Ocula Conversation transmediale Artistic Director Kristoffer Gansing Looks Back Terence Sharpe, Berlin Since 2012, Kristoffer Gansing has worked as the artistic director of transmediale—a festival at the forefront of digital media and culture that analyses the current moment through self-reflection and anticipation of rapidly oscillating futures. Explorations into moving image, online culture, and the socio-political landscape of digital...
Ocula Report Taipei Lowdown: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Taipei As Taipei Dangdai returns for its second edition between 17 and 19 January 2020 at the Nangang Exhibition Center, a selection of exhibitions across the city confirm Taipei as one of the region's most exciting art hubs. Yahon Chang: Cursive OUR Museum, National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA), No. 59, Section 1, Daguan Road, Banqiao...
Ocula Insight Images from Abroad: Lada Nakonechna at Galerie EIGEN + ART Phoebe Blatton, Berlin Lada Nakonechna's solo exhibition, Images from abroad at Galerie EIGEN + ART (9 January–20 February 2020) ostensibly takes place on an end wall of the gallery. The wall bears markings hand-drawn in graphite that evoke shadows once cast by pictures, since removed, their fixtures also left in situ. Serving as a framework of variable...
Valletta Contemporary, designed by its director, artist and architect, Norbert Francis Attard and run by Meta Foundation, a non-profit organisation, opened in 2018 as Malta’s newest space for contemporary art. Located at the lower East End of Valletta, the space was conceived as a home for cultural dialogue. With its lofty volumes and pared-back materiality, the gallery houses contemporary art of varying scope, size and medium. Visitors are exposed to works by both world-renowned and emerging contemporary artists, with exhibitions that showcase a range of artistic disciplines and themes–from fine art photography, to light sculpture, video art, and large-scale installations. Valletta Contemporary runs regular outreach programs, as well as diverse educational and knowledge-sharing initiatives which involves both practising artists as well as the local community. Valletta Contemporary is a place where one may experience the uniting of the past and the present; that is, contemporary art in a city with a rich historical background.
