Vienna Art Guide - July

- by Itai Margula

MAK and more, Albertina, 21er Haus: Vienna's Biennale 2017 explores our society together with the presence of robots. Maria Lassnig's drawings focusing on the human body and Erwin Wurm's sculptures are the leftovers of a performative act.


I.
Exhibition title: Vienna Biennale 2017 – Hello, Robot.
Artists: various artists
Venue: MAK
Dates: Until 1 October, 2017


The Vienna Biennale 2017 - Robots. Work. Our Future - combines art, design and architecture. In various museums and institutions (MAK Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien,  AzW and AIL) you will find till October exhibitions, installations and talks.
"Hello, Robot." is an exhibition of the MAK, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Design Museum Gent.

Foto: Stephan Bogner, Phillipp Schmitt, Jonas Voigt, Raising Robotic Natives, 2016  © Jonas Voigt

II.
Exhibition title: Maria Lassnig - Dialogues
Artist: Maria Lassnig
Venue: Albertina
Dates: Until August 17, 2017


Maria Lassnig is one of the most important women artists oft he 20th century. Her own body became the central focus of her art. The current show in the Albertina brings together 80 of the artist more beautiful hand drawings. An exhibition of the Albertina in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Basel. 

Foto: Bird of Prey, 2000, Albertina, Vienna © 2017 Maria Lassnig Foundation
 

III.
Exhibition title: Erwin Wurm – Performative Sculptures
Artist: Erwin Wurm
Venue: 21er Haus
Dates: Until 10 September, 2017


Erwin Wurm's work are on display alongside Brigitte Kowanz at the Austrian Pavillion of this year´s Art Biennale in Venice. The show at the 21er Haus shows a series of statues and performative sculptures. More then this you can visit Erwin Wurm's Fat House at the Belvedere. Curated by: Severin Dünser and Alfred Weidinger. 

Foto: Erwin Wurm, Boxing Glove, 2016, Courtesy König Galerie,  © Belvedere, Vienna (Photo: Johannes Stoll) / © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017

Melbourne Art Guide - July

- by Charlotte Cornish


Although it is the depth of winter here in Melbourne there are many exciting exhibitions on view inside warm spaces. The exhibitions cover a wide breadth of spaces in Melbourne from institutions to artist run initiatives. From a large group exhibition including international art projects being presented at Australia’s only Kunsthalle, to an expansive new series of work by an established Australian contemporary artist presented at a commercial space, or an exciting exhibition by an emerging artist at a smaller non-profit gallery, this month there is something for everyone.  

Exhibition: Dale Frank
Artist: Dale Frank
Venue: Neon Parc (Brunswick)
Dates: Until 15 August, 2017

Dale Frank is an established contemporary Australian artist best known for his biomorphic abstract paintings. His practice has included found object-sculptures, performance installations, drawings and most recently paintings with sculptural elements. Dale Frank’s new body of work currently on view at Neon Parc consists predominantly of resin paintings, some with found objects protruding from their surfaces as sculptural elements. The expansive exhibition includes many new pieces that oscillate between extravagant lunacies, such as Guy (pictured) a large canvas with hand painted alien masks, and a more refined elegance, such as the several monochrome pieces with faint distortions embedded within the resin surfaces. 

2. Neon Parc - Dale Frank_Aliens_2017-Image credit Christo Crocker

II.
Exhibition: Stages
Artist: Georgina Cue
Venue: TCB Art Inc.  
Dates: Until 15 July, 2017 

Georgina Cue uses DIY materials such as cardboard and spray paint to create a series of large-scale stages in a suburban garage. These theatrical sets have become the background for the series of photographs presented in Stages, the artist’s new solo exhibition currently on view in the front gallery at artist-run initiative TCB Art Inc. In this new series, Cue continues her exploration of male dominated art-historical movements by referencing formal sensibilities often found in Russian constructivism and German expressionism. The artist subverts the inherent romanticism and female gaze associated with these movements by constructing images in which the artist herself features as film siren and femme fatale.

TCB Art Inc. - Georgina Cue - Stages  (1)

III.
Exhibition: Greater Together
Artists: Goldin + Senneby, Clark Beaumont, Antoinette J. Citizen and Courtney Coombs, C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska, Patrick Staff, 
Venue: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Dates: 8 July – 17 September 2017

Greater Together is an exhibition presented at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art exploring artistic collaboration through the practices of eight international artist projects. Annika Kristensen has curated the exhibition with projects by Australian and international artist collectives including Goldin + Senneby, Clark Beaumont, Antoinette J. Citizen and Courtney Coombs, C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska, Patrick Staff, Field Theory and Bik Van der Pol. The assembling together of these eight artist projects attempts to complicate individual notions of authorship in art practice to consider collaborative and cooperative approaches to art making, which perhaps can become deliberate and productive means of agency and solidarity in a complex and changing world.  

4. ACCA - Greater Together - Goldin+Senneby

Banner Header - Neon Parc - Dale Frank install view July 2017, Image credit: Christo Crocker

Jerusaelm Art Guide - July

- by Jenna Romano

Visiting in Jerusalem in July? There are some great opportunities for art lovers this month to see new and exciting exhibitions in this city, you just need to know where to look! Here are some recommendations from yours truly. 
 
