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Wednesday, December 11 | 5pm
 

Lombardi—Kargl is pleased to invite you to the artist talk Question and Answer with Thomas Locher and Dario Wokurka moderated by Vanessa Joan Müller.
 

My memory isn´t mine

KRUPA Art Foundation, Wroclaw 
November 23, 2024 – March 2, 2025

www.krupaartfoundation.pl

The exhibition My Memory Isn’t Mine delves into the complex relationship between human memory and media in the digital age, exploring the boundaries between organic and mechanical memory. It examines how memories and memory itself are stored, represented, and communicated through contemporary media, revealing their integrality in both everyday support and potential threats. Central to this exploration are phenomena and traditions of inheritance, focusing on how memories and knowledge are passed down through generations, shaping the spiritual side of collective memory and identity. The works presented in the exhibition question the transmission of information, the inheritance of trauma, fluid definitions of domesticity, and belonging to geographical and ideological territories. They emphasize the importance of mindful archiving of materials, symbols, memories, and experiences in the era of digital communication.

Artitsts: Paweł Baśnik, Radek Brousil, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Anaïs Chabeur, Ewa Doroszenko, Miłosz Flis, Mariia Lemperk, Gwendolyn Lootens, Mariusz Maślanka, Adam Rouhana, Kristina Sedlerova Villanen, Iza Opiełka, Hussein Shikha, Camila Sposati, Wiktoria, Barbara Żłobińska

Curator: Natalia Barczyńska

https://krupaartfoundation.pl/en/my-memory-isnt-mine/ 

Nedko Solakov

A Cornered (Future) Solo Show #4 

National Gallery Bulgaria | 31.05.2024-12.01.2025

Nedko Solakov, who lives in Sofia, is one of the most renowned artists of his generation. He has an impressive professional biography with over 100 solo exhibitions in illustrious museums across Europe, America, and Asia. He has also had long-standing collaborations with prestigious international galleries and has participated in numerous international biennales such as Istanbul, Sydney, Venice, New Orleans, Tirana, Sharjah, Riga, Kathmandu, Moscow, Seville, Sao Paulo, Yekaterinburg, and Thessaloniki, among others. Additionally, he has been part of group exhibitions curated by visionary curators.

Notably, he is the only artist living in Bulgaria who has represented the country at the Biennale di Venezia and has been also included three times in its main curatorial project. In 2007, he received an “Honorable Mention to an artist exhibited in the central international exhibition” at the 52nd Biennale. Nedko Solakov has also twice participated in the world’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, Dokumenta in Kassel.

At the core of Nedko Solakov’s immense success is his art’s ability to resonate with a diverse spectrum of viewers. His stories resonate with all, from sophisticated curators to those who find themselves in museums by chance. His visual language is a dynamic ‘conversation’ between drawing, painting, objects, space, and almost always text – narrative, description, commentary, and word games. His stories themselves are a kind of encyclopedia of the present time – art and artists, nature in all its diversity, current politics, social issues, and the heroes of the day, all woven together by the author with a wealth of emotion and humor, often with self-irony.

The project “A Cornered Solo Show” began back in 2021, when the artist approached directors and chief curators of well-known museums with the request to provide him with an “insignificant” corner in their buildings – a corner that has never been used for exhibitions, but which the public has access to.

So far, three “corners” have been realized in major European museums: #1 at MUDAM – the Grand-Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg (2021), #2 at MAXXI – the National Museum of Art of the Twenty-First Century in Rome (2022), and at the Belvedere in Vienna, which is hosting the “Cornered Solo Show #3 (with Charles Escher as my artistic conscience),” until June 19 this year.

All three exhibitions, united by an unusual, strange, previously unused corner space, tell completely different stories created specifically for their context.

At the National Gallery, in such a previously unused “new,” albeit obvious and easily accessible space in the Palace, “A Cornered (Future) Solo Show #4” tells the imaginary story of a humble court painter and his friend, a tiny mouse, who are living under the staircase of the palace.

Iaroslava Boubnova, curator of the exhibition.

