Ocula Report Aesthetic Radicalism in 'Awakenings’ at Singapore’s National Gallery 21 Jun 2019 : Sam Gaskin for Ocula Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s, a major retrospective at Singapore's National Gallery (14 June–15 September 2019), opens emphatically in flames. At the exhibition's entrance, viewers encounter a wall-sized image from 1964 titled Burning Canvases Floating on the River. The photograph captures a performance by Lee Seung-taek, in which...
Ocula Conversation Thomas J Price: Reframing Classical Sculpture When the London-born artist Thomas J Price graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts in 2004, the school's college art prize was by no means his most notable accomplishment as an emerging artist. In 2001, Price presented his much-talked-about work Licked, a daring performance, later profiled on the BBC 4 television...
Ocula Report 'Sites Encountered': A Chorus of Five Artists at M+ Pavilion 21 Jun 2019 : Emily Verla Bovino for Ocula Without punctuation, She Said Why Me, the title of May Fung's 1989 video presents itself as a statement, rather than a question. It suggests a subject who expects no response, a person prepared to make what she can from being chosen though perplexed by the attention. The video follows a blindfolded woman, then unmasked, through late colonial-era...
Nairy Baghramian was born in 1971 in Isfahan, Iran. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
Nairy Baghramian has had numerous international solo exhibitions including at the Ecole nationale des Beaux-arts de Paris, France (2018); Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain (2018), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2017); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2017); S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium (2016); Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2014); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2014); MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013); and the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (2013). She has been the recipient of the Zurich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007). Baghramian has taken part in Documenta 14, Kassel and Greece (2017); Sculpture Project, Muenster, Germany (2017); and the 45th International Venice Biennial, Italy (2011).
