Tag: Marlene Dumas
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Marlene Dumas: Mourning Marsyas
Dumas’s tortured, grief-stricken images will haunt you long after you have left this exhibition
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Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’
The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
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Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison
Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…
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Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth
This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self
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Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
Challenging and provocative, this vast retrospective at Tate Modern charts Marlene Dumas’s long career. From the very first room, it is clear that this South African-born artist is one of the most important painters working today
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The Nakeds
Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…
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Art and politics/art or politics: the political quandary of Manifesta 10
Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 28 June – 31 October 2014