Media partner: BTA / Bulgarian News Agency

https://nationalgallery.bg/exhibitions/nedko-solakova-cornered-future-solo-show-4/

Nedko Solakov

A Cornered Solo Show #5 

Ludwig Museum Budapest | 17.10.2024-29.6.2025

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is thrilled to present Nedko Solakov’s humorous, site-specific installation, located in the museum’s lobby, next to the cloakroom. In this work, Solakov explores the idea of an artist who seeks to view the world from a radically different perspective—literally by turning himself upside down to shift his viewpoint. 

A Cornered Solo Show #5 is being presented in celebration of the museum’s 35th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of Solakov’s solo exhibition, The Collector of Art. The exhibition also marks the Ludwig Foundation's recent acquisition of 12 drawings by Solakov, entitled Correctness (2021). As part of this event, the artist will generously donate A Cornered Solo Show #5 to the museum, along with three additional drawings titled Bad Moves (2023).

About the series 

The project, titled A Cornered Solo Show, began in 2021 when Solakov proposed the directors and curators of leading museums to offer him an “insignificant” corner of their institution—outside of the typical exhibition spaces, yet still accessible to the public. To date, four installations have been staged in major European museums, each uniquely tailored to the specific qualities of the chosen corner: #1 MUDAM – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2021) #2 MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome (2022) #3 Upper Belvedere, Vienna (2023–2024) #4 National Gallery, The Palace, Sofia (2024)

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibition/nedko-solakov-cornered-solo-show-5 

Counter/Surveillance: Control Privacy Agency

Wende Museum, Culver City, USA | 13.10.2024-19.10.2025

In recent decades, technological advances have supercharged surveillance. Online, personal data are automatically collected and analyzed on a mass scale. Algorithms watch, listen, track, and identify people, complementing and sometimes replacing human eyes and ears. Powerful combinations of surveillance software and hardware, such as surveillance cameras outfitted with real-time facial recognition, are conquering public spaces. These technologies are often misleadingly presented as though they were pure innovation and have no history.

Artists: Asya Dodina, Berlin collective, Graham Fink, Gerhard Lang, Paolo Cirio, Robert Rehfeldt, Xu Bing, Verena Kyselka, Nedko Solakov, Damara Ingles, Ken Gonzales-Day, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Yang Jian, Decebal Scriba, Liat Segal, Sadie Barnette, Yazan Khalili, Franisco Masó, Slava Polishchuk 

https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Counter-Surveillance--Control--Privacy--/49B34B2C36A18812 

Agnieszka Polska – Flowers on the Sun

21 Sep 2024 - 12 Jan 2025

The first solo exhibition of Berlin-based Polish artist Agnieszka Polska in Belgium, Flowers on the Sun, features a selection of recent works, including her latest film, The Book of Flowers (2023), created with the assistance of AI-powered tools. The artist initially used stop-motion animation footage of flowers from the 1950s, which was then transformed into AI-generated imagery.

Based on speculative scenarios blended with elements of science fiction, the exhibition highlights issues related to the relationship of humans, non-humans and technology, posing urgent questions about our perception of time and history. Braudel’s Clock ongoing series reflects on the idea of unified time as a social construct, and the world as a complex set of structures evolving at various speeds. In her work Polska also reflects on the individual’s position in the contemporary world.

During her art studies, Agnieszka Polska began creating animations using traditional techniques such as glass table animation. Later, she developed an interest in digital animation and the immersive qualities of the images she creates. Various storytelling formats are crucial to her films. She explores these narratives not only in video works but also in other mediums such as feature film and theater performance. These different forms naturally extend her artistic practice.

For a while, she was interested in the speculative history of avant-garde movements, but now she tends to draw upon stories and inspirations related to planetary socio-technological systems, global changes and contemporary crises. Her influences include visual culture and science fiction works by authors such as Stanisław Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Brian Catling, among others.

Imagination plays a significant role in Agnieszka Polska’s work. Her creations, which blend the realism of images with phantasmagorical visions, often result in a humorous mix of irony and melancholy. The aesthetics of documentary merge with fiction in her films. Polska creates her works with meticulous attention to detail, consciously shaping the structure of her films. She writes scripts with the cinematic gaze and viewer engagement in mind, making the audience an integral part of the experience. Alongside the sophisticated and highly refined visuals, the sound design and the hypnotic voice of the narrator play crucial roles. In The New Sun (2017), a star with the face of a child engages in an emotional monologue with the viewer.

