Ocula Conversation Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’ Stephanie Bailey, Singapore STPI's Emi Eu reflects on S.E.A. Focus, an STPI project platforming artists and galleries from Southeast Asia, in the wake of Art Stage's decline in 2019 and ahead of the launch of Singapore's new art fair, Art SG, in October 2020.
Ocula Report New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata: Shows to See Kanika Anand, New Delhi With India Art Fair set to open amid nationwide protests, Kanika Anand introduces shows in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata that express shifting socio-political identities, modes of resistance, and explorations of place-making.
Ocula Insight Images from Abroad: Lada Nakonechna at Galerie EIGEN + ART Phoebe Blatton, Berlin Images from abroad , Lada Nakonechna's solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin, considers the barriers that exist between depictions of conflict and their viewers.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Conversation Hito Steyerl: How To Build a Sustainable Art World Despina Zefkili, London 'A Picture of War is Not War', we read in Hito Steyerl 's iconic film November (2004), an essayistic Super 8 film tackling the definition of terrorism constructed around the figure of the artist's best friend Andrea Wolf, who was killed as a terrorist in 1998 in Eastern Anatolia after she joined the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Mixing...
Ocula Photolog Frieze Masters 2019 'Coinciding with Frieze London, Frieze Masters features more than 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography and sculpture.' –Frieze Masters (3–6 October 2019).
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2019 'Frieze London brings together more than 160 galleries from 36 countries, representing the fair's most international edition since its launch. Introducing new curators and sections showcasing performance, emerging artists and the contemporary significance of complex art genealogies and colonial legacies, Frieze London creates an exceptional moment...
Related Press Erika Verzutti’s Melancholy New Work Seduces and Repels in Equal Measure 21 November 2019, Frieze 'Carne Sintética' (Cultured Meat), Erika Verzutti's latest exhibition at Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, features a new series comprising 15 bronze, papier-mâché and clay reliefs that conjure an array of chunky, crunchy and creamy-looking foodstuffs, showcasing the artist's technical skill across a range of media.
Related Press Artist Hito Steyerl Rebukes German Institutions, Acting in Solidarity With Kurdish People 30 October 2019, Hyperallergic Artist Hito Steyerl demands that state-run German art institutions stop showing her work as part of the country's "external cultural diplomacy" until the country changes its policy toward the Turkish invasion of Kurdish areas in northeast Syria. Steyerl made her demand in a performance piece on Saturday, October 26, at the Maxim-Gorki...
Related Press Up in Arms: Hito Steyerl at the Park Avenue Armory 3 July 2019, Art in America When you hear a reference to "the Armory" or "the Arsenale," are you more likely to think of an exhibition space, an art fair, a biennale—or a militarized building constructed to house a stockpile of weapons? In her exhibition Drill , on view through July 21 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Hito Steyerl reminds us...
Related Press Hito Steyerl’s Indictment of the Park Avenue Armory’s Ties to Gun Violence Misses Its Mark 1 July 2019, Hyperallergic If somebody were to write a new Book of Revelation for the 21st century, it would read a lot like the multimedia miseries of Hito Steyerl. The 53-year-old German artist is foremost a researcher interested in the effects of globalization, the onslaught of technology, the future of labor, and our susceptibility to abuses under this new...
