VISUAL ARTS
Mapplethorpe at eighty: Who may show bodies?
Mapplethorpe sought beauty in the body, challenging public boundaries in the process. Today, the question is also who controls these images.
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Whose Body Is in the Museum?
Three exhibitions in Wien, Basel and Düsseldorf bring bodies into focus between self-determination, work and social order. Read together, they show that visibility does not yet amount to agency.
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VISUAL ARTS
Alexander Calder: Why Movement Needs Space
Calder’s sculptures change with air, time and viewpoint. What do they gain when we give them space?
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Salzburg marks 100 years of New Objectivity
Between metropolis, theatre and night: Salzburg shows how artists of the interwar period observed the world around them.
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Gabriela Löffel stages a fictional trial
A fictional Swiss bank on trial: in Appenzell, Gabriela Löffel asks how art can investigate financial power and its narratives.
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Folkwang also began with Islamic art
The Folkwang did not begin with modernism alone: Osthaus’s Islamic art collection shaped his early vision of a museum spanning periods and regions.
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Sophie Calle explores the museum’s history
At Hamburger Bahnhof, Sophie Calle links memories of Berlin with the museum’s history — and creates a work for its 30th anniversary.
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Vienna Art Week puts fear on display
Three artistic approaches at Vienna Art Week present fear as a bodily, political and social experience – and seek ways of dealing with it.
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Karen Kilimnik: images of desire between fairy tales and high society
Two exhibitions explore Karen Kilimnik’s visual universe of fairy tales, ballet and glamour – and the question of who is allowed to belong within it.
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Florian Germann and Gabriela Löffel in Appenzell
In Appenzell, open sculptural systems meet videos about language, images and power. Two exhibitions place different emphases.
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Lee Ufan: When an art prize expands the collection
The Wolfgang Hahn Prize honours Lee Ufan – and channels money into the Museum Ludwig’s collection. Who makes the selection, and what does it mean for the collection?
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Mel e Logan explores art and microworlds
Microbes, bodily fluids and sound: Mel e Logan invites visitors to an exhibition between art and research at the Heiligenkreuzerhof.
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Cameron Rowland at mumok: ownership as obligation
Cameron Rowland explores ownership relations and institutional responsibility. New works have been announced at mumok from November.
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