In her recent projects, she hints at a future of filmmaking that may shift towards world-building rather than traditional storytelling.

https://www.muhka.be/en/exhibitions/agnieszka-polska-flowers-on-the-sun/

Nós — Arte & Ciência por Mulheres

Sesc Interlagos, São Paulo

August 22., 2024 - March 30., 2025

From August 22, 2024 to March 30, 2025, Sesc Interlagos will host the exhibition "We - Art & Science by Women", which highlights the trajectory of women as producers and maintainers of knowledge in the scientific, intellectual and artistic fields.
The exhibition covers historical scenarios ranging from ancestral wisdom to the growing presence of women in scientific institutions. The narrative reveals women's ongoing struggle for a more equal society, where everyone has full access to political, economic and social rights.
The exhibition features accessibility resources, such as scripts and videos with audio description and video-libras.

"Nós - Arte & Ciência por Mulheres" (We - Art & Science for Women) is organized by Sesc São Paulo, conceived by Estúdio M'Baraká, and has the support of collections from USP's Zoology Museum, the Indian Museum (FUNAI), the Earth Sciences Museum / CPRM, the Butantan Institute and documentation from institutions such as Fiocruz, the National Museum, the Roberto Burle Marx Site and the National Library, among others.

Reversed Objects 

5.9.2024 - 5.1.2025 | Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest

Opeing: 5.9.2024 at 18.00-19.30 | Venue: 1st Floor, Glass Hall

The exhibition Reversed Objects raises a number of questions ranging from the status of objects as either mere things or artworks to the functioning of art institutions, while touching on various themes and disciplines. Some of these questions may sound rather banal. American art philosopher Arthur C. Danto analyses the following problem: if one enters a room full of objects, can one tell at a glance which are works of art and which are mere real things? Danto argues that even if we do not necessarily have a precise definition of what art is, we are able to tell artworks from everyday objects. 

Artists: ALBERT Ádám, BAKOS Gábor, Julie BÉNA, BP. SZABÓ György, BRÜCKNER János, BUCZKÓ Bence, BUKTA Imre, Tony CRAGG, CSUTOROS Sándor, Anna DAUČÍKOVÁ, EL-HASSAN Róza, EMBER Sári, FEKETE Balázs, Jakup FERRI, GÁDOR Magda, GRÓF Ferenc, GRUPPO TÖKMAG, GYENES Zsófia, HARIS László, HARSÁNY Patrícia, HAVADTŐY Sámuel, JAKAB Tibor Perkins, JOVÁNOVICS György, KANEUJI Teppei, KEMÉNY György, KESERÜ Ilona, KINDER ALBUM, Krištof KINTERA, KIRÁLY Tamás, KOMÁR Sabrina, KOKESCH Ádám, Denisa LEHOCKÁ, LŐRINCZ Réka, Kim MACCONNEL, Goshka MACUGA, Petra MAITZ, Matthias MEGYERI, Rosalind NASHASHIBI, Anna PERACH, Grayson PERRY, Pablo PICASSO, POLGÁR Rózsa, Laure PROUVOST, PUKLUS Péter, RÁCZ Rebeka, RANDOMROUTINES, Erin M. RILEY, ROSKÓ Gábor, Selma SELMAN, Katarina ŠEVIĆ, Nedko SOLAKOV/Slava NAKOVSKA, Daniel SPOERRI, SUGÁR János, SZABÓ Eszter Ágnes, SZALAY Péter, SZILVITZKY Margit, TARR Hajnalka, THIESZ Angéla és a Retextil Alapítvány Műhely, TÓTH Márton Emil, Rosemarie TROCKEL, ULBERT Ádám, VÁRNAI Gyula, Marion VERBOOM, VESZELY Beáta, Erwin WURM

Curator: TIMÁR Katalin

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibition/reversed-objects 

Delirious Toys
September 8, 2024 - February 9, 2025 | Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

For the 2023 art autumn, the US artist Mark Dion has created a work of art from objects in the toy collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin, which will first be on display at the Museum Nikolaikirche in Berlin. With hundreds of exhibits, his installations not only transcend space and time, but also take a critical look at children's toys themselves.

