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Venice Biennale 2026: Provocation, Mourning, and AI Futures in Focus
arts1 month ago

Venice Biennale 2026: Provocation, Mourning, and AI Futures in Focus

The 2026 Venice Biennale offers a spectrum of provocative pieces—from Florentina Holzinger’s nude, postapocalyptic pavilion to Lydia Ourahmane’s coin-operated, Venice-inspired installation and Ukraine’s journey of an origami deer—alongside Sanya Kantarovsky’s seance-like paintings and a wave of AI-inspired works in the Arsenale; the mood weaves stark political and personal mourning with bursts of inventive, boundary-pushing art under the In Minor Keys banner.

via The Guardian|
#arts#contemporary-art#installations
Venice Biennale 2026: Quiet Bonds and Global Geopolitics in In Minor Keys
art1 month ago

Venice Biennale 2026: Quiet Bonds and Global Geopolitics in In Minor Keys

Venice Biennale 2026’s main exhibition, 'In Minor Keys,' curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, centers six artists—Cauleen Smith; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons; Tiona Nekkia McClodden; Alfredo Jaar; Walid Raad; Kaloki Nyamai—whose restrained, atmospheric works explore memory, loss, and cross-generational bonds while reflecting on the geopolitics of minerals, with installations and multimedia pieces that emphasize quiet resilience amid global disruption.

via Artsy|
#art#cauleen-smith#contemporary-art
Loie Hollowell Turns Birth and Bodies Into Cosmic Abstraction
art1 month ago

Loie Hollowell Turns Birth and Bodies Into Cosmic Abstraction

Loie Hollowell’s Overview Effect at Pace Gallery London pairs large twin-circle canvases with pastel drawings to explore birth, abortion, pregnancy and breastfeeding through a cosmic, abstract lens inspired by her own experiences. The works fuse bodily imagery with outward, planetary forms—reflecting a developmental arc from her first birth’s diagrammatic representations to a more internal, space-inspired approach. Influences range from Louise Bourgeois and O’Keeffe to home-birth photos and Ina May Gaskin, and Hollowell discusses how shifting reception and female curators have allowed her to speak more openly about abortion and sexuality. The show, timely with Artemis II, situates the body within abstract art and questions market-driven pigeonholing, running at Pace Gallery, London, through May.

via The Guardian|
#art#birth#contemporary-art
The Whitney Biennial Turns Intimate in a Turbulent Era
culture3 months ago

The Whitney Biennial Turns Intimate in a Turbulent Era

Critic Holland Cotter frames the 2026 Whitney Biennial as a modest, personal, crafts‑driven survey curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. It foregrounds present fragilities—climate disaster, border policing, technological dominance and moral anxiety—woven together by an ambient, floor‑through soundscape. Highlights range from Michelle Lopez’s Pandemonium to Pat Oleszko’s Blowhard, Zach Blas’s CULTUS, Abbas & Abou‑Rahme’s Until We Became Fire and Fire Us, Oswaldo Maciá’s Requiem for the Insects, and Precious Okoyomon’s forthcoming Everything Wants to Kill You and You Should Be Afraid, among many intimate works that emphasize community, family, and cross‑species belonging over a single political thrust or star turn.

via The New York Times|
#ai-in-art#climate-change#community
Art Basel Qatar 2026: Ten Booths Shine in Qatar’s Debut Middle East Edition
arts4 months ago

Art Basel Qatar 2026: Ten Booths Shine in Qatar’s Debut Middle East Edition

Art Basel Qatar 2026 opened in Doha across three venues (M7, Barahat Msheireb, and the Doha Design District) with 87 galleries, emphasizing solo 'special projects' under the Becoming theme. The VIP opening drew figures like Angelina Jolie and Hans Ulrich Obrist, highlighting Qatar’s cultural push, while early sales were muted. The curated top booths ranged from Maha Malluh at Galerie Krinzinger and Lina Gazzaz at Hafez Gallery to Otto Piene at Sprüth Magers, Imran Qureshi at Nature Morte, Lynda Benglis at Pace Gallery, Ahmed Mater at ATHR, Matthew Wong at MASSIMODECARLO, Hazeem Harb at Tabari Artspace, Olga de Amaral at Lisson Gallery, and Jannis Kounellis at Cardi Gallery.

via Artsy|
#art-basel-qatar-2026#art-fair#arts
Top Small Gallery Shows to Watch This January
art5 months ago

Top Small Gallery Shows to Watch This January

This article highlights five notable art exhibitions at small galleries around the world in January 2026, featuring diverse works from artists Justus de Rode, Gwen Evans, Sera Holland, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and Francesco Pantaleone, showcasing themes from nature and domestic unsettling to textured abstraction and precarious sculptures.

via Artsy|
#art#contemporary-art#exhibitions
Remembering the Life and Work of Ceal Floyer
obituary5 months ago

Remembering the Life and Work of Ceal Floyer

Ceal Floyer, a renowned contemporary artist known for her minimalist and humorous works, passed away at 57 due to a brain tumour. Her notable performances and installations, such as 'A Nail Biting Performance' and 'Mousehole,' challenged perceptions and explored everyday phenomena with wit and ingenuity. Floyer's career included exhibitions at major international venues and awards, and she was celebrated for her unique approach to art that combined skepticism, humor, and a keen sense of perspective.

via The Guardian|
#art#ceal-floyer#contemporary-art
2025 Art Highlights: Top Exhibitions, Controversies, and Record-Breaking Sales
art-and-exhibitions5 months ago

2025 Art Highlights: Top Exhibitions, Controversies, and Record-Breaking Sales

The article highlights the top exhibitions of 2025 as chosen by curators and museum directors, featuring diverse and innovative shows such as Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou, Giacometti and Mona Hatoum at Barbican, and significant retrospectives like Ithell Colquhoun and Hamad Butt, emphasizing the cultural, conceptual, and social impact of contemporary art.

via The Art Newspaper|
#2025-exhibitions#art-and-exhibitions#art-highlights
Top Art Exhibitions and Events to Explore This Fall
art-and-exhibitions9 months ago

Top Art Exhibitions and Events to Explore This Fall

The fall of 2025 will feature a diverse array of over 80 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, including new museum openings in Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and the US, major retrospectives of artists like Kerry James Marshall, Leonora Carrington, and Lee Miller, as well as thematic shows on modernism, Surrealism, and indigenous art, offering a rich landscape for art enthusiasts to explore both contemporary and historical works.

via ARTnews.com|
#art-and-exhibitions#biennials#contemporary-art