Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ Jareh Das Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight Guo Hongwei on Seeing Patterns That Don’t Exist Sherry Paik, New York Guo Hongwei's recent watercolour paintings, showing at Chambers Fine Art in New York from 3 March, trigger pareidolia—the phenomenon of seeing random objects or patterns where they do not exist.
KEWENIG was founded in 1986 as Jule Kewenig Galerie, based in Haus Bitz in Frechen near Cologne. After more than 25 years in the Rhineland the gallery is now located in Berlin. In September 2013, KEWENIG inaugurated the new gallery building in Brüderstrasse 10, the second oldest town house of Berlin on the south side of the museum island. The building’s late baroque style is complimented by the gallery’s display rooms and warehouse–an historic electric power transformation substation in Berlin-Moabit. In 2004, a second gallery was opened in a 13th century chapel in Palma de Mallorca. KEWENIG focuses on international contemporary art since the 1960s, in which the artistic dialogue between various generations and cultures plays a significant role.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now Fawz Kabra 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...
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 Insight Wim Delvoye on his art, censorship and the future Sergey Guskov At 53, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye continues to employ the shock factor with abandon. Moving between the sacred and the profane, inflections of gothic drama and high technology imbue the artist's drawings, sculptures, and installations. He frequently swings from fine art to the decorative, applying Belgian ornamental elements such as coats of...
Related Press Sean Scully takes up residence in Picasso’s former studio at Château de Boisgeloup 6 November 2019, Wallpaper* 'I'm the Donald Trump of the art world,' Sean Scully jokingly declared in the BBC documentary released in April this year about his art and life as one of the world's wealthiest living artists, in which he jets around the world on his private jet.
Related Press Mirror image: Kimsooja’s self-reflective installations take over the French city of Poitiers 12 October 2019, Wallpaper* For more than 25 years, South Korean artist Kimsooja has focused her practice on a specific element in her country's visual culture: the bottari, a colourful bundle of cloth used to wrap and transport items by hand. It is a traditional and timeless component of life in Korea, where bottari fabrics are often recycled from old silk bedcovers, a...
Related Press William Kentridge’s Indictment of Colonial and Apartheid Injustice 26 September 2019, Frieze What does it mean to speak? To speak in a way that not only broaches the moral ambiguities of silence, but also probes the limits of speech's capacity to make sense of the world. William Kentridge, the Johannesburg artist and theatre director, addresses this question in a 2018 essay titled 'Let Us Try for Once'. The text forms part of a dispersed...
Related Press Kimsooja in conversation 24 September 2019, Art Gallery NSW In the new exhibition Here we are at the Art Gallery of NSW, some of the most compelling women artists at work today consider the connections we create with others and how these connections resonate outwards through our lives. In the 2009 video A needle woman by Kimsooja, from the Gallery's collection, the figure of the artist, seen from...
Related Video & Audio Wim Delvoye: This Shit is Art 15 February 2018, Louisiana Channel Wim Delvoye was interviewed by Rasmus Quistgaard at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark in April 2017.
Related Video & Audio Kimsooja on 'Brilliant Ideas' 26 January 2017, Bloomberg Born in 1957 in Daegu, South Korea, Kimsooja started attracting the attention of the international art community when she began constructing Korean bottaris in her art – a gesture and motif that continues to appear in her work till today. Her art centers on the work and labor of women –beginning with her early sewn works, to her films and video...
