Born in Buenos Aires in 1949 to exiled European parents four years after the end of World War II, visual artist Vivian Suter returned to Basel when she was thirteen, and it is to this city and its art scene that she remains closely associated. Nonetheless, it was on a trip through North and Central…
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, and based in New York, American artist Jessi Reaves’ practice freely traverses the realms of art and design, smudging the lines between sculpture and furniture. Reaves studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, originally joining the celebrated institute to study furniture design before changing her specialism. It was while…
London-based visual artist Ze Aya studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2015. Her works broadly map seduction, fragility, and ultimately love and loss, as these relationships are played out and manipulated in on and offline social spheres. Running from 14 December 2019 – 18 January 2020, South London’s SEAGER hosts Far Away From…
Mariam Kamara, founder of architecture studio atelier masōmī in Niger, will this evening, Monday 25 November 2019, present the plans for her first major building project in Niger – a library and arts centre – in conversation with Sir David Adjaye at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Adjaye and Kamara are joined by a shared…
Running until 8 December 2019, London’s Chisenhale Gallery presents Welcome to End-Used City, an exhibition by Sidsel Meineche Hansen. The show brings together new and existing works to further explore Meineche Hansen’s ongoing enquiry into virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to human labour within the gaming, pornographic and tech-industries. Central to Meineche Hansen’s exhibition is…
Pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue is celebrated for her undulating long form music marked by patient, virtually imperceptible transformations that purposefully unfold to reveal the intangible, radiant contents of minimal sound – its partials, harmonics, subharmonics and inherent distortions. As a student and assistant to musique concrète innovators Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in the…
Marian Goodman Gallery hosts the first solo presentation of work by influential American artist Nan Goldin in London since the Whitechapel Gallery’s 2002 show. Opening on 14 November 2019, the new exhibition includes an important range of historical works together with three new video works exhibited for the first time. Over the past year Goldin,…
Bringing together Somerset House Studios’ resident artists, international talent and forward-thinking audiences, sound and performance festival ASSEMBLY’s multidisciplinary programme presents newly commissioned works alongside several first performances and UK premieres. For the second ASSEMBLY season, taking place from 8–10 November 2019, resident artist Christian Marclay curates a series of intimate musical performances in Somerset House’s…