For the exhibition, Mark Dion spent months researching the collection of around 70,000 objects, one of the largest in Germany. The result is a kind of labyrinth of board games; a pyramid of animals, a circuit with an imaginary race between vehicles of all kinds and other installations. Dolls, military toys and a “poison cabinet” with borderline or cross-border toys are also on display in the exhibition, which is accompanied by a 36-page brochure (included in the admission price).

Since the late 1980s, Mark Dion has been intensively concerned with the question of how knowledge is created and passed on in museums, always with an alert eye for systems of exploitation and oppression. After all, toys, which are mostly designed by adults for children, always convey ideas about people and their world. In dealing with toys, children practise certain role models, and toys are used to teach them specific themes or ideologies.

The project is flanked by the newly developed ELLAH Lab, which aims to continuously integrate artistic engagement and creative learning into visits to the Bundeskunsthalle for young and old.

An exhibition of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin in cooperation with the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.

https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/toys 

Sleep!

August 24, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Kunsthalle KAdE, Amersfoort, NL

"Did you sleep well?" is a question often asked of each other. A basic question in which the response of the interviewee immediately gives an insight into the alertness, mood and relatability of the person in question. Sleep, like food and drink, is a basic necessity of life. Magazines are filled weekly with tips and tricks for a good night's sleep: with the golden rule of rest, cleanliness and regularity recurring as the ideal form of sleep hygiene. Human beings spend a third part in sleep: a situation in which we have a lowering of consciousness that results in a lack of contact with the outside world. Our body and mind come to rest. We surrender to it, vulnerable and thrown back on ourselves. Why we sleep is still an unsolved mystery. Cellular repair process, energy conservation, learning and recording of memories are three main pillars in current theories.

WAKE SLEEP DREAM REPEAT
The family exhibition Sleep! takes you on a little exploration into the great domain of sleep and dream, through the eyes of some fifty visual artists and designers. Here, for a moment, another time reigns. You go through the four sleep stages from slumber to light sleep, continue to deep sleep and (sleep) walk through the dream to the great hall where the bed is central. Or you make the detour via Sleep/Wake, because by no means everyone has an ideal sleep cycle. Stress and anxiety often lead to insomnia and sleep problems. If you wish, make a second round trip to a second sleep cycle, just as long until you hopefully leave the exhibition completely refreshed!

Artists: Philip Aguirre Y Otegui (BE) / Anas Albraehe (SY) / Barbora Adamonytė-Keidūnė (LT) / Stéphane Argillet und Gilles Paté (FR) / Carolien Arnold (NL) / Hans van Bentem (NL) / Stijn Ter Braak (NL) / Paul Bogaers (NL) / Harm van den Berg (NL) / Sophie Conroy (UK) / Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (MN) / Martin Fenne (NL) / Giovanni Battista Franco (IT) / Louis Fratino (US) / Lenz Geerk (CH) / Jacques de Gheyn (III) (NL) / Aalt van de Glind (NL) / Daniel Godínez Nivón (MX) / Francisco José de Goya (ES) / Frank Halmans (NL) / Geoffrey Holder (TT / US) / Mona Hatoum (LB) / Sarah Mei Herman (NL) / Teun Hocks (NL) / Li Hui (CN) / Leiko Ikemura (JP) / Saodat Ismailova (UZ) / Carlijn Jacobs (NL) / Pieter Jennes (BE) / Yasmijn Karhof & Merel Karhof (NL) / Carla Kogelman (NL) / Koen Ebeling Koning (NL) / Frank Koolen (NL) / Friedrich Kunath (DE) / Gerard de Lairesse (BE) / Alexandra Leykauf (DE) / Domenico Marchetti (IT) / Tony Matelli (US) / Frans Xaver Messerschmidt (DE) / Hendrik Moolenyzer (NL) / Bernard Picart (FR) / Paul de Reus (NL) / Julika Rudelius (DE) / Tobias Schalken (NL) / Hinke Schreuders (NL) / Sondi (CM | DE) / Ted Spagna (US) / Mladen Stilinović (SV) / Daniel Willem Stoopendaal (NL) / Maurice van Tellingen (NL) / Troika (UK) / Gavin Turk (UK) / Kaari Upson (US) / Utsav Verma (IN) / Marcel van der Vlugt (NL) / Andy Warhol (US) / Willem Weismann (NL) / Lothar Wolleh (DE)

