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Hussein Chalayan
17 September - 23 October
Spring Projects will present B-Side, an exhibition that will comprise works that have never be shown before and pieces that will be represented in exciting new ways.
The show will display Chalayan's explorations into the body, movement and voyurism and highlight his fascination with form and process.
Spring Projects
John Latham
Join us for the DVD launch of John Latham: Films 1960-1971
Saturday 4 September, Whitechapel Gallery
Performance by David Toop 2pm
DVD Launch 4pm
The DVD makes all of John Latham’s films from the 1960s and 1970s available for the first time, along with extras including new audio commentaries and film documentation of other Latham projects and performances from the period. Also included is a publication with a specially commissioned essay on Latham’s films by curator Mark Webber and further information on Latham’s life and work. Published by Lisson Gallery and LUX.
Composer and author David Toop will perform a specially commissioned score based on the concepts of Flat Time and frequency developed by John Latham. The work has been commissioned by the Ligatus Research Centre at the University of the Arts, London and is supported with funds from the PRS Foundation.
The launch coincides with the end of the exhibition John Latham: Anarchive.
Whitechapel Gallery
Richard Deacon
The Missing Part
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France
4 June – 19 September 2010
Richard Deacon will be presenting a major survey show comprising over a hundred works from the artist's workshop and private and public collections in France and around the world. The exhibition has been mounted in close collaboration with the artist, who designed its scenography to produce a monumental sculpture specially created for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary arts' nave. Occupying 1,000 square meters of space, offering the visitor a retrospective of the piece since its beginning stages in the 1970's; the exhibit includes graphic work and archives of the first performances presented, shown here for the first time alongside his most recent pieces.
MAMCS
Ryan Gander
Preisträger "Zurich Art Prize" 09
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
10 June – 1 August 2010
Ryan Gander is realising his first comprehensive solo exhibition at Haus Konstruktivin. Alongside older works, he will also exhibit a new body of work that was conceived specifically for the Zurich museum. The artist draws on Art History to create new images and experiential spaces. This method of transferring art history to the present day also corresponds to Haus Konstruktiv area of concern, which involves the interfaces between a cultural heritage and current reactions to that heritage being repeatedly demonstrated from different perspectives.
Haus Konstruktiv
Rodney Graham
Through the Forest
Kunstmuseum Basel/Museum für Gegenwartskunst
13 June – 26 September, 2010
This exhibition will bring together circa 100 works by the Canadian artist produced between 1978 and 2009 spanning between a variety of media including video, photographs and sculpture. The show is organized by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), where it was shown earlier in the year and also in collaboration with the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel and the Kunsthalle Hamburg, opening in October.
Kunstmuseum Basel
Sol LeWitt
Hartford's Native Son
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
12 June – 15 August, 2010
As a child, Sol Lewitt attended the Wadsworth Atheneum art classes. This exhibition attempts to show Lewitt's major contribution and influence to the contemporary art. The show will include several prints, sculpture, photographs and drawings, including four large-scale wall drawings.
Wadsworth Atheneum
Cory Arcangel and Haroon Mirza
Systematic
Zabludowicz Collection, London
1 July – 15 August, 2010
Cory Arcangel and Haroon Mirza will feature in an exhibition of works by eight international artists who use natural and artificial systems. Each of the works constitutes a system and exploits the emergent properties, accidents or failures of that system to produce its effects. Cory Arcangel will present Apple GarageBand autotune Demonstration, 2007 and Haroon Mirza has created two site-specific assemblages of audiovisual equipment, Paradise Loft, 2009, comprising an artwork by Giles Round.
Zabludowicz Collection
Tony Cragg
The Luminous West
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
10 July – 23 October, 2010
Tony Cragg will be part of The Luminous West exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. A site assessment of the art landscape in the Rhineland and Bonn's largest exhibition project ever that gathers works by 33 artists, both young and established. The participating artists are not presented in the exhibition with individual works, but rather with entire rooms.
