The range of media in Arena (8 July–17 September 2017), a joint exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) organised with Gwangju Museum of Art, has the potential to confuse. Jo Hsiao, the exhibition's curator, might argue that this is precisely the point. With a curatorial statement that makes reference to The World as a Stage, Tate Modern's...

Formed in 2011, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot is known for organising unauthorised and provocative guerrilla punk rock performances in unconventional public places, which are transformed into music videos and posted on the internet. Most notorious of these was a February 2012 staging of the song 'Punk Prayer' at Moscow's Cathedral of...

Artist and musician Hiwa K was born in Sulaymaniyah, the cultural hub of Iraqi Kurdistan known as home to many Kurdish poets and writers. At the age of 25, before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he left the country and travelled via Iran, Turkey, Greece and other countries to Germany, where he began studies in music and guitar with Flamenco master Paco...

To find 'Athens' in the Kassel chapter of documenta 14, Learning from Athens, is easy. At the Fridericianum, one of documenta's central venues in the German city, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST) is presenting an exhibition of works from its collection, titled ANTIDORON. The title, which can refer to blessed yet...