Rudi Meisel, Compatriots 1977 – 1987, C/O Berlin
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rudi Meisel captured the everyday life of the common people on both sides of Germany’s West and East divide.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rudi Meisel captured the everyday life of the common people on both sides of Germany’s West and East divide.
Austria’s leading international art fair vienna contemporary will take place at its new home, Marx Halle , from 24 until 27 September. This year’s event welcomes 99 galleries from 25 countries, as well as a series of international art institutions.
Guggenheim Bilbao shows the artist’s approach to this subject over different phases in his career, and spans from the 1980s to his latest paintings.
The Fine Art Society presents 50 masterpieces by Henri Cartier-Bresson, in an exhibition staged in collaboration with Peter Fetterman Gallery.
Pearl Lam Galleries brings a solo exhibition of works by Pino Pinelli to its Soho space in Hong Kong; the first show by the artist to appear in Asia.
Hauser & Wirth hosts its first exhibition devoted to the work of Mike Kelley. This show is the first in New York to focus on Kelley’s later series, Kandors.
Fields of Abstraction is a group exhibition at Galerie du Monde. Curated by Justin Charles Hoover, the show unites the work of four American artists.
Commissioned especially for Bristol, Do Ho Suh’s New York City Apartment/Corridor/Bristol is an immersive installation. Until 27 September.
We interview London-based artist Idris Khan about his new series of work, Overture, exhibiting at Sean Kelly, New York. Khan explores philosophical ideas surrounding displacement and conflict.
Josh Kline highlights the erosion of privacy and civil rights in the 21st century in Freedom, a darkly compelling new exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, and the first in a cycle of projects by Kline.
The National Museum of Art in Osaka hosts a large-scale solo exhibition by the German-born artist and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.
Artist Bernadetta Tajs, who completed her arts education in Krakow, Poland, explores the light hearted side of life, using her own imagination as a starting point for her painting and sculptures.
Tyburn Gallery, London, opens with its inaugural exhibition Broken English on 18 September.
The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is an influential and key player in the realm of performance art in the UK and internationally. LADA supports artists through a portfolio of resources, opportunities and publishing activities.
The Imago Mundi project inaugurated by the Luciano Benetton Foundation in 2013 continues its democratic mission to create a body of international art that shows the fullness of human experience.
FACT’s upcoming exhibition sees Danish artist Shona Illingworth question how our memories influence our understanding of society.
Dan Flavin has worked with fluorescents since 1963 to develop his own form of minimalism, creating what he termed ‘situations’ composed entirely of light and colour, which interact with architecture and the viewer’s perception of space.
We review Castlefield Gallery, Manchester’s Launch Pad: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, a group project initiated by six artists based around the UK, France and the Netherlands.
This is Idris Khan’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery and his first solo presentation in New York since 2010.
The turbulent 1950s in Cuba began with the military coup led by Fulgencio Batista and were marked by growing conflict between the US-backed Batista dictatorship and the revolutionary movement of Fidel and Raoul Castro, which would eventually topple Batista and transform the Cuban society.
Jeff Brouws’ peripatetic road journeys through the US form a crucial role in his “mapping” of a changing American landscape. His work features in Diffusion International Festival of Photography.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, hosts a new exhibition by artist, agitator and former parliamentary candidate, Bob and Roberta Smith.
The 13th Biennale de Lyon, La Vie Moderne, brings together artists from 28 different countries who explore the contradictory character of contemporary culture in varied regions of the world. We speak to Thierry Raspail, Artistic Director.
David Zwirner examines how Dan Flavin established and redefined space through light constructions in three formats that were at the core of his practice.
Post Forma, a major new commission by Italian designer Martino Gamper, will launch at Leeds Art Gallery on 9 October as part of British Art Show 8.
The Empty Gallery hosts Sonorous Objects, the first show in a series of multidisciplinary projects curated in a new Hong Kong contemporary art space.
Luhring Augustine, New York’s Looking Out exhibition of early works on paper and recent sculpture by Rachel Whiteread opens on 19 September.
Photo Shanghai, Asia’s premier art fair dedicated to photography, opens this weekend with a dynamic programme of shows presented by a selection of international galleries from 15 countries.
This September Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, will examine historic and commissioned works by 20 contemporary artists in Space Age.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks back over 20 years of work by American video and installation artist Bill Viola. The retrospective features new work The Trial, which investigates the unseeable.
NEON Organisation for Culture and Development presents A Transfer, by Maria Loizido, at the archaeological site of Kerameikos.
The fifth anniversary edition of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) will take place this year from 5 – 8 November. Tickets are now on sale for the four day event, which invites audiences to explore the city of York while experiencing world-class cinema.
We interview Pearl Lam of Pearl Lam Galleries, an exhibitor and promoter of contemporary art and design, with a particular focus on contemporary Chinese art in her galleries across Southeast Asia.
The fifth edition of Docks Art Fair takes place in Lyon until 4 October. Since its inception it has collaborated with a selection of galleries and artists.
Le Mois de la Photo launches its 14th edition with a special programme curated by curator Joan Fontcuberta. Focusing on the theme of The Post-Photographic Condition, the Biennial welcomes 100 projects by 29 artists from 11 countries.
Word by Word, curated by Francesco Bonami, recently showed at Luxembourg & Dayan. The show explored the use of text by 20th century artists in facilitating social, political and artistic commentary.
The Photographers’ Gallery brings Other Americas, an award winning body of work by acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado, to London.
Within a Realm of Distance will display various pieces produced throughout American artist Lawrence Weiner’s career. Known for his role in the 1960s Conceptual Art movement, the artist’s work takes the form of typographic texts.
Melissa Moore is an artist and an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London. Her photographs will feature in Diffusion International Festival of Photography 2015, Cardiff, in October.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, announces About Forty Years, a four-decade survey of the work of Nicholas Nixon. On view from 10 September.
Australia’s international art fair, Sydney Contemporary, returns from 10 until 13 September. The event will exhibit over 90 esteemed galleries from 13 different countries across the expansive interior of large-scale arts space, Carriageworks.
Photographer Lukasz Snopkiewicz plays with the possibilities of black and white digital imagery to depict the reflective qualities of water, revealing both its creative and destructive capabilities.
From 12 September, Magasin, Grenoble, dedicates its exhibition space to the work of Didier Faustino.
Throughout the last 60 years, Jon Tonks has photographed the people and landscapes of four remote British overseas territories; Ascension Island, St Helena, and Tristan da Cunha.
William Kentridge’s first substantial solo presentation in London for 15 years will open at Marian Goodman on 11 September.
Galerie des Galeries will host the first solo exhibition in France by artist Alex Prager.
Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography at C/O Berlin highlights how the 35 mm format has changed the photographic gaze in the 20th century.
White Cube Bermondsey presents an exhibition by the internationally acclaimed German artist Imi Knoebel for ‘Inside the White Cube’.
Bernhard Luginbühl (1929 – 2011) is one of Switzerland‘s most respected contemporary artists.
Every June, Poznan in Poland flourishes with a methodically curated collection of cultural activities under the guise of the Malta Festival, this year celebrating its 25 anniversary with a diverse programme.