Allemagne
Du 23-05-2013 au 16-06-2013

Sculpture, Photography, Film
As one can read on the Kunsthalle Tübingen’s latest exhibition poster, entrance is strictly prohibited for untidy and smelly people, smokers, alcoholics, drug addicts, and numerous other so-called marginalized groups. Nothing is more exciting than the forbidden. What is in store for us at the Kunsthalle Tübingen? Santiago Sierra is the name of the provocateur from Spain whose sculptural work is currently being presented there in his first retrospective. Indeed, he is no unknown person on the international art scene. In 2003, visitors to the Venice Biennale were taken aback when they stood in front of the walled-in entrance to the Spanish Pavilion. While it may have been possible to access it through a rear entrance-only the holders of a Spanish passport were allowed to do so! He became notorious in Germany in 2006 when he introduced automobile exhaust fumes into the former synagogue in Stommeln near Cologne. The artists, who works with Minimalist means, is invariably concerned with the drastic visualization of structural injustices in our economic system. In doing so, he does not shy away from turning himself into an offender: on display at the Kunsthalle are twenty rectangular blocks he had made by Indian untouchables out of human feces-without pay! Don’t worry: it doesn’t smell, because it has been sealed with synthetic resin. One of the exhibition spaces is coated with mud: a reconstruction of the exhibition at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover that Sierra had filled up with brown peat and mud-in memory of the laborers who dug the Maschsee with spades within the scope of National Socialist job-creation measures. Anyone coming to the Kunsthalle before June 16, 2013, can look forward to enjoying these and other surprises.
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Philosophenweg 76
, Tübingen (72076)
Phone: +49 (0) 70 71 / 96 91 0
Fax: +49 (0) 70 71 / 96 91 33

UK
Du 19-01-2013 au 16-06-2013

John Piper, Michael Landy, Nancy Holt, Richard Long, Callum Innes and Beryl Korot
Celebrating the Whitworth’s existing contemporary collection of works on paper and textiles, and the Gallery’s unique relationship to its surrounding environment as the first English gallery to be founded in a park, the Spring Season aims to challenge existing notions of what landscape art means today.
Whitworth Art Gallery
University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester (M15 6E)
Joanne Hitchen / Phone: +44 (0)161 275 7450

Espagne
Du 25-02-2013 au 09-06-2013

OBRA DE LA PRIMERA ÉPOCA
(EARLIEST WORKS)
Picasso of Malaga. Earliest Works is a Museo Picasso Málaga’s evocative look at the Malaga-born artist’s earliest years: novel works are accompanied by a large amount of documentary material, recreating for visitors the family environment, cultural atmosphere and urban surroundings of the city where Pablo Picasso was born on 25th October, 1881.
Museo PIcasso Malaga
Palacio de Buenavista,
C/ San Agustín, 8, Malaga (29015)
Más información / More information;
Tel: (34) 952 12 76 00

USA
Du 06-05-2013 au 02-06-2013

Curated by Dave Tolchinsky & Debra Tolchinsky
Awakening from a deep sleep and the dream begins to fade. Trying to hang onto a particular image, an evaporating face. A face that belonged to a person whom the dreamer loved. The person has passed. What remains? Dust and bone and something even less tangible . . . absence.

The initial concept for our exhibition came about from such a dream and the ensuing awareness that an absence of anything-a person, an action, an idea-often affects us more acutely than that which may be concretely present.

Gathering work for the show, we found ourselves attracted to artists who explore the tension between that which is and that which is not in a variety of media and from a multitude of perspectives.

For example, with Robert Chase Heishman and Brendan Meara’s video, we consider what it means to confront an endless fuse. How keenly we await an explosion that will never come. And the longer the fuse is lit, the more palpable the ghostly ka-boom.

In contrast, Christopher P. Baker’s immersive video installation bombards us with thousands of YouTube users simultaneously introducing themselves to the world. We ask: What does it mean to announce oneself if no one can hear because of the cacophony of announcements?
Hairpin Arts Center
2800 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago (IL 606)
Jane Michalski
Phone: 773-392-1866

SUISSE
Du 23-11-2012 au 22-05-2013

L’abstraction lyrique comme ascétisme
Un des maîtres de l’Abstraction lyrique, au sein de la « Nouvelle Ecole de Paris », l’artiste d’origine suisse Gérard Schneider. Rassemblant une quarantaine de peintures et d’œuvres sur papier, elles ont toutes été créées entre 1945 et 1975, ces décennies sont fondamentales dans la production du peintre. Ces œuvres, pour la plus part, n’ont jamais été exposées totalement inédite et proviennent d’importantes collections privées internationales! Cet événement permet aux visiteurs de découvrir ou de retrouver une personnalité artistique de tout premier plan dans l’histoire de l’art du XX° siècle.


Galerie Artvera’s
1, rue Etienne Dumont , GENÈVE (1204)
Tél.: +41 22 311 05 53
F : +41 22 311 02 10

USA
Du 28-05-2013 au 22-06-2013

Search Engines: New Digital Paintings
Maloff employs the powerful aesthetic potential of the computer to create images that elicit emotion and spirituality. Each painting in this series addresses a particular approach that people have used across time and cultures in their search for meaning. For example, ’Lucid Dream’ explores the fleeting clarity sometimes experienced when emerging from slumber, while ’Seeing Without Looking’ examines the waking search for intuition which is an element of many spiritual traditions. ’The abstract geometric shapes governing each composition,’ she says, ’suggest the forms employed in ceramics, crafts, or weavings fashioned by the earliest artisans. These forms were perhaps the first expressions of timeless existential thoughts.’

Surfaces of the artworks appear solid, then liquid, smooth, then highly textured, rippling, and sometimes reflective, suggesting the deeper shifting patterns of the fabric of life. Shapes and forms vary from organic and timeless, to blatantly pixelated and contemporary. The visual effect of backlighting or inner glow engenders a feeling of gratification and openness to experience, as it has done from the ages of sun/fire worship through the age of device/screen worship. Juxtaposition, transparency, and spatial ambiguity pose a bid for viewer involvement and discovery
Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th St Suite 201, New York City (10001)
Stefany Benson
Phone: 1-212-947-6100
Fax: 1-212-202-5455

UK
Du 17-05-2013 au 20-07-2013

On Reflection

Harrison’s new exhibition, is a series of drawings, which explore images and complicated visual ideas about how we reflect in/on two dimensions. The images, which reflect our cultures of masculinity and femininity collide with transgendered realities not essentially feminine and not essentially masculine as a series of macho/femo notions in a range of complicated sliding scales.
Private view Thursday 16 May
PayneShurvell
16 Hewett Street, Londres (EC2A 3)
Telephone:+44(0)20 0011 4115

Italie
Du 01-06-2013 au 24-09-2013

Thai Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
The Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture proudly announces Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch and Arin Rungjang as the featured artists, and Penwadee Nophaket Manont and Worathep Akkabootara as curators for the Thai Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

The exhibition Poperomia / Golden Teardrop explores and unfolds the intricate facets of contemporary phenomenon that runs in parallel with the overflowing and overarching informational dispersion. By accessing anecdotes, tales, oral histories, international connectivity, and interweaving popular culture forms, Poperomia / Golden Teardrop urges the Biennale audience to draw from personal experiences to reevaluate the image-saturated world.
Office of Contemporary Art & Culture (OCAC)
Santa Croce, n° 556
, Venezia (30135)
Mr. Boonsuep Klippeng
Phone: +66(0)2-442-8837
Fax: +66(0)2-446-8069