There are hundreds of exhibitions in Venice during the Biennale. Alongside the main exhibition in the Giardini and Arsenale, there are 90 national presentations, many in nearby pavilions in the Giardini and in spaces around the Arsenale, but also dotted throughout Venice. Then there are the official collateral exhibitions in museums and galleries,...

Five hundred acres of voluptuous hillsides are peppered with wandering eyes, concrete lumps and hollowed Hepworths, all cohabiting the landscape with grazing sheep. Yorkshire Sculpture Park is perhaps one of the only sites in the UK where you might confuse an ovine watering trough with a modernist sculpture. Now it also houses the only chapel where...

A new gallery has opened in the rolling green paradise of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Or rather an ace cafe with a space for art. The new Weston building, a visitor centre designed by architects Feilden Fowles, is light-filled, airy and undoubtedly beautiful, its concrete and polished plaster tinted to match the sandstone bedrock of this glorious...

Sodi (b.1970 Mexico City, MX) is predominantly known for his roughly-textured relief paintings. In this new series he brings together two contrasting colours in the same composition for the first time, in reference to universal notions of opposing forces.

When Donald Judd asked Yun Hyong-Keun what art is, the latter responded that art is 'artless and bland.' To some viewers of Yun's paintings—which have been associated with Korean Dansaekhwa—these words may serve as curious descriptors of the late artist's striking, monochromatic canvases.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri—It is safe to say that the United States is in the midst of a deep crisis of identity, fueled by nationalism, fear-mongering across the political spectrum, and denial about the legacy of migration. Worlds Otherwise Hidden at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City features work by three artists who materially and...

Between Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup, there's been plenty of distractions from London's unusually Mediterranean weather of late.

In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments abroad. The mood of this band of innovators was eclectic — and electric — as demonstrated by "Gutai: 1953-1959," an ambitious show at Fergus...

Like the flags being flattened against one another, Kimsooja's nom de plume is a flattening, a collapsing of her birth name — Kim Soo-Ja.She became Kimsooja for the sake of a URL and quite liked that she'd found an 'anarchist's name' that was without gender, marital status, nationality or religious identity.Kimsooja is a conceptual...

The Belgian dealer and tastemaker extraordinaire Axel Vervoordt has always gone far beyond mere antiquaire. He's designed interiors for a slew of boldface names—from Mick Jagger to Givenchy—and long staged show-stopping exhibitions during the Venice Biennale (in one case, he draped the entire façade of a palazzo with a monumental El...

There was a heightened hush within the pristine premises of Axel Vervoordt Gallery's Hong Kong space. Lining the walls of the exhibition Facades were seven of German artist Markus Brunetti's hyper-realistic photographic prints of European medieval church and cathedral facades, each rendered in an uncompromising, straight-on perspective, standing at...

Art Cologne is the oldest fair of its kind having started with just 18 galleries in 1967. Today around 200 commercial galleries come together each spring to present works by over 2,000 artists, covering all price segments from well-known blue-chip practitioners to the newest young and emerging artists. This year's edition runs from 26 to 29 April...

There’s nary an Anish Kapoor to be found at the 35th edition of Art Brussels. It’s an unusual observation for such an established fixture on the art fair calendar – but Art Brussels has proven itself to be no ordinary fair. With only a handful of blue-chip galleries present, Art Brussels has carved out a role as one of Europe’s leading discovery...

The Parisian art world will resound to a decidedly African beat when Bernard Arnault's Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, hosts a three-part exhibition devoted to African art: Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier (26 April-28 August), It will include a show of contemporary South African art from the foundation's collection and a selection of works from the...

When she first performed A Needle Woman in 1999 in Japan, Korean artist Kimsooja was standing still in the middle of a crowd in a busy street of Tokyo. Later, she repeated this performance many times in different cities of the world, describing herself metaphorically as a needle passing through the fabric of a place and its people.

Pakistani artist Rashid Rana was awarded the Asia Society’s 2017 Asia Arts Award, which took place on March 23 in Hong Kong. The prize celebrates artists and art professionals for their significant contributions to contemporary art in Asia. Rana is known for his sculptures, videos and photographs that address topics including gender representation,...

The Axel Vervoordt Gallery opens its new flagship space in a 19th-century distillery on the outskirts of Antwerp today, 8 March. The Kanaal gallery is in a mixed-use cultural and residential complex—or a 'city in the country' as the gallery's founder Boris Vervoordt describes it—that the Axel Vervoordt Company has spent the past five...

The Armory Show, opening to the public today and running through 5 March at Piers 92 and 94 on the west side of Manhattan, is the subject of scrutiny this year, the first fully under new executive director Benjamin Genocchio, and he has taken pains to distinguish the fair from its global competitors. 'This is not a franchise fair,' Genocchio told...

On my way to Günther Uecker's (b. 1930) studio in Düsseldorf, I manage to lose my way, and when I ask for directions a helpful passerby points past a twisting trio of Frank Gehry buildings and says, 'Take a right at Uecker Platz.' Günther Uecker may have the honour of having a whole square christened after him, but he's not a grand figure. When I...

Yun began developing his characteristic, nearly monochromatic, paintings in the late 60's and early 70's by placing canvas on the floor of his studio and adding stripes of umber and/or ultramarine pigment diluted with turpentine that bled across the canvas. (Umber is the color of earth; ultramarine the color of water.)

Eight years ago, working in his studio in Barcelona, Bosco Sodi accidentally dropped a bucket of his sawdust, pigment and binder mixture on the floor. ‘I didn’t have time to clean it because I had to leave for vacation,’ he recalls. ‘When I came back it was all cracked, but I liked it.’That accident became the...

One would think that the work of a photographer who has captured the same location for the last three decades would become redundant or tiresome. However, renowned South Korean photographer Bae Bien-U proves that endless beauty can be found in even the most repetitive of subjects. In his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Axel Vervoordt Gallery,...

The downpour of rain outside Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong’s Central district on a recent day was a fitting accompaniment to the artwork currently on display there. The city’s unpredictable weather had also made it difficult for Brussels-based artist Angel Vergara during an earlier attempt at creating his site-specific...

Unlimited, the Art Basel platform allotted for large-scale and unconventional artworks, will be showing a record 88 projects from participating galleries this year. Gianni Jetzer, curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, is heading the section for the fifth year in a row.