Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
The Mori Art Museum, is a large privately endowed museum dedicated to contemporary art. The museum is located at the top of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, a 54-storey skyscraper in the Roppongi entertainment district. The museum interior was designed by Richard Gluckman. The museum does not exhibit a permanent exhibition but does run an ambitious program of solo shows and thematic exhibitions.
Related Press 'Charming Journey': India’s N. S. Harsha at Mori Art Museum – artist profile Art Radar Journal : 9 May 2017 Charming Journey at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo marks Indian artist N. S. Harsha's first mid-career retrospective. Encompassing 75 major works made by N. S. Harsha since 1995, this retrospective explores the tensions between traditional and contemporary, individual and collective, earthy and cosmic in the artist's work. The exhibition, which also...
Related Press Big impressions live in the details The Japan Times : 6 March 2017 Distracted by the frenzy of today's hyper-connected world, many of us can easily overlook the everyday incidents that encourage smiles or offer simple affirmations of life being lived.The India-born artist N.S. Harsha, however, thrives on such observations. As his solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum demonstrates, Harsha's work celebrates such...
Related Press Introducing the Apollo 40 under 40 Asia Pacific Apollo : 1 September 2016 Who are the people under 40 making waves in the art world? That was the question we asked ourselves in 2014, when we launched the first Apollo 40 Under 40. That year’s list, which focused on Europe, and the subsequent 40 Under 40 USA, weren’t meant as power lists but as surveys of talent: of young people who have firmly established...
Related Press An exhibition of things that make you go ‘hmm’ Japan Times : 14 April 2016 The subtitle of the Mori Art Museum’s triennial Roppongi Crossing exhibition three years ago was Out of Doubt. This year it’s My Body, Your Voice. In 2013, the group show was inflected by the destruction caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and scepticism about the handling of the nuclear meltdown in...