I.
Title: Stream of Consciousness
Artists: Itai Anker, Yishai Faran, Arik Futterman, Ilia Gorovitz, Shaul Kohan Adi Koom,Yair Moss, Adin Peskoff & Shlomit Yaakov.
Venue: New Gallery
Dates: Open until July 29th, 2017
 
Stream of Consciousness, curated by Itai Anker and Arik Futterman brings together video and sound artists in a joint site-specific installation exhibited at the New Gallery Teddy Stadium. The installation, comprising four different episodes is played on a surround sound system and projected by means of a video mapping technique on the faces of a giant concrete cube in the New Gallery. The Jerusalem based artists were invited by the exhibition curators to work together for the first time in order to create an all embracing, powerful experience of image and sound. Duration: 40 minutes.

Photo: Yishai Faran, Simmering with the Wizard of Loneliness
 

II.
Title: Barbur B&B
Artists: Various visiting Artists
Venue: Barbur Gallery
Dates: Until July 31s, 2017
 
Barbur B&B is here! For the month of July, Barbur will be hosting it’s 3rd annual residency program Barbur B&B, where 30 artists from all over Israel will take a turn residing in the gallery itself. Each artist spend 24 hours in the gallery, where they eat, sleep and install a piece of artwork, each day adding to what will be a final gallery group show. It’s a great chance to meet with local artists! 

Photo, Barbur B&B  calendar. 
 

III. 
Title: The Black List
Artists: Andi Arnovitz
Venue: Jerusalem Artists House
Dates: On view until August 26th, 2017
 
In Jerusalem based artist Andi Arnovitz’s solo show, The Black List, the artist uses her space to highlight events which she connects to the power and finance mechanisms of both ultra orthodox institutions and secular society. These events are critiqued, and Arnovitz perceives that they that have been added to the ‘blacklist’ of injustices against weaker members of society.  Arnovitz repeatedly engages with these layers of  burning issues in both the content of her works and the repetitive structure and density of the material and images. 

Photo: Cholmondeley Ladies Redux, 2016, etching and chine colle, 67x107 cm
 

Warsaw Art Guide - July

- Zuzanna Zasacka


I.
Exhibition title: A Room and a Half
Artist/s: Laura Lima
Venue: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Dates: Until October 10 2017


A Room and a Half is an invitation to enter a situation that escapes rational logic, balancing on the edge of an understatement and a joke. The first solo exhibition in Poland of Laura Lima, one of the most recognizable Brazilian artists of her generation, tells about the margins of our perception, blurring the differences between reality and illusion. In works presented in Warsaw, the artist uses architecture to modify the feeling of the space.

II.
Exhibition title: HESTIA ARTISTIC JOURNEY
Exhibition of the 16th contest exhibition
Artist/s: Karolina Babińska, Jerzy Baranowski, Katarzyna Blajchert, Dorota Chodór, Aleksandra Cieślewicz, Kornelia Dzikowska, Józef Gałązka, Joanna Jamro-Nowińska, Natalia Janus-Malewska, Marcin Janusz, Kamila Kobierzyńska, Zuzanna Kojder, Mateusz Kokot, Marta Krześlak, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Horacy Muszyński, Gabriela Palicka, Wojciech Piotrowski, Maryna Sakowska, Katarzyna Szymkiewicz, Katarzyna Wąsowska, Marta Wódz, Barbara Wójcik, Wiktor Wolski, Weronika Wysocka, Paulina Żmuda
Venue: Museum on the Vistula
Dates: Until October 10, 2017
 
The event is a great opportunity to find out what's new in Polish art. It includes video works, photography, sculpture, painting, graphic art and installations by 26 young artists, finalists in the competition. 

III.
Exhibition title: Breaking Through Photography
Artist/s: Marek Piasecki, Józef Robakowski
Venue: The Asymetria Gallery
Dates: Until July 15, 2017


Marek Piasecki and Józef Robakowski belong to a generation of artists affected by the catastrophe of World War II. The former moves to Kraków after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, when his family home is destroyed; the latter, following the death of his cavalryman father (in the Battle of Bzura), grows up in an orphanage where his  mother is employed. Both biographical orders intersect somehow.
Are the two artists’ non-camera yet photographic gestures not an attempt to regain the lost language which constitutes not only abstract chemical painting, but also produces non-normative contents, the image of which reinstates in art the meaning of what, to paraphrase Agamben, historically has slipped through mankind’s fingers.

Header Image by Piotr Litwic

TLV Urban Art Guide - July

- by Cobi Krieger (Alternative TLV)

July in Tel Aviv means summer, and summer, in Israel more than anywhere - means vacation. Pack your bags and follow us to the top urban art events in the world this month.


Exhibition title: Love is Blind, TVBOY
Venue: Imaginart, Barcelona
Dates: until August 31st


Tvboy is an Italian artist active since the mid nineties. A few years ago he relocated to Barcelona. He is Famous for his cheerful, critical and kicking pop styled images. With pride festivities still in the air, this exhibition will give you a fresh dose of colorful activism.

Coco Capitan and Gucci Collaboration
Venue: Soho, New York City


Gucci, who’s unmatched trajectory since the arrival of its creative director Alessandro Michele, has been incorporating street style in an oh so exciting way. Now expanding to street art, they have sent the textual pieces of Coco Capitan, a young artist who collaborated in the past with Drake, from their T-shirts and all over a wall in Soho.

Event: Upfest Festival
Venue: Bristol
Dates: July 29th - 31st, 2017


Being Europe’s largest live street art festival, spreading over 30 venues in Bristol, the Upfest festival is definitely any street art lovers way to end the month with a bang. Participating this year are over 300 artists from over 30 countries, no doubt there will be lots to see.