Ocula Conversation Sandrine Colard on the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest Francophone nation in Africa with vast resources and nearly 80 million inhabitants, is a place where commodities play a vital role in the national economy and the country's significance on the world stage. This is the context from which the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (24 October–24 November...
Ocula Report From 20 to 21 July 2019, Artspace Sydney held a two-day symposium that brought artists in conversation with leading curators, writers, activists, academics, diplomats, and journalists from across Asia. The symposium was the final chapter of the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition, publication, website, and Instagram project. Instigated and...
Ocula News We Are Our Infrastructure, Argues Newly Announced Shanghai Biennale Chief Curator 13 December 2019 The Power Station of Art will make a fitting location for Andrés Jaque, whose past projects expose the politics concealed by buried pipes and managed cables. Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque has been named the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, which will take place at the Power Station of Art (PSA) from 13 November...
Ocula Insight Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy. Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Keiji Uematsu was born in 1947 in Kobe, Japan and lives and works in Minoh (Osaka-fu), Japan and Dusseldorf, Germany. He received his BFA from Kobe University, Japan and was awarded the 38th Nakahara Teijiro Prize (2013); the Kobe city Cultural Prize (2010); the 6th Asago 2001 Outdoor Sculpture in Tataragi '99, Grand Prize (1999) and the 22nd Iue Culture Prize (1998). His work has been shown extensively internationally and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (2016); Otani Memorial Art Museum, Hyogo, Japan (2006); Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (2005); Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan (2003-2004); Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan (2003). Major group shows include The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2015), which travelled to Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY and Japan Society, New York NY; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (2015); The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (2014); Ohara Museum, Okayama, Japan (2013); Otani Memorial Art Museum, Hyogo, Japan (2012); Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (2012); The National Museum Osaka, Japan (2010); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (2009); The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA (2007); Asahikawa Sculpture Museum, Hokkaido, Japan (2003); Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (2003); Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, Japan (2001); Museum HausKasuya, Kanagawa, Japan (2001). His work is held in the collections of Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich, Germany; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Shiga, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY amongst others.
Text courtesy Arario Gallery.
