Born in the Soviet Union, the artist reflects on how works by her and husband Ilya have taken on new meaning since the war.
The artist couple Ilya and Emilia Kabakov live and create at a home and studio on Long Island, New York. The Art Newspaper met with them there and spoke to Emilia about the often prophetic nature of art and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where both artists were born.
Read MoreShirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s highly imaginative Land Of Dreams, based on a story by Shirin Neshat, screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Shoja Azari takes us on the road to the American Southwest of the near future, where an Iranian colony is nestled in the desert, and where a census bureau collects everyone’s dreams for the dreamers “security”.
Read MoreAfter a frightening diagnosis, the Japanese artist is taking on mortality in her new show in Brisbane, using thread to construct huge artworks that sweep entire rooms the day after Chiharu Shiota was presented with plans for an ambitious solo exhibition spanning her 30-year artistic career, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer.
Read MoreShilpa Gupta's video installation "Untitled", 2022, conceived especially for the Kestner Gesellschaft and exhibited on the roof of the gallery's building, turns the architecture into a living organism. Emitted texts (Time Runs Endless, Fear Fear Itself, One Sentence Ago, etc.) along with visual components, enter into a poetic-political polylogue with the city and its inhabitants, invoking notions of confinement and intimacy, but also legality and illegality, security and censorship, belonging and isolation.
Read MoreFluid Mexican onyx, manipulated digital prints and text-based works scaled to match the urban space intertwine in this exhibition featuring three renowned and internationally acclaimed artists—Kirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner—each of whom has made their unique contribution to defining what we understand as contemporary art.
Read MoreThe symphony will premiere the topically relevant animated film by William Kentridge, performed to Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The Shostakovich expert and chief conductor Michael Sanderling will conduct the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester at the KKL Luzern and the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival.
Read MoreAn encounter between composer Steve Reich and German visual artist Gerhard Richter a decade earlier had started discussion on a joint project. Richter showed Reich his book Patterns, in which an abstract painting is scanned, cut in half, and half again repeatedly. Out of this Richter was creating a film and Reich’s music was to follow a mirroring musical process.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)
Read MoreFor the first time in her career, Smith presents sculptures entirely made of bronze, challenging herself in this complex endeavour. The exhibition, indeed, took years in the making, and it involved long walks around the Greek myths and periods of reflection in her studio. ‘I am an old fashioned artist,’ affirmed Smith, ‘I need time in my studio to produce works.’
Read MoreOben ist ein Pigmentdruck ohne Titel von Rosemarie Trockel von 2018 zu sehen. Das Editionsexemplar stammt direkt aus dem Besitz der Künstlerin und wird zum Schätzpreis von 2500 bis 3500 Euro angeboten. Auktionshaus sowie Künstlerinnen und Künstler verzichten auf ihre Einnahmen, mit dem Erlös will der Verein "Kunst hilft geben" nach Köln geflüchtete Menschen unterstützen und humanitäre Hilfe in der Ukraine leisten.
Read MoreThe sculpture, by contemporary artist Kiki Smith, is of Lilith, the first woman according to Jewish mythology, who was exiled from Eden for refusing to be subservient to Adam. History has often depicted Lilith as a demon, but her independence has given her modern feminist icon status; Smith's work leans into both, referencing the myth while revealing a gravity-defying power.
Read MoreThese are the last days of the Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition includes a growing installation that Ono started in 2013 named “Arising.”
The installation displays the responses to Ono’s call inviting “women of all ages, from all countries of the world” to “send a testament of harm done to you, for being a woman.” Along with their statements, women were asked to send a photograph of their eyes only.
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