SMB Museum : YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER
The exhibition is featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The show will be presented on the occasion of her touring retrospective exhibition YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND, on display at Berlin’s Gropius Bau from 11 April to 31 August 2025. At the same time, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) will be presenting the work TOUCH by Yoko Ono in their billboard series. The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world. The works invite collective actions of repair, healing, cleaning, mending, wishing, imagining, and dreaming.
Read More
Communiqué, Académie des Beaux Arts, Institut de France : Séance d'installation de William Kentridge
On Wednesday February 12, 2025, William Kentridge was officially installed as a foreign associate member of the Académie des beaux-arts by fellow member Erik Desmazières, member of the engraving and drawing section, under the Dome of the Palais de l'Institut de France. He was elected on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, to the seat previously occupied by Greek goldsmith and jeweler Ilias Lalaounis (1920-2013). At the end of the ceremony, which concluded with "La Couleur Oui", a film created by William Kentridge for his installation, Catherine Meurisse presented him with his academician's sword.
Read More
Time Out : Chiharu Shiota: Between Worlds
Istanbul Modern is hosting a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of diplomatic relations between Japan and Turkey. Undoubtedly, the most striking feature of the exhibition is the large-scale installation the artist created specifically for Istanbul Modern. Curated by Öykü Özsoy Sağnak and Yazın Öztürk, the exhibition focuses on themes such as memory, existence, migration, journeys, and the human experience—subjects Shiota frequently explores through various mediums, including performance, video, installation, and painting.
Read More
Artdaily : Manetti Shrem Museum presents U.S. debut of Italy's Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection exhibition
Organized by six groupings — Infinite Possibilities, Systems of Value, Becoming a Commodity, The Private and The Public Body, The Notion of the Facade, and In Front of the Camera/Behind the Scenes — the exhibition is curated by Manetti Shrem Museum Associate Curator and Exhibition Department Head Susie Kantor. Spanning 45 years, this exhibition (including works of Shirin Neshat and Rosemarie Trockel) points to the long and ongoing conversation around these topics. “We are excited that Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has chosen our university museum as the venue for the U.S. premiere of her collection,” said Founding Director Rachel Teagle. “It’s an extraordinary opportunity to showcase diverse, groundbreaking work and build upon the museum’s track record of featuring women artists at significant moments in their careers.”
Read More
Beacon Hill Times : ICA Watershed Launches 2025 Season with Chiharu Shiota’s Powerful Installations
This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ( ICA) opens the 2025 Watershed season with "Chiharu Shiota: Home Less Home", on view May 22 through Sept.1, 2025. The exhibition features two large-scale installations by the Berlin-based, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka, Japan), including the debut of a new commission made for the ICA Watershed. Shiota foregrounds universal stories of migration, home, connection, memory, and survival. Her signature approach combines intricate, immense, and web-like installations built of thread and rope with quotidian objects—such as shoes, suitcases, beds, chairs, dresses, and keys—that serve as symbols for human presence and memory.
Read More
Classical Voice : The Great Yes, The Great No: William Kentridge’s Allegory of Exile (by Victoria Looseleaf)
There are everyday chamber operas, and then there are the works conceived and directed by South African artist William Kentridge. Kentridge’s "The Great Yes, The Great No", which is being presented Feb. 5–8 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and March 14–16 at Cal Performances in Berkeley, is an opera that is also part play, with a Greek chorus thrown in for good measure. Based on actual events, the work involves a who’s who of mid-20th-century thinkers, including French surrealist André Breton, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, depicting their historic escape from Vichy France on a cargo ship sailing from Marseille to Martinique.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
