Category Archives: Contemporary art

Roman city of Italica, Seville, Spain

Italica north of modern-day Santiponce, 9 km northwest of Seville in southern Spain, was an Italic settlement founded by the Roman general Scipio in the province of Hispania Baetica. It was the birthplace of Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian (likely), and Theodosius (possibly). It flourished under the reign of Hadrian, becoming…

Roman city of Italica, Seville, Spain

Palais Garnier, Paris, France

The Palais Garnier Opera, is a 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l’Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Initially referred to as “le nouvel Opéra de Paris” (the new…

Palais Garnier, Paris, France

U-Space — total installations, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

U-Space is a total installation that immerses you into a particular world, aimed at experiencing particular feelings and emotions. Within a fifteen minutes session, the visitor experiences a different life, unique and personal depending on the specifics of his individual perception. Each total installation has its own theme, predetermining the…

U-Space — total installations, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Moments … The stories of portraits and still lives, Olga Demidova, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

“Moments … The stories of portraits and still lives”. Solo exhibition by Olga Demidova. What is our life, if not a sequence of moments? The exhibition by Olga Demidova, held in Erarta in mid-January, will tell you more about this. Olga Demidova can be called “a weekend artist”. She lives…

Moments … The stories of portraits and still lives, Olga Demidova, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

SANKI Code. New Silver Print, Valentin Samarin, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

“SANKI Code. New Silver Print”, a solo exhibition by a legendary photographer Valentin Samarin, a citizen of Paris and St. Petersburg. Samarin has been developing his original creative method of SANKI for more than 40 years. By his own definition, SANKI is “the mystery of old silver photography, metamorphoses of…

SANKI Code. New Silver Print, Valentin Samarin, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Bond, Olga Boldyreff, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

“Bond”. Solo exhibition by Olga Boldyreff. Olga Boldyreff was born in 1957 in Nantes (France), in a family of Russian immigrants. Her artistic practice is rather a search for identity than just a creating process. While being not quite French and not fully Russian, Boldyreff addresses to the topic of…

Bond, Olga Boldyreff, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Analogue of God, Dmitry Shorin, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

“Analogue of God”. Solo exhibition by Dmitry Shorin. In the early 2000s Dmitry Shorin announced himself as the author of a new contemporary artistic language. His work stood out against the other contemporaries, who were still striking for the ideas of nonconformity and aesthetics of neo socialist realism. Shorin’s language…

Analogue of God, Dmitry Shorin, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Proregress: Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence, 12th Shanghai Biennale

“Proregress” is the footwork of the ancient Chinese Taoist rituals, responding to the English title with this mysterious dance between advancing and retreating. “Proregress” hopes to surpass the Western binary opposition. The pace of walking will remind us of the importance of a new way of thinking, and culture will…

Proregress: Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence, 12th Shanghai Biennale

Youth Curator Program 2018, Power Station of Art

The Youth Curator Program, founded in 2014, is the annual academic project of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, which aims to explore the significance of the exhibition today and the new possibilities for curating. The 5th “Qing Ce Plan” in 2018 received a total of 61 effective programs during…

Youth Curator Program 2018, Power Station of Art

Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art And Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Queensland Art Gallery’s 10th anniversary celebrations is ‘Sugar Spin’, featuring over 250 contemporary artworks exploring light, space, architecture and the senses.From brand-new immersive works to large-scale visitor favourites, the exhibition reflects our complex connections to the natural world with an explosion of colour, sensation and spinning delights. Major new artworks…

Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art And Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Uncertainty, Connection and Co-existence, Suwon City I-Park Art Museum

Uncertainty, Connection and Co-existence exhibition will showcase the changes of the new paradigm and the change of the topography of contemporary art through a total of 15 large-scale installation works by 13 artists from Korea and abroad. Participating Artists: Kim Sang-jin, Kim Ji-soo, Kim Chang-gyeom, Mun, An Sung-seok, Yang Min-ha,…

Uncertainty, Connection and Co-existence, Suwon City I-Park Art Museum

Franz Gertsch: Polyfocal Allover, Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York

Polyfocal Allover is the first institutional painting survey of Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (b. 1930, Mörigen) in the United States. The exhibition explores Gertsch’s decades-long commitment to capturing life in portraiture, primarily through photorealist paintings and woodcut prints. For the first time in decades, several major works from the artist’s…

Franz Gertsch: Polyfocal Allover, Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York

President’s Young Talents 2018, Singapore Art Museum

The President’s Young Talents (PYT) is Singapore’s premier and only mentoring, commissioning, and award programme, which recognises promising artists aged 35 and below, whose practices chart new dimensions in Singapore contemporary art. Previous PYT artists include Boo Junfeng, Heman Chong, Charles Lim, Donna Ong, Tan Pin Pin and Vertical Submarine,…

President’s Young Talents 2018, Singapore Art Museum

Imaginarium 2018: Into the Space of Time, Singapore Art Museum

Singapore Art Museum welcomes you back to our annual family-friendly exhibition with Imaginarium: Into the Space of Time. Through the eyes of 10 contemporary artists around the world, this year’s Imaginarium takes a closer look at the concept of time, and the tales and theories that shape our memories and…

Imaginarium 2018: Into the Space of Time, Singapore Art Museum

A Somewhere of Elsewheres, Singapore Biennale 2016

Displacement, homelessness and alienation in migrant experiences disorientate, amplified by growing distrust and fear, and the ongoing threat of the violence of war; still, a dream of belonging somewhere glimmers. Dread of Not Night 1,3,4,7-9 and Blood Stains t… (2015 – 2016) by Adeela Suleman In Suleman’s decorative, stylised paintings…

A Somewhere of Elsewheres, Singapore Biennale 2016

HiSoUR – Hi So You Are

Hisour – History+Tour. Virtual Tour, Artwork Exhibition, Discovery History, Global Cultural Online.