https://www.kunsthalkade.nl/de/ausstellungen/schlafen/ 

Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld

July 13, 2024 - January 5, 2025 | Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery

Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld invites visitors on a voyage of discovery into the depths of our threatened natural world through large-scale painted and sculptural works. This exhibition is the first two-person show of these artists, who share an ongoing and urgent concern for our global environmental and ecological well-being.

Curator: Suzanne Ramljak 

https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/626-mark-dion-and-alexis-rockman-journey-to-nature-s-underworld 

New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art

August 10, 2023 - August 31, 2025 | Museum Ludwig Köln

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig col­lec­tion in­cludes the most im­por­tant artists of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry and con­tem­po­rary art. The works of mod­er­nism and art from 1945 to 1970 are ar­ranged chrono­log­i­cal­ly from the up­per­most to the mid­dle floor. The con­tem­po­rary art in the stair­well and on the base­ment lev­el forms the back­bone and foun­da­tion of the mu­se­um, look­ing in­to the past and the fu­ture. At the same time, the col­lec­tion pre­sents the di­verse me­dia and con­cep­tu­al man­i­fes­ta­tions of con­tem­po­rary art, which do not fol­low a firm­ly estab­lished canon and can­not be cat­e­go­rized in­to styles.

Ev­ery two years the Mu­se­um Lud­wig pre­sents a new se­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary art from its col­lec­tion. This edi­tion, run­n­ing from Au­gust 10, 2023 till Au­gust 31, 2025, will fo­cus on dif­fer­ent con­cepts of time and ways in which artists han­dle the top­ic in their work. Many artists draw at­ten­tion to the fact that art is ex­pe­ri­enced in the pre­sent, while al­so ques­tion­ing me­m­o­ry, re­mem­brance, and his­to­ri­og­ra­phy. The pre­sen­ta­tion is framed by “val­ue of time” as a con­cep­t—a so­cial­ly de­ter­mined val­ue on which ab­s­tract, quan­ti­fi­able time is based.

The start­ing point is Wal­ter Ben­jamin’s haunt­ing im­age from 1940 of the “an­gel of his­to­ry,” with which he de­scribed the re­la­tion­ship be­tween past, pre­sent, and fu­ture. This estab­lished the con­cept of a crit­i­cal his­to­ri­og­ra­phy that orig­i­nates from eco­nom­ic pa­ram­e­ters. Vari­ous facets of this con­cept are re­flect­ed by the ex­hibit­ed works, in which tem­po­ral­i­ty takes ef­fect, the past is re­flect­ed in its re­la­tion­ship to the pre­sent, and fu­ture events are an­ti­ci­pat­ed.

Fea­tured artists: Tho­mas Bayr­le, Alighiero Boet­ti, Frank Bowl­ing, Miri­am Cahn, Mark Dion, Maria Eich­horn, Harun Faroc­ki, Guan Xiao, Wade Guy­ton, Lubai­na Himid, Ull Hohn, Re­bec­ca Horn, Anne Imhof, Boaz Kaiz­man, Car­o­lyn Lazard, Jochen Lem­pert, Pau­line Mʼbarek, Ker­ry James Mar­shall, Park McArthur, Os­car Muril­lo, Fü­sun Onur, Asim­i­na Paradis­sa, Robert Rauschen­berg, Cameron Row­land, Ju­lia Sch­er, An­dreas Schulze, An­dreas Siek­mann, Di­a­mond Stingi­ly, Danh Vo, Lois Wein­berg­er, Haegue Yang

Cu­ra­tor: Bar­bara En­gel­bach

https://www.museum-ludwig.de/en/museum/collection/collection-of-contemporary-art.html