Simon Fujiwara at Fotomuseum Winterthur

Simon Fujiwara is participating in ‘SITUATIONS/Closure’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. In the last decades we have witnessed radical changes in our visual culture: with incredible speed, the networked image has spawned new visual forms and cultural practices – with unprecedented social and political implications. Memes and GIFS, selfies and Instagram filters, algorithms and neural networks, screenshots and drone images, net feminism and online visual activism, content moderators, influencers and attention economies: The image-based phenomena of our time have not only altered and expanded photography and its functions, but also challenged our understanding of it. For more than five years, Fotomuseum Winterthur’s format SITUATIONS has scrutinised and discussed these techniques, practices and aesthetics of post-photography.The final and concluding cluster “Closure” focuses on photographic images as both discursive starting points and final end points; as closed loops and iterations without conclusion. Be it in the form of digital data burials, the reappropriation and reoccupation of colonial spaces and viewing regimes, the photographic search for traces to make trauma visible, or the ultimate short-circuit of our networked image economy: the works presented in this cluster negotiate, irritate and challenge photography as a self-contained ideological, capitalist and colonial system. October 24, 2020 – February 14, 2021

Sarah Ortmeyer at Fabra I Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona

Sarah Ortmeyer is participating in ‘Things Things Say’, a group exhibition curated by Latitudes at Fabra I Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona. October 17, 2020 – January 17, 2021

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

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

Omer Fast at Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München / Pinakothek der Moderne

Omer Fast’s new video project is on view at the exhibition ‘Max Beckmann/Omer Fast. What can you see’ at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München / Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany). October 8, 2020 – January 10, 2021.

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

Latifa Echakhch at Kaufmann Repetto

Latifa Echakhch’s solo exhibition ‘The After’ is on view at Kaufmann Repetto (Milan) until November 14, 2020.