Open now at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, and on view until 5 January 2025, Bneid Al Gar is the largest solo exhibition to date of the Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist, Alia Farid. Last year, Farid received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, which alongside significant financial support offers awardees a solo exhibition at the Norwegian arts…
Inaugurating the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s autumn programme from 18 September 2024, Black Ancient Futures brings together a group of African and diaspora artists to Portugal’s capital for an exhibition that reimagines the past, present, and future of the Black artistic experience on a transcontinental scale. The participating artists have been…
Lahore-based artist Sameen Agha’s work probes definitions of home, examining the concept’s social and physical dimensions as they intersect with gender and identity. Drawing from personal experiences, her work confronts themes of loss, belonging, and remembrance. On display at London’s Indigo+Madder gallery until 21 September 2024, her exhibition Catalyst features new installations, drawings, and sculptures…
Beijing-based director Wei Shujun — behind Ripples of Life and Striding Into the Wind — delivers an unconventional and stylish noir with his latest project, Only the River Flows. The film follows police detective Ma Zhe, portrayed by Yilong Zhu, as he investigates a serial killer in a rural Chinese town during the 90s. Adapted…
Based between Zurich and London, filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang’s work traverses genres and disciplines, oscillating and blurring the lines between narrative and documentary film, live performance, and video installation. A MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow, Tsang’s projects have been exhibited worldwide, including at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Gropius Bau in Berlin, Tate Modern in London,…
Kenji Ide’s sculptural works, meticulously crafted from materials as varied as wood, paper, wax, stone, and concrete, alongside personal ephemera collected over the years, can be thought of as material poetry — odes to events in the artist’s life. Each component shapes the poem’s form, while their spatial arrangement establishes a rhythm. Appearing almost like…
This summer, the duo behind the celebrated Michelin-starred restaurant and listening bar, Arkestra, which opened in Istanbul in 2022, opened Ritmo Zeytino, a three-month summer restaurant, bar, and artistic destination in Yalikavak, Bodrum, which marries vibrant, seasonal menus with cocktails, music and, under postcard sunsets, unrivalled views of both the coastline and the municipality. Set…
Laila Tara H deconstructs the aesthetic framework of the Persian miniature tradition, hybridising historical painting methods with radically contemporary compositions and ideas. Her works interrogate the quiet politics of the domestic sphere and the tension that exists between the personal and public realm. Drawing from her Iranian heritage and peripatetic upbringing, her paintings manage to…