Ocula Conversation transmediale Artistic Director Kristoffer Gansing Looks Back Terence Sharpe, Berlin Since 2012, Kristoffer Gansing has worked as the artistic director of transmediale—a festival at the forefront of digital media and culture that analyses the current moment through self-reflection and anticipation of rapidly oscillating futures. Explorations into moving image, online culture, and the socio-political landscape of digital...
Ocula Report Taipei Lowdown: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Taipei As Taipei Dangdai returns for its second edition between 17 and 19 January 2020 at the Nangang Exhibition Center, a selection of exhibitions across the city confirm Taipei as one of the region's most exciting art hubs. Yahon Chang: Cursive OUR Museum, National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA), No. 59, Section 1, Daguan Road, Banqiao...
Ocula Insight Images from Abroad: Lada Nakonechna at Galerie EIGEN + ART Phoebe Blatton, Berlin Lada Nakonechna's solo exhibition, Images from abroad at Galerie EIGEN + ART (9 January–20 February 2020) ostensibly takes place on an end wall of the gallery. The wall bears markings hand-drawn in graphite that evoke shadows once cast by pictures, since removed, their fixtures also left in situ. Serving as a framework of variable...
Dr. Ute Eggeling and Michael Beck first established their gallery in Leipzig in 1994 and at the same time opened a branch in New York City. Fours years later, in 1998, the gallery moved to Düsseldorf, a traditional centre for the Arts since the 1960s, re-establishing themselves in a new area.
Read MoreFor more than 20 years now Beck & Eggeling has been featuring a sophisticated and ambitious art programme, with an emphasis on German Expressionism, Post-war art, especially the ZERO-period, as well as different movements of international contemporary art.
An important impulse is to act as an agent to convey art visibly to the public, to interpret art and to use it in order to shape the social discourse of our time.
Ocula Insight Frieze Sculpture 2019: See the Contemporary Art in London’s Regent's Park Ocula IGTV For three months, Frieze Sculpture (3 July–6 October) transforms Regent's Park, London , into an open gallery with sculptures by artists from all over the world. This year's edition is again curated by Clare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1992 and curator of Frieze Sculpture since 2012. This video, created for...
Ocula Photolog TEFAF New York Spring 2019 'The Fair's timing in early May is intended to coincide with auctions, exhibitions, and other fairs in New York dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design. The historic Park Avenue Armory provides the prime Manhattan location and setting for the world's leading art dealers to meet with curators and collectors.' –TEFAF New York Spring,...
Ocula Photolog TEFAF New York Spring 2018 'TEFAF New York Spring provides an unrivalled draw for a community of collectors, museum curators, and art lovers from around the world. In addition to showcasing the best of today's modern and contemporary art market, the art fair also features exhibitors focusing on jewellery, African and Oceanic art, and antiquities to provide a more...
Ocula Report On The Autobahn: A Report From North Rhine-Westphalia Stephanie Bailey, North Rhine-Westphalia Project 25/25/25 is a quintessentially “NRW” affair. Celebrating 25 Years of the Arts Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunstiftung NRW), this expansive exhibition—which started in 2014 and will continue into 2015—pairs 25 artists with a constellation of 25 municipal museums spread out over a vast territory that makes up...
Related Press What lies beneath: Portrait of Alexander Sakharoff by Alexej von Jawlensky 3 December 2019, Irish Independent Arty, not army, types became his world; the paintbrush replaced the gun. In Europe, he travelled widely and his meeting with other artists, their subject matter and techniques, meant von Jawlensky's earlier conventional style became more expressive.
Related Press How Marc Chagall’s Daughter Smuggled His Artwork to the US 23 September 2019, Hyperallergic August 22, 1941. 'As you can see, we are already in the city, at Hampton House,' writes early Modernist artist Marc Chagall to General Morris Troper and his wife Ethel shortly after his arrival to the United States. At the time, the Tropers were imminent figures of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and were instrumental in...
Related Press ‘I have always set off in new directions’ – an interview with Leiko Ikemura 28 May 2019, Apollo Working across drawing, painting and ceramics, the Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura continues to seek adventure in her art, she says, as a major exhibition opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel. The exhibition in Basel has the subtitle 'Toward New Seas' – taken from the poem 'Nach neuen Meeren' by Nietzsche. What inspires you about that phrase?...
Related Press A chameleon who never lost his feeling for clay – Lucio Fontana at the Met 15 March 2019, Apollo Was Lucio Fontana, at heart, just an easily distracted ceramicist? So one might conclude from the current exhibition at the Met. The show reveals a chameleon figure, highly responsive to the prevailing winds of art and politics. He worked across many artistic disciplines, in contexts that should have been antithetical to one another, leaving an...
