to redefine nature based on the various mutations, hybrids and conflicting states that infiltrate our sense of perception and create hybrid realms of the existential. See some fascinating examples of vibrant matter in our archive.
Could digital technologies impact arts, culture and contemporary society in such a way so as to cultivate a new societal aim and inform our cultural constructions to the point of a second and more authentic Renaissance? See some amazing investigations in our archive.
The various structures, objects and representations we use to create ourselves, our reality and our surroundings are definitive of an existential strive and inconsistency at the same time – to be is to build. See some great works in our archive.
This section is designed to facilitate your access to video works and is not a structuring category like those described above. May you be visually inspired by the amazing works in this archive.
“I imagine my environments as mind models, but ones that are filled with paradoxes and contradictions and are somewhat perverse.” (in a conversation with Claudia Hart)