Ocula Conversation Sunjung Kim’s Real DMZ Project Interrogates the North and South Korea Divide Ongoing since 2012, the Real DMZ Project interrogates the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea through annual, research-based exhibitions that bring together the works of Korean and international artists. Sunjung Kim, the independent curator behind the project, conceived the idea of exploring the DMZ while curating Japanese artist...
Ocula Report Frieze Week Lowdown: London Shows to See 20 Sep 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula London's galleries and museums are gearing up for a lively October, with Frieze London and Frieze Masters running between 3 and 6 October 2019 at Regent's Park, along with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, taking place across the same dates at Somerset House; and the tenth anniversary of the Sunday Art Fair, showcasing new and emerging artists...
Ocula Insight | Video Mark Bradford’s Call for Unity at Shanghai’s Long Museum 16 August 2019 Mark Bradford walks through Mark Bradford: Los Angeles Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with...
Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz will open in December 2018 with an exhibition of works by renowned late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. In the heart of the Engadin Valley, the new space is a natural extension of the gallery’s activities in its native Switzerland.
Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz will occupy the Palace Galerie space in the centre of St. Moritz. This 4,400 sq foot exhibition space spans three floors of a building owned by Badrutt’s Palace Hotel. Architect Luis Laplace will oversee interior remodelling of the site. Laplace has worked on numerous Hauser & Wirth projects, including the interior design of Le Vieux Chalet in Gstaad, and the restoration and conversion of Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s 18th-century farm buildings into a series of contemporary exhibition spaces.
St. Moritz has long been an enclave of creativity. The surrounding area was home to the Giacometti family and Alpine painter Giovanni Segantini. Over the course of the past two centuries, a range of cultural and intellectual figures have visited and been inspired by the Upper Engadine region, from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, writer Thomas Mann and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, to a host of artists including Gerhard Richter, Julian Schnabel, Richard Long, and Joseph Beuys. Legendary connoisseur Bruno Bischofberger was the first gallerist to establish a space in St. Moritz in 1963, and the region is now home to a number of modern and contemporary galleries.
The gallery will be open to be public Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm. A series of events and educational activities will accompany the exhibitions.
Ocula Report 16th Istanbul Biennial Collapses Culture-Nature Divide 20 Sep 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula At the opening of the 16th Istanbul Biennial, The Seventh Continent (14 September–10 November 2019), curator Nicolas Bourriaud began his introduction with a clip from Werner Herzog's 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo, the story of a man who moves a steamship up a hill in the process of fulfilling a fantasy to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. The...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel 2019 13 June 2019 'The show's main sector comprises 232 of the world's leading galleries, showing painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and editioned works of the highest quality. Art Basel's unique platform for projects that transcend the limitations of a traditional art-fair stand, is curated for the eighth and final year by Gianni Jetzer,...
Ocula Photolog JingArt 2019 31 May 2019 'JINGART is committed to combining the dynamic culture of Beijing with the international art market, in the hope of building a diverse and inclusive platform for local and international exhibitors. This year, exhibitors present works ranging from modern and contemporary art, design, furniture, decorative art, and many more.' –JINGART, Press...
Related Press An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel Hyperallergic : 14 September 2019 They sounded like an odd pairing when the announcement arrived: Eva Hesse and John Chamberlain, featured in the exhibitions, Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS and John Chamberlain Baby Tycoons, at Hauser & Wirth's uptown townhouse.While they are clearly separate shows, their proximity nonetheless sets up inevitable — if...
Related Press Apple’s AR Experience Puts Products Ahead of Art Art in America : 11 September 2019 The trouble with [AR]T—an augmented reality initiative produced by Apple in collaboration with the New Museum—began when I tried to get tickets. Because it was framed as a free public art experience, I thought that the [AR]T Walk would be easily accessible, like a drop-in guided tour at a museum. But Apple's home page offered no...
Related Press Your Concise New York Art Guide for Fall 2019 Hyperallergic : 10 September 2019 As always, there are many wonderful exhibitions, film festivals, and art events taking place throughout the fall in New York. We've put together our recommendations, and hope that they encourage you to explore the artistic happenings of this great city. Focusing on museums, art nonprofits, and galleries that continue to make New York a global hub...
Related Press Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for Fall 2019 Hyperallergic : 10 September 2019 Below you'll find a fun mix of museum and gallery shows, performances, and film screenings taking place over the next few months in the greater Los Angeles area. We know how hard it is to keep track of all that's going on, so we've compiled some of the events that stood out to us and organized them according to theme and type. We're hoping there'll...
Related Video & Audio Phyllida Barlow: tilt Hauser & Wirth : 21 November 2018 ‘I wanted to refresh completely my attitude to sculpture.’ Phyllida Barlow discusses her exhibition tilt at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, and how it marks a new stage in her practice.For more than fifty years, the British artist has created sculptures and large-scale installations using a direct and intuitive process of making. She...
Related Video & Audio Berlinde De Bruyckere: Stages & Tales Hauser & Wirth : 22 September 2018 Inside her Ghent studio, Berlinde De Bruyckere discusses death, drapery and intimacy in her work ahead of her solo exhibition Stages & Tales at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.‘In our society, we are always trying to escape from death. I try to give this possibility that my work can open some dialogue to talk about this: it’s all part of us, we...
Related Video & Audio Takesada Matsutani: drop in time Hauser & Wirth : 13 September 2018 In his Paris studio, Japanese-born artist Takesada Matsutani talks about how he came to join the Gutai Art Association in 1963, moved to Paris in 1966, and how vinyl adhesive glue and graphite have sustained a practice 'streaming into infinity'.Coming of age in postwar Japan, artist Takesada Matsutani found himself longing 'to make something...
Related Video & Audio In the Studio: Mark Wallinger Hauser & Wirth : 27 August 2018 In his London studio, Mark Wallinger contemplates our desire for self-reflection and recognition, going public as an artist, and his new Mirror Painting series.Wallinger’s Mirror Paintings follow his earlier id Paintings (2015–2016) and Self-Portrait series (2007–2015). The dimensions of these tactile canvases are based on the artist’s own height...
