EXPO CHGO ONLINE, organised by EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, is a curated digital exposition featuring 81 galleries, running between 8 and 12 April 2021. Ocula Magazine selects six artwork highlights. Michelle Grabner, Untitled (2021). Ceramic and brass tiles,...
On 19 March, Simon Denny's first ever NFT artwork was minted, listed on NFT marketplace SuperRare, and acquired by 'anon21' for 28.0Ξ. Exhibition view: Simon Denny, Mine, Petzel Gallery, New York (18 March–15 May 2021). Courtesy Petzel Gallery. The work is one of five...
The gallery's first exhibition includes works by Katharina Grosse, Norbert Bisky, Friedrich Kunath, and Alicja Kwade. KÖNIG GALERIE rooftop at the MCM HAUS, Seoul. Courtesy KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin / London / Seoul. Photo: Chunho An. Berlin's KÖNIG Galerie will open a new location in...
A recurring theme that arose throughout the Sharjah Art Foundation's 2021 March Meeting (MM 21), which ran online from 12 to 21 March, was the sense of community that has been fostered across art worlds in Sharjah. That continuing legacy was tracked across MM 21, titled...
Hassan Sharif lives and works in Dubai. He has made a vital contribution to conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East through 40 years of performances, installations, drawing, painting, and assemblage. In his early artistic maturation, Sharif rejected calligraphic abstraction, which was becoming...
Born in Santiago in 1948, Vicuña left Chile in 1973 for London, having received her MFA from the University of Chile in 1971. Attending the Slade School of Fine Art, after being awarded the British Council Award in 1972, she was in London during General...
The exhibition builds on Arundhati Roy's essay arguing Covid-19 is a chance to break with the past. Cyrus Kabiru, Macho Nne Malkia Mzungu (white queen) (2019) (detail). C-Type Print on Diasec Mount. 118.5 x 98cm. Courtesy SMAC Gallery. Around 20 galleries will exhibit works...
Auctions at Christie's this month brought in results that rival the highest prices paid for contemporary art at auction in 2020. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Versus Medici (1982). Synthetic polymer paint and oil wax crayon on canvas. Courtesy Sotheby's. Just three months into 2021, works by...
Gary Simmons and Cindy Sherman both signed with the mega gallery after departing Metro Pictures. Gary Simmons, Piano Man (2020). Oil and cold wax on canvas. 213.4 x 274.3 cm. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures. Los Angeles-based artist Gary Simmons, best known for...
'There may be no great gathering, no orchestrated coming together in one time and place; instead it might be a dispersal, an invisible fermentation,' the curators said. Istanbul Biennial curators Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar, and David Teh. Courtesy Istanbul Biennial. The curators of...