NEWS — Art 19

Ocula : Shilpa Gupta Follow Lines of Flight

Ishara Art Foundation opens 2025 with Lines of Flight, Shilpa Gupta's first solo exhibition in West Asia (from 18 January to 31 May 2025). Featuring a diverse selection of artworks from 2006 to the present that include a new sound installation, site-specific interventions, sculptures, drawings, prints and videos, the exhibition foregrounds Gupta's longstanding critical engagement with narratives of mobility, control and acts of resilience. Over the last two and a half decades, Shilpa Gupta's interdisciplinary art practice has challenged how individual and collective identities are perceived, governed and orchestrated by state and societal forces. Her work questions how people, places, everyday objects and languages get recast through nationality, gender and economic relations. By focusing on moments of unrest, Gupta's work encourages viewers to participate in imagining a new poetics of resistance.

gabriela ancoJanuary 23, 2025

Ropac.net : Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Group exhibition 'Modeling the World' in China .

The group exhibition Modeling the World (15 March—7 September 2025, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China) presents four parallel projects, inspired by and constructed from architecture and models, including Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's works. Here, models become metaphors for a range of concepts, social phenomena, emotions, memories, and imaginations. From spiritual architecture to public space, Aranya has long used architecture to shape its unique social life, culture, and aesthetic, which is itself a starting point for this exhibition.

gabriela ancoJanuary 21, 2025Ilya&Emilia Kabakov

Monopol : Gerhard Richter sorgt sich um Kölner Kunstbibliothek

Der Maler Gerhard Richter sorgt sich um eine auf Kunst spezialisierte Bibliothek in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. "Die Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek ist eine unerschöpfliche Wissens- und Inspirationsquelle", teilte der Künstler über die Initiative "Rettet die KMB!" mit. "Als solche habe ich sie über Jahrzehnte schätzen gelernt. Als Kölner Bürger bin ich stolz, dass die Stadt über diesen reichen Schatz verfügt, der jeden Tag von vielen Kunstinteressierten – Professionellen wie Laien – aktiv genutzt wird." Richter, der am 9. Februar 93 Jahre alt wird, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Maler der Welt, dessen Gemälde zu den teuersten gehören.

gabriela ancoJanuary 14, 2025Gerhard Richter

Transfuge : Chiharu Shiota au Grand Palais : La vie sur un fil (by Fabrice Gaignault)

Acclaimed for the singularity of her work, at once melancholy and mysterious, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, of the Templon gallery, has set up shop at the Grand Palais until March 19, to reveal in a masterly exhibition a body of work shot through with illness, underlined by her compulsive weaving of threads unfolding in dazzling spidery enchantments.

gabriela ancoJanuary 14, 2025Chiharu Shiota

Vijesti : Kiki Smith exclusively for "Vijesti": All that we are is just the wandering of nature (by Jelena Kontić)

About art, exhibitions, inspiration, beginnings, today..., Kiki Smith talks to Vijesti from her exhibition, open to visitors at Podgorica until February 21, after which the works will be returned to the parent gallery "Pace" in New York and will not be seen again in Europe anytime soon, so it is a unique opportunity for the Montenegrin, as well as for the regional and European public. Kiki Smit's works are a unique feeling of serenity, magnificence, but also a strong inner incentive to (re)connect with oneself, nature, life, creating space and setting aside time for introspection, with the conscious presence of centuries-old struggle... It is imbued with various works from different periods, and they all equally attract attention and complete the experience of a carefully designed and luxurious setting that brings the universe and spirituality of Kiki Smith closer to Podgorica.

gabriela ancoJanuary 1, 2025

Harper's Bazaar : Yoko Ono : Pourquoi l'artiste révolutionnaire a-t-elle été si longtemps peu appréciée ? (by Ella Alexander)

With the opening of a blockbuster exhibition at London's Tate Modern last year, let's take this opportunity to celebrate Yoko Ono and explore why she never received a fair trial. (...) An exhibition hoping to celebrate Ono as an experimental, enduring and visionary artist in her own right.

gabriela ancoDecember 25, 2024Yoko Ono

Forbes : Chiharu Shiota Opens The Largest Exhibition Ever Devoted To Her In France(by Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle)

