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October 17, 2020

Latifa Echakhch at Jan Mot, Brussels

Jan Mot presents a group exhibition entitled ‘A buoy if not a beacon’ with works by Francis Alÿs, Giovanni Anselmo and Latifa Echakhch. ‘Le Thé de Saïd’ (2010) creates a connection between inside and outside and lets the weather conditions be the works’ protocol. A small teapot is ready to catch rainwater from a gutter that runs along the gallery’s walls, passing through the window. This work reproduces an act of the artist’s Uncle Saïd that always fascinated her, because of the limited access to water supply in Khourigba, Morocco, he usually placed a teapot under the gutter of his house to fill with water and then prepare his “special tea”. Shown before at the Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv and BPS22, Charleroi the installation is a reference to the “War over Water”, the battle between Israel and its Arab neighbours from 1964 to 1967 to control the Jordan and its source. October 17 – December 5, 2020
October 10, 2020

Miroslaw Balka at Centro Botín

‘Architecture into Art: a Dialogue’ is the first exhibition to engage in a dialogue with the Centro Botín building, which has become an instant landmark on the Santander waterfront from the moment it opened in 2017. It also addresses the somewhat ambiguous relationship artists maintain with the architects who fashion the space in which they present their work; and the no-less ambiguous status of “starchitects”, who are often regarded as artists. This exhibition brings together a selection of works by artists who once directed a Fundación Botín visual arts workshop and exhibited their work in Santander, as well as some by former recipients of the foundation’s visual art grants. It explores the influence of architecture on art, and offers reflections on how architecture also shapes human lives and structures social interaction. October 10, 2020 – March 14, 2021
October 7, 2020

Mircea Cantor at STUK, Leuven

STUK is delighted to present the work of internationally renowned contemporary visual artist Mircea Cantor (°1977). His multidisciplinary practice is first and foremost to be understood in terms of (a quest for) visual poetry, meditation and spirituality. Inspired by the large and small events of everyday life, and through an ingenious play with rhythm, repetition, symmetry and tactility, Cantor succeeds in creating strong poetic images which have the capacity to linger in the mind. In this first solo exhibition in Belgium, Cantor presents a careful selection of films, photography and drawings from his recent oeuvre, in addition to a film made especially for this exhibition titled Am I really Free?. Together, the works allow us to reflect upon the freedom of our movements in space, the practice of tracking and tracing, ideas of borders and limitations, and the courageous and sometimes audacious attempt to sublimate or subvert. Curator: Karen Verschooren. October 7 – December 13, 2020
September 24, 2020

Pandora’s Box: An online conversation between Adi Fluman and Nicola Trezzi
Thursday, September 24 at 8 pm Please join us for an informal and lively conversation between artist Adi Fluman and NicolaTrezzi, CCA Tel Aviv Director and Curator. During the conversation, Fluman and Trezzi will share insights about the process behind “Souvenir d’amitié” Fluman’s solo exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv. Furthermore, they will discuss the artist’s previous body of works, specifically “Bottleneck” Fluman’s graduation project at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem MFA program – at that time headed by Trezzi – and “The Perfect Lamina” her first solo exhibition at Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv, which was accompanied by a text written by Trezzi. The conversation will be broadcasted via Zoom only and will be held in English. Please register by clicking here. Afterwards you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the conversation (“meeting”) itself. Duration: 1 hour Free admission
September 19, 2020

Thomas Hirschhorn, Biennale de l’Image Possible, L’ex-Decathlon, Liège, Belgium

Thomas Hirschhorn was to present this spring, at the Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, his exhibition “Eternal Ruins” which brought together a series of unpublished cardboard works called “Chat Posters”. Built in reference to the work of Simone Weil, these new pieces mix text, images and smartphone aesthetics. Closed to the public a few days after its opening, the exhibition could only be visited virtually. All 23 Chat-Posters will be visible, for the first time since, in the exhibition of the Ex-Decathlon at BIP2020. “On large (240 x 125 cm) vertical cardboard supports that are not without evoking the maximized proportions of smartphone screens, Thomas Hirschhorn is redesigning the conversation design of the WhatsApp platform with felt pens. Quotes from French intellectual Simone Weil are then integrated into these contemporary phylacteries: “Love is no consolation. It is a light” or “Beauty is the harmony of chance and goodness”, all aphorisms enunciated by Simone Weil in the 20th century which, in this eminently contemporary form, would seem better able to capture our educated attention to these new modes of exchange”.
September 17, 2020

Latifa Echakhch at Kunsttage Basel

Latifa Echakhch will present works from her series ‘Fall’ as part of Kunsttage Basel. The Kunsttage Basel are a broadly supported, temporary association of museums, art institutions, exhibition spaces and galleries in Basel and its surroundings. The aim of the joint activity is to support and revitalize the cultural life of the region, to stimulate the public to experience art and culture in the city and on the country as well as to strengthen the contribution of modern and contemporary art under the current crisis conditions. September 17 – September 20, 2020
September 17, 2020

Karen Russo at Frestonian Gallery, London

Karen Russo will participate in a tree persons show ‘The City & The City & The City’ at the Frestonian Gallery, London. The exhibition is curated by Tom Morton and presents works by Karen Russo, Charles Avery, Dana Lixenberg. 17th September – 31st October 2020