Miri Segal participating in ₡ U R ₹ € ₦ ₢ ¥ group show at Nome, Berlin

Miri Segal will participate in ₡ U R ₹ € ₦ ₢ ¥ group show at Nome, Berlin / March 2 – April 19, 2019 / The etymology of the word “currency” relates to flowing, running, and circulating. Aligned with this liquid condition, ₡ U R ₹ € ₦ ₢ ¥ brings together works that deal with money as a channel, money as a concept, money as a formal (or informal) structure. In the United States, the birth of Conceptual Art overlapped with the end of the Gold Standard in 1971, and since then, the entwinement of art and finance has become evermore abstracted. The artworks assembled in ₡ U R ₹ € ₦ ₢ ¥ manifest a double value—that of the artwork on the market, and that of the money and materials employed to make this work. From Agnieszka Kurant’s representation of multiple forms of currency to Michal Helfman’s drawing inspired by the greenish imagery of the US dollar and Pratchaya Phinthong’s installation around the exchange of rice in his native Thailand; from Paolo Cirio’s imagination of a new virtual currency to Goldin+Senneby’s bound documents of confidential trading strategies, acquired in exchange for artworks. These artworks perform in various ways the acrobatics of the complex relationships between art and money. ₡ U R ₹ € ₦ ₢ ¥ builds upon Lucie Fontaine’s previous show Soft Shock, which revolved around the origins and philosophy of Bitcoin.  

Adel Abdessemed at Galeria Solo, Madrid

Adel Abdessemed will be presenting  Eran las 5 en todos los relojes, his first show in Spain, at Galeria Solo, in Madrid / February 27 – May 4, 2019 / Opening February 27th at 7pm

Jonathan Monk and Lawrence Weiner at Leadapron, L.A.

Jonathan Monk and Lawrence Weiner are participating in The artist is everything at LEADAPRON Gallery, Los Angeles / February 16 – April 2019 (by appointment only)

Mircea Cantor at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse

Mircea Cantor will participate in the group show La Brique, The Brick, Cărămida curated by Ami Barak at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse / February 14 – April 28, 2019 / As part of the France-Romania Season 2019, La Kunsthalle presents La Brique, The Brick, Cărămida, a modern and contemporary art exhibition. The initiative of such an exhibition comes from the collector and benefactor from Timișoara, Ovidiu Șandor, and his desire to share his choices and passion for art in this French city twinned with his, Mulhouse. The opportunity is thus to open the doors on an intimate world, have an insight into the modern and contemporary Romanian narrative and a better understanding of the complex history of this country. This exhibition presents a committed and creative artistic scene from the early 20th century to this day. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from an emblematic work by Ana Lupaș, an iconic figure of the avant-garde and undoubtedly a major discovery of the greatest museums in the world. It puts one brick after another in a building that is the founding act of a wonderful cultural enterprise.  

Simon Fujiwara at Whitechapel, London

Simon Fujiwara is participating in Is this Tomorrow? group exhibition at Whitechapel, taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition `This is Tomorrow’, an event which is indelibly linked to the institution’s history. Organised and developed by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, `This is Tomorrow’ featured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups / 14 February – 12 May 2019

Ariel Schlesinger at Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia

Ariel Schlesinger will present  we started with a flame  at Massimo Minini gallery / Opening February 9 at 6 pm

Omer Fast will be part of Truth That Lies at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture, Utrecht

Omer Fast will be part of Truth That Lies group show at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture, Utrecht / Fabruary 9th – March 17th from 12-5pm. Social media sites and search engines are the key ingredients of the change from the manipulative form of propaganda of the past to the prevalence of the Post-truth paradigm of the present. How are words and ideas used to obscure and manipulate? The exhibition and panel discussion of Truth That Lies look at the different political and cultural strategies that have been used in our Post-truth reality and in our recent history. Inspired by George Orwell’s prescient novel 1984, the events take the shape of the two agencies in The Ministry of Truth, the propaganda agency of 1984’s dystopian government: the Fiction and the Records Department. The Fiction Department is represented by Truth That Lies, an exhibition exploring a use of language through gesture, manipulation, hate speech, algorithm, propaganda, make-believe or tautology.

David Maljkovic at the Renaissance Society, Chicago

Also on view is a solo show by David Maljkovic at the Renaissance Society (at the University of Chicago) / Throughout an ever-shifting body of work, David Maljković returns to “the question of form,” asking how considerations of form itself might illuminate the ebb and flow of ideologies / February 9 – April 19, 2019

Adel Abdessemed at Alfonso Artiaco gallery, Naples

“Candele Candelotti e Sei Lumini” is the first exhibition with Adel Abdessemed in Naples at Alfonso Artiaco gallery / February 9 – March 23, 2019 / Opening on Saturday February 9th at 7 pm at Alfonso Artiaco gallery in Piazzetta Nilo, 7 (Naples).

Mircea Cantor participating in Ex-East, Espace Neymeier, Paris

The Art Encounters Foundation Timișoara presents Ex-East at Espace Neymeier, Paris / February 5 – March 16, 2019 / Past and recent stories of the Romanian avant-garde, a modern and contemporary art exhibition, under the auspices of the France-Romania Cultural Season and curated by Ami Barak.