Co-organized by the GrandPalaisRmn in Paris and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, “The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition ever devoted to Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in France, showcasing over two decades of her multifaceted career. Known since the mid-’90s for her monumental installations of interwoven wool that envelop everyday objects like chairs, keys, suitcases, pianos and clothes, she invites visitors into dreamlike, immersive spaces that explore themes of memory, temporality and human connection. “Threads become tangled, intertwined, broken off, unraveled,” she says. “They constantly reflect a part of my mental state, as if they were expressing the state of human relationships. The black expresses the vast expanse of this deep universe, while the red expresses the red threads that connect one person to another, as well as the color of blood. ” Spanning more than 1,200 square meters, the exhibition includes seven large-scale installations alongside sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings and archival materials, offering a comprehensive overview of Shiota’s practice, which combines performance, body art and installations. By presenting these works, she aims to convey the tremors of her soul, drawing from personal experiences of life’s fragility to create a deeply poetic and emotional journey for viewers. She discusses her current show at the newly-renovated Grand Palais in Paris, on view through March 19, 2025.

gabriela ancoDecember 20, 2024Chiharu Shiota

MEER : Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin

The exhibition “Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin”shows for the first time the long-term loan from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation to the Neue Nationalgalerie (1 Apr 2023 — 1 Sep 2026). The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed with charcoal and oil paint to four canvases before gradually painting over them abstractly. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the original drawing disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection.

gabriela ancoDecember 17, 2024Gerhard Richter

The Art Newspapper : Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn't for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was (by Dale Berning Sawa)

The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian (Gagosian, Rome, until 1 February 1 2025). Now firmly in his ninth decade, the German master has collaborated with filmmaker Corinna Belz, composer Rebecca Saunders and the Dutch trumpeter Marco Blaauw, to make what might just be the crowning achievement of the intervening three decades of work. (...) On opening night, this restless effervescence of almost impossible detail holds a moneyed, vernissage crowd completely spellbound in the way only a magician might. And that is before the actual performance, wherein the film is accompanied by a live performance of its 13-channel spatialised soundtrack. (...) Projected at monumental scale, over 7m across, Moving Picture (946-3) is an immersive experience.

gabriela ancoDecember 17, 2024Gerhard Richter

Beaux-Arts : Au Grand Palais, la magie de Chiharu Shiota dans un parcours qui déroule le fil de 20 ans de carrière (by Joséphine Bindé)

Poetic and spectacular, Chiharu Shiota's immense swarms of tangled threads have made her famous the world over. The Grand Palais presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to this Japanese artist, born in 1972: “Chiharu Shiota. The Soul Trembles” (December 11 2024 - March 19 2025). Over 1,200 m² of exhibition space is devoted to monumental works and little-known pieces. Far from remaining on the (very Instagrammable) surface of her installations, the exhibition plunges us into the multiple ramifications of her universe.

gabriela ancoDecember 13, 2024Chiharu Shiota

Art Plugged : William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance

William Kentridge is internationally recognised for his drawings, films, and theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music and theatre to create works of art based on politics, science, literature and history while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. (...) William Kentridge: "More Sweetly Play the Dance" installation which is part of the collection of Fundació Sorigué, will be shown at the Museo Picasso Málaga as an Invited Work from 21 November to 27 April next year.

gabriela ancoDecember 9, 2024William Kentridge

Le journal des arts : Éluard et les oiseaux de Kiki Smith (by Marie Zawisza)

Published in 1929 after a stay in a sanatorium, "L'Amour la poésie" is undoubtedly the most famous collection by the poet who, five years earlier, had taken part with André Breton in the founding of Surrealism. American artist Kiki Smith has taken up the challenge of the Grande Blanche illustrée collection, where artists confront the greatest authors of literature, to give these fiery poems a new flavor. Her ink drawings on Nepalese paper, where a bird's tail can turn into a rosebush, where sequins become stars at the end of eyelashes, accompany Éluard's poetry of ashes and diamonds, just as the fragile, quivering birds do when they fly around the trees singing. In this way, Paul Éluard's words are given a new life, sensual and shivering, with a flavor as blue as an orange. The poet had warned us: his book is endless.

gabriela ancoDecember 7, 2024Kiki Smith