UCCA presents “Somewhere Downtown,” a group exhibition celebrating the creative ferment of Downtown New York in the 1980s and spanning mediums including graffiti, painting, drawing, photography, film, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition features the work of icons such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Cindy Sherman alongside that of lesser known trailblazers,
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WAEL SHAWKY | Islamic Arts Biennale | Hajj Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – January 23 – April 23, 2023
This Biennale explores the timeless rituals that have defined Islam from its beginning through to the present day. These rituals are about movement, sound, and invisible lines of direction. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the custodian of the two holy mosques and the sacred landscapes around them, is the spiritual
PAOLO ICARO |TERRITORI DELLA PERFORMANCE: percorsi e pratiche in Italia (1967-1982) | MAXXI, Rome – October 21, 2022 – May 28, 2023
“TERRITORI DELLA PERFORMANCE: percorsi e pratiche in Italia (1967-1982)” set up at the Archive Wall at MAXXI in Rome and accessible free of charge. It is a collection of more than 100 contributions, including photographs, drawings, sketches, period magazines and publications, videos, and oral testimonies, to recount 15 years of
GIAN MARIA TOSATTI | Jodice, Linke, Tosatti- Collezione Premio Rotary Club Milano Brera | Museo del Novecento, Milan – From December 03 to February 05
The Rotary Club Milano Brera intends to create an opportunity to bring the public, including the uninitiated, closer to this complexity and to the values of which contemporary art is the bearer, stimulating the understanding of languages that are as new and original as they are often hermetic, in the
THOMAS RUFF | Dark Matter – Group show | Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany – November 5, 2022 – March 5, 2023
Thomas Ruff (1958) and James Welling (1951) are among the best-known photographic artists of the present day. In their works, they explore the conditions of visual perception, also in relation to our use of the photographic apparatus, and the conditioning of our view of the world through photographic images. The
GIAN MARIA TOSATTI | The Square. Spazio alla cultura | Sky Arte – December 22, 2022
Starting Thursday, Nov. 10 at 8:40 p.m., the third season of THE SQUARE will air every two weeks on Sky Arte. SPACE TO CULTURE, the program created by TIWI and hosted by Nicolas Ballario that chronicles contemporary culture in all its forms. Through the voices of many guests, special reports
ETTORE SPALLETTI | Ettore Spalletti incontra Antonello da Messina a Donnaregina | Museo Diocesano, Naples – from December 16 to March 20, 2023
Ettore Spalletti since the mid-1970s has created a language suspended between painting and sculpture, in a focus on light and space, recalling both modern abstraction and the geometries of Renaissance painting. For this reason, thanks to a close collaboration between different cultural institutions, it will be possible to witness a
CLEGG&GUTTMANN | Rejected | Konschthal Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – Through 15 January 2023
The idea is original: to show works that have been commissioned but rejected by clients. This is what photographers Clegg & Guttmann propose for their Rejected exhibition at the Konschthal Esch. Michael Clegg and Yair Martin Guttmann have been practising portrait photography since the 1980s. In this post-modern era where
MARZIA MIGLIORA | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tutto è Santo | MAXXI, Roma – Through 12 March 2023
2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most complex and essential intellectuals and creators of the 20th century. To mark the occasion, the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, the Fondazione MAXXI and the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo di Roma are launching a coordinated project to
TOBIAS ZIELONY | Dark Data | Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany – Through 16 April 2023
The photographer and video artist Tobias Zielony (born in 1973 in Wuppertal, lives in Berlin) explores darkness as a physical, social and metaphorical phenomenon. The solo exhibition Dark Data explores the space between the illuminating moment of an image and the hidden information within it.