Based in Accra, Ghana and working internationally, Gallery 1957 has a curatorial focus on West Africa. Presenting a programme of exhibitions, installations and performances by the region’s most significant artists, the gallery serves as a vital platform, providing resources for residencies and participating in international art fairs. Founded by Marwan Zakhem in 2016, the space…
The work of Bangladesh-born London-based visual artist Rana Begum distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Mumbai’s Jhaveri Contemporary and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. The artist shares with Something Curated, “I…
Founded in 1995 in memory of the civil uprising of the 1980 repression of the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea is Asia’s oldest biennial of contemporary art. For the last twenty-three years, the Gwangju Biennale has emerged as a network for international cultural exchanges and a platform for the arts, while…
Regarded as one of the central theorists of participation in visual art and performance, Claire Bishop is a British art historian, critic, and Professor of Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York. Her 2004 essay entitled “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” which was published by MIT Press, remains a seminal and highly referenced critique,…
Ikon Gallery’s upcoming group show, opening on 4 December 2020 and running until 14 February 2021, features the work of numerous diverse and influential artists, including Lee Bul, Martin Creed, Carmen Herrera, On Kawara, Haroon Mirza, Cornelia Parker, Bosco Sodi, Nancy Spero and David Theobald, among others. In 1964, the artists’ group that founded Birmingham’s…
Open now and running until 12 December 2020, Simon Lee Gallery, New York hosts Pedestrian Profanities, a group exhibition of interdisciplinary artists, designers and polymaths curated by Eric N. Mack, which explores the relationship between fine art, design and fashion, and the ways in which they are activated by a participating body. On the selection…
Under the directorship of Alex Moussa Sawadogo, and this year presented entirely online, AFRIKAMERA 2020 — Urban Africa, Urban Movies: Politics & Revolution, commencing today and running until 22 November 2020, presents a selection of current and historical feature films and documentaries on social upheaval and colonial reappraisal on the continent on the occasion of…
On 20 November 2020, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, is set to open a long-term exhibition of work by Mario Merz, a central figure in the Arte Povera movement that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s. Using recycled organic and industrial materials, the artist developed an imaginative iconography and recast familiar forms like the igloo and the…