Reviews
Arctic Hysteria
Curated by Marketta Seppälä and Alanna Heiss
By Teresa Arroyo de la Cruz
There is widespread belief that in Finland people inhabiting remote northern landscapes and thousands of lakes and islands are calm, mellow and equally adaptable to the endless sun of the white nights of summer and the long weeks of darkness and sensory deprivation of [...]
Monica Bonvicini: Bet Your Sweet Life
Galerie Max Hetzler - Berlin
By Helmut Schuster
What began in the year 2007 as a temporary location for the Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin (originally in Stuttgart and Cologne) is now the major gallery’s sole, central exhibition location. In Berlin, where the crisis in the art market has been successfully resisted by the establishment of new [...]
Marcus Antonius Jansen: Zeitgeist
101/exhibit - Miami
By Janet Batet
Marcus Antonius Jansen is an urban artist. Chronicler of the metropolitan lifestyle and its surroundings, Jansen is interested in exploring the contemporary human condition trapped in the knotty system of the city. “Zeitgeist,” his exhibition at the 101/exhibit gallery, is a vast survey on the latest production of the artist.
Jansen’s childhood [...]
Leslie Gabaldón and María Cristina Carbonell
Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Dot Fiftyone presented solo exhibitions of two female artists: Leslie Gabaldón’s Goody Two-Shoes and María Cristina Carbonell’s An Idyllic World. On the first floor, Leslie Gabaldón continued with her theme of domestic life in her new series Goody Two-Shoes. The title is a phrase that has become part [...]
Vargas-Suárez Universal - Cosmodrome Vectors
Think21 Gallery - Brussels, Belgium
Curated by Lara Pan
A Trip to Baikonur with Vermeer
By Ekaterina Rietz-Rakul and Steve Schepens
Artists of the seventeenth century were fascinated with the development of science facilitated by the invention of the telescope and microscope. Scientists and the work they were undertaking became a subject of painting, and since then the interest [...]
Shahzia Sikander
Pilar Corrias Gallery - London
By Michele Robecchi
Praise for Pilar Corrias Gallery is well-deserved. In little more than a year, the gallery has established itself as a driving force amongst the very competitive UK art scene, introducing young guns such as Patrick Tuttofuoco, rejuvenating old masters like Miguel Barcelò, and bringing to London artists [...]
Arte Correo
Museo de la Ciudad de México
Curated by Mauricio Marcín
By Lourdes Morales
The “Arte Correo” (Postal Art) exhibition -presented at the Museo de la Ciudad de México- assembles the work of more than two hundred artists, including Maris Bustamante, Ulises Carrión, Mauricio Guerrero, Mathias Goeritz, César Espinosa, Felipe Ehrenberg, Aarón Flores, Pedro Friedeberg, Marcos Kurtycs, Magali Lara, [...]
QUICKSCAN NL#01 - Photography Now
Nederlands Fotomuseum - Rotterdam
Curated by Frits Gierstberg
By Catherine Somzé
Along with design and architecture, photography constitutes one of the most challenging and vigorous artistic fields in the Netherlands. “QUICKSCAN NL#01″ is the first edition in a series of survey exhibitions to be held every four years at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. With approximately 150 works [...]
Fiona Tan
Museum voor Moderne Kunst - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Curated by Mirjam Westen
Disorient relocated
By Caridad Botella
Fiona Tan (1966) represented the Netherlands in the past edition of the Venice Biennale with the double projection Disorient. The MMKA brings it together with the photo series West Pier I-V and early video installations, such as Slapstick (1998) and Rain (2001), [...]
Fabian Marti
Trudelhaus - Baden, Switzerland
By Oliver Kielmayer
Similar to his recent presentations at Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich and the Swiss Institute in Rome, Fabian Marti (*1979) again merges single works such as photographs, sculptures and video into a large, site-specific display. At Trudelhaus, this is ever so challenging, as the gallery comprises three rather small rooms [...]
