'Despite the challenges that biennials are facing around the world, they still serve as important barometers for measuring the socio-political pressures of the world,' Ndikung said. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. Photo: Jana Edisonga. Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has announced...
Employing a small army of artisans in her huge Lisbon studio, Vasconcelos creates serial works that honour women whose contributions to history are overlooked. Take the colourful 'Valkyries' (c. 2004–ongoing), inspired by the female figures of Norse mythology who flew over battlefields and brought the...
In bass+ (re)modification, lacquered, rectangular, and monochrome MDF panels of various colours and sizes are positioned on either side of a black line running horizontally along the gallery walls. The objects use the pristine white walls as a support, expanding and transforming the room as...
Forty-nine artists have been named for next year's exhibition, entitled ALOHA NŌ. HT25 Curators Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu. Courtesy Hawai'i Contemporary. Photo: Brandyn Liu. Hawai'i Contemporary has announced the artists and collectives who will participate in Hawai'i Triennial 2025 (HT25) at sites...
Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen and Native American filmmaker Fox Maxy are among the ten winners, each of whom will receive €100,000 to realise ambitious art projects. Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum. Chanel has announced the winners of its biennial Next Prize, which launched...
When an audience member at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Culture Summit asked Rafael Lozano-Hemmer about the conditions shaping his public art commissions, the artist described an even split between projects shaped from the bottom up and top down. The spectrum felt fitting for the moment, with...
Savona is a seaport and city in the western part of the northern Italian region of Liguria. To be closed to the sea, it preserves in its soul this predisposition for an open mind to discover new ways of thinking and approaching our world. In...
Car nous voulons la Nuance encorePas la Couleur, rien que la nuance!Because we want the shade againNot the Colour, just the shade (Paul Verlaine) On a line from drawing to painting, if such a line ever existed, pastel...
Caldwell Snyder is excited to announce South African artist Paul Balmer’s premiere solo exhibition in our Montecito Gallery. The exhibition will feature a collection of his most recent Landscape & Still Life paintings. A balance of serenity and complexity characterizes Paul Balmer’s recent still lifes and landscapes, with luminous scenes...
Throughout the history of art, the feminine form has served a multitude of purposes as muse, model, object of lust, and a representation of societal standards or morals. Presented for public consumption, women’s bodies were displayed as commodities for the male gaze. In Femme, SEFA reexamines these notions...