SINGAPORE Singapore Art Museum Ho Tzu Nyen’s recent exhibition “Time & the Tiger” foregrounded the slippery relation between sculpture and film—two seemingly contradictory media—playing up cinematic form with a sculptural attention to the means of presentation.
Standout National Pavilions at the 60th Venice Biennale
As in previous Biennales, these artists challenge, critique, and subvert the idea of being aligned with the politics and policies of their birth or home countries—indeed, the very idea of representing a country seems somewhat archaic in our multicultural and nomadic world.
Registros de estados emocionales: Una Conversación con Mariana Sissia
Nacida en Ramallo, Buenos Aires, la artista plástica Mariana Sissia, toma al dibujo en grafito sobre papel como el motor propulsor, fundamento creativo, de toda su búsqueda artística.
Ogwado Joachim: A Synthetic Form of Us
Recipient of the 2023 Innovator Award Ogwado Joachim, who lives and works in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, has built a vibrant and community-spirited body of work in public spaces, using single-use plastics as his material of choice.
Expanded Collage: A Conversation with Laura Aldridge
Laura Aldridge builds colorful, multisensory environments infused with an atmosphere of freedom and play, and ripe with potential. In her work, textiles, ceramics, glass, and found objects come together to invite myriad interpretations and emotional responses.
The Domestic Grotesque: A Conversation with Kate Stone
Brooklyn-based Kate Stone constructs familiar, yet uncanny environments on the threshold between interior and exterior, the real and the supernatural, architecture and the body.
60th Venice Biennale
VENICE Various locations An overwhelming number of exhibiting artists have never previously participated in a Biennale, making the show a journey of discovery for visitors. It’s also the first Biennale exhibition with more dead than living artists.
Solid Memories: A Conversation with Dominique White
In “Deadweight” (currently on view at London’s Whitechapel Gallery), Dominique White uses fugitive materials to imagine an abstract future.
Shilpa Gupta
NEW YORK Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Shilpa Gupta’s recent exhibition of minimal, poetic interventions took on time, space, means of communication, and memory in ways that linger in the heart and mind.
Seeing the Real Thing: A Conversation with Peter Buggenhout
Peter Buggenhout sees all the “rubble” of our spoiled world as salvageable, remaking glass, plastic, stone, steel, and dust into the flesh and bones of unearthly sculptures born of defunct and abandoned stuff long dissolved into uselessness.