Category: Articles

  • Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8)

    Emphasising postcolonial themes of displacement, migration and return, privilege and exploitation, APT8 includes more than 80 artists and collectives from 36 countries across a vast and culturally diverse zone to find artists who are often new to western audiences

  • Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei

    This exhibition of more than 300 works explores the formal similarities and conceptual differences between Warhol and Ai – from their approaches to studio practice, their interest in their native societies, their experiments with celebrity, and their popular appeal

  • Kiki Kogelnik: Works from 1962-68

    With her joyful neon palette and playful style, Kogelnik is often considered Austria’s pre-eminent pop artist. The powerful works in this show explore a period in which she moved to New York, rubbing shoulders with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein

  • Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art

    This exhibition includes some beautiful and touching examples of artistic hero worship, but the underlying concept is a strained addition to the misleading story of the origin of modern art

  • Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky

    With works by JMW Turner and constant reference to the surrealist artist Henri Michaux, Koester takes us on a journey of exploration through his influences

  • Chillida: Rhythm–Time–Silence

    Three monumental sculptures of corten steel and granite, made in the closing years of Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida’s life, are now on show in Britain for the first time

  • Anri Sala: Answer Me

    Sound, music and history are brought together in this comprehensive look at Sala’s work, which includes videos, video installations, drawings and sculptures made over a 15-year period

  • Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway

    Astrup described himself as a naive naturalist painter, and his richly colourful landscapes are potent with narrative. This is the first major show outside Norway for an artist who has been overshadowed by his countryman Edvard Munch

  • Kaleidoscope: The Indivisible Present

    In the first of its exhibitions to celebrate its 50th birthday, the museum focuses on the examination of time and temporality by artists including Yoko Ono, Pierre Huyghe and Elizabeth Price

  • Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic

    Breaking the boundaries between 2D and 3D works, Betty Woodman’s ceramic assemblages resemble stage sets for dreams, filled with figments and fragments of imagination and memory

  • Jerwood Encounters: Common Property

    Through the work of six artists, including three new commissions, this exhibition looks at the thorny issue of copyright around art production

  • Simon Fujiwara: White Day

    A Harvey Nichols paper bag, a single branch from a plum tree and a pile of shaved fur coats are some of the objects Fujiwara uses to challenge our common perceptions and stereotypes, as he turns the gallery into a…

  • Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists

    By revisiting a key exhibition of German artists from 1974, the ICA reflects on art, its relationship to capitalism, and its potential to incite reform

  • Maud Sulter, Syrcas

    The Scottish-Ghanaian artist placed black women at the centre of the frame, metaphorically and literally. This exhibition of her series Syrcas shows her use of photomontage to disrupt European images by covering them with traditional African objects and artworks

  • Line

    Spanning a wide range of media, this exhibition takes works created since 1969 by 15 artists, each of whom translates the same concept – the form of the line – into a distinct, novel idea

  • When silence falls

    This is a group exhibition of work by contemporary artists exploring humanitarian crimes. It presents us with alternative perspectives on history, including those of minority groups or people with little power, and the exhibition is an example of how the…

  • Ivan Sotnikov: Painting of the 20th – 21st Century

    A private museum in St Petersburg showcases the works of an important local artist who died last year

  • Francesca Woodman: On Being An Angel

    Influenced by surrealism and the Gothic revival, as well as speaking to the contemporary 1970s feminist zeitgeist, Francesca Woodman’s photography offers a timeless representation of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood

  • Munch: Van Gogh

    This thorough exhibition explores parallels in the lives and works of Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, two artists whose lives were plagued by anguish, but whose works are loved for their colour and humanity

  • Risk

    From the work of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat, to the political statements of Ai Weiwei, to Lucy Wood’s improbably dangerous glass trampoline, this exhibition explores risk in art

  • Shigeo Anzaï: Index I

    This solo show explores the archives of photographer Shigeo Anzaï, looking at his role in documenting artists making and installing works in exhibitions in Japan between 1970 and 1976, starting with the 10th Tokyo Biennale

  • IC-98: Drawn into Tomorrow

    Finnish duo IC-98’s large-scale projections, combining intricate hand drawing with digital animation, take us into a maelstrom of waves, ruin and woodland, leaving us to contemplate the treachery of nature, and our tiny place in the world

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2015

    Although its subtext was sales, fair week provided a swirl for the senses. A dizzying array of work was attended by more than 35,000 artists, curators, collectors and viewers (77,000 if you include the satellite fairs). ABMB 2015 remained, by…

  • Making Africa: a continent of contemporary design

    This exhibition explores the impact new technology has had on the work of African artists, designers and architects, and Guggenheim Bilbao curator Petra Joos talks about its implications