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Lisson Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of Lisson Gallery Milan, its first international space in its 44 year history.The gallery will launch in September 2011 with a group show curated by Lisson artist Ryan Gander.
Lisson Gallery Milan will be headed by Director Annette Hofmann. Annette was part of the Lisson Gallery team in London from 1998 to 2006 and since then has been working with Lisson on a consultancy basis. The foundation of Lisson Gallery Milan results from this strong and fruitful working relationship.
An Evening with Dan Graham
Monday, 23 January, 2012
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2, 7pm
In conversation with Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
MoMA
Haroon Mirza in Conversation
Saturday, 28 January, 2012
Spike Island, 2pm
The artist discusses his work and wider interests with Spike Island director Helen Legg
Spike Island
Santiago Sierra ‘In Conversation’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Tuesday 31 January, 2012, 12.30 – 13.30
29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5BY
Lisson Gallery is proud to present a programme of free lunchtime talks which offer a unique opportunity to hear artists, cultural figures and our curatorial team discuss art and its broader content.
The thirteenth taken in the series will be a conversation between Santiago Sierra and Hans Ulrich Obrist about works in Santiago Sierra’s solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery.
Free admission. Booking is essential.
rsvp@lissongallery.com
Richard Deacon in association with Matthew Perry
Louis Vuitton Island Maison, Marina Bay, Singapore
Louis Vuitton has unveiled a permanent installation by Richard Deacon.
For this project the artist has created a hanging sculpture comprised of three interlocking elements. Upper Strut, inspired by the surface of the water, will be one of the first artworks by Deacon to be suspended, and on a scale never accomplished before.
Louis Vuitton Island Maison
Ai Weiwei
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk
Until 12 February 2012
Ai Weiwei will be the 12th artist in the series ‘Louisiana Contemporary’ following his participation in the ‘Made in China’ exhibition in 2008.
This exhibition will comprise recent work by the artist who showed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall earlier this year.
Louisiana Museum
Art & Language
ERRE, Variations Labyrinthiques
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Until 5 March 2012
Curated by Hélène Guenin and Guillaume Désanges, this international group exhibition, including work by Art & Language, uses the model of the labyrinth to tackle notions of straying, loss and wandering, and their various representations in contemporary art.
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Ai Weiwei - Dropping the Urn
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Until 18 March 2012
The exhibition will feature a selection of iconic ceramic works, photographs and video by Beijing based artist Ai Weiwei. The display is organized by Arcadia University Art Gallery and supported by The Pew Centre for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.
V&A
Sound Spill Seminar
Saturday, 24 March, 2012
Spike Island, 2pm till late
This day of talks and performances explores ideas around acoustic cultures inspired by the work of Haroon Mirza. Please see the website for more information and a full schedule of the day's events.
Spike Island
Spencer Finch: Lunar
Bluhm Family Terrace, The Art Institute of Chicago
Until 8 April 2012
Spencer Finch will also install a new project, ‘Lunar’, at the Art Institute of Chicago. For the open air terrace at the Institute, Finch has created a solar-powered ‘lunar lander module’ that uses energy from the sun to power a geodesic dome-shaped object positioned on top of the lander. ‘Lunar’ will glow during the evening hours with the exact light measured from the full moon over Chicago in July 2011.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Ai Weiwei, Lee Ufan,Tatsuo Miyajima, Julian Opie
The Art of Deceleration
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (touring exhibition), Germany
Until 9 April 2012
This major group exhibition revolves around the theme of acceleration / deceleration in contemporary society. Through different media, artists have responded to this subject focusing on issues of digitization, global communication and other specific phenomena such as ecological disaster and financial crisis. Including work by: Ai Weiwei, Lee Ufan, Tatsuo Miyajima and Julian Opie
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Rashid Rana
Everything Is Happening At Once
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
14 January — 31 March 2012
Touring from Cornerhouse, Manchester, Everything Is Happening At Once is Rashid Rana’s first major UK public solo exhibition.
The exhibition includes new and recent work from the last six years that cuts across conventional notions of the scale, status and dimensionality of the photographic object, opening up its potential to represent cultural, social and physical realities.
NEA
Santiago Sierra
Films and Works
Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
20 January — 10 April 2012
Films and Works will be the first presentation of the complete collection of Santiago Sierra’s films and video documentation up to his most recent project Destroyed Word.
The exhibition comprises 48 videos as well as the NO Global Tour project, bringing the monumental sculpture NO from New York to Reykjavík.
Reykjavík Art Museum
Haroon Mirza
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Spike Island, Bristol, UK
21 January — 18 March 2012
Organised in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Mirza will present a new body of work in an exhibition which will be his largest show to date.
The exhibition will travel Bonniers Konsthall (Nov 2012) and MIMA (Mar 2013) and will be accompanied by a catalogue.
Spike Island
Ai Weiwei
Interlacing
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
21 February — 29 April 2012
First shown at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Interlacing is a major exhibition of photography and video and will be on view at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
The exhibition focuses on works that witness the radical urban transformation of China presented together with other projects such as Fairytale and countless blog and cell phone photographs.
Jeu de Paume
Ryan Gander
The Magnificent Seven
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
12 March — 22 April 2012
As part of the Capp Street Project residency programme, Ryan Gander will present a solo exhibition of new work at CCA Wattis Institute.
Graduate Lecture Series
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 7 – 9pm
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, USA
To accompany Ryan Gander’s solo exhibition, the CCA Wattis Institute will also host a lecture by the artist in the Timken Lecture Hall.
CCA Wattis