An extensively illustrated catalogue will be published containing a main text by Jürgen Harten, essays on the art landscape in the Rhineland by Barbara Engelbach, Douglas Fogle, Günter Herzog and Catrin Lorch, as well as short entries on all participating artists.
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky
Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2 July 2010– 13 February 2011
This exhibition includes works of Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky and is based on grounds of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography through perambulations and digressions in photographic works from the 1960s and 1970s alongside more traditional powers of description.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anish Kapoor
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
16 March —12 October 2010
After the acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Anish Kapoor's monographic exhibition is now presented at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao organised in close collaboration with the artist. The works on display are mostly large format pieces created in the last 30 years and which hold a strong relation with the surrounding architecture and audience interaction.
Guggenheim Bilbao
Anish Kapoor
Sexuality and Transcendence
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
24 April —19 September 2010
This international group show is focused on the complex relationship between sexuality and transcendence ranging from the rawest form of sex to the most sublime form of transcendence with all their interlacing meanings. The exhibition combines works by leading international artists including Anish Kapoor.
PinchukArtCentre
John Latham
Anarchive
Whitechapel Gallery
2 April —5 September 2010
The remarkable archive of British artist John Latham (1921–2006) is explored through this exhibition inspired by his engagement with Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1880). The exhibition explores the fundamental concepts that shaped his art, also including material from Flat Time House, the artist's residency in South London and now home to the John Latham Archive.
Whitechapel Gallery
Gerard Byrne
Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland
24 April — 30 September 2010
For the exhibition, Lismore Castle Arts has co-commissioned (with the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) an ambitious new work by Byrne. A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not is manifested as four separate films about Minimalism, shown parallel to on another. At Lismore Castle Arts new off-site project space, Bryne will present the work Untitled Acting Exercise (in the third person), which records the efforts of two actors and a director attempting to understand a script through dramatisation. This work was commissioned for the 2008 Sydney Biennale and will be shown as single projection in the 19th Century former Church Hall.
Lismore Castle
Julian Opie
2010 World Expo, Shangai
1 May —31 October
Julian Opie's 'Suzanne walking in skirt and top', 2005, '3 Men Walking', 2008 and 'Ruth Walking in Jeans', 2008 are the three works that will embellish the site of World Expo Shangai under the motto "Better City, Better Life," questioning the issues of sustainable and harmonious urban living.
Expo 2010 Shanghai
Sean Snyder
The Real War
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv
18 May —31 July 2010
The exhibition 'The Real War' is conceived as a visual narrative/essay using archival 'studies' unfolding
from the artist's archive into a series of analytic studies dealing with the visual presence and reception of
mediated images, bearing the question, "What is the role of digital image production and photography in an era of technologically produced images, youtube and citizen journalism?". Galit Eilat curates this exhibition.
The Israeli Center for Digital Art
Art & Language and Jonathan Monk
Seconde Main
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
25 March —24 October 2010
This group exhibition based on the permanent collection of Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, revisits the same theme of appropriation, imitation, copy and reproduction in order to explore the object of creativity and diversity of interpretation. It proposes a new outlook that approaches the second concern of a 'second' signature.
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Christian Jankowski, Rodney Graham, Shirazeh Houshiary
17th Sydney Biennial
Cockatoo Island Sydney
12 May —1 August
Showing alongside other international artists, Christian Jankowski, Rodney Graham and Shirazeh Houshiary have been invited to be part of the 17th Biennale of Sydney. This event will take place in venues and sites around Sydney Harbor, including Pier 2/3, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Opera House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Artspace and the Gallery of new South Wales.
17th Sydney Biennial
Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg
Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
13 May - 3 October 2010
Anish Kapoor and Tony Cragg will be featuring in this group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The show will explore the connections and responses to Rudolf Steiner's ideas that can be found in the work of contemporary visual artists through selective presentations and specially conceived installations.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
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