Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
Ocula Insight | Video 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...
Susanne Albrecht studied philosophy, art history, and Italian philology at the Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where she graduated in 1984 with an MA. She opened her gallery in Munich in 1986, and in 2009 she moved it to Berlin, where she now lives and works. She started her gallery with a focus on the current American art of the 1980s, showing artists like Jonathan Borofsky, Donald Baechler, Joel Fisher, Glenn Goldberg, Peter Halley, Tishan Hsu, Allan McCollum, and Saint-Clair Cemin. In addition, the gallery held exhibitions with works by Dennis Oppenheim, Julian Opie, Martin Parr, Tom Wood, and Antanas Sutkus. In 2000, Susanne Albrecht started regularly showing artists from China and Japan, and since 2010, she has been exhibiting the painter Huang Yuan Qing.
The gallery’s focus is on the classic media of painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. In her work as a gallerist, Susanne Albrecht’s motto is, 'Art always stays young'. Works of art from past epochs can today be as vibrant as more contemporary ones. With changing times, the forms may change, but not the content.
Susanne Albrecht is a member of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Galerien (BVDG).
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now RoseLee Goldberg had long been invested in contemporary performance art before her founding of the inter-disciplinary arts organisation Performa in New York in 2004. Born in Durban, South Africa, Goldberg studied political science and fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then art history at the Courtauld Institute...
Related Press Dennis Oppenheim and Josephine Halvorson shift our perspective with oversize sculptures Hyperallergic : 2 September 2016 Have you ever wanted to walk through a large shirt? Whether or not you’ve entertained the notion, it is now a real possibility at Storm King Art Center. The upstate New York sculpture park is currently home to a super-sized sculpture of a collared men’s shirt and tie, conceived by Dennis Oppenheim. The work serves as an archway to a...
Related Press A dialogue with nature: Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King Art in America : 25 July 2016 Nature has always been a source of inspiration for artists, and landscape remains a favored subject for many. In the late 1960s, a group of artists, including Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, and Dennis Oppenheim, among others, came up with the revolutionary idea to consider land itself as a medium, inherently laden as it is with...
Related Press Dennis Oppenheim, a sculptor who moved heaven and earth The New York Times : 11 July 2016 From his Minimalist earthworks created in remote places in the 1960s to Pop-Surrealist public sculptures for urban settings in the 1990s and 2000s, Dennis Oppenheim was dedicated to the proposition that art should be open to the world rather than cloistered in galleries and museums. So it is appropriate that he should be this year’s featured...
Related Press A Documentary Mines the Stories of Three Pioneers of Land Art Hyperallergic : 28 September 2015 They displaced thousands of pounds of earth, broke down mountains, rejected art galleries and dealers, and carefully constructed mythologies around their art and lives. The land artists of the late 1960s and early '70s have long been romanticized as cowboys who used their bare hands and raw physical force to create monumental art in extreme...
